Steve Harrington's Unwilling Time Loop Saga
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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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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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There's Something in the Woods, And We're No Longer Children. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2023
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He wants to figure it out, Eddie realises. It’s been haunting him since it happened two years ago — that chittering, whispering that emanated from the woods. From that first time he heard it, when the crickets were deathly silent, predator-ready, to when he heard the thundering, soldiers of the earth screaming and howling into the trees.
Eddie doesn’t know what he thinks he’s gonna find, but whatever it is, he wants to know. Those whispers hadn’t been back since that rumble beneath the ground — the soldiers — but that steady beat, like a giant mass running closer on the 4th of July? It has to be the same. There’s no way it can’t be connected.
And nobody has mentioned it. Nobody has even hinted at knowing what he’s talking about.
AKA: Before the beginning and after the end, through Eddie Munson’s eyes.
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