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“No one’s going to be looking for you here, if they’re even still looking. It’s safe,” Steve said.
His hand was still around Steve’s wrist, tethering him in place. His fingers were over Steve’s pulse, and Steve felt impossibly nervous all of a sudden. It was the adrenaline of the day. It was his spotty memory. That was all.
“No, I mean…is it okay with you?” Eddie said.
He didn’t need to say more. Steve was often slow on the uptake, but he could put this much together. Not long ago Steve and Eddie had barely known each other. Not long ago Eddie only knew him as that popular asshole who crashed and burned right out of high school and Steve knew Eddie as the drug dealing D&D freak who had charmed the hell out of Henderson, but somehow couldn’t charm his way to a high school diploma.
Steve swallowed, thickly. “‘Course it’s okay. I’m the one who offered,” he said.
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18 Feb 2026
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i'll kiss your mouth, and you'll be better for it by cpressmn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Sep 2022
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“Why didn’t either of you tell us you were dating?”
He looks so hurt and indignant in the way only Dustin can, and maybe it’s not too late to run out after Steve and make their case for the beers again if it means the kid’ll stop frowning and looking at Eddie like that. It takes a minute for his words to sink in.
Eddie blinks. “What.”
“What do you mean, what? You kissed!”
“No, we didn’t,” Eddie scoffs.
Except, yes, they did. Realization crashes over him, the force of it stunning him into silence.
Steve kissed him. On the lips. Like it was nothing, like it was something they did every day.
And Eddie hadn’t even blinked or shoved him away or registered it at all, just returned the kiss and went right back to bossing Steve around, as if the whole fucking thing was the most natural thing in the world.
Fuck.
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18 Feb 2026
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It's all fun and games until Steve Harrington starts flirting back.
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17 Feb 2026
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Scoops Ahoy.
America’s favorite place to cool down, and quite possibly the lamest summer job under the blazing Indiana sun.
Especially if you were former High School royalty, brutally rejected by each and every university you’d applied to and promptly cut off by your shitty parents in an effort to teach: “some goddamned responsibility.”
Between accidentally intercepted secret Russian communications, a meddling preteen matchmaker with no collarbones, and increased proximity with Eddie ‘The Freak’ Munson, a measly $3 an hour plus tips is nowhere near enough to deal.
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17 Feb 2026
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to my heart i must be true by MacksDramaticShenanigans for wonderthestarsapart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2023
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Robin starts to smile, this big, evil grin that unfurls slowly across her face, and oh. Oh no. That’s not good. That’s never good. That always means trouble.
Robin sticks her hands on her hips and juts her chin out at Steve. “I bet I can get a Valentine’s date before you can,” she says, all arrogance.
Dustin and Lucas oooh at her fighting words, then turn to Steve for his rebuttal.
“Robin, Robin, are you sure you want to do that?” He asks, standing to his full height. His shoulders roll back, and he feels the patented Harrington Charm flooding back through his body like a switch has been flipped.
“Absolutely certain,” Robin replies, not backing down. She holds out her hand.
Steve shakes his head at her, then lets an easy, confident smile curl his mouth. “You’re gonna regret that,” he says, then smacks his palm into hers, “but you’re on.”
In which a bet is made, Steve’s prowess shines until it doesn’t, and sometimes things don’t end up the way they’re planned.
Sometimes, they end up better.
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16 Feb 2026
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i'm feeling devious (you're looking glamorous) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jun 2023
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Steve Harrington is secretly a nerd. He's also, in Eddie's opinion, a massive dick. (Or: five times nobody but Eddie believes that Steve is a giant nerd, and one time he tells everyone else.)
“Oh, you’re kidding, I love that book,” says Steve Harrington.
Eddie wonders, for about half a second, if he’s somehow fallen into a different dimension. He stares down at the battered copy of 'The Silmarillion' just in case he’s accidentally been reading like… whatever jocks read, a basketball like — handbook, or whatever. He isn’t. It’s still 'The Silmarillion'. Eddie looks up at Steve Harrington, who is standing at the bottom of the stairs Eddie is sitting on, sunlight in his hair, sneakers shifting awkwardly on the tarmac of the school yard. “Uh-huh,” Eddie says, sort of dumbly.
