Eddie following Nancy around and incessantly talking Steve up to her and pestering her about why they broke up while they’re in the middle of life and death shit in the upside down and she’s trying to focus on watching out for monsters until she finally stops walking and turns to face him as she snaps “If you think Steve’s so great, then why don’t you date him?”
Eddie stops walking too at that. He completely misreads the deflection momentarily and asks “Wait, Harrington’s into guys?” but realizes it was not the thing to say when Nancy is visibly shocked and confused and asks “What?” So Eddie echoes “What?” to buy himself time to think of something better, just to only make things worse and more obvious when he adds “Let’s just pretend I didn’t say that” and then starts walking again and is glad when she does too and doesn’t say anything about it (or at all)
Meanwhile Robin and Steve were hanging back chattering together and happily bickering. They heard none of it until Nancy’s outburst that was loud enough to cut through their conversation, but then they blatantly listened in with their ears perked up in time to catch that last part of the interaction
They start exchanging glances because hold on they know another queer person? But also because is Steve into guys? He hadn’t realized Eddie was an option but one thing he’s sure into is attention and he’s been enjoying Eddie’s so does it really matter if he’s a guy instead?
So Steve’s visibly considering if he’s into guys and Robin’s visibly noticing something’s going on and trying to silently ask him what his face means with her face. And then Steve’s trying to figure out what her face means and they’re getting nowhere. But before they can sort anything out at that moment, Nancy yells at them to hurry up and catch up (partly because they really have fallen behind and now completely stopped walking and partly because she’s still not sure what to say to Eddie after that and can’t decide if it’s worse to play along and pretend she didn’t hear it or say something to try to make him less noticeably fidgety since he said it)
So Steve and Robin jog to catch up and by the time they do, Steve’s already decided to start chatting Eddie up some more as soon as they’ve caught up with him because hey maybe this whole Vecna bullshit doesn’t have to completely derail his desperate search for a relationship after all and really this is a far better idea than hitting on Nancy just because his default setting is to be hitting on someone and he’s obviously not going to pick Robin
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