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    On All Hallow's Eve, the veil between worlds drops and urban legends come true. When a traveling circus comes into town for a Halloween performance, two disparate myths meet face to face: The performer who gave up his humanity to become the world’s greatest acrobat, and the murderous boogeyman who never dies. This is their one-night love story.

    Prompt fill for the "Urban Legends" square of Isn't It Bromantic's Fic-or-Treat Bingo event.

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    12 Jan 2026

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    There’s a bottle on his neck and a boy pressed against him.

    Steve should be terrified. He’s shoved higher up the wall he’s pinned to, the boy’s eyes wild beneath his tangled mess of hair, his breath all rasp and spit and fear.

    The bottle presses closer, harder, almost enough to break skin.

    Steve knows it won’t, though, because this isn’t the first time he’s been here.

     

    Or, Steve keeps finding himself back in the boathouse where everything started, wrapped up in the arms of a boy who can’t stop dying. Saving him means ending his torment, and it also means falling in love.

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    06 Jan 2026

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    Eddie Munson isn't very good at puzzles.

    Well.

    He can make them, sure, in the form of weeks-long campaigns for his bandmates and a ragtag group of now sophomores he'd come to adore. He's great at making them. Great at making villains that his party thought they'd had figured out, beaten, only to make a quick 180 and have them come back from the dead for a final, earth-shattering fight. Yeah. He can make them.

    What Eddie Munson can't do when it comes to puzzles, is figure them the fuck out. Especially, it seems, when the puzzle comes in the form of a boy one year younger than him and slightly shorter when you don't count his mass of gorgeous hair that makes him, falsely, look taller than Eddie. This puzzle had saved the world with him, had saved him when he was sure he was a goner.

    The puzzle's name, of course, is Steve Harrington. King Steve, to many, Hawkins High's golden boy, rich and charming and apparently, a fucking badass.

    Eddie never stood a chance.

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    03 Jan 2026

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    Eddie doesn't particularly like the smell of blood.

    However, he's growing awfully used to it.

    It’s what he’s choosing to focus on. The smell of it. How it burns his nose. Clings heavy in his throat and fills his lungs with its thick, metallic haze.

    That is, when he can breathe.

    It’s awful hard to breathe.

    But he’s trying. God fucking damn it, he’s trying. And it hurts worse than anything, worse than the bites or the torn flesh or the aching all over. It burns worse than the smell. He can’t tell if it’d be easier to breathe through his nose or his mouth, so he just sort of heaves with his mouth open and hopes that air gets in somehow.

    He might be dying.

    Steve says he’s not dying, very insistent on that, in fact, but Eddie’s not sure if he believes him.

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    03 Jan 2026

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    There’s a few things Eddie notices when he wakes up.

    One, he bites his tongue. It hurts. Of course. The weird thing, though, is he doesn’t taste blood. But he knows he bit it hard and it’s throbbing behind his teeth. He tastes something, and his mouth feels wet but there’s no metallic flavor (metal. He likes metal. He’s remembering). It’s smoother. More earthy.

    Two. He’s alone. Completely. No Dustin. Or Robin or Nancy or Steve or anyone.

    Three. He’s sore. His whole body aches, his skin is thrumming with it. His neck especially, and his sides like where Steve was bitten, too.

    Four. He’s got to blink a couple times to realize this one. Let his eyes adjust from the pitch black of being closed to the dim blue haze of the Upside Down. Yeah, that’s what he realizes. He’s still there.

    Five. He’s fuckin’ starving.

     

    In which Eddie wakes up with sharp teeth, Steve has a thing for tongue piercings, and it takes a while for them to figure out what all of that means.

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    01 Jan 2026