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thinking about post-s5 epilogue comphet Steve and Nancy forming a proper friendship, assuming this means they must be into each other and trying dating again
Eddie comes back from the dead (handwave handwave, idc how) and moves in with Steve while he and Nancy continue dating long distance
stancy are happy-ish in that they do love each other properly by now, just Not Like That - it's unspoken but they both know it about themselves and have their own insecurities about it. kind of a "I'm clearly broken but this is the closest I'm ever going to get to The Real Thing so I'm clinging to it"
steddie are falling in love back in Hawkins while Nancy's out in New York being a cool journalist, and Steve is ofc oblivious to his own feelings while Eddie is pining away knowing stancy are together
then Nancy encounters the concept of aromanticism and bursts into tears of relief at her NY kitchen table. she immediately gets in the car and heads for Hawkins, because Steve deserves to know, and Nancy's no coward
meanwhile, Eddie decides to leave town to save himself and Steve has a dramatic last minute sexuality crisis, confessing his love as Eddie's on his way out the door
Nancy lets herself into Steve's apartment ready to reluctantly break his heart (again) and finds steddie making out on the couch
I genuinely think, after a point, Steve would dance to anything.
And not in an appropriate way, he's gonna pull Eddie into a slightly bouncy, not-quite-slow dance to fast paced heavy metal and say "baby! it's our song!" even though it isn't, and Eddie's gonna laugh in that way that makes him go a bit noodly so it's easier for Steve to spin him around their tiny kitchen.
Fuuuck I just loss 20000 dollars in adverisement revenue and potential sales when that guy over there didn’t look at my flyer because he was talking to the girl he was walking with. The sensible option here is to ban talking while walking since it’s literally theft.
Eddie Munson who really can't stand the sight of blood, especially after the bats incident.
He just freezes and gets nauseous, his stomach feels tight and unsettled. He doesn't pass out or anything, but Eddie has to admit that sometimes it feels like a very close call.
Steve is not very good with blood either, though he definitely isn't as bad as Eddie is.
But then it comes a day where everyone is gathered at Steve's, one of those very rare days where everyone was available and they could actually hang out.
The kids are causing chaos, being reckless as fuck as they jump into the pool while Steve and Eddie are grilling burgers; Robin, Nancy and Jonathan are in the kitchen bickering as they bring the rest of the food and drinks outside.
It happens in a matter of seconds, really. One moment Mike and Dustin are playfully fighting each other inside the pool, the next Mike pushes Dustin with a little too much strength and Dustin ends up hitting his head on the edge.
And then there's blood.
Like, a lot of blood. The edge of the pool is smeared red, the water too.
Everyone panics.
The kids screech and cry out, while Dustin just looks confused as he stares at his bloodied hand after he touches his injury, as if not understanding what is happening at all.
Steve panics too because that's Dustin, and he's hurt and Steve should totally do something about this but he's stuck in place for some reason.
It's Eddie who ends up moving first, to everybody's utter astonishment.
He scrambles towards the pool and helps Dustin out, ushering him to the bathroom where Eddie grabs a clean towel and applies pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
His actions seem to break Steve out of his panic, so Steve soon shows up with the first aid kit to help out too.
There's a lot of hissing from Dustin as they clean the blood off his hair and then clean the wound. And there's also a lot of pouting when Dustin finds out he can't go into the pool anymore, unless he wants to risk disturbing his injury again.
Other than that, they manage to take care of everything quite quickly, and soon Dustin is heading out to join his friends again, leaving Steve and Eddie behind to dispose of all the bloody gauze and towels used.
Steve is throwing the last of the gauze in the trash when he feels Eddie touch his arm. When he turns, Eddie is pale as a ghost, his forehead glistening with sweat.
"Eddie?"
"Can you help me to the couch? I think I might pass out," Eddie mumbles, and Steve swears he's turning a little green.
Hey it's me I'm still thinking about old transmasc Wayne Munson.
I've been a Wayne x Benny truther on the backburner since that fic where Steve told Eddie the truth about what happened to Benny and invoked Heartbreak and Closure. (I did try to find it but if it's on AO3 it's not tagged with Wayne/Benny, hmu I wanna share, it Distressed me - positive)
The idea of them being Old Queers who foster/adopt strays and get them on their feet just Warms me, so I extended it to Eddie and will do it over and over. This is Al Munson Erasure and I'm fine with that.
Content Warning of what is essentially misgendering but it's the build up to discovering transmasc Eddie Munson too.
