Some Steve and his little nuggets HCs:
Erica will absolutely rip anyone to shreds if they're making fun of Steve. Only she can call make fun of him (and Max). Especially when Steve takes her down to the comic book shop to get a new figure for Lady Applejack to replace her missing one (because Erica won't admit it but she worked on that stupid thing for days and Steve can see she's a little broken up about it).
Max thinks Steve taking her to the skate park is stupid and embarrassing, especially when he asks her to teach him "how to do that board flip thing". (Steve sprains his wrist and comes back with a few bruises but Max smiling when he finally got the board to flip is worth a bruised ego).
Lucas knows the party doesn't care about basketball, but Steve does. Steve who keeps a copy of the team's home game schedule tape up behind the Family Video counter and behind the sun visor of his car. Because unlike his own parents, he's not missing a game (and if he pokes/burns himself iron on Lucas' patches as he earns them it's fine).
Dustin's got an attitude sure, but while he's arguing with the little twerp to his face, he's really bragging about the kid to whatever poor Mom wanders in to Family Video with her own kids on the day he gets some award Steve's never ever heard of. Steve doesn't bother to correct anyone who just assumes Steve has a little brother he's proud of.
bonus:
Eddie doesn't get what Steve gets out of taking care of all the kids, until he wanders in to the video store while Steve's on his lunch break, and catches him listening to the kids arguing over something via the walkies. Steve's got this stupidly fond look on his face, and Eddie thinks he gets it now. That Steve "The Hair" Harrington doesn't just put up with these kids. He loves these kids, as if they were his own. And if that stupidly fond look is aimed at Eddie a second later, with the other half of his sandwich held up in offering, then who is he to tease Steve about it.
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could you do hcs or a short story for like meeting erica during s3 abd being part of the scoops troop then being like her older friend/ sister figure? (platonic)
Jesus Christ. I wrote this entire thing and it got fucking deleted when I got a phone call.
Edit: NO ONE WAS GOING TO CORRECT ME WHEN I SAID PLANT INSTEAD OF PLANNED?!?!
Platonic Erica Sinclair x older friend!reader.
Warning: brief mention of death, Russian, reader faking submission??
Translation: ОСТАНОВКА - STOP | кто ты? -who are you? | не русский (ne russkiy) - not Russian.
Let's start this off by saying Erica likes you the most because you were definitely the most prepared to go do some Russian fuck shit.
You were dragged into the whole thing by Robin
You had been planning on staying in for the day because it was hot and you knew that the new mall would be packed
Until you get a phone call from your best friend on a public phone.
Robin ask you plain and simple if you wanted to go do some "spy shit"
Of course like a normal 16 year old you've got shy shit with like spying on her Crush or sneaking into a restricted area of the mall.
Definitely not speaking into a Russian secret operation.
So you had some good things on you water enough snacks for two people and flashlights
Of course Erica likes you immediately more than everyone else.
"it's not my fault the only two and a half of us have brains" "Erica!" "what? it's just the facts!"
You take to Erica almost immediately maybe it was because she was a small child who seemed to need to be protected and whatever bullshit was going on
Or maybe it was just one of those friendships
"Erica don't drink that." "Come here I have something granola."
She also thinks you're pretty badass after she watched you pepper spray a Russian guard.
"you know for what it's worth I actually think My Little pony makes you super cool and not a nerd"
"THANK YOU."
"Now that math thing? That's total nerd."
"I take it back fuck you. "
To be honest after it was all over and neither of you really expected to see each other again. You weren't exactly in the same social circles
And then 3 days after "the fire" you get a phone call while you're home.
"hello?" "Erica?" "Do you still want to go get that cheese burger?"
She tells you about these nightmares she's been having about everything. Constant what ifs of if she could have died, the image of Steve bloody, the look of horror on Lucas's friend Max's face after it was all over. She tells you she had a dream about you getting hurt. And that she got your number from talking it out of problem to talk to you.
And soon you became a fixture in her life
Like Dustin and Steve 2.0
"Erica! Y/n is here!!"
"ready to roll?"
"Yep!"
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This was not how you planned on spending your weekend. Stuck in a secret Russian tunnel with a 10 and 14-year-old? Nah ah.
"ОСТАНОВКА!" The phase made all three of you stopped in your tracks. "кто ты?"
Now was not a good time to not speak Russian, you conclude in your head slowly you lean forward low enough for Dustin and Erica to hear your whispers.
"I'm going to do something really fucking stupid and when it happens I need you too to run as fast as your little legs can go....do you...understand?"
"wha-" Dustin starts but you turn around and raise your hands up your side slowly digging a container from your back pocket and sliding it up the sleeve of your jacket as you raise your hands so that the guard can see can see you as no threat you slowly walk forward and say "uh...I'm so sorry sir." As you look at the man much bigger than you standing with an iron inside face.
"кто ты?" He repeats and slowly you start to remember helping Robin learn Russian small phrases that don't really make any sense to you come to mind as faked here spring to your eyes and you pout.
"n-ne... rus-skiy" you stare at him with wide eyes dropping you hands to your hang in front of you in hopes of it making you look smaller and getting small tube of pepper spray fall into your hand.
"how do you get here?" He asked in broken English and you began wiping over your fake tears for catching him off guard with pepper spray straight to the eyes.
Before bolting down the hall towards the kids. "GO. GO. GO. NOW!" You grab Erica's small hands pulling her quicker down the hall. "THIS IS NOT HOW I WANTED TO SPEND MY SATURDAY."
"YOU ARE SO AWESOME!" Erica whisper shouts at you as you run away from your problem.
"thanks kid." You say ducking down a empty hallway. "After this is all over remind me to buy you a good old fashioned American cheeseburger for the compliment. Now let's find Robin and Steve and get the FUCK out of here."
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