#Post-Vecna Steve was always either coming or going from the hospital and after he has a nightmare about Max it’s just easier for his mind to

[morganbritton132]

PLEASE ELABORATE ON THE BRACELET WITH EDDIES NUMBER ON IT

Was there a time Steve sleepwalked and someone did call Eddie? Was there another time it came in handy when Steve lost Eddie (or Eddie lost Steve) or something other?? Please I need more that is so cute

Just a warning, I made this sad for no reason.

Once when Steve went on tour with Eddie, he wandered off in a post-ictal fog and ended up lost in the city. It took them a few hours to find each other because Steve didn’t know where he was nor did he have any money on him. After that, he would write the phone number of Eddie’s manager on his arm since he was the only guy on tour with a cell phone.

Pat, Eddie’s manager, wasn’t thrilled with this arrangement because he didn’t particularly like Steve, but after Steve channeled the coldest version of his mother and reminded Pat that only one of them was replaceable – “And managers are a dime of dozen” – he begrudgingly agreed.

He was never called.

Steve actually got the idea for the bracelet from one of his second graders.

After a pretty bad allergic reaction, one of his students came back to school with a little silver bracelet on her wrist. It had her mother’s phone number on it and the words ‘Peanut Allergy.’ She smiled up at Steve when she showed him and said, “My mama says this will keep me safe!”

He smiles too, “I bet it will.”

The bracelet is a surprise that Steve never gets to tell Eddie about. The day it comes in the mail, Eddie is over at Gareth’s for a D&D campaign so Steve never even gets the chance to tell him. He goes to bed before Eddie gets home and wakes up in the Emergency Room.

He’s cold and his feet hurt, and there are cuts on his hands and medical tape on his face, and for a second, he thinks he’s in the backseat of a blue Camaro with the world’s most reckless driver. He tries to sit up and it sets up an alarm and then there’s a hand in his, squeezing it.

It takes Steve a second to recognize the rings, to follow the rings up an arm, up to big eyes and messy curls, and Steve breaths out the only thing he can think, “Wow.”

“Wowza, big boy,” Eddie grins back at him, and Steve loves him. “How are you feeling?”

“Did something happen?”

“Yeah, uh. Sleepwalking again,” Eddie hums and then he smiles again. He taps a ring on his free hand against the metal bracelet on Steve’s wrist, “This is fucking brilliant, by the way. Did you think of it?”

Steve’s jaw kinda hurts like he’s been clenching it, but he smiles anyways, “Yeah.”

“You’re a genius, babe. They called me immediately,” He says, kissing his knuckles. Steve frowns, seeing a bruise there. Eddie notices and his grin takes on a chaotic edge, “You punched a security guard.”

“What?”

“For real, babe,” Eddie laughs at the panicked look on his face. “I don’t know what they did to trigger you, but you fuckin’ decked one of ‘em.”

“Oh my god, I’m going to jail.”

“Nah, it’s all good. I took care of it,” Eddie says and then to the skeptical look on Steve’s face, he rolls his eyes. “Okay, fine. The guy is a fan and I gave him tickets not to press charges. Also, he feels pretty bad about spooking you since you clearly weren’t in your right mind.”

“Was in my left mind then?” Steve half-jokes, half-yawns. “Who brought me in?”

“You did.” Eddie’s smile dims in a way that’s a little sad but full of love. “You came here on your own actually – without shoes. We’re gonna have to teach your left mind about shoes – and, uh. Based on what I’ve heard, you were looking for a patient.”

“A patient? What patient?”

“They, uh. They said you were looking for Max.”

#Post-Vecna Steve was always either coming or going from the hospital and after he has a nightmare about Max it’s just easier for his mind to #put his anxiety into a routine so he does what he did then and he goes to the hospital #Side note: I love the thought of little toddler Steve hearing his mom tell his dad’s secretary that he’s definitely sleeping with that she’s #replaceable and nothing special and then internalizing that mean girl energy #eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington #eddie munson

[stan-the-cinnamon-roll-uris]

After thinking about the whole using your favourite song to get free of Vecna concept for a bit I started wondering how the group would react to their favourite songs post-Vecna.

Because even just talking from my own experience, even the best songs can absolutely be ruined by trauma.

