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every star in the sky (is taking aim) by makeshiftcandy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Dec 2024
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He may have died, but there would never be another Chrissy Cunningham looking down on him from the ceiling of his uncle’s trailer. And, as he closed his eyes for the last time, he was not haunted by her eyeless sockets and silently screaming jaw, as he had been every time he blinked since the day he watched her die.
Instead, all he saw was her bright smile and the way her eyes glimmered in the afternoon sun that day in the woods.
And then––
He woke up.or
Eddie Munson dies in the Upside Down. He wakes up in bed.
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Don't speak to anyone.
Don't leave the path.
Even the youngest child knows these two simple rules for surviving the Darkwood. Chrissy Cunningham is a good girl, sweet and obedient, but she's never been as afraid of the wood as everyone else. And so, as she dons her new red cloak and sets out to visit her sick grandmother, she finds herself seduced by an unfamiliar voice from the trees. That night she dreams of him, and she knows that her days as a frightened little rabbit are coming to an end. It's time to show her teeth.
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- Part 3 of hellcheer week 2023
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When's the best and-slash-or worst time to figure out you've got a breeding kink?
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Jesus Christ, he had a girl on his shoulders at a concert. A pretty girl. A girl who was ignoring the boyfriend that spouted angry words at their backs as Eddie stepped further into the crowd. The addition of Chrissy on his shoulders made him more imposing, and people parted for them until Chrissy tugged on his hand, leaning down to yell in his ear that they were far enough for her.
Shit.
Shit.
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What was he supposed to do, not lift the pretty girl onto his shoulders after she asked so nicely?
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Chrissy loves Wyvern Coffee Roasters for a lot of reasons, but number one is the cutest barista she’s ever seen who keeps writing pet names on her coffee cups.
A few chance run-ins and one big fat misunderstanding end up changing her life.
Hellcheer Valentine’s Week prompt was Pet Names. The Coffee Shop/Private Investigator AU no one asked for.
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Chrissy lifts her hips and does this thing where it feels like she clenches every muscle in her body around his dick, and all thoughts of poetry slip from his addled brain as he punches out a “guhhhh?”
“Oops,” she says, coy, like she didn’t do it on purpose.
She is a monster. Eddie adores her.
The added intensity drives him ever closer to the crescendo, and he loses track of the beat as he fixates on her freckles and her nose and her kiss-bitten lips, and yeah, yeah, he’s tipping over the edge. Pressure and heat and—
There is a noise. A crack. A slash of light across Chrissy’s suddenly terrified face, and Eddie knows only two things for sure: he is coming, and they have been caught.
(Or: Eddie discovers he has a thing for ruined orgasms. Chrissy helps.)
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- Part 2 of Hellcheer Kinkmeme Fills
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The first time, okay, the first time isn’t willingly.
(or: celebrating one of their gigs, Corroded Coffin drag Eddie to a maid cafe.)
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if i was james dean, you could be my audrey by carrythesky
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Dec 2022
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If it weren’t for Robin, he'd be halfway through his regular Friday Night Routine by now, scarfing down a Hot Pocket (or three, shut up) for dinner and dissociating from reality with this week's Bake Off (why yes, he does know the difference between a cookie and a biscuit, fuck you very much, Mr. Hollywood).
Instead, he's— here. Awkwardly lurking by the check-in table along with a couple dozen losers who had nothing better to do this fine evening. Wearing a goddamn name tag. Wondering if he should murder Robin as soon as he gets home or maybe wait a few days to lull her into a false sense of security.
Speed Dating Extravaganza! proclaims the sign above the door in loopy, glittery font.
Yeah. Yeah.
[or: a Hellcheer speed dating AU.]
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“Hold still,” Chrissy tells Eddie the night before graduation. “Unless, um. You want to look like a Muppet?”
Eddie huffs. “Well, that depends, Cunningham. We talking Animal or Miss Piggy, here?”
