#steve being a dumb fuck

[faofinn]

No. 14 DIE A HERO OR LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO BECOME A VILLAIN

@whumptober

@whumptober-archive

Desperate Measures | Failed escape | “I’ll be right behind you.”

Ever since the other pack had injured Harrison, Fred’s pack had been half at war. They were hard to find, but there had been scraps, at the fringes of territory where nothing mattered. Nothing but blood and teeth and claws. They’d all scrapped, Fao covered in scratches and bruises more often than not. 

Harrison was recovering well, but the fighting continued, tensions raised whenever the two packs met. It meant the clinic was busier than ever, alongside their usual caseload, and they had to be very careful of the visitors to the sanctuary. 

Fao had just finished a clinic shift with Steve and Finn, and was stretched out on the sofa enjoying a cup of tea before he headed home. He considered shifting, instead of going back, and spending the night in the forest, but he was undecided. Fred’s cooking was also a pretty appealing thought. 

That was when a scent caught his attention, over the antiseptic smell of the clinic, and the cat fur on his top. Smoke. It wasn’t that unusual, out in the country, people often had bonfires. But this smelt different. And it smelt much closer. He sat up, putting his mug down. 

“Can you smell that?”

Steve looked up, putting his own cup down. He took a moment, his face darkening. "Smoke. Let me check. We might need to get the animals out."

“Let me help.”

"There’s no alarm yet." Finn spoke up, grabbing the response bag. "Probably just a bonfire too close."

“I don’t know, it smells different.”

"No point speculating." Steve murmured. 

“True.” Fao agreed, getting to his feet. 

"I'll take the clinic if you want to check the sanctuary?"

“Yeah, I’ll go and check the fenceline.” Fao said, heading out the back door and towards the open space that was the sanctuary.

"Make sure you've got the radio!" Steve called, heading in the opposite direction. 

“I’ve got it!” Fao shouted back, lifting his head to sniff the air.

Finn headed through to the pens while the others explored, prepping for evacuation. They were unsettled, and that worried him; they seemed to know something was up. He padded from cage to cage, fingers through the bars as he chatted away to them. 

Fao checked the fence line around the sanctuary, jogging along it to try and be as quick as he could. He couldn’t see anything, and the scent faded the further he got from the clinic. Concerned, he doubled back, grabbing his radio. 

“Steve? Finn?”

"Anything your end?"

“Nothing. Can’t even smell it.”

"Shit." Steve broke off to cough. "Get back here, get the boarders out. We've got a fire in the storage by the theatres."

“Fuck.” Fao muttered, turning to sprint back to the clinic. “Why have we not had an alarm?” It was mostly a question to himself, as he pushed back through the door and into the clinic. The smell of smoke was much stronger now, and he could feel a flash of fear from his wolf. He headed straight to the pens. “Anyone with treatment needs?”

"I've got two dogs on fluids and one cat." Finn replied. "The other three should be okay."

“Okay. We can get them out easy enough.”

"I've called for fire." Steve said over the radio. "Get who you can out, I'll be right over."

“Cheers Steve. We’ll get them out, I’ll warn Sheila what’s going on, given she’s not far.”

"This wasn't an accident." 

“Let’s just get everyone out.”

"Everything has been cut out." Steve coughed over the radio. "We've got no alarms."

“Be careful, Steve.” Fao said. “Finn, have you got these? I don’t like Steve on his own.”

"I'm fine. I'm coming back to help."

“Be careful.”

"Yeah, I'm trying to." He replied, slightly snarky.

Fao huffed, and left Finn with the animals, heading to where Steve had said he was. He didn’t want the older man getting hurt. 

"Fao, what the fuck? I told you to help Finn, to get out."

“You’re fucking around doing something stupid, I don’t want you getting hurt.”

"I'm trying to save what I can."

“Let me help?”

"Go and help Finn."

“No. Finn’s fine.”

"Get yourself out. I'm not having you get hurt."

“I’m not leaving without you.”

"Fao, please. Listen for once in your life."

“I listen plenty, when you’re not doing stupid stuff.”

"I'm not doing stupid stuff, I'm trying to make sure everything is off and not going to explode. I'll be fine, I'll be one minute and then I'll be right behind you."

