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artiststarme · 1 year
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What If Steve Were To Leave Hawkins? Part 7
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
Ok so, I think the general consensus was for the angst to continue. I'm very sorry for the one person that asked for happiness. We're just not there yet, I guess. Anyways, here you guys go! As a warning, there is a poorly detailed panic attack towards the end. Enjoy!
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For the next two weeks, Eddie and Steve would sit on the phone for hours a day talking to each other about both everything and nothing at all. Steve regaled Eddie with the horror stories of the coffee shop and its caffeine-addled patrons. Eddie provided him with tales of gruesome DnD deaths and the subsequent tantrums thrown by teenagers. They even start flirting through the phone calls, enough for each of the boys to blush and hiccup over their words. 
It was on one of these phone calls that Eddie finally found out exactly why Steve left. It was towards the end of one of their calls and Eddie had asked the forbidden question.
“God, I miss having you around. Why’d you have to leave, Stevie?” Eddie realized his mistake as soon as the words left his mouth. He froze in place and waited for Steve to announce his desire to never talk to him again. 
Thankfully for him, Steve just let out a sigh. He explained, “I just didn’t think anyone would care if I left. No one was around for weeks and then my parents came home. My dad didn’t want me there and no one else did either so I left.”
Eddie’s eyes widened with the new information. He thought about what we should say for a moment before speaking. “Steve, we never stopped caring about you. You started getting distant so we tried to give you some space. We were trying to help you but went about it in the wrong way. We’re sorry and we all regret it now.”
Steve let out a self deprecating laugh, “I started pulling away because I thought I made you uncomfortable. I’m sorry for that by the way. But then no one stopped me so I just… stopped trying.”
Eddie’s jaw dropped in shock. “No! You didn’t make me uncomfortable! I didn’t want to make you uncomfortable!”
“Why would I be uncomfortable?” Steve asked confusedly. “I really liked spending time with you.”
Well now Eddie felt even more guilty. But, he was already in too deep and had to land the final blow for Steve to understand. Even if it made him hate him.
“I’m gay.”
There was silence for a moment before Steve spoke. “Okay? Thank you for telling me. Why would you make me uncomfortable?”
Now it was Eddie’s turn for silence. “Um, most straight guys wouldn’t appreciate their gay friend having a crush on them.”
“You have a crush on me? And I’m not straight.”
“What? What do you mean you’re not straight? Stevie, have you been holding out on me?”
“I never said I was straight. I’ve known that I liked guys since Tommy kissed me in sixth grade. Why did you stop hanging out with me then?”
Eddie felt very confused. This conversation had spun out of control in a way he could have never anticipated. What the fuck was happening?
“Wait a second. You kissed Tommy? Hagan?”
“Yeah. If you had a crush on me, why would you stop hanging out with me?”
Eddie shook his head back and forth and tried to refocus. What was the matter at hand again? Oh yeah. “Because I was falling in love with you and I knew you wouldn’t feel the same.”
“I do feel the same! That’s why I thought you stopped wanting to hang out! Because I made you uncomfortable.”
“No! Why would I stop hanging out with you if I thought you felt the same? If I thought I had a chance in hell with Steve Harrington, I would’ve made a move!” Eddie passionately exclaimed. 
“Don’t say my name like that,” Steve laughed in disbelief. “We really messed this up, huh?”
“Yeah, I’d say. I ran you out of town, man.”
Steve smiled a shy smile in his empty apartment. “I mean, Chicago’s not that far from Hawkins. Only a couple of hours.”
Eddie’s brain malfunctioned. “Chicago?”
“Yeah. Remember when we talked about cities that day when we were high? You were right, it is a clean slate.”
“Maybe, maybe I could come visit you sometime or something,” Eddie stammered hopefully. Holy shit, he knew where he was.
“Yeah, you should. We could get dinner and you could stay the night with me.”
Eddie guffawed in surprise, “a little forward, don’t you think?”
