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1. steve safe, steve smart by steddieas_shegoes

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   05 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Post-Season/Series 04
   • but written before season 5 started so no spoilers
   • unless they wanna make my day in part 2
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • Eddie Munson as Kas the Betrayer (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • or at least a similar creature
   • Implied Relationships
   • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)

   Summary

   Branches snap under his feet as he runs, his breath fogging in front of him. It’s cold, but he’s sweating. Fear makes your body do strange things.

   He was safe until he wasn’t. He was alone until he wasn’t.

   He doesn’t know what’s chasing him, he just knows it’s toying with him. It could’ve attacked him minutes ago when he tripped over a vine. It could’ve attacked him only a few seconds earlier when he had to pause at the end of a trail and could practically feel the hot breath on his neck.

   Steve’s losing steam and his chest hurts, and no amount of athleticism could have prepared him for running cross country in the Upside Down. It never gets easier.

   Series

   • Part 17 of steddie holiday drabbles

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