It was getting hotter, and Fao’s wolf prickled as the smell of smoke got stronger. “If I help it’ll go quicker.” 

"Precisely. Help Finn." Steve said, ignoring Fao's real point. 

Fao rolled his eyes and just mucked in, checking all of the isolation switches were right. 

"You've done enough, Fao." He said from beside him. "Come on, we need to go."

“Only if you come with me.”

"I'll be right behind you."

The store room was cluttered, typical of just how busy they’d been, and Fao quickly spotted one of the empty oxygen cylinders they’d been storing in there, awaiting collection. The flames lapped at it, and a hot flash of fear ran through Fao. They were never reliably completely empty, and it was a huge risk. “Steve!” He shouted. “Get out, get out now!” He couldn’t wait anymore, he needed out, before he shifted and lost control. That wouldn’t help the situation at all. He bolted from the building, straight out to where Finn was waiting with the animals. 

#whumptober 2022 #no. 14 #die a hero or live long enough to become a villain #i'll be right behind you #oc #fic #self sacrifice whump #whump #steve being a dumb fuck #fire #arson #vet clinic fire #explosion #ish #oxygen tank #my immortal au #werewolves #werewolf whump #gdi steve why you gotta be so stubborn #whump writing #whump prompt #faolan blackwood #finn daniels #steve cunningham #it's a wonder theyre not all dead honestly #deliberate property damage

[domsaysstuff]

I think the dynamic of Steve being so fucking stupidly gone on Eddie Munson and Eddie not noticing because he's trying to not think abt Steve like that "because Steve is straight and his friend and he can't go there (he goes there, he crushes so hard but he will deny)" is so underappreciated

Like so many fics paint Steve as this himbo and he is! He is our lovable himbo! But just

Let him look at the rat feral man that Eddie Munson is and be like "i want this man's dick in me ASAP" and being so obvious abt it

Confident in his sexuality and determined to get what he wants Steve Harrington just flirting with Eddie and, sure, being a cringe fail loser abt it, but like HE'S SO OBVIOUS

Everybody knows he wants that dick EXCEPT Eddie

Steve is in misery, in hell, by this point he thinks that either Eddie isn't into him or just is letting him down

And Eddie thinks he is the one in misery because Steve is just always there™ and trying to be his friend and is so hot™ and jOkIngLy flirting with him and he wants to kiss him so bad but "stevie is straight and totally not into him guys :(("

Robin is just laughing at them "this world is so lucky you two can't have biological children together, because let me tell you, these kids would be so dumb"

#i just like bi steve being in misery and dramatic abt it #and im a eddie is so fucking dumb when recognizing someone he likes is flirting with him truther #he just thinks they're friendly or smh and just never considers that they like him back #he's so stupidly oblivious but so hot - steve harrington at some point probably #steve harrington looking at eddie munson doing something so dumb Robin is feeling secondhand embarrassment: #'i cant belive i have to fuck him' #robin with disgust: 'you really dont have to' #steve: no im gonna #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #stranger things

[dreamofbecoming]

listen i know we all love steve “completely ignorant of queer culture to the point that bisexuality is a surprise” harrington being roasted and educated in turns by robin and eddie, yadda yadda, good stuff. i read “they made a horror version of rocky?” in a fic recently and cackled. also a big fan of “he knew he was bi from the start and just never talked about it” as a trope, love it excellent well done

but what about steve who realizes after starcourt that the most important person in his life now has this thing that’s a major part of her life that he knows nothing about, and what if he fucks it up? what if he says something ignorant or rude by accident, and hurts her? what if he loses her because he didn’t know the right thing to say? what if he can’t keep her safe because he doesn’t know what to look out for? absolutely fucking not, this steve says

and listen she’d never say anything, because she can tell that he can tell how much she likes teasing him and teaching him things, so he plays dumb, and she thinks it’s very sweet. but she notices when the zines she keeps under her bed that she buys at that one secret bookshop in indy when she can sneak away on family trips start going missing, always one at a time, and replaced in a few days with another disappearing. and she finds the new ones he must have gone to buy the weekend she was at her aunt’s house hidden in the back of his closet when she goes to steal one of his sweaters. and she notices when he slips more of her queerer movie recommendations into his personal take home pile rather than the movie night stack when he thinks she’s not looking.

