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I set myself a goal to have this fic finished and postedon ao3 by Halloween. As you can tell, I have failed miserably since it's neither finished or posted. In my defense, my hands were in much more pain than usual for most of October and so far November's not looking so great either.
Still, I feel kind of shitty about missing my goal, so I decided to post the first couple of scenes here. This fic is part of the Hawkins Halfway House series and we'll be meeting Billy in it. Enjoy!
Eddie was enjoying a quiet, little Horrors-free day with House. Heâd dropped off Max and the Sinclair siblings with Steve in the morning since they hadnât been able to hang out with Dustin and El for longer than any of the little Horrors deemed acceptable. El had been living with Steve for about a year now, and Dustin nearly twice that long. The transition hadnât been as painful as expected but the kids were not used to being apart from each other, so an arrangement was reached that every other weekend, the kids could spend the night together either at House or at Junior.
This weekend, the kids had opted to stay at Junior with Steve. Depending on how things went, they might stay longer seeing as the kids were on some extended human holiday weekend as of the night before. If that happened, then Eddie planned on having some slow lazy mornings. However, it was now past lunchtime and he really needed to restock their stores of red meat, thanks to the pair of werewolf cubs in his care. He had very quickly become the local butcherâs favorite customer because of them.
Eddie had just about convinced himself to get going and be a responsible adult when the phone rang. Eddie made his way over to where House decided to keep the phone hooked up this week. He leaned against the wall, already fiddling with the phone cord, as he answered.
âHawkins Halfwayââ
âEDDIE,â Dustin screeched over the phone. âYou have to come over right now. Steve is DYING.â
âWhat?â Eddie asked, bolting upright from where he had slouched. He heard the voices of the other kids over the line.
âHe is bleeding. Blood should stay inside humans,â El said seriously.
âBleeding? Where? What happened?â Eddie asked, resting the phone between his shoulder and ear to free up his hands. He got a bit tangled in the cord in his hurried searching of his pockets for his keys.
âGuys,â Steveâs voice broke through. âGuys, Iâm fine. Oh god, Dustin, who are you calling? What did I say about using the phone? Junior, what did I tell you about letting the kids use the phone?â
âThis IS an emergency!â Dustin protested, loudly.
âThereâs so much blood,â Lucas could be heard in the background. âItâs like that time I ate a rabbit just before the moon set.â
âSee, Eddie? HEâS DYING!â Dustin shouted directly into the receiver.
âYou called Eddie? Dustin, give me the phone,â Steve said. After a brief scuffle, and what sounded like the handset being dropped to the ground only to get hastily picked up, Steve was speaking directly. His voice sounded funny. âEddie, hi!â
âWhat happened? Dustin thinks youâre dying,â Eddie said.
âIâm fine! Nobodyâs dying,â Steve said. Then, presumably to the kids, âGive me some room, I donât want to drip on any of you.â
âSteve, are you bleeding?â Eddie asked, his worry mixing with irritation.
âYeah, but Iâm okay. Itâs a bloody nose,â Steve said, which explained why he sounded weird.
âAnd a bloody mouth,â Lucas added.
âHis eyeâs busted up, too!â Erica said loud enough for Eddie to hear.
âYes, thank you for that,â Steve said to the kids in that bitchy tone Eddie secretly enjoyed hearing. âGo watch some TV while I talk to Eddie. I promise I wonât fall over dead.â
âIâm coming over,â Eddie decided out loud.
âYou donât have to, honestly, the kids are freaking out over nothing,â Steve insisted.
âYouâre due for a home inspection anyway. See you in ten.â
Eddie hung up before Steve could protest.
â
Eddie didnât have a chance to knock on the door before it slammed open and he was swarmed by the kids.
âHeâs in the kitchen,â Lucas told him.
âWe couldnât remember how much blood humans are supposed to keep inside,â El said.
âYeah, so Dustin freaked out,â Erica snorted derisively.