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Wayne and Benny have had a lot of nieces and nephews over the years they've been "close friends", nobody really questions it, most anyone close to them knows neither of them have siblings, but waifs and strays with a whispered commonality tip up at the diner on their own, or get brought in by people who want to help but don't know how, these kids get introduced as Benny's niece or Wayne's nephew or vice versa, linger a little until they're ready to "go home" with clean clothes on their back, a book of contacts, and a little pocket money to tide them over.
One kid ends up different. She's a quiet, angry teenager, nobody understands her, everyone fits in their dumb boxes, she says she hates them both every time she slams that damned bedroom door at Benny's apartment and blasts her godawful music.
She's testing Benny's patience, and that man's a saint, but Wayne thinks the kid'll come around eventually, they'll square her away and get her somewhere to go, suggests she stay with him at Forest Hills for a while instead. It's a tight fit, he ends up borrowing a foldout from a neighbour (ends up getting given it outright after a few months and no sign of change), sleeping in the main room whilst the kid takes over his bedroom.
Maybe he should've explained his situation, but he forgets he's ever been anything other than Wayne Munson half the time and is usually the first one up and dressed, so it doesn't come up natural-like until he wakes up to see the kid packed and trying to sneak out in the early hours one morning. He sits up and flicks the lamp on, squints through the discomfort of sudden brightness to see panic-fear in those big dark eyes, then confusion when they flick down.
"Jesus old man, you get mauled by a shark or somethin'?"
Wayne's got scars, some from a hard life, some from a wily childhood, but the two gnarly lines across his chest are a badge of honour even if he doesn't show them off too often, even if the surgeon wasn't the best in the world, even if the recovery was rough, even if Wayne had a tough time with work and life and lapsed on taking care of them, so they aren't pretty or subtle.
Wayne is barely two sentences into explaining before the bag is dumped by the couch and the kid is sat slackjawed and listening with a fierce, awed intensity set into a face Wayne has only ever really seen angry. His story ends and he watches the kid sag,
"I didn't know you could do that..."
Wayne has never felt guiltier quicker, he should've said something sooner, they've been taking on abandoned queer youth for a decade and not once did it ever occur to him... to either of them... that one day, one of those kids might be like him.
"can... can I do that?"
It's a breakthrough conversation, something slots into place and the kid looks like the eternal war in his head finally has an end in sight.
Wayne takes the kid thrifting for 'boy clothes'—his own clothes—and explains to Benny soon as they reach the diner, reintroduces him to folks as his nephew, despite knowing him already, despite the kid not settling on a name for months—he's Wayne's Nephew, That Munson Boy, Mini-Munson, or The Kid, until he hops on a table and introduces himself as world renowned heavy metal legend, Eddie Munson (who can play a whole two chords on the old guitar Benny found in the shed behind the diner)—they get him squared away with the same drug Wayne's on, their house fund becomes Eddie's Surgery Fund, and the kid becomes a fucking dream to have around.
Or at least a dream compared to how he was before. Eddie is loud and brash and a force of nature, but he's helpful, he's tactile, he's a goofball, he manages to get a smile out of Wayne—which Benny teases Wayne about relentlessly—and he sticks around.
He was never supposed to, but he's Eddie Munson, where else would he go?
Turns out Keg King Steve Harrington is a big hit in Wayne's birdwatching club and he 'really knows his stuff' and he gave Wayne an old pair of high-end binoculars.
Eddie has no idea what to do with this information but he thinks it comes in handy when he finds a drugged and beaten ice cream sailor because Steve keeps asking where he can find a robin.
"I don't know, the woods?" He shrugs. "Now isn't the time to care, man."
"How dare you," Steve slurs offended, jabbing Eddie in the chest with his finger. "Sh'ssss a the best. I always care."
Eddie eventually gets Steve into his van and to the hospital where they run into, "Robin! Munson said he wanted you to get tortured again."
Robin Buckley (living breathing human girl) is just, "...?"
It's summer, it's so hot that Eddie spends all his time at Steve's.
Everyone is convinced they're having a secret relationship, but Eddie defends himself by saying he's just there to enjoy Steve's pool. As everyone knows, he can't stand the heat, and Steve is kind enough to let him use his pool. If there's any secret relationship going on, it's between Eddie and the pool, certainly not between Eddie and Steve.
Everyone seems more or less convinced by Eddie's arguments and moves on to something else. Everyone except Robin…
And she's absolutely right not to be convinced, because Eddie and Steve have been having a secret relationship for several months already.
(Robin cornered Steve to make him confess the truth. He tried to deny it by echoing Eddie's arguments, but she gave him a “not to me, Steve Harrington” look, and he was forced to confess everything. As if he could hide anything from his platonic soulmate, anyway).
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