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Okay okay hear me out, I know I literally just said werewolf Robin is the only thing that matters BUT
Werewolf Nancy
Nancy who knows something took Barb.
Nancy who decides to go hunting for this beast and gets attacked herself.
Nancy who is smart enough to do research, who gets weird looks from the librarian when she starts obsessively reading every book and legend on lycanthropy.
Nancy who meets Robin Buckley who has a deep special interest in the supernatural, who offers her help and suggests checking some less reputable sources too, like the Weekly Watcher
They get closer over the first couple weeks, talking and getting to know each other. Nancy dodges every werewolf related question, and Robin can’t help but notice
Nancy isolates herself because her enhanced senses make everything Too Much and she’s worried about losing control and Robin notices
Nancy tells Karen she’s spending the night at a friend’s house
Robin goes looking for her and knows immediately when Karen says where Nancy is that Nancy was lying
Robin finds Nancy in the woods, sitting against a tree and staring at the moon as if in a trance
Robin watches Nancy’s body break and mold and contort into something ugly and monstrous—but she knows it’s still Nancy
And at first this beast stares Robin down, hackles raised and teeth pulled back
Robin does what Robin does best—she rambles. She mostly spouts off nonsense about werewolves and all they’ve learned, but when she runs out of that, she moves on to other legends, then switches to flowers because she knows they’re one of Nancy’s interests
The wolf calms, actually lays down and listens, and it’s eyes gleam with such a soft and intense intelligence, and Robin understands that Nancy recognizes her in some capacity
When Nancy shifts back, unconscious and shaking, Robin takes her to her own house, lets her sleep in the bed while she herself takes the floor
Nancy sneaks away when she wakes up, but Robin lets her. It’s a silent understanding. They never mention it again
But sure enough, the next full moon, Robin finds the wolf in the same spot, and it seems almost as if it was expecting her. She talks again, keeps Nancy calm
For months this becomes routine
Finally Nancy approaches Robin, asks her to come earlier because it’s terrifying being alone
Of course Robin agrees
The time after that, Robin actually drives Nancy to the woods, a comforting hand on the girl’s thigh as she shakes with anticipation of the pain to come
Robin starts bringing books, podcasts, anything yo entertain her werewolf best friend
Once she brings a dog toy. Nancy gives her the dirtiest look (but Robin catches her chewing on it about an hour later mid ramble about bugs)
They grow a lot closer, and Nancy finally lets Robin start hanging out with her in person. Robin finds she’s in love with her best friend, and she doesn’t know how to admit it
Nancy isn’t fully herself when shifted. She admits as much to Robin that she doesn’t remember much from the full moons, but she appreciates Robin’s company
Robin decides to confess while Nancy is in this shape, thinking Nancy won’t know
Nancy hears it, deep down anyway
When Robin takes Nancy home that night, Nancy surprises her with a kiss
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corgiplays · 2 years
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Werewolf Nancy and Robin in the first few chapters in my Stranger Things Rewrite
Nancy waking up after a full moon and for the first time since being bitten she feels peaceful. She doesn't register it yet but she's laying on top of someone and the warmth they give off is so comfortable that she buries her head further into they crook of their neck. The person just mumbles something before tightening the arm that's draped accros Nancy's waist, that wakes Nancy up and she pushes herself off startling the person who was under her.
It's awkward when Nancy tries covering herself in front of the half dazed naked woman in front of her who looks like a child who got their stuffed toy ripped away from them in the middle of the night. And Nancy is trying hard to keep her eyes locked on the woman's and not her toned body, the happy trail leading down, the bit of scruffy stubble along the woman's jaw or the multitude of smaller and larger scars on the woman. The two talk and Nancy finds out that the woman is a werewolf and apparently her wolf and the woman's- Robin's wolf frolicked around the forest together.
Robin ends up giving Nancy some clothes she has stashed away all over Hawkins forest and they leave each other to go along with their day. Nancy gets a weird look from Mike about her clothes but thinks their Steve's, Nancy spends the rest of the day trying to keep Robin out of her mind.
It's even more embarrassing when Nancy goes to school and finds herself sharing five different classes with Robin and the girl giving back her clothes that she looked for after Nancy left.
