Eddie asking to meet Claudia Henderson and Hopper for lunch at this kinda nice restaurant that had a steak for Hopper and chicken parm for Claudia. He's so fucking nervous but he has to ask this question, his upbringing demands it. So he takes them to a lunch he's of course gonna pay for.
After a pleasant hour of food and small talk, he finally pulls out a ring box and places it in the middle of the table. He has uncharacteristic stutter as he tells the two how much he loves Steve, how he knew Steve was it for him when he took Steve back home and he just...melted into his big family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was when Steve was sitting down on his Memaw's couch, Eddie's tiniest 5 yr old cousin Audrey on his lap as he gave her 'princess hair' she demanded and listening to her ramble the story she made for her two monster high dolls (Eddie's gift to her), a soft fond smile on his boyfriend's face...that's when Eddie knew, knew he was gonna marry Steve and make him a Munson.
But his southern upbringing, and his fear of his beloved Memaw, demanded he asked Steve's parents for permission. So, instead of going to the neglectful pieces of shit on Steve's birth certificate, he went to the parents who mattered. The parents who were there for every concussion, for every sports ball game. His graduation. The ones who loved unconditionally, not caring about blood relation. Claudia and Hop are that, so please...can he marry their boy. He promises to take care of him, to love and adore him like he deserves. He can't promises he'll never hurt Steve but he can promise it'll never be purposeful, that he'd rather cut his fingers and never be able to play guitar again than purposefully hurt his sweetheart, his personal sunshine.
Claudia is softly crying and nodding her head, of course Eddie can marry Steve. Eddie makes her boy so happy, she would never deny him the happiness of being married to his Teddie bear.
Hopper is a little more composed in his permission, getting more promises out of Eddie (like no more drug dealing on the side and cleaning his act up more, Steve deserved more than being the drug dealer's husband. Just like Eddie's mom) and a small shovel talk. But Eddie swears as Hopper turns away, he can see a couple tears slide down his face and a small happy smile on his face. It reminds Eddie of Wayne, when Wayne thinks about how Eddie is his boy and he loves him.
A few days later when Eddie and Steve comes to the cook out at the Byers-Hopper house, Steve is absolutely glowing in happiness and has Eddie's grandfather's ring on his left hand. Eddie can't take his eyes off Steve and the ring, happiness flowing from him as well.
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