Dustin started to argue that his concern was legitimate, but Eddie pushed past all of them to get to the kitchen. There, Eddie nearly swallowed his tongue because Steve was indeed in the kitchen. Shirtless. And bent over the sink. The steam rising from the running water dampened his chest hair and made his skin dewy. The muscles in Steveâs arms flexed distractingly as he scrubbed almost violently at a bloodied shirt.
Eddie didnât have much time to enjoy the view because as soon as he finished processing the vision, he caught sight of Steveâs face. He immediately understood why the children panicked. Steveâs face was a mess. Steve had done his best to clean up most of the blood, but his nostrils were still rimmed with some, and the split lip started to bleed again when Steve looked up at Eddie. The skin around his eye was puffy and bruised.
âIt looks worse than it is,â Steve said immediately. âNo concussion!â
Eddie covered the distance in a few long strides. He reflexively reached out to touch Steveâs face, then pulled back when he realized what heâd been about to do. Eddie had been adamantly ignoring the small crush he was harboring for his kidsâ foster parent. Unfortunately, it meant he had to forcibly ignore opportunities to touch Steve as much as possible. In this case, it resulted in Eddie fluttering his hands uselessly around Steve.
âWhat happened?â
âFirst, you should know that I handled it and I was already planning on calling you to give you a rundown of the situation. I wanted to clean myself up a bit before calling but that didnât go as planned, obviously.â
âSteve.â
âIâm fine, really. Iâm more worried about Max.â At Steveâs words, Eddieâs whole body tensed.
âWhat happened to Max?â Eddie asked before it occurred to him, âShe wasnât with the other kids. Where is she?â
âShe ran to her room as soon as we got home. Sheâs kind of shaken up. I havenât had the chance to talk to her about what happened because the others saw me and were freaking out the whole ride home.â
âI can talk to her,â Eddie said immediately. Steve nodded as if he hadnât expected anything different, and began to explain what happened.
âI took the kids to the park nearby to burn off some energy before dinner,â Steve said. âMax stayed in the parking lot because she wanted to practice using her skateboard.â
While Steve spoke, Eddie maneuvered himself around the familiar kitchen. He grabbed a clean kitchen towel and dug out an icepack from the freezer. After wrapping it up, he handed it to Steve, who delicately placed it over his eye.
Steve continued to explain how he made sure he settled in a spot that would give him a good view of both the parking lot and the playground. Everything had been going well. All the kids were having fun, although Max had tumbled a couple of times while trying to find her balance on the skateboard. Then Steve had been distracted.
Erica had gotten a bit too into a game of chase. She had started to get a little wolfy around the edges. Lucas had immediately shielded her from view by throwing his hoodie at her face. Steve guided her a farther away from the playground to somewhere more quiet and secluded to give her a moment to calm down. Once she had collected herself, she and Steve rejoined everyone at the playground. Steve had given the playground a quick lookover to make sure everyone was still accounted for, but when heâd looked for Max over at the parking lot, a man was with her.
Steve had been too far away to hear what the man was saying, but the man was way too close to her. Max had frozen in place. If the unknown man approaching her hadnât been alarming enough, seeing her freeze like that set off all sorts of bells. While Max wasnât Steveâs foster kid, he knew her well enough by now to know that, when cornered, Max's first instinct was to fight, not flee or freeze.
âI ran over there as soon as I saw what was happening,â Steve told Eddie, as if Eddie would ever doubt him. Steve had a protective streak to rival a werewolf. âBy the time I got to them, he had grabbed her by the arm.â
Steve had shoved the man away from her the moment he had gotten within reach. From there it had devolved into a fistfight that left Steve in his current state. Thankfully the other kids were too wrapped up in their playground games to realize what was happening at the time but one of the other parents at the playground had seen and used the nearby payphone to call the police. The cops showed up to break up the fight. As far as Steve was aware, the man who had grabbed Max was taken away by the cops. They took some statements from witnesses, but Steve, to Eddieâs utter lack of surprise, insisted on going home with his kids rather than going down to the station.