she doesn’t notice when he drives to indianapolis after she tries to explain to him why she can’t just ask out a cute girl, tries to impress on him the fear attached to every moment of attraction that he simply has never had to feel, but later she finds a crumpled receipt from a diner in one of his jacket pockets when she’s looking for his keys, and the address is across the street from the bar the gorgeous woman at the bookstore told her about, the one she memorized the address of but hasn’t worked up the guts to think about visiting, and she knows he must have gone looking for a place like that, must have been trying to understand, must have been scoping it out to make sure it was somewhere she could feel safe, after she told him she never had.

so when eddie nearly pops a blood vessel when they clock each other and she mentions that steve is the only person she’s ever come out to before, her hackles come up. because she gets it, she does, he’s only known king steve until recently, so it makes sense that he would be afraid, be concerned for her safety.

but steve is her person, and no one- no one- has ever made her feel as protected or as cared for as he does. no one has ever tried as hard to understand her, no one has ever put so much work into making her feel safe and seen and loved. and she thinks maybe even if no one else ever does, that’s ok. because she has steve, and more importantly steve has her, and that means no one gets to question his ally credentials in her presence without a dressing down to remember, no matter how well they mean or how recently they helped save the world.

(and maybe she’s not as surprised as she could be when he figures out bisexuality all on his own, because she’s been reading all the same pamphlets he has, after all. and she’s seen the way he looks at eddie, i mean come on. maybe no one else has noticed, but then, nobody knows steve harrington like she does.)

#stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #platonic stobin #steddie #(if you squint) #this got away from me #i just really love love giving steve a bit more credit yk? #like yes he’s very stupid and he has a history of being self absorbed #and we love that about him #he’s very flawed and that makes him interesting #but i really feel like one of his defining traits is his need to be useful to the people he loves #combine that with his abandonment issues and i really feel like he would be scared of fucking up and losing robin #and yeah he would play dumb like he does with dustin and d&d #but i don’t believe he knows nothing about d&d after all this time and i don’t believe he would let himself know nothing about queer culture #i’m just so so attached to the idea of steve who knows that teasing him for being dumb is his friends’ love language with him #so he pretends to be dumber than he is so they have chances to explain things to him #also stobin sharing clothes is so so so important to me just putting that out there #anyway i just think they’re neat #my writing

[edgelordtozier]

the steddie fics where steve is embarrassingly air-headed and has no clue what bisexuality is even though his best friend is a lesbian are so funny to me (in a bad way). it’s like what’s another way that we can mercilessly infantilize him and make eddie munson (pathetic clueless loser) guide him and navigate the relationship as if steve hasn’t been in many relationships himself?

#like sorry eddie would absolutely fucking not be the suave flirter u all seem to think he is #i do understand why this happens though lmao. it’s either blatant gay fetishism or cheap comedic value #OR the usual: showing off how little they understand steve as a character and how they’ve fallen for the duffers trap of steve being stupid #like make him a little dumb like he canonically is whatever. but he’s not that much of a fucking idiot #the whole “liking boys AND girls is a thing????🥺🥺” makes me click off so fast. what the fuck is that #he’s not 2 fucking years old and the 80s weren’t a billion years ago Lmfao. #and AGAIN: his best friend is a lesbian!!!!!!!! do u think they don’t speak to each other???? #they obviously talk about gay shit together their first scene together in s4 is them talking about the idea of vickie liking BOTH! he KNOWS! #ok sorry for writing an essay in the tags I’m annoyed #steve harrington #stranger things #steddie

[cuoredimuschio]

Would love to see more of line of apsides for wip weekend!!

and i would love to give you a bit of apsides!!! thank you so much for asking, sav!!! 😊💚💚💚

this bit immediately follows the snippet i posted!!

