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@runninriot decided to call me out at the perfect time 😘
eddie munson knows he has to leave hawkins. he decides to go as far as humanly possible, even though he'll miss everyone, even though it's the biggest risk he's ever taken. even though it might not work out. he buys a one way ticket to london and doesn't look back.
okay, he does look back a little. he calls wayne every friday and dustin every sunday. he calls the band once a month, planning it specifically for when he knows they're all together so he doesn't have to pay for three separate international calls.
but one thing he never does is call steve.
here's the thing: maybe if he'd been smart, and just said goodbye like a friend does, maybe a pat on the back or a quick hug, he could.
but he'd done something stupid when he said goodbye to steve, something he told himself he wasn't gonna do, but did anyway. he kissed him. right on the lips, on his doorstep, tears in his eyes.
and steve didn't understand because eddie just told him he would be taking a road trip. he didn't know it was goodbye.
dustin tells him steve asks about him all the time now. wayne says that harrington boy shows up every weekend to see if he's back yet. gareth even mentioned seeing him around town, wearing one of eddie's shirts.
but he's in london, and he's got a job, and a flat, and he's even managed to make a friend or two. if he went back, even for a visit, he knows what would happen. one look at steve and he'd abandon the new life he's living and commit to a lifetime of dealing with hawkins.
so he stays. and he finds comfort in living somewhere just foreign enough that he has to learn new slang and polite customs. he manages to avoid steve for nearly a year.
but dustin is a snitch, and wayne doesn't let eddie stand in his own way, and eddie comes home after a shift to steve harrington standing at the entrance to his building.
"steve?"
"did you come across the ocean to get away from me?"
it throws eddie off, hearing steve think the problem was him. as if eddie hasn't considered steve being the whole reason to go back this whole time.
"i came across the ocean to keep myself safe, to keep everyone i care about safe."
"so you kissed me knowing you wouldn't be back? and didn't call or anything."
eddie pushes steve inside.
steve's mad, but he lets eddie keep touching him. steve's mad, but he lets eddie hug him for minutes, silent as he wraps his arms around him, too. steve's mad, but he holds eddie when he starts crying and apologizing.
eddie's dumb, but he isn't dumb enough to let steve walk out of his life the way he walked out of steve's.
eddie's in love, always has been, probably always will be. and steve might be too.
steve stays the night. and then the week. he had no return flight planned and eddie doesn't push.
he does call robin twice, and then calls dustin to tell him he thinks he's gonna stick around in london for a bit, see what this place has to offer.
eddie listens from the table, where he's planning his groceries around what steve wants to cook for them next week.
he smiles as steve ends the call, comes up behind him, and wraps his arms around him, kissing the top of his head and then his neck.
"you wrote mountain dew twice, baby."
"because i want two of them."
steve laughs and it's the only thing eddie was truly missing here.
and now he doesn't have to.
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i'll tag a few people who i would like to live inside their brain for a day: @wormdebut @little-annie @thisapplepielife @frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe @pennyplainknits
Starting a new tag game, because why the hell not? I'm gonna post a random brainworm/headcanon/whatever I've been thinking of lately and tag a few friends to share one of their own. Let's hear all those fun ideas!
Today, I'm thinking about ...
... Eddie, who took the job as night guard at the zoo because it sounded like a nice, easy way to earn some money until his music career takes off. It's quiet, there's nobody bothering him, and all he has to do is do his rounds and keep an eye on the security cameras while he works on his campaigns.
Except, nobody told him that ... weird things happen, once the gates have closed and the zoo turns dark. There's voices and footsteps in the night, shadows move at the corner of his eye and apparently Stevie the seal - beloved visitor favorite among children and adults alike - has gone missing?
Anyhow, Eddie is freaking out about this, so when he's doing his rounds near the seal enclosure one night and finds himself trapped between the mysterious shadowy figure and the only path to escape, he attacks.
Except it's not an animal thief or a murderer. It's a very gorgeous, very naked dude who keeps babbling some nonsense or other about needing to find his cloak? Eddie's so very confused, and did he mention the guy is bumfuck naked?
Once Eddie has calmed down enough to listen (and keep his eyes from straying down to the dude's really impressive ... assets every two seconds), it turns out that the guy isn't just a random exhibitionist, but in fact Stevie the seal ... or selkie, apparently.
Anyhow, they now need to work together to retrieve his lost hide ... or maybe find him some hand-me-downs in the meantime, because Eddie thinks his brain might just leak out his ears otherwise.
Also Etienne because I wanna know more about Andrew's Emotional Support dog's friend.
prev | Etienne | WW 31.7.2024
One minute, Jean had been given at least a dozen plush toys for Etienne to play with, and the next he'd watched her place them all along the edges of her bed and lay on top of them. He wasn't sure what to make of the situation, other than that she seemed to enjoy the toys. She simply didn't enjoy them like a typical dog would.
It all started when he got a stuffed elephant from Camille and Amélie. Etienne had carried it everywhere with her for a month, including on walks, and was sure to show it off to everyone who went by.
“Where’s Albert?” Jean asked her, and without fail, Etienne dropped Albert the stuffed Elephant into his open palm. Time, and dog slobber, had not been kind to the poor elephant, and many parts of his motley body were the result of patchwork Jean had done to keep the elephant whole.
MASTERPOST
BONUS: I commissioned @emry-stars-art for a glimpse into Jean's life with Etienne!
(THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN, @emry-stars-art !!!!!!!!)
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