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Free Now To Rise by hitlikehammers for Klausinamarink
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jul 2024
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Summary
The final battle—like the last part of the very final battle—ends with shattering, and with dust.
“Live through this,” Steve had breathed against Eddie’s angry red lips before they parted, hard enough that it stung for how raw he’d been kissed; “so we can pick up where we left off.”
“I will if you will,” Eddie had shot back, defiant; still begging.
And Steve had kissed him again, and Eddie’d watched as Steve walked away with Eddie’s taste on his lips as he’d spoken:
“I’ll hold you to it.”
And in the end: Eddie holds to the bargain.
But Steve.
Steve…Steve Harrington, with the bitchiest glare and the brightest smile and the goofiest laugh and the biggest fucking heart, the bravest of all of them and the best part of Eddie’s whole soul—
Steve gets hit, and disappears from the world in nothing but a cloud of dust.
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Or: Steve leaves nothing but ashes behind when he falls in the final showdown with Vecna.
Maybe a lovesick Eddie falls apart and gathers those ashes in his grief; his heartbreak.
Maybe the ashes aren’t just ashes, and maybe Eddie’s boyfriend wasn’t entirely just human.
Maybe.