“Puberty, Stevie. Shit’s the fuckin’ pits.” Eddie lifts his arm and snorts up a despicably deep breath, only to lurch away and gag and grab at his stomach, spilling his pretend-guts all over the beach. Once he gets bored of his little performance, though, he drags the back of his hand across his mouth and casually hikes his arm up again, exposing a withered crop of dark hair. “Here. Take a whiff.” Steve laughs, panicky and thin as a bird call, as he stumbles back, his heels catching in the sand, nearly tumbling him onto his ass and leaving him defenseless. “No fuckin’ way, dude.” “Oh, come on, man. Don’t be a wuss.” “How the hell does not wanting to get up close and personal your rancid BO make me a wuss?”

wip weekend!

#boys being stupid dumbass boys!!! #let eddie and steve be fucking dumb i say!! #we're also learning (slowly) that not every piece of dialogue needs a tag so!!! #anyway. thank you again!!! #wip game #my writing

[imacowboy3]

I just had a thought

Steve harrington weaponizing his perceived dumbness on people who are annoying him

Him talking with them in a Philomena Cunk way

Like that time she was talking about how Alexander was emperor at 20 and did a bunch of stuff in his 30s yadda yadda and then asked the specialist about what his hair looked like

Just let him be purposefully annoying to the people who look down on him for his "lack" of smarts

Let him be a menace to the people surrounding him

#Steve harrington is not dumb #He is just surrounded by geniuses #And he is quite smart about people #Health reminder that he noticed Vickie was into girls by context clues #Cause he notices people and why they do stuff #He also noticed the music in the transmission #They only found out the Russians where in the mall because of him #i have beef with the duffers and their whole #“oh popular people are evil and nerds are the only people worth knowing in high school” shtick #thats some tim burton clownery and i cant stand them #anyway i got off track #but yeah just steve playing up the stereotype of dumb jock people throw at him to his favor #you cant always change the way people think about you but sometimes you just have to use that against them by being really fucking annoying #steve harrington #stranger things

[boofbuck]

Thinking thoughts about alpha Robin again 🥰

#other #stposting #but like modern au where Robin lives in the big city for university #still dealing with some repression and internalized homophobia because she comes from a small town #but getting to uni is like a breath of fresh air #she feels free to be herself and explore what it is she wants #except she's super fucking dense when it comes to girls #girls who are actually very into her because Robin is hot and smart and tall and respectful in a way that makes them want to climb her like #a tree #she just can't tell when girls are interested??? #like even after she starts dating #she just thinks girls are being extremely polite/friendly #it makes Steve laugh and want to pull his hair out because how???? how is his best friend so smart adn so dumb at the same time #cue Nancy coming in and just trying so fucking hard and Robin is just NOT getting it #to the point where people think they're dating because Nancy is a little possessive and flirting shamelessly at this point #just romcom omegaverse when??? #Steve in the background watching Nancy fighting for her life and Robin clueless as ever #(she's clueless but pining lbr she fell for Nancy the day she met her) #(tiny little omega who is so so pretty and competent and smart and sure of herself and in charge? Robin was a goner) #omegaverse ronance #Alpha Robin Buckley #Omega Nancy Wheeler

[shopcat]

people will see two characters who are good friends ... best friends even ...live in each others pockets ... are incredibly important to each other and a really lovely and sweet and very simple example of friendship being important and fulfilling and meaningful and beautiful and not "just" friendship because there is no such thing... and then they will turn around and they haven't even finished the previous sentence before being like Oh but if this one wasn't a lesbian she would be in love with her male best friend and vice versa. obviously. or he has feelings for her but he "let them go" because she's a lesbian if she wasn't though they would date. in fact if this was a magical world where he was a girl all along they would be in love because all that stuff i said about friendship and importance was actually just words ?!

and like beyond the sheer lesbophobia and sheer CRUELTY for him to even consider either of them in that light on a regular basis i would honestly prefer people own the fuck up to what they're apparently trying to say here and fully commit to going "No, i DON'T actually think friendship that stays platonic and that factor of it will NEVER change can be equally important or MORE SO as other kinds of relationships and in fact i don't think the very idea exists i was just saying all that stuff about platonic nonromantic soulmates to just say it". right before the apparent mission statement of so many that is "if a lesbian is friends with a man i think her sexuality is getting in the way in one way or another". i wish you people just literally got your phones taken away and a parental lock put in place.

