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When the Infection Sets in (I'll Stand By You) by SittingInACoffeeShop
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 May 2023
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“Do you always act so self-sacrificial? Or are you just trying to impress Wheeler?”
Steve snorted, “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re the one with demobat venom running through his bloodstream.”
That made Eddie’s smile fade as he looked at him with concern. All jovial teasing gone.
Steve noticed the change and turned his head to look at him. He swallowed thickly as he took note of the way Eddie’s jaw was clenched…and how soft his dark eyes had become.
Then he noticed how close their damn faces were.
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Steve Harrington is having a really, REALLY bad time after getting mauled by those demobats.
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Faye, 18, is new to Hawkins. She’s closed off, keeps to herself, and has no interest in making friends or finding love. Who would be when your mom drags you all over the country.
That’d soon change, when a silly, cute metal head entered her life. Determined to befriend her.
Not only would she experience love for the first time, but she’d learn that there was such things as literal monsters, a group of D&D nerds who fight them, a girl with super powers and of course a dark parallel universe.
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You find yourself in the Upside Down, luckily the gang are there to save the day along with a certain fluffy-haired metalhead.
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What's going on at Camp Lover's Lake?
Cherie Buckley hasn't set foot in Hawkins since she graduated from high school. After two years in LA, she has returned to get herself together before the inevitable next chapter of her life begins. Taking a job as a camp counselor with her cousin, Robin, she is prepared to lay low and not stir up too much gossip. But, everything changes when she reconciles with an old classmate and a league of trouble-prone teens hell-bent on protecting their hometown.
1986 is Eddie Munson’s year. He somehow managed to clear his name and graduate high school all in a few months. Now that it’s summer, all he wants to do is run far away from Hawkins and hitch a flight across the pond to the Monsters of Rock music festival. In the meantime, flights cost money. And so do festival tickets. Reluctantly, he joins the camp staff of the newly rejuvenated Camp Lover’s Lake. While the location is less than ideal, the pay will suffice to fulfill his dreams of seeing Ozzy Osbourne perform in the flesh.
But there’s trouble brewing in Hawkins. Again. After the events of spring break, there are still creatures that linger around solely to drain the local campers of their summer fun.
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It's been over a week since the rifts from the Upside Down have torn through Hawkins. Everyone is on edge, though there seems to be a calm before the storm. The group has time to recollect, and process what- and who- they've lost.
In the Upside Down, a very confused metalhead wakes up. Alone. Unsure what has happened except for the fact he feels different- not "outsider" or "freak" different. Actually different.
Was the Upside Down corrupting him? He didn't have the group to tell him all about this, and he was just utterly lost. Could he make it back to Hawkins before he was too far gone? Was anyone actually looking for him? Or were they still hunting him?
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- Part 1 of Where I Lay My Head Is Home
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There Beneath (I learned about the way of things). by starcrossed_kaiju
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Aug 2022
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“Nobody moves on to the next phase until we’ve all copied. Nobody deviates from the plan no matter what,” Nancy studied the faces in the trailer, all expressing a certain amount of nerve.
“Got it?” She asked.
When Team-Kill-Vecna enter the Upside Down, their lives hang beneath a Sword of Damocles. Caught in something much bigger than they could have imagined. Trapped and injured, the five teens must navigate a plan that went much further south than intended.
Or: The Fruity Four + Dustin get trapped in the Upside Down after killing Vecna doesn’t go exactly to plan. Objective: Survive!
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Eddie decided to not run away this time after realising the Demobats would invade reality if he continued to run away. He is brutally attacked by the foul creatures and soon the torture seems to repeat itself. Will he accept this darkness or continue to fight his way out of it?
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Max Mayfield had fallen victim to Vecna and her very essence had been thrown into the maelstrom of his other victims. But she wasn't yet ready to die, and through sheer force of will she managed to piece herself back together enough to find that because she was part of Vecna, she was also part of the hive mind of the Upside Down.
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- Part 1 of Hive Mind
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The cure to Eddie Munsons nightmares are her, Mac & Cheese and Chocolate milk.
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“Steve. Run.”
Something cracks in the woods to his right. Steve stops breathing, holds it in his chest for a burning moment and waits.
“Move, Harrington!”
There’s a screech and a growl and a hiss and the sounds are far too familiar for Steve to not immediately react. He bolts, tears through the damp undergrowth, slams into a fallen trunk and winces, but pushes up and jumps the log like a track star. He dives through overgrown bushes and slips down a slick-with-dead-leaves hillside that spills him onto a gravel side road.
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Or, the one where Steve has nightmares, Eddie is somehow alive and tagging along in said nightmares, and they both realize there is more to this whole dream sharing, sleepwalking business than they thought.
