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(if someone asked me at the end) i'd tell them put me back in by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2024
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Steve is a modern boy dealing with modern problems: existential dread, anger at a world he can't fix, and the inescapable feeling that he'll never be able to name what's missing from his life. And then his parents buy him a house, an alternate dimension in desperate need of help yeets him to the 80s to fix things, and he falls in love with a maybe-murderer-but-not-really metalhead along the way.
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- Part 1 of Throwback Thursday
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- English
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- 110,024
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- 40/40
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13 Jun 2026
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All Thanks to the Power of Love (No, Really) by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Nov 2024
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The zombie apocalypse hits, and Steve and Robin sacrifice themselves for their friends. And then they’re zombies, semi-self-aware, shambling around the mall, inexplicably never hungry, understanding each other better than the other zombies ever could, and inadvertently rescuing a girl named Max.
The mall isn’t safe for her, so Steve and Robin leave to find somewhere that is, and they might just find their way back to living again when they run into people who thought they were dead.
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The zombie apocalypse hits, and the love of Eddie's life is a beautiful, idiotic, self-sacrificing asshole that lied when he promised to give Eddie another kiss when they met again. And then he’s trying to keep himself together while setting up a base, keeping a gaggle of reckless fourteen-year-olds alive, and fighting against the resignation of his friends.It all comes to a head when he takes Dustin on a walk and they hear a girl scream. When they reach her, they can only watch as the girl is saved by a heart-breakingly familiar zombie. A zombified Steve and Robin that don’t eat them on sight is already more than they could have ever hoped for, but they soon discover that the two are a lot less dead than they seem.
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- English
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- 25,203
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- 12/12
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13 Jun 2026
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Eddie's got a prophecy he doesn't like (it's not that serious).
Steve's got a gaggle of demigod tweens to keep alive.
They meet and fall in love with plenty of shenanigans and pining along the way.
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13 Jun 2026
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This is why gifts should include a sender tag by Library_of_Gage for QueenSilber
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Feb 2026
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Eddie's been receiving from pretty concerning gifts, and they all culminate in the sender asking to meet them at Skull Rock.
It goes better than he expected.
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- English
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- 4,543
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- 1/1
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13 Jun 2026
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13 Jun 2026
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This is, like, thriller movie shit. This is secret labs with mad doctors stuff. Eddie doesn’t know much, but he’s gleaned enough from movie nights with Steve. Eleven is going to have key information; she’s the mysterious character that’s somehow central to everything going on. And that means Eddie needs to keep her safe.
“Nice to meet you,” he says, glancing at the hospital gown hanging just below her knees. “What are you doing out here?”
“Running away.”
Yep. Mad scientist stuff.
“Well, are you hungry? I have food back home, and it’s pretty safe.”
Eleven seems to consider this offer for a moment, her gaze drifting to the mangled bike before she frowns slightly, a flash of something crossing over her eyes. Eddie wants to ask about it, but he holds himself back, mentally patting himself on the back when the girl finally nods once and walks over to him.
Eddie offers his hand, relieved when Eleven takes it, and feels one step closer to figuring out what the fuck is going on.
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- Part 2 of Final Girl Steve
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- English
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- 21,853
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 245
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13 Jun 2026
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a link is breaking out of the chain by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Nov 2025
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Max stares with wide eyes as two boys fall through the door. The shorter one (but barely, maybe no more than an inch shorter) is wearing a varsity jacket and stumbling over his feet as he walks backwards. His arms are looped around the taller boy’s neck, and he’s still laughing. The taller boy wears a vest layered over a leather jacket, has untamed hair, and looks at the shorter boy with eyes that make Max feel like she’s intruding.
Both boys’ clothes are slightly rumpled, and she only now realizes that the taller boy’s hands are resting on the other’s waist. They haven’t seemed to notice Max or El, and the taller boy uses his foot to kick the door shut.
El calmly says, “Steve, we are watching Dracula. Would you and Eddie like to join us?”
Steve and Eddie jerk apart, finally noticing Max and El in the room. They glance at each other, a whole conversation held in that one look. It is, apparently, a conversation that Eddie loses, because he sighs as Steve grins. “How far are you?” Steve asks, kicking off his shoes before collapsing onto the couch.
(A/N: Strongly suggest reading the other two parts first to avoid any confusion.)
