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Eddie wonders if this is the usual Steve Harrington treatment. If the girls who came before him have laid in this spot, been kissed up and down both sides of their neck before finally getting one on the mouth. If those girls giggled their way through small talk first, or came right up here for the main event.
He hopes not. He hopes that maybe he's different. He hopes that he and Steve have skipped the small talk simply because there's no more small talk left. That the weeks of small talk in the beginning, followed by months of far bigger talk, eliminated the need for whatever shallow conversations typically prelude this part.
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Steve and Eddie's first date.
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- Part 1 of Steddie Kinktober 2023
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15 Oct 2025
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"I'm mad that you pretended I'm your friend," Robin bursts, her voice too loud. She stares at Nancy, and Nancy can see the way her eyes are shining, she can see how hurt Robin is, but Robin doesn't get it. "I'm mad that you fucked with me for so long, I thought you liked me."
"I do like you," Nancy nearly shouts. Robin just stares at her.
or: inspired by the dialogue prompts “Uh, how about all of the above?” and “You left your diary in the library and I had to read some of it to figure out who you were…”
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- Part 11 of tumblr prompts
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14 Oct 2025
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Eddie moves back in with Wayne, in a small, government non-disclosure agreement, two bedroom, sorry-about-the-murder-charges apology trailer, where he doesn’t think about Steve Harrington. Or his tits. Not at all.
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06 Oct 2025
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something they all want (that only you can have) by bottlerocket32557038
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Sep 2023
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And sure, Steve had never paid much attention to Eddie in school, but he can’t recall ever seeing him interact with any girls on a romantic level. Chalk it up to Eddie’s reputation - his freakiness, his propensity for repeating senior year, his nerdy dragon club. Not really things that most girls are looking for. But now, here, there’s no reputation, no preconceived notions. He’s just Eddie. Eddie with the thousand-watt smile, Eddie with the long brown hair and the biggest, darkest eyes. Eddie who talks not only with his hands but with his whole body, who imbues so much energy into whatever space he occupies. It makes total sense, here and now, that he’s getting so much attention. He’s magnetic, and even Steve is having trouble looking away.
or, Steve, Eddie, and Robin go to a bar.
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06 Oct 2025
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In 1986, Eddie calls Steve for a ride.
Or, how Eddie and Steve come together, apart, and somehow make it work.
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- Part 5 of steddie week 2024
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28 Sep 2025
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You've Laid Your Hands Upon Me (And Told Me Who You Are) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jun 2022
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Robin asks Steve to drive her to a gay club in the city and he expects to spend all night hugging the bar while making his best friend happy. The last thing he expects is to find a familiar face, let alone hook up with him in the bathroom.
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28 Sep 2025
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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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26 Sep 2025
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Steve would never have anticipated he'd become a familiar face at a gay club in Indy, but it's become something of a habit to go there with Eddie rather than spend his Saturday nights alone. It's honestly just nice to get out of Hawkins and be flirted with, even if it's from other guys.
However, things take an unexpected turn when Eddie asks for his help one night—but, if Eddie needs a fake boyfriend, what else can he do but say yes?
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25 Sep 2025
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Eddie Munson, capitalist-hater and full-time menace, makes it a point to visit Scoops Ahoy three times a week—not for the ice cream, but to get a rise out of one Steve Harrington. At least, that’s what Robin thinks.
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24 Sep 2025
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I Don't Trust Banks, I Keep My Cash in a Shoe by pruvia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Dec 2022
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Eddie Munson was known for many things: mostly his successful comedy career, his Netflix specials, and his down to Earth attitude.
Robin Buckley loved Eddie Munson’s humor, so why couldn’t Steve just indulge her for a moment and watch the damn guy?
Steve Harrington was married to a comedian, but his coworker and best friend Robin didn’t seem to realize that.
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23 Sep 2025
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darlin’ you give love (a bad name) by Thorinoakentwig
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jun 2022
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The first time he hears Dustin and Mike mention the name Eddie Munson he almost walks into a VHS display at work.
Steve wants to ask them how Eddie’s doing but then his face from that last party flashes into his head and he always clams up. If he was Eddie he’d want nothing to do with him and rightly so.
Instead Steve teasingly complains about how much time they spend with Eddie and that’s as far as it goes.
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22 Sep 2025
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Hop said it’s a bad habit he’s gotten himself into, these night drives. Patrolling the town when everyone’s asleep, nobody to ask the question of why Steve Harrington drives circles through Hawkins past midnight every night.