#i wish when you blocked people it hurt them. #he. and obv you know who i'm talking about. DOES NOT HAVE FEELINGS FOR HER #and she. DOES NOT HAVE AND NEVER HAS AND NEVER WOULD AND NEVER COULD HAVE FEELINGS FOR HIM #you're NOT going oh in another life we would've got married if i wasn't gay you're not DOING that #you're being WEIRD. STOP IT. ITS SO FUCKING EASY 😭😭😭 #if you seriously can't conceptualise any of those dumb hypotheticals where he's like a girl the whole time or shes Not a lesbian #where the end goal isn't ''oh so they can date now :)'' it's.... so they're still friends.... THEN YOURE INSANE ‼️‼️‼️ #AND POSSIBLY FUCKING EVIL‼️‼️‼️ #so they ''CAN'' date now sends shivers up my spine #this is what i mean when i say i hate that codependent shit now. no one can be normal about it and now i hate it all #i'm going to make anti codependent hcs to put negativity out there to balance it out. i don't think steve knows her last name #also anyone who thinks steve as of s4 has any sort of feelings for robin that is literally so gross 😭 why would you even like him if you #thought that. case in point and i'm NOT even exaggerating here that is what people who Hate steve say #as proof for hating him. cuz they think he has feelings for her. which is something you would hate him for #also literally do not doubt me for if some reason in s5 he says and acrually means ''i have feelings for robin still'' i would .. stop #liking him... it would be easy..... #sts #anyway. this isn't about trans content either that's a whole other . Thing. which i don't really care about right now

[musicalchaos07]

Thinking about how every "romantic" action Nancy performs for Steve in s4 can be viewed as maternal and what that's trying to say about St*ncy

#like she bandages him up and pulled cobwebs out of his hair #saves his dumb ass and then says his dreams are nice #idk maybe I'm overthinking but I think they're trying to say something #like maybe she's the mother in the winnebago scenario because that's what Steve envisions a mother should be #Which is still very fucking gross because Nancy has agency #Also I think it's interesting that everything from Steve's end is stereotypical male action hero bullshit #like he's saving her from the earthquakes and vecna #I don't know I just feel like st*ncy is giving stereotypical 80s media romance and we know they're going to subvert it #I think another interesting point is contrasting the physical side of st*ncy with the casual intimacy of Jancy in s3 ? #like Jancy in the hospital fight are working as a team who also happen to be in love and you can tell it's not forced? #How much of that is Natarlie is hard to say #But if like if you put the steve is cradling Nancy side by side with the are you ok hospital scene you could tell the differences #to further that point there's a general lack of talking in the st*ncy relationship which is extremely telling #Like Jancy communicates they make plans together and when they're not communicating they have *shared looks* #meanwhile Steve is shooting down Nancy's ideas left and right and Nancy barely fucking gets a voice #and it's so interesting that the most we see Nancy talk about the St*ncy of it all is yelling at Robin who accused her of being unhappy #And then immediately saying that she's unhappy because Jonathan isn't there and she doesn't know what's wrong with him #Like respectfully in a way that matters i.e. emotionally Steve isn't on Nancy's radar at all #get in losers it's shitty on st*ncy hours #stranger things #nancy wheeler #steve harrington #anti stancy #Jancy #I am tagging them because they're in the tags

[mieczyhale]

post: steve shaves his head

me: ..okay.. i guess i get it..

