20 Works in Apocalyptic Hawkins (Stranger Things)
Listing Works
-
Tags
Summary
The world is ending. Hawkins has fallen. The Upside Down has won.
Months after the invasion, Steve Harrington is one of the few left alive, stuck inside a military compound with the remains of his broken found family. Every day is a fight for survival, a fight to push back the creatures that have destroyed everything.
And then it all goes to hell.
A routine supply run turns into a massacre. Steve barely escapes with his life, taking shelter in the last place he ever wanted to be—the Creel House. Fueled by grief, anger, and the unbearable weight of everyone he’s lost, he destroys the grandfather clock that once haunted Max Mayfield’s visions.
And time shatters.
When Steve wakes up, Hawkins is intact. The world hasn’t ended. But something is wrong. The date is November 6, 1983. Will Byers has just gone missing. And Steve Harrington might be the only one who can stop the end of the world before it even begins.
But changing the past comes with a cost. And as Steve soon realizes, just because he’s gone back in time doesn’t mean things will turn out better. Some things can’t be fixed. Some things were always broken. And some things—if messed with—can break even worse.
PART ONE COMPLETED.Series
- Part 1 of The Hollow Hour
-
The Rest Of The World Was Black And White (But We Were In Screaming Color) by joycesjournals
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
Tags
Summary
The world around them is crumbling but Will is fighting something alone. Something deep inside. Until he tells his mother. She tells him something he wasn’t expecting at all.
(Will comes out and she hits him with the uno reverse card)
-
Tags
Summary
Joyce and the kids are hiding out in an old barn while Hopper and El are in the upside down, desperate to get her powers back. A loud banging on the door has Joyce ready to fight, but when the door opens she’s relieved beyond belief.
Based on the first teaser of season 5, the scene of mother holding the axe in particular. Mothering is mothering.
-
you could absolutely break my heart by wayward_sherlock for qulizalfos
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Apr 2025
Tags
Summary
He’s aware, distantly, that something about this isn’t right; Mike has never been so open with his touches, so willing to give Will even just a fraction of the affection that he wants. Will’s been fine with it – has forced himself to be fine with it, to be grateful for the minimal attention Mike gives him – but now that he has Mike’s fingers gently scratching his scalp, he can’t stop himself from leaning into the touch.
It’s wrong, probably – and definitely selfish – of Will to take advantage of Mike when he’s obviously not in his right mind; he feels guilt claw in his stomach just as readily as butterflies flutter, and he can’t help but let himself have this one thing, these gentle touches among an apocalypse, a bit of tenderness in a world that has only ever been harsh to Will.
Will has a chat with Mike...from another universe. (missing scene from the other fic in this series!)
Series
- Part 2 of we're in love.
-
Tags
Summary
Fourteen months ago, the world ended.
Or at least, Eddie's did.
Make no mistake, he made it out alive. The bats didn't get the best of him as much as they had tried to, but when the rifts in Hawkins cracked open and the Ghouls began to appear, Eddie's world as he had known it was well and truly ripped apart.
Because... well because... Eddie hasn't seen Steve since.
OR
A post-apocalypse AU
-
Ceilings by 100clovers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), ceilings - Lizzy McAlpine (Song)
29 Nov 2024
Tags
Summary
Will did not want to reveal his love for his best friend in the car while they were both soaking wet.
-
Tags
Summary
The car ride back home was quiet. After we walked down that hill, none of us had anything to say. The air kept something hidden. Silencing the many thoughts that would be swirling in our minds behind our tongues. I sat in the middle seat between El and Will, and Jonathan drove. Will looked puzzled– as we all were. But I could tell there was something else that was off as he glassily eyed the driver seat.
I bumped my knee with his, he whipped his head up at me– his olive eyes wide and glossy. “You alright?” I whispered, breaking the wall of silence that separated us.
He blinked a few times. “Um– yeah. Yeah. I'm alright.”
-----
This fanfic is about Mike and Wills time during the vecna-pocalypse. Kind like one-shots because they are spread out, but they are all connected. Theres going to be a lot of byler scenes tm- so stay tuned!!
Series
- Part 1 of The Rightside Up
-
Tags
Summary
Kinktober Day 16: Sex Pollen
On a supply run, Jonathan runs into an unexpected face.Series
- Part 16 of Kinktober 2024
-
like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird by Monstrous_Femme
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Aug 2024
Tags
Summary
In 1993, Nancy falls asleep on Barb's grave and wakes up in 1985. From there, she finds herself completely unstuck in time.
It's also a love story.
