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@lastedpromise asked: 7 [ steve to nancy! ]
#𝟕: "𝑯𝑰 𝑰𝑻'𝑺 𝑴𝑬" - 𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒌𝒐 / 𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚃𝙸𝙵𝚈 𝚆𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙴𝙳 !
uh, when i'm with you i have amnesia, got me without a mind... my stupid brain thinks that i need you, misleads me all the time... [ ... ] 'cause i forget the crazy shit, the littlest things impress me... mediocre in the bed, my bestie would never let me... uh, i did it again...
college was somehow both what n.ancy w.heeler did and did not expect. she expected a heavy course load and to not have much free time—and sometimes it truly was like that, but she hadn’t expected to befriend some of the people in her classes, much less expected to be invited out for drinks to celebrate the end of semester exams. normally, nancy wouldn’t have agreed—not much of a partier in general—but with how much of an absolute STRESS BALL she’d been over the whole ordeal, she agreed.
and, without giving it much thought, she got carried away—far too carried away to be sober enough to make it home on her own. if she were sober, she’d kick herself for letting herself go this far. though, she’ll be paying the price of her actions by tomorrow, if not tonight, depending on the reaction she got from steve. if she were any more sober than she currently was, she’d feel guilty. because, truly, he didn’t deserve this.
“ steve, ” she crooned into the payphone outside of the bar she and her classmates had gone to. “ steveeeee… i, um… need you… ” her words were slightly slurred, despite any attempts to sound normal.
a giggle escaped her lips before she could stop it, followed by, “ it's like i need a babysitter—someone to come and get me… you…have experience in that, don’t you…? can you come pick me up ? pleaseeee…? ”
surely, when she’s sober, she’ll feel terrible about all of this.
starter for @kcndharts from nancy !
nancy grumbled under her breath, doing her best to rub the coffee stain out of her skirt, only succeeding in making it worse, and resulting in her huffing out a string of expletives under her breath. it took her a moment to notice the person who’d noticed her, and she could feel her cheeks warming as she asked, “ how long have you been standing there…? ”
so far so...not great. this certainly HADN'T been how nancy wanted to start her day. though, she supposed she'd been having more of a bad WEEK than one, singular day, and she doubted things would look up any time soon.
“C’mon, it’s gonna be okay.” [ for nancy from steve ]
but it’s really not, is it ? things weren’t supposed to go like this. nancy had her entire life figured out. she was supposed to go to emerson; she was supposed to get the fuck out of this town and make something of herself. she’d already had to let go of her early admission at emerson; she couldn’t just leave hawkins, could she ? sure, she could attend later, but it still left a bittersweet taste in her mouth. and as if all of that wasn’t hard enough to deal with…now this.
he’s too calm about this. he should be freaking out. yell at her. something. but he won’t. and he doesn’t. and nancy wishes none of this was happening right now.
her hand presses to her stomach, and she refuses to look steve in the eye. maybe she could’ve dealt with this better in the future if she had her life together, but right now ? she isn’t dealing with it at all. a part of her thinks that she shouldn’t have said anything at all; dealt with it…discreetly, and steve would’ve never had to know. but then a wave of guilt hits her at the thought and she hates the conflicting feelings she has about it all.
“ how is it gonna be okay, steve ? ” she asks, with maybe a little too much bite to her words. “ i feel like my life is falling apart and i’ll never have it together. and this, ” she pulls her hand away from her stomach, “ isn’t helping. ”
nancy hadn’t been opposed to having a family of her own one day, but not yet, and certainly not any time soon. she didn’t want to be trapped before she had a chance to be able to do something with her life, first.
📜(For Nancy)
steve, standing with his back turned: i’ve been expecting you, nancy. nancy: how did you do that without turning around ? steve: ... to be perfectly honest, the first couple of people i did that to were not you.
📜 stancy!
steve: i'm incredibly fast at math. nancy: alright, what's 30x17 ?steve: 47 nancy: that's not even close. steve: but it was fast.
🎲 for stancy!