It’s nearing one a.m. and Steve sighs, because—shit. There's a van on the side of the road that wasn't there on his last lap.
He can’t drive off now. He’s already stopped. Already committed, so Steve swings his keys around his finger and sighs again. Opens the car door.
He comes to a stop a few paces away from the van. Raises his voice slightly when he says, “Hello?”
“Fucking—what, hello? What?” comes a voice from the other side of the van. “Who—jesus, if I’m about to get murdered, I swear to—wait. Harrington? Steve Harrington?”
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Or; Steve patrols the streets of Hawkins every night, looking for monsters. One night, he finds Eddie.
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- Part 1 of lost in time and space
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09 Sep 2025
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Six months. For six months Steve has been listening to this radio show and not ever one time did he expect to hear the host, Eddie Munson, growl out the words “Hawkins, Indiana," but here they are. The name said.
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09 Sep 2025
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we can love each other (i've been told it's okay) by deadratz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Mar 2023
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Eddie has wondered for a while if Steve knows what kind of signals he sends. He’s wondered if Steve realizes what kinds of things he implies while talking about his failed dates. Eddie ignores it because that’s safer than addressing it.
Until it’s clear ignoring it isn’t doing anyone any favors.
(Alternatively: Is it gay to sit in your boy best friend's lap while you talk about how bored you are with heterosexual sex? Depends on who you ask.)
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08 Sep 2025
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destiny has brought us oh so close together by deadratz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2022
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The first time Eddie finds him, Steve is crying in the school bathroom after his breakup with Nancy. They're not friends, they don't plan to become friends.
Somewhere along the way they become a lot more.
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Takes place 1984-1986
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06 Sep 2025
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“I called your mom, by the way,” he says. “Told her I was picking you up.”
“Are you taking me back?” Dustin asks, nervously. He didn’t really consider that calling Steve to pick him up might involve Steve dropping him off back to Hawkins. He really doesn’t want to be there right now, he feels too much, everything is too much, too big, the future looming over him feels too intimidating.
“Not yet,” Steve says, and Dustin lets out a relieved breath. “I told her we can put you up for the night and then tomorrow we can figure out what to do, yeah?”
Dustin looks at him, the kind slope of his mouth, the worried lines on his forehead. He suddenly feels bad for upending Steve’s life like this. Surely he had plans for the day, maybe work or school, something he had to do that now has been interrupted by needing to save Dustin, again, but from himself rather than from alternate dimension monsters.
“Sorry, Steve.”
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It's senior year, and Dustin is having a hard time coping with everything. He runs away to Indianapolis in search of the comfort only his two best friends can give him, not knowing what he'll find when he gets to the other side.
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25 Aug 2025
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"Don't call me that."
He chances a look over at Eddie, at the risk of appearing as vulnerable as he feels, and to his distress, he can't get a read on the man. His dark eyebrows furrow, brown eyes squinting slightly, and his lips part like he wants to speak. He licks them. Steve's eyes follow the motion unintentionally.
"Call you what?" Eddie says on an exhale. "A brat?"
Steve shakes his head. "Harrington. Don't like it when you call me that."
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Or, Eddie calls Steve pet names, and Steve wants to kiss him about it.
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24 Aug 2025
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you said i'm holding onto heartache (you said i wear it like a crown) by jewishrat420
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Nov 2023
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Steve knows, like his skin knows his bones and his blood knows the cadence of his own heartbeat, that love is something you earn. Love is something you work for, something given to you at the end of a long journey.
Love is a reward.
And if you don’t try hard enough, if you don’t prove yourself worthy, then you don’t get it.
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Or, the one where Steve learns that he deserves love.
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24 Aug 2025
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Put it in a Mixtape (it'll last longer) by InspectorJones
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jul 2025
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Eddie Munson leaves a lot. It's okay, because he always seems to come back. And in the meantime, Steve has the tapes for company. He has no idea what that means but it's enough. It's enough to know that Eddie is somewhere in the country, singing the same songs, and that at some point, he'll be back in Steve's bed. It's enough.
Isn't it?
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21 Aug 2025
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"You promised! You promised Steve you wouldn’t do anything stupid and then you did the stupidest fucking thing you could possibly do!” Dustin’s voice cracks. He wipes the tears away from his cheeks with his palms.
“Dustin, don’t you think you should…” Steve starts.
“Don’t rescue me, Harrington,” Eddie interrupts. “I’ll take my admonishment.”
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Eddie lives, Steve is merciful, and life in Loch Nora goes on in unexpected ways.
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17 Aug 2025