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Chicago (Part 2)

Steve Harrington x Wheeler!reader

warnings:

a/n: im an awful writer n i dont think ill be writing another chapter

prompt: yeehaw

part 1

“You didn’t tell me he was your ex-boyfriend.” You said as you rolled your eyes at Nancy.

“That’s because it doesn’t matter, we’re both past our relationship and you guys would be a perfect pair.” Nancy explained.

“It would’ve been some nice information to share, that’s all I’m saying.” You lifted your hands.

“Well, now you’re too deep in to hesitate. If you knew before, you would be having second thoughts.” She shrugged. You shook your head with a smirk and grabbed your bag. “Going to see him?”

“Maybe...” You avoided her eye contact with a slight laugh. “I’ll be back in time for dinner.”

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“Ahoy, mate!” Steve shouted at the counter.

“Ahoy, dork!” You retorted. Steve laughed at your comeback and kissed you from over the counter.

“My shift ends in twenty, want some ice cream?” Steve grabbed a waffle cone. “USS Butterscotch?” You nodded, then heard yelling in the breakroom.

“What’s going on?” You asked Steve. He packed your cone and handed it to you.

“They found some secret Russian code and traced it back here. They’re having some secret mission tonight, wanna come?” Steve explained. You took a bite of your ice cream and contemplated the idea.

“Hell yes.” You replied. You headed to the back to listen to the mission debriefing.

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How did you end up in an secret Russian elevator? Bad choices. That’s how. You were pacing around this elevator while the other four where screaming at each other.

“Shut up!” You shouted and everyone turned to your direction. You took a deep breath and they did the same before going back to screaming. You spent eight hours in there before having to crawl out the top and hide from the Big Bad Russians. Fortunately, you didn’t get caught and you roamed their base freely. Even got to see Steve fight a Russian soldier. But eventually you all got caught, it was only a matter of time. The kids got away, luckily. But you were interrogated. You put up a good fight, though.

Steve, Robin, and you were strapped together and freaking out. Soon enough, you were injected with something and began to feel it a bit later. It was all shits and giggles for a while, then the children came to save the day. You thought you were hallucinating. Back to the surface you went, you even got to see a movie.

“Hey, Steve, hey, hey, guess what?” You tapped his shoulder repeatedly.

“What?” He asked with a smile.

“Chicken butt!” You and him both died laughing.

“Shh!” The lady behind you stuck a finger to her mouth.

“Shhhhhh!” You replied.

“Guess what?” Steve whispered.

“What?” You answered.

“You’re adorable!” He and you broke into laughter again, and were shushed.

“Come here, lovebirds.” Robin dragged you out of the theater. “Water fountain!” She pointed. All three of you took turns drinking. Then you got dizzy and hauled ass the the bathrooms, where you puked up your insides.

“Think we got it out of our systems?” You asked as you backed your head against the wall and reached under the stall to grab Steve’s hand.

“Ceiling stopped spinning.” Steve muttered.

“Ask me something.” Robin instructed.

“When’s the last time you peed your pants?” Steve asked.

“Today.” She replied and you all started laughing. “When they pulled out the bone saw!” Your giggles filled the bathroom and Dustin kicked the door open.

“Come on!” He shouted. There were Russians guarding the exits, so you made a run for it. Then you heard a crash and looked up from behind the counter you were hiding at. You were completely lost on how the car from the food court had been thrown across the mall. You looked up to see El and the group of kids you met a week ago, along with a newer face. And your cousins.

“Nancy? Mike? What the hell?!” You started freaking out with Robin, but Steve grabbed you.

“Hey, slow down. We’ll catch you up.” Steve pulled you into a hug. You listened to Nancy’s story about the monster attacking Hawkins and how it was coming and the gate was under the mall.

“Wait, that’s what we saw down there? That was a portal to another dimension?!” You started freaking out again. Steve took your arm and wrapped his arm around the front of you, kissing the top of your head. Nancy smiled at that, and Mike eyed Steve. Then El collapsed on the floor. You all rushed to her side and watched Nancy’s boyfriend cut her leg open. You couldn’t bare to watch and hear her screams.

“I don’t understand what all of this is.” You told Steve. “She has powers? There’s an inter-dimensional demon in Hawkins? A bunch of kids are the ones who always fight it? You’re all messing with me, aren’t you?” You started laughing anxiously.

“Are you okay?” Steve asked, grabbing your hand.

“Sorry, yeah, when I start freaking out I laugh hysterically.” You laughed harder. Steve pulled you into another hug, which calmed your fit of laughter after a moment. You were breathing a bit hard and shook your head. “One week in Hawkins and this is what it has to offer.”

“Hey, everything’ll be fine. It always is.” Steve assured.

“Y/N?” Nancy called to you. “Can you use one of these.” She handed you a revolver.

