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Nothing left but the bitterest of recollections by vegheadsunshine3
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Sep 2026
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Summary
Before Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson were strangers, they were everything to each other.
They met at seven years old. They grew up together. Eddie knew Steve before King Steve existed, and Steve knew Eddie before Hawkins decided he was a freak.
Friendship became first love with stolen kisses, shared beds, and the private places where neither of them had to pretend.
But Hawkins was watching. And growing up meant learning exactly what happened to boys who loved other boys.
By 1986, Steve and Eddie know how to look at each other like strangers.
Then Chrissy Cunningham is murdered.
We already know how this story ends. This is how it began.
Two endings are provided: one in which Eddie dies, and one in which Eddie survives. Choose your ending.
Series
- Part 1 of The Mixed Tapes: Side A/Side B