Steddie Masterlist-
The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting.
It’s the first time in a while that he doesn’t know what comes next. He’s dove into the water hundreds of times. Screamed as his flesh was torn apart, heard Master of Puppets in the distance and held back tears. Felt Max’s cold, small hand in his as she laid in the hospital bed. There are things that always happen, no matter how hard he tries: El doesn’t arrive in time. Eddie dies. Max is put in a coma.
Steve fails. They lose.
“Steve. How many loops have you been through?”
His head is nodding, and his eyes are watery, and Eddie has approached him like a spooked animal.
“I lost count.”
AKA: The one where Steve Harrington is stuck in a time loop, and Eddie Munson is really fucking hard to save, or: fuck Volume 2, these bitches are in love.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40146012/chapters/100544994
*This one has a sequel I genuinely can’t wait to read- waiting for it to be finished tho-* ^
Eddie Munson The Silvertongue
The events of the last few years of his life have left Steve Harrington a wreck. He feels as alone in life as he imagines he would in death. Things begin to change after hes rescued from a drunken stupor by sort-of-friend Eddie Munson.
Eddie is a soft dom at heart, and ends up unknowingly influencing Harrington to take better care of himself, do things he enjoys. Steve doesnt understand the calm and the peace he begins to feel around Eddie, or his apparent need to make Eddie proud.
When Eddie realizes the influence hes had on Steves life he battles with weather or not its right of him to continue treating his friend as a submissive in need of guidance. Eddie decides to lay it all out for Steve, and confesse his true feelings for him.
Or
Steve Harrington discovers he's a sub and ALSO in love with Eddie Munson after he helps get Steves life back to a happy, healthy space. The tags dont make sense now bc you have to wait for it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39677352/chapters/99329796
Hells Bells
Steve Harrington has begun to hear the clocks ticking, and he knows Vecna is coming for him next. But he can't worry the kids when they have a plan. Will the group stop Vecna before he gets Steve, or will Steve have to face his worst fears at the hand of this monster?
OR
Eddie is the only one who notices Steve is acting weird, and while they get ~close~ he learns all about one Steve Harrington.
Canon-diverse, breaks off around the time Max is first Vecna-d.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40210875?view_full_work=true
the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you
Sixteen years after the world didn't end for the last time, Max Mayfield showed up on Steve’s doorstep and said, “You gonna walk me down the aisle in May or what?” Or, it’s 2002 and Steve Harrington attends a wedding, a funeral, and a birth
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40083423/chapters/100387011
stereoscope
Here's Steve Harrington's biggest secret, though: It's not the alternate dimension brimming with monsters or the impossible girl with powers. It's the fact that he and Eddie Munson have been friends all along. In an on-and-off, tangential, fucked up kind of way. Never on his own terms. But still friends.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39797163/chapters/99637989
Three Shots
Three shots ring out.
Steve hears them before he feels them; a warm, wet pain burning in his torso, intolerably excruciating.
There’s a bundle of squawks and screams, outbursts of panic and anger, and it’s only when Hopper falls forwards to take Steve up into a slightly rough, protective hold, does he realize that two of those shots have lodged themselves in his own flesh and bone. (Realizes that he’d moved, instinctively, to shield El, despite never having spoken to her, who’d the gun had been so precisely pointed at, aimed for.)
Steve Harrington watches his own blood pool and trickle over a series of hands pressed against him, small and large, soft and rugged, and for a moment, wants to stay like this. He can’t.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40119615/chapters/100478754
(These top six everytime I read them just yes, got the angst and the comfort combined and I will be rereading constantly-)
he could be brave
Eddie Munson wasn't very good at puzzles.
Well.
He could make them, sure, in the form of weeks-long campaigns for his bandmates and a ragtag group of now sophomores he'd come to adore. He was great at making them. Great at making villains that his party thought they'd had figured out, beaten, only to make a quick 180 and have them come back from the dead for a final, earth-shattering fight. Yeah. He could make them.
What Eddie Munson couldn't do when it came to puzzles, was figure them the fuck out. Especially, it seemed, when the puzzle came in the form of a boy one year younger than him and slightly shorter when you didn't count his mass of gorgeous hair that made him, falsely, look taller than Eddie. This puzzle had saved the world with him, had saved him when he was sure he was a goner.
