steve harrington.

WATCH YOU WEAVE
THEN BREATHE

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LOSING GROUND

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WORLDS APART

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NOW I RUN FROM YOU

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD MEN GONE

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IF HE
EVER HURTS YOU

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. . . in your arms tonight

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i'm about to fold

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it's only what you're asking for

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|| shittt man i'm down for either lol

these are the things . . .

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|| lmaooo. felt. it's so empty here 🥀

stop draggin' my . . .

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COMMUNION OF THE CURSED

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|| pretty much

REBEL YELL

• a solo •

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+ his car, he knows exactly who to go to in order to find out what is going on here.

+ and then the door the cabin slams behind the couple, leaving steve standing in the woods scratching his head in pure confusion. jealousy of steve makes the most sense for eddie's behavior, but deep down he knows it isn't the true cause. something else is going on here, and as he sprints back for +

+ walkie."

'she's /fine/, steve.' eddie turns back over his shoulder with that same gaze, and steve freezes, swallowing the lump in his throat. something is definitely wrong here, but /what/?

"you should, like, get her some boppers or something. so she doesn't faint from hunger."

'go home.' +

+ himself that he can, for once, just breathe and things will be all right.

but those eyes . . .

demona's voice brings steve back to the present, and he nods, a little too vigorously, backstepping so he can detour around back to his beamer.

"yeah, okay. i'll check back in later with the +

+ should. though, given what steve has seen, perhaps it is justified, in some way. perhaps he's just paranoid this whole thing isn't over, and that the other shoe is going to drop and plunge them back into the upside down for another fight. perhaps, steve just needs to step back and convince +

+ is the reason for the behavior. there is a darkness about eddie that has never been there before, and the threatening way he's looking at steve is starting to make his skin crawl. if anything, he almost feels like prey staring down its predator before it strikes, and it unsettles him more than it+

+ himself. at least, the eddie that steve knew anyways. he'd been flirty and carefree, like he'd been with steve since the upside down, but now . . . now was not that, and while steve understands why eddie would have been upset seeing him with demona like he was, part of steve does not believe that+

the last time steve had seen eddie had been with the metalhead had come to get the metallica tape he'd asked steve for, and things had been vastly different that night. the unspoken thing that had been lingering between them had been much more prevalent than it is now, and eddie had been more +

+ threatening in nature. steve's seen it once before, but he doesn't want to believe it. they'd saved eddie, so why would they have any reason to worry now?

+ stand before he releases her - right into her fiance's arms.

'thanks, but i got it from here.' he fixes steve with a look he's never seen before, and his blood runs cold for a moment. it isn't even a look of jealously, but something . . . else, behind brown and red tinted hues that is almost +

+ he doesn't release her, though, partly from panic and party because he's not sure if she can stand on her own yet.

'what. are you doing, harrington?'

"she-- she tripped, man. this isn't--" eddie takes a step towards them, and steve eases his grip, turning back to demona to make sure she can +

+ her footing, the door to the cabin swings open, and eddie emerges from the shadows. steve's stomach drops as he does so, a lump suddenly forming in his chest, and it does not occur to him that he and demona are in a . . . compromising position, until eddie looks at how steve is holding the rebel.+

+ the dark circles beneath her eyes, the way she was even more pale than usual, and how she'd been dizzy when trying to stand were all signs of something more sinister going on, steve just isn't sure what that is.

and he does not get a moment to figure it out, either, as the moment demona regains +

demona trips, and steve instinctively jumps to catch her, his arms encircling her waist as she grabs onto his shirt. he hadn't seen the root either, but he's not entirely sure it was the root that had tripped her, either. she'd been off from the moment he'd arrived, and in truth, she looked sick. +