Oh, So We Do Love Steve...
🖤 An Ongoing Series, from Misha’s Masterlist Library.
📚 + 📁 Infodump file & all volumes and chapters (+more) below.
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Steve Harrington x Bauman!fem!reader 🖤
enemies to lovers, heavy angst, hurt/comfort, upside down mayhem, S2-S4, post S4 universe hot-take, end-of-the-world / dystopian setting, ugly fights turned smut (...but with hella plot). 18+
🏹 AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the hill I die on. This pairing? My OTP. They'll never not be my favorite, no matter how many other fics that I write. Steve & Babe Bauman Supremacy 5ever.
SUMMARY & ALL CHAPTERS BELOW
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SUMMARY: Murray Bauman’s niece shows up, and Steve Harrington’s last nerve packs its bags and flees the country.
The adults think you’re a godsend. The kids practically build a shrine. You’re helpful, charming, funny (of freaking course you are) and you fit into the group like a missing piece of the puzzle to help solve the end of the world.
Because as far as Steve’s concerned? He thinks you’re the end of the world in a cool jacket.
You’re the reason he lost the girl. The reason his maybe-life, his maybe-happy ending, blew up in his face. If you had just stayed out of it, if you hadn’t left that bunker with Nancy and Jonathan, he wouldn’t be stuck watching a future he almost had walk around like it never belonged to him in the first place. If you had just stayed out of it, if you’d kept your too-smart, too-sarcastic ass inside that ridiculous bunker? You wouldn’t be haunting him like a ghost with better hair.
Now you’re everywhere. With your mouth, your attitude, your impossible face. The female version of Murray Bauman, if Murray had cheekbones and a death glare that could peel paint. Witty. Sharp. Always one step ahead. Less beard, more bite. You’re like if Murray Bauman were somehow hot and terrifying. You’re clever, lethal, infuriating… And Steve can’t stand you.
He hates how your laugh gets under his skin. He hates the way you look at him like you already know what he’s thinking, and you’re bored by it. He hates that you always end up being right about most things and don’t even brag about, just sitting there all satisfied and subtly smug. He hates how you talk, how you think, how you smirk like the universe is in on your joke.
He hates you.
HE WILL FOREVER HATE YOU.
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CHAPTERS: All chapters listed chronologically, in sequence with the way it's meant to flow and be read. I highly suggest not skipping, or reading out of order, so that you truly can read this and experience it fully plus comprehend the plot.
New chapters uploaded every weekend.
[PART I] | [PART II] [PART III] | [PART IV] | [PART V]
[PART VI] | [PART VII] | [PART VIII]
[Part IX - blurb] | [Part IX - full]
[Part X]
SUMMARY: Steve Harrington’s life was going just fine (no it wasn’t) before you came into the picture and made him lose the girl (even though she’d already mentally clocked out of their relationship). He’s already in the search for a cat-eating monster lizard (thanks, Dustin) and a newly dethroned king turned babysitter (thanks, Billy). But then you waltz in, with your bad-to-the-bone combat boots and obnoxiously witty snark (and stupidly full lips) as if you’ve decided to mock his ancestors just for kicks and make his life a total joke.
Little does he know you’re the love of his life and you’ve only ruined it by giving him no chance at a life without you in it.
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VOLUME II • The Aftermath (time jump — 1991)
[CHAPTERS 1-2-3-4] [CHAPTERS 5 & 6] [CHAPTERS 7-8-9]
[CHAPTERS 10 & 11] [CHAPTERS 12-13]
[CHAPTERS 13.5, 14 & 15] [CHAPTERS 16-17-18-19] [CHAPTERS 20-21-22-23-24] [CHAPTERS 25-26-27-28] [CHAPTERS 29-30-31] [CHAPTERS 33-34-35]
[CHAPTERS 36-37-38-39] [CHAPTERS 40]
STILL ONGOING -> keep checking in!
simultaneously posting V2 & V3
SUMMARY: The upside down is gone. Welcome to the right-side up universe — also known as normal life. No more Soviets plaguing the city of Hawkins. No more hellish quarantine. No more monsters, or Vecna, or supernatural curses and comatose kids, or death scares. Now? Now you all live together, under one roof. Steve’s roof. “Casa Harrington.”
…but while you all made it back in one piece, Steve’s sanity didn’t.
He’s gone nonverbal and catatonic, his mind lost in the void of his own head. He can’t unsee everything. Your second flatline. Dustin being taken. The kids screaming for him. Murray looking petrified, Hopper being frantic to save you all, Joyce taking a bullet for her sons. Mentally? He’s still back there — even though physically, he’s right here. In your arms, safe and sound, his ear to your heartbeat as it now beats in regular time. And you’ll spend the rest of your life loving him, devoted and determined to bring him back to you.
So will the kids.
So will Joyce and Hopper.
So will Robin. Nancy, Jonathan, Eddie and Argyle.
Dr. Owens and Eleven are guiding him through it daily.
And your uncle? He never leaves Steve’s side for one second.
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VOLUME III • The Downfall (1987 -> 4 weeks after Volume I)
[CHAPTERS 1-2-3-4-5] [CHAPTERS 6-7-8-9]
[CHAPTERS 10-11-12] [CHAPTERS 13 & 14]
[CHAPTERS 15-16-17-18-19] [CHAPTERS 20-21-22]
[CHAPTERS 23-24-25] [CHAPTERS 26-27-28]
[CHAPTERS 29-30-31]
STILL ONGOING -> keep checking in!
simultaneously posting V2 & V3
SUMMARY: The world’s ending quietly in Hawkins, and somehow, Steve Harrington is still trying to save what’s left of it. After all the gunfire, after the blood, after the smoke clears, it’s just the two of you in a Winnebago that smells like your miserable arrhythmia safe decaf coffee, gasoline, and ghosts. The roads are dead. The sky’s the wrong color. Every radio channel is static. It’s the end of the world, but Steve Harrington now looks at you like you’re the most important human worth saving instead of the worst person he’s ever met.
And he’s going to do anything to save you, even if it costs him his own life along the way.
💌 MY FAVE OSWDLS ASKS -> from you
anon write-in (new reader)
anon librarian’s love letter to OSWDLS
Murray Bauman is a softie, period.
Murray 🫱🏼🫲🏽 Regina George (@thecreelhouse gets me)
Steve & Bauman’s song (all thanks to @silkholland)
petition to prohibit bauman from ever climbing anything ever
❤️🩹 my inspiration for catatonic Steve
💥 bauman + buckley = Steve’s dream team soulmates
🍒 cherry baby, checking in
🥵 kinky/freaky/emo smutty steve x babe bauman
👀 UMMM HELLO BAUMAN’S EX CAMEO???
🖤 more babe bauman gushing
✨ Joseph’s review / reading breakdown (<- go here if you’re confused please, i beg of thee…)
