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    “He’s hurt?” he sharply says, voice pitched tight with concern and anger.

    Richard Harrington scoffs.

    “You hit him?” Eddie asks, voice cold and coiled.

    “It was a slap,” Steve’s father scoffs in response. Eddie curls his hands into a fist, but manages the rest of the stairs, and the half dozen steps to the kitchen without hitting the other man. The blood looks tacky, not quite dried, but not wet either. Enough time to pass to make Eddie realise Steve probably left a little while ago.“Hardly a hit.”

    “The boy’s a fool,” Steve’s mother chips in. “He ran out of here,” she gestures towards the kitchen door, which Eddie only now realises is open, a small smudge of blood , smeared fingertips grasping at the edge of the door. “Into the woods, no less,” she curls her mouth into a sneer. “Without even putting his shoes or jacket on.”

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    A side (AU) Side Story for the Immediately After & Beyond Series where Steve's parents come home after Hawkins splits apart (and are even worse than usual in a more Machiavellian way)

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