#like. the night before the ending. if you talk to erica she'll be like

[applescabs]

the t4t girlies btw. if you even care.

[kedreeva]

I hope I'm doing the thing right... I would love some post trauma bonding between Erica and Steeeeeve. I feel like they are about on a par for intellect and they would have a lot in common in the giving face of not being traumatized, and also about having to live with crushing social expectations.

(My askbox is open for ST prompts!)(Previous Prompts)

Steve sees her lingering around the edge of the Red Cross food distribution table, even after Robin's gone to wash her hands and get ready to go. She picks at the tablecloth and looks as inconspicuous as she can, but he catches her glancing his way as he folds. He doesn't stare, and he doesn't stop, because when Erica wants to be addressed, she'll make it known.

Robin comes out of the back, still drying her hands on her pants. She smiles brightly at Erica, says something Steve can't hear, and Erica shakes her head. Robin stares for a second and then shrugs, and skirts around the table to head for Steve.

He nods his chin a little in Erica's direction as she approaches, and Robin shakes her head. She looks down at his piles of clothing and then glances slightly back in Erica's direction. He glances as well, and then nods, and she smiles.

"I'll wait in the car," she says as she brushes past his table, heading for the exit. He pulls out his keys and lobs them to her before she gets too far away.

It takes a little longer for Erica to meander close enough to him to talk, and he gives her a few minutes before he decides to start it. "Where's your brother?"

"Over at Mike's," she says, like she doesn't care, even though he knows she does.

"Why aren't you over at Mike's?" Steve asks, as nonchalantly as he can, not stopping folding.

She shrugs, not looking at him. "Boys night."

Steve nods, like he understands. He doesn't. Maybe he does- the boys can be idiots sometimes. They're playing their dragons game again, a single shot game according to Dustin, but they could have taken Erica. He'd heard Dustin talk about her game-saving play at Hellfire. He knows she's impressive, even if he doesn't know exactly why.

"You want a ride back early?" he asks instead. She looks past him, uncertain, and doesn't answer for long enough that Steve adds: "I do owe you free ice cream for life."

Erica looks him over, judging the sincerity of the offer, but she lifts her chin. "Yeah, okay. I gotta call my mom."

"Phone's in the back," he tells her, and watches as she goes.

He finishes the pile he's on before she gets back, and then he comes around the table to walk out with her. There's still light out, but the chill of evening prickles at the air. She walks a little close to him, and he thinks Robin had been right to ask him to stay and wait for her. Something's off. He catches Robin's eye through the windshield, and she nods.

Erica slips into the backseat without comment, and as soon as all the doors are closed, Robin says: "You mind dropping me off first? I'm supposed to help my mom with some stuff tonight."

"Sure," Steve says as he starts the car.

She picks a soft radio station, something that could be talked over even though it isn't. Erica stares out the window, quiet the entire ride to Robin's house. It's a short drive, uneventful and Robin thanks him at the end of it before she clambers out of the car. Without words she promises to call later, and he nods her off. He's got this.

"You wanna come up here?" he asks of Erica, who hesitates before climbing out of the and getting into the passenger seat. He glances sidelong at her and then puts the car in reverse to get out of the driveway. "Twist and Shake, or Dairy Dan?"

"Twist and Shake, obviously," she says.

Steve smiles. It's not a far drive to get to the ice cream shop, either, and Steve parks around the back instead of on the street, because it's quieter. Maybe not quieter by noise, but quieter by who is watching. Quieter by who Erica thinks can see her.

They sit on the hood of his car and eat their ice cream in companionable silence. She darts a few looks sidelong at him and he doesn't pry. He's learned to be patient about this stuff. He'll ask if he has to, he won't let things fester the way they'd done inside of Nancy, but he can wait a little longer.

"It's not as good as Scoops," Erica says eventually.

"Yeah," Steve agrees, even though he actually thinks it's better. This place had been here before Scoops Ahoy, and it had outlasted the commercial chain. "Sorry we had to burn it down. Monsters really... mess up a lot of stuff, huh?"

