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Does knowing your fate change it? Is the future set in stone or do we chose our path? How would knowing details of your destiny influence the decisions you make?
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What might have happened if Merlin never learned of his destiny, and therefore had to think for himself instead of following the advice of a morally ambiguous dragon.
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Dustin, Robin, and Nancy make it out. That’s all that matters.
Steve isn’t self-sacrificial, at least not intentionally, but it’s no question that he’d get those three out of literal hell before himself. It only makes sense.
So now, he’s stuck in the Upside Down with a half-dead nerd he barely knows.
A journey through Steve’s relationships with himself and the most important people in his life: a lesbian, a know-it-all kid et al., his ex-girlfriend, a DM (whatever the hell that is), the DM’s uncle, and everyone else who seems to have wormed their way into his life since 1983.
(Or, how getting trapped in Hell on Earth with Eddie “The Freak” Munson puts every other relationship Steve has ever had into perspective.)
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22 Jul 2026
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Steve has grown so accustomed to Eddie only calling him by nicknames – Stevie, big boy, Steve-o, doll, sweetheart, pretty boy, and so many others – that the day Eddie just… stops, hits him like a freight train. Steve doesn’t have time to examine why he’s bothered by the sudden change-up – he just knows he needs to get to the bottom of it. Because he's worried about his friend.
Just his friend.
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20 Jul 2026
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“Sorry,” Steve says. “I’m sorry, I know this doesn’t make any sense to you, but can I just–”
Eddie lets him approach, this time. Lets him reach out to touch, to curl his fingers in the hem of Eddie’s shirt.
“Sorry, I know I probably sound crazy, I just––” he pulls it up, stares at Eddie’s side, and then lets out a hysterical little noise that sounds like a cross between a laugh and a sob.
“You’re ok,” Steve says.
His fingers are hot on Eddie’s skin, pressed light and shockingly reverent to the space between his hip and rib cage.
“You’re ok,” he repeats. It sounds like he’s trying to convince himself.
“Hey,” Eddie says. It comes out more breathless than he’d prefer but Steve fucking Harrington has him backed against a wall in a bathroom with his hands up Eddie’s shirt so he thinks a little lack of air is warranted. “Are you ok?”
The fingers on his abdomen flex. "No,” Steve says. His eyes are wide and fathomless and the look on his face is terrible. “No, I’m not even remotely ok.”
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Steve was not having a good time.
Not only because of his recent encounter with Russian torture was undoubtedly going to become a reoccurring nightmare.
No, Steve was not having a good time because he stupidly tripped on the rug while grabbing another beer and landed face first on the hardwood flooring.
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Steve Harrington calls for help after Starcourt expecting Hopper to answer, and is instead thrust back into reality when Wayne Munson answers.
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