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Go ahead and cry, little boy
written for âFoolâ | wc: 454 | rated: T | cw: none, I don't think | Tags: T for slight swearing, pre-steddie, no upside down AU, mentions of children abandonment, recreational drug use, hurt/comfort wannabe.
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Eddie watches how Steve Harrington gets saddled with a child that isn't his.
The entire town knows what happened.
Steve Harrington dated Nancy Wheeler for a year, back in high school, until she made a fool out of him with Jonathan Byers.
And yet, here they were, seven years after the fact, with the eyes of the town on Wheeler dropping her firstborn onto her ex before fucking off to wherever she lived now.
So Eddie watched.
Harrington going to the store with the kid, buying groceries and looking like a fool while trying to buy baby shit he found on the aisle.
Harrington speaking with every mother in Hawkins, looking for advice from the fools who've done it before.
Harrington looking exhausted (and still as beautiful as ever), on his dead end job at family video, where he had raised into a management position.
Harrington on his door one afternoon, foolishly asking if he still sold drugs.
"I do. But don't you have a child now? Where are they?"
Harrington sighed, dragging a hand across his face.
"I asked Karen and the kids to babysit her, I- look, I'm tired. And I just wanted some weed, if you can't sell me that I'll just leave"
Eddie watched him while he spoke. Harrington DID look exhausted, like he'll kneel over the second he lets go, the second he leaves the tension drain of his body.
And Eddie wants to see that, he suddenly realizes, he wants to see Harrington at his most relaxed, without the stress he always seems to carry around, so he makes a choice.
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Eddie watches Harring- Steve (he'd asked Eddie to call him that) relax on his bed, all loose limbs and hazy eyes, looking the most calm and pretty Eddie has ever seen him.
"I don't think I'm ready for this. Aileen deserves better than a twenty-something fool taking care of her instead of her mom"
Eddie startles, they've been quiet this whole time, but Steve talks, undeterred, about his kid.
"But Nancy didn't want her, you know? So she called me, because she remembered some dumb shit I told her the last time we met and gave her to me."
Stevie is crying now, still beautiful, looking entirely like the fool he is while his haze is stuck on the ceiling and the words keep slipping out.
"And I wasn't ready, but I just couldn't leave her, I didn't want her to be like me"
Eddie reaches out, sweeping the tears out of Stevie's face.
"It was hard, wasn't it? It's okay sweetheart, I've got you"
Those big, beautiful sad eyes stare at him.
"You promise?"
"I promise"
Stevie is a fool, yet Eddie still finds him lovely.
#steddie#steddie microfic#steddiemicrofic#steddiemicroficapril#Steve Harrington#Eddie Munson#y'all if youre wondering where is Robin on all this#she's in college#and steve hasn't told her shit yet#eddie will probably make him tell her#eventually#Also no hate to Nancy#i just think that as a woman of the 80's-90's she wouldn't have the opportunity to abort#so she'd be forced to have it or lose it naturally#but she wouldn't want it (at least not yet) so her first thought would be steve#who REALLY wants kids#idk#just a thought#i actually pushed myself to do this thing entirely today#it was fun
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mombin pt 9!! it's been too long i'm sorry
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)
#stobin#stranger things#mombin#steve harrington#robin buckley#this is a panic attack i could see myself having no matter how badly i wanted kids#shit's terrifying#also i need to stop trying different brushes i hate it literally every time#also i'm in the 'fic writers stop demonising nancy' club#i Eat it when relationships end badly but let it be NOBODY'S fault#like think of the WORST breakup you had as a teenager. as a former 15 year old you're just so stupid and that's ok#sometimes 'i love you but we're absolutely not supposed to keep doing this' is MORE painful than one person being a raging bitch
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Grass is green, water is wet, and Jonathan Byers does not like Steve Harrington.
These are known facts in the universe.
Computers were going to take over the world, a âmobileâ phone was being invented, and Steve Harrington had lost most of his hearing.
These were unknown facts--rumors even, if you will. Eddie had never seen even a grain of truth to support any of them.Â
(Well, maybe the computer thing, but only because Grant and Dustin both had made a couple of convincing arguments.)Â
So he doesnât think about it, when his freshman gang up on him.Â
Doesnât even factor the âcanât hear wellâ thing in, when he was tasked (demanded, whined, bitched and moaned at) with helping them explain to Steve why going to the release party of the new D&D box set, located at a hobby store only a mere 2 hour drive away, was important.