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16 Feb 2026
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i have a history (of taking off my shirt) by bottlerocket32557038
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Apr 2023
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All this is to say that Eddie’s a little preoccupied during the whole undressing bit, so when he finally gets his shit together and looks up, there’s Steve Harrington in all his half-naked glory. The skin on his back is pale, reflecting the light from the moon, and it’s covered in a scattering of moles and freckles that Eddie suddenly wants to trace with his tongue, which, where the fuck did that come from?
or - 5 times Steve takes off his shirt in front of Eddie and 1 time Eddie does it for him.
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16 Feb 2026
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Steve is going to die.
And because this is Hawkins, a town with an alternate dimension right up its asscrack, he isn't going to die in a normal way. No, instead he's going to die because he can't stop coughing up the most disgusting combination of Upside Down gunk and...flower petals?
What the fuck is happening to him?
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16 Feb 2026
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Let Me Be Your Man (I want to hold your hand) by ArtaxLivs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2023
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“Um, well…I, uh, I like someone.” Mike sighs, looking down at the tile where he’s still tracing the lines.
Someone not a girl. Someone. Will. It’s gotta be Will. Steve has seen the way that they both look at each other when the other isn’t looking. He and Robin have talked about it, about which one to approach first to invite them into their elite Hawkins Gay Club which currently has two members. Not one and a half, Robin. Being bisexual still means he’s a whole gay. Dang it.
OR - Mike needs to make a mixtape. Eddie sucks at it. He goes to Steve.
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16 Feb 2026
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It was getting beyond ridiculous now. And if no one else wanted to help, then Dustin would take it upon himself.
Steve had helped him get his first girlfriend. He’d put his body between Dustin and the demodogs in the tunnels even though he was half conscious and fully concussed. He’d helped them escape from torture and taken the blows in their place. He’d kept silent about his bites while they strategized in Max’s trailer. He’d been with them through almost everything. The only thing he’d missed was that first year but even then he was defending Nancy and Jonathan.
He wanted his brother to be happy.
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Dustin thinks Steve would be so much happier if he got back together with Nancy again. So he conspires to make that happen. But there's some variables he hadn't considered.
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16 Feb 2026
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“Wh—oh, you gotta be shittin’ me.”
“Are we locked in here?” Eddie asks, and it comes out as an embarrassing squeak.
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16 Feb 2026
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Eddie and Steve have been living together, working together, and raising their cat together for a few years, now, but they’re not together together. They’re friends—the best of—nothing more, and they’re happy.
At least, Eddie is, and he thought Steve was too. But then he finds a pact they made, one drunken night ten years ago, where they pledged to ‘marry’ each other if they were still single by the time they’re thirty, and everything changes.
Steve isn’t amused by the reappearance of the pledge, seems almost upset by it, and Eddie figures it’s because he’s going to be thirty soon and doesn’t have a girlfriend. So, he does what any best friend would do: promises to find Steve his perfect woman, setting him up on a series of unsuccessful blind dates.
But somewhere along the way, Eddie rediscovers feelings that he thought he’d put aside years ago. He just hopes he hasn’t discovered them too late.
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16 Feb 2026
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the edges of your soul i haven't seen yet by Atalia_Gold
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Oct 2024
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Steve ignores the cat, at first.
He’s digging a thumbnail into the meat of his palm, shuffling from foot to foot every so often, dragging a lip so hard between his teeth that Eddie’s worried he’s gonna make it bleed, and Eddie isn’t sure what to do. He wants to help, wants to somehow soothe the boy, but he isn’t sure how, thinks if he gets any closer to him he’ll only make things worse.
The cats meows again. Presses itself harder up against Steve, stretches up so its little front paws are against his thigh, kneading insistently, refusing to be ignored.
Steve sags a little. Reaches down with a trembling hand, strokes it across the cat’s head, and Eddie can hear the rumbling purr start up from the little creature. He watches as Steve loosens up, as his fingers unclench and his teeth release his lip and the frown fades slowly from his lovely face.
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Eddie's reluctantly helping Wayne with his produce stall at the farmers' market. He's resigned himself to a boring summer - until a new face shows up at the market to run a baking stall with his best friend. Steve is...odd, like no one Eddie's ever met.
And it doesn't take him long to fall head over heels for him.
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15 Feb 2026
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and i'm gonna keep on loving you by Atalia_Gold for starthecozy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Static garbles over the radio.