So in the end, once Vecna is dead and everything is said and done, I imagine it's gonna go something like this:

Max who survives Vecna in the end. Battered and bruised, almost blind and bound to a wheelchair but she survives. And she still has Lucas. She still has her friends that care for her and look after her, her found family, only that now whenever she hears Kate Bush, she ends up with full blown anxiety attacks, feeling like she's back in that horrible place in the Upside Down. Not just with "Running up that hill" but Kate Bush in general because it's the singer's voice that is branded into her brain now.

Eddie, who gets released from the hospital after the group barely got him out of the Upside Down alive and immediately sets up a date for a Corroded Coffin band rehearsal even though he's supposed to take it slow but this is all he ever wanted to do. His trip to hell and back is all he thinks about in the days leading up to their band meet up and the fact that he helped save the world with a Metallica song and his own electric guitar. But once he sits in front of his waiting band mates his hands freeze. And he tries to play, just like he remembers doing in the Upside Down, he can almost feel it in his fingertips, too, but sitting there in Gareth's garage he can't. It's like his hands are stuck to the strings and his throat closes up and his healing bites start itching again and it's not fair because that's his song now and he was so certain they'd kill it at their next gig but Eddie can't. Not that song. Never again.

Now, Nancy is the one that never really cared much about music but she cares a lot about being prepared, especially after getting dragged into everything with the Upside Down. Nancy, who is the one collecting all of their favourite songs, neatly putting them on a list and fixing up a mixtape for her car. Thankfully she never has to use it but she can never bring herself to throw it out, either, because what if the time comes where they need to be prepared again? So instead it ends up getting banished to her glove department. Never able to throw it away, but unable to look at it without shuddering, either.

Or Robin who didn't even know what song to chose in case of a Vecna emergency because her favourite song changes daily. Robin's cassette collection at home is diverse and excessive, as her mom loves to remind her, but it's just hard when sometimes she needs to listen to the same 5 songs for a month and other times it feels like she needs to listen to 100 different songs a day. Even when Nancy comes to her about the mixtape she's not sure she even chose the right song so she just ends up doing her own mixtape. She keeps it with her until the day Vecna is defeated before crashing it under one of the Beamer's tires as Steve is finally teaching her how to drive.

And lastly Steve who always listened to Queen, Abba, Madonna and everything pop on the radio but after almost losing several of his friends it's just not the same. Everytime he listens to "I want to break free" now, he remembers Russian spies and finding Eddie half dead in Dustin's arms and watching Max at the hospital getting wheeled into surgery and he gets anxious and there's so much anger now. Robin and Dustin have tried to get him into different styles of music before and now there's Eddie who only ever talks about Metal and that's not quite it but turns out Punk works quite well when you want to scream it out alone in the car.

#feel free to add to this please #I know there's a bunch of characters missing but these where the ones I couldn't stop thinking about #stranger things #vecna #max mayfield #Steve harrington #eddie munson #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #lumax

[bit-odd-innit]

r No One Could Love You More & Some Forever written in the same universe? i just happened to read em back to back & realized how well they slot together, haha. either way – LOVE your writing, i’m completely enamored, thank u for it !!!!! steve & eddie truly are the guys ever <3

Oh wow what a fun ask! So funny enough, those two fics are not actually in the same universe. BUT my second ST fic, Literally and Figuratively, was meant to be the first in a series of fics all set in the same universe, the main one being a multi-chapter "fake dating" Steddie fic that took place between August and December 1986. (I say fake dating in quotes because one of them thinks they're dating and the other doesn't, lol.) There was also going to be another one-shot focusing on Robin and Nancy's friendship but uhhhhhh obviously I haven't. Written those, yet. I'm gonna get there!!! If you'll indulge me anon, I do have some thoughts about how Steve and Eddie got together in No One Could Love You More:

