#btw i only censored the other ship bc ik they will get heated if this shows up in their tags

[vanesawye]

Rating: Mature

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Stranger Things

Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Nancy Wheeler/Steve Harrington

Characters: Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley, Karen Wheeler

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Grief/Mourning, Mutual Pining, Second Chances, Exes, Friends to Lovers, Drunk Sex, Overthinking, Service Top, Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Post-Season/Series 04, Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2, Nancy Wheeler-centric, Past Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler, Mild Smut

Summary:

Nancy and Steve pull their eyes away from the windows and look at each other, rattled.

"Anyone else here or…" Her voice is back. She can breathe again. It almost doesn't feel like it, in the dark and possibly alone with him for the first time in a long time.

"Just me," he sighs dryly, not thrilled about it. He leans against the stair bannister.

The foyer is empty with just the two of them. The ceiling sits high above them. This house is ideal for hide and seek, not living. It swallows them like ants. Just like when she and Barb arrived there together that night.

or,

A year after the gates Hawkins is cut off from the outside world. Vecna is in hiding. Nancy isn't the same hopeful she once was. With Steve in his empty house, she finds comfort she didn't know was still possible; but comfort is something she fears.