Eddieâs not even sure how the little shits got him to agree to do it until heâs standing in the parking lot in front of the former King himself.Â
âThe storeâs leading up to the release with a handful of one-shots.â Heâs explaining, unsure whether to pull out the bored act or play up his court jester persona, and thus mixing and matching on the fly.Â
He does not care if Harrington doesnât know what a one-shot is.Â
âTheyâre releasing the set at midnight. You have to be there to get it though, you canât have someone else pick it up for you because they only got a certain amount in.âÂ
Harringtonâs frowning (no surprise) but itâs not until Eddie is well into his spiel about how his van is already full with the elder members of Hellfire, and thus has no room for the freshmen, that he realizes Steve isnât quite looking at him.Â
Is in fact, looking over his shoulder.
Eddie stops. Follows Harringtonâs gaze.
Parked across from Steveâs Beemer, is Jonathan Byerâs barely working clunker car.Â
A handful of steps in front of it, and thus nearly right behind Eddie, is the man himself.
His hands are still moving, mouth shaping words silent as he goes, his gaze locked not on Eddie or the kids--but on Steve.Â
Who turns back around as Harringtonâs eyes slide right back to him.Â
âAnd this is taking place next Friday?â He says, in that sort of annoyed but resigned way parents aim at their children. âAfter school?âÂ
âIâd like to go during school, but the freshmen insist you wouldnât let them ditch out.â Eddie tells him. âThey had two separate arguments about it.âÂ
Loud ones, that had interrupted the game and given Eddie a migraine.Â
Once again Steveâs eyes slide away from him, to Jonathan.Â
âTheyâre not skipping school.â He says suddenly, a glare forming and Jonathan makes an annoyed noise.Â
âThey argued about skipping, theyâre not going to.â He says aloud, and finally steps up so that heâs next to Eddie instead of behind him.Â
âMunson slow down, I canât sign as fast as youâre talking.â He adds, in the hang-dog grumble heâs notorious for.Â
Eddie stares at him.Â
âCan he seriously not hear me?âÂ
âNo.â Steve and Jonathan answer together.Â
âI can kind of still hear,â Steve adds, gaze returning to Eddieâs face. âBut its more loud music or noises. I can lip read, but youâre also talking too fast for that.âÂ
Without pausing, he turns back to Jonathan and says; âWhy canât you take them?â
âItâs Friday.â Byers deadpans.Â
Eddieâs not an expert on sign language, but his hands somehow looked deadpan too.Â
Heâs not sure how Jonathan did that.Â
âSo?â Steve snarks back.Â
What follows is an argument that Eddie is not, at all involved in, mostly because heâs too busy handling the fact that Jonathan Byers has learned sign language, for Steve Harrington, apparently, and given the tone the argument is taking they still donât even like each other. Â
Eventually the argument ends, Steve throwing his hands in the air and demanding that Jonathan owes him.Â
(Eventually Eddie will corner the ever so quiet Will Byers and ask why the hell his brother learned sign language for someone he clearly fucking hates.
âOh they donât hate each other.â Baby Byers would say, in that shy, quiet way of his. âI think theyâre actually friends now?âÂ
âYou think?â
âWell--youâve seen them.â Will shrugs. âI think being mean to each other is kinda their thing.âÂ
âWhat the hell.â Eddie would think, right up until he stumbled across one of the kids sign language books.Â
Byers the Elder, he decides, isnât the only person who should learn sign language to chew out Harrington properly.
The pay off is immediate.Â
Or at least, the pay off of watching Steveâs shocked face the first time Eddie signs something vulgar at him is, anyway.)
#you can read this as#stonathan#or as#steddie#or as all three idc LOL#steven harrington#eddie munson#jonathan byers#I am once again back on my shit of Jonathan and Steve having THEE most antagonistic friendship#just constantly slinging insults and being low key mean to each other#and then Jonathan just casually signing the same way the party does to help Steve out once his hearing really starts to go#very much#âYoure a fucking dick and I hate you but also youre family and includedâ#eddie is BAFFLED#but is equally quick to jump on that bandwagon#0o0 fanfics#if asked Jonathans excuse as to why he learned sign language is so he can make sure Steve is properly hearing him talk shit about him#very âhe needs to know hes wrongâ vibes#Nancy and robin sigh very dramatically about it#Steve can actually read jonathan's lips the easiest/clearest and refuses to tell anyone that#but Jonathan somehow knows anyway
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i need a fic or something where steve tells eddie "hey you were a dick in high school too. jumping on tables and screaming at people who just want to eat their lunch about their conformism to the man or whatever was annoying as fuck. also why did lucas have to choose between a sport and your nerd game that's normal. people are multidimensional. I'm not alone in this, who wasn't a total dick at 16. where is your redemption arc mister."