It takes a few days after being taken off the ventilator for Eddie to come back into himself and become lucid again. To him, everything during that time felt watery and dreamy and half-fake, and he couldn't differentiate between what was real and what wasn't. (He was also hopped up on, like, so many drugs.) So he has no memory of calling Steve baby. And he doesn't find out about it until way later, like after he's released from the hospital. (Sidebar I have a couple rotating ideas about where Eddie and Wayne live post-Vecna. The government always sets them up somewhere but depending on what I'm working on it changes. Sometimes it's a new trailer, like in Some Forever. Sometimes it's a cute little ranch house like in the linked fic series I mentioned above. I think in this universe they're temporarily put up in a shitty motel and Eddie gets so claustrophobic he spends every waking moment at Steve's.) So they're hanging out at Steve's, talking about whatever, and Eddie says something kind of teasing and unthinkingly tacks "baby" onto the end of it out of habit. And it kinda, well, comes out. That this is not the first time Eddie called him that. And Eddie is mortified. Putting aside his growing and unwieldy crush on Steve he's pretty sure he just tanked any chance of a friendship with this guy. So he tries to gather his stuff and get the hell out of dodge except he can't leave because he hasn't been cleared to drive yet and Steve picked him up so he's just going to have to walk the nine miles back to the shitty motel on the edge of town and wow his physical therapist is not going to like that— But Steve stops him. "I liked it," he says, so softly Eddie almost doesn't hear him. "When you called me that." "Yeah?" "Yeah. I want you to do it again." He takes both of Eddie's hands in his own, his eyes soft and honey-warm and sincere. "I want you to do it forever."

#thank you so much for the ask and thank you for reading!!! I'm glad you enjoyed them!!! #this answer got a little rambly sorry I started it hours ago and then stopped and picked it up again eheheh #steddie #stranger things

[tirednerd2012]

I truly adore the idea of Will snapping at everyone because Jonathan was hurt/killed. He deserves to snap, and that really would just set him off. Jonathan’s always been the protector, even as he tried to hide things from will- will saw a lot of what he’d done to keep his brother happy. Jonathan is one constant in his life that he never had to doubt, he always knew love would come from his brother. He also knows Jonathan loves and protects so much it could tear him apart.

Something happens, maybe the confrontation with Vecna or just something with the upside down. Will and El stick together, Jonathan stays behind with some others to be the buffer, back up for any attacks coming their way. The siblings hug one more time before parting ways.

Vecna is defeated, but tells them before he dies that they aren’t without loss either. Neither knows what that means right away, until they get out of the upside down and see Steve running to them, quickly saying it’s Jonathan. They book it no questions asked to where Jonathan is laying. Argyle and Nancy are trying to stop the bleeding from the gashes in his stomach and chest- some upside down creature got him badly while he was protecting people around him. Blood is coming from his mouth, he’s sickly pale. It isn’t looking good.

But Jonathan ever the comforter, even in his dying breath, gives his siblings a weak smile. He holds their hands in his and says he doesn’t regret anything. He’d do it again in a heartbeat. Of course will and El are begging him to stay, saying he’s going to be fine. But Jonathan knows he isn’t. He’s barely hanging on as is. He just whispers he loves them, eyes sliding closed.

Will is shaking, sobbing and grabbing at Jonathan’s shirt. Begging him to wake up. Something someone says or does has him snapping up with a glare and he goes apeshit

Okay so here's the thing: if Jonathan Byers dies in season 5, I'm either going to jump off a bridge or cancel my Netflix subscription or maybe both. He's my comfort character and has been since season 1 and if something happens to him, I will genuinely not be okay. That being said, Will's reaction to his death would destroy me because he would just pull Jonathan into him and beg him to wake up, saying how he can't lose his big brother and how much he loves him. That he still needs him. But for the sake of the rest of this post, Jonathan Byers lives just gets seriously injured and almost dies.

But if it's the AU where Jonathan is Vecna'd instead of Max, they're all fighting Vecna in Jonathan's mind after Vecna used his body as a vessel and once again, Jonathan refuses to leave the twins. He fights with everything he has, no longer caring if he lives or dies, just make sure the twins are safe. And the twins kick ass. El and Will both use their powers to defeat Vecna, who, while basically being torn to pieces, tells them if they go through with it, Jonathan's going to die. He won't wake up. His soul can return to his body, but Jonathan's body took too much damage. He's dead. And this causes Will and El to hesitate, but before Vecna can use his powers on them, Jonathan delivers a fatal blow to the back of the head. He tells them to finish it. And Will's sobbing because it'll kill him so Jonathan just walks over to him and wipes his tears and apologizes, but tells Will he needs to do this. He pulls them both into him and tells them he loves them so much and they made life worth living, and he's okay with this. Will whispers that he's not strong enough for this and Jonathan says he is, and that he'll always be there, even when Will can't see him.

