17 Works in Dustin Henderson Has PTSD
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Dustin Henderson has never been anyone's first choice, but he exists...doesn't he?
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Eddie took another step forward, his smile twitching into something feral. “Now who’s the murderer?”
Steve raised the flare gun.
Dustin shoved at his shoulder, voice shaking. “Steve, don’t! Please, just—don’t!”
“You’ll thank me for this later,” Steve muttered, not even sure he believed it himself.
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An unnatural fog rolls into Hawkins, leaving Steve, Robin, and Dustin trapped in the radio tower… surrounded by the reanimated dead. As Vecna tests the limits of his recharged power, they’re forced to choose between who lives and who dies. -
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Eddie will be the first to tell you that not all of his ideas were great ideas. To be completely honest, maybe 99% of his ideas turned to crap. So this is the start of a very long list of his very bad ideas, and how they usually very quickly turned against him.
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Five times Eddie had an idea he thought was amazing and then immediately got it thrown back in his face.
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What if he didn't die? What if he was alive?
Eddie Munson wakes up in Hawkins morgue, forever changed. -
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“Oh.” Mike snapped his fingers, huffing out a laugh. “Oh, this is like that- that black and white movie my mom likes to put on at Christmas. The Jimmy Stewart one.” He stood a little taller, a wild look in his eyes. “Alright! I’ve learned my lesson! I can go home now, and appreciate my life, yada yada.”
Nothing happened. Mike snapped his fingers again, more urgently, before raising his voice in a yell.
“Lesson learned! I wanna go home!”
The world stayed as it was, broken and decayed, and Mike screamed into the cold, stale air.
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Or: After a bad fight with his friends, Mike wakes up in an alternate reality that seems to be plunged into an apocalyptic nightmare.
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There's a lot to lose, not much to gain. by Yabadabadooza
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 May 2023
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Eddie is gone. The attack is over but the war is not. Bereavement is a bitch
Dustin is having a breakdown, is feeling alone, and decides to fuck with his hair
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When his mom comes to pick him up, it happens.
“Put your coat on, hon, it’s freezing out.”
Dustin rolls his eyes—it’s hardly that cold—but as he steps outside, the air hits his bare skin and—
He’s in The Upside Down, and the cold is in his throat, in his lungs, he can’t stop shaking with it, and Eddie, he’s—he’s not breathing—
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It’s only once everything is okay that Dustin starts thinking there’s something deeply wrong with him.
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- Part 2 of hard enough without the loss
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"Dustin!" panicked Mike, trying to make his voice louder. His heart was pounding in his ears, and he felt like he had blood in his lungs.
Dark. Wet. Freezing. Salty.
Mike gasped out, and he can still feel the water rushing over him. His forehead was beaded with sweat. He let out a harsh choked out sob, bottom lip trembling.
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Dustin isn't coping well with the loss of Eddie. Steve attempts to comfort him.
Febuwhump Day 27: Survivor's Guilt
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- Part 27 of Febuwhump 2023
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The friendship between Dustin Henderson and Steve Harrington was common knowledge in Hawkins by the time Dustin was a freshman. Steve was always driving Dustin to school and picking him up, ruffling his hair and giving girl advice. So naturally, everyone took notice. That scared most people into not messing with King Steve’s little prince. But not Troy Walsh and James Dante, who saw their opportunity to strike.
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Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself (Where is my mind?) by StrangeWriterSs3
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2023
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Dustin is not over Eddie's death and blames himself, Steve helps Dustin slowly realize that he is not alone.
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how dustin feels after eddie's death
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Eddie, Since You've Been Gone by lodiononhaunantidoto
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Sep 2022
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Steve never cried. He just didn't. Dustin had known him for around 4 years, been friends with him for 3, and he had never seen him cry.
There hadn't been many occasions, and he never really thought about it, but now, now it hit him.
Steve never cried, but there he was now, sobbing into Dustin's chest, clutching at his hoodie like his life depended on it, begging for some kind of comfort, looking vulnerable like never before. -
There really is no place like home by thatgirl257
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
06 Sep 2022
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Dustin wakes up in The Wizard of Oz.
Every character he faces is someone he knows from his real life and he has to find his way home.
Things take a turn for the worse when he starts to realize this isn't just a dream--the Mind Flayer is actually bending reality to its will, and Dustin has to figure out how to make it out alive.or when you think about it, a Dustin-centric Stranger Things is actually just the Wizard of Oz (1939)
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This story is all too much. All too familiar. He didn't like it.
It was like this itch in the back of his brain, something was there- it was trying to escape.
Don’t you remember?
You need to.“Steve. Stop the movie, please. I- I don't want to watch this.”
Or the brotherly trio watches the movie Lolita and Dustin remembers something he tried to ignore lol.
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Yanking the phone from the wall with shaking hands, Dustin typed in Robin's number, he had to start over a few times but eventually the dial tone sounded and he clutched the phone to his ear as if it was a lifeline.
Or: Dustin has a nightmare about Robin getting hurt, she proves to him it wasn't real.
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- Part 9 of Robin, The Heart.
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“What exactly is the problem?” Steve ventures, praying to a higher power that the kid would give him a straight answer.
“I’m not sure,” Dustin admits. Steve glares at him and he shrinks slightly. “It’s like—like a feeling? Like I have a problem inside me, and I need help… figuring it out. I don’t know what it is.”
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post-st4. dustin has trauma too. i'm going to talk about it.
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- Part 9 of going nowhere
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He was the last one to enter their group. Having not met any of them until the fourth grade, he knew that they shared a deeper bond than one he could ever hope to have with them all.
That didn't make it hurt any less when they excluded him from things.
Which was why when he left Hawkins the summer after everything went down, he was glad. Glad to get away and experience something for himself. Camp Knowhere was something that he experienced on his own. It was a place where almost everyone was meeting for the first time.
Which was why going home was a bit upsetting.
Or Dustin has issues that he refuses to impose on the others but they're determined to be there for him.