Her face does something strange, and she nods. She sticks her spoon in her mouth - she'd gotten some mixture of candy stirred into her ice cream in a paper cup, the way they'd started doing at Dairy Queen last year - and doesn't look at him, and he reminds himself that she's only eleven. Maybe talking about stuff doesn't fall on her shoulders.

"It's uh... it's okay, you know," he ventures gently. "To be upset about... the stuff that's changed. The stuff that's lost."

"I'm not upset," she says, too quickly, and Steve hurries to nod in agreement.

"No, I know. I know. I'm just saying, if you were, it'd be okay," he explains.

It hasn't even been two weeks since the gates opened, only a few days since El managed to close the last one. Vecna's still out there somewhere, and the guy, the human, that had attacked her wasn't going to face any consequences for it- well, no legal ones. Steve had already tracked him down and ensured he would never look twice at Erica or Lucas ever again. He'd never tell the others - doesn't need the judgment from Nancy or Robin, doesn't need the kids taking after his bad example - but he couldn't have sat by and done nothing. No regrets this way- he'd limp himself back to the hospital to have his popped stitches redone again if he had to, to protect any of them.

"I kind of miss it," he says. "The video store's okay, I- I like the uniform better."

That, at least, gets a little smile. "Still not cool."

"Less humiliating," he says, smiling too. "Probably less conspicuous inside secret Russian military bases. Still... it's where I met Robin."

She breathes out and lowers her ice cream into her lap. "Yeah. But... you couldn't have found Eddie if you were at Scoops."

He nods a little. They'd all traded stories at the hospital. "I'm not sure we did him any favors, finding him. He'd probably have been safer with the police."

He'd thought about it a lot; if Eddie had gone to the police, his name would have been cleared immediately. Fred would have been seen by the officer that stopped Nancy, while Eddie was in custody. Patrick, too, if they had not been sure. He'd have been safe. He'd have been free.

"He's gonna be okay," Erica says, but her voice wobbles and when Steve looks over, her eyes are glassy in the low light.

"Oh," he says softly, setting down his own cup and scooting to put an arm over her shoulders. "Yeah, of course he's gonna be okay. He's tough, Erica. You don't get to be a- a metalhead dungeon guy if you're not tough."

"Master," she says wetly, rubbing at her eyes with the heel of her hand.

"What?" he says, with a little huff of a laugh.

"It's called a dungeon master. A DM." She sniffles and finally leans against him a little, shoulders heaving in little twitches as she tries to keep from actually crying.

"A- Okay, you don't get to be a dungeon master if you aren't tough," Steve amends. "He'll wake up soon. Max, too."

"You don't know that," she says.

He considers saying he does, might have said it to one of the other kids, but Erica's quick as a whip and she's not interested in placation. "I don't," he agrees, "except I think it's true. If the doctors didn't think they'd wake up, they'd start talking about how to let them go. And they haven't done that, right?"

She's quiet for a few long seconds before she relaxes just a little. "Right."

"So... I think it's going to be okay."

She sits, letting her ice cream melt in her hands, and he stays where he is until she sits up a little, away from him.

"Thanks," she mumbles.

He nods and picks up his own cup again. It's not really worth eating most of it anymore, but he scoops out the small floating bit that's still mostly-frozen and pops it into his mouth. Then he scoots, sliding down the hood of his car to the ground, and turns around to see if she wants help getting down. She doesn't; she scuffs the hood, but he doesn't comment about that, either.

"Hey, um... did those little shits really tell you it was a boys night?" he asks, once she's standing. He holds out a hand for her finished cup, intending to go throw them both away so they can go.

"Yeah," she says, a little bitterly, handing over the garbage.

Steve flicks a glance at his watch. They'd probably been playing for a little while, but there was no way they were done. He stacks the cups carefully, pulling the spoon from the bottom one and sticks it in the top one, and then looks up to her. "I'm gonna go toss these, and then what do you say we go crash a single game party?"

