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• The Long Way Around - Act 1 by frcgface

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  23 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Steve Harrington/Original Female Character(s)
  • Steve Harrington & Original Female Character(s)
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Steve Harrington
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Eddie Munson
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Slow Burn
  • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  • pretty one sided on the enemy part but still
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Eventual Fluff
  • Eventual Smut
  • (heavy on the eventual)
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Angst
  • Canon Compliant
  • with some artistic liberties
  • Series Adjacent Horror & Violence
  • Blood and Injury
  • Trauma
  • Past Trauma
  • Mental Health Issues
  • (of minor characters)
  • Protective Steve Harrington
  • Steve Harrington Redemption
  • Steve Harrington is Down Bad
  • Hopper!OC
  • Chief's Niece
  • OC needs a hug
  • and a stiff drink
  • Friends to Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  • technically
  • Baby Sitting Duo
  • the kids are little shits
  • and we love them
  • OC/El/Hopper Found Family
  • Found Family
  • Eddie Munson/Original Character Friendship
  • Minor Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
  • Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • third person (from oc's pov)

  Summary

  "Just do me a favour? Don't go into the woods."

  Adeline Hopper knows how life goes.
  You grit your teeth. You act useful. You try to make the best of it.
  Except when old nightmares resurface and new ones begin to crawl out of from the shadows, Ads finds herself pulled into a fight she didn't ask for with the one person she never truly left behind.

  How can someone carry on outrunning the past, when it was always meant to become their future?

  A Steve Harrington/Original Female Character story.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  145,295

  Chapters:

  36/36

  Comments:

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