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1. I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop by SheldarpCauseFuvkIt

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   27 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Wayne Munson
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Tommy Hagan
   • Chrissy Cunningham
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • canon typical teenage sex
   • The F Slur
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • brief descriptions of abuse
   • Non-Graphic Violence
   • Minor Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
   • Minor Eddie Munson/Original Character(s)
   • Minor Steve Harrington/Original Character(s)
   • Coming of Age
   • Character Study
   • Sexuality Crisis
   • Anxiety Attacks
   • Mr. and Mrs. Harrington's A+ parenting
   • Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
   • Eddie Munson Needs a Hug
   • POV Alternating
   • queer awakenings
   • Sexual Fantasy
   • Angst
   • Poison by Alice Cooper
   • Breakfast Club References
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Weed
   • Underage Drinking
   • Teenage sexuality
   • Canon Compliant
   • mostly - Freeform
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • Canon Era
   • requited feelings
   • Pre-Canon
   • Post-Canon
   • some canon dialogue in later chapters
   • Steve was and can be an asshole
   • Eddie can also be an asshole
   • they’re not perfect sweet innocent meow meows and that’s the fucking point actually
   • Hopeful Ending
   • Very Hopeful Ending
   • my personal love of Wayne Munson
   • my personal love of Robin Buckley and the bad bitch that she is
   • OBVIOUSLY S5 doesn’t exist! LOL
   • Coincidentally Nancy Wheeler shot it to smithereens
   • Fuck AI do not put my work through that slop machine
   • Not Canon Compliant - Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2

   Summary

   Two very different journeys of sexuality and self discovery become loosely interwoven and then fully entwined.

   Eddie embracing part of himself despite suffering and struggling while Steve suffers and struggles to embrace that same part of himself. It’s hard for both of them to admit it to themselves but they both want the same things and maybe they’ve found it in each other.

   Series

   • Part 1 of I wanna hold you (a Steddie love story)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   51,342

   Chapters:

   8/8

   Comments:

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