At times Julia felt useless, he made her feel important. Even if it was all lies to control her. Trigger warning. Manipulation, gas lighting, grooming behavior, death, blood, abuse. It's rated M for a reason.

Kate Henderson's town isn't normal. Power issues, strange deaths. And the weight of it is being thrown on the shoulders of the ones she loves most, while dealing with the monstrosities of the Upside Down. She's going to save them. She has to. After all, they are her family.

After the battle of Starcourt, a few of the members of the group need more looking after than they first expected. Bonds will be formed and people will realize things are better when you don't have to go through them alone.

What if Vecna had never existed? What if they had all graduated and lived happy lives? What happened next for the famous five?

PREVIOUSLY TITLED "Ineffable." Shit hits the fan when Mike Wheeler, former party-member turned total douchebag, meets Jane Hopper, new girl from fucking nowhere, in 1989. Senior year at Hawkins High just got a lot more interesting. AU - badboy!Mike. Warning: He's irritable, she's a sweetheart.

Eddie and Chrissy have both secretly pined for each other since they were teens. A car accident leaves Eddie and Chrissy in the hospital. Chrissy wakes from her head trauma induced coma and, naturally, assumes Eddie is her boyfriend.

"Eddie, what if this is our second chance? I know we didn't die that night but doesn't it feel like some sort of sign? We both dreamt of our deaths, right? It felt so real we might as well have actually died but we didn't!" "What if… what if something new came out of it? Something new…in me." She carefully places his hand over her stomach.

AKA How Hawkins Got Its Groove Back...kicking and screaming. Everyone asks - what would you do if you could change how the story goes...but what if you don't know the story? Kate wakes up one day in the body of Tammy Thompson. Now instead of living her life, she's stuck dodging monsters, avoiding catching the interest of the government and surviving high school. Again.

Takes place after season 4: Will Byers is devastated because the dam that once separated his world from the Upside Down is broken. All hope seems to be lost. And there's another reason for Will's sadness. When he finally decides to tell Mike about his feelings for him, Vecna interrupts. And Will learns about some kind of power he possesses. Is he the key to end it all?

Billy was his bestfriend and roommate...Maybe something more. Harringrove. Series of Oneshots.

Nancy and Jonathan go to college together in New York. Will and Joyce comes out to visit and Nancy ends up taking Joyce out for a night on the town while Jonathan takes Will out to experience the gay scene.

After Steve and Robin are taken by the Russians, they're never saved. Despite Dustin and Erica's best efforts, the two are nowhere to be found, causing chaos and loss to burn bright in Hawkins. Meanwhile, Dr. Brenner begins two new experiments: Nineteen and Twenty. In a new life full of uncertainty, loss of identity and pain, it takes two to survive.

"Well, you kind of stand out amongst the sheep. You know?" Eve smiles faintly as she eyes the metal head. "So do you." Pre Season 4

Laziness, dramatics and a unique talent for sleeping through just about anything could sum up Jacqueline Hargrove. Following an abrupt move to the town of Hawkins, she would come to regret a seemingly fated run in with a particular group of middle schoolers that would intertwine her into unimaginable situations. After which, her life would never be mundane again.

"You know what, screw this. Jonathan, let's go stake out the place," she shakes her head and starts to march away, Jonathan without hesitation going with her. "Stake out?" Robin asks. "Obviously we're going to have to rob it then if we won't have any money," she explains.

A fluffy Mileven one-shot set shortly before the events of season 3.

A series of What If/AU scenarios ideas that I came up with after watching the 4th season of Stranger Things.

War correspondents AU: Nancy and Jonathan's paths cross in Vietnam in 1968, she a war correspondent for the New York Times, he a war photographer for AP.

People think because Sierra Nightingale has a rich father and drives around in a top of the range car, it means she must have it all. But they don't see the bruises, absent parents and how she babysits local D&D loving kids for grocery money. However, one night babysitting Will Byers and meeting a new guy from California at school will change everything she knows. Billy & OC PoVs.

Chrissy turns to Eddie because there's a monster chasing her, but it isn't Vecna. (Stranger Things season 4 AU)

Jane Ives's best friend goes missing before Kali Ives's, Terry Ives is slowly getting more suspicious of the disappearance of Will Byers, and a strange boy appears in the woods. All of this is connected to a larger puzzle somehow... *Role-Reversal AU. Jane x Mike, Kali x Steve, one-sided Will x Jane. My own retelling of the show. Constructive criticism is welcome!*

El and Mike are in a long distance relationship between California and Hawkins, both sending letters and trying to stay positive. When something unexpected comes into El's life, sending it on a new trajectory, she begins to feel like herself again. But will this affect their relationship? Can they both ride the storm, the physical and the emotional one?

Katie Hopper had the ideal life on the on the surface. Popular, cheerleader, friends, boys fawning over her. She lived in Hawkins, Indiana where nothing interesting ever happened. That all changed one Monday morning in November of 1983.

Wherein El Hopper, secret telekinetic skydiving instructor meets Mike Wheeler, a terrified 25th birthday boy on his first skydiving jump. Also known as a mega random meet-cute no one ever asked for!

10 year old Nancy is babysitting 6 year old Mike and Will, who manages to get themselves into a predicament she needs Jonathan's help to resolve.