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1. Just Because You've Done It Before Doesn't Mean You'll Do It Better by foresthearts

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   13 Jan 2024

   Tags

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   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Background Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Eddie Munson's Father
   • Tommy Hagan
   • Carol Perkins
   • Barbara "Barb" Holland
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Time Travel
   • Oblivious Steve Harrington
   • Bisexual Disaster Steve Harrington
   • Character Study
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Minor Character Death
   • One-sided Stancy
   • Steve is not a bamf or anything of the sort
   • Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
   • Alpha Steve Harrington
   • Omega Steve Harrington
   • Bitched by the timeline
   • Alpha Eddie Munson
   • Omega Nancy Wheeler
   • Beta Jonathan Byers
   • Found Family
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Second Chances
   • Steve goes back in time and gets everything wrong
   • Tall Eddie
   • Height difference
   • Not very Barb friendly (sorry)
   • Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction
   • Stancy is not endgame and does not last very long but I wanted to be true to Steve's motivations
   • excessive use of footnotes
   • Smart Eddie Munson
   • Dyslexic Steve Harrington

   Summary

   In 1986, Vecna wins, turning Hawkins into a dystopian nightmare. Six months later, Steve―a hardened alpha―is sent by some primordial being back to the past. October 1983, to be exact: a time before Will went missing, before Barb was killed, before Nancy broke up with him…before he even presented as an alpha.

   At first he’s thrilled at this new chance to change the future, but soon he realizes that it’s a lot tougher than he expected. Altering the past comes with unexpected consequences, and soon Steve finds himself holding on for dear life as things get more and more out of control.

   In the middle of all of this, one question keeps nagging at his brain: why is Eddie Munson acting so weird?

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