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“Don’t crack on me now, Munson,” Steve says.
“Aww,” Eddie replies, trying to make his tone its usual cloying flirtation, “didn’t think you cared, your highness.”
He twists his mouth up at the side. It doesn’t quite land on a smirk—he can feel the way it wobbles. If Harrington notices, he doesn’t call him on it.
With a roll of his eyes, Harrington responds, “like you said, no people means no help, means you’re all I’ve got.”
Or: Steve & Eddie get pulled into the Upside-Down and become reluctant allies. For survival.
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- Part 1 of Steddie Upside-Down AU
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11 Mar 2026
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“Is that Steve fucking Harrington?”
“What’s it to you?” Mike asks snottily. Max turns toward him, already snarling in protection, but Wheeler’s got Steve’s head cradled in his lap, and he’s got his arms raised like he can shield him from this nameless threat.
“What’d you do to his face?” Eddie demands, almost whining, like Steve Harrington having his face bashed in is an affront to him personally.
Or: on the way to the tunnels with Steve Harrington passed out in the back seat, Max crashes into Eddie's van.
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- English
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- 7/7
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10 Mar 2026
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Need Brooks no Delay, but Late is Better Than Never by etlabete
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Oct 2022
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The year is 2001. The Fellowship of the Ring is out in theaters, and Steve is being dragged along to the supposed most important day of Dustin's life.
The thing is, Eddie Munson's coming, too, and Steve hasn't spoken to him in nearly six years. Not since misaligned feelings and an ill-timed love confession created a rupture Steve didn't know how to repair.
“We just drifted apart, man. That’s all.”
Dustin sighs dramatically. “Was it because you figured out you liked dudes and freaked out?”
Steve winces. It’s a joke. He can tell by Dustin’s tone, knows he likes to poke fun about Steve’s sexuality after he identified as a self-proclaimed ladies' man for so long, but it’s never come up this way before. Steve could deflect, but something in him shifts and instead he says, “More like because I figured it out too late.”
“Ooooooh,” Dustin breathes, and Steve can all but imagine the lightbulb flashing to life above his head. It makes Steve think of Dustin’s old hat with THINKING CAP on the front. “Oh my god, that makes so much more sense."
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- Part 1 of Need Brooks no Delay
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04 Mar 2026
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“This is our livelihood, Chris," Eddie says. "The Harringtons don’t give a shit about us peasants. We have to stay on top of our game if we want The Book Cellar to survive longterm.”
“We’re going to be okay,” Chrissy repeats firmly.
Except Eddie knows that small business bookstores have dropped like flies because they can’t compete with Harrington Books and other big-name store prices. Eddie’s about to whine some more when he feels his phone vibrating. His stomach does a little bit of a flip, but he tries to play it cool as he stands up nonchalantly and places Chrissy’s phone in front of her before digging his own out of his pocket.
She figures it out anyway. Eddie needs to practice his nonchalant face more.
“Is it Scoops?” Chrissy asks and grins into her cup when Eddie shoots her a scathing look.
“You’re incorrigible.”
“So it is Scoops!”
Eddie rolls his eyes and unlocks his phone. The message is indeed from scoopsahair, his internet friend.
Or, the You've Got Mail AU no one asked for.
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04 Mar 2026
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The man standing next to Nancy blinks, eyebrows rising as he scans the room.
“Wow,” he says in a shockingly deep voice. “I…was not expecting everyone to be here.”No one else says anything. Steve thinks maybe he did get drugged again because what the fuck? This guy sure looks like Steve, if he was older and with an impressive scruff of beard. But this guy’s muscled, with jagged scars peppering the skin not covered by his t-shirt. Surely it can’t be.
“Holy hell,” Robin breathes. “Time shit.”
AKA: Season 4, but this time the universe gives the gang an unexpected heads-up.
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03 Mar 2026
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Steve opens the passenger door for Robin and she feigns a glare at him as she swings herself into the car.
“I’m definitely gonna kill you before we get there,” she says with a matter-of-fact nod, shoving her duffle bag through the gap between the two front seats so it tumbles backwards onto the floor.