Erica closes her eyes. "A one shot?"

"What?" Steve says, brow knitting.

"It's called a one shot."

He snorts, but smiles. "Yeah, okay. You wanna go crash a one shot? Make sure the boys don't forget how awesome you are?"

"You know," she says, a little slyly, "I think I do."

(on AO3)

[ronance4everbrainrot]

So @corgiplays and I are basically co-operating this

Murray adopting Robin AU

And I am very thankful for them.

They give me ideas and I add my own ideas or write them out. So now the lovely person that is Corgi commented again.

time line wise we have 3 months to work with so all of july, august and september to work with, the rest of july definitely is more Steve and Robin dealing with their trauma and helping each other and it gives an escape for Robin from her mother (we thinking just homophobic or with some abuse? i'm thinking more emotional abuse but that's just me), month 2 would be the jancy breakup, ronance bonding, Nancy (unknowingly because she's repressed) finds comfort in Robin (she'll distract Nancy more than comfort her), month 3 is when the fight happens, end of month 2 Steve finds out that Nancy thinks him and Robin are dating which makes him think he has a chance with her but Nancy thinks their dating which Steve (with his 2 brain cells) decided to distance himself from Robin, this includes having her home more so she's around her mother (the bitch) Steve distancing himself and being around her mother leaves Robin masking and pulling away from the party (Max, Erica and Lucas check up on her tho because i like their relationship) Robin gets into a fight with Steve about his being distant i think he might pull up the "well maybe if you weren't 'slur' then we could of dated and this wouldn't be a problem" he doesn't mean it in the end but it hurts because he was the first person she opened up to, 3-4 days later she gets into a fight with her mother (about something) and gets kicked out, so by the end of month 3 she's going to Murray's

So the time line is

Month 1 (July)

Steve and Robin bonding

Her staying over at Steve's

Helping with nightmares and other stuff

Month 2 (August)

The movie nights start

Murray and Robin bonding

Jancy break up

Nancy and Robin bonding

Steve find out that Nancy thinks Robin and him are dating

End of Month

Steve distancing himself from Robin

Month 3 (September)

Robin distancing herself from the party

Her confronting Steve and they fight

Her and her mother fight

Her staying at Murray's

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Hope I didn't forget anything

So Robin just distracting Nancy and not really comforting her seems fitting

Also Robin doesn't know that Nancy thinks they are dating. She knew Nancy disliked her the first times they met and thought it was because of Steve, but now that she likes her she forgot about it. They also don't talk about relationships because of the break up and because they aren't really close.

Also Robin's mom is definitely emotional Abusive, she also treats Robin more like a butler than a daughter. (ofc Homophobic)

So before the fight with her mother she has a fight with Steve and she is like so heartbroken from it she's numb 'the calm before the storm' (hehe)

In those 3-4 days she's just numb and drained and just in her room, but her mother being the bitch she is, wanted her to make her food and do the chores and other stuff. Robin was basically on autopilot for that stuff.

But whiles she heartbroken about the fight with Steve, she was also furious, and on the 3rd/4th day she just snapped at her mother, because she got annoyed at smth, but her mother reacted just as furious as her.

(TW: Emotional Abusive, Manipulation?, Gaslit? Idk, also d-slur)

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She calls out her Mom for being neglecting and emotional abusive and treating her like a butler and she's just rambling on and on about it, until she got cut off, and she was so shocked. Still with her head turned to the side she slowly reach up to her cheek. She couldn't believe it. 'Did she... Did she just slap me?...' Her mother never got physical. She slowly turned her head and looked into her mother's eyes, trying to find guilt or regret, anything like that. But no, nothing. No guilt, no regret, just cold eyes staring at her with hatred.

