After becoming friends with Steve, Robin told Eddie two words: โgood luck.โ
He didnโt understand it at first until he watched Steve going on failed dates after failed dates, or watching a short relationship end in a terrible break-up and Steve moping around.
Eddie didnโt want to count how many times heโs seen Steveโs heart break.
So now heโs on a mission: keep Steve from dating.
Heโs ruining every opportunity Steve gets for dates, making plans with him almost every weekend and after a while, Steve stops asking girls out and Eddie feels accomplished.
At least, he did until Steve kissed him goodbye after movie night and now Eddieโs so fucking confused.
Steve thinks friends are like the embers that float up from a firepit. Tiny bright specks against the dark, beautiful and a little scary. They drift for a while, and then they start falling, straight toward him, and thatโs when his stomach knots up.
Heโs been burned before. Thatโs what it feels like, anyway. People get close, closer, closest, all that light right in front of his faceโand then theyโre gone. The light fizzles out. And heโs in the dark again. So when an ember starts dropping into his orbit now, his whole body tenses on instinct. He doesnโt even know if heโs afraid of getting burned or afraid of watching it go out when it finally reaches him.
Eddie lands softer than anyone heโs ever met. One day heโs just this bright thing across a cafeteria, across a trailer park, across a field full of kids. Then heโs on Steveโs couch. In his kitchen. In his passenger seat. On the floor of his bedroom, laughing at his own joke. Right up against Steveโs skin.
It should burn. This ember on his skin. Steve waits for it to. His brain keeps insisting, any second now, this is going to hurt. He keeps his shoulders up around his ears, keeps a little distance tucked inside his chest, like thatโll make it easier when Eddie fizzles.
But it doesnโt hurt. He looks at the ember, bright against his skin, and it doesnโt hurt and it doesnโt dim.
It justโฆglows. Itโs warm where Eddie presses up against his life, not scalding. Itโs the kind of heat you lean into without meaning to. A hand on his shoulder. A knee against his on the couch. A voice at his side going, โHey, you awake?โ
Sometimes, when itโs late and theyโre the only ones left by the dying fire in the Harrington backyard, Steve looks down and realizes heโs stopped bracing. Eddieโs light is right there on his skin and he isnโt flinching; heโs just admiring and holding his breath like heโs afraid to accidentally blow it out.
The thing is, embers always go out. Steve knows that. He can feel that fear like a ghost burn under the surface, even while heโs sitting there, bathed in Eddieโs warmth. He doesnโt know how to believe in an ember that might stay.
Eddie doesnโt know any of that. He just knows that every time Steve looks up, Eddie will still be thereโfalling closer, landing softer, refusing to drift away.
tag is cuckolding, warnings are under negotiated/dishonest kink, and cheating mentions.
The Tommie/Stommy are Not Positive so if seeing those with a negative twist bugs you, don't read.
This is also not like in depth porn it's more An Idea With Too Many Words.
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Eddie and Tommy have been together A While, building a life together and things were fine for the most part, but recently Eddie feels like Tommy is getting a bit Distant in the bedroom, honestly in general too, and it's just not as satisfying to get fucked by him as it used to be.
Tommy starts talking about how he's been thinking about how good it'd be to see Eddie get fucked by another man, how he thinks he knows how to find a guy who might be up for it, who might satisfy both their needs, Eddie's through a thorough railing, Tommy's through this desire to Watch.
There's a bit of drama involved when Eddie wants to meet this guy and Tommy suggests they go on a date "what about you? Don't you want to meet this guy first?" "oh I met him the other night, I told you, remember?" Eddie was told about a sports thing with a friend, not a date with their bull. ("It's not like that, I found out he likes the same team as me, we had a beer and chatted, calm down.") The drama passes with a "be more clear with communication" vibe to the resolution, right.
Eddie meets Steve, he seems nice, he's not weird, he's not a serial killer, he seems like a guy who just wants to have a fun time, he's hot too, and of course Eddie just outright asks what he's packing, he wants to know what to be ready for (and holy shit he's not expecting quite the answer, he's got the bigger dick in his relationship but Steve outdoes him, Eddie isn't a size queen exactly but he's curious, so he's on board).
