i was thinking for my ghost AU instead of doing an Angels in the Outfield thing, which isn't really an AU it's just post canon, I could do an AU where Eddie died in season 3 as part of the meat monster. And he's haunting the video store because that's where he got lured from. But mostly he's just haunting Steve because he never liked that guy. And Steve doesn't realize he's being haunted at first, he thinks he's cursed. Because his coffee is always cold (from Eddie sticking his ghost finger in it) and the lights always seem to turn off right when he's getting somewhere with a hot girl and the computer keeps turning off when he's in the middle of checking out the most impatient, assholey customers. And none of it ever happens to Robin, it's always his shifts while she's at school.
And then I need to figure out how they realize it's a haunting but probably Robin figures it out. But at some point Eddie types his name into the computer or pulls up his rental file so they know who the ghost is. And he doesn't actually remember what happened after Billy told him to hold still. It'll be over soon. He sort of remembers it not being over soon enough. He doesn't actually want to remember more than that.
And Steve decides he's going to help Eddie with his unfinished business so Eddie will go to the afterlife and stop annoying him. And Eddie makes up some wild goose chase unfinished business to fuck with him. Maybe there's a thing where Steve has to carry around one of the VHS tapes so Eddie can leave the store. And they're spending a lot of time together on this wild goose chase and Eddie is starting to kind of get a soft spot for the guy.
And then I think it's a thing where after the fake out the party tries to legit help Eddie move on and whatever they do fails and the rest of the party is like this sucks. What else can we try? But Steve is secretly relieved that Eddie's sticking around and Eddie doesn't seem that disappointed either. And keeps sticking around. And sticking around.
And maybe the longer they spend together the more Eddie becomes visible to Steve and it could be a thing where Steve can see and hear him but just can't touch him or can only touch him when he's sporadically corporeal.
And he stops having to carry the tape around because Eddie's anchor switches from the store to him. And the party is like oh yikes how do we fix this. You guys are stuck with each other. But the truth is neither of them minds that much because they're lonely codependent freaks who actually never want to be alone even for one second. And also they are in love. So they decide to just stay stuck together for the rest of Steve's life. Which I guess is as happy of an ending as you can have when one of you is dead?