"how DARE you disrespect me like that." she gritted through her teeth. She took on step forward and took Robin by her chin, so she can't look away "YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT I KEPT YOU AROUND!" she yells "YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT I LET YOU STAY IN MY HOUSE AND THAT I PAY THE BILLS FOR THE WATER AND THE HEAT THAT I GIVE YOU" she tighten her grip and it feels like her jaw is about to crack "YOU ARE A USELESS UNGRATEFUL LITTLE SHIT" she let's go and pushes her a back a bit. Robin is still frozen in place. Her mother looked away and shook her head "I am so disappointed in you, Birdie" Robin tenses at the nickname, guilt started flooding in. Then her mother looks at her with this... look and she feels even more guilty, as if her mother didn't just slap her, as if she didn't just called her useless.

"I-" her voice cracked "I'm sorry" her voice wavy and quiet. She looks uncomfortably into her mother's eyes (she says it's rude not to look people in the eye) and she was meant with that look full of hatred again "As you should be" her mother growls out. "Here is what you're gonna do. You will go to your room. Pack all your trash into a bag. And leave. my. house." she talks to her like she's a little child, and she feels like one. Panic rapidly started rising and she did something she never thought she would do. She begged. She fell down on her knees and clung to the woman that's supposed to be her mother and begs. She started rambling again about how sorry she is and that she didn't mean it and she went on and on, she must have accidentally mentioned the fight with Steve and said something the she shouldn't have. Her mother shoves her away with so much disgust in her eyes.

"Don't touch me! You're disgusting! I knew you were useless and all but you're also a dyke?! I- how- WHAT!?!"

Robin's face loses its color 'Shit..' "I-" she's on the verge of tears. Her Mother raises her hand. Robin, somehow unfrozen, flinched back and dodge the hit. This just makes the woman more furious "You're a disgust Dyke! You shouldn't be allowed to live!" And her blood runs cold, she stands up and stumbles her way to her room as fast as possible, her mother right behind her. She managed to lock the door before her mom can come in but the banging and yelling doesn't make the situation better.

She quickly looks around the room and gets her bag, packs all the stuff she needs and then gets her money stash out. She jumped out the window (and she has never been more grateful for the fact that they live in a small one floor house) right before she heard the door open. She didn't dare look back and ignored the woman's screaming, who never deserved the titel of mother.

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Um....honestly this one is worst than the other one before 😭🥺 I mean it's better, but the situation is worst.

so um

Let's get to the not angst thing I wanted to write

About Her and the kids

She's closes to Max, Lucas and Erica.

She's also close to Dustin but he's closer to Steve and he also want Steve and Nancy to get back together (well he teases Steve about it)

Surprisingly it was Lucas who noticed and since him and Max are close he told her while she was over at his house and Erica overheard them talk about it.

I would love for them to comfort her 🥺 but idk how they would approach 😪

So this is about her and Erica...very very long intro?... Well, the interaction is mostly at the end

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Robin was forced to go to this movie night by Steve.

Since the announcement that the Byers will be moving, the party wanted to hang out as much as possible. And since Dustin is close to Steve and Steve is close to her, they somehow got invited. Steve also said that she should (she would never admit but he's right) hang out with the party more.

Steve, being the idiot that he is, arrived too early. They helped prepare the basement to be helpful. While picking up some papers and magazines from the floor, she overheard that Erica was gonna be there. She was surprised, but also not. She guilty things about the last time she saw her. She also thinks about the stuff that happened before, and is filled with even more guilty. She put Erica in danger. She shook her head 'Now is not the time for that'.

She continues picking up the papers (she thinks it's for DnD) and magazines. One magazine has an ice cream one it, which makes Robin realize something 'Didn't we promise her a lifetime supply of ice cream?' She looks at the clock 'Perfekt' "Hey Stev-" she looks around and doesn't see him "Uh-" 'How did I not notice that he left? Not important.'

