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if u missed it i wrote a 30k word steddie canon-compliant fix it fic over on ao3 <3 idk if u guys care about steddie at all or are just here for x reader content but i’m very proud of this one (it’s based off phoebe bridgers’ stranger in the alps and is giving nightmare on elm st/lotr/post apocalypse vibes)

smoke signals (holding hands while the walls come tumbling down)

Robin takes his shoulders and guides him into a sitting position against another tree. “I’m worried about you, Steve. You’re not yourself lately.”

“How is anyone supposed to be normal?!” He snaps. “The world almost ended, again, Max is in a coma, the high school is a homeless shelter, and - and the kids are playing D&D and you’re flirting with your crush and Nancy is worried about college when he’s still out there! Eddie is dead, and everyone just -” he presses his palms against his eyes before he can cry.

“Is that what this is about?” Robin whispers. “Eddie?”

“No, I -” he groans. “I said I don’t want to talk about him.”

Every time he sees it, he’s just reminded of how he failed Eddie. His words weren’t enough to make him stay, and he couldn’t even get back in time to save him before he bled out. The worst part is, he isn’t even sure what his sacrifice was for. To save them, sure, but he’s pretty sure they were on their way out of the Creel house by the time Eddie had given the bats human bait.

Steve gets it, though. Why would he have wanted to live just to come back to a town that hates him? A place where people draw Satanic symbols on his missing posters and blame him for the earthquake. He doesn’t even have a grave they can visit. 

He gets into his BMW and shuts the door harder than he anticipated, causing the windows to rattle. Robin just places a gentle hand on his shoulder.

“I miss him, too,” she whispers. “He was - I really wanted us to be friends.”

“I don’t want to talk about him,” Steve grumbles, and turns the car into drive, letting the engine drown out anything Robin could possibly respond with.