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And a Rescue Mission Makes... Eight? by Animal_Arithmetic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2025
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"Hey, Eddie? How do you feel about having six kids?"
"What’s in the cars, Stevie."
"... I think you know."
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Steve helps rescue six kids from Brenner's secret second lab of experiment kids. He... may or may not have threatened the government so he could keep them all.
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It was 2023 in boring Hawkins, Indiana, and Steve Harrington didn't know what he was doing with his life. Home from college with a barely passing GPA, recently dumped, and drunkenly careening down a dark country road to the tune of his own misery, Steve was aware that he might be depressed. Therapy would've been the sane solution. But before he could turn around and make that choice, a glowing red hole cracked open in the middle of the road, and he was sent flying through time and space.
It was also 1985 in boring Hawkins, Indiana, and Eddie Munson had a five step plan on how to fix his life. First, graduate high school. Second, provide a kickass D&D campaign for the nosy little freshman that joined Hellfire. And finally, write more music and go on tour with his band. Okay, three step plan. Absolutely nothing about his plan-in-progress included stumbling across the hottest man he'd ever seen stranded on the side of the road. Or the glowing red portal to hell parked next to him.
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Eddie loathes the idea of soulmates. The words his soulmate will say the moment they realize they are in love with him sit heavy on his wrist. Heavy like a burden, like a cursed prophet, harbinger of death. Others cry tears of joy when they get their words, Eddie had cried tears of anxiety. The dark letters on his wrist read, “Dustin died.”
On the other side of town and yet worlds apart from Eddie, Steve loathes the words on his wrist just as much. Not because he doesn’t want a soulmate. No, he longs for them every day. And every day is a painful reminder that he hasn’t found them yet when someone randomly calls out his words. The letters on his wrist simply say, “Hey Steve.”
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you don't have to be sorry for doing it on your own by elyzaapple
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Dec 2025
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He gets the call and everything is slow motion. He’s barely able to understand what’s happening. The words are mumbled in his brain, he picks them apart like he’s sifting for a needle in a haystack. Claudia Henderson was found dead. Her son is waiting at the police station.
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Steve becomes Dustin's legal guardian after his mom's death. He's figuring it out along the way with the help of a certain curly-haired metal-head he can't seem to get out of his head.
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- Part 1 of you are not alone
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Steve is a twitch streamer that goes by the name Batting_Nails, and his husband Eddie is the front man of a big time Heavy Metal band called Corroded Coffin. The only thing is, no one knows that they are married to each other. So Steve has to constantly defend his title as a fan of Corroded Coffin because if we are being completely honest there is always more than what meets the eye.
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The Party Watches IT by Squirrel_Tail22
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King
01 Nov 2023
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Honestly, it wasn't fair. Dustin wasn't talking to him, El broke up with him, again, and now Will's mad at him. He doesn't even know what he did, so how does any of that make sense? Max and Lucas seemed to be the only ones on neutral grounds. Well, is it neutral if they agree more with the others than with him? He just wanted a moment of peace so he can try and solve one thing before moving on to the next and then the next, was that too much to ask?
Apparently, it was because now he was stuck in a room with his friends about to watch something he didn't want to talk about. Ever.
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- Part 2 of The Party Watches
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smoking guns (hot to the touch) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2022
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Sure, they've saved the world, but the best part of that really is that it doesn't end there and in a town where everyone thinks he murdered a girl, he's at least got Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley. It's really not his fault he accidentally starts living at Steve's house, he was invited, after all. There's a mystery too, about Barbara Holland and Steve's pool.
“Your boner is digging into me,” says Robin, and Steve snorts a tired sort of laugh.
“I don’t have a —”
“You do, I can feel it. Gross.”
“Okay, but it’s only a little one,” he says in a small voice which sounds like he’s impersonating someone.
“Are you ever going to let that go? I peed a little bit when the Russians got the torture devices out, okay?” She sounds amused, though.
Eddie jolts. “Russian torture devices?”
Robin carries on like she didn’t hear him but Steve catches his eye and he’s grinning. “How do you even have a boner dude? You were definitely having a nightmare I know your twitching means a nightmare… Did you have a boner over Vecna?”
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In Miami, on vacation with his parents, Steve meets Eddie. So what if he doesn't get a last name or a phone number, it was a summer fling and they had a great month together. He doesn't realise it was Eddie fucking Munson until the guy has a broken bottle to his neck and they're about to go face interdimensional aliens together. Steve doesn't know when his life became a very fucked up and non-musical version of Grease.
Robin’s lips twitch. “And it was just a summer fling?”
He narrows his eyes at her. “What?”
“You’re such a hopeless romantic, Steve. Sometimes I don’t know what to do with you.” He must look as confused as he feels because she laughs and says, “Dude, you like sighed his name, you’re so done for.”
“Shut up. It’s not like I’m ever going to see him again, is it? I’m never even going to hear his name again. It was a summer fling and that’s all.”