Steve laughed in response, “I just meant you could stay in my apartment for a few days instead of driving all the way back!”
“Sure Stevie, I would love to. But-”
The trailer’s door slammed open at his words. Eddie jumped a foot in the air and let out an undignified yelp, still holding the phone in a white knuckled grasp. Dustin, Max, Lucas, and Mike were standing on the elevated porch of the trailer with murder in their eyes. “What. The. Hell.” Dustin hissed when he heard Steve’s name. 
Steve yanked the phone away from his ear and gave the receiver a confusedly concerned glance. It wasn’t the first time Eddie had screamed in his ear, the dude was impassioned, but it was the first shout not immediately followed by enraged squabbles. “Eddie, you there? Did you fall or something?”
“Fuck,” Eddie shook his head readied himself to deal with the upcoming argument. “Steve, call me back tomorrow, okay? The kids are here and they’re pissed. I gotta go.”
Steve didn’t get a chance to answer before the line disconnected. Shit, this was not going to be good. 
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Eddie had been neglectful to the Party for weeks now. He’d been showing up late to Hellfire, new name yet to be determined, meetings and canceling preexisting plans for unknown reasons. The last time someone in the Party did that, their babysitter took off without telling anyone. So, the kids were understandably worried about their beloved Dungeon Master.
Dustin was at the forefront of the worry and convinced the kids of The Party, bar Will and Eleven who were having dinner at home, to check on Eddie at his trailer. They thought he might be hiding something. Really, it was only a matter of time until the rest of the Party found out about his dirty little secret. That secret being him talking to their missing babysitter without their knowledge. 
When he heard Eddie say Steve’s name into the phone, Dustin saw red. His anger only heightened when Eddie said it again when he hung up. 
“You’ve been talking to Steve and didn’t tell us?!”
Eddie sighed and raised his hands placatingly, “Dustin, I know you’re upset but-”
“I can’t believe you! We trusted you! We let you into the Party and you betrayed us!” Dustin shrieked, tears of anger building in his eyes. 
Eddie tried to defend himself but the enraged shouts of the other kids left his attempts muted in comparison. In a moment of silence, Mike took the chance to voice his dismay. 
“You should’ve told us that you were talking to Steve. We thought he was missing, maybe dead, and you didn’t tell us that he was okay. You betrayed us, friends don’t lie!”
Eddie jumped in to try to defend himself once more, “I didn’t lie! Steve wasn’t ready for anyone to know where he was and I didn’t want to betray his trust so-”
“You’re a coward,” Dustin spat and Eddie flinched back. “You never do the right thing! You tried to die when we were fighting the demobats and you made Steve leave. Now you’re not telling us that Steve called you. We knew Steve first, you have no right to keep him to yourself! You’re a coward and you’re selfish!”
Eddie stares at the seething teens in horror, his ears ringing and vision tunneled. He was a coward. Fuck. Was Vecna back? Because this was a scene from some of his worst nightmares. He couldn’t speak as he tried to control his breathing, the anger in the room stifling his ability to take in any air. 
Just then, Uncle Wayne opens the door to the trailer and steps in behind the gaggle of teens. He doesn’t know what he was expecting when arriving home from a long shift at the plant but it certainly wasn’t his boy on the verge of a panic attack being accosted by his group of his young friends. As Eddie’s body started to shake and his eyes began to water, the usually even-tempered man angrily turned to the kids. 
“I don’t know what the hell is going on but y’all need to leave my house now. Eddie’ll call when he wants to talk to ya. Get out. Now.”
The kids grumble and without a backwards glance to Eddie, they all take their leave. As soon as the last heathen is out the door, Eddie bursts into tears. His breaths are gasping and his fingers move to his hair to pull painfully on the strands.
Wayne watches the kids ride off on their bikes before he takes his boy into his arms in a comforting embrace. He doesn’t know what happened but for now, he will be there for his nephew like he has been since the bald-headed and knobby-kneed kid showed up at his doorstep all those years ago. Eventually, Eddie will find the words to explain to his uncle about the situation he stumbled in on today. But until then, he’ll hug Eddie and calm him down in the way only he knows how to.