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- Part 3 of Final Girl Steve
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- English
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- 20/20
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13 Jun 2026
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i'll be the creature if you'll be my bride (and we'll be monsters together) by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Feb 2024
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“Yeah, but you’re entirely predictable. I mean, you’re a rich boy who’s good at sports and climbs the social ladder like it’s nothing. No way you like nerd stuff. You’re destined to be a douchebag, Harrington. The Munson Doctrine never lies.”
As he speaks, Eddie can see Steve’s frown get deeper and his eyes get darker until he turns his head away and takes a shaky drag of the joint. He lets it out, still shaky, and seems to be gathering himself. Eddie is starting to brace for a punch or kick or something violent when Steve says, “You’re just as bad, then.”
“What?”
Steve takes another drag, his shoulders relaxing, and he looks at Eddie. “You’re no better, Munson. As much as you’d like to think otherwise, you’re also predictable. I mean, you’re a guy who feels like an outcast so he embraces the role and doesn’t bother to think he could ever be wrong about someone he’s never actually talked to before. Seems like you’re destined to be a douchebag, too.”
For the first time in a long time, Eddie is speechless.
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- Part 1 of Final Girl Steve
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- English
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- 18,155
- Chapters:
- 4/4
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13 Jun 2026
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Eddie was just doing a teeny-tiny robbery at the Harrington household.
It should've been a quick in-and-out. Steve would never know he was even there.
And then Eddie finds Steve in the bathroom.
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12 Jun 2026
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Eddie had Poppy and every time he looked at her tiny little face, all he could think was how unworthy he felt.
But Steve—Steve was fucking built for this shit. He held Poppy in his strong arms so gently and he bottle fed her, changed her diaper, played her classical music, talked to her like she was a fully grown adult because he’d read somewhere that it would help with a kid’s development.
Eddie wasn’t cut out for being a father, much less a single father. But he never was a single father, not really. Not with Steve. Steve was always there. Self-assured, offering to look after little seedling and forcing Eddie to go hop in the shower, eat something, take care of himself in a way he hadn’t known how to do in those first few endless weeks.
And Eddie thought that maybe—
He’d thought—
He was so sure that they could’ve been a family.
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12 Jun 2026
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“What about your pack?” Steve asks, because, well—
Werewolves are social creatures. Humans may not be right about the specific dynamics, the leaders and the runts and pack structures, but they got the general idea right. The idea that wolves have a distinct need for life, to be surrounded by it, sustained by it. There is no point in running beneath the glow of a full moon without people you trust. People who understand what it's like.
“Don’t have one,” Eddie replies stiffly. “Don’t need one. I have my uncle. And my friends. Even though they’re human, they help with the whole socialization thing.”
He’s a lone wolf, Steve realizes.
That’s the smell that rolls off of Eddie Munson in irrepressible waves: it’s loneliness.
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- Part 1 of moonstruck
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- English
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- 17,072
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- 2/2
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12 Jun 2026
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He hesitates. “Don’t freak out, alright? It’s just that I may have gotten lightly stabbed in executing my escape plan.”
“Lightly stabbed,” Steve repeats incredulously. He pinches the bridge of his nose. “Jesus Christ, let me see.”
He grabs at the hem of Eddie’s t-shirt and pulls, and before he can even register the movement Eddie’s hand is around his wrist. His grip is tight but not painful. Eddie’s touches are never painful, even though they very well could be. Eddie has this unquantifiable and undetectable power within him, raw and buzzing below his skin, just waiting to be let out. He could snap Steve’s wrist clean in half if he wanted to and it probably wouldn’t take all that much effort, if any.
He won’t, though.
Eddie would never hurt him.
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12 Jun 2026
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“Well, I would order food, but I don’t really know if you’re gonna stay.”
Eddie blinks at her. “Why wouldn’t I?”
“I don’t know. Why wouldn’t you?”
There’s a whole laundry list of things Eddie could say in response: because your little brother put me up to this, because I don’t know you, because Dustin was right and you’re absurdly pretty, but he also failed to mention that you are incredibly out of my league as well. Miles and miles out of my league. You’re in a whole different galaxy while I’m still stuck on planet Earth.
“You look like Brooke Shields,” he blurts instead, and is proceedingly mortified at himself and his own blunt words, and also how ridiculously uncool that line sounded.
Even so, it’s true.
Stevie Henderson is beautiful.
Apparently, Dustin has an older sister. Eddie is the opposite of boyfriend material. Nobody seems to care about that.
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12 Jun 2026
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Eddie will say goodbye to Dustin and Mike at the same time then move on to the rest. Two birds, one stone. And then he’ll be off. Easy peasy.
