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“Steve is dating someone,” Dustin mutters, as though saying it out loud might break him.
Eddie laughs mirthlessly. “Of course he is,” he says, aiming for casual and missing by a mile. “It’s Steve fucking Harrington.”
Dustin swallows nervously, and Eddie really wishes he would just spit it out. There’s no point trying to spare his heart; it broke a long time ago, and he’s not sure it can be fixed. “It’s… It’s a guy.”
Oh, he thinks. Would you look at that? There were still some pieces left to break after all.
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Or: Steve and Eddie used to date, but broke up after Steve confessed to not being ready to tell their friends. Years later, Steve is dating a man and everyone knows, and isn't that unfair, Eddie thinks.
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17 Jan 2026
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“You’re being weird,” Chrissy said. “With Steve.”
Eddie sighed and tossed the rag aside. “I’m not being weird. The kid’s just… suspicious, okay? Nobody shows up in a spotless Beemer, looking that good, just to take a desk job in this dump for minimum wage. He’s digging for something, I can feel it.”
Chrissy raised a brow. “Digging for what, exactly?”
He hesitated. “Hell if I know. Me?”
She stared, then snorted. “Right. The feds finally figured it out. Send in some pretty boy in tight jeans to make you confess.”
Eddie tried not to smile, and failed completely. “You joke, but that’s exactly how they’d get me.”
“Damn right it is.”
OR: the 90s mechanic slow burn AU with criminal undertones no one asked for
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14 Jan 2026
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So I Will Wait (For The Next Time You Want Me) by ahoysteve
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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07 Jan 2026
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Steve's already pulled out his own pack, a cigarette between his lips as he speaks, muffled, "You know, these things will kill you," even while he hands one to Eddie. Eddie notices that Steve's knuckles are split as he cuffs his hand around the flame, keeping it safe from the wind, which is good; that means he put up a fight. Maybe he even won.
"Slowly and painfully, I hope," Eddie hums in thanks, lighting up and taking his first drag in a long while. He enjoys the burn, the warmth spreading through his limbs, gestures to the area around his own eye as he pokes the bear, "Trouble in paradise?"
It's the wrong thing to ask, but Eddie hasn't ever shied away from saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, and Steve's features harden in response. "It's nothing. It won't affect the job."
"Sure," Eddie agrees, not an ounce of belief in his tone.
Or, Eddie runs, and Steve is a constant.
(Or, Eddie and Steve in Dreamshare.)
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07 Jan 2026
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Ever since Satoru slipped from his life wrapped in a cloak of midnight and silence, Suguru has done nothing but yearn.
At first he tried to soothe it by calling non stop - fearing he had, inadvertently, made a mistake so abominable as to deserve capital punishment. Naïvely, Suguru believed he could still apologize, try to do better - try to fix what had been mishandled. Yet after countless tones giving way to an automatized message in a robotic, monotonous voice, cruel in its carelessness - the flickering flame of his hope slowly died out.
'The number you are trying to reach is not available right now.'
It hasn’t been in over a month.
Or, alternatively, Suguru reaps the consequences of is own (in)actions.
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- Part 8 of Midnight rendezvous
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19 May 2023