I encourage everyone to have at least one family vacation/road trip HC, it does not matter if you have a ship that it fits or how realistic it is. Fluffy StrangerFam scenarios are good for the soul and for one's mental health. For instance:
Steddie would fight heatedly over who should have to sleep on the pull-out couch in a shared hotel room.
Eddie: You take it.
Steve: Absolutely not.
Eddie: Seriously? We've been stuck in the car all day, are you really going to be difficult right now?
Steve: I'm being perfectly reasonable.
Eddie: you paid for the room!
Steve: yeah and you drove us here
Eddie: Jesus H Christ Steve just take the damn bed!
Steve: I will not.
Eddie: well I'm not taking it.
Steve: then I guess we'll both just have to sleep on the pull out then!
Eddie: fine.
Steve: fine!
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Dustin comes in from the adjoining room in the middle of the night because Max kicked him out of their bed so she could share with El and Lucas after Mike got up and quietly offered El to trade his spot next to Max for her spot next to Will.
Dustin came in expecting to ask if he could bunk with Steve cause he was not about to get in next to Mike and Will and Erica scares him a little.
What he finds is two grown men crowded onto a pull-out couch tangled together with Steve's face buried in Eddie's hair.
Dustin checks the queen-sized bed in the next room and finds nothing wrong with it. A part of him wants to wake them up and ask 'what the fuck?', but they look content to lie there so Dustin decides he'll ask in the morning and goes to sleep with the queen-sized bed all to himself.
He's woken the next morning by a string of curses aimed at him by Eddie followed by a shouted 'He's in here!' And a relieved, if disheveled, Steve who goes on to reprimand him for not waking them when he moved rooms. Apparently he and Eddie were woken by a gaggle of teenagers sheepishly asking if they knew where he was because they didn't.
And because Dustin is no snitch he lies and says he had a nightmare and wanted to be close to his pseudo-dads. Steve buys it and gives him a hug, Eddie seems to maintain a note of skepticism but says nothing.
A shared look had over Steve's shoulder tells him that asking questions right now would mean mutually assured destruction.
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No one talks about it but Steve and Eddie continue to sleep on the pull-out and Dustin continues to stay in their room.
On the 3rd night, Dustin actually does have a nightmare and wakes Steve by accident when he elbows him in the ribs while he's climbing into bed between him and Eddie.
He whispers 'sorry' and tries to settle in without further incident. A very tired Steve just reaches over him and wacks Eddie awake.
Steve: Comfort your son, he's distressed.
Eddie *rubbing his eyes*: I keep a knife within reaching distance.
Steve: I said comfort him!
Eddie: that is comforting!