“Can’t do that,” Steve counters as he neatly slides his own suitcase beside her bag. He waits until he’s sitting in the driver’s seat to say,
“If you kill me, there’ll be no one to drive you to Hawkins and then you’ll never see Nancy.”
Had it not been dark outside, Steve would have been able to see Robin’s face turn a brilliant shade of red.
“Steve,” she growls, “Shut up.”
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June 1993. Featuring dubious bets, a House with a capital H, the highs and lows of family dinner, and one last graduation.
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- Part 2 of the satellite and the sky
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27 Feb 2026
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In 1984, Steve Harrington wakes up in the hospital after a car crash he can't remember. Nothing—and everything—has changed.
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He’s in the Creel house, in the real world, and he hasn’t moved an inch. Eddie is still beside him, and the bulb above them is burning white hot, pulsing even faster than before. Steve can still feel that other-worldly warmth across his back but there’s something else, something like a cold fist plunged into his chest, and the echo of deja vu swims through his head. He needs to leave. He needs to leave now—he didn’t see it in his mind for no reason.- Language:
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26 Feb 2026
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It's been three weeks. Everybody in Hawkins is coping in their own way and Steve Harrington is no exception. But coping might not be the word that describes what he is doing.
"Steve, do you believe in ghosts?"
Based on my own ghost!au fanart on tiktok
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- 17/17
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22 Feb 2026
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talk it up (what i came here for) by heartofwinterfell
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Nov 2022
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“Wait, wait, wait. You, Erica Sinclair”—Steve brandished his spoon at her, flinging flecks of ice cream spit onto the counter, before flipping it back on himself—“want me to help Eddie Munson get some game?”
“You know, Lucas said it took you a while to get with the program, but this is embarrassing.”
[or, erica spends the month of june trying to solve a love triangle]
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- 1/1
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21 Feb 2026
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Steve Harrington was losing his mind.
At least, he's pretty sure that’s what was happening, considering he kept seeing the ghost of a boy he let die, and it was starting to drive him actually crazy, in the Pennhurst kind of way.
Except.
Except he’d also always been a little bit gullible, always willing to jump into danger, to look at a situation that probably would be crazy and instead of turning and running, to drive right in. So instead of dealing with the ghost the way one probably should (which is to ignore it and maybe buy some holy water) Steve does the opposite.
And Eddie Munson, who is pretty sure he is not a ghost, is, as always, really fucking glad he does.
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Five times Steve sees Eddie's ghost, and one time he sees something different.Bookmarked by LuminousElixir
21 Feb 2026
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In 1986, Steve Harrington is doing his best. Trying to rebuild a life for his friends who’ve been to hell and back, and trying to carve out space for himself and his strange growing friendship with Eddie Munson.
At least, until Eddie leaves.
Four years later they meet again, and Eddie comes crashing back into Steve’s life, ready to tear down the walls Steve has painstakingly built around his heart.
Or: a story about holding on, letting go, and opening your heart to the unexpected. Even if the unexpected is a flighty rockstar in skin tight jeans.
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- English
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- 10/10
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21 Feb 2026
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Dustin dies closing the rift to the Abyss. They both made a promise to each other 'You die, I die'.
Ten weeks later, Steve keeps it.
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20 Feb 2026
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The school calls Steve because Dustin listed him as an emergency contact. Turns out, being someone's emergency contact means more than just answering the phone-
It means showing up, staying present, and proving that nobody has to face their nightmares alone.
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20 Feb 2026
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Doyti do ruchki, a Russian phrase which means "arrive at one's finger-ends", or rather, to reach rock bottom.
The day after the battle at Starcourt Mall, Dustin realizes he has no clue how Steve got home after the incident–if he had gotten home at all. He decides to check in on the heavily concussed teen, along with another unexpected friend.
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20 Feb 2026
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“Have you ever wanted to be invisible?” Steve asked, looking out at the sheer cliffs on the other side of the quarry. It was a thought he’d held onto for a while, letting it form mostly in the early hours of the morning when he was alone in the dark.
“You mean like a superhero and shit?” Eddie asked, blowing out smoke and taking another drag from his cigarette.
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When Steve presents, his parents force him out of the house, changing everything about his life and subsequently the future of Hawkins. In the mean time, Steve learns how to be loved.- Language:
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17 Feb 2026
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Call Me a Fool (When Night Comes Down) by That_Silly_Fox
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Sep 2025
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Vecna is dead. Fried crispy, by all accounts. But that doesn't mean the Upside Down is done yet.