#im going off my first impressions of eddie when he showed up in season 4#i hated him instantly asjhdfjhdsfg WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING AT PEOPLE#also let lucas play!!!!!! dick!!!!!!!#i feel in love after like episode 3 i think lmao#steve harrington#eddie munson#steddie#stranger things#i feel like people forget steve's ''redemtion'' goes more towards nancy who he was very much an asshole to in season 1
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the way that people disregard nancyâs grief in fic is my biggest pet peeve- like she didnât break up with steve because she wanted to be with jonathan :) she broke up with him bc she was overwhelmed with grief from the death of her closest friend and couldnât stand the fact that barbâs family were still wondering what happened to her - even going so far as to sell there house to pay murray to look into barbâs disappearance- Nancy broke up with Steve because he wanted to bury the trauma they had experienced and pretend to be normal teenagers. Nancy wasnât saying that Steveâs love for her was bullshit. She was saying- look at us. Look at everything weâve been through. Pretending like none of that happened, burying the grief I feel, that is bullshit.- She didnât go looking for Murray with Jonathan because she had feelings for him and wanted to leave Steve for him. Jonathan, he validated her feelings and was willing to go against the NDA to give Barb justice and give Barbâs family peace. (Or as much peace that can come from at least knowing that they donât have to wonder where their daughter is any longer- to know that in the least she is no longer suffering.) That was what was most important to Nancy. And being validated in those feelings and seeing that Jonathan could truly empathize with her grief after believing he had lost his brother and that he would be there for her and support her in doing what she believed to be the most important thing she could do- that inspired romantic feelings and led them to get together.
Some of yâall write her like sheâs this heartless one dimensional person who just left Steve in the dust because she wanted another guy and that is a huge disservice to her character.
#rant post#nancy wheeler#steve harrington#jonathan byers#stranger things#not to mention#itâs a disservice to steveâs character to believe that he is incapable of seeing nancy as anything more than the girl who broke his heart#do you really think so lowly of him that you believe he hasnât grown? that in retrospect he canât see nancyâs actions for what they were?#(and then there are some of you who just hate girls and women even if you arenât fully aware of it and will always make them the villain)#target audience>#steddie#ronance#this is not a steve harrington hate post#he was also a teenager who was dealing with trauma in his own way
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Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
#I don't hate this as much as I did yesterday so it gets released from post jail#also no one pay attention to will convulsing this ain't about him#jancy#jonathan byers#nancy wheeler#stranger things#nancy x jonathan#jonathan x nancy#st edit#st gifs#my edit#my gifs
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unfortunately, I cannot get behind the psycho Bartylus train. At least, most of the time. But! I see them very much as high school romance/sweethearts. Just the classic runaway love story. To me, they are the few sweeter ships.
However, I always saw Bartylus as the long-term, high school forbidden romance that ends with them running away and living out their happy life far away from shitty parents. They are each other's fairytale prince and princess!
They are the more realistic. Like any long-term relationship in high school, you can easily point out in the halls or in your friend group. There aren't any complex feelings of loyalty and devotion that borders on unhealthy (maybe a bit but never too much). If anything, their relationship is the most normal thing about them.
People tend to forget that Regulus is this wealthy, posh, basically royalty heir with the most insane imagination when he's studying in the library with Barty who is commonly viewed as the next leader of the Wizarding world, one of the smartest students of his age, and also a huge fucking pretentious dick that scares the first years. Their characters are strange to other people but it's quickly forgotten when they see Barty and Regulus at Madam Puddifoots' sitting across from each other, kissing and holding hands, and drinking tea from each other's cups.
I think it's also what makes them more tragic in a canon-compliant universe. They were just teenagers in love.
I also don't see them being this interested in these [insert disturbing thing] as a metaphor for their love because they are each other's comfort space, where there isn't anything complex, just simple, soft love like the ones you see in movies or read in books.
Bartylus takes the most vulnerable parts of Barty and Regulus and runs with it honestly.
#no one hate me pls i just like it when bartylus is this sweeter ship compared to something like jegulus#i think its very funny considering how bartylus is majorly protrayed lol#WE DO NOT NEED TO APPEAL TO THE MASSES WITH DARK BARTYLUS LET THEM BE SWEET LIKE EVERY OTHER SHIP PLEASE#when i think of bartylus i also think of nancy mulligan so that might give you an image of what they are like#regulus black#regulus arcturus black#marauders era#bartemius crouch junior#barty crouch jr#bartylus#regulus x barty
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Nancy Wheeler: certified badass
#my gifs#theres like 9 other gifs i coulda made for this#i made this one first and then i hated it and i made it all pink and then i hated that one more so im posting the og#also plz look at dustins face when she takes the phone its killing me#stladies#stranger things#strangerthingsedit#nancy wheeler#nancywheeleredit#natalia dyer#dailywomen#tvedit#i cannot believe some people dont like her character#ive met so many people that hate her like HOW#1k
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So we saw Tammy Thompson sing the national anthem in the first episode of s4...
