Here's one of the pieces I did for my second Steddie Big Bang 2024 author, @hellfxresundays! The fic is through the Looking Glass, and it's an AU set in the Prey universe. As soon as I saw this AU listed during claims, I got so excited to see what he would do with the story. The Prey video game is so wonderfully ripe for crossover with the Stranger Things universe and xe's written a truly excellent fic with an ensemble cast and a super interesting take on the plot of the Prey game. Please go check it out!!
Story Summary: When Steve and Robin are given dual offers aboard the Talos I, it appears to be everything that they could’ve dreamed of. The Talos I is legendary in the neuroscience field for pioneering the ability to rewrite your brain, and for being the only corporate hub built around a satellite hundreds of thousands miles out in space. Cutting-edge research, a place of prestige, recognition as the best and brightest in their fields. For Steve, it’s everything– the perfect fuck you to the Harrington lineage, and the ultimate pinnacle of a long and exhausting career as the best that private security can offer. Even with unexplained electrical outages across the station, or Eddie Munson’s startlingly vicious vendetta against him, Steve’s determined to take it as the victory that it is, even as it becomes increasingly clear that everything aboard the Talos I is far from what it seems. He’s no stranger to secrecy, and even manages to wrangle something like a tentative truce out of his most prickly, but surprisingly compelling, coworker. Just as quickly as he finds his rhythm, though, it all comes crashing down around their ears. In reaching for the stars, Talos I– and the evasive Dr. Brenner– have found quite a few secrets among them, some of which prove lethal– and hungry– when they escape containment. With nobody coming to rescue them, it becomes a race against the clock– he, Eddie, and the handful of remaining survivors will have to set aside their differences to find a way out and off of Talos I without dooming the rest of the planet. Or each other.