And thus begins the weird friendship between Robin and Nancy as Nancy figures out more of her werewolf heritage with the multitude of journals and documents that Robin has in her home, exposing Hawkins Laboratory for what it is and a slow burn ronance ;) as I rewrite seasons 2-4
When I mean slow burn I mean these bitches have been in love with each other since Robin returned Nancy clothes after spending the rest of her day finding and washing Nancy's clothes for her but they won't figure it out till either after season 3 before season 4 or after/during season 4
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thisispartofaurl · 2 years
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“Werewolf Nancy and Vampire Robin. I’m basing my choices here solely after their hair, you’re telling me Nancy Wheeler ISNT a werewolf? Look at her hair! It’s huge!” - My suitemate who’s SO correct
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cherry-stxrdust · 2 years
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"werewolf Robin this" "werewolf Robin that" werewolf Nancy. She deserves to go a little insane. She deserves to go absolutely mad and feral and kill a few animals or a few fuckers who messed with her or her friends. She deserves to hunt Vecna and eat him alive or some shit. Werewolf Nancy.
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All the better to protect you with, my dear (9440 words) by miraculousagentsofkrypton Chapters: 6/12 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler, Will Byers & Nancy Wheeler, The Party & Nancy Wheeler Characters: Nancy Wheeler, Karen Wheeler, Mike Wheeler, The Party (Stranger Things), Lucas Sinclair, Will Byers, Eleven | Jane Hopper Additional Tags: Werewolf Nancy Wheeler, Werewolf Mike Wheeler, Barb still dies, Good Parent Karen Wheeler, Telepathic Bond, found family for the Stranger Things crew, They're a pack, they just don't know it yet, Nancy Wheeler-centric, implied feelings in nancy/Barb, Eventual Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, The Upside Down (Stranger Things), everyone in the show is going to have a part to play throughout the series, even if not in this fic, This covers pre-canon all the way through season 1, some internalized homophobia Series: Part 1 of All the Better to Protect You With, My Dear Summary: Nancy and Mike think they have a handle on full moons by 1983. Their mom helped them hide it from everyone they know, and nothing terrible had happened. Then, Will's disappearance changes everything they think they know about themselves. Who knew werewolves were so protective of their pack?
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Chapters: 7/12 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler, Will Byers & Nancy Wheeler, The Party & Nancy Wheeler Characters: Nancy Wheeler, Karen Wheeler, Mike Wheeler, The Party (Stranger Things), Lucas Sinclair, Will Byers, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Robin Buckley Additional Tags: Werewolf Nancy Wheeler, Werewolf Mike Wheeler, Barb still dies, Good Parent Karen Wheeler, Telepathic Bond, found family for the Stranger Things crew, They're a pack, they just don't know it yet, Nancy Wheeler-centric, implied feelings in nancy/Barb, Eventual Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, The Upside Down (Stranger Things), everyone in the show is going to have a part to play throughout the series, even if not in this fic, This covers pre-canon all the way through season 1, some internalized homophobia Series: Part 1 of All the Better to Protect You With, My Dear Summary:
Nancy and Mike think they have a handle on full moons by 1983. Their mom helped them hide it from everyone they know, and nothing terrible had happened. Then, Will's disappearance changes everything they think they know about themselves. Who knew werewolves were so protective of their pack?
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glitterghast · 13 days
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could u draw some more werewoof nancy? u draw her so cuuute :D
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naturally i had to throw in faun!robin (who breaks an antler every other week)
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silvereyedsankta · 12 days
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yeah the beast is wrapped around her finger
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Monsters AU, anyone????
If you haven't already guessed it, Steve Harrington is my comfort character and almost everything I write lately has to do with him. But I love myths and monsters, so I mashed them up.
Steve is a werewolf; not always, but an incident when he was four changed him. His mother blames herself for his accident and tends to stay away from him, too overcome with guilt to even look at her son. Unfortunately, of all things, he was changed into a pack animal, and the loss of his mother's comfort has a negative effect. He's withdrawn, aggressive, unable to get comfortable in his own skin, all before even starting kindergarten- his only relief is when his mother hires an old friend to watch him. Her friend is from the supernatural world: the oldest son of a family of vampires that have lived in the United States since they stowed away on the Mayflower.
Steve and his new babysitter are instantly bonded: Steve goes back to being a sweet, albeit clingy, little angel, and his sitter is always more than happy to indulge him and shower him in love. Life is really looking up for Steve, to the point that he secretly refers to himself as "Stevie Munson," and dreams up a world where Wayne is his pa, instead of his actual father. But life is rarely kind to Steve, and soon his beloved Wayne has to leave town for an undetermined amount of time because of a "family emergency." Steve is heartbroken that he isn't allowed to go with him.
