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"You gotta give me somethin," Jim practically pleaded. He was hesitant to push the kid, but he didn't want to see Steve dead on the side of the road after another drunk driving incident, or splayed out on the bathroom floor from alcohol poisoning. Something had to give.
Maybe something had. Steve's shoulders had started to shake—He was crying silently into his knees. Carefully, Jim set a hand onto his back, rubbing gently when Steve leaned into it. They spend a long few moments like that before Jim dared to speak again.
"Kid, why do you do this to yourself?"
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Or the tragedy of trying to call a dead man's number as your emergency call.
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01 Jul 2025
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Distinguished Innovators by Avelera for AnonymousSong
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Nov 2024
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It is the early years of Jayce and Viktor's scientific partnership, and the Distinguished Innovators competition is only three days away. That is, if they can get all the work done for it in time when Jayce is exhausted, overworked, and at risk of burning out entirely before they even make it there.
So when Jayce jokingly asks Viktor to take control and tell him what to do, in the hopes that it will help Jayce relax and get some much needed sleep before the competition, he was not expecting Viktor to so readily oblige. Nor was he expecting what happened after.
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11 Jan 2025
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On The Frozen Lake, Jagged and Beautiful by sunnyseafloor
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Oct 2022
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Steve Harrington is a background character in Eddie’s life, one who he only knows because it’s a small town and everyone knows everyone. Everyone has some distant connection, some oddly personal anecdote about everyone else in town.
Eddie’s connection is that he’s been slowly falling in love with the guy for years before ever getting to know the real him. When he does, it only makes it worse.
- (or: Eddie lives out a queer teen RomCom while the Upside Down goes 'hehehe' out of frame)
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- Part 1 of The Frozen Lake
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- 7/7
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28 Sep 2024
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The first time Eddie sees Steve Harrington with his face smashed in, he’s at the corner store off 6th Street choosing a frozen meal to bring home.
(a 5+1+1 type of fic)
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09 Jul 2024
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drag its private sweetness through my teeth by loveinhawkins
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 May 2024
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Eddie falls asleep in the back of the RV. Steve watches it happen in stages, after the stop at The War Zone—driving a little further out for a food shop, away from prying eyes.
He announces that the coast is clear when the roads become reassuringly empty. For the first time in days, he relaxes into the rhythm of driving: he’s triple-checked that no-one’s tailing them, and if it weren’t for the hastily bought weapons, he could almost pretend that…
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26 May 2024
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“I missed you,” he says honestly, the words muffled into Eddie’s skin, and something within him just—
Clicks into place.
Eddie doesn’t waste a second in climbing up onto the bed to hold Steve, too, his hands stroking up and down his back.
Steve continues to murmur, “Even though back then, I didn’t really know you—I missed you so much when you were gone.”
“Hey, hey, it’s alright,” Eddie says, and he draws back if only to run his hands through Steve’s hair softly, pushing the strands back just to lay soft lips at his temple. It feels like love, so it must be.
Love.
He needs it. So much he’s dizzy with it. He leans into the touch.
Eddie smiles against his skin. “I never left.”
Steve Harrington wakes up in a world where he is loved.
It's not real.
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18 May 2024
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Steve sputters, his cheeks going pink, before blurting, “Ahoy, Eddie. Would you like to set sail on this ocean of flavor with me? I’ll be your captain.”
There’s a beat of silence between them, during which Eddie surreptitiously pinches his thigh to make sure he’s not dreaming and Steve’s face turns an alarming shade of cherry red.
“Oh my god,” Eddie finally exhales, “are you serious right now?” He splays his hands out on the counter and leans toward Steve with a shit-eating grin. “Captain Steve—well it certainly has a ring to it.”
Five times Eddie sees Steve in his Scoops Ahoy uniform, and one time he sees him out of it.
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10 May 2024
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Steve stops short. He meets Eddie’s eyes in the water-stained mirror, then his own. A beat passes. Before he knows it he’s crowding up way too close to his own reflection, pulling at his scalp this way and that and sure enough—
There are a few hairs that glint silver in the dim bathroom light.
“What,” he says again, as he feels his world slowly begin to implode around him.
Grey hairs at twenty-one years old, he despairs silently. At this rate he will be almost entirely grey at age thirty, probably.
“Kinda super sexy of you,” Eddie is saying, manhandling him a bit out of the way so that he can spit and rinse. “Silver fox Stevie. Ha.”
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08 May 2024
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“My name isn’t Junior,” Junior cuts in, like that’s the thing he should be concerned about, not the fact that Steve was calling out his perceived shitty relationship with his father.
“Yeah, no shit,” Steve says. “But I don’t know your real name and Hopper calls you Junior, so.”
“I’m Eddie. Eddie Munson. I’ve been in your pre-calc class all semester. And gym, but I never go.”
“Oh,” Steve says. He recognizes the name, has heard it before, murmured in the halls of Hawkins High or on the back patio during a house party. He’d never been able to put a face to it. Never really cared to.
It’s funny how quickly things like that can change.
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- Part 3 of first meetings
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17 Apr 2024
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Eddie hums. “We’ll figure something out,” he tells Steve, like they’re friends or something. Like they’ll see each other somewhere after this and won’t just let their eyes skip over one another’s faces—like they’ll actually call out to one another, sit down, catch up.