Eddie was grateful for that. He had seen how cops treat people they consider less than human, even when they didn't have an ounce of supernatural blood in them. Little Horrors in distress were not always great at keeping their human faces on.
Once Steve finished updating Eddie, he went to reassure the other kids while Eddie made his way to see Max. Eddie had barely stepped into the guest room Junior had made for Max before Max shot to her feet. She was very pale, made even more apparent by the dark red feathers that had sprouted through her hair and along her face. Her hands were rough and clawed.
âHe found me,â Max said. âBilly found me. He tried to take me away.â
Eddie swore under his breath. It was just as he had suspected. He didn't think the cops would hold Billy for very long. He had to start planning a defense but first, he wanted to comfort Max, offer some reassurance. He stepped closer to her but slowed his movements at Maxâs flinch. Instead, he redirected and leaned against the dresser close to Max. Her jaw was tense. She crossed her arms, clutching at her elbows.
âBut he didnât,â Eddie said firmly. âYouâre still here. Steve stopped him and youâre safe.â
Maxâs breath hitched.
âIsâŚis Steve mad at me?â Her claws dug into fabric at the elbows of her hoodie, nervously shredding it. âI have my backpack in the closet. I can leave. If heâs mad.â
âWhat? No, no, no, Max, Steveâs not mad at you. Heâs worried, but heâd never get mad at you for something like this.â
Her voice dropped to a shamed whisper.
âBut Billy hurt him so bad. He broke Steveâs face,â her breath hitched again, but she had yet to break into tears. It hurt Eddie to see her try so hard to keep it together. âIt's all my fault, heâs going to be so mad.â
âMax Mayfield, listen to me,â Eddie said fiercely. âNone of this is your fault. This is all on that hunter. Steve doesnât blame you and heâs not mad at you.â
She gnawed at her lip, eyes cast down. She didn't believe him, he could tell.
"Billy's going to come back. Heâll hurt Steve again," Max said.
"If that happens, and I'm not saying it will!" Eddie said. Though he knew she was right about Billy. Billy was a stubborn, possessive, and angry man. "But if it does, it still wouldn't be your fault. He's a grown up making his own awful decisions, okay?"
"Okay," she said despondently, though she no longer sounded like she would break into tears.
"I need to let Steve know what to expect but he'll probably come up here after to check on you if you're okay with it."
Max nodded jerkily, not looking at him. Eddie suppressed a sigh. Max had been making so much progress, opening herself up more to others and getting attached to things that interested her. If Eddie hadnât hated Billy already, the sight Max retreating into herself again because of his reappearance wouldâve done it.
"Do you want to be alone? Or do you want some of your friends up here with you?" Eddie asked.
Max shrugged. Eddie glanced over at the unmade bed. The underneath looked darker than it probably should be. He smiled tentatively at Max.
"I think El is already under the bed, so if you want to be aloneâŚ"
An oozing black tendril squirmed out from underneath the bed to wrap gently around Max's ankle. Some of the stress that pinched Maxâs expression eased at the touch. She easily dropped to the ground and scooched into the cramped space beneath the bed.
âYou are safe, Max,â Elâs voice hissed from the dark space.
Eddie left the room and closed the door quietly behind him. It was time to fill Steve in on some things he had hoped would never come up.