The puzzle's name, of course, is Steve Harrington. King Steve, to many, Hawkins High's golden boy, rich and charming and apparently, a fucking badass.
Eddie never stood a chance.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39762723/chapters/99549969
you don't have to be sorry for doing it on your own
He gets the call and everything is slow motion. He’s barely able to understand what’s happening. The words are mumbled in his brain, he picks them apart like he’s sifting for a needle in a haystack. Claudia Henderson was found dead. Her son is waiting at the police station.
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Steve becomes Dustin's legal guardian after his mom's death. He's figuring it out along the way with the help of a certain curly-haired metal-head he can't seem to get out of his head.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40072944/chapters/100360125
There Will Come A Soldier
Steve Harrington thought they were kidding. A week ago, Robin and Eddie had been excitedly talking about this thing called a “Renaissance Faire” coming to Indianapolis the following weekend. The way they were talking about it with the costumes and the lore, Steve presumed it was another Dungeons and Dragons thing that he did not understand so he tuned them out.
(i.e. the fruity four and the kids go to the renaissance faire and something about Eddie in a costume gets Steve flustered)
title from "Soldier, Poet, King" by The Oh Hellos
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40241859/chapters/100794453
Your Sex is on Fire
Corroded Coffin blew up in the Roane County region of Indiana. Getting accused of murder really got the local punks and metalheads going. It was very Ozzy in their eyes.
aka: sex on fire by kings of leon sounds like eddie singing. what if it was?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40386966 *The song is actually really good I’m addicted to the band now- Especially Beautiful War* ^
Voulez-Vous
Eddie, who is already nursing a pretty serious crush on Steve, walks in on a spectacle he never could've imagined. The sight before him sparks an obsession that sets Eddie down the path of making the most Steve Harrington mix tape, ever. Watch what happens when Eddie's journey to a perfect playlist leads him to love and a peculiar sense of family.
Or - a self indulgent excuse to send Eddie on a mix tape adventure.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40423485
The Worst Mixtape Ever Made
“It’s a gift, so you gotta listen to the whole thing, okay? I think-- I think it’s got what it takes.”
There’s an art to making a mixtape - and Steve Harrington has decidedly ignored all semblance of art in creating a mixtape for Eddie Munson. Too bad Eddie’s fascinated with how impressively terrible his song choices are.
[Written Post Vol. 1, Pre Vol. 2. Now an 'Eddie Lives' fic.]
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39672624/chapters/99318411
steve's secret munson mixtape
Steve could play it cool during his shifts and hell, he'd even manage to distract himself whenever him and Robin were frolicking around town, getting Slurpees and talking about her love life. When he was alone was where the trouble started. He would hang his keys up on the hook next to the front door and the silence would immediately bombard him with echoes of "don't ya, big boy?", the very words that made his brain short circuit.
(In which Steve Harrington unknowingly begins to make a mixtape for whenever he finds himself thinking about a certain metalhead)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40191339?view_full_work=true
don't go wastin your emotions
"Steve 'the Hair' Harrington, a rage-filled barbarian, who knew?" Eddie says, like its a compliment, like Steve has ANY idea what that means.
"Uh, I knew. Obviously." Steve says, wisely, even though he clearly didn't. "Anyway, do you think we could eat a demobat? Or would we turn into some kind of monstrous freak? I'm starving, and Dustin's cheese crackers are not enough to get me on my feet again."
"What difference does it make to me if I'm a human freak or a monster one?" Eddie shrugs, and Steve butts his shoulder up against Eddie. It's meant to be brotherly, maybe friendly, but it's too soft. Felt like something he might have done before slinging an arm around a girl's shoulders.
"You're not a freak." Steve says, and finds he means it.
Eddie's eyes, when he looks at Steve, are curious. "No?"
"No."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39795543/chapters/99633705
The Aftermath
They all froze as Eddie and Steve locked eyes.
This is the part about break ups nobody talks about.
The aftermath.
But hey, they’ve saved the world more than trice, so getting their friends back together shouldn’t be that hard, right?
