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1. we're running with the shadows by RuniRuna

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M, Gen
   • Complete Work

   10 Nov 2024

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Billy Hargrove & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Steve Harrington & The Party
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • The Party (Stranger Things) & Original Male Character(s)
   • Joyce Byers & Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Slow burn Billy Hargrove/Original Female Character
   • Eventual Max Mayfield/Original Male Character
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington's Parents
   • Original Characters
   • Hawkins Residents (Stranger Things)
   • Jonathan Byers
   • very slow burn
   • Enemies to Friends
   • Developing Friendships
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Male-Female Friendship
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Billy Hargrove Redemption
   • Billy Hargrove Tries to Be a Better Person
   • Billy Hargrove-centric
   • Steve Harrington-centric
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield-centric
   • POV Canon Character
   • POV Original Character
   • Parental Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Gen Work
   • Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery

   Summary

   As 1984 winds down, Billy Hargrove thinks that surviving the Mind Flayer may have been his real punishment. Elizabeth Stirling's walls are in tatters. And everyone around them is doing their best to keep them from spiraling while navigating a normal life they no longer fit into properly.

   It is an intermezzo story depicting the immediate aftermath of the events at the end of the 'finest Steel' and the following weeks before the series's main sequel takes place. COMPLETE.

   Sequel: it is now up and ongoing.

   Series

   • Part 3 of yesterday, today, tomorrow

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   155,233

   Chapters:

   30/30

   Comments:

   81

   Kudos:

   41

   Bookmarks:

   5

   Hits:

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