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“Will and I were fighting yesterday. It was big. Somehow it got to El and… I don’t know, I got upset and I kept thinking of this fight we had right after El became friends with you and ‘dumped my ass’ that summer. And I said something really mean back then, and…” He stopped.
“What did you tell him?” Max pressed. She had a therapist-esque voice, and it reminded Mike of Ms. Kelley.
“I said…” He choked on his words. “I said it wasn’t my fault he didn’t like girls.”
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or: Mike Wheeler was Vecna'd, and he's dealing with the aftermath.
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- Part 2 of Mike Wheeler is Cursed by Vecna
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Max wakes up—finally—the following Monday.
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- Part 3 of the rest
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if you don't want me, set me free by tearsofsaudade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
07 Oct 2024
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Familiar. That was Will’s first thought as he fell. The cold, the silence, the dark. He knew where he was heading. Will had been seeing the Upside Down for years, but he hadn’t been back since that first week, when everything began.
No. He had gone through hell and back to avoid that place. I won’t. He knew that he had a stronger connection to it than anyone realized, but that didn’t matter. Not right now. The only thing that mattered was that he wasn’t going back. Not ever again. Don’t touch me.Will wakes up in the future.
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Mike catches Will smoking one night, and the two have a talk about it.
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“Steve never liked the smell of bleach.”
OR: As everyone escapes the Upside-Down alive, Steve ending up in the hospital starts to bring back some memories that’d he thought that he’d forgotten. Struggling with masking a smile and dealing with his spiraling, he also maybe, kind-of falls in love a little.
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I Don't Remember Lying by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
25 May 2024
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They had defeated Vecna, they had saved the world.
Everyone was finally safe, years of torment were behind them. It was a fresh, new start for everyone.
Until kids started going missing, and Mike knew that this time, it wasn’t the upside down.
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Mike Wheeler is Richie Tozier AU!
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Holding Hands While the Walls Come Tumbling Down by hiddeninthelines
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Feb 2024
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After surviving the shitshow UD Hawkins threw at them once again, the ragtag group of friends has to deal with the aftermath and then go on with ordinary life. Should be easy, right? After all, dealing with young adult feelings and fears, making friends and falling in love, the mortifying ordeal of being known and other identity crisis cannot be more complicated than fighting monsters from a hellish dimension.
[At some point, he thought, he had maybe even given up on the hope of finding that something. He was going on dates and stuff, but as if on autopilot, to pass his time as usual, to avoid dealing with his thoughts, to have someone to be with when his high schoolers friends were busy. But he did not feel that attraction, that curiosity, that spark he was looking for, that he knew he had in him to feel, but was starting to doubt it was still there.
So, when he caught himself trying to hide a blush when Eddie caught his eye and smiled at him, he averted his eyes with a whispered “I’m fucked” leaving his lips in a tired sigh.] -
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Will Byers, Max Mayfield, and Robin Buckley had never even talked before. At least, not really. They'd spoking in large groups and said 'hi' in passing, but when they end up working together for the shelter, keeping it a secret for Will's sake, they start to realize they sort of get each other.
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Steve should have just let him go. He shouldn’t have even said goodbye or gave a half-assed wave, let alone stop him.
“Eddie, wait,” the words felt like hot embers on his lips, full of burning regret.
Eddie paused just as his grasp met the door handle, “Waiting…”
“You need a partner for the road?” He asked begrudgingly, half wincing at his own choice of words.
Eddie smirked and continued out the door, “I’ll be sure to pack lots of Hall and Oates tapes.”
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Or, Steve and Eddie road-trip to California in a beat-up van.
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Broken Bones by EddieMunsonsPetRaccoon (AlabamaAragorn)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Feb 2023
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Eddie is injured while hanging out with the kids.
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- Part 5 of We Are Family
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Subrogation by EddieMunsonsPetRaccoon (AlabamaAragorn)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2023
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Eddie explains insurance terms.
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- Part 3 of We Are Family
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i will love you without any strings attached by roykentt
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Dec 2022
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She heard the slight creak of wood and she could smell that he was closer to her now. “We don’t keep secrets,” he told her, his voice so close to her now, she didn’t have to look to know where he was. That he would be moments away from kissing her head. A reassuring gesture.
Slowly, Nancy peeked out through her hands and sure enough, Eddie was balancing in a slight squatting position in front of her, his face only inches from her. She didn’t even mind the cigarette still smoldering away in his fingers, the smoke wafting between them. Even in the darkness, she could make out his eyes, as if the brown darkened to a shiny onyx.
“Do you want to come to Boston with me?”
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When Dustin realizes that, yeah, there’s definitely electricity between Mike and Will, he brings it upon himself to help them get together. They’d be lost without him, anyway. The four step plan he’s come up with is definitely going to work.
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“It’s not my fault you don’t like girls.” Those words still ring in his head 3 years later. After everything that had happened, all that they had been through, he never found the heart to apologise. They’re all safe now, but nothing between Will and Mike is the same. It can’t be can it? Not when Mike can’t seem to make up for what's been lost between them.
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“Steve?” Max’s voice sounds panicked and shaky on the other side of the line, breathing heavy. It makes his heart sting.
“Max, what happened? Are you okay?”
She takes a deep shuddering breath before she speaks, “I’m fine.” Another breath that sounds more like a gasp this time. “It- It’s Eddie.”
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Eddie seems to be doing fine after the Upside Down, but is he? Is he really? I don't think so.
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the party throws a party
or: elmax drunken confessions
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Even Beyond the Grave You're a Pain in My Ass by rowmyboats
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Aug 2022
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IDEA CREDS TO: @noah.i.c on tiktok
Steve considers the “Eddie” chapter of his life over, buried in the ground marked by an achingly sparse headstone. He thinks he’ll move on soon.
That is, until he finds that Eddie Munson’s ghost has taken a liking to fucking with his already fragile sanity. -
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It's been six years since Vecna died -- since Eddie died -- and Steve has felt this presence, attached to his left side, every day since. He stopped going on dates and started leaving space for this feeling of a person.
When Robin calls him on it and he begins to realize what he's been spending the better half of a decade doing, Steve decides to do something about it. He starts playing horror movies and old metal records on repeat and reads DnD books out loud to his quiet house and, eventually, Eddie lets him know he's there. That he's always been there.
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About seven or eight months after beating Vecna, Steve and Robin are right back where they were from before. Working at Family Video. And Steve, you know, he's trying his best to be normal, find a girl, like her and date her, try not to think about what happened back in the upside down. He's getting better but he has to admit— when Dustin comes to Family Video with another crazy theory, he doesn't turn himself away.
He might rethink his decision if he knew it involved the (un)dead Eddie Munson.
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Max supposed that for most people, major identity shifts came after months, years even, of thought. What you’re supposed to do is agonize over it. Maybe make a list of pro’s and con’s. Spend a year or two in abject denial, perhaps. That’s what Will had done when coming to terms with being gay. Honestly, Max wasn’t sure the kid had known how blatant his three year long identity crisis had been, but Max knew that being gay was something that Will struggled to accept about himself for a long time.
Max didn’t really work that way. Max had good instincts, and knew it. So when the thought occurred to Max, “What if I’m actually a boy,” that was it. End of identity crisis. He figured girls didn’t question if they might secretly be boys.Max comes out as trans to his best friend and his boyfriend.