Isn't It funny, the way things change?
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The way things change (Repost) by Umnonotoday (orphan_account), Umnonottoday1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jul 2026
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It's a Tuesday when it happens. He's sitting anxiously at lunch, eating his hot pockets and silently dreading the math quiz coming next period. Trying really extra hard to keep the slipping shards of his sanity in his grasping fingers, when Dustin says Harrington's name just one too many times and he snaps.
"What the fuck," he says vehemently and suddenly, slapping his palms on the tabletop, "Is up with you and Steve Harrington?"
"What do you mean?" Dustin asks, his head tilted to the side like a little kid.
"You're always fucking talking about him!"
"Yeah," says Dustin, his face carefully blank, but still a little bitchy, "Because he's my friend. You know about those? About friends?."
And the thing is, Eddie can tell that he's said something wrong here, somewhere, but he's too busy wrestling down his bitterness to properly understand what it is.
"But Harrington's a judgmental Douchbag!"
"That's funny," replies Dustin snippily, "Cause it looks a lot like only one of you is talking shit, and it's not Steve."
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Eddie is really tired of hearing about Steve Harrington. Right up until he isn't.
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- Part 1 of Isn't It funny, the way things change?
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When Steve Harrington collapses on the floor of Hawkins General Hospital exactly five days after the world doesn’t end, Robin really wishes she could say she’s surprised.
It’s just so quintessentially Steve. So in tune with his every aggravating characteristic. She’s seen how he is when people are hurt. The way he rushes in to help put on everyone else’s oxygen mask first and never once thinks of his own. He’s a self-sacrificing idiot.
So she’s not surprised, she’s just furious.
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Robin is tired because her soulmate is fucking Stupid with a Capital S
Wayne is trying really hard to not like Steve Harrington. The guy is making it super difficult.
Erica thinks everyone is being dumb. As usual. Especially Steve. Who, you know, she might care about, like a little.
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- Part 2 of Isn't It funny, the way things change?
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“Awe,” says Eddie, in a sugar-sweet tone, his eyes alight with mischief. “You’re just so good with them, Harrington. Going for babysitter of the year?”
Steve feels himself blush, looking out the window as he formulates a response sarcastic enough to not give away how much of a sap he’s actually become.
“Already got it.” He says with a casual shrug of his shoulders. “I’m moving on to the big leagues now.”
“The big leagues?”
“Oh yeah,” he says, shit-eating grin twitching at the edges of his lips. “Just you watch. Any day now I’m finally going to take my rightful place and usurp Mr. Wheeler as Mike's dad.”
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When the dust clears and spring break is over; the world doesn’t end. The days keep coming as the fight goes on. Vecna disappears, Eddie lives, Max is in a coma, and Steve Harrington is tired of dreaming.
It’s a rare thing to get a happily ever after, and sometimes you have to fight for what you want.
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- Part 3 of Isn't It funny, the way things change?