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Robin wins a couples-only resort trip and convinces Steve to come along, all without telling him that his fake boyfriend for the week is Eddie Munson.
They haven’t spoken in months, not since Steve pulled away and Eddie started acting like they’d never been close. Now they’re stuck in a honeymoon suite, faking romance while barely holding it together.
Five days. One bed. A lot of unresolved tension. And maybe, if they stop pretending, a chance to fix what fell apart.
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Eddie’s used to silence.
To pulling on his jeans in the dark, fingers fumbling with the zipper, already thinking about the back exit. To slipping past fences and trash bins with someone else’s taste still on his tongue and regret pooling in his chest. He’s used to never being looked at in the light.
In Hawkins, sex with men comes in three forms: secretive, rough, and disposable. The guys don’t kiss him. They use him. Then pretend they don’t know him the next day. Eddie pretends it doesn’t get to him.
He’s the freak, after all. The dirty little secret fits.
So he learns to treat it like nothing. Like routine. He stops expecting anything tender. Stops hoping for it. It’s just easier that way.
But then Steve starts hanging around.
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The Things I Couldn’t Say (Until I Was Wasted) by starburst19
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Feb 2025
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Steve gets jealous, gets drunk, and accidentally confesses his feelings to Eddie. The next day? He pretends it never happened.
Too bad Eddie remembers everything—and he’s not about to let Steve off the hook that easily.
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A Valentine’s Date with the Wrong (Right) Person by starburst19
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Feb 2025
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Robin, fed up with the endless bickering between Steve and Eddie, decides to take matters into her own hands and secretly sets them up on a blind date at Enzo's. Cue awkward forced intimacy, growing attraction, and the realization that maybe they’ve been fighting for all the wrong reasons.
Or: The enemies to lovers Valentine’s Day fic no one asked for
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As Halloween drapes its eerie glow over Hawkins, Steve Harrington hosts a party, aiming for a night of carefree fun. But amidst the costumes and laughter, Steve feels an undeniable shift between him and Eddie Munson. Their friendship, once simple, has grown more complex, and Steve is torn between keeping things light and facing the feelings he’s been avoiding.
(Or Steve throws a Halloween party and can’t ignore the growing tension between him and Eddie)
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An ache started to settle inside Will's chest, burrowing deep between his heart and ribs.
Mike let go of the hug, stepping back a few inches and kissing the sobriety chip, "For you. For Nora."
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Mike and Will navigate married life, struggling through Mike’s sobriety and being on the brink of divorce.
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.
“Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.
“What?”
Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—
Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”
Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.
“Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”
When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.
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a fool's way into jealousy by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Mar 2026
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I [25M] live with my roommate [26M]. I’m worried I might be homophobic towards him?
tl;dr: I’ve never been homophobic before, but whenever I see my gay roommate with other guys it makes me feel like shit and it’s ruining our friendship. How can I stop acting like an asshole and make things go back to normal?
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Steve moves in with Eddie under the illusion that he's straight. Straight, and weirdly, distressingly invested in his roommate's sex life.
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24 Apr 2026
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The water ebbs around them, slow and tranquil, but the storm raging inside Will is anything but.
All he sees are Mike’s eyes as he closes the gap. A drop of water rolls down his neck, disappearing into the naked line of his collarbone.
“Say no if you don’t want me to,” he murmurs. “Push me back.”
Or, Will gets swept into Mike’s irresistible pull after a single night that changes their friendship forever. Late night talks turn into even later night kisses, friendly nudges to intoxicating touches, and the creaking of bedsprings now means something other than the return of Will's nightmares. Each new change blurs the line between friendship and something more, and as Will struggles to stay afloat through Mike's confusing storm, he starts wondering what it is exactly they are - and whether he'll sink for good in trying to find out.