Just play with me
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Just play with me, and you won’t get burned by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Nov 2022
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Journey with Steve Harrington as he pieces together the memories of his relationship with Eddie Munson, while living through the year of 1999, dealing with the repercussions of miscommunication, grief and chronic pain. Woodstock '99 brings the group back together, where Steve must confront his feelings face on.
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- Part 1 of Just play with me
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Souls are fated (no doubt devastated) by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Nov 2022
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As his brain registers what is potentially happening right now, he pelts it to the door. He’s a few steps away from it, looking around him panicked like ‘what the fuck do i do?’ But of course he’s alone and nobody can help him.
He remembers what Hopper said. What he always said. He’s been saying it for three months. ‘Anybody other than me comes knocking…you do not answer.’
“Do not answer. Do not answer. Okay. I can do that. Just don’t answer,” Eddie whispers to himself, gawking at the door.
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Eddie is alive. He's hiding in Hopper's cabin on government orders under sworn-secrecy, until Steve comes knocking.
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- Part 2 of Just play with me
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The unintended dreams of kin and lips on skin by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Nov 2022
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“So, what about Nancy Wheeler?” Eddie asks. “What about her?” “You’re shitting me, right?” Eddie laughs. “Last time I saw you, you were running off to save the world and I’m pretty sure, about to confess your love to her.”
Eddie glances up at Steve. “Things have changed, I guess,” Steve says. They stare into each other. And Eddie is wondering for a bleakfully hopeful moment that the thing that’s caused the change is him.
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Steve has been visiting Eddie, who is under house arrest, at Hopper's cabin for the last two weeks. The Party think Eddie is still dead. Steve brings Eddie snacks and updates him on their found family.
Eddie is Steve's little secret, for now.
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- Part 3 of Just play with me
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He swallows, hard. Swallowing down every aching desire he has to kiss Steve right now.
Steve’s eyes flash up to Eddie, just for a second, and Eddie thinks he’s letting him know it’s okay. Eddie wants to touch him, soothe him, so badly.
He hovers his fingertips over the scar. “Can I?” Eddie asks quietly. He’s nervous, voice and fingers shaking.
“Yes,” Steve whispers back.
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Steve has been visiting Eddie in secret at the cabin for over a month. Their routine has evolved into dinner, music and now, teaching Steve guitar.
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- Part 4 of Just play with me
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Playing parts and tortured hearts by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Nov 2022
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Eddie is glazed with sleep. He sits up slowly, duvet dropping down to his waist. His eyes adjust to the dark, staring into Steve with half-shut eyes.
The urge to kiss Steve is suddenly very apparent. Right at the forefront of his mind. He shuffles forward on the sofa, his legs either side of Steve who is still kneeling on the floor. He reaches his hands out to Steve’s face.
“You’re here."
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Eddie has been hiding in Hopper’s cabin for six weeks, enjoying secret visits from Steve that they must keep under wraps. Hopper arrives for a routine visit and revelations are made.
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- Part 5 of Just play with me
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My name, it means nothing (without you) by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Nov 2022
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Eddie’s hand moves through Steve’s hair as he thinks about how he’s going to part from him.
Even though they’re not together. But Eddie sees them coming as a pair now. He feels like life would be meaningless without Steve in it. His existence would stand for nothing without him. He literally would not exist right now if it wasn't for Steve putting the breath back in his lungs. It just makes sense. Steve and Eddie. Eddie and Steve.
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Eddie is under pressure to tell Steve that he has to leave Hawkins, but he can’t yet. Their friendship elevates to something new.
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- Part 6 of Just play with me
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Precious time is wasted not touching you by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Nov 2022
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Eddie stares at Steve. He’s chewing the insides of his mouth. Eddie is trying to tell him how much he means to him, how much he doesn’t want to go.
Maybe he should just say those words ‘I don’t want to go unless you come with me.’
Steve gives him this look. This dangerous look. Eyebrows etched into a frown, teeth nibbling at his bottom lip. Eddie tries to process it. But he can’t.
Because Steve is suddenly kissing him.
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After two months of secret visits from Steve, Eddie’s time hiding out in Hopper’s cabin is up. Their domesticated routine comes to a heartbreakingly beautiful end.
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- Part 7 of Just play with me
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Facing the fear of losing why I live by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Nov 2022
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It suddenly becomes all too real. His head feels heavy, heart beating fast and nausea setting in. He steps towards Steve, who has his arms crossed and bottom lip tucked under his teeth, nibbling down. Fuck, Eddie can’t believe he has to leave. And Steve isn’t coming with him.
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Eddie spends his last week in Hawkins at Steve’s house with the Party, after two months of secret visits from Steve in Hopper’s cabin. Eddie reunites with everyone who thought he was dead, before he has to leave to New York
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- Part 8 of Just play with me
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Reminiscent daydream (dancing with my sunbeam) by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Nov 2022
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Steve is definitely drunk, and Eddie wonders for a second if Steve will even remember this moment. Eddie looks down at their hands, almost touching. And as the song draws to a close, and Eddie realises their glasses are empty, he signals at Steve to head back to the bar. Before he does something the two of them might regret.
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Eddie sees Steve for the first time in seven years. Steve takes him clubbing.