“I was raised by Todd Wheeler in Chicago, of course I can use one of these.” You checked how many bullets were left inside. Fully loaded, six bullets ready to go.

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You were not expecting anything that night had to offer. When Nancy brought you and Mike home, you all washed up and went to bed. She came to see how you were doing, and the answer was “not good.” Your cousin sat at the edge of your bed and talked to you about anything to get it off your mind.

“How are you doing with Steve?” She asked you. You sat up straight against your headboard and smiled.

“Good, good. We’re not official yet, but he’s been treating me well so far. I hope it goes somewhere. Do you think it’s weird? Like, since we’re cousins?” You brought your knees up to your chest and hugged them.

“No! No, it’s not weird, don’t worry. I really think you and Steve are gonna be a good couple, and you know everything about the Upside Down situation, which is a bonus. It’s hard when you can’t talk to the other person about that.” She explained. “You should go see him tomorrow.” The two of you talked until you passed out on your bed. Karen caught sight of that in the morning and smiled to herself. She looked forward to you being apart of her family.

Morning came and you were woken up by Steve.

“Sorry, your aunt let me inside and told me I should wake you.” He whispered, not wanting to wake Nancy. “Do you want to go somewhere with me? I don’t care where, just...somewhere.”

“Yeah, let me get dressed.” You grabbed some clothes from your closet and got ready im the bathroom. You stared at yourself in the mirror. You had bruises around your torso and marks on your face that you tried your best to cover. You took a deep breath and emerged from the bathroom.

“Ready?” Steve asked as her grabbed your hand. You nodded and he led you out of the house. You stepped into his car and he hesitated to start it. “Are you okay after last night?”

“I’m okay, Steve. Don’t worry.” You grabbed his hand. “Let’s just go somewhere peaceful where we don’t need to think about the supernatural.”

“Say no more,” Steve started the car and drove down Maple Street, “I know the perfect place.”

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trailerparkflower · 5 years

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Borderline personality disorder + Steve Harrington?...

So I was thinking about how Steve acts in relationships, researched dependency from the partner and then found a lot of info about BPD, wich made me think what many of the disorder symptoms are very fitting to Steve and explains some things in his behaviour. Lets starts, guys!

Promiscuity.

All his teen life Steve been slutting around probably too scared for serious relationships (because its better that way, no one will leave him if he leaves them first), all charming and needy and touch-starved, calming down his desire for attention and affection.

Unstable relationships/idealization of the partner, lack of boundares.

Then he settled in the realationships with Nancy (who are brave and smart and oh, so stable), which turned out pretty much unhealthy from both of the sides, and Steve became so depended on his her to the point of breaking up his bounds with everyone else( including his probably childhood best friend Tommy) except her and planning all his life to revolve around Nancy.

Fear of abandoment, frantic efforts to avoid being alone.

He fears what Nancy will abandon him so much what he becomes even more clingy and needy, while she gains even more control in relationships and becomes a “top dog” (from Joe words). In ST1 we also see how insecure and jealous Steve was to Jonathan, his dramatic reaction on John and Nacny hug, jumping in conclusions without any evidences. He even breaks Jonathan camera in the begining just out of his “insecurity” (again, based on Joe interview), fear what Nancy and Jonathan have better understanding of each other. In other words, he afraid what Nacny will leave him for someone else and he will stay alone again. Steve Harrington canonically has big abandoment issues, probably cased by neglecting parents.

Needing attention+validation

Idk if I even should comment it. We all know what King Steve persona was build for getting attention, admiration and validation from others, know how much time Steve spends on his looks and hair, how pleased he is when Tommy and Carol have all eyes on him. When he doesnt get compliments from Nancy, he pouts and praises himself on his own because he needs that.... “see, a ninja”; “make sure you wont forget this pretty face”, ect. You ask me, Steve has the biggest praise kink in all Hawkins.

Inability to regulate emotion, difficultes with anger controlling. Impulsivity.

Steve is one yelling bitch. He is a soft boy, but when he gets really upset and angry, he becomes mean and yelly and acts without thinking. He tears apart his own essay because Nancy couldnt help him with it, he pouts, storms of the rooms, screams at people.

Getting upset easily + habit of blocking out intense painful emotions.

If you ask Steve how he doing, he probably will smile and say “peachy!”. Not because everything is really peachy, but because Steve prefers to ignore his own problems and things what makes him sad and pretend what everything is perfectly alright. He asks Nancy go to the movie and “pretend everything is normal for a few hours.”, says what his parents totally gave him hell for drinking beer but “who cares, screw them” and changes the theme. Tommy screams “run away, Stevie boy, like you always do!”, wich suggest us what Steve has a tendentions to avoid confrontations and stressful situations. He once again says Nancy go to the party and pretend to be normal teens in ST2 when she voices her concerns, and we see what ignoring problems and pretending is Steves constant coping mechanism for stress fear and sadness.

