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1. Sleep with one eye open by Just_my_latest_hyperfixation

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   08 Feb 2024

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Post Season 4
   • Sleep Paralysis
   • Nightmares
   • Monsters
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Monster Eddie Munson
   • Eddie Munson as Kas the Betrayer (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Body Horror
   • Blood and Gore
   • Biting
   • Ambiguous/Open Ending

   Summary

   He was only a figure at the far end of the room at first. Steve still recognized him, even with the changes.

   Dark curls matted with blood haloing a sickly pale face. Clothes torn to shreds. Graying skin hanging from the festering hole in his jaw.

   Steve kept calm, drawing and releasing one breath at a time, telling himself that this wasn't real. He wasn't really here, just a figment of his grief and guilt. He fell back asleep to glinting black eyes watching him.

   He has been back almost every night since then.

   And he's been coming closer.

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   Written for the Steddie Microfic challenge on tumblr, February 2024 edition
   Prompt: edge, 509 words

   Series

   • Part 11 of Hype's microfics

   Language:

   English

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   508

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