-
Tags
Summary
Of course she didn’t know what it meant back then, just chalked it up to lucky guesses and quick reflexes—logical and easily explainable. It stopped being simple luck the night she was patrolling with Robin and Will—checking out the location from her most recent vision—and a demodog launched out of the darkness exactly as she had seen in her head. It stopped being a case of basic quick reflexes when that extra breath of time stretched out and slowed down around her until everything was silent and still and she could walk up to the creature and shove her pistol into its gaping maw while it leapt in creeping slow motion towards her friends—towards Robin. She pulled the trigger and it dropped dead to the ground with a hole in the back of its skull before the other two even knew it was there, confused as hell about how Nancy just seemed to shift ten feet to the right instantly. Nancy Wheeler had never really been quite normal, but now she knew it.
*
Or, Nancy has some new abilities, Hawkins is locked in quarantine, new monsters show up, Vecna has a terrible plan, and Nancy has to make some terrible choices to figure out what it all means for her and everyone around her. -
Tags
Summary
It’s been three years since the world cracked open, and hell on earth crawled out. The monsters are gone, but the world is forever changed. There’s a banished boy in the woods, and a girl without a name.
There's darkness at the edge of town.
There are hunters in the woods.
-
Love the Bones and Lick the Blood (Come Bite and Breed Me In The Mud) by Azriel (Oonionchiver)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Nov 2023
Tags
Summary
There’s a shadow.
‘Hello?’ he says, which is dumb, but really, what else is he meant to say?
The shadow is human sized, human shaped.
He sees eyes gleaming.
Pure white.
It’s terrifying.
Breath-taking, makes his interior turn glacial, like his spit is cryogenic, it leaves him stuck and stupid.
Death.
Death has come to take a bite.
He thinks it’s overdue.
Series
- Part 16 of Gift Fics
-
You Can't Start A Fire (without a spark) by ronancableNPC
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Nov 2023
Tags
Summary
After Vecna is (temporarily) defeated and Eddie Munson survives, Eddie moves in with Steve and some of his friends as Hawkins prepares for the battle that they know is coming. Living together makes them safer, sure, but it also has unforeseen consequences.
And it seems Vecna isn't done cursing kids in Hawkins. -
survived all those long lonely days by faithfulcat111
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2023
Tags
Summary
Jonathan knew it was a problem that he was missing large chunks of his entire (albeit short) childhood and couldn't properly explain what made him panic. But having someone there when he reached the other side, that was far more than he ever expected.
Written for Stonathan Week 2023 and July Break Bingo
Series
- Part 7 of Stonathan Week 2023
-
Tags
Summary
Will is gay. Robin knows.
Or, Robin and Will go on a supply run. Set in post-season 4 apocalyptic Hawkins.
-
Be mine through the Hawkinspocalypse (and I'll be yours forever) by TikaWayward
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Nov 2022
Tags
Summary
Mike was long. Long frame extended in a stretch. Long limbs shaking from exhaustion. Long fingers clenched around ripped sheets. Long hair damp with sweat, sticking to his long pale nape and freckled shoulders. Even his back seemed long as he tensed. Will had to commit this view to memory, engrave it in his mind forever. Even if it was the only time they ever shared such intimacy, even if Mike had only asked him for help because he was there, familiar, convenient, and they needed his heat to stop as soon as possible. There are goddamned monsters out there Will, I can’t be in heat right now, I can’t! He needed to revere this moment.
Mike truly was the most beautiful creature Will had laid his eyes on.
__________________________________________________________________Or Mike presents as an omega in the middle of his patrol with Will in a monster infested forest.
Series
- Part 1 of Through the Hawkinspocalypse
-
Tags
Summary
Nancy's long term housemate has made himself at home in more ways than one, and she's surprisingly okay with that.
-
Tags
Summary
As long as they had each other fuck everyone else, honestly. Words to live and die by.
********
When the Party faces off against Vecna, something happens causing reality to shift into separate timelines. Mike's stuck in the past. Will's sent to the future. Both have to rely on their memories to figure out what went down in 1988, Apocalypse Hawkins. They also figure out, along the way, that their feelings for each other are mutual.
-
Tags
Summary
Hawkins has been annihilated by the Upside Down. It is up to the gang to try and stop it from getting worse, and hopefully defeat the darkness once and for all. Mike and Will become separated as they look for survivors. With the help of El, Mike discovers some truths he never realized. As each moment passes, it’s crucial he finds Will, and lets him know what it means to be The Heart. But will it be too late?
-
Tags
Summary
(Not the George Ezra song.)
It’s almost overwhelming, the casual intimacy of Will’s hands over his back, his shoulders, and the way it stirs something deep inside him, something he’d prefer not to think about nor pursue in the current moment, but something he fears is now inescapable.
Or: Nancy thinks Mike needs to learn to defend himself; luckily enough, Will Byers is a rather competent shooter. A fluffy one shot turned character study, dearly beloved to me.
Series
- Part 1 of post-s4 byler cinematic universe