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Three shots ring out.
Steve hears them before he feels them; a warm, wet pain burning in his torso, intolerably excruciating.
There’s a bundle of squawks and screams, outbursts of panic and anger, and it’s only when Hopper falls forwards to take Steve up into a slightly rough, protective hold, does he realize that two of those shots have lodged themselves in his own flesh and bone. (Realizes that he’d moved, instinctively, to shield El, despite never having spoken to her, who’d the gun had been so precisely pointed at, aimed for.)
Steve Harrington watches his own blood pool and trickle over a series of hands pressed against him, small and large, soft and rugged, and for a moment, wants to stay like this. He can’t.
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Eddie doesn’t like showing it when he’s scared. Wayne always knows, though. He knew every time Eddie appeared on his doorstep with no warning, small and trembling with a dirty, oversized backpack packed with snacks and worn stuffed animals. He knew when Eddie was taller, a little bit too skinny and too tough for his age, when his dad finally ended up in prison and the government finally let Wayne's kid be his kid. He knew when Eddie was in middle school, friendless and angry and paranoid, when Wayne stumbled upon a stash of porno mags while he was looking for drugs.
So he knows now.
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{in which Wayne doesn't meet Steve until quite a while after he and Eddie start dating}
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His doctors had been very clear about the dangers of repeated head trauma. But really, what did they know? There wasn’t a single doctor who told him to expect time travel as a symptom and that was pretty clearly his biggest one.
[Or, Steve time travels when he gets concussions. It's a recurring problem.]
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09 Jan 2026
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Rumors of Steve’s pending engagement threaten to splinter the post-Vecna bliss with a harsh dose of reality:
1. Steve Harrington is nothing more than a bargaining chip to his parents.
2. His friends can’t relate, or worse, don’t understand.
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09 Jan 2026
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In which Eddie stands ranting on a cafeteria table, and Steve, fed up with life, rants back.
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09 Jan 2026