Steve, however, has other problems. Now that the Party made it out with everyone alive, his brain has developed the habit of reminding him that Eddie Munson exists. And that Steve might have a capital 'T' thing for him. A thing that is not capital 'P' platonic. Which he can totally handle. It's not like he'll do anything stupid, Steve knows better. Call him: Steve 'Rational' Harrington.
Maybe he should be thankful that they get a few months to figure out life again before it all goes to shit. Until he gets the phone call that drags him into the thick of it again. But maybe this is the last time. God, Steve really hopes this is the last time.
(OR: A 'what if...' Season 5, where Eddie Munson is a little worse for wear but a-okay and Steve Harrington has time to consider a few things)
(OR, OR: Summer is on the way, meaning movies, pool parties, and a few too many beers... At least until the Upside Down claws its way back, because this is Hawkins, Indiana, and stranger things will always happen)
(OR, OR, OR: The (Second) Vanishing of Will Byers)
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16 Feb 2026
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Thank you.’ Eddie lays his hand on the back of Steve’s exposed neck, right below his hairline. His skin is cool, it’s soothing.
Something kind of unlocks in Steve’s middle.
Like a bad bone cracking in half.
Like a rotted dam giving way to the weight of the water.
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15 Feb 2026
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I know I've kissed you before (Can I try again) by ChristinMKay for speckpflaume
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Apr 2023
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“Still not graduated, Harrington?”
It’s something Eddie would have said teasingly when they were teens. Steve would have smacked him on the shoulder, affectionately calling him an asshole before being pulled into an apologetic kiss. But they are not teenagers anymore and Eddie’s voice lacks any of the warmth that used to be reserved for Steve. Now, it’s just loaded with resentment, which, yeah, is a fair reaction.
“I…eh…work here now,” Steve says lamely and points at his office door. “Guidance counselor.”
or: 14 years after his first big heartbreak, Steve's life is relatively stable. It's been two years since the tragic incident that led to him becoming Dustin's guardian, both of them slowly healing. He is doing amazing at his job and his social life is great. Of course, that's when a person from Steve's past has to come and shake everything up.Series
- Part 1 of Pink in the night
- Language:
- English
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- 164,732
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- 11/11
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- 1,332
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10 Feb 2026
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“Sorry,” Steve says. “I’m sorry, I know this doesn’t make any sense to you, but can I just–”
Eddie lets him approach, this time. Lets him reach out to touch, to curl his fingers in the hem of Eddie’s shirt.
“Sorry, I know I probably sound crazy, I just––” he pulls it up, stares at Eddie’s side, and then lets out a hysterical little noise that sounds like a cross between a laugh and a sob.
“You’re ok,” Steve says.
His fingers are hot on Eddie’s skin, pressed light and shockingly reverent to the space between his hip and rib cage.
“You’re ok,” he repeats. It sounds like he’s trying to convince himself.
“Hey,” Eddie says. It comes out more breathless than he’d prefer but Steve fucking Harrington has him backed against a wall in a bathroom with his hands up Eddie’s shirt so he thinks a little lack of air is warranted. “Are you ok?”
The fingers on his abdomen flex. "No,” Steve says. His eyes are wide and fathomless and the look on his face is terrible. “No, I’m not even remotely ok.”
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- Part 1 of Steddie fics
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07 Feb 2026
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it's good to see you back in a bar band, baby by LiarsandThieves22
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Nov 2023
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When Eddie’s bassist breaks his wrist right before Corroded Coffin’s first big tour he’s forced to turn to desperate measures. Namely: hiring Steve Harrington, a former industry golden boy who’s since fallen from grace, stopped recording, and vanished from the limelight entirely. Eddie’s never met Steve, but he knows he’ll hate him. He’s heard all the rumors about the guy. He knows Steve’s type — preppy, arrogant, nepo-baby asshole.
Doesn't he?
OR: The not-quite-famous-yet rock-tour enemies-to-lovers AU no one asked for.
- Language:
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- 139,119
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- 33/33
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06 Feb 2026