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robin & chrissy sketch to add to the st hype rn
she tastes like summer and she smells like home; her smile could write a song to change the world.
jason carver, talking about robin buckley: i don’t like her, chrissy. she’s gonna corrupt you, i can feel it
chrissy cunningham, fully intending to corrupt robin at the first opportunity: mhm
Corroded Coffin’s label want them to do a Christmas song, Chrissy (their manager) tells them over and over that it’s not gonna fly, it’s really not the band’s brand and who is even asking for a Christmas song off them but due to the recent mainstream success of the band the label is not backing down so Chrissy tells the guys what the situation is thinking she’s going to have to deal with an unhappy label and unhappy talent, she immediately lets them know that she’ll try and negotiate a cover or something that they can whip up in no time and then forget about
but they all surprise her, Eddie the most, Jeff just had a kid with his wife and he’s in good spirits, Grant is married and Gareth has a long term girlfriend so she can maybe understand their tolerance for Christmas but Eddie? Mr anti establishment and hates all things capitalistic etc etc, he LOVES Christmas apparently, he says its about the spirit, people’s giving nature etc also he loves watching people get into physical fights over presents and families tearing into each other over the holidays, it’s kinda funny as an outsider and as someone who has one other family member
so they put their heads together and even out do what she’s asking by giving her two original songs and a couple of covers, enough for an EP, the label is ecstatic and Chrissy is flabbergasted, the only hitch is that before they record properly Eddie needs a choir of kids (why, Eddie? it’s part of the Christmas spirit Chris, so many songs have them as well, why can’t ours) so to make it interesting the label makes it a competition for local school choirs and a certain Miss Buckley decides to send in a tape because why not right?
except Eddie loves them, the tape doesn’t cut off in time to miss a snarky comment from the kid at the front with the curly hair and the redhead next to him rolls her eyes so hard Eddie is pretty sure she can see the back of her head and he’s charmed, they sound good too so he begs the band to pick them and the other guys really aren’t as invested in this so they say go for it
Robin is over the moon that her choir got chosen, she’s a music teacher at a local middle school where her bestie also teaches history and is beloved by all children apparently, and it helps that the prize is tickets to a Christmas concert Corroded Coffin will be a part of for all the kids so she tells them that world famous band Corroded Coffin is coming to their school to record them for a new song and they go nuts as a bunch of 14 year olds would, Steve is happy for her even though he has no idea who these people are and doesn’t bother looking them up cause what kinda band comes to a random school for a recording of their song
Eddie LOVES the kids when he arrives, they’re delightfully bitchy but obedient enough or respect Robin enough that they listen to both her and him all day and they sound great, he enjoys them so much in fact that he asks if they’d all want to be in the music video, Steve is out sick that day much to everybody’s dismay but once the video shoot is all worked out they need another teacher for health and safety etc so he volunteers to go (not that Robin would’ve given him a choice) and he sees Eddie covered in flakes of fake snow, surrounded by this soft halo of light and is like oh dear when his heart starts pumping double time
Eddie thinks this teacher is a total cutie and all the kids seem to love him, clamouring to point out cool things on set or show him their costumes or just chat to him about their other weekend plans and Eddie is a little smitten, the shoot goes on and the song is about being lonely at Christmas, the other guys’ partners are involved and the original idea was for Eddie to remain alone to really drive in the point (who doesn’t love a sad Christmas song, of course Eddie would write something against the grain) but the label has a sudden change of heart and wants the video to end with Eddie finding someone and Chrissy seizes her chance to play matchmaker so she suggests Steve fills in if he wants before Eddie can protest
Steve is a slightly confused about why they’d pick him until Eddie blurts out that he’s gay and out etc so a guy would make more sense to their fans so Steve, caught up in the moment, says sure why not, and half falls in love with Eddie under the fake snowfall and horribly bright set lights, he knows it’s an act but Eddie is very charming (Eddie isn’t acting) and all their actual audio will be cut because of the song playing over the top so Steve just enjoys himself
when the song and video goes live fans lose it, who is this cute, cute man that Eddie has bagged, it must be his boyfriend right because everybody else’s partner is in the video and Eddie has to quickly clarify that he just met Steve that day but nobody believes him, ‘the chemistry is too good’ so Eddie manages to reach out to Steve and apologise and Steve decides to joke that Eddie should take him for a drink to make up for it but Eddie immediately agrees and that’s how Steve finds himself on a date with a rockstar
(his class go wild after Christmas break and they hear from Miss Buckley about Mr Harrington’s new boyfriend)
(they go wilder when Steve spills in return that Robin has been seeing Chrissy-the-band-manager since the recording at the school back in October)
Steve Harrington’s favourite musician has been the same since he was 17.
