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Bradley goes to Jake's high school reunion and gains a retroactive crush. Jake, of course, picks up on it.
He’s struck with the realization that in another life, if they'd been in high school together, Bradley would've been just another one of the masses, sneaking peeks at Jake on the football field, hoping for just a smidgen of interest.
The thought makes Bradley swallows the rest of his drink hastily, mortified.
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16 Mar 2026
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Eddie loathes the idea of soulmates. The words his soulmate will say the moment they realize they are in love with him sit heavy on his wrist. Heavy like a burden, like a cursed prophet, harbinger of death. Others cry tears of joy when they get their words, Eddie had cried tears of anxiety. The dark letters on his wrist read, “Dustin died.”
On the other side of town and yet worlds apart from Eddie, Steve loathes the words on his wrist just as much. Not because he doesn’t want a soulmate. No, he longs for them every day. And every day is a painful reminder that he hasn’t found them yet when someone randomly calls out his words. The letters on his wrist simply say, “Hey Steve.”
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12 Jan 2026
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Eddie doesn’t like showing it when he’s scared. Wayne always knows, though. He knew every time Eddie appeared on his doorstep with no warning, small and trembling with a dirty, oversized backpack packed with snacks and worn stuffed animals. He knew when Eddie was taller, a little bit too skinny and too tough for his age, when his dad finally ended up in prison and the government finally let Wayne's kid be his kid. He knew when Eddie was in middle school, friendless and angry and paranoid, when Wayne stumbled upon a stash of porno mags while he was looking for drugs.
So he knows now.
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{in which Wayne doesn't meet Steve until quite a while after he and Eddie start dating}
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11 Jan 2026
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Not Looking for the Cure by I_am_but_a_holyman (tally_ho_903)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Sep 2024
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Dustin has decided Steve's chronic single-ness is the bane of his very existence. Dustin won't shut the hell up until Steve asks someone out.
Luckily for Steve, Dustin never said it had to be a girl.
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07 Jan 2026
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A story of scars, shared silence, and the four years it took for Eddie Munson to feel like himself again.
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