Fic idea I got while listening to the winner takes it all by abba.
Sometime after Nancy breaks up with Steve he goes to the music store to get some music to scream cry to. But when he gets in he sees Eddie Munson behind the counter. He’s incredibly tempted to turn tail and run as soon as he walks in the door, he really does not have the emotional capacity to deal with someone he was probably a massive dick to before and who probably hates him. But then Eddie looks up and sees him and Steve figures he can take the blow rather than be even more of an asshole right now.
Ok I tried writing some dialogue but actually I suck and have no creative voice. Eddie teases him a bit and is marginally hostile but mostly they’re both awkward and Steve is like ‘Look man, I’m in a really weird place rn and I’m trying to grow and be a better person and shit because I know I’m an asshole and I’m- I’m bullshit, but I don’t want to be anymore. So can I just apologize for anything and everything I’ve done to you so we can just move on and you can help me find a tape to have a fucking therapeutic cry to?’ And Eddie is fucking gobsmacked and Steve is embarrassed as hell because he really did not mean to say that last bit but he really got on a roll. And then Eddie says smth like ‘Alright. Well good news, I don’t think you’ve ever actually done anything to me personally so we can probably just ignore that. And as for the last part, under any other circumstances, I would never, and I mean NEVER, let you walk out of this store with this tape without putting up a fight… But here.’ And then he hands him ABBA Super Trouper with instructions to come back when he feels better to find some real music.
And then he does and Eddie tries so hard to get Steve to like metal because he thinks nothing would be funnier than turning king Steve into a metal head but Steve tells him that the loud guitar riffs makes his ears ring and his head hurt, so he settles for softer rock and maybe plays a few of his favorite metal songs for him acoustic so he can experience it with him without pain.
Idk this has gotten away from me but Steve starts to do this thing where he categorizes some of his relationships with ABBA songs and stancy is The Winner Takes It All and he thinks steddie is Our Last Summer but they end up being Ive Been Waiting For You.









