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1. Always On My Mind by Kateflemingshands

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   24 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Robin Buckley & Nancy Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Chance (Stranger Things)
   • Jeff (Stranger Things)
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Murray Bauman
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Robin Buckley's Parents
   • Joyce Byers
   • Derek Turnbow
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Eddie Munson
   • Andy (Stranger Things)
   • Original Wheeler Character(s) (Stranger Things)
   • Fred Benson
   • Barbara "Barb" Holland
   • Lesbian Robin Buckley
   • Robin Buckley Loves Nancy Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • POV Nancy Wheeler
   • Good Sibling Nancy Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler Loves Robin Buckley
   • Protective Steve Harrington
   • Protective Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Minor Robin Buckley/Vickie
   • Canon Compliant
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Ronance
   • POV Robin Buckley
   • Protective Jonathan Byers

   Summary

   And I guess I never told you…

   - -

   Basically, post-season 5 finale and Nancy leaves for college, focusing on her future, exactly as she has always planned to.

   Is she leaving or is she, in Murray’s words retreating?

   Meanwhile Robin doesn’t know how to show Nancy she loves her, and she’s spent most of post-season 4 and throughout season 5 and afterwards recording goodbye messages for her on a mixtape. Because if you can’t express to your crush/love how you feel in words, record a mixtape instead.

   And Nancy being Nancy … well…

   PS - I realise there is a story Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (which is exceptionally well written might I add) and I’ve only just read today quite concerned of some similarities - it’s coincidental. So apologies!

   Triggers - Injections, functional alcohol abuse, internal biphobia, homophobia, descriptions of a minor character having a stroke, familial estrangement, PTSD, self harm

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   12,743

   Chapters:

   7/?

   Comments:

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