As if losing his sitter isn't enough, Steve's mother dies in a robbery-gone-wrong on Steve's ninth birthday, five years to the day after the attack that changed him. Richard Harrington can't be assed to take care of his son in her stead, and hires another sitter. Claudia Henderson (human, through and through) decides on her first day that Steve is as much her son as Dustin, and that only solidifies when she discovers that the poor baby her late husband attacked years ago was actually Steve. Dustin (a born werewolf as opposed to Steve, a changed werewolf) decides that Steve is his brother immediately, and it's like two puppies have found each other. Steve is protective, loving, and maybe a little bit possessive of his new brother, but Dustin has love to spare. As he grows from toddler to kid to preteen, he acquires more and more friends: first, Will Byers, from a family of light elves, who is shy and artistic and never cuts off one of Dustin's excited rants, even though they're both seven and Dustin's grasp of engineering is on par with a college undergrad. With Will comes Mike Wheeler and his older sister, Nancy, both of whom are descendants of the great Valkyrie. Nancy is a little more.... ethereal than Mike, because their Valkyrie blood is more prominent in women, but they're both stubborn and snarky and have a weird obsession with the Byers boys, but Dustin swears that they're both very nice. Lucas Sinclair comes around soon after, and he's really the only friend of Dustin's that Steve has actually met. He's a soft-spoken kid until he's comfortable, and then he's quick witted and so loyal that Steve actually thinks that maybe he's a werewolf, instead of a chimera.
Steve refuses to meet anyone else in Dustin's friend group; he says it's because he's too big to be around Dustin's friends, but it's actually because he doesn't think that he can be around them without lashing out for taking his baby brother away from him.
When Dustin is eleven and Steve is seventeen, Chief Hopper- the only Berserker in Hawkins- adopts a little witch named Jane, although she answers more to El than she does Jane. Soon after, Max Mayfield moves to town, and Dustin's little group of friends adds the banshee to their ranks.
Finally, Steve agrees to meet his friends, lovingly dubbed "the Party" by every member of it. They're wary of Steve at first- Richard Harrington is the most outspoken anti-supernatural in town, and they didn't know that Dustin's Big Brother Steve the Werewolf was actually Steve Harrington, so almost all of them are sure that they'll be harassed in their safe space. Steve is quiet for a while, yes, but Will and El take to him immediately, and Steve is weak for people who look at him like he's worth something (it's why he's such a pushover for Dustin and Claudia; they love him unconditionally and he will do anything to make himself feel worthy of that) so he adopts Will and El into his little family almost immediately.
Will and El adore Steve: El insists that he's a big, fluffy puppy, and her descriptions have never been wrong, so it makes the entire Party warm up to him. Will is painfully shy, and the speed with which he warms up to Steve is unheard of; but Will quite literally glows when Steve shows up, and even once he's calmed down the air around him glitters with his excitement. Steve takes to them both; at first, Dustin is over the moon at this.
Next to warm up to Steve is Lucas, a few weeks after Steve joins the Party. He's frosty toward Steve at first, but at a group movie night he watches Steve jump out of a dead sleep to jump out of a window and slam into a tree, face first (apparently, he'd been having a dream about a cheese monster trying to eat his toes). Then, Jonathan and Nancy, who both watch Steve with the kids and decide that, yes, they do have a crush on the sweet, dumb dog that's joined their ranks. Nancy asks him out first, though, and Steve is flustered enough that he agrees (and is almost instantly smitten with her). Mike refuses to warm up to Steve; the guy can't even breathe right, as far as Mike is concerned.
The longer that Steve and Nancy date, the angrier Dustin gets. He feels like he's being left behind. Steve spends more and more time with Nancy, at her behest. Neither of them realize how unhealthy their relationship is growing to be, just how the relationship between Nancy's parents are. Nancy demands that everything be held to a certain standard, and Steve does everything he possibly can to meet that standard. It isn't until Nancy dumps him- a very nasty affair that has Steve avoiding everyone except Dustin- that they actually grow as people and become something healthier to each other. (Just like in the show, they get into a fight at a party, and when they revisit it while sober, they fight again; Steve is hurt and wants to know if she really thinks he's bullshit, and Nancy won't give him a straight answer. He's upset and he can feel himself losing control of himself, so he walks away. Nancy leaves town on an overnight trip to get some info with Jonathan, and when she comes back, she spits vitriol at a panicked, concussed Steve. She does a lot of growing up after that, but she never actually apologizes for hurting Steve, although he frequently tries to "make up" for his own mistakes.
