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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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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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03 Oct 2023
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“You’re not allowed to be in here.”
The stranger’s eyes are dark, but the flickering light of the oil sconce on the wall catches in their depths and there’s a wickedness there that immediately makes Steve freeze up. In a split second, the man steps back and slips a slender hand into his coat, withdrawing a gleaming brass-colored pistol. “I know,” he says, and Steve’s not sure how someone can sound so fucking casual when they're holding a gun and pointing it at his forehead, holy shit. “You might want to step back, man. Wouldn’t want to waste a bullet blowing off a face as pretty as yours.”
(Or: Steve Harrington is given a second chance at life when he's kidnapped and held for ransom at the mercy of a roguish young pirate—one that he might be falling a little bit in love with.)
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- Part 1 of as if the sea should part
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23 Aug 2023