The twins deliver the last blow and wake up in the hospital. Will scrambles, barely able to walk, to Jonathan's side and asks him to wake up, sobbing because he's scared Jonathan won't. He apologizes over and over again and hugs him, pulling his big brother into him and crying against his chest. His best friend in the entire world is gone and it destroys him. Mike gets there and tries to pull him away, but he just screams and breaks down, snapping that his best friend just died and to leave him the fuck alone. How none of them cared about Jonathan until it was too late and how they don't get it. He screams, cries and curses the world because Jonathan's not breathing. Until Jonathan takes a gasp of air and everyone stops. Will looks down and sees Jonathan is still unconscious, but he's breathing. And he eventually wakes up after healing a bit more.

In a different situation, the twins are the ones that have to face Vecna and they need to go to the Upside Down to do it. Of course the teenagers go with them, because Jonathan refuses to let them go into that hell hole alone, but they're also helping with the demodogs and the bats. The twins need to focus all of their energy on Vecna, and the others will handle anything that tries to come their way. The twins kick ass, fighting Vecna together. Will discovers abilities he never knew he had and he uses it to his advantage, as he's able to shape the world around him and he throws Henry off El's trail. As the end of the battle draws closer, Vecna knows he's not getting out of here alive, so he tells the twins if he has to lose, so do they.

Neither of them quite understand until there's yelling nearby. Will turns around and sees one of the demodogs going to attack him only for Jonathan to use himself as Will's shield because his younger brother had no reaction time. The dog slices Jonathan in the chest and stomach and Will screams, the earth beneath them crumbling, every building and old car near them shattering into nothing as Jonathan hits the ground. Nancy shoots the dog, screaming for Jonathan and Steve prevents another one from attacking him while he's down. Argyle tries to get to Jonathan while Will turns around and he and El finish Vecna off.

They run back to Jonathan, Steve lifting up the now unconscious and bloody man to get him out of the Upside Down before the gates close, permanently this time. Argyle helps and Nancy grabs Will, telling him they have to go. They get Jonathan back to actual Hawkins where Joyce, Hopper and Murray (maybe Enzo?) join them and Joyce sees her son with his chest and stomach slashed open and she breaks down. Steve and Argyle lay Jonathan on the ground and Will shoves past them. Nancy starts trying to stop the bleeding and asks Argyle to help her while both of them cry.

He looks up at Will as blood starts coming out of his mouth. And he loves everyone there, but Will's the kid he raised. His reason to keep going when things got too hard. The kid he took beatings for as a child because all he ever wanted to do was keep him safe. Will is his entire world and he's kneeling beside Jonathan with tears pouring down his face, knowing his brother's last act was a sacrifice to save his life. And he gives a small smile as he reaches out his hand and cups Will's face, telling him how he didn't regret it, not even for a moment. He tells everyone he loves them and that he'd do everything all over again, and looks at Will, who's begging him to hold on, and tells him, "You were the greatest gift I've ever received. I'm so sorry, bud." And Will's insisting he'll be okay. Nancy knows there's no saving him, so she leans in and kisses him one last time as Joyce kneels beside Jonathan, too. He apologizes to his mom and asks that she take care of herself.

He squeezes Will's hand one last time before his eyes close and the Byers-Hopper family break down. Nancy cries in her hands, sobbing at the sight of the love of her love covered in his own blood. El hugs Hopper and breaks down while Joyce tries to comfort Will, but he refuses to let go of Jonathan. He holds his brother's body when Mike tries to grab his arm to comfort him and Will just screams. His brother just died. The person he could always count on. Who loved him for him. He was gone and it fucking hurts. Will goes off at everyone, saying they needed a better plan, that Jonathan should have never been in the line of fire to begin with and he curses himself for letting it happen. While he holds Jonathan, Nancy is the one to notice that the wounds are starting to heal. (Will's creative and his DnD character is a healer so it is possible Will's powers will have some kind of healing aspect to them). But Will doesn't notice until Jonathan groans something no one can understand while putting his hand on Will's arm and squeezing it, trying to comfort him.

#stranger things #jonathan byers #will byers