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Steve Harrington will do anything in this world for Robin Buckley, and apparently, that includes dying for her.
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Welcome to the 66th Annual Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
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But You'll Have This Place to Call Home, Always by paperlights
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Mar 2024
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In the City of Hawkins lies a small cafe on the corner of 4th street that Steve Harrington owns with his best friend.
Far from the broken life he once knew, Steve has become compliant in a comfortable but lonely life. He's happy to work every day in the city he's grown to love, with nothing more than a pillow to greet him at home.
Steve should have known, though, that trouble follows him wherever he goes. And with a new face in town, Steve will have to reevaluate everything he knows, including his view on love.
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Steve glanced at Eddie, who was now reading his cup in amusement. As he saw Steve’s curious glance, he turned the coffee around, putting Steve’s handwriting into view.
Steve almost died on the spot. Right there, in Steve’s loopy handwriting, was the word ‘trouble.’
Eddie laughed, raising an eyebrow. "Guess I’ll make sure to bring trouble back around.”
Steve knew at that moment he had stirred up more than sugar in Eddie’s cup. -
Better Late than Never (Just Don't Make Me Wait Forever) by paperlights for unattainablesongs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2023
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Steve always forgot how Eddie knew him. “Feels unfulfilled sometimes. Like I have parts missing. I’m happy, sure, but not satisfied.”
They stared at each other for a long while; the silence became a more present voice than theirs.
Eddie broke it first, saying, “I hope you will be one day.”
Steve was already feeling a bit closer to it with Eddie in the room.
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Or, in the end, all you need is time.
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Huggin' and a-kissin', dancin' and a-lovin' by paperlights for cranberrymoons
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2023
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“Do you have a name for your dick?”
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Or the mutuals got to me, and I based a fic around an inside joke.
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"All you do is try to trick me, Angel. And you never succeed. What is it you gain from this?" Eddie gripped Steve's chin, pulling their faces closer together.
"C'mon now, Eddie. I know you love it. Love the game we have going on." Steve spit the blood pooling in his mouth to the side of them. "You wouldn't find me interesting if you didn't love it. You wouldn't keep me around."
Something dark sparked in Eddie's eyes; his grip tightened, but not enough to hurt Steve. Eddie never hurt Steve. "I don't want to see you hurt, Angel. I think you're not getting the real reason I keep you around."
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Steve Harrington has made a lifetime of mistakes, but trusting an old friend has led him into the hands of one the most dangerous criminals in the country,Eddie Munson.
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i got your name stuck to my tongue (only call me when you're drunk) by GhostEnthusiast
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 May 2023
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5 times Steve fools around with Eddie Munson at parties, and 1 time he invites him to one himself.
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mortgage off your soul to buy your dream by parishilton
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jan 2025
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“I have a California King.”
Eddie’s eyes snap back open. “My favorite words after ‘all-inclusive.’”
“Breakfast will be served promptly at ten.”
Eddie squints. “Is there, like, a live-in butler I missed, or something?”
Steve rolls his eyes. “No, I can cook. I’m good in the kitchen.”
“My second favorite room a guy can tell me he’s ‘good in.’” Eddie sends a wink Steve’s way for good measure.
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There's a gaping chasm splitting the town in half, swallowing it from the inside out. There are wights guarding the armory. And there's a girl who should be standing next to him lying, cursed and comatose, on the back table in the cellar of what used to be a tavern, before Henry the Usurper came to Hawkins. But somewhere far away—over the walls, through the dark and treacherous Shadowlands—stands the fabled House of Healing, and Steve's going to get Max there and bring her back home if it's the last thing he does.
He didn't count on meeting a stranger in the woods. Maybe that was his first mistake.
A high fantasy AU.
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Steve would have liked to say that as soon as he saw the boy his heart thawed and that his eyes opened only for him. The truth was, he didn’t really see him until much later.
All eyes were on him as he entered with shackles around his feet and wrists, but Steve was counting the shards of stained glass in the walls. The crowd was hushed, nobility gawking and even servants pausing to look at the man. Eyes bounced between the prisoner and the King and Queen. Some eyes darted to Steve, who straightened and felt the circlet on his head shift. He tried to look interested, like the processions of the royal family did not make his mind numb with boredom and confusion.
“You, Eddie Munson, stand guilty of treason and conspiring to overthrow the monarchy.”
Or, the royal au I wanted really badly so I wrote it
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Steve Harrington had it all, money, freedom, luxury. Then a stray werewolf bite erased his old life overnight. Declared dead and sent to a government compound for the bitten, Steve refuses to play along, wasting away in his cabin until Eddie Munson barges into his world.
Loud, scrappy, and impossible to ignore, Eddie drags Steve into wolf runs, communal meals, and pack life, forcing him to live again. When Steve breaks down, his grief explodes in a furious first shift. Eddie is the one who stays, who anchors him, who turns frustration into laughter and chasing games into intimacy.
What begins as resistance becomes belonging, and what starts as annoyance deepens into something stronger than love. In losing everything, Steve finds the one thing he never thought he’d want—a pack, a mate, and a home.