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1. the tug that's between us, that long string by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli)

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   04 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Background Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Background Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler - Relationship
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Robin Buckley
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Wayne Munson
   • Will Byers
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Joyce Byers
   • Claudia Henderson
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Original Characters
   • Post-Season/Series 05
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • Vampire Eddie Munson
   • slightly vampiric steve but mostly he's just a bit more bat-like
   • and also weirdly attuned to eddie's presence
   • Stalker Eddie Munson
   • post-finale epilogue/timeskip
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Slow Burn
   • POV Steve Harrington
   • Coach Steve Harrington
   • Bisexual Steve Harrington
   • Gay Eddie Munson
   • Protective Eddie Munson
   • Eddie Munson Needs a Hug
   • Obsessive Behavior
   • Blood Drinking
   • Protective Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart
   • Good Babysitter Steve Harrington
   • Mutual Pining
   • Wound Care
   • Roommates
   • but only in the sense that eddie is a fugitive and steve needs free labour to help decorate his new house
   • Steve Harrington to the Rescue
   • Steve moves to forest hills
   • and what's that?
   • oh nothing just an eldritch horror lurking in the woods
   • anyway
   • Blood and Gore
   • Minor Injuries
   • Cryptids
   • i'm thieving from the not-deer lore
   • Rating May Change
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • expect kink and probably more violence down the line
   • Title from a Black Country New Road Song
   • Miscommunication
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • no beta we die like henry fuckin creel

   Summary

   Despite all of the insanity around him, Steve can feel only one thing.
   The sensation of something - someone - behind him, on the ground, where they’re huddled together.
   There’s something under the truck, he thinks. Oh god, there’s something here. I was right, and I didn’t check.
   Something followed us out.

   —

   Life after Vecna's death is everything that Steve expected it would be: new job, new house, new beginnings.
   He’s fine, honestly.
   Everything is fine - other than the fact that his new home in Forest Hills feels under constant watch from something in the shadows, he keeps finding animal corpses drained of blood around town, he can’t hold a relationship down to save himself, Dustin keeps leaving him increasingly concerning cryptic phone messages… and there’s some sort of sinister entity occupying the woods near the Creel House.
   So, fine. Totally.

   Series

   • Part 1 of it takes a few months, but our bones heal

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   61,462

   Chapters:

   4/10

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