Then, a voice.
“…Eddie?”
It’s quiet. Brief. Almost imperceptible, and probably would’ve been to anyone else listening.
But Eddie would know Steve’s voice at the ends of the earth.
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In the Upside Down WSQK building, Eddie takes refuge and tries to get a message back to his friends.
At Christmas, they set out to rescue him.
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15 Feb 2026
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This freak has a heart, it belongs to the King by LittleBitOfKeery
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Sep 2023
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Slow burn in which we have a brief recap of the twelve months post Vecna. Steve and Eddie spend an evening in July getting to know each other, and although Eddie falls first, Steve falls harder… even though it takes him a hot second to figure it out.
Eddie also writes Steve a song 🥹
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Nancy looks at Robin, Robin meets her gaze and nods minutely. Nancy takes a deep breath, twiddles her thumbs “Steve.. have you ever— noticed, the way Eddie looks at you?—” She begins gently. There’s a brief silence, after meeting Steve’s bemused expression she continues —“the way he— reaches out for you when you’re nearby… the way his whole face lights up when you walk in the room?”
Four Chapters in One because I’m lazy 😘
Not Beta read, mistakes are all mine.Now with Added Sex Scene because you’re all feral for these guys (as am I) 😉
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15 Feb 2026
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How to Lose a Guy in (11) Days by Bendeddicks24
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
15 Jul 2025
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Steve is a successful yet miserable writer caught in the trap of 'How to' articles and shallow stories when all he wants to do is be a serious author. Then, when his friend Robin has been struggling with relationship issues, he thinks up a 'How to' article that could change his career for good, even if it means dooming his love life for good too.
Eddie is a famous yet unlucky rock star caught in the trap of a strict record label. They want nothing more than a love song, ultimately deciding Eddie is incapable of writing something he knows "nothing" about. So, Eddie makes a deal to make someone fall in love with him within ten days to get his songwriting title back, maybe finding actual love along the way.
AKA: It's a Steddie x How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Crossover because I rewatched the movie and got bored.
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15 Feb 2026
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Eddie leans in, his face drawing closer to Steve’s. His eye catches the faint silver glint of Eddie’s rings where they rest against his skin. And for a split second, Steve’s mind short-circuits. He thinks Eddie is going to kiss him.
So why does he lean in, too?
Steve barely registers what he’s doing until his nose brushes the side of Eddie’s cheek, warm and slightly tacky from sweat. His skin tingles with the contact, the tension between them tightening like a drawn bowstring.
Then Eddie’s lips part—not to kiss, but to speak.
“Hey.” Eddie’s voice is temptingly husky as he tilts his head to whisper directly into Steve’s ear. The vibrations of his words send a shiver down Steve’s spine, and it takes everything in him not to react visibly. “After the set, what do you say we head back to our room?”
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Eddie shows Steve how to loosen up on an underground rock club's dancefloor. There are better places to be stiff, after all.
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15 Feb 2026
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Steve Harrington doesn’t believe in soulmates until bruised words show up on his arm and a grungy student bar singer sings them at him.
Eddie Munson doesn’t believe in fate either, but it’s hard to argue with fate when it's written in your skin.
Fastburn Soulmates/College!AU.
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14 Feb 2026
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When Eddie shows up wanting a favour, the absolute last thing Steve anticipates is being asked to fake being the metalhead's boyfriend around Wayne Munson.
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14 Feb 2026
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Favourite Flavour, Cherry Red by morningberries, Sansa87
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Oct 2025
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Eddie tilts his head, the smear of paint around his mouth cracking with the grin that blooms there.
“I'm working,” he says easily. “Entertaining the masses. Keeping you on your toes.” He steps back half a pace, sword hilt glinting as he slides it off his shoulder, letting it hang loose at his side. “You scare easy, Harrington.”
“I—” Steve’s throat clicks as he swallows the dregs of his fear. “You chased me.”
“Part of the job,” Eddie says with a shrug. “You ran. I followed. Great audience participation, by the way.”
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A year after a blackout Halloween hookup, Steve Harrington gets dragged to Florida’s biggest haunted attraction—only to find himself tormented by one very real ghost from his past.
The worst part of it all?
He's starting to really like it.Bookmarked by CursedVaults
14 Feb 2026