Stranger Things Drabbles
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the secret I keep (in the spaces between my teeth) by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jul 2024
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Eddie Munson is not made for soft things.
That traitorous muscle that beatsbeatsbeats stubbornly onward, pushing blood and life and a whole slew of embarrassing, squishy things through his veins-
Yeah, it didn’t get the fucking memo.
Oh, he can pretend as much as he wants that he’s not a big, ooey gooey sap, and for a while there he even maybe believed it, but-
Fucking Kiiiiiing Steeeeeve had to go and ruin that with one dorky grin and a flutter of his stupid, pretty eyelashes.
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Eddie loves Steve. Steve loves Eddie. Now they just need to figure out how to tell each other that.
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- Part 1 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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show me where your whole heart stays by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jul 2024
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Steve’s found himself blushing and stuttering his way through more than one sentence when Eddie’s eyes land on him with that heavy, single-minded focus: all big and dark, fanned with long eyelashes, framed with smudged, smoky kohl. A touch of sparkly silver, sometimes, if he’s feeling bold; a pretty shade that matches all of his ridiculous, chunky jewelry and makes the depths of his eyes look endless and infinite and-
Okay, yeah, he’s fucking beautiful.
It’s a problem, because Steve has never thought men could be beautiful, and then Eddie crashed into his life.
Robin laughs so hard she cries, when he tells her. And then she just cries, hugging him tightly and telling him she’s proud of him, thanking him for trusting her with this, and then Steve maybe cries a little bit, too. All in all, it’s wildly undignified and a little embarrassing, and he’s never felt more loved.
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The boys fall, and then pine, and finally maybe figure out how to work their shit out.
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- Part 2 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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your hands look so much better wrapped in mine by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2024
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Eddie is laughing at something Robin had said; head tossed back, smiling wide enough to dimple his cheeks, eyes crinkling at the corners. He’s bracketed by sunlight, looking soft and inviting in the golden rays. His eyeliner is smudged messily at the corners of his eyes, hands clapped together at his sternum, bracelets and rings glittering.
Steve looks at him, and watches, and lets himself drown in Eddie’s radiance and vibrancy and beauty, and thinks-
Oh.
Oh.
I love him.
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Or, Eddie flirts. Steve pines. Neither one of them could be more obvious if they tried.
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- Part 3 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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I'm tryin' to cope and burn just right by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Sep 2024
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Eddie Munson is standing on Steve’s doorstep.
Fucking–
Eddie Munson, who died two months ago.
Steve stares.
Rubs his fists into his eyes, smacks his palms against his own cheeks, blinks.
And Eddie is still there, very much not dead. Very alive looking for someone who Steve had dragged out of the Upside Down only to have bleed out in his arms before the ambulance could get there.
“Hiya, Harrington,” Eddie greets, smiling widely. “Gonna invite me in?”
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Or, Eddie survived and Steve definitely doesn't have any repressed feelings (and a goddamn well of survivors guilt) for him, nope, no he does not. If only Eddie would just leave him alone to sort those totally non-existent repressed feelings in peace, but he's fucking everywhere.
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- Part 4 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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fall like feathers, rest like stones by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2024
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Eddie Munson has a broken beer bottle pressed to Steve Harrington’s throat when the door to the shed splinters and a gun cocks; a familiar chh-chh that resounds loud enough in the sudden ensuing silence that it breaks Eddie out of his death spiral.
“I ain’t one to mince words,” Wayne Munson says, staring down each and every pair of wide, ogling eyes. “So somebody better tell me why I got a dead girl in my trailer and my nephew’s name on the news.”
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A short exploration of what would've happened if Wayne had gotten involved at the start of s4.
Or, everything’s the same, but this time no one is dying
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- Part 5 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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I wanna overcome (I wanna love someone) by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2024
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“Eddie Munson is hot??”
Robin blinks at him, hands frozen in the act of rewinding a tape. “Is that a question?”
“A realization, Robin, a realization!” He stumbles behind the counter, banging his hip on the edge and nearly tripping over his own two feet in his haste. “Why didn’t you tell me?!”
“I thought you knew!”
“You thought I– wait, you knew?!”
“Everyone knows!”
“But– boobies, Robin! Boobies!”
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Or, Steve sees Eddie on a motorcycle. Things spiral from there.Series
- Part 6 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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wanna be loved, wanna be whole by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Nov 2024
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Steve has always fallen in love fast.
He’s always fallen fast and he’s always fallen hard and he thinks it might be his greatest flaw: the too much of him.
He loves and it’s hard to keep that contained, sometimes; when he feels like he’s overflowing with it and has nowhere to put it. He learns, though. He learns how to make his love softer and quieter and manageable.
And then–
He meets Eddie Munson and it feels a little bit like his whole world tilts off its axis and a little bit like it realigns.
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Or, Steve always loves too fast and too hard and too intense and breaks his own damn heart, so he decides he's going to dial himself back and shrink himself down, love half as hard as he wants to, so he doesn't scare anyone else away.
(Eddie Munson, enter stage left.)
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- Part 7 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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you wear mine, i’ll wear yours by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Nov 2024
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Eddie reaches around Steve, something weighty settling over his collarbones and draping down his chest, fingers hot against Steve’s nape, lingering longer than Steve thinks they need to before flitting away.
“Perfect,” he murmurs, a little breathy, in Steve’s ear. It sends shivers down Steve’s spine, goosebumps prickling his skin, and when he unfreezes long enough to glance down, Eddie’s necklace is settled around his throat.
It’s a little heavier than he’d expect, all smooth gleaming silver and skin-warmed metal, and Steve can’t figure out if it feels so right because it’s clearly well loved and much higher quality than the 25¢ one Steve had on or if it’s because it’s Eddie’s.
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Or, three times Steve wears Eddie’s jewelry, and one time Eddie wears Steve’s
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- Part 8 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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seams start wearing thin by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Dec 2024
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Steve’s on his knees in his own goddamn living room, the cold metal of a gun rattling against the back of his skull, held unsteady but firm in Carver’s shaking hand.
Eddie is in front of them, back to the front door, eyes big and wide in his pale face.
He’s got a hand held out, placating and wobbly, and Steve grits his teeth against the helplessness burning through his veins. Blood oozes into his eye from the gash in his eyebrow and he blinks through it, trying to will the fuzziness out of his vision so he can focus on Eddie, on the terror in his face. Fucking Carver.
“Jason,” Eddie starts, voice trembling through the word. “Please, man, just let me explain–”
“Shut the fuck up, freak!” Carver snarls.
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Or, Jason Carver finds out about Eddie and Steve, and Eddie is a little bit of a badass
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- Part 9 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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salvation with a pump fake by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Dec 2024
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“I think I’m in love with you,” Steve says, apropos to exactly nothing, and Eddie jerks upright so fast he tumbles right off the bed.
Steve peers over the edge, all wide-eyes and bedhead, and Eddie’s fingers itch to soothe through the mess; to drag Steve down with him and tell him how pretty he is and kiss him senseless.
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Or, Steve and Eddie have been dating since 1985. A look into how things may have changed in s4, and how tatters of Eddie’s childhood affect the trajectory of his life
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- Part 10 of Stranger Things Drabbles