#He goes to Eddie's trailer and when he opens the door Steve randomly kisses him and leaves

[artiststarme]

All dead, all dead

Well, I had a rough day so I'm taking it out on Steve again. My apologies. I decided to title it after my favorite Queen song because I think it’s fitting. I hope you like it and please leave your thoughts in the comments!

I should warn you before reading it, you might need some tissues.

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They’d lost. Steve stood in shock with Nancy and Robin as the clock chimed for the fourth time and knew deep in his heart that Max was gone. They felt the heat in the Upside Down as the world started to tear apart and could do nothing but run to the nearest gate, which happened to be the road where Fred died, and bust through as the portal continued to burn. 

“We have to get to the trailer park to pick up Dustin and Eddie,” Nancy said resolutely, the first thing anyone had said since hearing the damning chime. 

Oh fuck, Dustin! Steve immediately took off in a sprint. How could he forget his favorite kid, his little brother, his best friend besides Robin? He’d been so in shock about the probability of losing Max that he’d neglected to think about Dustin and Eddie in the trailer. Hopefully, they’d done their job well and were able to climb through the gate before it expanded, catching everything on fire in its way. Steve could see the split of the earth racing alongside him like a cut that wouldn’t stop bleeding. 

He didn’t let that stop him though, he kept running until he couldn’t any more. He body slammed the door of Eddie’s trailer while screaming for them to open it. “Dustin! Munson! Open the door, it's Steve! We have to go! Guys!”

When his shoulder caught the door just the right way and opened, he didn’t see Dustin or Eddie. They weren’t in the trailer which meant they were still stuck in the Upside Down. 

“Dustin! No, man, this wasn’t the goddamn plan! Dustin!” He screamed, trying to find a way to get back through the gate. The sheet was torn in half and the small kitchen table had a broken leg. “Fuck!”

“Steve?” He nearly gave himself whiplash with how quickly he cranked his head to look at the ceiling. 

“Dustin! Where’s Eddie? We gotta go, this place is about to go up in fucking flames.” 

“He didn’t make it. I tried to bring him home but I’m not strong enough, Steve.” Tears continued to drip from his reddened eyes. Steve was sympathetic, of course he was, he liked the dude. But they had to fucking move, now. 

“Henderson, I’m sorry but we can’t worry about that right now. The gates are spreading, you have to get out now. Stand on Eddie’s table and jump, I’ll catch you,” Steve promised him. 

Still crying silently, Dustin moved to fulfill Steve’s instructions. He dragged the Upside Down table to right underneath the gate and moved carefully to stand on top of it, favoring one leg significantly. Steve could see the flames of the expanding gates shining, moving ever closer, through the windows of the Rightside Up and Upside Down trailers. 

“It’s now or never man, let’s go. Jump Dustin!” The flames from the split earth were nearly on top of them now but he had to get out.

“But-” Dustin started but Steve cut him off.

“No Dustin, jump!”

Dustin didn’t question him again and he jumped through the gate. What neither one of them realized though was how close the blaze was. As Dustin jumped halfway through the gate, the entire ceiling of the trailer burst into flames in a ball of fiery fury. Steve was sent sprawling to the ground with the force of the quake. When he looked up to the ceiling where the chasm was growing rapidly, he saw the gate turn into fire and engulf Dustin. His face contorted in pain and he screamed a wail of anguish before he was ripped in half and eaten by fire. 

No. No, Dustin. Steve screamed as he saw what used to be Dustin turn into a cremated shell of soot. He screamed as he lost his little brother to the world that took away their childhoods and shattered their illusion of safety all those years ago. He screamed in grief as he realized it was his fault and if he’d moved just a little bit faster, maybe Dustin would still be alive and in his arms right this second. 

He had screamed his throat raw by the time the girls had caught up to him. They were both panting and Nancy pulled him out of the burning trailer in an act of desperate strength. He would never forgive her for making him live after seeing his brother burn. 

Her and Robin held him down just a few feet from what used to be Eddie’s home. He kept struggling to get back inside but they wouldn’t let him, pinning his limbs and whispering muttered reassurances that would never mean shit. 

The other residents of the trailer park ambled their ways outside, peering at the reddening sky and watching fractures open up throughout the park and town. Some of them looked at Steve in pity, watching as he grieved the one person that had believed in him from day one, the kid that gave him a family when he didn’t have one, and stuck by him even though Steve knew he was difficult to love. He wouldn’t recover from this, he couldn’t.

