fine i’ll be the one to say it.. dustin and steve NEEDED that fight.

while yes, steve was harsh, dustin needed to hear it. they needed each other in that moment. dustin is a kid grieving the only person (in his mind) who truly understood and saw him.

it’s so important to me steve intentionally did not fight back. he was only concerned with restraining and stopping dustin from hurting himself.

if something went wrong and they didn’t fight. if dustin didn’t let out his grief and steve had went up that ladder.. if steve was selfish one last time.

something you can have and hold

synopsis ➜ nancy gets vecna’d while alone with robin in their “war room” at wsqk. and in a desperate attempt to get her back, with no way to reach the records or tapes, robin starts singing nancy’s favorite song

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the concept of a canon divergence fic in the 18 months where Dustin is home alone one night while his mom is on a late shift, and he’s just drowning in depression and grief and takes a little bottle of sleeping pills from his moms bathroom. He stares at it for a second, tjinking, and then unscrews the lid and downs the whole bottle. He sits down for a few minutes. Getting sleepy. Slipping away.

and then panics because what he’s doing is so incredibly stupid and wouldn’t be better off for anyone, and remembers all his happy moments and god, he’ll miss it. So he calls Steve and asks him to come to his house with a shaky voice, tjougj he doesn’t tell him why. And Steve can hear that sometjings very very wrong and so he asks Dustin, who just tells him to get there because it’s too painful to say out loud what he’s doing.

Steve floors it to the Henderson house, and he has a feeling that he knows what’s happening but desperately doesnt want to believe it. But still, his worst fears are confirmed when he sees Dustin slumped in the hallway, barely blinking his eyes and just Crying. Dustin croaks oit a cracked “help” and Steve drags him to the bathroom, tries to get him to throw up the pills and Dustin is just Terrified. Like, it finally hits him that he’s about to die if Steve doesn’t help and he just sobs, barely conscious, “I don’t want to die I don’t want to die” over and over again.

And Steve just breaks, he calls 911, crying, trying to keep Dustin looking at him, and it’s the most scared he’s ever been—waiting for the ambulance. And just, Dustin is crying, hysterical, “Steve, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die I’m scared, I’m scared, I don’t want to die Steve,” and jesus CHRIST it’s gonna echo in Steve’s worst nightmares, he just knows it. So be begs Dustin to try to stay awake.

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Was just thinking while watching The Pitt, I think Steve and Nancy being trauma nurses, or even forensic nurses while Eddie and Robin are paramedics or EMTs. Jonathan being a M.E. if we wanna add him cause I feel like he fits there.

Max and Lucas are detectives maybe, Max being a P.I. possibly?

Dustin is a doctor, specifically working on the same floor as Steve and Nancy.

Mike and Will, idk yet but I'm sure someone else could help work them into this.

Hopper is still a cop, and if this is in Hawkins he can still be the chief of police but if this would be set in the city, I'm thinking a Captain of a precinct; specifically where Lucas works and where Max frequently drops by.

Joyce could also be a nurse, or work in the medical field; possibly a rehab nurse, or better yet a counselor that handles traumatized victims, both in helping them cope and getting info out of them.

As for El, idk but I know she would be great as someone who handles kids, maybe helps with missing persons and specializes in children experiencing abuse or other related things, either being a counselor or part of CPS

Just think it'd be a neat modern au, with maybe some Upside Down factors that bring them together because there's a sudden influx of an incurable sickness and missing persons or mysterious deaths.

This all came from "Oh Steve and Nancy would be great nurses....and Eddie and Robin being paramedics....hmm....." So here we are!