She goes upstairs and looking for Steve but still doesn't find him. She looks at the clock again 'it can still work' She decided to ask Mrs. Wheeler and awkwardly approached her "Uh- Hey Mrs. Wheeler?" Karen turns around and looking surprised but then imidiatly smiling kindly at Robin "Hey sweetie! It's Robin, right?" Robin squeaks out a "Y-yeah!" awkwardly rubbing her neck and her cheeks flushing. She clears her throat and said "Yeah, it's Robin. I just.. It's kinda a weird request but I really need to go get something and I can't find Steve so I had a different idea and I needed to ask you if I could borrow a bike? I promise I won't steal it, I have my own bike, but Steve drove me here so I don't have my bike with me and-" she got herself off "S-sorry, I ramble a lot." Karen smiles gently and puts her hand on Robin's shoulder "It's totally fine, sweetie!" She seems she wanted to add something but decided against it "So you need a bike? They are in the garage. You'll see them when you walk in." she gently squeezes her shoulder again and breathtakingly smiles again [I know what you are Robin👀]

Robin went to to the garage and got the bike which fit her height the best and then cycled to the nearest store. She gets there in 3 min [Idk] and quickly buys what she came her for. She almost didn't have enough money, but luckily she did. She started paddling faster then bevor, so the ice cream won't melt [it's the on in the box that you have to scoop out yourself].

She arrives in the garage and saw that there were more bikes than before 'guess the kids are here'. She got off the bike and went to kitchen, putting the ice cream in the freezer section. She wented to the living room and greeted Karen and Holly, Ted was sleeping in his chair, she was just about to Thank Mrs. Wheeler for the bike, but right that moment, the bell rang. Mrs. Wheeler stood up and went to open it but Robin said she can do it. Karen thanked her and smiles. When she opened the doors it was Lucas, Max and Erica. They seemed just as surprised as she was 'I thought they were already there'. Erica, unsurprisingly, spoke first "So you gonna let us in, or do I need to shove you?" "Well, aren't you a little ray of sunshine" She joked and stepped to the side. Erica rolls her eyes and stares with daggers at Lucas when he chuckled. "Let's just go downstairs and watch this stupid movie" Max said "Hey! It's NOT stupid!" Lucas protested. Max playfully rolls her eyes and ignores his protest "Hey Robin?" "Yeah?" "are the others already downstairs?" "Probably but idk, I just came back from the store" "Why were you at the store? I thought we already had snacks" Lucas asked "Yes, but" she decided to be confident and say it "I got something for your little sister" They all looked surprised, well no, Lucas looks surprised, Max doesn't care and Erica seems curious "So can I borrow her for a sec?" "Yeah sure, we're gonna go downstairs" Max said and took Lucas by the arm, dragging him. "So what do you want?" Robin ignore her attitude and says "Follow me~" and just went to the kitchen, hoping Erica followed "Sooo" Robin turns around, luckily enough Erica followed her "So?" she said, standing with her arms crossed "You remember how Steve and I promised to give you a lifetime supply of ice-cream?" Erica looks nodded "duh, but the mall burned down so you couldn't" Robin looked uncomfortable for a second. "Yeah, well, I got you this!" she went to the freezer section and took the ice cream out "I forgot what you're favorite flavor was or if you even had one but I remember that you like one of the samples a lot, so that was my only clue on what to get you." She nervously held out the ice crean with a hopeful smile. Erica took it and then the most shocking thing happened, Erica smiled! "Thanks nerd" "You're welcome"

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They deserved a better interaction 😪 I mean from what I wrote. This was mostly just Robin's journey to buy ice-cream

Anyway, I feel like even tho she doesn't have a lot of money, she buys Erica a new ice cream every week to make up for their deal (mostly because she feels guilty for putting her in danger but also because Erica kinda gets excited (she tried to hide it, but her eyes betrayel her) and when Robin distances herself, she already kinda felt like something was off, but then she overheard Lucas and Max talk about it and together they try and comfort her somehow, I still don't know how they'd approach her tho)

I hope this was ok? I mean I personally liked the fight. But the Erica and Robin bonding thing was not much interaction between them, but I still liked it.

Also Karen would also adopted her but well Nancy lives there and with the Steve situation it's not the best idea. And she thought off Murray first after the fight with her mom, so ye

Again thx Corgi (I can't thank you enough 🙌✨)

Lots of love ✨♥️🤗✨