Distorted self-image.

Steves sense of self also seems to be instable and based on how people around him see him, like with Tommy he was a school bad boy, with Nancy he became a good guy, with Dustin he became a total soft dork as we see in ST3 trailer. He is unsure about his own goals, he doesnt knows who he is and who he wants to be, like wich job he prefers and what he likes to do in his life generally. Tending to base his own self on his relationships with other people, he gets complitely lost in the end of ST2 when Nancy is no longer with him.

Self-harm, self-desctuctive behaviour. Self damaging acts as drinking, drugs, vandalism.

Steve smokes, drinks, gets into the fights he cant win. Stands near Tommy when he writes about Nancy the slut and Jonathan the creep, runs away from cops. I would even say what his fight with Jonathan was quite maschostic, because Steve rilled him up and then barely protected himself and almost didnt resisted when Jonathan pushed him to the ground and started to punch non stop. Tbh for me it seemed like if Steve was so upset what he wanted some physical pain to blur his emotional one.

Dissociation, "zoning out"

Sometimes if you pay enough attention, you see Steve standing/sitting here with blank empty face. Usually it happens in stressful events, when he has some free time by himself. He also gets slow time to time, like hes habing hard time to concentrate. Cant be sure, but its does seems like zoning out. Im think there was even some parody video where people noticed what Steve sometimes gets blank faced and slow in the middle of the talk.

Paranoidal ideas, anixety, nervousness

Oh, this one is easy. You honestly wont find another ST character who is so full of anixety. He is fidgety, he hugs himself in a self-defense manner, he makes himself look smaller than he is, he constantly has the deer in the highlights look on his face, he cant think and act straight when he meets the Upside Down monster first time, so Jonathan even has to grab his hand and yank him to run. We also see how Steve is afraid of the goverment in the ST2, I would say its paranoidal behaviour-its seems like he does think what they are constantly being watched. Says what they will destroy their lives and families and changes the theme what Nancy wants to discuss.

In ST1 he is also ridiculously scared what his parents, dad especially, will find out what he drunk some beer, he gets so scared of this idea what he even calls Nancy and asks not to mention that to the cops, says what his parents will “Murder him”.

In ST2 he is also pretty freaked out by Billy, in basketball scene when he is pushed down and Billy holds his hand you can see what Steve is trembling and looks like he is going to cry. Im not joking guys, just rewatch the scene....Poor guy just cant have a rest!

Presistent feelings of emptiness & guilt

“I'm sorry? What the hell am I sorry for?”

No matter is he guilty or not, if Steve having a conflict with someone, most of the times he will feel guilty and be sorry, as we see in the show. He wants to apologize to Jonathan for telling him means things, saying, “I just wanna be good, make things right”, buys him new camera (and giving it to Nancy, not presenting it to Jonathan himself.), cleans local theatre, he says sorry to Nancy, calls himself a jerk, a shitty boyfriend (wich is kinda downgrading himself), wanting to bring her roses and say how sorry he is again. Dustin also easily kind of guilt trips (”you promised to protect us”) him to protect the party in the tonnels, while Steve clearly was against the whole thing, and feeling really unwell after getting his ass beaten by Billy.

Learning disability/scool problems. BPD can make it difficult for them to control the focus of their attention, to concentrate.

Steve plays it cool and pretends unbothered, but he actually tries hard to learn stuff. Even in ST1 we see in his room, what his table is covered by various homework papers. Its been shown what Steve having a hard time with study, what he is eager to be useful but not the smartest guy around, from his really chaotic essay and getting C-, to the Nazis comment. Its seems like he has some learning disability and doesnt even knows about it himself.

Its also a known hinted fact what Steve doesnt have a good relationships with his parents, especially with strict father, he even calls him a “grade A asshole”. By their absence in the series, when we saw all the main character families, Steve remains all alone in big house, wich makes us think about how neglecting they are. The thing is, “people with BPD have been found to be significantly more likely to having been abused by parents.”

During development, Joe Keery and the Duffers spoke about “what kind of family life [Steve] comes from and maybe this girl Nancy is quiet and listens in a way that other people haven't listened to him at this point.”-wich is pretty fitting to the portrayal of “neglecting, denying the validity of childnren thoughts and feelings parents”-that type of the bad parenting what BPD people mostly experenced.

“Parents were also reported to have failed to provide needed protection and to have neglected their child's physical care”, what gaves us the possible reason of Steves constant anixety and running away from the problems issues.

So, while we dont know can it be canon or not, I would say what there is high possibilities what Steve has BPD.

#steve harrington #BPD #character meta #stranger things #long post #harringrove

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