Steve’s grief overtook him and the raw pain that he was experiencing was enough for even the universe to have mercy on him. 

His mental break was strong enough to fracture time itself. Time rewinds and unravels.  The world goes black and when his eyes reopen, Steve is laying in his bed, all alone in his big house again. He goes back to a day when he still had a little brother, Max was still a bitchy little kid, and Eddie Munson had no knowledge of what the Upside Down was. And Steve makes a vow that he will not be going through that pain ever again. He was going to save them all.

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[nburkhardt]

There’s an idea swirling in my head and it’s not making any sense. So we’re gonna ramble out whatever is in my head.

Steve knows the chaos it’ll start and he’s a little shit.

So, he pulls the shirt on and goes on his way. Ignores the stares and whispers. Goes about his day like normal, pulls on the Family Video vest and works. Helps customers, nods his head when he gets a question, sometimes lies and says it’s the only clean one.

“Know what it’s like? Just don’t have the time” he lies through his teeth and continues on to do his actual job.

Doesn’t have to see Robin to know she’s also staring at him and he shrugs when a question is thrown at him, “Birdie, how’s the weather today?”

Like he said, he’s a little shit.

Robin questions it throughout the day, throws it out randomly. Completely corners him at one point, “Dingus, what the hell?”

He smiles at her and it brings him joy when she glares.

The minute the clock switches to five thirty, he gives Robin a salute, kiss on the cheek and a shit-eating grin over his shoulder before leaving the store. He hears her shout, “You little shit!” And it makes his grin grow.

At the Wheeler household, all the kids are shocked. He’s leaning against the car waiting for them. His arms crossed and hiding half the shirt. Dustin’s the only one voicing out the confusion and shock, “dude, what’s with the shirt?”

Much like earlier he shrugs, gives the lamest excuse of “laundry day, sorry”

And it’s easy to thrown them off with a, “first one in gets radio privilege!”

All of them shout and book it to make it in first. He laughs as Lucas lets out a shout as Max’s pushes him. Climbing inside, he watches as Dustin elbows Mike, while Will and El watches. As he starts the car, his passager door is pulled open and in dives Max.

The drive to Eddie’s is filled with Kate Bush and grumbles from Dustin and Mike.

Oh, and questions about his shirt. Ignores it by turning the music up and smiles as Max and El sing along.

“Eddie’s gonna ask” Dustin announces as they pull up next to Eddie’s van, “he’ll bug you enough to talk”

He shrugs and smirks, turning around to look at him, “I ignored that all day, I think I can manage”

Dustin groans, glares and gets out.

The whole group is out of the car, at the door and as he gets out Eddie opens the door, “Ah! That time already?”

“You set the time, dumbass” Max points out, and pushes past him. Everyone else follows, only Dustin and himself left standing outside now. Eddie’s standing with them and he pulls down Dustin’s head before looking at him.

A grin slowly makes its way on Eddie’s face and leans forward, “ah, so that’s where the shirt went”

Steve grins at him, pushing Dustin out of the way and pulling Eddie close. “You left it, I found it. Finders keepers, baby”

Expecting shouts and yells, he’s surprised by the near silence in the trailer. Eddie’s laughing and he spins around to see the shocked faces. This is gonna be one of his favorite days, he thinks.

There’s a groan, a laugh and sigh coming from next to the kids. He finds Gareth, Jeff and Frankie sitting down and he grins at them. Getting the same response, while Eddie shakes his head with a “Now boys be nice, Honey runs things you know this”

They all roll their eyes as the kids figure out their voices again and immediately demanding what the hell is going on.

“Bambi left his shirt at my house, I found it. Decided to wear it and here we are”

Steve slips his shoes off, makes his way to the kitchen and grabs a beer before falling onto the couch next to Gareth, Eddie follows and immediately drops down onto his lap.

The kids all staring and Jeff laughing.

“It’s comfortable, right?”

He shrugs and puts his arm around Eddie, “eh, a bit tight on my shoulders. But sure, it’s comfortable, Love”

The kids are still staring at them, Eddie’s laughing and he’s just enjoying the fun. This is definitely a good day for him.

If all it took was wearing a homemade t-shirt with a devil face, he’d have done this sooner.

Plus being able to press a kiss to his boyfriend’s cheek and call him all the names, is a sweet bonus.