“I think you know,” Chrissy says, biting back a grin of her own. A pair of barber scissors dangles from her thumb. “As long as you don’t—” she giggles as he tips his head back, waggling his tongue at her. “Do that.”
[or: Eddie gets a haircut.]
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she’s so sweet with her get back stare by peterpan_in_neverland
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Sep 2022
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"You’re gonna have to figure out how to make it possible for her to win, since it’s rigged for everyone to lose.” Byers mock salutes, and then winks at Eddie.
“It’s not rigged.” The lie is not even worth it, really, but it is more the principle of the thing that makes him want to say it.
“Yeah, yeah, sure, you gotta sell your goods, whatever, it’s not rigged,” Byers says, the rest of the kids slowly edging away from the booth, leaving him behind, “I’m just saying, if Chrissy comes back, you’re gonna want her to be able to win, right?” Byers gestures like he wants Eddie to answer.
Eddie sighs, and decides that admitting it to Byers is as low risk as it gets. “Right.“
“So, you have to make it winnable.”
“Thank you, William,” Eddie says, crossing his arms over his chest. “It’s truly been a pleasure. Now, get out of my sight.”
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OR; Eddie and Chrissy go to the county fair together
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The old wiring in the payphone made Robin's voice crackle and pop. "You've got to be kidding me."
"I'm not," Chrissy whispered. Across the service station, Eddie was talking animatedly to the woman who appeared to run the place. It was unlikely he could hear anything she said, but still, she kept her voice low. "His van broke down—"
"This like a goddamned movie!" Robin crowed. Chrissy could almost hear her roommate pacing around their apartment. "You run into the love of your life—"
Chrissy nearly dropped the phone. "We were just friends!"
"Me and Steve are just friends. You and Eddie are more like star-crossed lovers or ships in the night or something."
Cheeks flaming, Chrissy shot a glance over at Eddie again. He was looking at her–shit–and smiled when she caught his gorgeous gaze. Her heart did a series of pirouettes and backflips as she tried to grin back without drooling. She wasn't sure she managed it, so she returned to the phone.
"I just wanted to tell you that I might be out late. That's all."
Robin's tone was just this side of condescending. "I'm pretty sure you found exactly what you want on the side of I-65."- Language:
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Jason wants to break up for the summer. Just the summer, he says, because he’s going to sleep-away camp and he doesn’t want to feel like he’s tied down. That’s how he says it—tied down. As if Chrissy’s ever been his tether. As if he won’t come home in eight weeks and expect to find her just as he left her, untouched and unsullied. Because what their breakup actually means is that Jason is allowed to have a guilt-free summer and Chrissy is allowed to wait patiently for his return.
(So, like, obviously she’s going to let Eddie Munson finger her if he wants to.)
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i don't know if i could ever go without (watermelon sugar high) by cricketsatnight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2022
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Eddie was not alright and he wanted to jump out of Steve Harrington’s bimmer. Just tuck and roll his way back to Forest Hills. When they got to the fair, Robin calmly explained that it happened 3 days ago— 3 days ago— and that Chrissy had initiated it.
“Oh,” Eddie mustered. “Is, uh, she doing okay?”
“She seems lighter,” Robin had shrugged, like it wasn’t the most insane news she could have possibly dropped into Eddie Munson’s lap.
“So,” Steve elbowed Eddie. Eddie wanted to knock him out for it. “What’s the plan?”
“Same plan, man,” Eddie buried his hands into his pockets. “Pretend I want to be at something called the fucking Fun Fair. Are you sure we can’t fishbowl your car?”
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makes me feel like i’m losing my mind by peterpan_in_neverland
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Aug 2022
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She has seen him in corners at the same parties, a little ring of freshmen around him, his hair all wild and Robin Buckley inexplicably at his side, getting just drunk enough to tell him that she thinks she could win an arm wrestling match against Steve Harrington if she really, really tried. She knows what is in his lunchbox, knows that the smoke hanging around him is not like the kind that hangs thick on stages at concerts.