Which prompted Robin and Steve to give each other looks because they remembered Robin's coming out moment in the bathroom, where they made fun of Tammy's singing...
Vickie overheard them joking, and Robin took the opportunity to talk to her, saying that she "used to think that Tammy sounded good because I had this massive crushâum, we took a massively hard class together. We were in Mrs. Click's class together," reminding the audience of Robin's explanation that, in the class, she wanted Tammy to look at her, while Tammy only looked at Steve.
So episodes later, in the boat out on Lovers Lake, where Robin looked at Nancy looking at Steve? Yeah. This was a direct callback.
And it's interesting that even though Robin's crush was specifically mentioned when talking to Vickie, it's this scene with Nancy that we see what Robin referenced in action.
But the question is: why do any of this?
Even though Robin said Vickie is the girl of her dreams, we saw Vickie for approximately 3 min of s4, and it's within the last 20 min of the final episode that they had their first actual on-screen conversation. Meanwhile, Robin had been glued to Nancy's side all season. The writers are smart, they could've inserted Vickie into the main group at any point, to give her and Robin a chance to bond, and to develop their relationship. It's been done before with other characters. If anything, it seems like the last thing the writers would want is to give clear preferential treatment to Robin's dynamic with a character who's (supposedly) not meant to be a love interest for her (especially in the season where the actual love interest is first introduced, and the audience has been mentally prepped for Robin to have romantic interactions). I'm not saying Robin can't have platonic female friends, I'm just pointing out interesting writing choices, and the usage of show vs tell.
#the writers wanted us to root for jancy in s1 so they paired up nancy and jon all season.#they didn't pair nancy with another guy and then say âoh she's actually into jonathan!â they built a dynamic people enjoyed watching#also. let the record show that if robin was a guy then everybody would be shipping her with nancy and not just calling them platonic.#this isn't even hate towards robvick i just want answers and for robin to have a quality love story#genuinely i'd be fine with seeing robin and nancy as platonic if they like... acted platonically. but then you have moments like this#that make me question everything#i suppose the show is having robin get with vickie tho so rip ronance#i do feel a little better about vickie's presence in s5. maybe this is misplaced confidence but i feel like her story with robinâ#will at least be cute and get more people on the ship train#maybe ronance will do an elmax where s4 is the most interaction they'll have and their dynamic will completely drop off in s5 until#a pivotal moment happens between them that reaffirms their connection#wow i just remembered el brought max back to life. elmaxers ATE#robin buckley#nancy wheeler#steve harrington#stranger things#ronance#stranger things 4
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The One With the Second Date
âOk, Iâm not sure what I was expecting to happen in the end,â Ryan explains as they leave the theater, âbut it wasnât that.â
Nancy laughs. âIt was a stereotypical romcom, they were always going to end up together in the end.â
Ryan and Nancy walk down the sidewalk. Ryanâs hands shoved into his jacket pockets while Nancyâs are at her sides.
âI just think that she was much better with the other guy. They had way more chemistry.â
Nancy nods with another laugh.
They come to a stop outside of a parking garage. Ryan turns toward her. âMy carâs in there,â he points awkwardly to the garage.
âMy bus stop is right over there,â Nancy points across the street.
Ryan lets out a nervous huff. âYou know, we didnât really get to talk much tonight. With seeing a movie and everything. My parkingâs for the whole night. And thereâs this nice ice cream place around the corner that we could go to. If you wanted to.â
Nancy smiles. âSure.â
âSure?â Ryan looks generally surprised. âSure, yeah ok. Itâs this way.â
He leads them across the street and down one block. Turning at the corner and halfway down, there is a small ice cream shop. They walk in, a family and one other couple at the tables. But otherwise, itâs empty. Nancy looks at the options, debating which to choose. While Ryan immediately knows what he wants and asks the employee. One scoop of vanilla and one cookies and cream. Making sure to note that they needed to be rung up together but were in no rush.
When Nancy chooses the honey vanilla flavor, Ryan beats her to register to pay.
âYou know I can pay for us at least once,â Nancy jokes. She instead pulls out a few dollars and slides them into the tip jar.