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Pls don’t ask me what this is, idk. Really I’ve had ideas of Steve wearing Eddie’s hellfire shirt in my head for two days now. Mostly because I bought a hellfire shirt from Walmart hahaha, I’m a dummy that held herself back from buying one sooner.

This wrote itself. I just kinda kept going and tbh it probably has typos and weird punctuation. But it’s fineee it’s just silly. Under the cut is my permanent tag list and a pic of myself wearing the dumb shirt a got ✌️

You get a bit of face reveal lol. it’s not the exact hellfire shirt but I love it 😌

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[suspiciouslackofclowns]

Some silly Eddie headcanons while I’m fighting sleep:

He paints his nails dark colors, normally black, and even sometimes deep blues or reds. His toenails are also always painted, but no one knows that because he never really takes his shoes/socks off around anyone other than his partner(s). He always paints them bright pink because that’s secretly one of his favorite colors. No one knows that about him either.

Ever since he was younger, he and Wayne have had this tradition of swinging by the nearest restaurant, usually Benny’s Burgers, to get a milkshake after Eddie got out of school. This continued all the way up until Eddie started driving himself, even if his grades weren’t always the best.

He’s allergic to cats, but he never tells anyone because “allergies aren’t very metal” and suffers in silence apart from the sneezing and sniffling when he visits Dustin’s house because Tews is too cute not to pet.

Eddie has a massive fear of bugs. He hears a cricket chirping in the trailer? He’s sleeping in the van tonight. There’s a spider in the corner of his bedroom? Sleeping in the van tonight. Cockroach ran across the carpet? Fuck it, he’s moving out.

Footloose is one of his comfort movies and he’ll absolutely die if anyone finds out (they find out, and he unfortunately lives).

Fantasy is his special interest, hence his hyperfixations on D&D and LOTR, and he nerds out about it constantly. He’s the type of ADHD-haver to be virtually unable to focus on anything unless it meets the bare minimum requirement of one of his interests, which is why he has so much trouble in school — he loves to read fiction, loves to write and do math and learn new things, but only if it pertains to something like playing D&D, for example. But learning about western expansion and manifest destiny? Hard pass.

Confident bisexual. The only times he’s ever been kissed or has fooled around has been at concerts that he’s attended, where it’s normal to interact with strangers in such ways and not have to follow up with or see them ever again. This means that he’s a great kisser, but he has really no idea what he’s doing beyond that.

He sews his patches onto his vest with dental floss.

Very touchy guy. Gets in peoples’ faces a lot and comes up with excuses constantly to engage in physical intimacy.

Though he’s pretty close with his band members, he’s closer to Dustin than he is to any of them.

When he gets with his partner(s), he prefers to be the big spoon when cuddling. He’s always the one who insists on holding doors open and pulling chairs out at restaurants, with a bow and everything because he’s a romantic dork.

Has never owned or even worn a suit in his entire life. The first one he rents is to wear to Chrissy’s funeral.

He hates cheese and won’t eat it by itself. This causes arguments when he goes to the Harrington house to hang out because Steve loves cheese.

After hanging out with Robin and Steve for so long, he starts to substitute words like ‘groovy’ or ‘neat’ for his usual ‘metal’. This pisses him off to no end because those are literally the least metal words ever.

His favorite animals are alligators.

Billy is the only person in the group who understands his metal references and notices the new patches when they appear on his vest. He even gifts Eddie a Ratt pin at some point to add to it.

He’s the only person other than Lucas, on very special occasions, that is allowed to so much as touch Max’s skateboard.

He doesn’t talk in his sleep, per se, but he does yell and jerk randomly and it scares the living shit out of Steve the first few times they crash on the couch together while getting high.

No one but him is allowed to handle his guitar, and he always makes jokes about how he wants it buried with him when he dies because they’re soulmates.

After he survives the Vecna bullshit, he gets a tattoo of a demobat. Everyone hates it.

His nickname for Wayne is “pops”.

[always-steddie]

Eddie cuts his hair with his switchblade…ok hacks at his hair with his switchblade, it’s how he gets the texture and feathered look. Steve is horrified as he goes to the salon at least twice a month and styles his hair perfect everyday as well. His hair is his life and he treats it with as much care as he does for his “adopted” children. After staying the night in Eddies trailer he turned pale and nearly fainted when first thing he saw, as he walked past the opened bathroom door, Eddie half asleep leaning over the sink looking in to the bathroom mirror with a lit cigarette hanging out of the side of his mouth with his tongue sticking out of the other side slightly, shirtless wearing his plaid pyjama bottoms, hacking and sawing at his hair.

