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Eddie who never wears beanies. The last time he complained his ears were getting cold, Steve gives him a 10 minute lecture before finally giving up. Steve had to hold his ears in his gloved hands. The look Eddie gives him as he holds his face is enough to warm up his insides.

Eddie who never wears mittens. Steve has given him maybe three pairs of his gloves already and he still somehow always forgets to bring it. The last time they had to walk, Steve had to stuff Eddie's hand on his winter jacket, hands intertwined, just to keep him warm.

Eddie who never wears scarves. Steve has to always have one wrapped around his passenger seat for Eddie. The van breaks more often in the winter season, so Eddie's been hitching rides with him now, and Steve always, always wraps him in the same baby blue scarf before he leaves for work. Eddie says it's ruining his style but he's always bundled up in it anyway.

Eddie who likes cold drinks on winter. Steve hates it, so he always has a thermos of hot chocolate he hands Eddie before he goes to work. Eddie doesn't say anything, just smiles and says, "Thanks, Stevie."

Then it progresses to something worse, Steve starts going to places and completely forgets where he is, he forgets what he's doing in the middle of the day, forgets how to drive. The tipping edge is when completely forgets who Max is.

They bring him to the Doctor, and the Doctor diagnoses him with Alzheimer's.

It's Eddie's worst fear brought to life. The love of his life slowly forgetting him, slowly forgetting the life they've built together. The strongest man he's ever known, the same man who carried his half bleeding body while he was also bleeding out of hell, his health deteriorating in front of him.

Steve tries to track it all down, tries to write as much as possible, scrap books for a whole week straight, piecing together pieces of memories.

There's good and bad days. Steve almost always remembers Eddie. Robin moves to their home, bringing Nancy with her. It's exactly how they lived in the 90's but now Steve's the one they take care of.

The good days are the best. Steve can walk on his own, and do stuff on his own. He knows his way in his own home. He calls the Party, asks them how they are and talks to their kids and asks them how they are. He eats dinner with the girls and Eddie, asks them how work is. They sleep together, it's like any other normal night with his husband.

The bad days. The bad days come frequent. Eddie can handle it. Steve has taken care of each and everyone of them in the last 35 years, this is nothing. But there are days when he can't, when he can't handle the vacant look in his lover's eyes, that's when Robin and Nance takes over.

There are days where it's so bad they can't even call it bad. Eddie will give Robin and Nance a look and they will know. It's okay, Eddie can do this. He can open a scrap book and show Steve their wedding day. He can tell him that Will and Mike, yeah, they got married too. Max and Lucas have kids. El's a daycare teacher. Dustin's a doctor. He can retell their life story to him because he's always done this. He can tell Steve for what he thinks is the 22nd time, that Hop died back in 2019 from lung cancer. He can tell Steve that Joyce passed away 6 months after that. He can hold him through the grief again. He can hold him as he mourns over his adoptive parents death like he hasn't before.

Eddie will love him through the world ending, through storm and rain, through heaven and earth opening up. There's nothing that can make him stop loving this man.

The kids visit frequently. They don't care if it's a bad day or a good day. They visit Steve when they can. Brings old photos and new stories. The flights get pretty expensive, but no one fucking cares.

Robin isn't even phased. She will love and care for him in any shape or form, even if there's days where he doesn't know who she is. She's been there for everything in his life and she swears not even Alzheimer's can tear her apart from her soulmate. Steve can forget about her, but Robin knows his soul will never do.

This is nothing. Because this is Steve. Steve who took care of them since they were as young as 13. Steve who didn't stop caring for them even if they were well into their 30's. Steve who airmails them a care package when they're sick, when you're close enough he will make you a bowl of soup. Steve who knitted them scarfs and mittens for one christmas because he can't stand seeing them cold. Steve who offered up his life for them and will still do it today without a doubt.

when steve finds out, he's speechless and shocked and eddie's giving him the biggest puppy eyes, "are you going to take this away from your husband?!"

when steve finally sighs and agrees, eddie takes out a whole ass costume and gallops to the group 😭

Steve is nervous to get one from Wayne but then when it finally happens, Wayne is chill about the whole thing. He just tells Steve to take care of Eddie and to never hurt him. What Steve realizes is he should've been more nervous about Eddie's Hellfire friends. Gareth, Jeff and Paul (I named the unknown dude Paul) sit him down in a dark room with candles and it looks like an actual satanic cult. They go in heavy detail about how they would hurt him if this was all a joke and if he was only playing with Eddie. Steve also gets one from Dustin, but it's only a formality and Dustin promised him that Eddie got the same one.

Dustin's been around Eddie and his friends enough times and once, Gareth told him that if Eddie likes someone he tucks his hair behind his ear. They call it "Munson's double tuck."

Dustin's trying to wingman the two of them together when he notices the lingering stares Steve gives Eddie and the endless pet names Eddie calls Steve. He's a month into trying to set the two up and he's still actively waiting for Eddie to fucking tuck his hair, WHY HASN'T HE TUCKED HIS HAIR???