Ryan laughs. Taking back his change and dumping it into the jar as well. âIt was my idea, so itâs my money.â
Nancy walks over to the table in the corner. âSo, I need to plan the next date and then I get to pay?â
âYeah,â Ryan stutters. Thereâs been a nervous energy with him all night. âThat would work.â
âI promise I donât mean anything by this question, Iâm just generally interested. Why are you so nervous? Weâve already been on one date.â
Ryan sets down his ice cream, rubbing his palms on his pants. âIâve been on what seems like hundreds of first dates. Itâs down to a routine at this point. But as far as second dates go, thereâs only been a few. And most of those times, it never went anywhere else, and I was back on the app the next morning.â
Nancy nods, showing that sheâs listening.
âI get thatâs just how dating can be, sometimes. Especially through dating apps. But I just want something that lasts more than a week or two, you know?â
âI do.â Nancy stares down at her ice cream. âI kind of gave up dating for a while for the same reason. It was just horrible date after horrible date. So I gave up.â
âWhat made you try again?â
Nancy sighs. Debating how much she should tell. âMy best friend, who also lives across the hall from me, got a new girlfriend.â
âOh,â he says. With a mix of shock and concern.
âThereâs nothing there, I promise. Back when we were in college, there was a phase where we both liked each other but didnât know. Part of me kind of always harbored those feelings for her, but it was time to finally let them go. Whatever we could have had was over, it was time to recognize that.â
âAnd you though going on a dating app would help with that?â
Nancy lets her hands fall into her hands. âThat makes me sound like an asshole. I swear that I didnât agree to go on a date with you just to get over my stupid feelings. They played no part in deciding to go on a date with you.â
Ryan reaches across the table and gently pushes Nancyâs hands out of the way. âI believe you, for what itâs worth. Weâve all been there at some point.â
âThat makes me feel a little better.â
âI appreciate you being honest with me. I,â he pauses. Taking a deep breath. âI really like you, Nancy. Youâre probably the best person Iâve met on one of these apps.â
Nancy smiles. âSame here.â
They fall into a comfortable silence. Finishing their ice cream and heading outside again. When Ryan goes to shove his hands into his pockets again, Nancy stops him. Taking his hand into hers. They walk back to the street where they would need to part ways. Nancy waiting for the bus and Ryan crossing the street to his car.
âWould it be ok if I drove you home?â he asks. âItâs dark and way better than a bus.â
âYeah, that would be ok.â
She follows him to his car and directs them to her apartment building. He finds a spot down the street and parks. Planning on walking her to her door. With full explanation that she can tell him no.
Instead, she rolls her eyes and gets out of the car. Waiting for him to get out. He does, stumbling over his step a bit.
âSo, for our next date,â Nancy talks as they walk up the stairs. âI was thinking that we could to this Mexican place I love.â
âYeah, that sounds great.â
âAnd itâs my idea so my money, right?â She stops in front of her door. Facing him.
He laughs. âThat was the deal.â
Inside of Steve and Robinâs apartment, Robin is staring through the peephole. Having heard Nancy come back and got curious. Thatâs all, curious.
âWhat the hell are you doing?â Steve asks. Looking unenthused.
Robin shushes him. âNancy is back from her date. Sheâs talking with the guy outside the door.â
âLet me see.â Steve pushes Robin out of the way, looking through the peephole. âOh, heâs cuter in person.â
Robin slaps his arm. âDonât encourage this.â
âHow am I encouraging this? Iâm behind a door, she canât hear me. Also, itâs too late for that. I was there for the pre-date crisis.â
âAnd she still went out on the date?â
Steve shrugs. âYeah well, she seemed to really like the guy. Argyle even did his weird stalking thing he does and found nothing bad. He checked out.â
Robin pushes Steve out of the way again, looking through the peephole once more. âOh no, sheâs doing that face. You know that face.â
âI am well aware of the face.â Steve leans up against the wall next to the door. âWhy is this bothering you so much? Sheâs allowed to date if she wants to.â
âI donât know,â Robin groans. Letting her forehead thunk against the door. âShe just deserves so much, and sheâs been on so many dates and none of them have been good. Iâm just . . . Â looking out for her. Thatâs all.â
Steve hums, disbelieving. Pulling out his phone.
Steve: I think Robin is jealous of Nancyâs new guy
Eddie: Oh wow, what a shocker
Eddie: Do you not remember the two-hour long pity session she conveniently had after Nancy had the first date
Steve: Theyâre out in the hall right now, Robin canât stop looking at them through the peephole
Eddie: Canât she just pretend to take out the trash like a normal person
Steve: Are you going to go do that now?
Eddie: Yes
Eddie: I need to see this guy in person
Back in the hall, while all of that was ensuing, Nancy and Ryan were saying goodbye. Not exactly making any moves toward it. Until Eddie opens the door, with a half full bag of trash in hand, interrupts it.
