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When There's Lightning (you know, it always brings me down) by GhostInTheBAU
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2026
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Summary
He can’t breathe.
The tail around his throat tugs, and suddenly his back is slamming down hard into the ground, the impact jarring every wound. It’s agony. Ripping, shredding. It’s the worst pain he’s ever felt.
His heart picks up the pace, beats erratically in his chest as his mind screams at him to get back up, to run, to do whatever he needs to do to survive; but he can’t do anything at all, really. He’s pinned down, a storm of wings and so many teeth surrounding him.
Red lightning flashes above him, reminding him that he’s in literal Hell.
He’s being eaten alive, and all he can think as the pain starts to numb is, I’m not ready.
Please, not like this. Not now. Please.
And then, from somewhere above all the madness that has become Eddie’s existence, a shape plunges into the wild fray. A human shape, an avenging angel, wielding a weathered baseball bat filled with bloody nails like it’s a prayer in the dark.
An answer to his silent plea.
Steve.
OR:
Eddie Munson survives the bats.
Steve Harrington helps him learn to live again.