#i feel like dustin is part of the pack but he's not actually corroded and frankly he's a little salty about it

[stevieharringtonwifeguy]

post apocalypse au where the plot of stranger things doesn't happen but vecna still tears the world open and brings the upside down right side up. and the scattered people who managed to survive the initial earthquakes and power outages and complete breakdown of society have to contend not only with creatures from the upside down trying to eat them, but also with what the bleeding of an alternate dimension into their reality is doing to their bodies

people with prolonged exposure to larger tears seem to be slowly changed into something else, like some radioactivity from the dimension is mutating them. people grow claws, or leathery wings, or their face peels open, or they turn into unrecognisable piles of eldritch goo. there's vampires, were-demogorgons, flayed, weird ghosts, and the number of super powered people like el was in the show skyrockets

other people who manage avoid this fate shun those that fell to it. and to an extent it's reasonable, some people who get changed in this way completely lose their humanity, like the flayed, and while others retain it it probably doesn't seem that way when a vampire-like person needs human blood to survive. but a lot of people are just as terrified of the changes happening to them as other people are, and while they may not be harmless, they'd much rather use their new biological advantages to keep people safe

despite this, people that have been 'corroded' by the upside down are ostracised, feared, sometimes outright hunted by regular humans. so sometimes, they band together. form their own little apocalypse groups

eddie is in one of those groups. he wouldn't say he's the leader, bc they don't really have a hierarchical structure and eddie likes to think he's managed to maintain his anarchic ideals even in the face of the apocalypse. but he is the oldest, and the most scary looking (if not the most actually dangerous), so the combination of everyone being younger and his ability to scare off corroded-hunters that come looking for them means everyone else kind of follows his lead

so no one really questions when he comes back to camp one day holding two passed out humans. a mole-dotted man and a freckled woman, probably about eddie's age, who were injured and had crawled into a ruin building to die. and like. what was eddie supposed to do, leave them there??? no, gareth, it has nothing to do with how pretty the guy is. no, eddie doesn't know how they'll react when they wake up in the middle of a corroded camp, they'll cross that bridge when they get there. el says she senses that they're good people, so clearly everything will be fine actually!!!!!

#feel free to write this i feel like it requires a story beyond my scope of capabilities but i really love this idea #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #i haven't decided who i want to be corroded in this au and what their corrosions are #i think eddie's some eldritch looking fuck tho #i feel like dustin is part of the pack but he's not actually corroded and frankly he's a little salty about it #like maybe all the kids joined together bc they were all corroded and it somehow just missed him #and he's constantly trying to do science about them bc 'SOMEONE has to this is scientifically fascinating!!' #and eddie's like kid if i catch you taking notes while im eating ONE MORE TIME i swear to god i'll become a stereotype #also i came up with the word corroded bc i think it encompassed the body horror element i wanted more than 'mutated' did #and then i realised the corroded coffin pun and i was like. oh my god. im a genius. #also if it wasn't clear the humans are stobin #not to be separated even in cases of apocalypse and possible death #they realised they were bleeding too much and were probably gonna die and were like #at the same time huh? checks out. let's go find a hole

[pez-and-quiet]

Sweeheart (minific) 3/??

CHAPTER 3 The box and the guitar

“So you know the night Eddie left, he didn’t say anything to anyone right?” Steve looked at Robin, she was clearly pissed off he had kept this from her for so long but she nodded. 

“I don’t know who put the box there but i had a feeling it was him (eddie)” Steve pointed at the box Robin had pulled out from the closet, “and this”. Steve got up from where he was sitting on the bed and walked into his closet. He came back out with a black guitar case covered in band logos and pins with Eddie’s name painted on it in big letters claiming the case as him. “Was leaned up against it with a sticky note that said “Stevie, sorry i couldn’t be a hero”. From what Henderson told me about Eddie’s performance in the UD, I think this is the same one that Eddie used that night. This Robin, this guitar is what started my adventure into the music industry” Steve had to put the guitar down before his shaky hands dropped it. 

“Oh Steve” He could hear the sympathy in her voice, “come here” She pulled him into a hug and he didn’t object. “Sorry about dragging this stuff up” she said into his shoulder.

Steve pulled away to look at her, “no, it's okay i should deal with this shit now before i actually forget about it. Let's go through the rest of that box, but first i think i need my jacket” Steve gave Robin one more hug before gently picking up the battle vest/jacket Robin had put down on his desk. He slid into it so easily, Steve had never realized how much he had missed wearing it. He missed the way it sat on his shoulders like a blanket, a rough denim blanket but a comforting one at least.

Steve pulled out his packing list and a pen from his desk and added a couple things

How to bring everyone with me without bringing them with me: Tour checklist part 2

Eddie’s battle jacket

UD Guitar 

Original Corroded Coffin shirt and poster

Eddie’s broken guitar pick necklace 

After they had gone through the box, Steve and Robin had put together a pile of everything Steve was keeping. Which if he was totally honest was a majority of the box, the stuff ranged from old band shirts Eddie had customized, a notebook with his handwriting, a heap of D&D stuff (which was going to Dustin), and a set of letters for the kids, the two of them, and Nancy were buried at the bottom of the box

The kids were going to be pretty pissed that they hadn’t been given to them but better late than never. They hadn’t heard from Nancy in a couple weeks so they just stuck her letter with Mike’s and figured he could get it to her.

