Modern Steddie where Eddie is a struggling fantasy author, who had some success with his first two books, but ends up seeing his career go downhill after that.
The continuous failure takes Eddie to a very dark place for a while. He struggles with drug addiction, he drinks way more than he should too. Until one day, Eddie's so out of it that he crashes his car on the way home from the bar and almost dies.
It's the turning point in his life.
He asks Wayne for help. He wants to get clean, he wants to get his life back.
Eddie spends four months in rehab, then four more living with his uncle because he doesn't feel ready to be on his own again.
But it's okay. He knows he's getting stronger with every day, he knows he needs to be patient with himself because the process he's going through is a hard one and he can't rush this kind of thing.
One year and a half after his car crash, Eddie rents a small cabin on the countryside so he can finally work on the manuscript of his new book.
He takes long walks in the mornings, then spends most of the day writing.
He meets his therapist once a week, and sometimes goes into town when he needs groceries and stuff, but otherwise Eddie takes a lot of pleasure in his solitude.
It's peaceful. It's exactly what Eddie needed to heal the last pieces of himself that still felt off.
He's been living in his cabin for a couple of months when someone knocks on his door, out of nowhere.
She can't be older than six, maybe seven. Her long wavy hair is pulled up in a neat ponytail, and the bright pink Hello Kitty bandaids on her knees match the pink of her sundress.
"Have you seen my cat?" she asks, huge hazel eyes staring at Eddie with so much hope that he wishes he had seen the cat. But, sadly, he hadn't.
"Sorry kid, I've seen no cats today."
Her little face drops. "Are you sure? He's gray, with a white patch on his chest and white paws."
Eddie hasn't seen a single cat since he moved here, but he can't bring himself to say that to the kid again. She already looks sad enough.
"Do you want help looking for him?" he says instead. "Maybe he's hiding somewhere around here."
The girl's face breaks into one big, brilliant smile, missing tooth and all. "Yes!!"
They're barely out the porch when they hear a third voice.
"Oh my God, Catherine, I told you not to bother the neighbors!"
A man is jogging towards them. A beautiful man, with sun kissed skin and beauty marks on his face. The resemblance between the man and the kid is obvious. They even share the same sparkling eyes.
"Sorry, daddy," the girl, Catherine, apparently, says quietly when her father reaches them. "I just want to find Mr. Bilbo."
"I know, baby, but you can't run off like this. I was scared when I couldn't find you."
Father and daughter share a warm embrace and Eddie feels like he's intruding, somehow, even though they are basically at his doorstep.
He clears his throat. "She's not bothering me, you know," he says, a little awkward. "I can help you look for the cat if you want."
A soft blush paints the man's face as he finally looks at Eddie. "There's no need, I'm sure you have better things to do than look for a cat with a couple of strangers."
"We're not strangers. She's Catherine, I'm Eddie and you're..."
"Exactly. You're Steve. And we're looking for Mr. Bilbo, right? See? We're not strangers at all. So, when was the last time you saw Mr. Bilbo and where?"
They find Mr. Bilbo three hours later, napping up in a tree in the woods behind Eddie's cabin.
They celebrate their successful adventure with homemade burgers and a lot of strawberry ice cream.
And as he and Steve watch Catherine play with Mr. Bilbo in the Harrington's living room, shoulders pressed together as they share the tiny couch and nurse a soda each, Eddie can't help but feel like he's witnessing another turning point in his life.
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