Max joins the group soon after that, and gets along with Steve almost immediately. She's a young banshee, and a part of her lore explains that she screams; she can't control when, how long, or even how loudly she screams, and as a result her step-brother (a human named Billy) is incredibly abusive. He belittles her for her Screams, and isn't afraid to shove her around (never where their parents can see: if Susan caught wind of it, his father Neil would hear, and Neil was not a man to cross). When Max meets Steve, and watches how he picks on the Party using their own species(he calls Lucas "little lion man," Will is Sunshine, Mike is Paladin Shithead, and Dustin has always been pup) while still encouraging them (Steve encourages the kids as they grow and develop these new abilities, never belittling them for their struggles, but showing them that it's okay to mess up. She doesn't know that it's because Steve had no one to do that for him until his mother died and the Hendersons were brought into his life). She's afraid to open up to the guy, right up until, in the middle of a crisis situation where Max is forced to use her powers on purpose for the first time, Steve throws himself in the line of fire to protect the Lucas- and by extension, the whole Party- more than once.
Steve protects her from Billy when he tries to "pick her up" (read: drag her home by the hair without regard for her safety), allows Billy to beat his ass because the alternative at the time was to chase him away until no one was around to protect Lucas, and then, with a whole concussion, does a full shift and defends the children from these strange alternate hellbeasts that were summoned by some crazies at the Hawkins Laboratory for Scientific Witchcraft. The guy even praised her for Screaming on purpose, calling her a hero. Max is soon just as attached to Steve as any other.
In the summer after breaking up with Nancy, Steve gets a job at the mall. He meets Robin, who seems for all intents and purposes a simple human being. She's quirky and goofy and she smells like the ocean after a storm; Steve loves her very quickly, but something in him keeps him from actually developing a crush. Robin is his beloved other half, his soulmate, the yin to his yang, whatever else means that she completes him. She calls him Dingus exclusively, and Steve knows that if he ever heard it while he was shifted fully, he would be rolling around like a delighted puppy. He learns later, after they've fought for their lives and suffered and survived, that Robin was born a normal human, but after the most traumatic experience of her life, she was transformed into a siren.
After the mall, Robin is inducted into the group. She keeps an eye on the kids while they're at school, partially for her own sanity, but also for Steve, who is beside himself at the prospect of his babies being out of sight for so long (he gets like this after every Upside-Down interaction, he loves those kids and he can't stand the idea of losing the family he's built for himself). By the end of the first month, Steve is desperate to meet this guy his kids keep ranting about, Eddie Munson, and it's just because he's worried about them, not because he's afraid of losing his spot as their Big Brother or because the name Munson struck a chord in the back of his mind(for whatever reason).
Without the kids knowing- except Max, because she saw him going up to the Munson trailer. She would never bring it up to the Party unless Steve did first- Steve goes to meet this Eddie Munson and maybe scope out the competition a little. Instead, he meets a pasty boy with unfairly attractive hands and full lips and the warmest chocolate eyes and-
His mooning over this pretty boy is cut short when a man with a painfully familiar face peers in from the kitchen, meeting Steve's eyes with a surprised, "Stevie?" The greeting is enough to make Steve tear up, and he starts freaking out because why is he so happy that this guy knows him, and he's ushered into their little home and onto an old, well-loved couch. Eddie is gushing about finally meeting the Stevie Harrington, he's been told all about him from Wayne through the years. Eddie asks him why he's never seen him at school, and Steve mumbles about being home-schooled ("I won't let people see my mistakes so easily," Richard Harrington drilled into his head from the moment Steve was old enough to go to school). Wayne is flustered and standoffish for all of three minutes before Steve is smothered in more paternal affection than he's received since he was seven; it clicks in his brain when Wayne calls him Stevie again, that he used to wish and beg the stars to change him into Stevie Munson, not Harrington, and that Wayne was his best friend for three years.