âOh, hey, Nance. I didnât hear you get back,â he says, nonchalant. Looking over at Ryan with fake shock. âSorry, didnât mean to interrupt.â
Nancy sighs, catching onto Eddieâs play. âRyan, this is my roommate Eddie.â
Ryan holds out his hand. âNice to meet you, man. Nancyâs told me about you.â
âSame here.â Eddie shakes his hands. âIâm just gonna, thank you.â He steps in between them to head down the hall to the trash shoot. Leaving them alone again.
âI should get going,â Ryan says, pushing his hands into his pockets again. âIt was really nice to see you again.â
Nancy smiles. âYeah, it was. Iâll text you later when Iâm free.â
âIâll be looking for it.â
There is a break of silence. Expectation in the air. Ryan shrugs in the direction of the stairs. âIâll see you later.â
âOh my god.â Nancy stops his from walking away. Grabbing his face and pulling him down. Pressing a kiss to his lips. Heâs shocked for a second, before pressing into it. âHave a good night,â she says after pulling back.
Ryan steps backward, a blush covering his face. âYeah, uh, yeah. You too. Iâll text you later. Yeah. Bye.â
He turns to walk down the hall while Nancy snorts to herself. Eddie comes back around the corner with a teasing smile.
âDonât even start, Munson.â Nancy walks into the apartment.
âOh, I wasnât going to say anything.â He closes the door behind them. âI was just merely observing.â
Nancy glares at him while taking off her earring. âObserving?â
âHe seems nice,â Eddie teasing tone.
âHe is nice.â
âIs he a good kisser?â
âThere it is.â Nancy walks to her bedroom. âNight.â
Eddie leans on the back of the couch. âNo, I wanted to do the after-date gossip.â
âMaybe tomorrow.â She closes the bedroom door.
Eddie sighs, pulling out his phone to see many new texts from Steve.
Steve: Holy shit, she kissed him
Steve: Robin is not taking that well
Steve: Sheâs trying to play off her jealousy as protectiveness
Steve: Maybe we should warn Nancy about the tirade sheâs going to get tomorrow about the dangers of kissing random men
Eddie: I donât know, the guy was pretty respectful about it
Eddie: He was smiling like an idiot when I passed him in the hall
Eddie: And Nancy seems happy about it
Steve: This is going to be both entertaining and a pain in the ass
Eddie: Agreed
Eddie: I take it Robin isnât going out tonight then
Steve: Sadly not
Steve: There goes our plans
Eddie: Damn, I kind of really want to kiss you right now
Steve: You know
Steve: No one is ever in the laundry room this late
Eddie: I could do some laundry
Steve: Meet you there in twenty
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#morgan's friends au#oh ronance#when are you going to get your shit together#(don't hate me it's going to take a while)#also ryan is generic man#i did not feel like describing him#stranger things#stranger things au#stranger things fanfic#modern au#friends au#nancy wheeler#steve harrington#robin buckley#eddie munson#original male character#pre ronance#steddie#but it's complicated
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If I Should Stay
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After pizzaâand after El wakes up and eats her own pizzaâeveryone gathers around again to listen to Steve and Robin. âSo I think by now weâve proven weâre from the future,â Steve says. âWeâre here, four years in the past, because a lot of bad things happen, and if we can, weâd like to stop those things from happening. The big one, and really the recurring problem, is a guy named Henry Creel who essentially took control of an alternate plane of existence we call the Upside Down.â He motions El over beside him, and she goes gladly, tucking her feet up onto the couch as she leans into his side, trusting him to hold her up. He does, sliding a protective arm around her shoulders as he says, âHeâs also One.â
He watches as one by one the lightbulbs come on. âOh, shit,â Dustin whispers, and Steve doesnât even call him on it, just nods.
âBeyond Henry, though, there are creatures in the Upside Down that can and will kill you.â He rolls his eyes fondly at the boys. âFor some inexplicable reason, you came up the names, so theyâre called demogorgons, demodogs, and demobats. Demogorgons are what took Barb and Will, but they both got away. That doesnât mean theyâre safe, though. Like El said earlier, Barb was safe in the moment, but itâs still a very dangerous place. There are vines everywhere that are connected to a hive mind. You step on one, and Henry knows youâre there.â
He continues telling the story, Robin interrupting when thereâs a detail he misses. Itâs silent when they finish. Finally, El speaks up. âSo, it is⌠my fault?â
âNo, El,â Steve says softly. âNone of this is your fault. Things out of your control happened that made you who you are. Those same things created all of this.â
El frowns. âSo I am bad? Like One? Like the Upside Down?â
âNo,â Mike says sharply. âYouâre good, El.â
âHeâs right,â Steve murmurs. âYou made yourself good.â He pokes her arm teasingly, and she smiles, leaning back into him.
