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Eddie convinces Steve to join a fairytale one shot DnD game he's hosting for the older teens to try playing the game for the first time.
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"It's not that Nance," Steve interrupted. "Eddie was just asking about the way you tease me sometimes.
Eddie was sure Steve looked a little flushed, but his voice was steady.
"Oh! Sorry, did I go too far? It's a funny line to walk, I don't want to make either of you uncomfortable."
"I think you know I don't mind being a little uncomfortable."
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Nancy and Steve have finally figured out how to be friends but it's a little weird. When they explain, Eddie learns something new about his boyfriend.
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He hadn't thought to knock, just let himself into Steve and Eddie's place like he always does when he feels like seeing them. What he hadn't bargained on was seeing this much of them.
Eddie had turned to look when the door opened, but it doesn't seem like he knows what to say. Steve is hiding behind him to avoid eye contact, but hints of his tanned skin are still visible and clearly flushed. Hm, better break the tension.
"Hey my dude," he addresses Eddie. "I was gonna eat that!"
Or, Argyle walks in on Eddie and Steve, who invite him to stay and play.
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"Robs, Eddie's mad at me. I did something wrong, I think. I don't really know."
"Can you tell me what happened?"
"We were watching movies last night and we-" his throat closes up on him and he struggles to take in a deep breath. "We kissed."
"What!?" The unlucky customers waiting on them can probably hear her, she reacts so loudly.
"I know! I wasn't expecting it."
A look of confusion crosses her face.
"Wait but Steve, you're-"
"Straight? I know!"
Does he, though? She gives him a curious look that seems to ask the same question.
Steve didn’t used to like being someone who knows, when that meant keeping secrets about horrifying and heartbreaking things. But now that he's learning beautiful and precious secrets about the people who are important to him, he's starting to learn that being one of the ones who know doesn't have to be so bad.
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Steve pointed at him. "If your hand goes below my waist for more than five seconds, I'm pulling the plug."
"I'm counting to five so slow.” Eddie murmured.
"Eddie."
"Sweetheart."
Steve groaned. "This is going to be the longest week of my life."
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Steve hires Eddie to be his boyfriend.Bookmarked by tacticat
22 Jan 2026
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Steve realises that he likes girls and boys; yet, before he’s even had time to feel settled within his own understanding of himself, he is suddenly overwhelmed as Eddie overhears his confession that not only is Steve queer, but that he likes Eddie too.
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21 Dec 2024
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She wanted to ask what exactly she’d done wrong. She wanted to ask why Eddie hadn’t just tried to get a new roommate by now.
Was she doing okay? Was school as ridiculously hard for her as it was for Stevie?
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15 Aug 2024
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It started out as a simple lie.
He should have known better than to get involved in a lie with Elim Garak.
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19 Jul 2024
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“Sorry,” Steve says. “I’m sorry, I know this doesn’t make any sense to you, but can I just–”
Eddie lets him approach, this time. Lets him reach out to touch, to curl his fingers in the hem of Eddie’s shirt.
“Sorry, I know I probably sound crazy, I just––” he pulls it up, stares at Eddie’s side, and then lets out a hysterical little noise that sounds like a cross between a laugh and a sob.
“You’re ok,” Steve says.
His fingers are hot on Eddie’s skin, pressed light and shockingly reverent to the space between his hip and rib cage.
“You’re ok,” he repeats. It sounds like he’s trying to convince himself.
“Hey,” Eddie says. It comes out more breathless than he’d prefer but Steve fucking Harrington has him backed against a wall in a bathroom with his hands up Eddie’s shirt so he thinks a little lack of air is warranted. “Are you ok?”
The fingers on his abdomen flex. "No,” Steve says. His eyes are wide and fathomless and the look on his face is terrible. “No, I’m not even remotely ok.”
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