#his parents did anyways

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Leave Before They Do

So... I'm here again for another little angsty drabble or whatever you want to call it. I originally wasn't going to post it, because I didn't think people would want to read it. But then I saw this post, saying that you should just post whatever you want to read.

So here we go! I personally feel very close to this topic and Steve probably does too. Just saying, man has trauma.

Without further ado... (also this wasn't beta read, so if there's any mistake, my bad)

Steve has been distancing himself. 

It started out slowly. Saying he can’t take the kids to the arcade and to ask another one of the older teens. They complain but ultimately just ask Jonathan who takes them. 

The older teens started a weekly movie night at Robin’s place. The six of them would fight over what movie to watch, eventually letting Robin decide since she’s the self acclaimed “movie expert”. Steve started missing those, leaving the other five concerned. 

Robin mentioned how there seemed to be something off between her and Steve. One day they were good, better than good, and then next day Steve is distant. Saying he’s busy any time Robin brings up an event.

Eddie also noticed the distance. 

It was no secret that he and Steve had a thing. Steve wouldn’t dare leave Eddie’s side when he was in his coma. Tell Wayne that he can’t leave because what if Eddie wakes up and no one is here. Of course, Wayne already knew about them, so he understood.

The other’s thought it was weird though. And it gave everyone a shock when Eddie woke up and Steve immediately kissed him. 

Eddie tried getting Steve to open up. But every time, Steve would change the subject to DnD, Eddie to ramble for hours about whatever campaign he was running. 

It didn’t fully hit until the Hopper-Byers decided to host a barbeque and Steve just didn’t show up. Everyone asked Eddie or Robin where Steve was and they both just gave some half-assed excuse. Everyone seemed down after that, but they tried to make the best of it.

The next day, Eddie drove to Steve’s with no call ahead. He didn’t want Steve to say he was busy, when Eddie knew he wasn’t. 

He heard the crunch of the gravel under his tires as he pulled in front of Steve’s house and quickly turned off his van. He jumps out, running towards the door. He takes out his key (Eddie is special enough for a key), only to find out the door was unlocked. 

He rushes in and calls for Steve, only to be met with silence. Eddie looks around the house: Steve’s room, Steve’s parent’s room, guest room, the bathrooms upstairs and downstairs… Jesus, this house is huge. 

After checking the kitchen, still no Steve, he curses and moves back to the dining room. He paces the room, trying to think how he’ll tell Robin her platonic soulmate is missing. Oh Eddie’s dead. 

He sighs, looking towards Steve’s backyard only to find Steve.

Oh thank God, Robin won’t kill him. 

Steve is sitting at the edge of his pool, his knees to his chest. Eddie quietly makes his way towards the boy. Eddie takes off his shoes, rolls up his pants before sitting down next to Steve, placing his feet in the water. 

Steve looks over, eyes wide when he realizes who’s next to him. Steve looks away, back towards the woods. 

“What’re you doing here?” His voice is soft and broken. 

“We all missed you yesterday.” Eddie spoke softly, hoping to not spook him.

Steve softly scoffs, “Yeah, right.” 

“Hey,” Eddie’s voice was stern, but soft nonetheless, “What makes you think you weren’t missed?” 

He shrugs, still not making eye contact with Eddie, “I don’t know.” 

Eddie frowns, gently placing his hand on Steve’s shoulder only for Steve to quickly dodge it. Well, that hurts. 

Eddie nods, looking away, “Steve… why-” Eddie struggles to find the words and Steve is seeming antsy. 

“Why what, Eddie?” His voice was stern, but his eyes said there was something up. 

“Why are you pushing us away? Me, Robin, the kids?” 

Steve stills, his face falling into a neutral state, “I’m not pushing you away.” 

“Yes, you are, Steve. I’ve noticed it, the kids noticed it, everyone has noticed.” 

“Well, it won’t matter in the long run.” 

Eddie physically flinches, but it seems to get missed by Steve. “What are you talking about?” 

“You’ll leave. They’ll leave. Everyone leaves.” Steve’s voice gets tighter as a tear falls down his cheek, “They always leave me.” 

“I’m not gonna leave yo-” 

“Don’t say that!” Steve yells, looking over at Eddie. His eyes fill with anger and sadness, “Y-You can’t say that.” 

