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Eddie’s doing what he does most evenings: lying stretched across the couch—the one they nabbed from Steve’s house when they moved in together as real roommates versus half living at each other’s places, and had managed to prove could be broken in comfortably when it was actually used—but he’s stretched over it, ankles dangling off the end and head propped on Steve’s thigh where he sits on the far cushion, and today Eddie’s just reading. Tomorrow he may do something entirely different; but he’ll be stretched right here either way.
Eddie can’t for the life of him understand what makes today different. What makes his eyes lift to Steve mid-breath, and in the clench of his heartbeat he sees it. Nothing feels any different, but he understands all at once what it means that it doesn’t.
And that makes all the difference.
Because when he opens his mouth on the exhale it’s like his heartbeat pushes up all the things that have lived in him maybe for forever, that he maybe just didn’t add up as two plus two fucking equals—
“I love you.”
—equals…Steve.
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Or: Eddie has a revelation, and says three very important words.
Steve…doesn’t react as expected.
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So I Will Wait (For The Next Time You Want Me) by ahoysteve
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Mar 2026
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Steve counts the little stuff: Thursday Cokes, the buzz of the tape rewinder, that dumb postcard that won’t lie flat on Max’s fridge. One kiss, one really bad word, six weeks of radio silence—and a summer spent collecting receipts: Drummer magazine, a dance floor, Robin keeping him upright.
Non-linear Steve-POV; past and present call and response until they hit apologies, consent, found family, and the boy who keeps tilting the room. (Canon-divergent; ’87.) -
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“I love you,” Eddie says firmly.
“Please stop saying that,” Steve begs.
A summer storm, Eddie back from beyond and outside Steve's house again, and this new thing between them that Steve's terrified to trust. -
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Steve is afraid of big things, vast things, things that stretch on for miles and don’t seem to have any end. Eddie hates the heat. There’s probably more than one way to have kids. Eddie should look into that.