He distinctly remembers hearing Chrissy Cunningham play in his car radio during his senior year, subsequently listening to nothing but her breakout EP for a week straight - and that was just the beginning.
He followed all of work for over the past 7 years: bought physical and digital copies of all her albums, watched every music video multiple times, read every interview, saved up enough while working weekend shifts at scoops to get tickets to her sold out shows in Indiana - he had so much merch that Jonathan Byers once joked that Steve could probably make a shrine to his idol.
He had even kept up during her hitatus, almost two full years of radio silence from the star, like she had disappeared off the face of the earth. It wasn’t the worst thing that had ever happened, but it didn’t help that it overlapped with him dropping out of business school to pursue a career in cosmetology and that final falling out he had with his father over his choice in education.
The day she came back felt like Christmas.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter One
Characters: Robin Buckley & Chrissy Cunningham. Background Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson
Summary: Just a cute little coffee shop AU
Word Count: 1056
Warnings: None for this chapter
A/N: This story is very much a work in progress, I have almost no plan for it and so please keep this in mind when reading future chapters. The warning may appear as the plot develops.
Pre-Buckingham and pre-Steddie / 474 words / a teensy bit angsty? And more of a scene than a ficlet, sorry! It could definitely be the start of something
The four of them—Chrissy, Eddie, Steve and Robin—are hanging out in Eddie’s trailer. Chrissy is pretty much living there, now, which her mom is not happy about (she won’t let Chrissy see her little brother, but they’ve managed a few sneak visits) but it’s so much better than living at home.
She’s flipping through a magazine and there’s an article on the Brat pack, so she says, “Who do you think is hotter,” holding up the magazine, “Judd Nelson or Andrew McCarthy?”
It’s Robin she’s asking and who she’s expecting to answer—she just wants to know more about her, because Robin is so cool and she likes old movies Chrissy’s never heard of and some that she has and loves too, and she wears black nail polish, and cuts her hair short, and Chrissy always wants to be around her—but Robin only goes a little pink, staring at her open-mouthed.
But, before Chrissy can figure out why, Steve and Eddie both answer at the same time: “Judd Nelson” (Steve) and “Andrew McCarthy” (Eddie).
Robin’s mouth snaps shut; Chrissy blinks.
And… She’s kind of wondered about Eddie. Not consciously, maybe, but he never talks about girls, and she thought maybe he was just being a gentleman, or whatever. But maybe… No. Maybe he’s just goofing off. But she looks at him and, oh, he wasn’t goofing off.
He’s not looking at her, though. He’s looking at Steve. And Steve is looking back at Eddie. Both of them like deer caught in the headlights.
(But Steve… Chrissy knows Steve likes girls so… She’s confused. She doesn’t get what’s happening, but something is.)
“I think they’re both cute,” Chrissy says.
It breaks the spell and Steve says, “I meant Ally Sheedy,” and Eddie looks away, shoulders slumping.
Robin makes a noise and Chrissy is confused.
She just wanted to know Robin better and now everything feels strange and awkward.
And maybe there’s something there—in what Steve said, in the way he and Eddie looked at each other, they way they look at each other—but Chrissy can’t quite grasp it yet.
(Just like she can’t grasp the way her breath catches when Robin looks at her sometimes or how her heart beats faster when they’re together.)
She looks back to the magazine, flipping through a few more pages, but her mind is still buzzing and everyone is too quiet. She racks her brain for something to say, then spies the newspaper, sitting opened to the movie section.
“Some Kind of Wonderful starts this week,” she blurts out, “anyone want to go?”
“Sure,” Robin says.
Steve nods. “Yeah.”
Eddie shrugs. Doesn’t say anything.
“Great,” Chrissy says, “I’ve been looking forward to it,” and slowly they all start talking again, but Chrissy can’t help but feel something’s shifted between the four of them.