“Why? I’m serious, I won’t-” Steve’s hands cover his mouth, not letting Eddie finish. 

“One day,” Steve’s voice is soft again, “You are going to wake up and realize I’m not worth it. And you will pack your bags and leave.” Tears freely fall down his face, “Everyone leaves.” 

“Steve, I will never-” 

“Stop Eddie!” He screams, shooting up on his feet and walking towards the door. 

“Steve!” Eddie rushes to Steve, and pulls his back, forcing Steve to look at him. “What the hell?” 

“You don’t understand!” Steve yells.

“Then explain it!” Eddie yells back.

“Okay, fine.” Steve gestures towards the deck chairs and Eddie takes one, Steve taking the other, “My parents. They left me when I was old enough to use a microwave. Girls couldn’t stand a second date with me, they only wanted sex. And when I finally found a girl who I liked, and who liked me back. I was so happy. And she promised me she’d never leave. A couple months later, she left me.” Steve is crying at this point, not even able to look at Eddie. 

Eddie drops to his knees in front of Steve, trying to capture his eyes. Steve shakes his head, “I-I can’t lose you Eddie. Or Robin. Or the kids.” He takes a shaky breath, “But, I guess I have been distant.” 

Eddie gently wipes away Steve’s tears and he continues on, “But it’s easier to push people away, then to have them leave.” He sighs, trying to turn away from Eddie again.

Eddie cradles his face in his hands, making Steve look at him. Steve looks at him with hope buried so deep it only shows in his eyes and the small hopeful smile. Eddie sighs happily, gently caressing his beautiful boy’s face.

A few tears of his own fall as he smiles,“I love you, Steve Harrington. There will never be a universe where I don’t love you.” Steve softly laughs, tears still falling down his face. Eddie takes his thumbs and rubs them away, smiling fondly at the man, “And, because I love you, that means I will never, ever, ever leave you.” 

Steve’s smile is so big, Eddie laughs. 

“You promise?” Steve’s voice is so quiet, as if he doesn’t want anyone or anything to interfere with this promise. 

“I promise,” Eddie says back, equally as quiet, “You’re it for me baby. You can never get rid of me now. I’m gonna marry the shit out of you one day,” He promises, “and you’ll never have to doubt if I’m leaving, cause the answer will always be no.”

Steve smiles, dropping out of his seat to tackle Eddie with a hug. Steve must’ve miscalculated how strong Eddie was. They instantly fall, Eddie taking most of (all of) the blow, his breath leaving him.

Steve scrambles up, scanning Eddie, “Oh shit. Sorry! Sorry!” 

Eddie smiles, pulling Steve to lay on him again, “It’s okay.” It was decidedly not okay, but how could he be mad when such a beautiful boy is looking at him like that. 

Steve softly kisses him, bringing his hand to Eddie’s face to pull him closer. Eddie kisses back, slowly, smiling brightly against his lips. 

“I love you.” Steve says between kisses, making Eddie giggle. 

“I love you way more, baby.” Steve rolls his eyes, but continues to kiss him again.  

[technically-human]

Hey, don't cry. Ghost yuri, okay?

(Now that you know the girls, they need to meet the boys!)

[bunnieswithknives]

Thanks.

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[cubbihue]

Peri was very upset about a lot of things that happened. Within a span of a week, he felt like his entire life has changed for the worst!! He had a dumb bulb on his wand, Timmy was still moving away, and he had to go to a school far from everyone he knew!!!

Of course, the cause and trigger of those emotions was Timmy. But Peri can’t blame his older brother for any of that. So the next logical conclusion for a small child to reach was to blame his parents instead!!! And boy did he blame a lot on his parents.

Many of Peri’s actions in his childhood stems from misplaced grief and anger. By the time he was old enough to know better, Peri got a mixture of stubbornness and a bruised ego to admit he was wrong for how he reacted.

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[starry-bi-sky]

Unpleasant Revelations - DPxDC Ficlet Idea for the Stillborn Au

"Have you met my youngest, Damian, Mr. Masters?"

Its only from twenty years of long, hard experience and practice that Vlad doesn't increase the room temperature from 'borderline uncomfortably cool' to 'unbearably hot' the moment Bruce Wayne pulls his youngest and "only" biological son out in front of him.

