Hawkins was supposed to be boring. Then she met Steve Harrington. New to town, she knew nothing about monsters, secret laboratories, or the other world hiding beneath her feet. To her, Steve was just the charming Family Video employee who flirted with her until one date turned into something neither wanted to let go of. But Steve has secrets. When Chrissy Cunningham is murdered and Steve begins disappearing with his friends, she follows himâand discovers he's helping hide the prime suspect. Steve swears there's an explanation. She thinks he's lying. Then something starts appearing in her dreams. A grandfather clock. A voice calling her name. And suddenly, Steve's impossible stories don't seem quite so impossible anymore.
Y/N Henderson escaped Hawkins years ago and never planned on coming back. Now nineteen, freshly graduated, and nothing like the awkward girl everyone remembers, one last night out leads her straight into the arms of a handsome stranger named Nick. One night. Fake names. No numbers. No reason they should ever meet again. Until Y/N walks into her childhood home and discovers Nick is actually Steve Harringtonâher little brotherâs best friend and one of the boys who made her childhood hell. Now Hawkins has monsters again, Dustin has been keeping some very big secrets, and Steve isn't anything like the boy Y/N remembers. Falling for him was never part of the plan. Then again, neither was surviving Vecna. Nick met Jess. Steve Harrington has to earn Y/N Henderson.
{y/n} came to Hawkins knowing no one but her dog. Then Bear disappeared. Weeks of searching lead her to Family Video with a missing poster and very little hope left. Steve Harrington takes one look at the pretty new girlâand the enormous dog she's somehow misplacedâand decides helping couldn't hurt his chances of getting a date. But Bear proves remarkably difficult to find. Soon there are maps, false sightings, late-night searches, dog treats permanently living in Steve's BMW, and half of Hawkins looking for a hundred-pound fugitive. Somewhere along the way, Steve stops searching because he wants an excuse to see her. And {y/n}, who thought she'd lost the only piece of home she had left, starts finding another one.
Years after losing her meister on a mission gone horribly wrong, Y/N returns to the DWMA as an accomplished Demon Weapon without anyone to wield her. Compatibility trials lead nowhereâuntil an unexpected encounter with the brilliant and unsettling Dr. Franken Stein reveals their wavelengths fit far too well. As Y/N is pulled back into battles, witches, madness, and old secrets, Stein takes an unusual interest in helping her find a meister. Neither realizes the perfect match may already be standing in front of them. A canon-inspired Soul Eater slow burn about grief, trust, soul resonance, and falling for the last person you expected.
