Kas!Steddie Angst AU:
This is inspired by a bunch of different Kas!Eddie AUs all mashed together
Steve is home alone for the first time in a while. It's too dangerous, really. Hawkins was cut off from the rest of the world, monsters roamed the streets, and as if that wasn't enough, a new creature from the Upside Down was out and about. Bodies were showing up, completely drained of blood.
(Quietly, in between moments, Dustin whispers to Steve that he's hoping it's Kas the Betrayer. He says that he hopes it's Eddie brought back from the dead, because then there's a chance they could save him. Quietly, only to himself, Steve hopes that Dustin's wrong, because he knows if it is Eddie, they won't be bringing him back).
Steve really didn't want to be home alone, but everyone had different tasks that they were busy with, so Steve was under strict instructions to stay indoors and keep a weapon and a walkie close by at all times. He really didn't expect anything to happen. Maybe that made him stupid, but it just didn't feel like a night for shit to hit the fan.
So of course shit hits the fan.
It starts with Robin calling. She was teamed up with El, Mike, and Hopper doing their strength check to see if they could find Vecna or sense him at all, so Robin calling was a bad, bad sign.
She's hysterical, but Steve could understand her when she was speaking another language and he got enough. She's insisting that he needs to run, that danger is on it's way and that they know it's not a fight he can win, so flight is his only option.
Something shatters behind him. A window? The backdoor? He's not sure, but he knows it means his luck has finally run out.
"Hey Robs?" he says, keeping his voice as steady as possible. "I love you. So much. Don't ever forget that." He hangs up as her panic reaches a crescendo and he turns to come face to face with Eddie Munson, back from the dead.
"Honey, I'm home." It's Eddie and he smiles like Eddie and he looks like him, but there's something wrong in his eyes. Steve thinks he gets why Dustin calls him Kas.
"Hey Eddie." He doesn't scream or fight. He lets Eddie crowd him against the wall, not that he thinks he could fight, not when he feels Eddie's strength as he's pinned against the wall.
In some sick, twisted form of intimacy, Eddie reaches up and wipes a tear out of Steve's eye, cooing.
"I don't want to die," he tells the creature wearing Eddie's face.
Kas smiles, but it doesn't reach his eyes. "It's not so bad, when you get used to it."
With a firm, unyielding grip, Kas tilts Steve's head to the side and nuzzles into his neck.
"I don't want to die," Steve says again, like it matters, like Kas at all cares.
"It'll be okay," Kas murmurs into his shoulder-neck junction.
"I don't want-" and he cuts himself off with his own cries, tears spilling over. Kas places a kiss on his neck then he buries his fangs in, breaking skin. It doesn't hurt, and that's almost worse. A supernatural numbness pours into Steve, overtaking him quickly.
"I don't want-" he tries again, as darkness closes in on his vision.
"I don't-" he tries one more time, and then he's gone.
When they finally manage to get to his house, Kas is gone and Steve is tucked into bed. He's arranged with his arms crossed over his chest. He looks peaceful, almost.
They break. The theory of Kas the Bloodyhanded gets louder, but it's so much worse now. Dustin doesn't know if he'd be able to forgive Eddie from this, even knowing that he probably isn't in control of himself, because Steve is dead. Steve is dead and the chances of it being at Eddie's hand are so much bigger.
No one else got arranged like that. No one else got any kind treatment, instead left scattered. Bodies were found crumpled to the ground, in the woods in the bathroom in the kitchen, wherever they were found. The others were dumped, but Steve got carefully laid to rest and that spoke of a level of sympathy that no one else got.
That spoke to a personal attachment between Steve and his killer.
They've finally pulled themselves back together, ready to call in another body, when Steve jolts awake. He presses his hand against his chest and doesn't feel his heart beating. His heart isn't beating and he apparently doesn't need to breathe, and what Kas said rings through his head. It's not so bad when you get used to it.
Kas did something and now they're all left with the important question: What next?
While this was made pre-season 5, this was made post season 5 (part one)
