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Eddie's trying to mind his own business, he really is, but that's hard to do when Steve Harrington's sitting in the rain at the bus stop looking like someone beat the shit out of him.
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21 Dec 2025
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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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"If he’s being honest, Steve didn’t even know he had a breaking point with shovel talks until he gets his fifth one [...].
It’s not even a shovel talk. It’s just a single sentence, said almost a month after [he] learned about their relationship."Steve receives several shovel talks once he starts dating Eddie. Eddie receives zero shovel talks. Why does everyone think Steve's going to end up hurting Eddie?
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Bucky blinks at him. "You’re sure your brain wasn’t damaged?"
"Yes," Steve sputters. "Why do you keep asking that?"
"I almost killed you," Bucky says, still with almost no emotion in his voice. It’s unclear if he’s questioning Steve because he can’t seem to string a sentence together, or because it’s crazy to tell Bucky he’s still a hero after almost being murdered by him, but it doesn’t matter.
"You didn’t, though," Steve says firmly. "And you’re… here."
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Steve has never forgotten Bucky Barnes. Not their childhood together, not the horror of the moment Bucky fell too far for him to reach, and not the way he's loved him all the while.
Bucky has forgotten everything about Steve, at least at first. But there's still a feeling there, warm in his chest—and maybe now that he's found his way back to Steve Rogers and his sunny apartment, there's a chance it might turn into something more.