Or: Steve and Eddie broke up a month ago. The kids, tired of this weird thing between their friends and convinced they still want each other, do what they do best; Stick their noses right where they don’t belong.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40788363?view_full_work=true
A Cold Front
It takes her a couple of seconds to register that the denim-clad, bloody-faced, long-haired thing now trying to open the door is not in fact a dangerous VHS thief or a last-minute angry customer about to murder her over the last copy of Top Gun, but instead only Eddie Munson, his eyes wide and his skin whiter than a sheet, pallor broken only by the dark red crimson gushing from his nose.
In which Eddie is isn't doing so great and Steve offers a place for him to stay.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40014963/chapters/100210146
The Cold Shoulder pt 2 of ^
When Steve offered for Eddie to stay at his, he knew he risked the chance of catching Eddie’s cold. What he hadn’t signed up for was that he’d also end up catching feelings.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40228782/chapters/100760505
Date me instead
Every date Steve has gone to lately has been horrible. It’s impossible that there’s something wrong with the entire female population of Hawkins, so surely there must be something wrong with him.
“Why don’t you take me on a date then?”
“Wh— what?”
“Take me on a date, pretend, of course, and then I’ll tell you if there’s something wrong with you or not.”
Or: Eddie proposes a crazy idea to see if there's something wrong with him, Steve finds the fact that it works is even crazier.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39979779?view_full_work=true
a cinematic vision ensued (like the holiest dream)
Eddie and Steve have been spending a lot of time together since Vecna. They're co-parenting kids, getting high every night, and sleeping in the same bed. They basically share a wardrobe too.
He thinks this is dangerous, its like they’re married, the casual sharing of intimacy, this space between them which feels like something and nothing all at the same time. He thinks it’s dangerous for him to pretend Steve sees it the same way, that one day Steve’s droopy, kind eyes are going to see right through him and he’ll lose this. This being a side of Steve’s bed that is his, a nightstand where his rings always pile, a draw of shirts in Steve’s bedroom that only Steve uses. He can’t lose it, so he shuts his mouth, turns out the light, and watches the slow breathing of sleep fill Steve’s chest.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40197249
smoking guns (hot to the touch)
Sure, they've saved the world, but the best part of that really is that it doesn't end there and in a town where everyone thinks he murdered a girl, he's at least got Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley. It's really not his fault he accidentally starts living at Steve's house, he was invited, after all. There's a mystery too, about Barbara Holland and Steve's pool.
“Your boner is digging into me,” says Robin, and Steve snorts a tired sort of laugh.
“I don’t have a —”
“You do, I can feel it. Gross.”
“Okay, but it’s only a little one,” he says in a small voice which sounds like he’s impersonating someone.
“Are you ever going to let that go? I peed a little bit when the Russians got the torture devices out, okay?” She sounds amused, though.
Eddie jolts. “Russian torture devices?”
Robin carries on like she didn’t hear him but Steve catches his eye and he’s grinning. “How do you even have a boner dude? You were definitely having a nightmare I know your twitching means a nightmare… Did you have a boner over Vecna?”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40313481
i can't read you (but if you want, the pleasure's all mine)
"Is Eddie your boyfriend?"
Steve almost crashes the car as soon as the words leave Dustin's mouth.
Or: post-Vecna, Steve and Eddie get an apartment together. Steve tries not to fall in love with him (and fails).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40355886
Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
Vecna is dead. Or so Steve thinks until Dustin is screaming "Code Red" through a radio. Steve runs out of the house with conditioner still in his hair to save the day only to learn the "code red" is that Eddie Munson is being a little shit and doesn't want to go to his graduation ceremony tomorrow. Steve's going to kill them both.
Or:
Steve convinces Eddie to go to graduation and ends up regretting the decision when Eddie shows up looking better than ever, sending Steve into a major sexuality crisis. And more fun ensues!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39931317/chapters/99990303
The Shire is NOT on Fire
The kids convince Steve to take them all to a Renaissance Faire and LARP event.
Steve has more fun than he admits.
