Stranger Than Things

Robin got a cut on her knee during the final battle that won't stop bleeding and Steve is just...broken.

"Awe, don't say that," Steve complains with blood pouring down his chin from his reopened split lip. "I'm just..."

"Tired," Robin finishes for him when Steve trails off. He's doing that with frequency now. Robin thinks his injuries might be worse than he's admitting so, "Let's rest."

Robin's not sure where they're at but Steve says they're halfway to his house so, a little rest is fine.

She finds a door that's unlocked and a house that's empty, and that feels like a good enough reason to enter it and - "Find the first aid kit. I'll patch up your knee."

"On it."

Steve slowly sits down and Robin disappears down the hall. She scrubs off as much grim as she can in the bathroom sink, returns with the first aid kit, and joins him on the couch when the door opens and -

"...What's happening here?"

"We're...." Steve starts, stalls, picks back up to say "intruders" at the same time Robin blurts out, "Your friends! Here for the surprise part - did you say intruders?"

"What?" Steve, who definitely did, responds. "No. Why would I say that? I-"

"Hey," Eddie Munson cuts in. "What the fuck are you doing in my house and why do you look like roadkill?"

First of all, "Rude."

"To roadkill, maybe," Eddie crosses his arms. "Again, I’m asking-"

Second of all...

"Dude, shut up," Steve snaps at him. "I'm tired and everything hurts, and you're fucking loud. I’m trying to concentrate."

Eddie gives him a condescending gesture to continue but it's pretty clear that Steve doesn't remember what he was trying to do.

Robin jumps in to take over but..."What are we doing?"

Steve sounds so tired when he says, "I don't know."

"Eddie," She says, feeling the night hit her all at once and finally.

1. Mike Wheeler shouting a variation of 'Ew' or 'Gross' or 'NO!!!' when he learns Steve and Eddie are dating, then he quickly has to clarify that it's not because they're both dudes, it's because it's Steve. (Bonus points if Mike grumbles about how Steve is stealing the people in his life. First his sister, then Dustin, now Eddie, will it ever end??)

2. Robin makes a comment/mention of Eddie once stepping on her lunch during a cafeteria rant.

3. Robin, Steve, and Eddie all being best friends/sharing an apartment/being codependent on each other.

4. Steve speed-running his sexual identity crisis so that takes less than a paragraph of fic time. (Internalized homophobia who?)

5. "I canNOT believe you kissed a boy before I kissed a girl!!" - Robin

6. "Eds." "Stevie."

7. Eddie loitering at whatever job Steve&Robin have, being nothing but a distraction.

8. Eddie using every pet name under the sun and Steve is a sucker for them all.

"Oh, god," Steve gusts, already rolling his eyes. "What now?"

Eddie, the bastard, just grins. Steve hates how smug he looks right now. It's practically nauseating, the way his smile curves up like an evil cartoon character, his dimples cutting deep into the softness of his cheeks. For all of the things Eddie does to make himself look scary and mean, Steve can only see the boyish roundness of his face and the brattiness in his big, stupid eyes, and it's all annoying.

It makes Steve want to bite him, but last time he did that, Eddie had complained for a solid week, even though he bites Steve all the time.

"Sooo," Eddie drawls again, grinning with all his teeth on display like some stupid shark. "A little birdie told me—"

"I'll kill Robin dead. I'll shave her fucking eyebrows off."

"A little birdie TOLD ME," Eddie shouts over him, practically singing now. "That you said that I was the best thing to ever happen to you."

"I'll shave her whole damn head."

"Oh, baby," Eddie swoons, theatrical and awful, his smile a mile wide. He's so goddamn annoying. "You looove meee."

"I hate you, actually."

"Sweetheart, baby, darling, love of my life," Eddie says, draping himself over Steve's back, pressing his cheek to Steve's and rubbing their faces together like a fucking dog. "You're a terrible liar. Because you really, really looove meee."

"Shut up."

"I'm the best thing that has ever happened to youuu," Eddie sings into Steve's ear, hot breath on Steve's neck, and Steve's back straightens at the feeling. He can feel the rush of blood on his face. Eddie is so goddamn annoying!

"Shut up, Ed, I swear—"

"Because, you love meee—"

Steve gives into the impulse, turns his head into Eddie's and bites the first thing he can get his teeth around, which happens to be Eddie's cheek. Eddie squawks and digs his fingers into Steve's sides, which makes Steve yelp because it tickles.

'ronance and steddie accidentally going on a date to the same place and steve and robin see each other across the room.'

Based on this post on Twitter.