#trensu tells stories#hawkins halfway house for homeless horrors#i wanna say I'm about halfway done with the fic#but since my job has me typing 8hrs a day 5 days a week#ive stopped typing at all when off the clock in the hopes that the brief respite will give my hands some time to recover#they haven't hurt this bad in a LONG time and idk what's triggered it#but as soon as im physically able ill writing finish this fic and post it on ao3#stranger things#steddie#hhh: tradition
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â for ikte!!!
hehehehe
anyway I started writing this silly ahh fic in July 2022 after rereading the series and I have a lot of silly headcanons and silly little facts that I cooked up in my crazy brain hehehe also this is going to be annoyingly long so I'm putting it under a read more
-Iâve had the headcanon that the victors were trafficked out of a physical brothel since about 7th grade when I found out what a brothel was, i liked the idea of them all kind of commiserating. In my mind sex trafficking is actually a huge moneymaker in the Capitol even before Ptolemyâs time but he streamlined it in some way and eventually was able to monopolize it (I wonât get into that fully yet bc thereâs a pretty big plot point related to that) (I spent way too much time thinking about this lmao), in addition to victors and âroadsidersâ as mentioned in the 3rd chapter he also gets his pick of new shipments of Avoxes, which go for way cheaper. (Iâm trying to remember what has actually been published yet lmao Iâm just omw home from work rn, none of this is like. major spoilers tho like I wonât talk about [REDACTED] or the [REDACTED] đ¤Şđ anyway I love writing about evil shitty ppl doing weird evil shit my Baby Book headcanons are very ASOIAF coded
-idk how many chapters there are going to be yet but as of right now probably about 70, Iâm contemplating breaking it up by year bc it starts w Annieâs games and ends right at the beginning of CF w a post-MJ epilogue. Im also giving pre-canon POV chapters to a few characters, as of rn I have one for Asenath and one for Ronan aka Ciaranâs dad but I canât decide who elseâŚ. also on that note Asenathâs backstory is fucking bonkers and I canât get into it rn without just openly spoiling a huge chunk of the second half of the fic but itâs. a lot. it starts to be hinted at in the 7th chapter which will ideally be up soon⌠>:)
-I have entirely too many opinions about fanon Annie and how I am literally the only person who Gets Her and I wonât get into all of that now but as an Actual Mentally Ill Personâ˘ď¸ I definitely donât think the Capitol would have just left her alone after she Came Back Wrong like I definitely think the upper echelon would have kind of pretended all that never happened especially bc (at least in my take as we will see soon bc I have actually finished those chapters hehe) she was INCREDIBLY inconvenient as it pertained to mainstream entertainment/network tv but the tabloids and more low-brow media outlets would have had an absolute field day w her and thatâs a major plot point in The Piss. Also as someone who has had actual psychotic episodes and has actual OCD and actual autism Iâm definitely taking her in a different direction than most ppl do lmao. Also somewhat on that note I know there is a high demand for like. rly saccharine odesta content there is absolutely none of that in the piss lmao. Like they have cute little couple-y scenes but for a good chunk of it they are two deeply traumatized unemployed 18/19year olds w way too much money basically just sniping at each other until one of them overhears someone talking shit about the other and gets their child gladiator sleeper agent murder instinct triggered
-A few scenes I'm rly looking forward to publishing in no particular order without any context are The Seal Scene, Angerona Heavensbee's Wedding, the 72nd games, The Ismene Reveal, The Phoca Reveal and Persephone's introduction hehehehe and half of these are already fully finished >:)
#sorry if this is so disjointed lmao im exhausted#i wrote half of this omw home and half just now about to pass out and i have to get up early tmrw#ask#brynners#ikte#thg#i also have been in a tism spiral about this silly fic since july so i need to like. air this out
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Well since you asked here!! A headcanon for the prompt âthis is the part you hug me and kiss me on the forehead and tell me it will be alright.đĽşâ hope thatâs what you wanted?! Anyways thanks byeeeeeđ
Thank you, anon !!Â
Going to attempt to write something random, sorry if itâs crappy !! im a total beginner whoops (also decided to change it a bit, hope you donât mind!) (Also, donât think Iâve mentioned this: English is not my first language, and while I have studied it for years and speak it on a daily basis due to school, I sometimes confuse grammar or some of my wording donât make sense due to my poor translation, hopefully you donât mind lol)
Also this would technically be my first fic I post here (still working on my other Kaider one but im positive ill finish editing that one soon) So while we wait, here, have some Iko x Cinder brotp
Word Count: 704
taglist: @arushahisatroll @cerenoya @addies-invisible-life @salt-warrior @winterrhayle @elysian-starbucks-frappe @starry-tea-party @cindersnightmare @strawberry-seraph (let me know to be added or removen !)