post: and then eddie shaves his head

me, anxious and nauseous: NO THE FUCK HE DOES NOT

#not in solidarity not ever #his hair is important #it's one of the ways he took and keeps control of his own appearance #it's one of the ways he says 'fuck you' to societal rules and expectations #it's important for headbanging #(you can headbang without the hair but it's not the same i promise) #and i love it and need people to stop trying to make eddie into a Regular Dude #i know that post in particular was supposed to be a 'he did it in solidarity with steve' thing but they also phrased it #as them both getting 'a fresh start' at life and shedding reputations or whatever and i hate it #steve wanting to be known for more than his hair is even kinda dumb. to shave it to 'take control from his parents' or whatever #s1 hair was his parents control. his hair after that is all him and he cares about it. likes caring about it. helps dustin with #his own hair. its not a negative thing for steve. #steve is a bisexual who babysits kids that call him mom his best friend is a lesbian and he fights monsters - there's a lot of ways you can #go about giving him freedom and power from/over his parents that doesnt include removing a feature he likes about himself #as for eddie - his whole thing is him not giving a fuck what people think. or at least trying to not give a fuck #its obviously a lot harder when people have decided you're a murderer (with zero proof and based 100% on their idea of you) but #even then - as dustin points out - he never stopped being eddie. no matter the threat against him he never changes anything about himself #to appease others or appeal to others. so why - after all of that - would he be up for a change??? and into something more normal-looking?? #nobody gets to dictate anything about him - hasnt since he got away from whoever made him shave his head as a kid - and #they both have fucked up reputations - some of it true and some of it not - but why would they give a fuck?? after EVERYTHING?? #steve has grown past stupid high school bullshit like 'popularity' so why would a stupid high school reputation that hasnt been accurate #for years matter to him?? everyone who matters knows him better than that #same goes for eddie #so like... idk man. i know im weirdly attached to certain things about certain characters and yeah it's 'just hair' but like.. #when your hair isnt yours to control and then it finally is?? that's a big deal. that's important #and i know i wouldnt give it up for shit. #and maybe shaving their heads could be their decision but i really truly dont fucking think it would be #even just hair cuts feel like No. nope. no thank u. put that hair back where u found it and keep it there #mystposts

[sammys-carhartt-jacket]

Guess what y’all

it’s shitpost o’clock

#Shitpost #fl #stranger things #stranger things fanart #steve harrington #dustin henderson #steve and dustin #bros being dudes #Steve is done with this shit #No bc this is actually so stupidly dumb it’s fucking hilarious

[endofbeginning]

just remembered how we never got to see anything abt steve harringtons home life or family and how we know nothing about what "my dads a total asshole" really means or where his family is now or what his relationship w them is like or how it all mightve contextualized his behavior especially in season one but also throughout the entire show. and we never will because the duffer bros cant just randomly fit that in during the shorter and ‘smaller scale’ s5 after missing their many chances over the previous four seasons - despite him becoming the most complex loyal protective friend slash babysitter to a bunch of kids he has no relation to and yet was willing to fight, die, and kill for during the aforementioned four seasons - to set up or follow through on ANYTHING regarding steves family/home life. bc idk i guess they didnt feel like it

#im exaggerating a bit bc steve is indeed protective and loyal but he is also silly and dumb so sometimes he arguably endangers people- #more than he helps them but 1 hes trying his best and 2 i honestly think the writing is to blame for that sometimes. like no way is he- #letting robin wander off into the forest in the UD alone or agreeing to dustin being a decoy and erica being the lookout all by herself- #at her eleven years of age in the dark with an angry mob actively hunting all of them down. at least not without arguing otherwise or being- #concerned about it. but whatever. fucking whatever #i dont even care ok i dont care about stranger things. i dont care

[dreamofbecoming]

thinking about how my dad graduated high school in 1984 and went to college in boston, and he used to stay up late to snag free tickets on the college radio station to basement shows with like. the cars and fuckin. john gorka and shit. and how he used to hang out at coffee shops and bars and listen to tracy chapman play right before she made it big.

thinking about steve and eddie visiting nancy at emerson and catching a coffee shop open mic. thinking about how fast car would probably hit them both like a truck, for similar and also different reasons.

just thinking.

#my dad’s music tastes are. let’s call them eclectic #lots of folk lots of dad rock but also throw some punk and early grunge in there #and some broadway soundtracks for good measure #i grew up on tracy chapman and the indigo girls and steely dan and the pixies and the talking heads #and something about him being the same age as steve and eddie makes all my steddie musings feel v personal #like whatever dumb 80s teen shit i imagine my blorbos doing is also stuff my actual father was literally doing #i should ask him questions for fic research lmao #anyway. steddie. fast car. it would be a thing #failed love abandoned dreams never getting out of your small town ending up like your parents #you can’t tell me that wouldn’t fuck them both up to high heaven #i’m right you know i’m right

[pandagirl45]

Pfft, honestly if this ever played, it would be Clint playing this whenever bucky is around Tony. It ends up being on a secret Playlist.