He puts only in quotations because twelve year old Damian Wayne looks scarily, uncannily like one Daniel Brown. Jack and Maddie's foster son, second victim of their foolishness, and only other halfa in existence. Second only to him.

It's nauseating how similar they look. From the scowl and terrible glare on the young boy's face, to his brown skin -- which was only a few shades lighter than Daniel's, the shape of his nose, and even the strange winged edge of his eyebrow. Something that Vlad has long since come to find endearing on the child he considered a son of his own. The only difference was that Damian had dark, sharp green eyes.

Daniel's eyes were blue. The same glacier shade as his father's, who stood behind Damian with a proud, oafish smile on his visage.

It was infuriating how similar they look. Vlad might not have rapidly swung the room temperature from one extreme to the other, but he can't stop himself from letting the fury burning within his core from slipping out and raising the temperature up a few degrees.

Because it really only meant one thing.

Damian Wayne and Daniel Brown were related.

Damian Wayne and Daniel Brown were brothers.

Standing in front of him, it was clear as day. He can already picture a phantom image of Daniel standing beside Damian, the same scowl written on his face, the same glare carved into his eyes. The only difference being the dark, exhausted circles beneath them that seemed to be permanently painted onto his skin. The only thing missing being the permanent loneliness and vigilance permeating his being like a scar.

This, if revealed, would be enough to ruin Bruce Wayne's reputation. Or, at the very least, darken it quite a bit. The great philanthropist Bruce Wayne with another secret blood child? One related to his youngest? One that had been put into foster care? Seemingly thrown away?

It would be a firestorm.

One that Vlad is not keen on starting.

It would ruin Bruce Wayne's reputation, yes. But it would hurt Daniel in the process -- the harassment he would face alone might just be enough to break that fragile child completely. That was just not something he could allow. Or, even worse, bring him into his biological father's care and custody -- something Vlad was even less willing to allow.

It's not out of kindness to Wayne that Vlad will keep mum about this.

His grip on his champagne flute tightens, just a bit. He's still aware enough of the world around him to not let it shatter in his hands. His plastered, pleasant smile tightens around the corners, and he forces his focus to slide from Damian to Wayne.

"The resemblance is uncanny, Mister Wayne." He says, slanting his smile to the side slyly. Although he's not talking about the resemblance between Wayne and his son. Rage simmers beneath his skin, burning coal and embers in the core of his chest, nestled between his lungs, as he meets the man's eyes.

Wayne swaggles his head proudly, his ditzy smile widening as he squeezes his son's shoulder affectionately. Bastard, Vlad wants to spit.

He breathes in through his nose, and exhales out through his mouth. The champagne in his hand cools, and stops its unusual bubbling.

The Damian boy scoffs under his breath, his mouth still coiled upward into a scowl. With the revelation of his blood relation to Daniel evident, Vlad's not sure if he should find it endearing or not.

He is not Daniel, so he decides that it's just simply irritating. He decides to ignore it.

"And you said he was your only biological son?" He asks, voice lilting and head tilting. He knows its a suspicious question at worst, insulting at best. But considering Wayne's past proclivities, he can hardly call it an unexpected question.

Damian puffs in great offense, face twisting angrily. It reminds him of Daniel when Vlad insisted that he was wrong about something or other, and for a moment his heart swells, fond.

But this is not his child, and so the feeling quickly crashes and burns, simmering back into rage. This was not Daniel -- this was his replacement. A replacement that Wayne was free to keep.

Wayne chuckles, idiotically, as if he'd said some funny joke. Vlad's other hand, the one gripping his cane -- something he's required ever since he was dispatched from the hospital all those lonely years ago -- tightens instead. He grinds his teeth -- him and Jack Fenton would get along like a house on fire, he hates it.

"I can understand why you'd ask that, Mister Masters," Wayne says, squeezing Damian's shoulder again, "but yes, Damian is my only biological son. Although that doesn't mean I don't love my other children any less."

Bastard.

For all his posturing and flouncing about caring for his city and his children, Vlad never would have thought the Prince of Gotham capable of abandoning one of them.

But, well.

They all have their dark secrets.

And what one man throws away, another man picks up. If Bruce Wayne didn't want the treasure child that was Daniel Brown, then Vlad Masters was more than happy to take him instead.