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maikaartwork · 2 years
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Screw it, having a sideblog is too much hassle, reposting from my og account because I can.
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jayjay-thejet-plane · 2 years
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Steddie comic part 4/?
Checkin’ him out
first/prev/extras cause its discontinued
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steve is not actually sure about the whole 2hrs of quietly sitting still
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dwobbitfromtheshire · 7 months
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So, after season one, Nancy and Steve don't get back together for like a month, right? Okay, what if they reconciled by Steve approaching her and telling her that he wanted to give her space, that he didn't want to push her, but he wanted to make sure she was alright after Barb. He told her how he wished he had gotten to know her, and if she was up for it, then maybe she could tell him about Barb. I have a hard time believing that no one acknowledged Nancy and her grief for Barb. (I mean, did Hopper even think to check on her?) To me, I think that this would explain why she was holding on to Steve for so long even though she had feelings for someone else. In her darkest moment, Steve was so sweet to her. Jonathan was busy with his own family, and that's understandable, but you're telling me that he couldn't pick up the phone? I think it's also why Steve went to the dinners because he did feel guilty, and he did feel guilty about not getting to know Barb. I think if she and Jonathan hadn't gotten together in that moment, then she would have found her way to actually talk to Steve about Barb to get closure. It's one of the things that annoys me about Jancy. That and the photographs. I wish they had written Jonathan better. Anyway, I just wonder how they reconciled after that month, and I think this is it.
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i usually exclusively headcanon eddie as a dom top within steddie, but the more i think about eddie and transfem stevies sex life the more sure i am that he's slipped up and called her mommy at least once
like. definitely still topping and maybe generally domming, but occasionally he just wants to get pinned to the bed while mommy uses him to get off. and i think that's beautiful
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mcdannowave · 9 months
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ickypuppi3 · 2 years
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something about billy helping steve with his reading and the book they’re reading in class being gatsby
and them lying on steve’s bed and smoking and steve listening to billy read
and steve grabbing billy’s wrist and being all “haha they’re kinda like us because we’re friends, right hargrove?” about nick and jay
and billy’s just white knuckling his copy of the book
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i just think it would be neat if Eddie starts going nuts on the guitar in the Upside Down and Dustin nudges Steve like “didn’t I tell you he was cool?” and Steve, flustrated and blushing, just mumbls “y-yeah, yeah... pretty cool” and then we leave it as a hint, maybe give him some longing eyes by the end of s4 and BANG develop the ship in s5
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shopcat · 1 year
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if there is only one thing i know it is a season 5 era steve harrington would . and i am not exaggerating and i AM biased but i am tapping into the depths of knowledge the world provides. would absolutely EVISCERATE flop billy. he would turn him into nothing but a grease stain and a memory. And yes a season 2 steve harrington did not win a single fight against him sure. even though he didn't go INTO that fight aiming to crack billy's skull open with ceramic as WELL .. he went into it to protect lucas and completed that goal so in that sense he absolutely won AND he WAS holding the upper hand FROM the get go. until billy got scared enough in that Very short amount of time he had to realise in order to do something like that. that plate was not so much just a dirty undercut move it was like trying to put a muzzle on a rabid dog. and YES a season 3 steve harrington with no hesitation drove full speed into the side of that meatbag's car with full intention to just kill him and then didn't even bother checking if his bleeding twitching body was still with us. no remorse. So while i do fully believe that season 2 steve harrington could have won if given the chance a 2 years later fully marinated in the stock of knocking grown soldiers out BITING and ripping apart monsters with his bare hands and an extra 2 years of nursing an ever growing animalistic rage towards that IDIOT wouldn't so much as "win" against him because wouldn't even be a contest... he would rip billy's hair out from the root and then fix his own after. #STEVEHARRINGTONBITESAMANSTHROATOUTINSEASON5MANIFESTATION
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mustlovesteve · 4 months
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i wanted to be done writing fanfiction for a while after LATBG, just leisurely working on the sequel miniseries, but now i have Ideas about a S3 St/eddie AU that doesn't take away much from any platonic St/obin scenes...
