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• you whom I knew like a flower by gay_pirate_brainrot

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  11 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
  • Gay Eddie Munson
  • Bisexual Steve Harrington
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Period-typical Biphobia
  • Past Tommy Hagan/Steve Harrington
  • Past Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
  • background ronance
  • explicit content tags in chapter notes
  • fruity four supremacy
  • Slow Burn
  • eddie munson is a grumpypants
  • nancy wheeler will not be denied
  • robin buckley has been implicated in several felonies
  • steve harrington gentle parenting everyone but himself
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • Time Travel
  • please don't examine my time travel science too closely it's all for shenanigans
  • I just want baby Max and baby El in a room together!
  • I miss everyone's Season 1 faces!
  • I am WEAK and I have access to a word processing program
  • no beta we die like the duffers' seasonal sacrifice

  Summary

  El sends Steve back to 1983, in order to help Max in 1986.

  A quick trip. It’s not supposed to change anything.

  He gets stuck.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  35,440

  Chapters:

  4/?

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  Kudos:

  166

  Bookmarks:

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