Eddie is smitten with this strong, pretty, downright fluffy boy that showed up on his doorstep, even more so when Wayne Munson (easily most comfortable when left alone in quiet) spends almost an hour fussing over and showering him in praise. Steve becomes a regular fixture in the Munson household, after that. Wayne spends weeks explaining the different types of supernatural creatures that have made their homes in Hawkins and the surrounding area, explaining Munson family history, and Steve finally has someone to walk him through everything about werewolves (Claudia tried, but she was really only parroting things she'd picked up as she raised Dustin, not any formal education. Steve never knew that it was a special thing to achieve a full shift; that particular afternoon had Eddie calling him a sweet little pup for a month).
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I'm too lazy to spend another two days puzzling out how I want the rest of the show's plot to align with this au. I have it in my wips folder but this is already suuuuper long. My bad, pals
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supernatural fruity four au where whenever they have occasion to tell people they're supernatural they go like 'okay one of us is a vampire, one's a fairy, one's a witch, and one's a werewolf. guess which is which' because everyone literally always guesses that eddie's the vampire, nancys the fairy, robins the witch, and steve's the werewolf, and they think it's fucking hilarious how literally no one ever clocks a single one of them correctly
in actuality, nancys the vampire, steve's the fairy, eddie's the witch, and robins the werewolf
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Thinking about werewolf Robin vs werewolf Nancy
I think Nancy is someone who’s very in control of herself and her emotions. Maybe suppressing said emotions isn’t healthy, but it’s still a high level of control. Her wolf? The opposite. Her wolf feels things strongly and acts on these feelings. It’s a lot harder for her to keep control when shifted because of this—she’s at high risk for going literally feral. I think she deserves to be a little unhinged and bite someone’s head off. She hates her lycanthropy and actively fights against it. To her, it’s a curse. The refusal to even think about that part of herself, her active hatred toward it directly affects her inability to control it. It’s part of why she’s so feral—she’s lost control multiple times, though she’s usually been able to get away before it becomes obvious (ie: storming out of a meeting with the newspaper guys to shift in the broom closet). The inner battle takes a lot out of her and she’s often very sick following the full moon.
Robin is messy and chaotic and clumsy and her bestial form is again the opposite. Her wolf is graceful and calm and she’s practiced with control. She has never once been forced to shift by some overwhelming emotion because her wolfish side of her is peaceful and in control. It’s softer and warmer in a way most don’t expect. She has learned to accept that part of herself, and they usually act as one consciousness. It’s part of why she can control her shifted form so easily and never loses it. With practice, she would be able to shift on command. She recovers quickly after full moons, which helps her keep her identity hidden.
Robin finds Nancy out because Nancy finally loses it somewhere she can’t get away. She hurts someone—maybe even kills them. Robin doesn’t know who it is at first, just that a werewolf did the deed and that could bring unwanted attention to herself. So Robin takes it upon herself to figure out the wolf’s identity before any hunters can, because she thinks they can be saved.
She figures out it’s Nancy by putting together the clues. She catches Nancy in the library reading about werewolves—and she recommends a few books that talk more about how a werewolf might learn control. She sees Nancy’s notes, notices the girl is tracking the lunar cycle. She sees Nancy being incredibly ill after the full moon. She confronts Nancy about it, and they fight.
Nancy loses control and Robin is able to hold her until she calms and turns back.
Robin teaches Nancy how to accept herself and her lycanthropy. She shows Nancy how to love that part of herself and slowly helps her learn to control it. It’s hard at first—maybe their first full moon together, Nancy attacks her, and Robin comes to bear scars from a fight or two, but after a while, it works. Nancy learns control and the two are able to spend their full moons together, running through the forest or cuddling under the moonlight.
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audhd-nightwing · 2 years
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ok so i’ve seen ppl talk abt werewolf steve and werewolf robin but not both and that’s a tragedy so have some hcs:
- they share clothes all the time / are always wearing at least one article of clothing or accessory that belongs to the other person bc the scents are comforting (and they both have a lot of cozy clothes)
- they are always touching when they’re next to each other (feet in the others lap, holding hands, cuddling, using the other as a pillow, etc.)
- can tell when the other is upset / uncomfortable and are skilled at making up excuses so they can check on them alone
- are very protective of those that they consider ‘pack’ (which is most of the characters but especially the kids)
- they both have enhanced senses and tend to be overstimulated by different things so they help the other muffle their senses when it happens (headphones, stim toys, strong comforting scents, etc.)
