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They lost, Eddie died, Max is in a coma, and Hawkins, despite Vecna’s best attempt to tear it apart, is suddenly feeling the “spirit of community”. Steve feels lost and unfit to fulfill his usual role of Protector for the kids when he can’t even come to terms himself with what happened. How did they fail? What did he do wrong?
He finds himself drifting one night to an old haunt from childhood: a nearby lake untouched by Vecna’s rifts. Though the nightmare from Lover’s Lake is still fresh, the cool, quiet water is too tempting to ease his racing mind and aching body. He dips below the surface only to discover something incomprehensible in the impossible depths of the lake. It says it can help him save his friends, but at what cost? Steve, too eager to bring back those that they lost, is thrust into the past.
Time traveling may come with its unseen consequences, but with it there’s hope, maddening as it may be, and the chance to fall for someone that he realizes he can’t go back without.
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“Does your new special drink menu include an IV directly into my bloodstream by any chance?” Eddie asks as Steve turns the corner.
“If it did, we’d both be hooked up to drips by now,” Steve says, loading the coffee pot onto the warming stand and loading the small fridge beneath the counter with cartons of milk and cream. “I see you before I see the sun most days.”
“Is that a bad thing?” Eddie bends over the counter and Steve looks up, nearly colliding with Eddie’s chin.
Wild curls, warm eyes, toothy grin, minty toothpaste, woodsy cologne.
It’s enough to catch his breath, to weaken his knees, and he really can’t keep being stunned like this unless he plans on doing something very, very stupid.
Or, Steve's favorite customer at the coffee shop hosts a local early morning radio show. Between coffee and some of their favorite music, they might just fall in love.
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10 Dec 2025
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Eddie doesn’t manage to find Steve in the end, stumbling around in the dark woods, realizing that he has no idea where Steve goes to have his transformation. Instead, Steve finds Eddie.
And look, Eddie is only human. When confronted with a wolf easily twice his size, bright hazel eyes (familiar, but not Quite Right) flashing in the moonlight, sharply-clawed paws carrying him closer and closer at an alarming speed, it doesn’t matter how much he knows Steve loves him – Eddie assumes he’s about to die.
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Steve has always wanted to keep the wolf far away from Eddie. It turns out it might not be as big of an issue as he thoughtSeries
- Part 9 of Solar's Steddie Spooktober 2024
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21 Sep 2025
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Eddie reaches out, grabbing Steve's jaw to turn him. He squints, concentrating on swiping the smudge off Steve’s face. Steve sways closer, then. So close, in fact, that his eyes flutter shut, breath shuddering over Eddie's lips before— kissing him.
Steve is kissing him.
Eddie gasps, hand dropping from Steve's face.
Steve wrenches back.
“Um.” Steve's eyes are wide, mouth parted. “Did you—?”
“Did I–?” Eddie asks, bewildered.
“Was that—“ Steve opens and closes his mouth. finally settles on blinking very fast. “I totally just kissed you.”
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30 Jun 2025
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After a lifetime of fearing and deeply hating necromancers, Rook has to reconcile her burgeoning attraction to a certain resident Fade expert.
A.K.A. A lonely, emotionally and physically scarred Rook absolutely gets her shit rocked by how gentle and kind professor Emmrich Volkarin is.
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03 Apr 2025
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Simulacrum: Bird-Man meets Delinquent by jaindoe
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
25 Jan 2025
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She's destined for greatness and he's destined for goodness.
Or, a study of what Johanna and Emmrich's relationship may have looked like in their youth.
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25 Jan 2025