it’s rotten work (loving a heart like mine)
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“But, that would be very rude and I’m not in the business of being an asshole—at least not today. So, let’s call it even. Five for me, five for you.”
Steve nods his response. Amazed.
Eddie courts the danger of decision with practiced efficiency. As if each of his twenty years has been spent solving repetitive puzzles of this measure and now he’s the expert. No voice in the back of his head to thrash around and threaten violence when he’s a seasoned pro.
Steve breathes out competently for the first time in over six months. The shackles of indecision drop from his wrists and Eddie’s words massage the stinging burn. It’s intoxicating—Eddie’s authoritative energy. He wishes he could bottle it and sip from that very cup in all the moments that Eddie isn’t by his side to tell him what’s best.
Or, Eddie soft doms Steve into taking care of himself after the events of vol 2 & it accidentally becomes more than just a one time thing
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you give me pain, but you bring me pleasure (we’re dead or we’re alive) by infiniteorangepeel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2022
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Through the hangover of fear and loathing–and a generous helping of unresolved blunt trauma to the head–Steve forgets about Eddie’s visit from the night prior. He forgets the whispered confessions and breathless kisses shared on the couch downstairs. He forgets moaning into each other’s wanton mouths and Eddie’s strong hands coaxing him out of his head.
He forgets and forgets and forgets and then–suddenly, dizzily, all at once–Steve remembers.
It’s an out of body experience–automatic by nature of careful practice–pressing his nose to the borrowed t-shirt and breathing in the distinct, musky scent of cigarette smoke and caution thrown to the wind. It’s the sweet, filtered fragrance of risk and flame and ringed fingers gripping his hips. Rolling them down with control onto firm, grounding hardness and delectably licking each whine out from behind Steve’s teeth. Waves of passion and pleasure and belonging and Eddie’s broad chest providing a safe place to land when all was said and done.
Steve remembers and he wants.
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i'll be your morgue (slaughterhouse, killing floor, and final resting) by infiniteorangepeel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2023
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“What does it look like we’re doing, Harrington? We’re grocery shopping like a couple of suburban moms,” Eddie bumps his hip suggestively into Steve’s, “Though, I think you’re far better suited to play housewife than I am—especially, if those birthing hips of yours have anything to say about it.”
He jokingly winks, but Steve doesn’t return it, because his mouth is hanging open like a speared fish in shock. Eddie calling him a “housewife,”even in a joking manner, scratches an itch he didn’t even know he had been trying to reach.
What the fuck?
“They’re just hips?” Steve lilts it into a question, “And, don’t act like you wouldn’t be a good mom too. You drive the kids around just as much as I do and they rave about your snack stash.”
“Beg to differ, your hips are definitely not ‘just hips,’ Harrington. And, I see myself as much more of a ‘Daddy’ than a ‘Mommy’—for your information,” Eddie quips.Series
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in the dream, i don't tell anyone (i'm afraid to wake you up) by infiniteorangepeel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2023
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“I’m fucking gone for you, Stevie,” Eddie sighs into his mouth, gripping his waist with enough force to bruise.
Steve wants every inch of his skin to be marked by Eddie in this way. To find blue and purple in all the places Eddie has touched and claimed with his hands. An unfinished portrait of prolific need.
Finish me, he imagines he’d say to Eddie, look here and here—there’s still work to be done. Let’s play and paint until I’m ripe with violet and burgundy; fruitful and replenished by your hands. Don’t leave me without you all over my body. Make me yours. Let everyone know. I’m yours, I’m yours, I’m yours.
Eddie breaks their kiss and cups Steve’s face once more. Crying openly and all Steve can see are their last moments in The Upside Down.
The blood on his hands—the same blood that flowed from Eddie’s chest, his eyes fluttering shut, Steve’s muscles screaming in agony as he carried Eddie back to the realm of the living.
note: if you’re getting another notif for this ch. in your inbox, that’s bc i purposely changed the pub. date to today bc while editing it, i added 4k more words than it had when first posted
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buzzcut season (make believe it's hyper-real) by infiniteorangepeel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2023
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“Because I needed to know that you’d do it. I needed to know that you’d really listen and obey the way you claim you want to. I needed to know that you wouldn’t break and run after spending the night with me,” Eddie sighs heavily, shuts the razor off, “And if you think I’d ever willingly put something this sharp in your hands, you’re dead wrong.”
“Is this about us having sex?” he grasps at his memories, evaluates them for gaps, routine checks. It’s possible he’s already forgotten something.
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gentle cannibal (i will be the house that holds every part of you) by infiniteorangepeel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Feb 2023
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“This morning. Your hair,” Steve’s speaking in fragments, but he trusts Eddie will understand. Has never really needed to explain much to him. He just gets it, like this is the millionth lifetime they’ve lived together.
Eddie sighs, rests against the porcelain wall of the tub, pulls Steve with him, so they’re sort of laying there. Floating in the shallow water. Bare, connected.
“Baby, don’t worry about that,” he nibbles on Steve’s ears, trying to distract him, “I’m okay.”
Steve presses onward, because he can sense the importance–knows he’s a layer or two above breaking into the depths of Eddie’s heart. Of his past.
“Who made you feel like you’re not beautiful?”
He soothes Eddie’s nerves with a rolling thrust of his hips, takes him in fully, holds him inside deeper to prove he’s worth cherishing. Eddie squeezes Steve’s hips, kisses his spine–the row of moles that form one big constellation along his vertebrae. A shaky sigh parts the tight enclosure of his pursed lips.
“Doesn’t matter.”
“Does to me. Does if it’s someone who hurt you.”
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wolf in sheep's clothing (i remember i would kill for you) by infiniteorangepeel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Mar 2023
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“Two and you’ll hydrate and eat something,” he tilts Steve’s chin up so they’re eye to eye, “We’ll wait an hour and check-in, again. I’ll draw the curtains. Be good. I’m watching you.”
“You don’t have to–”
Eddie grabs him by the chin, gets in close.
“You’re mine,” he whispers, “I take care of what’s mine. Always. Don’t talk back.”
Steve blanches. Eddie fights vehemently against the base instinct to give his boy whatever he asks for. He can’t. They’ve been through this. It starts with Aspirin. It turns to needles and gravestones.
“Can I wear your socks? The wool ones? Please. I’m cold.”
This is Steve’s precious compromise. He’s sleepy and hurting and it’s hardly past noon. Everything is so unfair.
“You can wear my soul for all I care,” Eddie kisses him once on the chin–avoids his lips because Robin’s as bad as the kids, “My socks are yours.”
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