mackela
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
“Hi,” Vickie says.
“Hi,” Robin says, in a register impossible and strange. It’s like playing a note at the very edge of an instrument’s range. She sounds like her trumpet did when she was a child. She clears her throat. “Hi? Uh, movies, we have movies? Can I help you with any— uh, do you need—”
She winces. They stare at each other for a moment.
“Can I ask a question?” Vickie says, abruptly. She sounds, still, determined.
-
(five questions Vickie asks about Robin's love life et cetera, and one question Robin asks Vickie)
Bookmarked by mackela
27 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“Monsters aren’t real,” Vickie says, feels a little too desperate for how normal a sentence that should be.
“They— yeah, they don’t seem like they would be,” Robin says, and then, “Hey, hey, don’t worry about it, it’ll be over soon, right? It will all go back to normal soon enough.”
-
(Vickie doesn't believe all the stories about monsters, and she has other things to worry about anyway: school, for one, and also how to get Robin to kiss her)
Bookmarked by mackela
27 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Steve leans against the side of the boathouse and lets Eddie fumble with the cheap Bic lighter for a minute before he clears his throat and says, “You want a light?”
It's hard to read his tone. There's a bitter, suspicious, self-defensive part of Eddie that wants to lash out, but instead he grips the lighter until the plastic creaks and says, “Sure. If you have one.”
“Yeah.” Steve digs in his pocket and comes up with a nice Zippo. He doesn't hand it to Eddie; instead, he flicks the flame on and holds it out for him to lean down, and there's an intimacy to it that Eddie wasn't quite expecting. Like one of those old Leyendecker paintings. He imagines this tableau sketched out in clean art deco lines: the prom king and the freak. A study in contrasts.
-
Or: In which Eddie survives the Upside Down, and Steve Harrington turns out to be nothing like he expects.
Series
- Part 1 of dance in the dark of night
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,134
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 173
- Kudos:
- 2,821
- Bookmarks:
- 742
- Hits:
- 24,721
Bookmarked by mackela
23 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“What are you looking at?” Eddie asks.
“Your mouth.”
“Why?”
“You have a nice mouth,” Steve says through gritted teeth.
(After being dosed with a truth serum, Steve and Eddie have an interesting conversation in the car.)
Bookmarked by mackela
23 Dec 2025
-
and here we are in heaven, for you are mine at last by obsceme
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jun 2022
Tags
Summary
Taking advantage of the distraction, Steve leans over and snags the flannel Eddie had been wearing out from behind him, shrugging it on quickly before Eddie realizes what he’s doing.
Annoyingly enough, it takes several minutes for Eddie to notice.
“No, not the flannel,” Eddie warns when he finally glances over, closing his notebook slowly and putting it to the side. “You’re holding half my wardrobe hostage already!”
Steve snickers, standing up and backing away a few feet.
“I guess you’re just going to have to come get it, then.”
(Or: 5 times Steve steals Eddie's clothes, and one time Eddie returns the favor.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,169
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 8
- Comments:
- 148
- Kudos:
- 8,828
- Bookmarks:
- 1,293
- Hits:
- 60,568
Bookmarked by mackela
21 Dec 2025