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alastyr-not-alastair · 3 months
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Ya ever read your own writing and go “damn. This shit goes HARD?!”
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musicalchaos07 · 1 year
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Stranger Things - Endless Summer AU Moodboard
Jonathan knows next to nothing about surfing, beach culture, or California but when his college roommate Argyle asked if he wanted to work at his family's surf shop. Well, Jonathan figured there were worse ways to spend his summer than on the beach with his best friend. Now he's spending his days smoking, selling boards, snapping photos, swapping tourist horror stories with the ice cream parlor employees next door, and trying not to have a summer romance with the cute reporter renting out Argyle's spare bedroom.
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maddy-ferguson · 1 year
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This might be an odd complaint but I really don’t like how people act like Byler endgame would just excuse every other shitty thing that’s been done to everyone but conveniently attractive presumably straight white men in this show writing-wise. I’d be more than happy to have Byler be endgame and I expect it, but the amount of racism that’s been brushed off is ridiculous in and outside of the show. The weird St*ncy moments this season, the fact that she doesn’t get a storyline related to her trauma. Even season three was incredibly white of them. Joyce not getting hardly any scenes with Jonathan and Will these recent seasons. All of it and more—it won’t suddenly go away and make everyone on that writing team geniuses. And this isn’t to sound ungrateful or anything, but it really is disappointing sometimes. They exceed tremendously at some points such as the Upside Down lore but as for other aspects…
not an odd complaint at all! the only thing byler endgame makes okay is the fact that they didn't use will's feelings to fix a straight couple. there's so many other things they got wrong, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that the people writing the show are white men. and white women. white people
NOTHING they do could ever make what they did to lucas right. having their one black character go against the little white girl in season 1 which resulted in people being racist to caleb irl, having billy literally get physical with lucas and say he's gonna kill him and then saying in an interview that they "think" that billy was racist like they didn't write it themselves, the fact that it's literally never brought up again...lol. i know stranger things isn't a "this thing that happened was wrong. let's talk about it and try to make it better :)" type of show but still. it's crazy. also this regarding erica in season four
and you don't even have to dig that deep to find things that byler endgame won't fix: like you said, stncy being pushed on us and on nancy again in season 4? 98% sure it won't be endgame but like. why did you have to put us through that. WHY. and yeah lol, remember when they brought nancy back to that pool at the end of volume 1 like they remembered she was traumatized by the death of her best friend and then...nothing happened? idk, it's just so weird
also, the byers being sidelined? for will i guess you can rationalize it and come up with great and convincing meta reasons as to why his character was sidelined in seasons 3 and 4 (which, yeah, fascinating, i will still hate it ten years from now, no matter how important to season 5 will is), but what about jonathan? what about joyce? how does one justify the fact that winona went from being the reason 75% of people older than 15 started watching the show to having less screentime than fucking jason in season 4? it is annoying when people act like byler endgame will make everything right and will make stranger things a perfect show because it really won't
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slashtakemylife · 5 months
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Me: *writes a fic piece where Bucky confronts his feelings for Steve post-Endgame and let's go and moves on while still keeping a fond memory of him*
My salty self: Now write that salty snippet of Steve coming back crawling like the fxking bastard he is but Bucky kicks him out his house and life for good.
Me: But I thought we said we would get over it in a nice note for both characters
My salty self: You can get over it too by making him regret that last fxking choice he did for life
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homophyte · 7 months
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Golden I, live from Webster Hall in NYC, from Our Pain Your Gain
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cloudbells · 7 months
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Not sure if I've said this but Carol and Steve are my favorite "had 2 seconds of shared screentime" brotp.
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