6: a gentle peck ...
it was early morning and for once, nancy didn't have any plans. she didn’t have classes, she’d taken the day off from work, and aside from a few errands that needed to be ran, she had an entirely free schedule. it was unlike her, always feeling the need to stay busy and on the go, but she’d be lying if she said that the exhaustion of her life hadn’t finally caught up to her.
so, today, she planned on laying in bed, and possibly sleeping in. it wasn’t like she didn’t need sleep. still, even despite her innate ability to run herself ragged, she found that she slept way better these days, and she chocked that up to having steve here with her.
there was something about being his little spoon—laying back against him while his arms wrapped around her—that was comforting and she, unbeknownst to steve, had begun to reach a point where she’d toss and turn and be unable to fall asleep without him. she couldn’t give him the satisfaction of knowing that, so she kept it to herself—even though she was fairly certain that he knew anyway.
she could feel him shift behind her, knowing the movements all too well. he was awake.
turning over to face him, she moved to wrap her arm around him, snuggling close and gazing at him with sleepy eyes, smiling softly.
“ good morning… ” she murmured softly, meeting steve halfway for a soft kiss, before curling up against him, pressing her cheek against his chest. “ i think we both deserve to sleep in today, don’t you…? ”
"This whole place gives me the creeps, okay?" (For Nancy)
nancy wasn’t a fan of the upside down either—ever present goosebumps littered her arms under her sweater—but she swallowed the anxiety down. she had to be strong and put on a brave face; nevermind how things with vecna might go this time around. if they didn’t risk their necks who would ? what would happen to hawkins—and god forbid the world—if they didn’t do something ?
steve seemed to voice her thoughts, however, and she glanced back at him with a sympathetic smile. out of all of them, nancy probably admired steve the most. he never had to be involved with any of this—he had no real ties to will or barb—but he stuck around; he helped… nancy didn’t think it’d ever be possible to truly thank him for all that he did.
“ hey, ” she replied, in what she hoped was a reassuring tone, “ we’ll get through this. it’ll be fine. i got your back. ”
another beat passed between them, and in an attempt to lighten the mood, she playfully added, “ i never took you as the type to get scared… ”
'I believe that everything happens for a reason.' – for Nancy Wheeler !
nancy thinks back over the years to everything that’s happened. she futzes with her hands, the tips of her manicured nails leaving crescent shaped marks in their wake as she flexes her fingers. thinking back on the trauma she and the others had endured always spiked her anxiety, despite her attempts to shove it down, not think about it, and move on.
however, she thinks about will going missing, barb dying, no one believing a word she says, the slut-shaming, being looked down upon by her bosses, and the gaslighting from those around her. the lying, the danger, all the scars that came with it… did it all happen for a reason ? why was it that she had to go through all of that bullshit ? why did it have to happen in the first place ? sure, it’s succeeded in making her a stronger person, but at what cost ?
for what reason had her teenage girl years been snatched away from her ? she couldn’t think of one.
“ must be nice to be able to believe that, ” she replies in a mumble, not meeting his gaze. “ i wish i could believe it, too. ”
🎲 for nancy and steve!!
6: A gentle peck
the mornings in the harrington household can be more than a little hectic… with classes, nancy dealing with the morning sickness from the tail end of her first trimester, and steve going for his first day of firefighter training, today happened to be especially chaotic. nancy had to practically force steve to go for the job in the first place, promising that she would be okay and if she needed help, for any reason at all, she’d call him.
still, steve had barely acquiesced, but he’d done so nevertheless. regardless, he’d still insisted upon continuing to drive nancy to her classes that morning—refusing to acknowledge that, with this new job, there would be mornings where he couldn’t and nancy would have to drive herself—and they sat there for a moment, in steve’s car, when they’d arrived.
“ i’ll be fine, steve, i promise, ” nancy tried to assure him with a small smile. “ and we’ll still get to spend time together. we won’t be apart all the time… ” as much of an adjustment that it would be…
“ i gotta go before i’m late, but i’ll see you at home, okay ? ” she leaned in and pressed a gentle kiss to his lips before exiting the car.
🎃 carve pumpkins together (for nancy from robin!)
nancy wheeler didn’t do messy. she’d never been the type to like to get dirty if she could help it ( especially since her first time in the upside down and her time spent in the shower, scrubbing away at her skin until it was almost raw ), though sometimes she made exceptions. saving the world was a pretty big exception, in fact, but carving pumpkins ? it was the ooey gooey kind of messy that she didn’t particularly care for ( though she didn’t mind getting her hands dirty if it meant something got taken care of, fixed, or done. ) still, the cautious, slight look of contempt is on her face as she scoops out the rest of her pumpkin guts.
“ what are you going to carve into yours ? ” she asks robin, distracting herself from the feeling of pumpkin guts on her hands. “ i was thinking of something classic. can’t go wrong with that, right ? ”