So with that first meeting out of the way, things are arranged, and literally a week later Eddie is fucked within an inch of his life (his words) and Tommy seems thrilled. Steve doesn't linger, he doesn't linger any of the following times either.
Tommy has to leave town for some business bullshit, gives Eddie Steve's number, which does make Eddie realise it was a bit weird that he never got to make the arrangements there but whatever, and gives him blanket permission to get fucked as long as he sets up a camera. Which fine, keeps everything above board.
Except Steve unintentionally starts to linger, and Eddie kind of likes it, he likes waking up in someone's arms, having someone bring him coffee and a bagel from the cafe down the street, Steve is funny and kind and makes Eddie feel good.
So naturally Eddie sends him away, spills his guts to Tommy on their call later.
"You're not with Steve?"
"I can't do it, babe, I... it feels like cheating," but Tommy insists it's fine, "It's not, the fucking was fine but... shit man I let him stay, it was fucking domestic."
"What about me?" Eddie had thought this was about Tommy, about not emotionally cheating on him.
"The watching? I... we can find another guy, it's fine, we can talk about it."
"No, it's... fuck Munson," Munson???? "it has to be him, it's fucking pointless if it isn't!" Eddie doesn't even get the chance to question it, Tommy calls him every name under the sun and hangs up on him.
It's not hard to understand, as Eddie thinks back on every time they've had Steve in their bed, every glance he shot at his partner, Tommy's eyes were never on him. Steve was the important part. Steve was who Tommy wanted.
He calls Steve, he's mad, asks who the fuck he is, how he met Tommy, how long they've been plotting this.
Steve is clueless, he's known Tommy since high school, they bumped into each other a few months back (around the time things started to fizzle for Eddie), he thought Eddie knew that, he thought Eddie had suggested this whole thing because Tommy had thought it would be too weird for friends to do that.
Eddie falls deathly quiet and won't answer when Steve asks if he's okay, if he's still there. Eddie hangs up and tries to process this whole mess, how his boyfriend has probably spent every single session fantasizing he was in Eddie's place, under a guy he's been fawning over since high school but is too steeped in internalised homophobia to let fuck him (he never let Eddie top either, they were working on it, there was therapy involved).
He's shocked from his stupour when there's banging on the door, dragging himself to answer, surprised to find Steve stood looking genuinely worried about him. Steve fusses over him and Eddie eventually ends up curled into his side, voice flat as he explains everything, including how he doesn't want to stay here anymore.
He ends up at Steve's place and much to Tommy's utter dismay, after the break up and Eddie's recovery from a weird ass betrayal, Steddie becomes a whole thing and Tommy is left in the dust.
Do you have any fem Steve x Eddie or fem Eddie x Steve hcโs?
HI HELLO YES I DO
โFem Eddie is somehow 80% more insecure than canon Eddie because of all of the extra pressure that came with being a woman in the 80s. She did all the weird beauty stuff that the magazines recommended until like her sophomore year when she said fuck it and embraced the freak persona
โFem Steve definitely has done some lesbian experimentation at slumber parties and would have her queer awakening way quicker then canon Steve.
โFor whatever reason canon Steve is bi to me but fem Steve is a repressed lesbianโฆ.I cannot explain it I just feel it
โSince Fem Steve was a popular girl cheerleader and had a whole group of girlfriends who probably did some fooling around (in a not gay way of course) she thinks that itโs super easy to get a girl to notice you. But Fem Eddie has never had any female friends so when Stevie does stuff like change in front of her/say โfeel how soft my new bra isโ/โI got a new lipgloss, wanna tasteโ she thinks this is just what Girls Being Girls is.
โCanon Eddie has bitchless vibes to me but I just know that Fem Eddie has many failed lesbian situationships in her past
I technically donโt have time for this. BUT guess what, I did it anyway.
I also added a few tattoos to Eddie because I imagined this was at the start of the 90s ;) it was fun trying to think of something he would get in this context. So there is a devil holding The nail bat and on his calf the text from the ring in lotr. And also a small sword that was supposed to be Narsil (also lotr), but I got lazy.
