A Steddie fanfiction. Rated E. 84k.
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April 1986
“How’re you feeling, Ed?” Steve asks quietly, preserving the stillness of the night that surrounds them.
“Think I’m alright, a little tired.” Eddie watches the gentle waves that ripple out from his shins kicking softly in the water. It’s been a long day, even he has to admit that, and he’s feeling… well, that’s the end of the sentence. He’s feeling.
It’s the first time Eddie’s been around everyone all at once since the Upside Down and the kids, they mean well and he knows that, surrounded him with so much love that it’d become overwhelming. So had sitting upright, walking around, talking. The last hour or so, he’d gone ghost— transparent without actually disappearing— and the others followed his lead. Pretend you’ve vanished hard enough and the people around will you pretend, too. Except for Steve, he discovers.
It’s an odd thing though, preferring to be still, to be quiet, and he hates that the Upside Down has stolen this piece of himself, too. Steve’s assured him that it’s okay, that he’ll be his boisterous, loud, antsy self again when his body’s healed but it’s taking too long for Eddie’s liking. Or comfort.
“You know it's normal, right? It’s a lot, Ed. You didn’t even have to stay out here the whole time, no one would’ve minded or blamed you.” Steve sits next to him, letting his feet slide in beside Eddie’s. Everyone else is inside— kids, parents, everyone who’s made the Harrington House their base while waiting for the government pay-outs and new homes. It’s late now, but Steve and Eddie take advantage of the silence as they so often do.
“Yeah, yeah I know. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.”
Steve nods and lets his pinky touch the edge of Eddie’s, palm down on the cold, wet concrete.
“You don’t, you’re right. I didn’t either. For what it’s worth though,” Steve takes a breath, thinks about how he wants to word this without making a confession he’s not yet ready for, “I like every version of you.”
Eddie’s heart pounds in his chest and he watches the ripples from Steve’s legs blend into his. Huh, he thinks, something symbolic there.
He doesn’t respond, just wraps his pinky around Steve’s.
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Hey update on part 2 of that Steve whump steddie fight - sorry its taking a billion years BUT part 2 is almost 5k and is both Eddie's perspective AND the happy ending so please bear with me lmao it should be done in the next few days!!
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[Trigun OC]
Team "would rather die than admit something's bothering them"
So for the first good chunk of their relationship, Bad Luck and Vash were more "fucking" than "dating". Bad Luck was really apprehensive about romantic entanglements, and had been taken advantage of by a friend, in the past. (While not THE reason he was kicked out of his community, it was definitely related.)
However, Vash-- aware of Luck's hesitance but not of the reasons why-- already had a little bit of a crush on him. So when Luck stupidly offered a FWB situation, Vash accepted, thinking he could be chill about it. He quickly realized, no, he could NOT be chill about it, and spent the next few months relentlessly pining and feeling guilty and wanting to broach the subject, but never saying anything.
Eventually, Vash's crush gets revealed, and by that point Bad Luck has kinda fallen in love with him and they get together and Bad Luck insists that it's all fine, water under the bridge. Truthfully, though, he feels a little betrayed, and has this sense of "why the fuck would you think that's a good idea" towards Vash, hanging over his head. But he also thinks he has no place feeling this way because he never told Vash why he was so hesitant (and still hasn't), and also he does love Vash now anyway, so there's really no point bringing this up now and messing with the status quo, right?
And that's just the beginning of their relationship. There's a whole bunch of other plot-related problems they never talk about until after things boil over. Eventually, they'll get their acts together and talk through everything, I promise. Eventually. It just, might take until after the plot's fully resolved for them to get there.
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because my dash were being all coy about the 'news' about now and then I had to track it down via men being serious on youtube and dear god
(the only interesting news is that they've apparently used AI to make Paul's voice sound younger, which is kind of the most interesting thing they could do, and I love them for it, because yeurch all the AI bullshit on youtube at the moment, but if paul gets hold of a machine and can make his voice do whatever he wants it to, is that AI bullshit or is that just paul being very paul? what might it be and where might it end? BUT! that is not even the news the serious men of youtube are REMOTELY interested in though! honestly they barely mentioned it. the "news" they care about is that they've used a three way harmony vocal chord from a take of 'because' for backing, and slowed it down to change the key. sounds lovely to me but the men do not think it is lovely, they think it's quite serious, and they're not at all sure how they feel about it, except that it's worrying, if not actually concerning. The news is also that george played rhythm guitar on it, not lead guitar, and that's also something which it's hard to know how to feel about, but probably best to feel very serious about. And george might not sing on it, (apart from in the three part harmony) so how terrible to say it's even a beatles song if george is only playing on it and singing on it, and it's odd, isn't it, that it's all just going ahead when actually the serious men of youtube aren't sure they want it to, and when they're not sure it's what george would have wanted. (it turns out they know just as much as tumblr's george fans what george would have wanted, so that's good, they can all discuss among themselves and perhaps have a little war to decide who is the most upset about literally nothing and who can best protect George from literally nothing, I don't know.) Also the news is that ringo probably didn't even want to do the track and giles martin had to 'talk him into it' so yet again paul was the only beatle who wanted to do the thing, which we all already knew, and which is fine, isn't it? NO. Nothing is fine. incredibly, they seem to think makes it less of a beatles track, when that's the very thing that makes it most beatley, but it would be wrong to just enjoy that, or indeed enjoy anything, it's all very concerning, and we can only assume the very worst and be serious about it. On top of all the "news", it's important you know that they're still not sure we even NEED a new beatles track but it is happening anyway as if their opinion might not matter, and that is very troubling. they don't seem to have even considered just not giving a shit, oh gosh the shit they give. They also seem to feel that it matters a lot whether it's a good song or not? !!! They're so confused. And they're still worried it's not really going to actually even be a beatles song !!! which is extraordinary because obviously it's not a beatles song, is it, they're half dead, so worrying on and on about whether or not it's really a beatles song is a terrible use of time, but they have a lot of time. Also apparently the news is that they're remixing the blue and red albums which also apparently we should have serious opinions on but I had to opt out of those opinions because I died.)
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