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    He gets the call and everything is slow motion. He’s barely able to understand what’s happening. The words are mumbled in his brain, he picks them apart like he’s sifting for a needle in a haystack. Claudia Henderson was found dead. Her son is waiting at the police station.

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    Steve becomes Dustin's legal guardian after his mom's death. He's figuring it out along the way with the help of a certain curly-haired metal-head he can't seem to get out of his head.

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    16 Dec 2025

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    In a society where Omegas are the dominant secondary gender, it's not uncommon for Alphas to compete for their attention, showering them with gifts and trying to prove their worth.

    For Eddie Munson, presenting as an Omega has been nothing but a pain in the ass. All the Alphas who used to push him around and call him a freak are now falling all over themselves trying to court him. As if he could forget the years of bullying they put him through.

    Is there a single Alpha in all of Hawkins who can crack through his icy exterior and thaw his cold, dead heart? He sure has hell doesn't think so.

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    16 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 68

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    “Steve, your parents are alive, gallivanting off somewhere, Paris or Rome or Bora Bora or whatever, remember?”

    Steve shook his head no, back and forth, back and forth, back and – he kind of forgot why he was shaking his head.

    “Steve!”

    Oh, right. Dustin thought his parents were still alive. That was totally on him. Oops. “No, buddy, they died last year. After Barb, before Dart. Car accident.”

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    The Russians killed Steve. Only for a moment. But death activated a latent gene for seeing the dead. So, Steve gets to see ghosts. Which would be fine, if not for immediately getting accosted by the ghosts of his late parents fretting over him and Eddie Munson's mom begging for him to save him, all while dealing with being drugged up and the impending Battle of Starcourt.

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    21 Nov 2025

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    After dying in the fight against Vecna and the Upside Down, Eddie and Steve wind up at the beginning, back when it all started.

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    The softest, most domestic, time travel fix-it I could possibly write.

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    16 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    “Eddie,” Steve whispered, afraid of his parents hearing him.

    “Steve?” Eddie’s tone was now worried. He could hear in Steve’s voice that something was wrong.

    “My parents,” Steve murmured, and the words started pouring out. “Th-They came home, and they know about me and you, and my dad beat me up, and I think I have another concussion. Eddie, I-“

    “What are you doing?”

    The voice in the background- angry, scary- turned Eddie’s blood to ice.

    “Steve?”

    The line clicked as the call ended.

     

    Steve’s parents discover his and Eddie’s relationship and hurt him. Eddie comes to the rescue, and Eddie tells Steve how loved he is.

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    13 Nov 2025