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Shane pictures himself briefly in stripper heels, pushing him up tall enough to sit in Ilya’s lap with room to thrust his hips, Ilya groping at his chest, blunt nails not quite enough to leave marks. His ears turn redder than they already were, if possible. Without thinking, he says:
“Fine, let’s do heels.”or
Shane gets a few dancing classes as a White Elephant gift. He learns some things about himself (and about Ilya).
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Weeks after Starcourt, Billy wakes up in the hospital with a new heart beating in his chest - and a sudden, crushing realization that he has to face the aftermath of what's happened.
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Shipwrecked in the '80s (Still Adrift in the '90s) by thisapplepielife
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Nov 2025
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In 1998, 72.5 million passengers passed through Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
One of them was Steve Harrington. In fact, a lot of them were Steve Harrington. Every Friday, just like clockwork, he strides off flight 303 from JFK to ORD, in his suit and tie, phone plastered to his ear.
Somewhere else in Chicago, Eddie Munson's life is pretty good. He lives with his best friend. He works nights at a bar he loves. No, it's not what he'd imagined his life was gonna be like at thirty-two, because Steve isn't here, and there was a time he couldn't ever imagine living his life without him.
But he has, and it's fine, everything's fine. Honest.
He's accepted it. Fortunately, the universe, and Gareth, have not.
After a chance sighting in that busy airport, Eddie has the chance to try and reconnect with Steve after nearly a decade apart.
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Steve pulled the flier out of his back pocket and slid it over to her. It isn’t a band that he has seen before, but he has seen all the flyers all around town lately. It had scratchy handwriting and looked like it had been photocopied one too many times, but it was for a band called Corroded Coffin. Robin read the flyer, looked at him, made a mohawk with her hand, and moved it across her head from front to back.
“Punk?”
Steve shrugged and signed “Maybe metal?”
or, the story of Steve coming to terms with his hearing loss and making an unlikely but welcome friend.
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Rumors of Steve’s pending engagement threaten to splinter the post-Vecna bliss with a harsh dose of reality:
1. Steve Harrington is nothing more than a bargaining chip to his parents.
2. His friends can’t relate, or worse, don’t understand.
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