Steve needs to wear glasses, he wears contact lenses during the day but before he puts them in or just to give his eyes a rest for the day, he will wear his glasses. Eddie playfully teases Steve about them as he knows he can be self conscious about them, Eddie is just endeared with them really but loves to push Steve’s buttons. Eddie is restless and can be more nocturnal where Steve has a bedtime routine. After Steve is asleep Eddies hides Steve’s glasses just to mess with him. Usually in his bedside drawers or under some clutter or Eddie wears them whilst he lies in bed watching a blurry and out of focus Steve have a slight panic attack and freak out as he retraces his steps before he went to bed to try and find them. One Christmas to really piss him off Eddie actually wrapped them up overnight and gave them to Steve in the morning as a gift after over an hour of poor Steve looking for them. Steve wasn’t amused.

Eddie probably has ADHD can’t pay attention to movies and finds it difficult to concentrate if the plot is heavy. He zones out and starts to think of other things either something random in the background of the movie or starts plotting out the next D&D campaign in his head. He always has to ask Steve to explain to him what’s going on or what’s happened. Steve usually face palms but is thankful he works at Family Video so can get longer rentals. He makes Eddie watch the movie again but usually the same thing happens and Eddie has zoned out. Thankfully Steve can pay attention and tells Eddie.

They both rip on each other at times in a playful way, they will kiss and say “I love you” but will flip each other off as one drives away. Eddie gives Steve the worse nicknames and will usually call him them in public, Eddie loves watching “Stud-muffin” blush and look embarrassed when he visits him at work, even better if Robin is in ear shot and that’s what she will call Steve for the rest of the day.

Eddie will annoy Steve just to watch him get flustered. He likes to mess his hair up and bite his arm randomly and make him jump. Eddie just likes being close to Steve but is rather bad at being affectionate as he gets all shy and awkward.

Eddie loves horror movies and will mostly laugh through them especially if the effects are lame. Whilst Steve will watch through his fingers covering his eyes or will cling to Eddie and hide his face in his arm. Eddie teases him about it. Eddie will sleep peacefully snoring away whilst Steve will be up most of the night listening out and jumping at any noises.

Steve talks in his sleep usually talking to Dustin and chastising him. Eddie finds it endearing and laughs quietly through his hand. He was especially happy when Steve said Eddies name and then told him off for messing up his hair, Eddie had to leave the room he was laughing so hard. Eddie wanted to secretly record Steve sleep talking on a tape deck but Steve got suspicious when he saw it, Eddie tried to cover it up by claiming it was to record some guitar for a Corroded Coffin track but Eddie is bad at lying and he looks shifty so Steve can always tell. Eddie came clean and Steve was horrified to find out he talks in his sleep.

Eddie invited Steve to watch Corroded Coffin play but found out he shy to play in front of the guy he loved, which is odd as he’s quite comfortable playing in front of strangers. He has wrote a song for Steve, keeping a few elements vague that only they would know and pouring out everything how he feels and what Steve means to him but in a very metal way. They performed it that night but Eddie didn’t tell Steve it was about him and Steve wasn’t able to hear and pick out the lyrics. Eddie was enamoured to hear Steve humming it the next day in the shower but wasn’t able to tell him just yet who it was about.

Both Eddie and Steve made mix tapes for each other, Steve’s being more pop music, nothing makes Eddie smile more when listening to it in his van with the volume at the same level he has it for his heavy metal and the confusion on peoples faces when they see it’s Eddie blasting out True by Spandau Ballet. Equally the same with Steve blasting out Love Machine by W.A.S.P. (Yep they are both that obvious!) They still don’t really share the like for each other’s music taste but listening to each other’s favourite songs really reminds them of each other when they are apart. Eddie has snuck on some Corroded Coffin onto Steve’s mixtape, especially the song he wrote for Steve “Hot Babysitter”. Steve finally heard the lyrics whilst driving: “…babysitter with amazing hair, shirtless in my jean vest without a care…” there was something in there about being like Ozzy too and Steve became red and breathless and had to pull over when he realised. Although it was vague and the meaning in the lyrics only Steve and Eddie would be able to get, there’s was something so sweet how unabashed Eddie feels about Steve.

Thanks for reading, let me know what you think and I’ll see if I can think of more.