Everything that Steve was keeping were mostly little things like a couple Corroded Coffin shirts with Munosn written on the back, The half of guitar pick Eddie was always wearing around his neck on a chain. Steve liked to think that Eddie had the other half. He was obviously keeping the guitar, Eddie had specifically left it to him and Steve was planning on using it this tour.

It took them around another hour to pack up the box and the stuff for the kids, and then another twenty minutes to gather everything Steve wanted from his room as he couldn't find anything. They packed up the car and Uhaul his tour manger Ellen had sent over with one of her spare guys. Eventually they were ready to hit the road. 

Steve took one last look at his room, well last look for the next several months. He grabbed his- Eddie’s guitar, slung one of the straps over his shoulder, grabbed his travel backpack and shut the door behind him ready to get this new adventure started. 

He had insisted that the guitar stay in the car with him and Robin and not go anywhere near the UHaul. He was also still wearing the battle jacket but he had thrown a fall jacket over it. The two best friends drove up to the kids apartment to say goodbye until the LA show. Steve had the box of stuff for the kids in his arms and Eddie’s guitar in its case on his back (he refused to leave it in the car) so he had Robin knock on the door. The door opened almost immediately after they had knocked, El stood there excited to see them. She rushed them inside, closing the door the second they stepped into the apartment. 

“STEVE!!!!” someone yelled, Steve turned to where the call had come from to see Dustin rushing towards him. Steve watched as Henderson limped/tried to run over to them. He handed the box to Robin not sure where to put it while he hugged Dustin. 

“Hey Henderson, you alright?” He asked the kid- no young adult. It was scary to think about that, they were grown up now.  

“Yea, what's that?” He asked, pointing at the box in Robin’s arms, “and that” he pointed at the guitar case on Steve’s back. 

“This” Steve gestured at the box with his head “is for you little shits but i dont see anyone else so i guess it's all mine” He pulled the box away from Dustin like he was going to take it with him when he left. 

“What no!  Hold on” Dustin ran tot he bottom of the stairs “YOU FUCKS NEED TO GET YOUR ASSES DOWN HERE BEFORE STEVE AND ROBIN LEAVE, THEY HAVE PRESENTS FOR US” he yelled so loudly, Steve swore you could've heard him in the next state over.

There was a rush of footsteps running down the stairs, even though they were young adults the idea of present turned them into teens again and it was adorable. 

“Alright, Alright you little shits” Steve had to hold the box above his head to stop them from grabbing it. “Go sit in the living room and we can open the box” it was like nothing had changed, with a bit of protesting (from Mike) they all piled into the living room. Everyone sat either on the floor or the couch. 

Steve placed the box down and explained where it came from, “I’m really sorry that your only now getting these letters, I never went through the box after he left it on my porch it was just to much but Robin found it in the back of my closet and i figured it was time to go through it. Those,” he gestured to the letters in each kid’s hand “where in the very bottom of the box, everything else in the box Robin and I went through and there's some stuff in here we thought you guys would want” 

Steve looked at the kids, Mike looked angry for a minute but Will seemed to have noticed and took his hand to calm him down. Dustin looked ready to explode from excitement and sadness. Lucas, Max and El were all looking at their letters with fondness. 

“Harrington, you never answered my other question” Dustin pointed out putting his letter down on the coffee table. 

“What?” Steve asked, lost in his thoughts. 

“What is that?” Dustin pointed at the guitar case on Steve’s back.

Steve sighed and pulled the case from his back and rested it on his knees, he pulled out the guitar. It shone in the sunlight that was leaking through the halfway drawn curtains. 

There was a collective gasp, Dustin was probably the loudest. He was there when Eddie had put on (in eddie’s words) “The most metal concert in the history of the world” Steve put it back in the case and placed it leaning against the wall closest to him. 

All the kids (they were still kids to him) told Steve and Robin all about school and living in the apartment and how excited they were to see Steve in concert. Apparently Dustin had bragged to a couple of his school friends that he had known Steve before he was famous. Which wasn’t wrong it was just funny to Steve. At some point Max had disappeared along with Mike but Steve was sure they hadn’t gone far. Max sometimes needed a break from large groups of people.

Ow! Something hit him in the back of the head, he turned around to where the thing had come from and saw Max gesturing for him to follow her. Steve looked at the others but they were engrossed in a story Robin was telling them. He stood up casually and walked over to where Max was hiding. He rounded the corner and Mike stood there arms crossed, looking pissed off. Max grabbed Steve’s hand and pulled him into the kitchen. 

part one -> here

part two -> here

part three -> here you just read it

#sweetheart minific #stranger things #robin buckley #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #nancy wheeler #ronance #rockstar eddie munson #music star steve harrington #wrote this instead of sleeping #wrote this at 3am