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there was nothing in the world that i ever wanted more by seph_bites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jan 2026
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When Jonathan canceled on the group's plans, Steve paid him a visit to find out the real reason. It doesn't go the way he expects.
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Something was amiss. Steve knew because Jonathan never skipped Friday nights with him, Robin, and Nancy. That, on top of his dry and cryptic messages from the day before; vaguely mentioning an argument with his dad who was in town for some reason.His knuckles wrapped on the glass and Jonathan’s dark figure shifted, turning to face him. “Byers, let me in,” he hissed, rubbing his hands together in an effort to warm them.
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Steve hasn’t been sleeping. The panic attacks are getting worse, the ringing in his ears won’t stop, and he can’t look in the mirror without seeing what the Russians did to him. So he does something he never thought he’d do—he shows up at Jonathan Byers’ door asking for weed.
What starts as a desperate attempt to quiet his mind for a few hours turns into something else entirely: an honest conversation, a vulnerability he didn’t know he was capable of, and maybe, finally, the understanding that he doesn’t have to carry his trauma alone.
tl;dr: Steve Harrington shows up at Jonathan Byers’ house with a lie about wanting to try weed “for fun.” Jonathan sees right through it.
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The weird thing about nights like tonight, though, is that they might be cursed but they’re also the only time Jonathan ever gets to see Steve Harrington without it being unforgivingly awkward. Even if seeing him involves being the one helping him onto a hospital exam table and then standing to the side to provide clumsy emotional support, Jonathan will take it.
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When Steve finds himself as the last of his friends left in Hawkins with no suitors on the horizon, he agrees to let his parents set him up with one of their chosen alphas.
Adam is nice. Normal. But a year in, Adam is still dragging his feet about having kids, the one thing Steve asked for in their arrangement, and the fighting begins. When things get violent, Steve finds himself on the run, unknowingly putting himself on the path toward the Munson Rehabilitation Ranch and the small family that owns it. More importantly, he's sent barreling toward the owners' alpha nephew, Eddie Munson.
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steve has been going through it. not only because of the, you know, four near-apocalypses he's survived, but because his brain is wonky and he can't cope. after vecna though, he feels himself drowning and needs help from his found family to bring him back from under the water.
spoilers: they do. he also falls in love with eddie along the way. featuring a gender crisis and platonic soulmate bonding with one robin buckley.
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Eddie Munson’s day begins as an epic hunt for missing guitar picks and devolves into an emotional unraveling about Steve Harrington, one misplaced notebook, and the kind of secrets that terrify even former jocks.
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Where do we go from here? (quietly fading away) by allandmore
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Sep 2022
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"What’s scarier than saving the world? Figuring out what to do afterwards. I get it,” Eddie turns on his side, one shoulder on the wall, and grips the front of Steve’s shirt. His face is so close Steve can feel the warmth of his breath. “But we’ve got time now. Right, Steve? We bought us all time. Time to figure all our shit out. Isn’t that what matters?”
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Steve Harrington struggles to find purpose after the Upside Down.
(But maybe purpose doesn't have to be big. Maybe it's helping Dustin navigate Sophomore year. Maybe it's reminding Robin to send in college admission letters. Maybe it's Eddie Munson. Maybe).
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It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.
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Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.
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- Part 1 of Nowhere to look but inside
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Steve Harrington has always conformed to who others want him to be, however after everything that has happened with Vecna, he grows closer with Eddie and Robin. The three of them become an inseparable trio and in their queer sphere Steve learns that he isn’t as straight as he thought he was, he also isn’t a boy. The discovery sets him on a road to find himself and the person he wants to be.
This is the story about Eddie, Stevie and Robin becoming soulmates and finding themselves as they build a life how they want to live it - queer and happy - and how to navigate that while living in a small town in Indiana.
Found family, queer joy and good vibes here!
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“Baby look at me,” Eddie whispers. Still soft, so fucking soft, “baby you’re the best lay I’ve ever had.”
It doesn’t make him feel better.
It breaks him.
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Steve has a lot of issues to work out and the fallout of the Vecna situation only expedites the process. He falls in love with Eddie, takes in some new children, and gains some parents. It's good for him in the end. It's the middle bit that sucks. A lot.
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He had gone through the whole attracted-also-to-men crisis in the years before, so even though he still hadn’t managed to tell Robin, or even find the courage to say the words to describe himself aloud, the attraction wasn’t a surprise. It had occurred to him when Jonathan had won over Nancy that while he was mostly jealous of Jonathan because he was pretty sure some part of him would always love Nancy, orbiting back to her at any given opportunity, sometimes he was jealous of Nancy, of the way she let Jonathan kiss her, his big hands resting on her face, and actually, in retrospect, the whole hand thing should have become apparent to him way earlier than it had.
