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AOIZENN

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SHINOTAMM

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Jinx and Isha…

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INOTAN MY BABIESS JDJD

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INOAOI

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GENZENN

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Nurse Munson

TW: Child abuse & neglect, Hurt/comfort

Little Steve Harrington fell out of a tree and broke his arm. At least that's what his mother tells the doctor with fake tears in her eyes when asked. His arm is bundled up in a cast by the prettiest person he's ever seen.

Nurse Munson.

She smiles at him, she makes jokes, she makes him giggle even though his arm hurts.

She gives him a lolipop and tells him he's a good boy, just like her little Eddie.

Steve goes home, to a cold bed and cold house and a new stern maid to watch him when his parents leave.

Little Steve is back at the clinic with a sprained ankle and a little bruise on his head. Playing rough with his friends his mother says.

"What friends?" Steve says when Nurse Munson asks and he wonders why she's surprised. Steve's never had any friends.

Little Steve hates having to visit the clinic, but he loves seeing Nurse Munson. She's the nicest adult he's ever met. Not that he meets many adults outside of his parents and their friends, who ignore him.

She holds him steady as he shakes from the cramps of his tummy ache.

She brushes his hair back gently as he vomits out the head of a toy soldier that Tommy his new friend had made him swallow.

She looks sad as she spies the bruises on his side when he changes his t-shirt.

Steve is reluctant to leave.

Little Steve who gets a teddy from Nurse Munson the next time, a sweet little plush that fits in his pocket. A teddy that Nurse Munson says he can tell anything to. That if he needs, he can call the number on Teddy.

Little Steve who calls that number that night when there is no food in the house.

Little Steve who calls that number anytime he really really needs to and Nurse Munson, call me Ellie, comes and helps him.

Feeds him.

Plays with him.

Talks to him about her son.

Until one day Ellie doesn't answer.

Little Steve who calls again and again and again until a man screams at him to stop calling she's dead.

and Little Steve never calls again.

Big Steve who sees a curly haired kid in high school, taller than him, loud and crazy and angry and thinks Ellie.

Big Steve who falls in line with the jocks and learns that it's not Ellie.

It's Eddie.

and he remembers.

Nurse Munson's little Eddie.

So he keeps the jocks away from him, steers them clear of the only memory of his Ellie.

Steve who almost doesn't save Eddie, who almost loses the last connection he had to a woman who saved his life.

Steve who cries over Eddie's bed in the hospital because he can't lose another Munson. Can't lose Eddie like he lost Ellie. He feels like he's seven and crying at the phone again.

Adult Steve who tells Eddie Munson, after they've curled together in bed as close as skin will let them, how his mother saved his life when he was small.

Adult Steve who isn't afraid to say he didn't fall off trees, that he didn't play rough with kids that didn't exist. That Ellie Munson saved him.

Eddie who cries, for the violence that Steve had suffered and the memory of his mother.

Eddie who hugs Steve tight, who tells him it'll be okay, it will all be okay and that he will tell Steve about her, his mother.

About Nurse Ellie Munson, the woman who gave him that little patch of sunshine.

Adult Steve who visits her grave with Eddie and tells her, that he is happy now, that he still had Teddy, that he had Eddie too and that he is grateful.

That she gave him a chance to live.

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i’ve been stuck thinking ab freak steve who just happened to get popular bc he knew the right ppl and threw parties often and is good with women. like steve who’s absolutely not afraid to be fucking terrifying and fight dirty, and like he tries to hide it! he tries so fucking hard to be normal and be the popular guy everyone thinks he is ykwim??

anyway i keep thinking ab steve, in his last year of school, defending eddie and the other freaks - it’s a rare instance and one that doesn’t need to happen bc they’ve been defending themselves well enough, if steve’s honest it’s not ab defending them. it’s ab this dickhead throwing slurs at them.

like steve doesn’t really care ab defending anyone, he’s not there to be the savior of fucking hawkins. but. like. injustice really pisses him off, it’s ab what’s fair yk?

so if steve goes up and gets in between the dickhead and eddie’s group, if steve’s gets in his guys face telling him to back off. AND if the guy calls steve a fag. well. it’s really not steve’s fault when he laughs, turns around and slowly picks everything up off of one of eddie’s friends lunch trays and meticulously moves it to the table, only to pick up the now empty tray and slam it across the guys face full force, now is it?

it’s not his fault when the entire cafeteria goes silent as the guy drops, holding his face. it’s not *his* fault when he throws the tray aside and laughs and makes some quip ab how the fag just knocked him the fuck out.

he does get suspended though, he was gonna get expelled but his parents had just donated an insane amount of money last spring so. he’s suspended for two weeks and kicked off the basketball team.

why eddie and his friends are now obsessed with him is beyond him. he knows exactly why tommy and everyone else hates him now but he has no idea why the freaks love him. he didn’t do anything for them. he took one bitch off the food chain and that’s it. but yk eddie keeps looking at him with those pretty little doe eyes and keeps inviting him to hang out and like. he may have some issues or whatever but he’s not an idiot, so he definitely doesn’t turn him down.

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steve and dallas trans masc besties i feel it in my bones

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i just think that trans ftm kaz brekker and gender nonconforming inej ghafa are cool and they consume my every waking thought

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Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

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SHINOKAIGAAA

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That meme but ShinoTamayo!!!!

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SHINOKAIGAAAA

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ShinoKaiga…my babies..

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SHINOKAIGA

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SHINOKAI!!!!