In Hawkins, everyone knows Calliope Carmichael. The girl with the perfect smile. The big white house. The polished manners and effortless grace. She's kind, popular, and exactly who she's expected to be. What no one sees is how hard she works to stay that way. When strange things begin happening in Hawkins, Callie does what she's always done best-she helps. She notices. She stays. Armed with quiet intelligence, unexpected bravery, and a pair of antique swords hanging in her family's foyer, Callie finds herself drawn into a fight she never asked for... and a friendship she never planned. Steve Harrington has always been the guy everyone relies on-the protector, the babysitter, the one who takes the hits and keeps going. But as monsters close in and the people around him move on, it's Callie who sees the cracks he hides behind a smile. And somehow, without meaning to, they become each other's safe place. This is a slow-burn love story set against the chaos of the Upside Down-about being seen, choosing who you want to be, and finding home in the person who stays. Because sometimes, the quietest hearts change everything. Season One....completed Season Two....completed Season Three.... completed Season Four.... completed Season Five....completed

❝ you walk hand in hand with the omen of death, don't you, harrington? but, somehow, you're the only one i can't run away from. ❞ → 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 she claims to hate him, but fate decided to prove her wrong. or two teens who think they're nothing alike, do whatever it takes to help eachother survive. #1 in steve #4 in enemies to lovers enemies to lovers steve harrington x fem!oc stranger things s2-5 ┊© cxstlebyxrs

▌𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘌𝘙 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎𝘚 ❛ I think I was a jerk to you in high school on purpose. ❜ ❛ ...because you're an idiot? ❜ ❛ no. because it was the only way to get you to look at me ❜ . . ⋆｡˚ 🚲 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ━━━━ 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 and 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙮 spend a summer bickering to hide the fact that they're falling in love, discovering that the boy with the savior complex is the only match for the girl who doesn't believe she deserves to be saved. steve harrington x buckley! oc (fem) szn 3 ✔︎ szn 4 ✔︎ szn 5 ✔︎ RANKINGS: #1 in harrington - 17/12/25 #1 in henderson - 20/12/25 #1 in lucassinclair - 03/01/26 #1 in maxmayfield - 31/01/26 #1 in jonathanbyers - 05/02/26 #1 in lucas - 10/02/26 #1 in vecna - 31/03/26 #1 in sinclair - 31/03/26 #1 in mike - 15/04/26 #1 in byers - 16/04/26 #1 in mayfield - 13/05/26 #1 in max - 13/05/26 #1 in steveharrington - 13/05/26 started - 20/11/25 finished- 12/05/26 cover made by me desc inspo by lvrdixon © luvsnaya

Hawkins, Indiana isn't the kind of town you escape to. It's the kind you get trapped in. At seventeen, Lily Hargrove has already learned how to survive a broken home. When her mother vanished years ago, she and her twin brother Billy were left alone with a father whose anger only grew sharper with time. Then came Susan Mayfield - and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Maxine. They've known Max since she was small. She grew up around them. Grew up watching. Listening. Learning when to stay quiet. But knowing someone doesn't mean understanding them. When Neil Hargrove decides to move the family from California to the sleepy town of Hawkins, Billy is furious. Lily is exhausted. And Max is caught in the middle - old enough now to see the cracks in their family clearly, but still young enough to hope things might get better. They won't. Hawkins feels wrong from the start. The woods stretch too far. The air feels too still. And at night, the darkness hums. Lily is the first to sense it - something watching from the tree line. Something that doesn't belong. A creature that moves like an animal but isn't one. A mouth full of teeth that opens like a nightmare unfolding. A sound that isn't a scream - but close enough. As strange disappearances shake Hawkins and rumors spread through the halls of Hawkins High, Lily and Max are pulled into a secret far bigger than their family drama - a tear in reality that threatens to swallow the town whole. Lily laughs, she cries, she smiles all because of that one specific person, Steve Harrington. In Hawkins, monsters don't just live in another dimension. Sometimes they live in your house. Sometimes they wear your father's face. And sometimes... they're waiting for you in the dark.

If you're lost, you can look and you will find me Time after time. Steve Harrington x fem OC Season 2 - Season 5

"There's just no getting over you, I'm hopelessly devoted to you" Daphne Henderson, Dustin's hotter cooler older sister, is forced to adapt to her new reality; a world where monsters, superpowers and alternate dimensions exist; a world where will and barb went missing; a world where none of her loved ones are really safe; a world where she isn't just a regular teen girl anymore. 💌 steve harrington / "steve hairington" 👤 daphne henderson / "daphne the dauntless" 🗺️ Hawkins, Indiana, 1984-1987 · Substances (alcohol, smoking, drugs,...) · PTSD, depression, anxiety,... · Descriptions of violence · If a chapter includes a sex scene, it'll be warned in the start of it