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Steve finds an incredible knack for taking punches that should be for someone else. Discovers that he doesn't mind it as much as he probably should, but that's only because he can give just as good as he can take.
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29 Apr 2026
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In the summer of 1985, Steve Harrington starts writing in a notebook.
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Steve likes that Eddie talks with his hands and uses five-dollar words that Steve has to interrupt him to ask about, always making Eddie lose his thoughts and pick up another topic, until halfway through Eddie will remember again, so conversations go round in big playground circles.I have a friend who talks like skipping rope
On his drive back Steve will try remember the new words, repeat them three times because that is how long Nancy says it takes to memorise stuff, and lets the sounds of them shape his tongue.
Conversations jump up and down
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28 Apr 2026
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Eddie looked good. He looked handsome and comfortable; soft-jumpered, thick-socked, loose-jeaned. His hair and skin looked clean. He looked healthy, like he was eating well. He looked rested. Like someone who had their shit together. There was an incense-like smell, and a coffee smell, and something soapy- fabric softener or shampoo. He wasn’t looking at Steve, was looking at the space just past him.
Steve perched on the arm of the couch, facing him. He figured he looked uncomfortable and stupid and strung out. He pulled a thing of spearmint gum out of his pocket and put a piece into his mouth then held the packet in front of him automatically, offering. A little flicker of emotion crossed Eddie’s face- amused, annoyed, Steve couldn’t tell which one was prevailing- and then he rolled his eyes and stepped away from the serving hatch, stood close enough to wordlessly hold out his palm. It took Steve a second to push out a piece into his hand.
“Thanks,” Eddie said.
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27 Apr 2026
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He sometimes imagines how it would feel to be in Munson's orbit. Sometimes imagines where his words would be. Hopes they'd curl along Munson's cheek bone where Steve could brush his thumb so easily. Or in the junction between his neck and shoulder, a place where Steve could drop kisses. Or along the curve of his hip, where Steve's palm could settle.
None of it matters because Steve never says anything.
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or the one where Steve gets his words in high school and never says anything
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the shame is on the other side by scoops_ahoy (hopecorps)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Dec 2022
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Steve wants to go to a place where monsters aren't real and people don't care about him, and he wants to drink and dance and stop thinking for once. Just once.
He lands in a gay bar. And then he keeps landing there.