"I see."

[grandwretch]

i so badly want one of those fic examinations of steve's relationship with joyce and hopper but solely through eddie's pov like hear me out

steve and eddie chat a lot in the upside down (and later in the hospital, when they learn hop is alive). steve has taken charge of filling eddie in on the rest of their of-age crew without the kids butting in. he never mentions his own parents, but he talks about the rest of the party's a lot, especially joyce and hopper. eddie knows what it's like to desperately want someone to be your parent and trying to hide it from his own childhood, when he would try to be cool about wayne dropping him off at his dad's house. steve obviously adores joyce and hopper, thinks the world of them and legitimately looks up to them.

eddie isn't sure what he expects from a cop who came back to life and the world's most determined housewife, but he's excited to meet them as someone steve loves.

cue eddie's horror when he realizes that neither of them really feel much for steve rather than annoyance and vague distrust. that joyce trusts will with eddie, an accused murderer, in a heartbeat and still hesitates to leave him with steve. that hopper brushes off every ounce of steve's hero worship and joy.

he tries to broach the topic with steve, gently, and is heartbroken when steve genuinely has no idea what he's talking about. and not because he's oblivious, but because steve thinks that's what he deserves. he thinks that's the parental love that someone who was an asshole in high school needs, because that's what would make him a good person. he needs people to call him out constantly, obviously, because why else would they keep doing it? why would nancy? at least they're here. at least they're not ignoring him. at least they're not forcing him into a box. they just want him to be better.

like, this is the man who thanked a girl for calling him bullshit and telling him she never loved him. he doesn't Know that's not how you're supposed to handle things. no one ever taught him that.

and now eddie's gotta figure out how he can teach steve how to be loved the right way without outing himself and his huge crush on his love-starved dork of a friend.

[anna-scribbles]

they should've been at the club(infertility treatment centers)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Custody Battle: START

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[cloudcastor]

moms…..

[royalarchivist]

During Wilbur's stream today, Tallulah was killed by a mob, and before he could revive her, Wilbur was also killed.

He was able to respawn and revive her BARELY in the nick of time (so she lost no lives), but I need you all to see Roier's POV of the event because the second he saw Tallulah go down (and then Wilbur go down right after, meaning there was no one there to revive Tallulah), he sprinted across the map as fast as he could to get there in time to save her.

[royaltea000]

Pose practice! ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

[cucumber-icepop]

Vallis Cineris

[diathadevil]

Zagreus makes a horrifying realization.

[varpusvaras]

Helicopter Parent Cody AU where Cody finds out that Fox is dating. He finds this out by finding a hickey on Fox.

He is fine with it, really, especially when Fox bats his eyes and tells him that he's a good man and she's a good woman, Kote, they are so nice and they give me so many nice things and they let me take naps and they give me kisses and they tell me how lovely I am and it's so so great

Bail gets a visitor later that day, when Cody comes to his office, puts his hands on Bail's desk and says "do you want to form an alliance with me?"

[meamiiikiii]

5% of a color headcanon.... two versions since b&w emphasizes the dagger more i think but i still like the warm tones ASFSADA

i am not biased towards rainbow daggers whatsoever i promise (lie)

((also friend is streaming now and im there too!! bit more info linked here, its rated mature tho))

[mamawasatesttube]

the more i think about it the more im convinced the way to fix the luthor retcon is just "using the female characters". that's it. we bring in the contessa (say she duped westfield by putting lex luthor's dna in there, somehow, and this is the actual retcon part. it's smaller, and doesn't contradict rots), say that it was some secret plan of hers that never came to fruition. then we get lex being as blindsided by it as kon, and we get the contrast in how he treats baby lena vs how he treats kon (his child vs a failed tool that's nothing to him now). and we can keep the superfam as a found family, with clark, the steels, and the eradicator all reaffirming their love for kon, regardless of whose 0.01% of human dna was used to stabilize him. AND we can keep his eventual bond with lori luthor. best of both worlds!

bam!!! fixed!!! luthor retcon, now with 100% less eugenics, and 100% more of keeping kon's original scifi themes and strong feelings on personhood and conflicted feelings on how he yearns for a family!! that's it babey!!! it could've been that easy!!! the key is just... its the female characters. it's the female characters!!!!