- they both chew on stuff a lot to stim & cuz wolfy stuff so all their hoodie strings / pencils / necklaces / etc. are chewed up lol
- they r strong lads and end up accidentally crushing/breaking stuff a lot and usually blame each other (“who did it?” *both point to each other*)
- they run warm so even though they cuddle a lot when it’s cold they usually don’t when its hot
- after robin gets turned their metabolism gets super high so steve uses his parents money to just always have a shit ton of food on hand (they usually end up eating at steve’s house but steve also has hidden snacks Everywhere)
- they roughhouse a lot to let excess energy out and tend to ruin clothes that way (steve always buys himself and robin new clothes anyway) and have, on one memorable occasion, accidentally broken bones (which healed almost immediately but was still scary)
- if we have werewolf!stobin we gotta have vampire!neddie ((edancy?) aka eddie & nancy)
- nancy comes from a distinguished vampire family / eddie was turned by some rando when he lived with his parents and then ran away to wayne who took him in
- steve is a born werewolf bc of his mom (who takes magic suppressants or smth and his dad doesn’t know) so he had to figure everything out on his own / robin was turned by a feral werewolf and steve teaches her ‘how to wolf 101’
(btw vampires and werewolves are Known in this au so it’s not kept secret from anyone)
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thekeythief · 2 years
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#Ronancetober Day 2: Vampire/Werewolf 🦇🌈🐺
(Prompts assembled by lionydoorin! ✨)
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Chapter 4 of my Werewolf Wheelers AU: The Vanishing of Will Byers
The boys' game in the basement had been going on for hours, and Nancy was exhausted. It was a Sunday night and she had just wanted to go to bed early. However, a werewolf's ears were rather sensitive, and, surprise, boys were loud even from the basement . She wanted to cheer in excitement the moment she heard her mother force them all to leave. Finally a bit of peace and quiet in the house! Finding sleep after that was easy, and she was out within minutes.
It wasn’t to last, as a short time later pure panic shot through her system. She shot up out of sleep. Something was wrong. She was needed somewhere. Now. She found herself stumbling out of bed and out of the room without another thought. Half awake, she had no idea what she was doing, or where she was going. She tried to calm herself, it was probably only a nightmare, but her heart wouldn’t slow down.
The second she stepped outside her doorway, another body rammed into her.  
Her mind a mess, she stared at her brother uncomprehendingly. “What?” she blurted after a pause, “Are you ok?”
He shook visibly, his face ashen white. “Something’s wrong. Nance, something’s wrong.” 
Nancy dimly noticed her own hands shaking as she reached out to comfort him. She pulled him into a gentle hug. “It was probably just a nightmare, or a loud sound outside. Everything’s ok,” she babbled, confused and scared, but not wanting her little brother to be. 
She held him for a moment, torn between the insistent tug on her chest urging her to go, and the need to help Mike calm down.
Something ripped through them. The strange terror and panic cut off abruptly, dropping both of them to their knees. There was no comfort in the loss of feeling, instead there was just what felt like a gaping hole in her soul. That compulsive tugging disappeared, leaving her feeling listless and lost. They both sat there, unmoving, for a while, just trying to breathe. 
“What… was that?” Mike eventually managed to gasp out. 
“Nothing, “ she denied, “It was probably nothing Mike. Whatever it is is gone now anyway.” 
“I’ve never felt anything like that before in my entire life.”
Nancy had gotten extremely good at ignoring pain in her soul over the last few months. Although nothing had ever been close to that intense, she utilized the same strategies of denial and pushing everything down. “Yeah, well, I have. It’s probably just because of how exhausted you are. You know how agitated you can get when you haven’t gotten enough sleep. It’s just your mind playing tricks on you.”
Mike acquiesced quietly, allowing her to pull him back to his room, where she dropped him off with a quick kiss on the forehead goodnight. 
“If it happens again, just come wake me up ok? You can spend the rest of the night in my room. Everything’s going to be alright.” 
She shuffled back to her bed, and lay down. Closing her eyes had never been so difficult. It was nothing. Just a stupid nightmare. A determination to not acknowledge something could only get one so far, and she struggled to let go. 
Nancy was dead on her feet the next morning. Mike only looked marginally better. The empty pit-like feeling hadn’t gone away, but she’d grown more used to it. She was looking forward to school, if only because it was better than spending another minute stuck inside her head. 
