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Finney Blake died.
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Well, that might be an exaggeration, He wasn't "dead", just forced to move, stripped from his sister, obligated to change his name and forget his old life behind!
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Okay maybe He was kinda dead..And in his place Now stood the one and only, Steve Harrington.
If you told Finney Blake who He was Now, He would think you're lying, I mean, who would think the shy, bullied boy became a popular jock that bullied others himself? Finney would think you're crazy...
Steve thought He was crazy too when He thought about what became of him. A rich, suck up, asshole. He thought he would feel oh so better if he just threw parties And pretend that he didn't feel like absolute shit, who would he even have to talk about it to? His parents? Please! the foster placed him in his new "home" because the Harringtons volunteered to take him, And they didn't even do it "oUt oF tHe LoVe Of ThEiR hEaRt!" They just wanted that Sweet sweet jump in reputation.
"Oh yes we took in that poor filthy boy"
"He was so dirty and messed up when He got here! But we saved him!"
Lies.
It was all stupid, rich lies.
If they actually cared, they'd talk to him. If they actually cared they wouldn't leave him all the time. Fuck, the last time he saw them was after the mind flyer's flesh monster destroyed their lives again And they didn't even stay for a Fucking week before leaving him again..And they didn't return yet..god it's been 7 months..
But the kids were in his life...
His whole world turned around ever since those kids appeared in his life..
Eleven with her Power based trauma,
Max now having to live with the burden of her Brother dying,
Lucas helping her every second through it while trying not to be too heartbroken about their break up,
Will being the shy boy He Is(Steve sometimes saw himself in the Will when Steve was still Finney, that's why He made sure to include Will all the time And be more gentle with him, which kind of got ruined after the Byers family had to move..),
Mike being the loveable shithead,
And Dustin....
the one who dragged him into the whole upside down shenanigans, his best bud, the one who Steve took for his little Brother. Oh how these kids changed his life so, so incredibly much, how he loved all of them, how He'd protect them with his life, they changed Steve a lot, made him feel more like Finney ever since middle school, and He was so extremely grateful for them.
And then there was Robin, his Now best friend, a person He's been through thick And thin with, his platonic soulmate with a capital P! He loved Robin, not love love! He had to expain that to Dustin SO many times! He was so glad to have her in his life, of course He did! But it sometimes Hurt to be around her...Rob reminded Steve of past Robin so much, reminded him of the Robin He couldn't save, the Robin that died in that forsaken basement. His Robin. God how it Hurt.
But He couldn't let anyone know. No-one knew about his past, about the ghostly hands he felt daily, about the nightmares, the only person that knew a bit(with the exclution of ghosts talking to him through a telephone And his sister having magical dreams, of course, duh.) about the mass kidnapping from the Grabber was Miss Kelley. He started going to her after the Mall "burned Down", He started seeing the grandfather clock And hearing that damn phone ring.
Ring
Ring.
Ring.
But No-one knew, obviously. He didn't want to burden them with his basically minimal problems! His stuff happend ages ago!
Max was still recovering from her brothers death,
Will And El were forced to move and cope with the chief Hopper's death(reminds him a little too much of someone..),
and the others were trying to heal from everything properly and finally be able to grow up normaly! He coulden't ruin that, it would be selfish!..
He didn't need to burden them with his problems. He was fine. He was just having weird nightmares after all..
everything was fine.