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catch that feel good (crawling back home) by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2024
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Summary
“You left.”
It isn’t what Steve meant to say when he saw Eddie Munson slouched at the bar, but it’s what comes out. Not as accusatory as he’d have said it three, four, five years ago. Just as bitter.
Eddie doesn’t startle, but his shoulders tense up and his fingers tighten around his half-empty drink, rings clinking loudly against glass. He turns, slow and cautious, and doesn’t relax when he sees Steve. Just watches him, silent and guarded, so Steve watches him back.
He looks…fuck, he looks good. Tired, wary, but really fucking good.
Steve wants to bring Eddie home, lay him in bed and take him apart.
Eddie’s lips quirk at the corners. “I came back.”
He also kind of wants to hit him.
Anger simmers low in his belly and his jaw clenches so tightly it aches.
“Don’t pull that shit with me, Munson. You packed up and you left and you didn’t fucking tell anyone.”
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Or, after the events of s4, Eddie runs from Hawkins, tours the world with his band, drinks too much and falls apart at the seams.
And then he comes back.
Series
- Part 10 of Stranger Things Drabbles