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Hush, Little Baby (Beast Under Your Bed) by steviejeebies
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Oct 2023
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Steve begins to have a weird feeling prickling down his neck at random points throughout his day. At school, at work, at the grocery store, at home… He can’t put his finger on it.
It feels like he’s being watched, but no matter how hard he looks into all the corners of the room, there’s no one there. Months go by, and the nagging feeling he’s being watched never goes away.
Someone is stalking him.
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16 Feb 2026
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Holster spots it first.
"Holy shit, Nurse!" he says, loud enough to shatter the pre-practice quiet. "Did you pull a cougar last night or something?"
(Nursey has a unique way of handling stress. Dex is seriously, seriously unchill.)
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14 Feb 2026
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“My lord,” Steve says and shifts onto his knees in an attempt to bow. To be humble. To show his respect. To admit to his own mortal inferiority. He grits his teeth through it.
“Shit, my lord, you can cut the formalities, darling,” the god chuckles. “Though I do like seeing you on your knees.”
“What should I call you then?” Steve asks. “Your divine presence? Celestial master? Pompous ass?”
The god just laughs and glances over his shoulder at his own ass.
“Not much there to be considered pompous, I’m afraid,” he says before he turns back to Steve, no trace of the anger that Steve is choking on found in his face. “I like celestial master, has some dramatic flair to it. But Eddie will do just fine.”
“God of wine making and pleasure,” Steve says automatically.
“Also of orchards and fruit, fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theater, darling,” Eddie does a little bow himself. “At your service.”or: after helping Tommy slay the minotaur, Steve gets left behind on a small island to die. That's where he meets Eddie, god of wine and pleasure. Steve doesn't like gods, but this one is different. This one might help him heal from all his trauma, guilt, and broken heart.
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14 Feb 2026
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Steve didn’t know what he was looking for when they left Hawkins—just that he wanted Eddie in the passenger seat and the past in the rearview mirror. What followed were four months of road trips, river swims, campfires, and a duck they may or may not have accidentally adopted.
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26 Jan 2026
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Eddie squints into the bright sunlight flooding the kitchen. He’s eating a bowl of lucky charms that taste like chemicals and fake sugar and he’s not even sure he’s going to make it to the end of the first mouthful. The texture is grainy and artificially chewy and Eddie is sure he used to like these.
Steve, the guy in Eddie’s house, sits himself opposite with neat little piles of scrambled eggs and cut fruit on his plate. He looks at Eddie, gets up again, pulls the blind just far enough that Eddie’s eyes are shaded, and then comes back to his breakfast.
“Can I get you anything?”
“You can get the fuck out of my house,” Eddie replies. But there’s no bite. No meaning. No energy. No anything behind the words. He’s so fucking tired and so done with it all.
Steve carries on like Eddie hasn’t spoken, and eats his breakfast.