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- Part 1 of i got chills (they're multiplying)
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“They don't even make any sense,” Eddie continued, “they just keep muttering ‘WWSD’ to themselves before completely fucking up all my plans.”
“WWSD?” Steve repeated, “what does that mean?”
Eddie slurped a long piece of pasta up, “hell if I know, they just act so unpredictably.”
“You want me to interrogate Dustin?” Steve offered, “I’ll do it, I promise.”
Eddie laughed, “yeah, I know, Darling, but let's not traumatise him just yet.”
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Or, Steve plays D&D to get to the bottom of the kids' new code and in the process learns just how loved he is.- Language:
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“Mike, buddy, I hate to break it to you, but that sounds gay,” Dustin says. “Like, no offence. But a guy just doesn’t think that other guys are nice to look at.”
It turns out that Mike Wheeler has spent his whole life thinking that everyone under the sun thinks that boys are pretty. Will doesn't really know what to do with that - and Mike doesn't really know what to do with himself when he finds out that it's not true. Emotional turmoil ensues.
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- Part 1 of Unrelated Stranger Things Shorts
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swing over the creek (too scared to jump in) by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Aug 2022
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The Byers were staying at Hopper’s new place indefinitely or at least for the summer (and Mike had a plan):
Mike’s Plan for His Weird “Feelings” (and other unsaid things)
1. Everything is fine.
2. Will's face or otherwise broad shoulders have no effect on him
3. He does not want to taste Will’s lips.
4. He will spend the next week being very normal around his best friend, and spend an all-together very pleasant time.
5. Because: everything is fine, he is a self-functioning, intelligent person.or alternatively: mike wheeler attempts to not be an idiot in front of will as his half-assed plan falls apart as he stays with them for a week.
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“Do you mind shutting up?” Max glared at Mike, “Will you should use him as a football, throw him around a little. Maybe that will finally get him to stop talking.”
Will half-choked, “I can’t— I’m not that strong.”
“I wouldn’t mind.” Mike said, before thinking.
Mike vaguely attempts to woo Will in a arm-wrestling contest and comes to a few realizations (after decidedly not swooning).
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“Lucas you have to tell me —” she pats his arm vigorously— “is Mike blushing?”
Lucas takes a moment to process this but Max can tell the moment he understands what she’s been trying to say all along when he starts patting her arm back.
“Oh my God, he totally is,” he says, and he sounds awed, like he’s just made a world-changing discovery. “Is this what you meant?”
“That they’re totally crushing on each other?” Screw subtlety. “Duh.”
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Or -- 5 times people agree that Will and Mike have a crush on each other + the time they discover the truth
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i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this). by burgundyshirts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.
When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.
“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything other than sigh like a lovesick idiot. It’s a second too late for Mike, because he grumbles more words Will doesn’t catch under his breath and then physically pushes Will towards the wall to lay beside him, arm over Will’s middle. A second of silence passes, then Mike sighs, only to whine: “Fuck, my head hurts.”
Will can’t help it: he breaks down laughing, much to Mike’s offense.
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Alternatively: five times Mike kissed Will, and one time Will kissed back.
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paper bin and love letters (let me dump my love on you) by Inedia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Aug 2022
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“Mike abruptly stands up, too fast for Will to follow him. He picks up his paper bin, carefully standing next to his desk, full of crumbled pieces of paper. It happens too fast for Will’s understanding. In three steps he’s towering above him and the next second, Mike dumps the contents of his paper bin on him before storming out his room and slamming the door behind him.”
Or: After a fight, Will finds the letters that Mike has written to him but never sent. They all end with "Love, Mike."
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I Didn't Know There Were Wizards in California by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
10 Jul 2022
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Will ignores a timid reply from his classmate, his focus fully on this strange interloper that could be his best friend’s twin.
Evil twin, as Dustin would say, his voice low and incriminating. Ultraman type shit. Will considers relaying the situation on their upcoming weekly call to make the current situation less unsettling.
The guy is cautiously smiling back now – a reflection of Will’s unconscious expression at the thought of Dustin’s clarification – and it doesn’t falter, even once Will loses his amusement. Instead, the grin widens, almost too big for his face and definitely too big for Mike’s usual range of expression. His eyebrows rise above the rim of his lenses.
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- Part 1 of Belonging to Your Dreams
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Mike Wheeler hides behind a facade to conceal the pain in his heart. He turns to bad habits, secrets, and stays cloaked in the shadows. That is until an all too familiar foe reemerges in Hawkins and preys on those just like him. Those hiding behind masks, plagued by their pain.
Nobody suspected Vecna would go after Michael Wheeler. Maxine Mayfield, sure. Will Byers? Oh definitely. They’re caught by surprise when Mike Wheeler is targeted and Vecna chases after him like a hunting dog. After all, why give up such easy prey?
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- Part 1 of Mike Wheeler suffering
- Part 1 of TFYW Spinoffs
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