Mike Wheeler: Generational Yearner
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Stranger Things: 'The Rightside Up'
The Place to Be (Jancy fic)
Another fix it fic of sorts in reaction to the finale. This was inspired by the looks between Nancy and Jonathan during the epilogue, especially the one Jonathan gave Nancy when she talked about dropping out, like he already knew…
Read on Ao3 or FFnet!
Preview:
“I don’t know what I’m doing here,” she sighs into the receiver.
“Following your dreams?” Jonathan offers.
They quickly got into the habit of calling each other to talk. Because of course. There’s no one else she can talk to like Jonathan. She doesn’t even remember how it started, who called who first. Just that it’s become such a habit that she’s had to explain to her roommate Josie many times that no Jonathan isn’t her boyfriend but her ex. And she’s pretty sure the rest of the dorm resents her for hogging one of the two phones on their floor for like an hour almost every night.
“I’m not so sure this is where they are. That this is the place for me.”
“How do you mean?”
“Well, sometimes in class, a lot of times in class, I sit and think what’s the point? Of sitting and listening to some guy lecturing on how to discover and keep hold of a story and how to frame it when I feel like…”
“Like you’ve already broke a story bigger than any of your professors could’ve ever hoped for, already back in high school And you really just want to break more?” Jonathan finishes her sentence for her better than she could’ve herself.
He gets her. He always just gets her.