And then Steve has a LOT more fun than he admits.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40230684/chapters/100765335
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*The ones I don’t really remember vividly but I know I hella enjoyed them*
Through the Upside Down and Back
Eddie has been to literal hell and back. Now he just wants to be a normal young adult. He finds that Steve Harrington of all people, is good at helping him come to terms with what happened.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39997104/chapters/100161060
You're A Sweet Little Headache
The year is 1987, the summer after Vecna and the destruction of the Upside Down. Nancy Wheeler returns home from her first year of college to find Hawkins mostly unchanged. However, big changes are coming as Nancy, Steve, Robin, and Eddie face the summer, and find that while the Upside Down may be gone for good, it hasn't left them quite yet.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40000983/chapters/100171665
Late Summer Moon
After everything that happened with Vecna, Eddie has trouble sleeping. Unless Steve is around. He sleeps pretty well when Steve is around. It takes a little courage for Steve to talk about it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40283964
There's Only Two Ways Out of the Game of Chicken
Steve puts Eddie into a mental box, perfectly square. He takes a mental Sharpie and squeaks a mental sentence out on the front.
Do Not Flirt!!!
He then opens the box and does it anyway.
____
Steve plays chicken with an immovable object.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40414767
Locked Away With Freezing Cold
Less than a day after the defeat of Vecna, Steve ventures back into the Upside Down to bring Eddie's body home.
You can imagine his surprise when Eddie wakes up.
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Title from “When it’s Cold, I’d Like to Die,” by Moby.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40409979
Password Protection? Steve Doesn't Know Her.
The kids are messing with Steve's laptop. Dustin thinks he knows the password but it's been changed. For anyone paying attention it's still an easy guess though.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40398987
give those kids who get me a star to wish upon
Eddie Munson always hoped he’d make it out of Hawkins. He just never expected to be joined by Steve Harrington. (A tale of how Eddie and Steve got together just before Corroded Coffin made it big.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40387893
when I dropped my sword, I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door *pt 2 of ^ (Haven’t read it but I know I enjoyed the first one)*
Steve's point of view from my fic "give those kids who get me a star to wish upon" as he and Eddie get together just before Corroded Coffin makes it big in the music scene.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40410996
Eddie Baby (won't you come to my arms)
Its Halloween in Hawkins in 1986. Venca has been defeated and the only thing keeping Eddie from enjoying his night was 1. He was on babysitting duties, 2. Steve wasn't with him, 3. He still wasn't in a homosexual relationship with the 'Mother' of the Party.
OR
Steve takes a page out of Eddie's book and confesses his love but this time they aren't oblivious.
Part of a series but can be read separately. However it'll make more sense if the whole thing is read. *(I read it separately oops- it’s hella good either still, gonna go back and read the series)*
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40405386
if you're gonna be the death of me ( that's how i wanna go. )
“Do you wanna go grocery shopping with me?”
Yeah, Eddie thinks, in love.
“Sure, pretty boy,” Eddie grins, and Steve lights up all over again.
Steve takes Eddie by the hand, dragging him back into the room he just came from. Eddie sets the mug down on Steve’s nightstand, watching as the brunet rummages around in his dresser. He turns around with a pair of light wash baby blue jeans in his hand, and Eddie just grins. “Really? I was alright with the sweater, but I’m not too sure about an all bright outfit, Stevie.” His voice is teasing, but Steve’s bottom lip still juts out. “Please? I just wanna see you in bright colors, just once! If you don’t like it, I can try to find a pair of darker pants, promise.”
Steve’s eyes are so damn bright, that Eddie doesn’t think he could even say no.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40357224
you make me wanna cry (in a good way)
It’s been just over a year since Vecna and just under a year since Steve and Eddie started going out. When Eddie tells Steve that he wants to “talk” Steve begins to recount their relationship, including all of the times that he’s been a less than stellar boyfriend.
Eddie remembers things a little differently.
*canon divergent bc we’re pretending that vol2 didnt happen in this household*
Inspired by Faye Webster’s song, ‘In a Good Way’ I love bf Steve Harrington, but he can’t always be perfect.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40154664/chapters/100568394
Yeah, I Know
Discover how the gang of Hawkins slowly discover the relationship between Steve and Eddie. How will Dustin take it when he discovers the jokes about having his two 'dads' is more realistic than he fought? How will Will react? Come and find out! There will be some mentions of period typical homophobia, so be aware.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40138419/chapters/100525596
Some Things Cosmic
Steve has a dream about Eddie.
And another. And another. And another...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40172040
my name for you
And the distrustful gleam in Eddie’s eye stings like his neck does, but Steve didn’t expect anything else. He didn’t deserve anything else.
