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   Grey Matter by slavicviking

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   12 Dec 2023

   Tags

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   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Robin Buckley
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Hellfire Club (Stranger Things)
   • Tommy Hagan
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Gay Eddie Munson
   • Bisexual Steve Harrington
   • Coming Out
   • the essence of a slow burn but only three chapters long
   • Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents
   • Mutual Pining
   • the art of never-the-right-time-to-kiss-your-homie
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Stranger Things 3
   • Stranger Things 2
   • Stranger Things 1
   • Steddie Big Bang 2023 (Stranger Things)
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Underage Drinking

   Summary

   In the fall of 1983, Nancy Wheeler rejects Steve Harrington, thus sparing him from the terrifying world of the Upside Down. Until Summer of 1985, that is, when what was supposed to be mind-numbingly boring two months of slinging ice cream promptly turns into a task of decoding a secret Russian message with his two closest friends and a strange kid that never shuts up.

    

   Or, an alternative universe in which Steve Harrington gets to live his normal life for an additional year and a half, grow as a person, make new friends and fall in love along the way.

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