Steve knows better. Knows their tentative alliance doesn’t exist outside of this mediocre 24-hour diner, at nearly midnight a few days after the Fourth of July. They both know it, Eddie’s just pretending not to.
Strangely enough, it doesn’t stop Steve from saying, “Sure.”
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- Part 2 of first meetings
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15 Apr 2024
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Eddie hums. His eyes are blazing with something Steve can't really put a name to. “What were you and Hargrove fighting over?”
“None of your business.”
“Title of Best Car in the Hawkins High senior parking lot? Captaincy for the game in which you throw balls into laundry baskets?” He pauses, leans forward and grins wickedly. “A girl?”
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- Part 1 of first meetings
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14 Apr 2024
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Steve wakes up the morning of their two-month We-Finally-Got-Our-Shit-Together anniversary to find Eddie staring at him, crouched over at the foot of the bed with his round unblinking eyes like a fucking gargoyle. It should be creepy. Steve is used to this, though, so now it’s just kind of a thing that Eddie does.
“What,” Steve says groggily, wiping the drool from his mouth.
“Nothing, angel, go back to sleep,” Eddie trills.
Or, two months after Steve and Eddie officially get together, Steve finds himself thinking about home, his heart, and how to let go.
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- Part 2 of love letters verse
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14 Apr 2024
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Rumor has it that whenever any one of the seven or so gremlins that Steve has magnanimously decided to adopt sleep over at his ridiculously large and empty house, he’ll get up extra early in the morning and pack them all lunches in brown paper bags. He’ll make them breakfast, too, and drop them off at school with a ruffle of their hair, a slap on their shoulder, or a pep-talk, depending on the kid.
Not that Eddie Munson, of all people, would know anything about it.It's October and Steve starts packing Eddie lunches for work. Eddie doesn't know what to do about it.
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- Part 1 of love letters verse
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12 Apr 2024
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Eddie thinks that he’s probably judged Steve too quickly. He thinks Steve’s probably full of surprises, if the past two years are anything to go by.
And then, of course, Steve just has to prove him right by stepping out of his BMW in a full sailor suit fantasy that not even the most depraved recesses of Eddie’s mind could have cooked up. Jesus. He’s got the little hat and everything. Cute tiny shorts, too, that are regrettably not as short as the ones included in the Hawkins High gym uniform, but still short enough for Eddie to be able to appreciate Steve’s legs. He has nice legs. Good knees. White socks pulled halfway up his calves, for some reason, stark against his golden tan skin. Wispy little hairs that probably go up his thighs. Eddie needs to stop looking at his legs.
“Eddie Munson,” Steve calls as he approaches, his voice all easy and light like they’re actually friends. “Hi.”
Eddie blinks at him.
Because Eddie's life can never be normal, the summer of '85 finds him working a firework stand just outside of Starcourt Mall, catching up on school work, and tutoring Steve Harrington in all things D&D.
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10 Apr 2024
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“The universe didn’t tell me to love you,” Steve says finally, passing a hand over the scars on his torso, as he often does. “It told me to save you. They’re– they’re two different things.”
— a coda to the lathe
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05 Apr 2024
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"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
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03 Apr 2024
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Jenna Burke is the girl of Steve's dreams.
He's been wrong a few times—a lot of times—before, but this time he knows it's real. Even if they haven't even been on a date yet. Because she's everything he's ever wanted and so much more.
There's just one problem: he's not the guy of her dreams.
Not yet, at least. But he could be. He will be, with just a little help from Eddie Munson. Too bad the guy still hates Steve's guts.
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AKA: Steve asks Eddie to teach him how to play guitar so he can impress a girl, and spending hours alone with each other, in close proximity, for weeks on end, definitely isn't going to awaken anything in either of them.
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17 Mar 2024
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i never did believe in miracles (but i've a feeling it's time to try) by cuoredimuschio
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jul 2023
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Eddie is beginning to think that, somewhere in the helter-skelter of surviving the Upside Down, being swarmed by possibly rabid but definitely rancid demobats, and charbroiling Vecna’s slimy ass, he accidentally tripped through the wrong gate and landed in an alternate dimension. Well, a different alternate dimension than the one he was already in.
Because Steve Harrington is flirting with him.
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29 Feb 2024
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Steve Harrington's Greatest Hits in Falsetto by thistledome
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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Five times Eddie hears the song his soulmate has stuck in their head and one time he plays a song (or a bunch of them, loudly) for his soulmate instead.
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23 Feb 2024
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It starts like this: Steve, waiting in his car to pick up Dustin and friends from a session of their Chutes and Ladders club or whatever. Waiting kind of impatiently, to be honest, even though it’s not like he has anywhere else to be because Robin’s busy tonight and, as he well knows by this point, saving the world doesn’t get you a girlfriend or glory or even a second age-appropriate friend, it just gets you another evening shift at Family Video and a long personal to-do list.
In the spring and summer of 1986, Steve Harrington contends with the biases of the day, hatches several plans, and finally really gets to know Eddie Munson.
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17 Feb 2024