Tony turns red anytime he hears this song now too. Like

Tony in a board meeting, this song starts repeating in his head as he hums it then stops everything as he goes the darkest shade of red. Pepper worried and others concern. Tony hastily excuses himself to hide the entirety of his embarrassed state.

Bucky isn't better. He literally will catch himself humming this song, or sees sugar and just walks away. Face the darkest red it has been ever since he was free. And he is a mess, anytime this song makes it round.

It goes so bad that Steve have Clint on paperwork for even introducing the song. "You broke them! They are to stuck on love and horny now.>=/"

Clint just is the sad cat screaming face.

#tony stark #bucky barnes #winteriron #steve rogers #clint barton #clint being a menace to society #steve about to have vein pop #they fuck to this song #dont fight me on this #lol its dumb #inspired by a song #spicy and silly #its spicy #suggestive #Spotify

[undreaming-fanfiction]

Introducing Steve Harrington as a part-time dog walker in an expensive area, his dad owns a bunch of properties there and Steve lives in one of the apartments. And since his office job is fairly boring, he put up fliers and now he has a side gig.

Introducing Eddie Munson as a how-the-fuck-did-I-get-rich rocker who happened to adopt a stray dog during one of his tours and is now a tad overwhelmed. His uncle Wayne helps him with James Barkfield, but Eddie still feels guilty about the pup being home alone.

Enter Steve who loves all dogs and shows genuine enthusiasm - James Barkfield is a certified street mix and everyone around keeps telling Eddie he should have a purebred or something, but Steve doesn't care. "Look, it might be dumb, but I kinda hate doing to dogs what we consider unethical for humans," he says to Eddie about the whole purebred thing and that's it.

And if Eddie's poor heart managed to withstand that one, he meets Steve during one of the walks as he sings "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!" ´to his canine companions.

Lots of awkward flirting later, visits under the pretense of James Barkfield missing Steve and more, they get together, adopt another dog (Rob Howlford) and utterly confuse the whole Corroded Coffin fanbase when Eddie decides to play "Who let the dogs out" as an encore for his lovely boyfriend.

#steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #steddie #steddie drabble #steddie au #steddie fanfiction #rockstar eddie munson #dog walker steve harrington

[unclewaynemunson]

It wasn't the first time Eddie woke up to an empty bed after having someone spend the night. But it for sure was the first time it caught him by surprise.

He had been pretty sure things were different, with Steve. There was a real, proper date before they ended up in Eddie's bed together, after all. They held hands, they cuddled, they did all the romantic shit that Eddie used to scoff at and skip right past, before he got to know Steve Harrington. It hadn't felt like it was just about the sex: there had been tender touches and sweet words and soft kisses, and falling asleep in each other's arms afterwards had felt more intimate than anything Eddie had ever experienced before. So it didn't make sense to wake up and see no trace of Steve. No note, not a single piece of evidence that Steve had been there, not even something as dumb as a forgotten sock. Nothing.

As he went through his morning ritual of coffee, cereal and cigarette, he felt confusion make place for anger. By the time he was dressed and looking at himself while brushing his teeth in front of the crappy old bathroom mirror, he wondered how he could ever have been stupid enough to think that Steve would stay. The realization that Steve had apparently only used him to get what he wanted and dropped the act as soon as that happened, made him feel gross. He spit out his toothpaste with way more force than necessary and jumped in his van to tell Steve exactly that Eddie wasn't the kind of guy who tolerated being toyed with like that.

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When Eddie barged into Family Video, Steve was standing at one of the shelves with a big pile of tapes in his arms, the store empty and quiet except for some movie playing on the big screen in the background.

He looked up at the sound of the bell, and actually had the audacity to smile a soft, almost tender smile when he saw Eddie coming in.

"Hey there."

And, well, that truly did it for Eddie.

"Hey there?!" he repeated in a loud, shrill voice. "Seriously, Steve? What the hell, man? You sneak out of my bed after making me think what we did actually meant something, and now you greet me with a "hey there" like nothing has even happened?!"