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Steve Harrington dumps you because he doesn't want you getting involved with the Vecna problem, but you stumble into it anyway trying to make amends with your old best friend Eddie Munson. Eddie Munson has spent years watching you get dumped by asshole after asshole, knowing you'll never love him back. When you and Steve meet again, he's forced to tell you the truth, but who will you choose?
STRANGER THINGS S4 SPOILERS
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Eddie and Steve are trapped in the Upside Down, embarking on a Lord of the Rings inspired journey to escape.
Please come read my dumb retcon of vol2 because damnit Eddie’s gotta come back.
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It’s been a long time since Seven let himself get caught in the woods to help his sister escape. Lucky for him, Wayne’s a good man who took him in and helped him navigate life outside Hawkins Lab. Since then, he’s been Wayne’s nephew, Eddie Munson, and he’s kept his memories of the Lab in a tightly-sealed box in the back of his mind. It all comes crashing back when Chrissy Cunningham dies on the ceiling of his roof, and Dustin hunts him down with Eddie’s secret-fantasy crush, Steve Harrington, both of them unknowingly talking a million miles an hour about Eddie’s little sister, Eleven.
Or, an AU where Eddie is Seven, who escaped the Lab with Kali.
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- Part 1 of seven.
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They managed to save Max from Vecna at the graveyard(thank God for Kate Bush)but now Steve was displaying all the symptoms of the people who had been cursed so far.
Steve wasn't buying it. He didn't believe that Vecna would just move on like that if he couldn't have Max. And Steve knew that as soon as he admitted he'd been cursed, Max would give him her walkman since it was the only one they had on hand. He wouldn't risk Max like that. Maybe Vecna was trying to fake them out so he could snatch Max away as soon as she gave up her Walkman. Steve didn't know for sure, but he refused to take that chance. She'd been through enough-all the kids had.
If only he'd told Eddie his favorite song when he'd asked.
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- Part 5 of The Prettiest Boys In Hawkins
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"“Vecna killed everyone, he killed everyone.” Eddie sobs, “I tried to stop him but he sent the bats after me, so I ran, I fucking ran away like I always do.”
“Hey no, you had to save yourself, I’m so glad you’re here Eddie,” he says. “I thought I lost you.” Steve turns Eddie towards his body, taking in the bloody wounds on his stomach and legs. He tucks a strand of curly hair behind Eddie's ear, “I couldn’t lose you too.”"
Or, Steve has a nightmare and Eddie comforts him.
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Eddie Munson had knew a few things. He knew that there were certain rules to be followed, others to ignore. He knew (well, learned recently) that there was an alternate dimension under his hometown that was responsible for a lot of bad shit. He knew that a Critical Hit was oftentimes fatal. And that blow Harrington just took... Well. Eddie didn't like the odds.
Or, those bats did a number on Steve, and no one is talking about it. Also, Eddie survives because I said so.
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Eddie moved his head the slightest bit, just enough for his eyes to peek around the curtain of his bangs to meet Steve’s own. They were glassy and white—blind like Max—and struck through with burst blood vessels, as if Vecna had latched on to his mind. Steve startles backwards but the fingers tangled in the denim held him there, iron and unwavering. He was suddenly no longer Eddie but a corpse, the corpse he’d left behind on the broken ground of the Upside Down, claw wounds from Vecna’s talons oozing black blood around his slack face.
Not a memory, this is wrong, Vecna never got to him, it’s a nightmare, wake up wake up wake up—
“It’s too late—” Eddie’s voice was unrecognizable and rasping, scraping through his rent trachea like the jagged teeth that had killed him, “—it wants you, Steve Harrington.” A shadow fell over them both; he only got the chance to form an impression of yawning wings stretched wide, of eagle talons reaching towards him, of wild blue eyes before it collided.
Six months later, and something hungry has crawled out of the gate into Hawkins.
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Demobats and Panic Attacks by Strength_in_pain for MallySeaic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2022
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“Robin. Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” Robin swallowed. Her throat felt scratchy. Leave it to Steve to be worried about her after he nearly had a seizure.
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Steve’s not doing so great after being bit by those demobats. -
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After the events of Season 4, Steve must deal with the consequences of his injuries. When his condition worsens, only the Reader realizes it and the truth is much scarier than you expected.
"You haven’t even noticed Robin by your side until now, she grabbes Steve’s hand and slowly lifts his shirt, revealing his wounds. They are red, infected, covered with pus. God knows how long he’s been like this and how much he have suffered without saying anything to anyone. You should have seen it, understood it. It’s your job. He protects the others, you protect him."
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Like A Bat Out Of Hell (I'll Be Gone When The Morning Comes) by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Oct 2022
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The side-effects of Steve's Demo-bat bites take a while to set in.
The good news is that the scars don’t look infected. The bad news is that they’re burning. Not just a little bit itchy, but full-on, intense pain.