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“Ay me! For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. But either it was different in blood—”---
Eddie Munson found himself in a position he'd never been in before: running from the law, hiding out, and seeking help from none other than Steve Harrington. While he attempts to understand the new dynamic building between the two, Eddie reminds himself of his past and why he can never be too careful, even with people he trusts.
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Before the greenhouse. Before Steve. Before any of it.
Eddie didn’t fall. He walked in, lit the match, and stayed too long.
Billy called him wild. Eddie called him Honey.Not a love story.
A survival one.Series
- Part 3 of Bloom Cycle
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In Black and White by kinetikatrue for endlesstwanted
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 May 2025
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Baseball, hair, swimming, and kings - four moments where Eddie and Steve crossed paths pre-canon, and Eddie's reflections on them.
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not the loss but the thing misplaced by loveinhawkins
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 May 2025
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“You okay? Did you see something?”
Steve raises the flashlight with renewed purpose. Eddie shakes his head. Tries to think of how to phrase this in the least mortifying way possible.
“Nah, man, it’s… it’s so dumb, never mind.”
Great, his go-to tactic: avoidance.
“Oh, yeah? Try me.”
There’s a pointed silence. And, as if Steve’s put some magic in the air, Eddie feels compelled to break it. Even the claws of his doubt that have sunk the deepest seem to relax slightly, and as he takes a breath, he’s hit with a sudden certainty: Steve won’t laugh.
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It was a random Saturday when Eddie stopped to stare at the guitar yet again, and Wayne stopped beside him, glancing up at the pale instrument in the window. “I know, Uncle Wayne. I just… I know we can’t get it. I just want one so badly.” Eddie’s reflection stared back at him from the glass, his eyes too dark in the dim light.
“You want one, huh?” Wayne rubbed a big hand along his jaw, letting out an exaggerated sigh. “I’ll tell you what - if you really want one, and you’re sure about it, I’ll get you one.”
“REALLY!?!” Eddie’s eyes widened as he spun to look at his uncle.
“Yeah, but one one condition. And it won’t be up for debate.” Wayne crouched so they were eye level with one another. “You can have a guitar to play whenever you’re visiting me, but you have to let me teach you how to play the fiddle too.”
Or - The story of how Eddie Munson was (un)lucky enough to end up in the small town of Hawkins
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- Part 1 of and it sounded something like this...
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But Steve’s in a category of his own. When he moves, so at home in his body, it’s like the earth moves for him; Eddie watches him now, with an edge of emotion he swears is nothing more than envy.
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It wasn’t until Eddie had been in the Hospital Fighting for his life that Steve noticed something else about Eddie.
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Me projecting my Chronic Illness/ disability onto Eddie MunsonSeries
- Part 1 of Disabled Eddie Munson
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Baron knows the best way to an uncle/father figure's heart is a good turnover. Well, he sure hopes so. He’s got his fingers crossed. Maybe he should pray on it.
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- Part 3 of sweet peach
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Underneath the hum of the RV, Steve asks Eddie for directions to The War Zone.
Steve does not need directions. Eddie knows this, because when he’d shown it on the map, drumming his fingers restlessly, Steve had leant over his shoulder and muttered, “Got it,” with such confidence, like he’d committed it to memory within seconds.
Eddie slides into the passenger seat anyway.
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Eddie goes to see The Princess Bride when it comes out in 1987—and it’s a tentative thing, still, between him and Steve; they haven’t named it, but their hands still brush in the space between their seats, and really if Eddie were pushed, he’d say that they both know exactly what they’re heading towards, that they’re just floating between the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.
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the most dangerous thing (is to love you) by Brokebeatle
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 May 2024
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“I know you care about what those little twerps think of you, and I can assure you they think way too highly of you,” Eddie says with a wink, and Steve gives a half-hearted smirk for just a moment. “But look… I know I can’t ask you to stop worrying about those kids, so how about this? You worry about them, and you let me—actually let me—worry about you.”
Steve pushes his hair back, and yet again, gravity instantly pulls it back down, since he’s looking at his feet. “…I don’t need anyone to worry about me.”
“Too fucking bad. Someone’s gotta do it, and it’s gonna be me.”
“Why?” Steve replies with a raspy laugh, shaking his head slowly.
“Why? Why.” Eddie crosses his arms tightly across his chest, knocking his foot into Steve’s again with a bit more strength. “Because we’re friends, dipshit.”
--In which Eddie's got a reason he's been planning on leaving Hawkins since long before the world almost ended. The only thing keeping him in town at this point? His promise to be friends with Steve Harrington. And Eddie doesn't break promises.
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- Part 1 of '86, baby!
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He doesn’t know what he’s afraid of them seeing, exactly. Just remembers the fear of middle school—a boy ripping his notebook out of his hands and just laughing at Eddie’s desperate attempts to get it back.