“Whatever you say, King Steve. I just want to live without being hunted, please and thanks, so how the fuck do we do that?”
a small look into the development of steve and eddie's relationship through conversation and situation. or, five times eddie uses a nickname (read: pet name) for steve, and one time steve uses one for eddie.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39753459
sloe gin fizzy, do it till you're dizzy
Eddie scoots down on the bed until he’s level with Steve and turns onto his side, shifting closer in the process.
The movement draws Steve, and his head lolls to the side to see what Eddie is up to.
It brings them nearly nose to nose, and Eddie goes a little bit cross-eyed focusing on Steve.
Steve doesn’t flinch away from the closeness. Just breathes and blinks. And then his eyes flicker down to Eddie’s lips and right back up, so quick that Eddie’s hazy brain would have missed it if he hadn’t been paying attention, hadn’t been anticipating it.
Eddie takes it as the invitation it has to be, and slowly, slowly closes the distance. His nose does bump into Steve’s as he enters his space, but he pauses, hesitates with his mouth hovering a hair’s breadth away from Steve’s.
He waits for the rejection, for the brutal shove away, for the disgusted “what the fuck man?”.
But they don’t come.
What does come is Steve’s mouth, pushing forward to press against Eddie’s.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40355310
So It Was Thought
Eddie Munson was supposed to meet his end after he finally refused to run so Max would live and Vecna could be destroyed once and for all. But then he woke up, and Eddie couldn't help but feel like he hadn't woken up in the afterlife. He should be dead. He was supposed to be dead. Eddie is dead, right?
So it was thought, my friends. So it was thought. But Eddie — lives.
OR
A story where everything in the Upside Down comes to a conclusion, and Edward Munson and Maxine Mayfield emerge victorious. The Party saves a revived Eddie and Max, ending the threat that is Vecna once and for all, and Steve finds he never could get rid of Eddie's battle jacket.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40010133/chapters/100196742
I Could Hold You Forever
Life is so fucking hard lately and Steve is having a really hard time navigating the nightmares and panic attacks post-Vecna. Robin calls in Eddie to help him out, and Steve finds life is just so much easier around him. Things are still really hard, but he finds it's easier to deal with when you have someone who loves you and who you love back, helping you through it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40357677
hide in the sun 'til you see the light
Eddie Munson wasn't ready to die, but he never wanted to come back like this: a wrong thing, twisted by Vecna, and utterly alone.
Steve Harrington was finally beginning to make friends with his loneliness, until Eddie Munson came back from the dead and barreled straight into him. Now nothing is the same, and Steve? He's actually pretty ok with that.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40359153
I love you, I love you, I love you.
It starts as a joke.
The kids, they’re little shits, who make fun of him on the daily but he loves enough to take them to school and help with their homework. Drives them places when it's raining or cold or they can’t be bothered to bike and packs them lunches when he knows their parents have forgotten. Let’s them sleep in his house when those same parents are out of town, or when Joyce is at work and they can’t all sleep there, and the Wheelers are sick of all the kids spending days and days and days in the basement and like he said it started as a joke.
A comment here and there about him being a babysitter, how far he’s fallen from King Steve to become an unpaid childminder, a joke that isn’t quite a joke after the tenth time. Then when he really falls into the roll, somewhere between the first experience of the upside down and the third, when not knowing when they are, if they’re okay, made his chest tight and his breath shorten until he can get ahold of at least three of them.
Somewhere between there being just four of them to Eleven coming back and Max joining the group they start calling him mom.
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OR the Party call Steve mom and he has feeling about it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40335276
the lathe
"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40084896?view_full_work=true
Inevitable, Invaluable
There are worse ways to discover you have a soulmate, probably.
Steve can’t think of any, but there are.
OR
The “soulmates share pain” AU where the bond kicks into action and the only thing Steve can think is: that’s what bats feel like. And he knows exactly what that means.
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this is your home. these are your people.
Your heart’s racing,” Steve noted, quietly.
Eddie laughed. It was more of a shaky exhale, lashes fluttering as he struggled to keep his composure. “Stevie,” he whispered, fingers cradling Steve’s side like he was precious. “Yeah, no fucking shit.”
OR: Ma Henderson & Wayne Munson get cosy, Dustin makes an off-hand remark, and Steve spirals. It works out in the end.
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