Steve looks around, catches Nancyâs eye, and sighs. âNance? A word?â
âSteve?â Robin asks.
He shakes his head. âIâll yell if I need you,â he promises, rubbing her head as he passes. She squawks and bats his hand away.
âAsshole,â she mutters, and he laughs as he disappears down the hallway, Nancy in tow.
They end up in a room Steve thinks was meant to be a study. âYou have questions.â
âUnderstatement of the century. Thereâs just one thatâs really bugging me, though.â
âUs?â
âYeah.â
Steve sighs and leans against the wall. âOn Halloween, Tina throws a party. We didnât know what we do now, about the Upside Down, and you were still looking for her. I was an asshole, self-centered and unhelpful.â He blows out a breath, crosses his arms, and looks away. âYou got drunk, called me, and my love for you, bullshit. Left. I tried to talk to you the next day at school about it and you couldnât say you loved me. I was still hopeful. Iâm a romantic at heart, yâknow? I thought maybe if I could be everything you needed, if I changed enough, if, if, ifâŚâ he shakes his head. âSo we stayed together. I tried. You slept with Jonathan Byers, then broke up with me.â
Nancy looks horrified. âSteve-â
He shakes his head. âI made my peace with it. And maybe this makes me an asshole, I dunno, but Nance, I canât go back. Weâre okay, weâre friends, but I canât pretend I still have feelings for you. Iâm sorry, but we both know I was just convenient for you.â
Nancy takes a breath. âSo thatâs it?â
Steve shrugs helplessly. âI donât know what you want me to do. I tried and got my heart broken for it. I moved on, found someone I think I can really be happy with, without changing who I am. And for the record? It gets rocky for a second, but I think you and Byers are it, too.â He smirks. âPlus Mike likes him better than me.â
Nancy rolls her eyes. âOh, well, if Mike likes him betterâŚâ they both laugh, and she looks at him. âNo more feelings?â
He shakes his head. âWe make much better friends.â
Nancy grins lopsidedly. âAnd Robin?â
Steve snorts. âPurely platonic, I promise. Neither of us want anything else with each other.â
Nancy looks at him then. Studies him. âYouâve been through some shit,â she decides. âBut you look happy.â
He smiles. âI am, for the most part. I know who I am.â
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#stranger things#if I should stay#steve harrington#eddie munson#eventual steddie#nancy wheeler#past stancy#robin buckley#platonic stobin#eleven#Steve and eleven#yallll this one. this one was hard to write#please believe me Steve does NOT hate Nancy#heâs not even really upset anymore#but heâs GROWN and MATURED and knows he canât do it anymore#heâs making such a mature decision!!!!#also no Nancy is not okay but sheâll deal in her own way#Steve knowing who he is can be something so personal TO ME-#like listen. he didnât know who he was for a LONG time#which means he let himself be whoever anyone else needed#which is NOT healthy#heâs doing SO MUCH BETTER now#I love him#starambles
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rip nancy wheeler you wouldâve hated âgood luck, babeâ by chappell roan
rip robin buckley you wouldâve loved it
#my first st/ronance post in a month we donât talk about that#ronance#nancy wheeler#robin buckley#stranger things#also iâm saying nancy would hate it bc it would call her out
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Todays WIP that will go nowhere--Â Eddie realizing Steve is a good person not through the Party, or anything that happens in S4, but by witnessing his weird ass interactions with Jonathan Byers.
The guy publicly decked him, "stole" (Eddie does not believe one can "steal" a person outside of kidnapping but that's how the rumor mill is phrasing it) Steve's girlfriend, and if Carol Perkins is to be believed, took creep-shot photos of him having sex and yet:
Eddie has now repeatedly witnessed the two of them not just making nice with each other, but outright beelining for each other.
Taking in harsh whispers, going places together, cars following each other, and half the time there's a bunch of kids with them instead of Nancy.
Jonathan is notorious for being a loner even by Eddie's standards and yet he reacts to Steve the same way one reacts to a trustworthy member of the family--with relief.
They're not even that nice with each other--Eddie's heard them trade insults.
(The whole school and likely half of Hawkins has heard them trade insults.)
Eddie's been involved in the wrong crowd long enough to recognize when two people have a sort of unshakable trust with each other, that "I hate you but I have your back" partner in crime vibe that his father always exploited, but with Steve and Jonathan it's real.
And that is what constantly makes Eddie look different at Steve.
