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Hawkins has never, truly, been a “sleepy town”. It’s just been masquerading as one for so long, it doesn’t know what else to call itself.
With the end of 1984 coming ‘round the corner, what better way to celebrate early then with a Halloween party? Underage drinking, hookups in the bathrooms that need to be used for literally anything else, chugging beer until people pass out in the bushes out front — it’s nothing that Steve actually enjoys.
There’s something wrong with him, something that doesn’t click like how it does for everyone else. For Steve, it’s a little like acting a role for as long as he could — smile when they say smile, kiss when they say kiss. But— it doesn’t matter. He has his group of friends, quiet as they are, and he has his girlfriend that he thinks might be falling out of love with him (who he might be falling out of love with, too). He just has to make it through this year without any hiccups.
I mean, how much damage can one party truly cause?
AKA: The one where Steve Harrington is the monster in the woods.
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There's Something in the Woods, And We're No Longer Children. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2023
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He wants to figure it out, Eddie realises. It’s been haunting him since it happened two years ago — that chittering, whispering that emanated from the woods. From that first time he heard it, when the crickets were deathly silent, predator-ready, to when he heard the thundering, soldiers of the earth screaming and howling into the trees.
Eddie doesn’t know what he thinks he’s gonna find, but whatever it is, he wants to know. Those whispers hadn’t been back since that rumble beneath the ground — the soldiers — but that steady beat, like a giant mass running closer on the 4th of July? It has to be the same. There’s no way it can’t be connected.
And nobody has mentioned it. Nobody has even hinted at knowing what he’s talking about.
AKA: Before the beginning and after the end, through Eddie Munson’s eyes.
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Steve Harrington's Deaths (And The Times He Maybe Saved The World). by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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“I had another one.”
It stops the playful atmosphere instantly.
Not everyone tells him when they have a Memento. Lucas had kept to himself, and Will had refused to tell Steve about his dream. Some of them just tell him, softly, I remembered number one-seventy-three, or I had a Memento, last night. Sometimes it’s easier to just mention that it happened, acknowledge it and move on.
And Robin, for the most part, had done this. She hadn’t mentioned the details, because she’s sure that Steve is tired of hearing them, doesn’t want to hear his death from another person’s eyes, another person who is left with his body for a day before the loop dissolves into nothingness.
AKA: In the aftermath of it all, when Steve is learning what happiness means for him, people start to remember his deaths.
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The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2022
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It’s the first time in a while that he doesn’t know what comes next. He’s dove into the water hundreds of times. Screamed as his flesh was torn apart, heard Master of Puppets in the distance and held back tears. Felt Max’s cold, small hand in his as she laid in the hospital bed. There are things that always happen, no matter how hard he tries: El doesn’t arrive in time. Eddie dies. Max is put in a coma.
Steve fails. They lose.
“Steve, how many loops have you been through?”
His head is nodding, and his eyes are watery, and Eddie has approached him like a spooked animal.
“I lost count.”
AKA: The one where Steve Harrington is stuck in a time loop, and Eddie Munson is really fucking hard to save, or: fuck Volume 2, these bitches are in love.
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Steve Harrington's Unwilling Time Loop Saga by badpancake
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2023
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A series following Steve Harrington as he unknowingly, unwillingly, loops time to save the ones he loves (and maybe realises that he can ask for help, is deserving of love, before, after, and during).
The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting. [COMPLETE, CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE]
When anything and everything goes wrong in 1986, Steve realises that he can fix things, and maybe falls in love, along the way.Steve Harrington's Deaths (And The Times He Maybe Saved The World). [COMPLETE]
After the events of '86, after everything has settled down, and everything is calm, people start to remember. The pieces start to slot together, and nobody likes the picture it creates.There’s Something In The Woods, And We’re No Longer Children. [COMPLETE]
Steve Harrington is equal parts elusive and unobtainable, and all Eddie Munson wants to know is what's making those sounds in the woods.- Words:
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