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It’s nothing, he tells himself.
He didn’t hear anything weird. He’s just overtired. It’s past late and nearing early morning now. The clock above the soundboard reads 3:47 am. He would have been asleep hours ago on a night when he didn’t have a late shift.
And it’s raining outside, he reminds himself; the storm is why the signals are being weird in a totally normal way. If he heard anything, it was just a blip. An anomaly. That’s what Dustin would call it: an anomaly.
He has fully brushed it off as nothing— just an exhaustion induced auditory hallucination— and he’s preparing to cue up the next track, when it happens again, unmistakable this time:Static crackle and pitchy interference, like a walkie on a bad channel, and then--
“Wheeler? Dustin? Anyone, come in? Code Red. Please. This is Code fucking Red!”
Steve knows that voice. He'd remember it anywhere.
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24 Feb 2026
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“We are more similar than you realize, Will. Both of us were...sensitive children. We were different. Seen as freaks. But we are special. You are special.”
Will takes a shallow breath, tries to swallow his nerves. He speaks flatly. “And?”
Henry blinks, seemingly surprised by Will’s coldness. “I chose you that day, you know.”
And Will sees himself, small and alone, riding his bike through the darkness. He sees the silhouette of something tall and not-human. He sees himself crashing his bike. Running home. But the creature unlocks the door. It follows him into the shed. It gets him.
“It was you,” Will whispers, a hand coming up to the back of his neck. The monster that took him. The possession. The visions. “It’s always been you.”
(or the one where will’s connection to the upside down is a crucial part of season 4 instead of him getting sidelined, and how it changes everything)
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- Part 1 of darker in the day than the dead of night
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24 Feb 2026
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Eddie thinks that he’s probably judged Steve too quickly. He thinks Steve’s probably full of surprises, if the past two years are anything to go by.
And then, of course, Steve just has to prove him right by stepping out of his BMW in a full sailor suit fantasy that not even the most depraved recesses of Eddie’s mind could have cooked up. Jesus. He’s got the little hat and everything. Cute tiny shorts, too, that are regrettably not as short as the ones included in the Hawkins High gym uniform, but still short enough for Eddie to be able to appreciate Steve’s legs. He has nice legs. Good knees. White socks pulled halfway up his calves, for some reason, stark against his golden tan skin. Wispy little hairs that probably go up his thighs. Eddie needs to stop looking at his legs.
“Eddie Munson,” Steve calls as he approaches, his voice all easy and light like they’re actually friends. “Hi.”
Eddie blinks at him.
Because Eddie's life can never be normal, the summer of '85 finds him working a firework stand just outside of Starcourt Mall, catching up on school work, and tutoring Steve Harrington in all things D&D.
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19 Feb 2025
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Just for the record, Adam didn’t want to be there in the first place. He was already half deaf, and the last thing he needed was to lose the other half in the mosh pit of a rock concert. He didn’t even like rock concerts.
Unfortunately for him, he did like Blue.
Ronan is a Grammy award-winning rock star with a shady reputation, Adam is a mechanic with a maybe-girlfriend. When Blue drags him to the Second Sleeper concert, he gets wrapped up in a scandal with himself and Ronan at the center.- Language:
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19 Feb 2025
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The first time Eddie sees Steve Harrington with his face smashed in, he’s at the corner store off 6th Street choosing a frozen meal to bring home.
(a 5+1+1 type of fic)
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19 Feb 2025