#fjdshshxhsha oh my goddd

[a-little-unsteddie]

E X H A L E

Author: Rowan (@/a-little-unsteddie on tumblr and ao3)

Artist: Silian (@/GlitterSilian on twitter)

Summary: It finally became too much in late December, after weeks of being unable to find anything to do to relieve the tension, and he snapped; Steve got into his car and just started driving. He didn’t really pay much attention to where he was going, just so long as it was away from Hawkins, away from his empty house with too many empty rooms, away from the horrors that lurked beneath the ground—just away.

or,

Steve goes to Indianapolis after the events of S2.

Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson

Chapters: 19/19

Word Count: 70.7k

Status: Complete

AO3 Link

Silian’s Twitter

Playlist I created for EXHALE on Spotify

Playlist with ONLY the chapter title songs

Playlist with ONLY the chapter title songs on YouTube

@steddiebang

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okok hi! oh my god, it’s done. i’m not sure what to do with myself now.

i don’t know how it became this beast of a fic (for me), i started out estimating this fic to be 10-15k, and one of my closest friends, Rot (goingsteddi3 on tumblr and twitter), called me on my bullshit immediately and claimed it’d be at least 50k, but probably between 75k-100k. and it was fucking right, of course, so this fucker sits at a solid 70k.

i originally came up with this idea after watching a tiktok about something similar but somewhere along the way it got a mind of its own.

i have a laundry list of people to thank for their support and everything they helped me with over the last like, year and a half, and i’m gonna start with saying thank you to Rot and Townie (watertownie on tumblr) for supporting my delusions and hearing me out every time i got an ear worm about it. and thanking them in advanced for hearing me contemplate a sequel or not :b (maybe idk yet but i do have THOUGHTS)

thank you to Sails (sailing-through-hawkins on tumblr) for betaing the first half of the fic and to Townie, who’s gonna slowly make his way through the rest of it.

especially thank you to Silian (GlitterSilian on twitter, always linked down below!) for being the best artist i could’ve asked for and for creating the beautiful artwork you can see throughout the fic <3

most of all, thank you to the Steddie Big Bang mods for hosting this awesome event that helped me to meet so many wonderful writers, artists and members of the steddie fandom that i otherwise wouldn’t have been able to meet.

ah!! okay i’m done now. i’m going insane i hope you enjoy this final chapter of the fic :)