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“Are you going to leave?” Steve’s back is to him, so Eddie can see the way he tenses up, muscles beneath his plain black shirt bunching up.
It’s not: are you leaving before I pick up Max?
He could be difficult, if he wanted. He could ask Steve to clarify, he could ask Steve if he’s ever planning to leave. He could stand up and just do it, putting them both out of their misery. One day they might be better off for it, even if the hurt is too much to stand right now. Even if it feels impossible.
“Not right now,” Eddie says, which sounds a lot like not without you.
“Okay,” Steve says, which sounds a lot like thank you.
98% of the population disappears. Hawkins becomes a ghost town.
Or: three years after, Steve, Eddie and Max try to carve out a life together.
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14 Nov 2024
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After his breakup with Nancy, Steve Harrington keeps it a secret that he hasn’t made an effort to meet his soulmate. When he accidentally wakes up next to them a few days after his 18th birthday, he’s surprised to find that it’s not only another guy, but somebody else in Hawkins. Between losing all his old friends, learning how not to be an asshole, and balancing his newfound sexuality in a closed-minded town, Steve has his work cut out for him. Eddie Munson doesn’t believe in soulmates, but that doesn’t stop him from waiting in the dreamscape every night for his. Balancing life as an openly queer, drug-dealing super senior in Hawkins, Indiana is no cakewalk, especially with Billy Hargrove on his ass. But maybe, just maybe, there’s something to that whole soulmate thing after all.
Project # 217 for the Steddie BigBang (2023)
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16 Jul 2024
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If this is how things were meant to be, if he’d somehow successfully read the room for the first time in his life, then all he can really do is be happy for his friend. That’s what friends are for, anyway, and there’s nothing less valuable about friendship than there is about romance—and ultimately, what matters most is that Steve is happy. And if Steve’s happy, then Eddie’s happy. That’s just how it is.
Within a week, he’s disguised on a bus to somewhere that’s not here, and he’s gone.
The Party saves the world in 1986, everybody lives, and Steve goes back to Nancy.
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12 Mar 2024
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Eddie works himself up to ask Steve if he can borrow his instant camera, because the type of pictures he wants to take are…not the kind he can get developed in town.
Turns out, Steve's happy to help out. Even if the guy Eddie's taking sexy pictures for is not him.
Or is it?
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