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    The Squawk had become their cover, their communication hub, their war room. Robin did the actual broadcasts mostly playing music and reading pre-written community updates approved by the military presence in town, but the real purpose was the coded messages. Steve had helped her set up the whole system, spending hours figuring out how to get all the sound effects she wanted, taping things to walls and attempting to MacGyver random things around the station.

    That was just who Steve was, but looking around the room now, Robin wondered more and more if anyone else actually saw that.

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    05 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 80

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    After the new year and the months since then, since his hair had grown back enough to hide the scar and he started letting them come to his house, Max watched Steve carefully, learned what to look for.

    She noticed the headaches and the migraines—the way he'd squint and clench his jaw and move a little more carefully, like sudden movements hurt. She noticed how it took him longer to answer questions sometimes. She noticed how he'd forget words mid-sentence and have to pause, frustrated, until he couldn’t even remember what he'd been trying to say.

    Everyone called him slow. And stupid. They joked about it, teased him about getting dumber, and Steve always laughed it off or agreed with them, like it was a choice and not a consequence.

    But Max could tell it bothered him; could see it in the way his smile would tighten, just for a second, before he'd shrug and change the subject.

    And it bothered her too.

    So she started running interference.

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    04 Apr 2026

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    "I need you to train me."

    He's pretty sure his brain just malfunctioned. 

    "Me? I- I don't know how any of your..." he gestures at her wildly, "how your magic juju works."

    "It's not magic."

    "Same difference. I don't know shit about it."

    She huffs, frustrated, bouncing on her feet with anger, a teenager again. An annoyed teenager, at that. God, no wonder she and Dustin are friends. 

    "It's not that. It's... Lucas said... Lucas said you helped him train. For his basketball trials last year."

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    Eleven asks Steve for help training to beat the obstacle course. Enter: Coach Harrington. Turns out they have way more in common than they expected.

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    28 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 45

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    “Alright Dustin–” Steve rasps, and some distant part of his brain registers it, the change from Henderson to Dustin, but Dustin’s not done. He looks at Steve, and all he can see is Eddie.

    He rears his arm back and punches Steve right on the jaw.

    Or, a character study of Dustin throughout Vol. 2

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    25 Mar 2026

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    Instead of joining Robin and Nancy in the fight against Vecna, Steve ‘The Babysitter’ Harrington went with Max, Lucas, and Erica on their journey to the Creel House. Something in Steve told him that they would need the extra protection, but not from Vecna.

    Or: Steve Harrington beats Jason’s ass for trying to hurt his kids. (A S4E9 Rewrite)

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    20 Mar 2026