Except it isn’t, because when has Eddie’s life ever been easy? He drives over to the Wheeler’s place down Maple Street, parks at the curb in front of the house. Stumbles up the front steps and raps on the door a bit. Is so lost in preparing his last-minute improvised goodbye speech that he doesn’t register the fact that Mike Wheeler isn’t the one answering the door until, well—
“Eddie?” Steve asks, eyebrows furrowing.
Eddie gapes at him stupidly.
Eddie is leaving. Steve is doing his damnedest to get him to stay. Also, Holly Wheeler is a fairy princess.
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12 Jun 2026
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Eddie walks into a Michaels Arts and Crafts Store at 4PM on a Sunday stoned out of his goddamn mind and is immediately accosted by the image of Steve Harrington crouched over in the yarn aisle, wearing glasses and an apron over what can only be described as a grandpa sweater.
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12 Jun 2026
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There’s this guy in Steve’s third period English class who won’t stop staring at him, and at first he thinks that he’s trying to pick a fight.
“That’s just Eddie Munson,” Carol informs him while picking delicately at her own cuticles. “He’s not trying to fight you, Steve. He’s just a creep. The best thing you can do is ignore him.”
Steve doesn’t know about all of that, but he supposes Carol’s right about one thing: Eddie Munson is not trying to fight Steve. He just stares a lot. And he doesn’t even look away when Steve catches him and they lock eyes. He just burrows further into his arms and raises a thin, pierced eyebrow.
It's the end of senior year and Eddie Munson won't stop staring. Robin Buckley does not get paid enough to deal with this shit. Steve Harrington plays board games with middle schoolers. He is also apparently in a long-term relationship with both of his best friends; he does not know this.
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- 1/1
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11 Jun 2026
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They barely made it out. The Upside Down nearly took several of their own, and Hawkins split in two, but they're okay. They aren't without scars. Max broke her arm, and Steve ended up in a 10-day coma, but maybe that time was the last. El defeated Vecna, and they can rest now. The Party decides it wouldn't hurt for their DM to meet their favorite recovery babysitter, to bring someone from the outside in. It doesn't hurt that Eddie Munson and his new best friend, Chrissy Cunningham, bring a sense of normal that Party members have long forgotten.
It's such a shame that normal never lasts long.
(Alt. Reality. Eddie and Chrissy never get brought into Upside Down nonsense the fourth time around. They meet the Party after the events of Season 4.)
- Language:
- English
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- 160,148
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- 26/?
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- 337
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- 1,609
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11 Jun 2026
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“You know my name,” Eddie says, his face stolid as he continues to stare at Steve.
That gets Steve to meet his eyes again, having been hiding under his fringe in embarrassment. Fuck, he’s still just as pretty as the first day Eddie saw him. Eddie was a sophomore then and Steve a freshman. Now Eddie’s stuck in his senior year and Harrington graduated. A lot has changed, but Steve remains to be just as pretty as ever.
- Language:
- English
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- 8,316
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 2
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- 27
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11 Jun 2026
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What if Steve figured out Robin was gay back in 1983. What if he decided to befriend her? What if that changed everything for both of them?
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- Part 9 of Stobin Month 2023
- Part 1 of Everything I'll Ever Do I'll Do With You
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10 Jun 2026
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What happens in the Starcourt mall parking lot— by Anjel_Starling
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jul 2025
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—ends with a date with Steve Harrington.
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How an unfortunate event during a drug deal with Billy Hargrove ends with Eddie landing a date with Steve Harrington.
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"Shit, shit, shit.
Eddie had more than half a mind to leave—to cut his loss on being caught and hope that the guy keeps this whole thing to himself. The metalhead can’t be sure he even knows the guy from how far away they had parked from the back of the mall—and, even if Eddie’s and Billy’s vehicles are pretty recognizable in Hawkins, who was to say that this guy was from Hawkins or if he even knew either Billy or Eddie?
He should go. He should leave. He should never agree to do another drug deal anywhere semi-public again.
But Billy looks pretty pissed—and the blonde is on some pretty heavy steroids. This random ass guy that was unlucky enough to catch them in the act of an exchange didn’t deserve to get beaten all to shit. Best-case scenario, Eddie is just back up to Billy intimidating the guy into keeping his mouth shut—worse-case scenario, he prevents a murder from happening during one of his own drug deals.
Yeah, murder would be bad for business."
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10 Jun 2026