It had been a lesson—to not be careless. To not leave pieces of himself lying around for others to handle.
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When Eddie Munson had to make a choice in the Upside Down, he knew what he had to do.
He just didn't know it would hurt this much. Didn't know he'd had to reckon with his own past before he'd be able to let go.
Didn't know he'd have to figure out where everything went so wrong with Steve fucking Harrington before, well, everything.(or: eddie munson gets the backstory he deserves.)
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Master Of My Heart- Between Dungeons & Dragons by holycmunson (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Apr 2024
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Modern Eddie x Fem!oc
In the sleepy town of Howling, Eddie, an introverted young man with a passion for heavy metal and rock, finds solace in the "outcast tribe" of the school. Haunted by past traumas, he prefers the company of friends on the fringes of mainstream, embracing band t-shirts instead of popularity.
His monotonous life takes a 180-degree turn when he meets Linda Hansol in the secret clearing near the school. Linda, a mysterious and radiant girl, opens her heart to Eddie, revealing dark secrets and confessing hidden pain.
Becoming Linda's confidante, Eddie finds himself drawn into a captivating enigma. Together, they embark on an emotional journey to unravel the secrets of the clearing and, in the process, discover the truth about themselves and their feelings.
Prepare yourself for a dive into mystery, friendship, and the redemption that emerges when loneliness gives way to hope. The light of truth illuminates even the darkest hearts.
Or "Where Eddie encounters the Dungeons and Dragons of Love."
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And Who Are We At The End Of It All? by Caseys_Crying
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2024
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They did everything just like they planned. It should've been over, and yet it wasn't. They didn't win this time.
They've all got battle scars and it's not so easy this time around to figure out how to keep living with them, especially while they wait for Vecna to rear his ugly head around again.
They'll all need each other if they want to figure themselves out and find exactly what it is they're looking for.
Because maybe Steve wasn't really looking for Nancy, maybe Nancy needs a chance to find more from love than what she's looked for before, maybe Robin can't get what she needs from Vickie, and maybe Eddie joining this 'Apocalypse Party' means something...?But, hey, they got out of one more end of the world, they've got some time to work on it. As long as these damn kids behave a little.
- aka, my S4 Finale Rewrite and a selfish/idyllic S5 Proposal
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When Eddie had first moved in with Wayne he'd been skinny and skittish, clearly not trusting Wayne to be different from his brother. Wayne was a patient man though and they'd made it work.
It had been almost easy.OR
3 times Eddie comes out to Wayne, and 1 time Wayne comes out to Eddie. Featuring cake.
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- Part 3 of Heroes of Hawkins High
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The day before Spring Break ‘84, Eddie has a panic attack so bad he stays locked in a bathroom stall long after the final bell has rung.
And it’s so stupid. It’s not like the whole thing came as a surprise to him: he saw the writing on the wall even back in December, his grades on a continual downward spiral he couldn’t shift.
But he kept on trucking cause he’s still got the mind of a five year old, apparently, hoping against hope that things would just miraculously work out.
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You're the king of the world (I'm a moth to your flame) by Thisusernameisunavailable
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Aug 2023
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What if Steve and Eddie had connected in high-school instead?
Eddie is determined to graduate- there's no chance he would survive another senior year. A hitch in that plan arrives in the form of Steve Harrington, fresh off a break up. There’s something more going on-, Eddie can tell, and he's forced to investigate when they get paired up for a project together.
/ takes place after the end of s2 /
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“Still super jealous as hell by the way,” Eddie says; Steve laughs, elbows him in the chest—disguising a want to touch by shoving him away.
There’s a brief flash of warmth against his skin before Eddie teeters back.
He stays close though, dances in and out of Steve’s space as they walk, almost close enough to…
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And I Never Knew Survival Was Like That by BlackUnicorn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jun 2023
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Being Robin Buckley was, she'd learned early on, an exceptionally lonely experience.
Some people just weren't meant to be loved.
It ran in her family, in a way. Her parents were divorced just as their parents would have been divorced if that had been an option, then. But that was okay. That should have been okay. That was just how things went sometimes.
And yet.The thing was that being Steve Harrington wasn't easy. There were rules and there were expectations and Steve had never been all that good with either of those, and his dad never let him forget just how much of a disappointment he was. And that was fine. Steve was used to that. But sometimes he just wanted to be Not Steve Harrington, and before – before the basketball team and before the swim team – he could be Not Steve Harrington with Tommy and Carol, could be someone else, someone who didn't have to care about the things he wasn't good with.
Eddie the Freak, that's what people called him nowadays. He didn't quite get it, to be honest, wasn't quite sure why, because it hadn't been his fault. He hadn't started it.
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An exercise in finding love, told in three parts.
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- Part 3 of Everything Remains As It Never Was