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1. make this inn our own by hexiewrites

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   27 Dec 2022

   Tags

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   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Chrissy Cunningham
   • Robin Buckley
   • Wayne Munson
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • POV Steve Harrington
   • POV Eddie Munson
   • POV Multiple
   • Steve and Chrissy are queer platonic besties
   • Eddie and Robin are queer platonic besties
   • Handyman Eddie Munson
   • Businessman Steve Harrington
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Not canon compliant - season 3 and up
   • Future Fic
   • Inspired by Hallmark Christmas Movies
   • Christmas
   • Romantic Comedy
   • Slow Burn
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Blind Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Referenced Childhood Neglect
   • lexswinterficchallenge
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Minor Robin Buckley/Chrissy Cunningham
   • DILF Steve Harrington

   Summary

   After a family secret threatens the upstanding Harrington name, Steve is forced to leave Hawkins right after highschool. Life carries on without him, The Party defeats Vecna and the gates close, and ten years pass.



   Then, Otis Harrington dies and leaves Steve the Carnation Inn. With Christmas fast approaching, business man Steve must return to Hawkins and fix it up to sell. But coming home comes with guilt, trauma, and grappling with his identity in the Harrington family, and the family secret that tore him away from the one person who may have understood what he was going through. Add in a dilapidated inn, a snarky handyman, a meddling gang of no-longer-kids, and a little bit of Christmas Magic, and everything Steve has fought so hard to build is suddenly threatening to crumble around him.

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