i'm just an animal looking for a home
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But maybe Steve’s tired of Robin always haranguing him, so he relents. Because he’s Batman with a squad of Robins—and Batgirl, he supplies when Robin shoots him a look—and because he spent so much time cleaning out Jimmy Fast Hands’ bathroom that he needs to make all that effort worth it.
“That’s just sunk cost fallacy, man,” Dustin says to him. “And if you’re worried about a gate opening in your pool, may I remind you that the sidewalk right outside of the station split in half, revealing the fiery and somewhat dead depths of the Upside Down, which was why Jimmy Fast Hands beat it—”
Steve just flaps a hand at him. It could mean anything from quit your yapping (except then he’d press his fingers together, and he didn’t) to come give me a hand, and it’s usually the latter, but Dustin doesn’t want to give in.
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- Part 1 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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But Steve was shaking by the time they pulled up to the station. Drenched in a cold sweat that plastered his hair to his forehead and his sweater to his shoulder blades.
“Go grab Robin,” he said to Dustin. He was white-knuckling the steering wheel and he was far too pale. “Tell her I might need her to drive.”
Robin didn’t know how to drive, but it was a moot point, because Steve wasn’t getting out of the driver’s seat either. She opened the door and they looked at each other in silence, and then he said, “Get in.”
And he drove them back to his house.
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- Part 2 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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The thing is—
There are two Nancys. There’s Daytime Nancy and there’s Nighttime Nancy and Steve's only ever seen the first. No—
He saw Nighttime Nancy once, at Tina’s Halloween party, and he bolted out the door in tears.
Nancy fell on her sword after that.
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- Part 3 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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Steve knows what Dustin wants. He knows why Dustin wants the treehouse.
It’s a bribe. It’s a bribe for the other boys.
Steve doesn’t have the heart to tell the kid it won’t work. That his dad’s reputation precedes him or something ugly like that.
(The kid does seem sweet though.)
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- Part 4 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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lovers and madmen have such seething brains by birdsofthesoul
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2026
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Jonathan's already decided to go as Gregor Samsa in cockroach form. “It better get me out of dancing,” he says, frank to a fault.
“No,” Steve says loudly. “Absolutely not. No way in hell, man. You can’t show up as a bug to my mom’s ball.” And because he considers himself the authority on fashion among the four of them, he sniffs and says, “I’m leading the way from here on out.”
Nancy loops her arm through Robin’s. It’s the last thing Robin expects her to do, but she’s come to realize that she never really got to know the soft, unarmored version of Nancy Wheeler Steve fell in love with all those years ago.
Or: Jonathan and Robin want Steve to star in their movies.
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- Part 5 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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i was born with lightning in my heels by birdsofthesoul
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Mar 2026
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“Mm,” Steve says, because he still sees Max as a kid.
(Dear Steve, fifteen-year-old Max wrote in that letter she hopes Steve never read. I thought about it for a long time, and if you were turned into a swan, I’d make a vow of silence and weave a shirt of nettles for you. I wouldn’t for Billy.)
“Watch me,” she says. “I’m going to be famous one day.”
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- Part 6 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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you come at the king (you best not miss) by birdsofthesoul
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Aug 2026
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He tucks Steve back under clean sheets. Steve’s still murmuring to Tommy, whispering things that are supposed to sound soothing but only send chills down Dustin’s spine. He’s fading fast.
He’s a pale figure in a pale bed.
“I promise I’m not going to run a soul pawnshop,” Dustin says out loud.
He’s not.
“Since when do you believe in fate?” Steve asks quietly.
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- Part 7 of i'm just an animal looking for a home