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- Part 9 of Just play with me
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Chasing a fantasy (not good for my sanity) by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Nov 2022
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Eddie thinks Steve is in bed, which kills him a little inside. He can hear him shuffling on sheets, head on the pillow. He just wants to be there with him, laid together, hands in hair, lips on skin.
Eddie wants to ask him, so he does. Quietly he says, “Stevie. Are you in bed right now?” He bites his lip, gut aching, thinking of him all soft and sleepy between the sheets.
“Another thing you’d love to know,” Steve whispers. “I really, really would,” Eddie says, nodding as he takes a drag.
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Eddie comes home after a date to a phonecall from Steve, who has been on a date too. Let the pining commence.
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- Part 10 of Just play with me
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Can’t stand to be where he can’t see me by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Dec 2022
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It’s a double portrait. Two faces are staring back at him. One of the faces is fucking beautiful. And it takes a millisecond for Eddie to realise it’s Steve. A slightly broken, swollen-eyed Steve. The other has long, scraggly almost-black hair, almost-black eyes.
It embodies everything he was feeling at that time. Broken, tired and fucking falling hard for the man right in front of him. And they were young. So fucking young. And now Steve is 30. Fucking 30. How has all this time passed? “I think I’m going crazy right now,” Eddie whispers, still staring at the painting. “I feel like I’m going crazy too,” Steve says.
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Will hosts an art exhibition in San Francisco, an event that takes place alongside Steve’s 30th birthday. The whole Party attend, including Eddie, who hasn’t seen Steve in two years.
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- Part 11 of Just play with me
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I dream I'll see you in the afterlife by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2022
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The bats are less frantic, but they’re still at him, ripping at his stomach and legs, finding any flesh they can. The stars behind his eyelids heighten, sparkling and so pretty and he wishes it all away. He closes his eyes, sensing that Steve is no longer around, no longer alive. He feels himself drifting, leaving to join Steve wherever he is, and he hopes. He fucking dreams he’ll see him in the afterlife.
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Eddie has a nightmare were Steve dies, and he joins him. He calls Robin for comfort, to find that Steve had a similar dream...
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- Part 12 of Just play with me
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Please annihilate me (my sunbeam arch) by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Nov 2022
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He finds the small metal box and flips open the lid, “bingo,” he mutters to himself. He heads back downstairs, metal box in hand, & lights a fire in the living room. There’s nothing that could comfort him right now, but the heat & flicker of an open-lit fire somewhat soothes his damaged little soul. As the fire blazes in-front of him, he stares into it.
His face is almost burning, he’s sitting that close. He thinks of the cabin, lighting the fire for Steve every night. The final routine that evolved from dinner & simple touches to Steve lying shirtless in his lap, massaging his scalp, laid in front of the fire listening to records. Eddie sighs and rubs his forehead, “fuck sake, Munson.” That was 10 years ago. And he thinks of it every single day. Still so clear in his mind; he can smell it, taste it.
He leans forward, elbows on his knees, rolling the joint between his fingers. He whispers, “please, just fucking annihilate me,” and he lights it up.
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Eddie gets high and tattoos himself after a heated argument with Steve for missing Robin's 30th birthday party.
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- Part 13 of Just play with me
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Waiting for the right time (the pleasure's all mine) by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2022
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Eddie’s brain is muddled, slow-motion thoughts making their way to the forefront of his mind as he leans in, and lightly brushes his lips against Steve’s. Steve holds onto the wrist of the hand that Eddie is holding onto Steve with and he wants to cry at the firm contact. Holding him in place.
He opens his mouth, and lets the smoke float in. He hears Steve make a little moan and the tears fill behind his eyelids. He wants to introduce his tongue. Wants to lick his way into his mouth, taste the sun and salt and smoke that was passed from Eddie to Steve.
He loves him. He loves him so, so much. And he needs to tell him.Or
It’s Dustin’s birthday, and the whole gang party in Seattle, smoking weed and playing video games. Eddie sees Steve for the first time after a heated argument months before. He has something he needs to tell him.
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- Part 14 of Just play with me
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I'd die to spend the night at your belonging by Sadstateofaffairs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2022
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“So as you all know, I’m the best man,” Robin presents herself in front of the fireplace and everyone cheers. Nancy wolf whistles and Robin curtseys. “Thank you, thank you very much,” she laughs and then says, “I’ll make this part short and sweet because we all know once I get going I won’t stop.”
Everyone laughs again. Robin clears her throat and she says, “in January 1999, I asked Steve to say the first thing that came to his head when he thought of Eddie. And can anyone guess what word that was?” She opens it up to the floor, pointing with her champagne flute to the crowd as they shout out their guesses.
“Sexy!” Will shouts. “Hairy!” Dustin screams. “Crazy!” Lucas yells. They continue for some time and Eddie is rolling his eyes but beaming around at them all. Steve is laughing, until Robin says, “fucking hell, they’re never going to get it, Steve can you help us out? Can you remember?”
The room goes quiet and Steve nods, then says clearly, “home.”
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It's December 2000 and Eddie and Steve are getting married. It's unconventional, it's beautiful and they all love each other very much.
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- Part 15 of Just play with me