14 Works in Time is a Weird Soup
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And Eddie knows – you kiss me like you’d burn the whole fucking world to the ground for me – he’d told Steve, lifetimes ago, or just yesterday and – I’d build a better world for you – something he’s felt for months but didn’t know how to wrap up into something palatable, something intelligible, something that didn’t say – you frighten me, you terrify me, the heart inside your chest is mine and I will never understand what I did to deserve that.
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- Part 11 of let's do the time (loop) again
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Steve Harrington's Deaths (And The Times He Maybe Saved The World). by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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“I had another one.”
It stops the playful atmosphere instantly.
Not everyone tells him when they have a Memento. Lucas had kept to himself, and Will had refused to tell Steve about his dream. Some of them just tell him, softly, I remembered number one-seventy-three, or I had a Memento, last night. Sometimes it’s easier to just mention that it happened, acknowledge it and move on.
And Robin, for the most part, had done this. She hadn’t mentioned the details, because she’s sure that Steve is tired of hearing them, doesn’t want to hear his death from another person’s eyes, another person who is left with his body for a day before the loop dissolves into nothingness.
AKA: In the aftermath of it all, when Steve is learning what happiness means for him, people start to remember his deaths.
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“Hey Hop?”
“What’s up, kid?”
There’s no earthly reason Steve should feel anything at all about the easy way Hopper throws that word around, but it sticks in his chest all the same. He doesn’t remember the last time he felt like a kid, but he doesn’t mind feeling a bit like one, out here with Hopper’s gruff silences for company.
“What the hell are we doing out here?”
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- Part 10 of let's do the time (loop) again
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It should be weird. It should be so fucking weird – bundling into the passenger seat of her station wagon, her lips pursed like she’s trying to think of how she wants to phrase the thing she’s clearly dying to say. She’d seen the way Steve looked at him, that first night when Eddie woke up to find Steve tracing circles into Eddie’s wrist. She knew what that look felt like when it was focused on you better than anyone.
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- Part 9 of let's do the time (loop) again
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He has a dumb laugh. When he’s really, genuinely amused by something, he kicks out a breath and lets out an actual mothershitting guffaw, his eyes wide and his mouth tipped open and his face screwing up. It’s the best thing Eddie’s ever experienced, and it’s sort of just for Eddie, because he’s watched Steve reel that stupid laugh in around the kids, and Nancy – even Robin once or twice, although he’s got a laugh dedicated almost entirely to Robin anyway, even dumber than his Eddie laugh, and Eddie loves that one too, tucks it away in that corner of his mind where he stores all the little tidbits of Steve he’s squirreling away like he’s preparing for a long winter.
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- Part 8 of let's do the time (loop) again
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2. all of this has happened before (all of this will happen again) by alchemystique
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Aug 2022
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"Was there a question in that ramble?"
"Fuck you, too, Harrington." Eddie blinks, the edges of a mercurial thought picking at the dark corner of his mind, and slides a contemplative look Steve's way. "Steve." It gets him a pleased hum from low in Steve's throat.
"I don't wanna say the words, yet," Steve says, and it sticks in Eddie's throat, the acknowledgement that everything Steve's been dropping, Eddie has already picked up on. And Steve knows it. Which. Sure, yeah. Steve isn't exactly the most subtle person in the whole world, and Eddie is the opposite of subtle. "Besides, I remember you saying something about already being six miles in. That's double what you never ran for Coach. I'm optimistic about my chances."
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- Part 7 of let's do the time (loop) again
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Dying sucks, is the thing. He’s not dead, had never been dead, not really, but there were ninety-six times he sort of did die, and every memory of it makes him achingly aware of how much he wants to live, reminds him of all the reckless risks he’d taken in his life before Chrissy Cunningham died on the ceiling of his trailer.
Cold fingers snag against his own and Eddie sighs, twists himself and curls his legs under him so that he’s facing Steve, criss cross applesauce on the bed with Steve blinking blearily up at him.
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- Part 6 of let's do the time (loop) again
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Eddie’s spent a month trying to wheedle a fucking hobby out of Steve, so Steve doesn’t misinterpret the question – whines, a bit, closes his eyes against Eddie’s focused gaze, thrusts his hips up looking for friction, and Eddie uses his free hand to shove Steve back to the mattress. They’ve played a version of this game before, but it’d taken Eddie far too long to realize he could use this particular brand of people-pleasing-Steve to edge a fucking personal interest out of Steve.
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- Part 5 of let's do the time (loop) again
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"You wanna talk about it?"
“I don’t really know where to start,” Steve tells her, and she nods against his shoulder.
“Twenty questions?”
It’s a stupid game, but when the words don’t come it’s a good way to ground them, a good place to start, so Steve nods his head and releases a shuddering breath.
“How many loops?”
“Shit,” Steve says.
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- Part 4 of let's do the time (loop) again
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The fact of the matter is, no version of Eddie Munson ever had more than a few days with Steve Harrington, and most of that time was spent running for their goddamn lives. The fact of the matter is Eddie on the worst day of his life wasn’t a man Eddie was sure he could replicate outside of those loops, and he couldn’t for the life of him understand how Steve had fallen, why he’d decided to keep at it, what he expected out of Eddie now that the loops were done and they were all alive.
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- Part 3 of let's do the time (loop) again
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"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
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He recalls broken fractals of time, on occasion – when Steve runs a hand through his hair, or digs his teeth into Eddie’s hipbone, or when Eddie catches a glimpse of him pouring coffee into one of Wayne’s novelty mugs. They’re not memories, not quite, because Eddie never lived them – they died with the Eddie who died each night, but somehow Eddie-97 has them stored somewhere in the depths of his brain and sometimes they leak out.
The faucet drip, drip, drips, vague flashes of not-memory, and he’s glad, actually, that he fell in love with Steve in the right-side up, because now the not-memories are a balm, a reminder, a glimpse into all the idiosyncrasies that Steve fell for.
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- Part 2 of let's do the time (loop) again
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“Did you, uh… did you sing to me, once?” Eddie asks, sitting on the hood of Steve’s car and staring up at the sky so he doesn’t have to pretend he isn’t desperate for everything promised in the eyes that haven’t left Eddie since Eddie woke up in that hospital bed. It’s just –
Time loops, and the King of Hawkins High going back over and over and over again just to stop Eddie Munson from dying, and –
“Fuck,” Steve says, and Eddie doesn’t remember, but there’s a song that won’t leave his head, and the voice is soft and warm just like the way Steve smiles at him and – “I didn’t think you remembered any of it.”
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Eddie died in a time loop a hundred times and all Steve got was this tee-shirt.
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- Part 1 of let's do the time (loop) again
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The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2022
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It’s the first time in a while that he doesn’t know what comes next. He’s dove into the water hundreds of times. Screamed as his flesh was torn apart, heard Master of Puppets in the distance and held back tears. Felt Max’s cold, small hand in his as she laid in the hospital bed. There are things that always happen, no matter how hard he tries: El doesn’t arrive in time. Eddie dies. Max is put in a coma.
Steve fails. They lose.
“Steve, how many loops have you been through?”
His head is nodding, and his eyes are watery, and Eddie has approached him like a spooked animal.
“I lost count.”
AKA: The one where Steve Harrington is stuck in a time loop, and Eddie Munson is really fucking hard to save, or: fuck Volume 2, these bitches are in love.
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