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The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2022
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It’s the first time in a while that he doesn’t know what comes next. He’s dove into the water hundreds of times. Screamed as his flesh was torn apart, heard Master of Puppets in the distance and held back tears. Felt Max’s cold, small hand in his as she laid in the hospital bed. There are things that always happen, no matter how hard he tries: El doesn’t arrive in time. Eddie dies. Max is put in a coma.
Steve fails. They lose.
“Steve, how many loops have you been through?”
His head is nodding, and his eyes are watery, and Eddie has approached him like a spooked animal.
“I lost count.”
AKA: The one where Steve Harrington is stuck in a time loop, and Eddie Munson is really fucking hard to save, or: fuck Volume 2, these bitches are in love.
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Bookmarked by mythtaker
21 Dec 2025
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1987 went to shit. Vecna brought on what may well be the apocalypse, and Steve fought it to the end. Literally.
Death was supposed to be a one-way street. But knowing a girl with super powers had a tendency to change the game. So when Steve opens his eyes to a beer-soaked bathroom on Halloween in 1984, Nancy calling him 'bullshit' all over again, the universe might forgive Steve for thinking he was either a) in Hell or b) going cracked. But Steve didn't have time to freakout. Not when El finds him and asks that he help her change the events of the future. Not when he's the only other person she managed to drag with her for chance number two.
OR: A time travel fix-it, where 1987 Steve is dropped back into his 1984 self. And now he has to deal with that plus the impending apocalypse on the horizon. But he'll be fine, right? Because, as El informs whoever asks, Steve's 'The Babysitter'. So he gets to work. He can cry later, when he's done.
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Bookmarked by mythtaker
16 Dec 2025
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Eddie Munson's birthday gift from the Corroded Coffin-slash-Hellfire Club guys is a teddy bear. With Steve Harrington's face on it.
It's also cursed.
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12 Dec 2025
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Someone who leaves on the light for me by sidekick_hero
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jul 2025
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“There was a fire. At the mall. I worked there? At Scoops Ahoy.”
The way he says the last part sounds strange, like it’s really important somehow that Eddie believes him.
“Okay,” he says, then adds, “Is that why you look like that?”
Eddie’s never met a fire with fists, but he wants Steve to tell him what happened—not just assume.
There’s a beat of silence, like Steve’s weighing his options, and Eddie knows a lie’s coming before Steve even opens his mouth.
“Yeah. Building caved in. We made it out—Robin and I. Paramedics checked me over and said I couldn’t drive, so I decided to walk.”
Almost ten miles, Eddie estimates. Sure. Totally normal thing to do in the middle of the night, battered and bruised, after escaping a fire.
But he’s pretty sure that’s all he’s going to get, so he settles on, “Good thing I came along, then.”
“Yeah.”
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Eddie doesn’t expect to find Steve Harrington half-dead on a dark road in the middle of the night — or to be the one he clings to after.
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09 Dec 2025
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The cold that had been biting into him wasn’t as brutal now he had to admit. The flush that had started on his cheeks and the wide span of his ears was spreading rapidly down his neck and would soon be past his collarbone.
He felt Daisy tuck her chin against his hair and he was tugged tighter into her, his nose pressing into her neck and the flush spread further, deepening his grassy skin with a warm red tint.
‘Just don’t think to hard, just focus on staying warm. This is hardly the first time we’ve seen each other in next to nothing. This is for survival Skrimm get it together.’
~while checking out the shelter of a cave for safety Skrimm and Daisy get separated from the gang and have to survive the night alone, they have rations and plenty of gear even if they can't start a fire in there. In theory it should be fine, but making it through the night in close quarters can get complicated when you're actively suppressing feelings for your friends.
Literally the trope of "we're stuck all alone and have to cuddle for warmth ohhh noooo how awwwfull..."
Bookmarked by mythtaker
28 Sep 2025