Then she caught the topic of her mother’s conversation on the phone. Mrs. Byers didn’t know where Will was. Her heart wanted to drop right out of her. One of h̶̛̹e̵̖͠ř̴  boys was missing. No he wasn’t, he just went to school earlier than normal. It had nothing to do with the… whatever… of the night before. She had to get to school.
The second she saw Barb, she couldn’t stop herself from clinging to her in a rush of relief. The feeling was fleeting, giving way to the cold seeping back in as soon as she let go. The day ended up being pretty miserable, but Nancy had mastered the art of pretending. 
Mike was acting strange on Tuesday morning. Subconsciously, she had been expecting him to act as dull and lifeless as she was feeling. Instead he was fidgety and nervous. There were bags under his eyes that must have matched her own, but they were the only sign that he felt any level of exhaustion.
There was a strange scent in the house, but the strong smell of bacon and syrupy waffles made it hard to hold onto. Whatever it was, Mike was definitely the cause. Eyeing him suspiciously for a moment, she decided she didn’t have the energy to care. She did grimace at the way he was snarfing the Eggos down though. Rather than comment on his behavior, she turned away silently.
A while later, her mother paced back and forth in agitation. “What is taking that boy so long? You’re both going to be late for school.”
Nancy was sitting at the kitchen table, staring at her chemistry flashcards in a daze. She shrugged when she registered her mother’s question. He was a teenage boy, they were always late.
Adrenaline shot through her like ice water over her head. Mike was scared . She shot to her feet, and her foot was already a step towards the basement before she could stop it. The sensation was easily pushed back. He was just getting ready for school. It was all in her head. She shook it off, and pulled her focus back to studying. The upcoming test had really been stressing her out. It was messing with her head.
“Oh God, that’s depressing.” Steve stated, with little empathy, as he stared at Will’s older brother. 
Nancy had known the boy for years, but truthfully had spent little time talking to him. Will seemed to really look up to him, and the thought made her regret never giving Johnathan much thought before she pulled away from the Party. Will was a good judge of character. 
“Should we say something?” she questioned, pretending it would be for Johnathan’s benefit, and not her own. No one, not even Mike, seemed to have seen through her indifferent front. To all the world, it looked as if Will was just some boy she vaguely knew because of her brother. Internal denial went a long way sometimes. 
“I don’t think he speaks.” 
“How much you wanna bet he killed him?” Tommy snarked.
A flash of rage. That was Will’s family he was talking about. She ground her teeth together, hiding the accidental sharpening of her canines. She wanted to bite the boy. Hard. 
Holding back her wolfish traits in public had never been so difficult in her life.
It already felt as if she were on a hair trigger this week. A tension in her body constantly, no relief to be found. Her chest felt tight, but empty at the same time. She knew what was missing, Will, but at the same time couldn’t make sense of it. She hadn’t realized how desperately she’d cared for the boy until he was already gone. If this was how she felt, she couldn’t imagine the pain his brother must be feeling. This sense of empathy for the teenaged boy was the only thing that allowed her to let Hagan’s comment go and just walk away from the group without injuring somebody like an out of control pup. 
The conversation with Johnathan was awkward and did little to soothe either of their aching hearts. Her thoughts were completely derailed during her first class, stuck on the one thing she’d been avoiding for the last couple days. The more she allowed thoughts of Will to come, the more painful her entire being felt. And she had thought avoiding Barb had been bad. She needed out of her own head. 
Steve’s party. And he’d even invited Barb. 
It sounded like a perfect two-for-one distraction. She just needed to get Barb on board.
Somehow.
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stevesbipanic · 2 years
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Vampire Eddie and Nancy with their Werewolf partners Steve and Robin.
Steve and Robin chasing each other and their own tails.
Nancy leaning into a dark academia vampire vibe while Eddie is the more metal scary kind of vampire.
Drinking their partners blood.
Brushing their partners fur.
Eddie giving intricate rings to Nancy he finds and Nancy giving Eddie chunky ones she finds.
Steve playfighting Eddie while in wolf form.
Nancy taking her long nails through Robins fur.
They're all night owls obviously.
Parties in the woods.
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nonymous06 · 2 years
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Werewolf!Robin aus have me in a chokehold
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Also featuring the rest of the fruity four as supernatural creates (Nancy is a monster hunter, mainly cause that dynamic absolutely slaps)
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