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Where you go when you can't go home by MatildaVespasian
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2025
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His parents had told him they had given him too many good things in life, spent their money – their valuable time, just to have their only son end up working at a video store.
So, he's told it's time to make his own way in the world, if he's not going to follow theirs. He didn't realise where he had been driving when he finally pulled up to the small cabin in the forest.
Steve Harrington gets kicked out and finds himself crashing on Jim Hopper's couch, striking up a surprising friendship with Eddie Munson that changes his life and gains a family he never expected to have.
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16 Feb 2026
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Eddie freezes, not because he’s uncomfortable, but because he’s terrified that moving even an inch will break the spell. His arm stays where it is, draped across the couch, but he angles it just enough that it curves protectively around Steve’s shoulders. Not touching, not really.
And Eddie… God. Eddie’s done for.
He can’t imagine a life without this guy anymore.
When did that happen? When did it change? When did Steve fucking Harrington go from the rich kid with perfect hair and too many friends to… this? To someone Eddie would fight monsters for. Someone he’d sit awake for, just to make sure he’s breathing okay. Someone who falls asleep against Eddie like Eddie is someone solid, someone safe.
It’s insane. It’s absolutely deranged. If his high school self could see this — Steve The Hair Harrington wrapped around him like some big, warm golden retriever of a hero — Eddie would’ve laughed in disbelief. Or passed out. Or both.
But reality is right here, breathing against his collarbone. Steve asleep beside him, trusting Eddie to watch over him. To stay.
Or: 5 times Steve falls asleep on Eddie and 1 time Eddie returns the favor.
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15 Feb 2026
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But then Eddie saw a whole pile of kids get in Harrington’s car, and he overheard Nancy Wheeler say that “Steve was babysitting,” and that image didn’t even remotely align with anything Eddie knew about King Steve “The Hair” Harrington, but he figured he didn’t know much, anyway, and it wasn’t any of his business, when it came down to it.
Eddie thought so little of it, in fact, that he had almost forgotten that Max had apparently been babysat by one Steve Harrington. That is, until Steve Harrington started showing up at the trailer park, picking up Max and driving away, and then Eddie wouldn’t see Max at home again for days on end.
Eddie didn’t know much about babysitting, but he was pretty sure the gigs were more of an hourly thing.
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Or: Steve takes care of everyone, but Eddie takes care of him.
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15 Feb 2026
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Seven Magpies by MissMorwen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel 616
16 Mar 2025
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It was one thing to have a supposedly eight-day mission turn into a month-plus-change mission, it was quite another thing for the trip home to take three full days. First getting delayed by a scheduling conflict with her and Clint’s extraction, then by Clint insisting that they picked something up for Laura and the kids as an apology for the delay. Natasha couldn’t argue with that last bit, not when Clint thought all she had to go back to was an apartment, empty except for the cat that the neighbor was feeding while she was away.
He didn’t know any better, and that was on her. Natasha wasn’t ready for the conversation that would follow if she admitted she was living with James and their cats. Had been living with them for a while and seeing him for even longer. That she wasn’t going back to one of her safehouses or the quarters at the Avengers Tower that Tony insisted was her second home. That she was going home to the apartment she and James had bought together and filled with furniture for them and their cats. The only home she had ever known.
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Bucky and Natasha try to decide if keeping their relationship a secret from their friends is fair nor not. While having a lot of sex. As you do.
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11 Jan 2026
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If Love Wants You: Melted Down to Stars by blessedharlot for coffeebean87
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Marvel
09 Feb 2017
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She shouldn’t stay. They shouldn’t say goodbye. She couldn’t bear it.
Or they should say goodbye… they should demand a better goodbye than they got before.
She was frozen in indecision.
She considered bolting for the door, right then. No explanation offered. Her just... gone. She deliberated it.
Nat realized then that he had backed away and turned his back to her. He stood there, busying himself with some small thing, and waiting. Her no-goodbye option had occurred to him too.
Not only had it occurred to him, he was offering it.
She deliberated.
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Thawing out is a process, for everyone involved. Natasha and Bucky finally face the cold together.
This story takes place about six months after the events of Captain America: Civil War.
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10 Jan 2026