All that to say, Steve was well aware he was attracted to Eddie and occasionally dreamt about sucking on Eddie’s fingers, but it didn’t have to mean anything, and moreover, couldn’t. The whole thing with El and the Upside Down derailed his life, but eventually he was going to get his shit back together and back on track, and he couldn’t be doing that and also bringing men home on the weekends.
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A Steve recovery steddie slow burn. This fic is finished at 110k and currently being beta'd. Tags apply to the entire fic (but some tags may be added). -
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Steve knew that he wasn't the most intelligent man in the world. He was never very academically gifted. He had never found any passion or hobby that required special knowledge. He didn't have any skills that set him apart from the majority, really. Something Steve did have, however, was social skills and he knew that he was good at reading people. So, he certainly never expected to be in a situation where Robin was explaining social cues to him.
Or: Robin makes an observation that leads to Steve's hot girl summer: the bisexual edition.
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“What I’m trying to say is that I want to be your first kiss, Eddie, if that’s okay with you,” Steve said, his voice earnest and face open with sincerity. Even in the dim light from the dashboard, his eyes still looked like summer sunshine. Eddie stared slack jawed at him for several heartbeats.
“That was the point of your whole speech thing?” he asked, feeling a bit bewildered.
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Steve learns about rock music and D&D. Eddie learns about the finer points of being seduced by a Harrington. Vignettes from August through December in 1986.
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After Vecna and after the Upside Down and after the hospital, comes the even harder part of putting all the shattered pieces of their lives back where they belong, and it should be easy because they've done it before, except something is different this time and they don't quite fit together the way they used to.
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Eddie Munson was loud and big and weird like no one Steve had ever known before, and Steve thought he might be a little bit in love with him.
It kind of scared him.Steve Harrington looked like he tasted of Cherry Coke and spearmint, and Eddie really fucking hated Cherry Coke and spearmint, but he loved Steve Harrington, and he knew his younger self would be having a conniption if he could see him now.
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The real reason Steve never really dates anymore is this: the nightmares and the secrets behind them.
In the middle of the night, reeling from bad dreams, Steve properly starts on the mixtape Eddie made for him. Master of Puppets made Eddie feel invincible once. Maybe Steve can borrow that feeling for one night.
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forwards beckon rebound by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Nov 2025
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“Harrington,” he croaks - god why, why do I have to sound like that in front of him - he clears his throat, continuing, “you couldn’t have done me a favour and let me die in that shithole, spare me from Dustin?”
Steve finally turns to look at him, grinning madly. Fuck, Eddie thinks, fuck this is so unfair. You’re just standing there looking at me like that, smiling, all broad and pretty and scarred up, fuuuck.
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Alternatively titled: the Steve Harrington bisexual crashout of 1986. Because vecna might be dead- but repressing your feelings (and trying therapeutic D&D with the direct cause of your identity crisis)- is quite enough to be getting on with.
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This is where all parts of my HOH/deaf Steve Steddie AU will be kept 🤟
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1987 went to shit. Vecna brought on what may well be the apocalypse, and Steve fought it to the end. Literally.
Death was supposed to be a one-way street. But knowing a girl with super powers had a tendency to change the game. So when Steve opens his eyes to a beer-soaked bathroom on Halloween in 1984, Nancy calling him 'bullshit' all over again, the universe might forgive Steve for thinking he was either a) in Hell or b) going cracked. But Steve didn't have time to freakout. Not when El finds him and asks that he help her change the events of the future. Not when he's the only other person she managed to drag with her for chance number two.
OR: A time travel fix-it, where 1987 Steve is dropped back into his 1984 self. And now he has to deal with that plus the impending apocalypse on the horizon. But he'll be fine, right? Because, as El informs whoever asks, Steve's 'The Babysitter'. So he gets to work. He can cry later, when he's done.
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Good Ol' Fashioned Sexuality Crisis During the Apocalypse by words_reign_here
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Feb 2024
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The descent is slow, like watching someone knock your mom’s favorite crystal vase off the shelf and the sheer horror and panic that overwhelms you and slows time down, makes you think that you can get across the room in time to catch it.
But you never do, do you?
The vase shatters and with it, so does every preconceived notion you have of yourself.
That’s what Steve learns.
He learns how to fall, gracefully even.
And in the end, he learns how to shatter.Or
Steve saves Eddie in the Upside Down and it's hilarious and it broke Steve wide open.
There is family, and oh god, there is so much love.
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Steve Harrington has begun to hear the clocks ticking, and he knows Vecna is coming for him next. But he can't worry the kids when they have a plan. Will the group stop Vecna before he gets Steve, or will Steve have to face his worst fears at the hand of this monster?
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Eddie is the only one who notices Steve is acting weird, and while they get ~close~ he learns all about one Steve Harrington.
Canon-diverse, breaks off around the time Max is first Vecna-d.