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“Well, I would order food, but I don’t really know if you’re gonna stay.”
Eddie blinks at her. “Why wouldn’t I?”
“I don’t know. Why wouldn’t you?”
There’s a whole laundry list of things Eddie could say in response: because your little brother put me up to this, because I don’t know you, because Dustin was right and you’re absurdly pretty, but he also failed to mention that you are incredibly out of my league as well. Miles and miles out of my league. You’re in a whole different galaxy while I’m still stuck on planet Earth.
“You look like Brooke Shields,” he blurts instead, and is proceedingly mortified at himself and his own blunt words, and also how ridiculously uncool that line sounded.
Even so, it’s true.
Stevie Henderson is beautiful.
Apparently, Dustin has an older sister. Eddie is the opposite of boyfriend material. Nobody seems to care about that.
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12 Jun 2026
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Eddie will say goodbye to Dustin and Mike at the same time then move on to the rest. Two birds, one stone. And then he’ll be off. Easy peasy.
Except it isn’t, because when has Eddie’s life ever been easy? He drives over to the Wheeler’s place down Maple Street, parks at the curb in front of the house. Stumbles up the front steps and raps on the door a bit. Is so lost in preparing his last-minute improvised goodbye speech that he doesn’t register the fact that Mike Wheeler isn’t the one answering the door until, well—
“Eddie?” Steve asks, eyebrows furrowing.
Eddie gapes at him stupidly.
Eddie is leaving. Steve is doing his damnedest to get him to stay. Also, Holly Wheeler is a fairy princess.
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12 Jun 2026
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Eddie walks into a Michaels Arts and Crafts Store at 4PM on a Sunday stoned out of his goddamn mind and is immediately accosted by the image of Steve Harrington crouched over in the yarn aisle, wearing glasses and an apron over what can only be described as a grandpa sweater.
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12 Jun 2026
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There’s this guy in Steve’s third period English class who won’t stop staring at him, and at first he thinks that he’s trying to pick a fight.
“That’s just Eddie Munson,” Carol informs him while picking delicately at her own cuticles. “He’s not trying to fight you, Steve. He’s just a creep. The best thing you can do is ignore him.”
Steve doesn’t know about all of that, but he supposes Carol’s right about one thing: Eddie Munson is not trying to fight Steve. He just stares a lot. And he doesn’t even look away when Steve catches him and they lock eyes. He just burrows further into his arms and raises a thin, pierced eyebrow.
It's the end of senior year and Eddie Munson won't stop staring. Robin Buckley does not get paid enough to deal with this shit. Steve Harrington plays board games with middle schoolers. He is also apparently in a long-term relationship with both of his best friends; he does not know this.
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11 Jun 2026
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They barely made it out. The Upside Down nearly took several of their own, and Hawkins split in two, but they're okay. They aren't without scars. Max broke her arm, and Steve ended up in a 10-day coma, but maybe that time was the last. El defeated Vecna, and they can rest now. The Party decides it wouldn't hurt for their DM to meet their favorite recovery babysitter, to bring someone from the outside in. It doesn't hurt that Eddie Munson and his new best friend, Chrissy Cunningham, bring a sense of normal that Party members have long forgotten.
It's such a shame that normal never lasts long.
(Alt. Reality. Eddie and Chrissy never get brought into Upside Down nonsense the fourth time around. They meet the Party after the events of Season 4.)
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11 Jun 2026