Physical Contact
Iko stood in-front of the bathroomâs mirror to take in her new look. The glowy tan skin, the braids with the several hues of blues, and the golden eyes with the subtle shades of brown and green made her, for the first time, feel beautiful. She was more than satisfied with the new body Thorne had gotten for her. She finally felt closer to accomplishing the dream she would never fully achieve: to be human. But she didnât let that thought bother her. At least now she looked human, and that was enough to make her happy.
But most of all, she was finally able to interact with the people around her. She wasnât this invisible being that was just there whenever she was called upon. She could finally move around and see people, which then again, went back to feeling more human.Â
Iko realized how much time she had been wasting staring back at her reflection and left the Rampionâs bathroom. Tomorrow they would be arriving to New Beijing to attempt to tamper the wedding. Iko was filled with elation to fulfill her role in the plan. For once, she would be contributing in the action and not just staying idle and waiting for their return, unable to do anything incase they failed. She prayed to the stars that it would work. The thought of Kai getting married to that witch made her wires fry.Â
Iko was heading towards the galley before her attention was caught on something in the cargo bay. She didnât have to walk more than two steps before realizing that the figure was indeed Cinder laying down in the centre of the room. Iko let out a laugh - or a sound that was meant to be a laugh - and walked towards her best friend.
âWhat in the world are you doing?â
âHuh?â Cinder turned her head toward her and sighed. âOh. Itâs you. Thank godâ
Iko was confused with the confession, but didnât complain as she sat next to her. âGlad to hear my presence is wanted.â
Cinder let out a weak laugh as she sat up and scooted closer to Iko. She crossed her legs and Iko tried to hide her immediate giddiness when she realized their knees were touching.Â
physical contact. something humans do.
âI just needed to talk to someone, if thatâs okay.â She hesitated, before beginning to fiddle with the hem of her work gloves. âI was just down at the podship dock before I realized how nervous I was about this whole thing and just came to lay down here.â
âNervous about tomorrow?â
âTerrified. So many things can go wrong. As dumb or far-fetched as it sounds, the future is in my hands. It is up to us to defeat Levana. If we succeed, it will be up to us to end the war as well. I am just scared that I wonât be able to do any of it, and that I will let people down.â
Iko couldnât feel anything but sympathy towards Cinder. She sometimes thought about how unfair it all was. Cinder was practically dragged into this whole mess and as determined as she is to end it, she is terrified that every small move she makes will end in Levana dominating the planet. Gross.Â
âIs this the part where I hug you and kiss you on the forehead and tell you it will be alright?â
Cinder met her gaze and gave her a wry look, followed with a soft giggle. âAre you using this as an excuse to touch me because you finally have a body?â
She shrugged. âMaaaybe. Maybe not. But can I?â
A small smile touched Cinderâs lips as she opened her arms wide and moved towards her. âCome here.â
She did not hesitate to return the hug and gave her a small peck on the forehead. She felt Cinder flinch slightly at the touch but therefore did not react. âTrust me. It will be alright,â Iko muttered into her ear. Cinder only nodded and hugged her tighter.
With this, Iko finally understood what had infatuated her so much about humans. It was the feeling of love and safety that was brought on by physical contact.Â
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#tlc#IKO AND CINDER BEING CUTE#sorry this is bad#MY FIRST FIC OR WHATEVER OH SNAP#the Kaider one is coming soon just you wait đđ#if you want to give me any tips that would be appreciated#enjoy my bad writing#i tried#tlc brotps
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