Not the kids, though he gives Dustin all the shit he can over his giant case of "Harrington Worship", but because he keeps thinking Steve is going to be shitty, has always assumed Steve was being shitty, and now that Steve has actually caught Eddie's eye its impossible to miss that he isn't/
#I love giving Steve and Jonathan a sort of#not exactly love/hate#but more like that family member you fight with constantly#but who will show up to help if you call them#like you go oh god theyre gonna be at the family event noooo#but in an emergency they're trustworthy and reliable#i also like to think nancy steve and jonathan started carrying around shit foreach other#like pain meds and weapons and shit in their cars#after s2#because thats also hilarious#âWhy do you have muscle relaxers?â#âOh theyre for Jonathanâ#âYou hate Jonathan.â#âYeah? And?â
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The way fans on the st sub are almost all in agreement Nancy ending up with neither Jon nor Steve wouldnât be the worst thing in the world, and how they can even come up with a sleuth of reasons as to why, honestly pretty valid and fair reasons, but then are absolutely gobsmacked when fans merely speculate something along those lines for El is, quite something.
#el hopper#byler#platonic elmike#stranger things#this is coming from someone who ADORED mileven in s1-2#I literally skipped all of s2 in my rewatch before s3 aired bc I just wanted to see their reunion#then s3 happened#and I was confused at#A LOT of ppl are#and anyone coming to voice that confusion is ran off Reddit like theyâre committing a crime#like would it hurt yâall to have some of the same common sense you have for el like you do with Nancy#??#I am more jancy leaning but also I just feel like itâs certain stancy ainât happening#but Iâm also not totally against Nancy wanting to be on her own for a while#maybe theyâd imply jancy Will find their way back to each other#maybe theyâre teamed up in s5 and wait until the very end to cement that certainty for each other#but I would not hate their stories if Nancy and Jon decided to live their own lives#FOR THEMSELVES#Nancy doing what she wants and loves#Jonathan doing what he wants instead of just doing stuff that helps people around him#and Iâm not going to even get into the reasons why el and mike would benefit from living for themselves outside of their relationship#the attachment to the ship is stronger than any sort of attachment to the character#and when the things keeping them together are not strong to begin withâŚ#that attachment is doomed and hard to watch and enjoy like idgi at all#also; all the pro-ronance comments on there getting like 30+ likes??#go ronance I guess??!??#idk if itâs because they think byler actually has a serious possibility while ronance has less build up#so they can sort of play with that idea without actually having to take it seriouslyâŚ#at least ronance has a positive audience on there#a win is a win I guess đđŤĄ
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Owen Strand they can never make me hate you.
#owen strand#owen strand x reader#911 lone star#rob lowe#tk strand#carlos reyes#911 show#marjan marwani#paul strickland#judd ryder#nancy gillian#mateo chavez#tommy vega#also the only person I see when I look at him is Sodapop Curtis so that might also be a reason why I canât hate him
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wildflower by billie eilish except itâs post s3/4 billy feeling guilty and undeserving of steve, and almost bad for nancy? a weird sense of guilt because when he first moved to hawkins he would watch them when he thought no one was looking, lonely and yearning. wanted steve to touch him like that, treat him like that, love him like he loved her. but anytime he was caught, he panicked and spewed hate. anger was safe, anger protected him. a gay teen from california in hawkins? he didnât have anything else to resort to. but now heâs too tired to be angry at the world and too in love with steve to ever feel how he did before nearly dying. but he never quite made amends with nancy. nancy, who he wonders if steve is thinking about every time he kisses billy. who heâs been too afraid to approach and talk to. who he feels hates him, and knows he doesnât deserve steve. he knows she broke his heart, but he also knows steve pictured a life, a family with this woman. he doesnât know if he can give steve that. billy wonders if he thinks about nancy more than steve does, too scared to ask. scared all his crazy thoughts will be confirmed. he knows sheâs with jonathan, but he also knows that she was his first true love. sheâs with jonathan, but he swears he feels her eyes on them whenever steve hugs, touches, kisses him. swears sheâs giving them the same almost sad, wanting look he had to fight when he used to look at them.
#harringrove#billy hargrove#steve harrington#heyyy draft i wrote and forgot about like a week ago#idk man#i wish i was better at translating my thoughts into words#i just be closing my eyes and visualizing shit and feeling it to my core#but anyways the image and idea of billy yearning for steve the second he rolled into hawkins#laid eyes on him and nancy in the parking lot and knew he was fucked#he was envious of nancy and hated her at the same time and everyone thought he was taunting them to get close to nancy to piss steve off#when in reality he just wanted steve and the more he learned about steve the more he wanted#couldnât understand why she would leave steve the same way he couldnât understand why steve would choose him years later#but now that he has steve he still feels like heâs doing something wrong#like he broke girl code or something#steveâs love is billyâs drug tho#i also feel like last season teased a little bit of stancy and like their nostalgia?? esp with jonathan moving
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