She sees him before she sees the picnic table. He is walking around it, one of his palms over his cheek, pacing back and forth, shoes crunching against the ground like he does not have to worry about what will get on them.
She walks up quietly, trying to skirt into his view so she does not sneak up on him accidentally and scare him. It does not work, though; Eddie turns around and frames her in his line of sight, and then he jumps, making a startled noise that comes from his chest, moving both hands to cover his eyes on the come-down from the scare.
“Jesus, Cunningham,” he says, his voice a little breathy. “You can’t just walk up on a man that carries what I carry.”
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OR; Chrissy and Eddie smoke together
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Spending the second Saturday before Christmas freezing her butt off outside the Starcourt Mall is the last thing Chrissy wants to do, but the funds to send the squad to regionals aren't going to raise themselves. So she'll bide her time in her oh-so-jolly Santa uniform while a steady stream of shoppers passes by, ignoring her jingling bells and charm.
When what to her wondering eyes should appear, but Eddie Munson and his personal brand of chaotic holiday cheer.
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down the streets, i'm the girl next door by agents_cxrter
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jun 2022
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Eddie barks out a wild laugh, hyena-sharp and ringing through the trees.
“Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, ABBA- Jesus fucking Christ, Cunningham.” He reads aloud in bemused disbelief, curls bouncing as he throws his head back.
He’s absolutely goddamn delighted and she glows with it, preening into his radiance. Who would have thought that out of the two of them, doom-and-gloom Eddie Munson would be the one who shines?
or; Eddie, Chrissy and the mixtapes they make for each other.
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she’s on her knees. not in front of jason but beside him, her head bowed and hands pressed together. according to the preacher she’s supposed to be thanking the lord for his earthly gifts and wishing away satanic deeds. she bites her lip at the irony. thank you, lord, for your satanic gifts.
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baby, i'm yours now (dreaming a connection) by notquitecogent for kattyshack
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Sep 2022
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Ok. So. It really, really wasn’t supposed to happen like this.
After nearly 20 years on Earth, Eddie was well and truly used to getting carried away; his out-of-control imagination would grab a concept in its greedy little hands and bolt – catapulting between ideas, fantasies and ever-more-complicated scenarios before he’d even had the chance to really think.
It was an uncontrollable kind of thing, the way his brain just seemed to latch and run with it.
And, well, sometimes it worked out; there were song lyrics (Corroded Coffin’s finest, if he said so himself), D&D campaigns (more than a few inspired narrative twists) – even poems (shut up).
And sometimes, like now, it really, really didn’t.
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look me in the eye (tell me i'm the one) by notquitecogent
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Nov 2022
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He’s spiralling again. The cigarette has burned down to the filter, and Eddie has the uncanny urge to fucking eat it. Swallow down the toxic little stub; poison himself just a little bit more than he already is.
He’s been in this mood for weeks, ever since the Homecoming game when he’d had to watch Hawkins High’s King and Queen reach their absolute peak All American Dreaminess. The Tigers had won, of course, but Eddie wasn’t there to see it. He’d lasted all of about 20 minutes watching Chrissy’s perky ponytail bouncing around as she cheered her heart out for her golden boy with his blue eyes and his cover-of-Bop hair and his fucking letterman jacket.
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i got plenty of time (you got light in your eyes) by notquitecogent
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2023
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“Go fish,” she sing-songs, reaching down to take another swig from the hip flask balancing on the carpet between them.
The spirit burns in her chest, but she’s nowhere near drunk (the memory of Patrick’s winter rager comes to mind – more specifically, Janey Hughes' soft hands holding her hair back in the upstairs bathroom), just pleasantly tingly – and, ok, a little looser than she’d otherwise be.
But hey, she has a good reason: they’ve been locked in the school for going-on four hours now, and there’s absolutely nothing better to do than inch their way towards tipsy as they explore every possible way to use the single deck of cards they have for entertainment.
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Or, the one in which Chrissy and Eddie find themselves trapped together in Hawkins High, and decide to make the best of it.-
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