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    Eddie had never really been one to be shy, and certainly not about love. Sure, he’d had relationships back in high school he’d kept quiet about, partially for fear that whatever bi-curious boy who’d turned their gaze onto Eddie this week would knock his head in, but mostly because that wasn’t actually love.

    Steve, however. Now that was love.

    Steve. His Stevie. His sweet little baby. His darling princess.

    You can imagine, therefore, the type of pain he was in on tour: no Stevie for almost the entire thing, with the only respite being an Indianapolis stop months into the tour.

    You can also imagine how tired everyone on the tour was of hearing about Eddie’s girlfriend Stevie. The best workaround for killing Eddie appeared to be placing bets on what exactly Stevie was like.

    OR: 5 times Corroded Coffin’s tour crew made an assumption about Eddie’s Stevie + 1 time they were all proven wrong.

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    14 Jan 2026

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    “Harrington,” he croaks - god why, why do I have to sound like that in front of him - he clears his throat, continuing, “you couldn’t have done me a favour and let me die in that shithole, spare me from Dustin?”

    Steve finally turns to look at him, grinning madly. Fuck, Eddie thinks, fuck this is so unfair. You’re just standing there looking at me like that, smiling, all broad and pretty and scarred up, fuuuck.

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    Alternatively titled: the Steve Harrington bisexual crashout of 1986. Because vecna might be dead- but repressing your feelings (and trying therapeutic D&D with the direct cause of your identity crisis)- is quite enough to be getting on with.

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    02 Jan 2026

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    stories set in a world where steve goes with joyce, hopper, and murray to the russian facilities beneath starcourt, and doesn't return.

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    29 Dec 2025

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    “Let’s get this over with.” Steve mutters, setting his shoulders and planting his feet.
    Out of the corner of his eye, Gareth can see that Wayne is watching their standoff with a calculating expression.
    “We’re airing this out and moving on. And we are going to do it before Eddie gets home.” Harrington states with a finality that sets Gareth’s teeth grinding. As if Steve is the one who’s more concerned about their friend’s feelings than Gareth is at this point.

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    Gareth has had just about enough of Steve Harrington in the fall of '86. He sets about to do something about it. It takes an angry mob, a Corroded Coffin gig and a baseball bat full of nails for him to change his mind.

    Gareth gets mad, Eddie gets beat up, Steve gets violent and Wayne is just really tired of everyone's shit.

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    28 Dec 2025

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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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    16 Dec 2025