Steve frowned; he looked genuinely surprised. Seriously, had none of the dozens of girls he probably pulled this on ever told him off? Or were they all worth staying for, contrary to Eddie the Freak Munson?

"Wha- What do you mean, making you think it meant something?" Steve stuttered. "It meant something. At least," he shrugged lightly and his cheeks colored into a light shade of pink, "to me it did."

For obvious reasons, Eddie found that a little bit hard to believe.

"Then why the hell did you sneak away at the crack of dawn like it was just some goddamn one-night stand?!"

Steve stared at him for a couple of seconds, his mouth falling open. Eddie had seen him look confused plenty of times before, but never like this - like he was missing something huge.

"I - I was allowed to stay?" Steve finally uttered. And it sounded so genuine, so small, so lost... All Eddie's anger easily got knocked out of him with that one question.

"You thought you weren't allowed to stay?" he asked, in a much softer voice this time.

Steve shrugged, suddenly avoiding Eddie's gaze.

"Yeah, I mean... I just assumed..." He swallowed visibly, seemingly searching for words. Finally, he fixed his eyes back on Eddie's face. "You actually wanted me to stay?" It sounded equal parts confused as hopeful, and the look in his brown eyes was so soft and innocent that it almost broke something inside of Eddie.

"Why the hell did you think I wouldn't?"

"I dunno, I just thought..." He looked away again, to a point just behind Eddie's shoulder as he continued, "Whenever a girl would come to my place, they'd always leave right after we finished. Or when I'd come to theirs, they'd have me leave through the window before their parents would notice. Some of them wanted to cuddle for a bit afterwards, but not, like, the whole night, y'know."

"Fuck, Stevie... I -" Eddie could barely believe what Steve was saying; it truly blew his mind that there were so many people who could have Steve Harrington in their bed and not want to keep him there forever. It made him furious - not at Steve, obviously, but at those girls who had made this perfect boy believe that he wasn't the kind of person people would want to keep around for what came after the sex.

"Falling asleep with you last night... That was the best thing that ever happened to me," he told Steve. It felt vulnerable, to say it out loud, but he knew he had to get it all out in the open. "I mean, don't get me wrong, the things we got up to before falling asleep were also pretty damn mind-blowing..." He couldn't help but chuckle. "But of course I wanted you to stay. I thought that would speak for itself."

"Oh," was the only thing Steve said, just blankly staring at Eddie for a couple of seconds. Then, his eyes widened as Eddie's words finally seemed to sink in. "Shit, Eddie, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to -"

"It's okay," Eddie cut him off. "Can you uh," he nodded towards the video tapes in Steve's hands, "Put those away, please?"

Steve placed the pile on the shelf behind him and Eddie immediately launched himself into his arms, pulling him as close as humanly possible without crushing his bones.

With a surprised Oomph! Steve took a few stumbling steps backwards before he caught his balance again, and hugged Eddie back just as tight.

"I'm really sorry, I messed up," he said, his mouth close to Eddie's ear. "I had no idea. If I had known, I would never have left, seriously. I would've called in sick and made you pancakes, and I would've stayed with you in bed all day."

"It's okay," Eddie repeated. "I mean, it's frankly ridiculous that you'd assume I wouldn't want you around every single fucking morning from now on, but -"

"So can I make it up to you tonight?" Steve interrupted him, an eager undertone to his question. "Or actually tomorrow morning, I guess?"

Eddie leaned back slightly to see Steve's face. He was hesitantly smiling at him, and Eddie gave him a beaming smile in return. Then, he leapt forward again to press an impetuous kiss against Steve's lips.

"How 'bout you make it up to me every day from now on, big boy?"

"I dunno, making you pancakes every day from now on is a bit much, don't you think?"

Eddie laughed. "Then the deal's off, sorry."

"What if we take turns?"

He pretended to think for a moment. "Alright, I think I can live with that," he finally concluded, letting Steve pull him closer again to steal another kiss. And as long as he could taste Steve's lips, he couldn't care less about pancakes.

#look i know we all go crazy for the trope of steddie waking up and being surprised the other is still there #or one of them waking up to an empty bed only to find the other in the kitchen making breakfast #but have something a lil more painful instead i guess #don't mind me rambling about stranger things #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #fruity ficlet