#nastyweather

"Invited the new neighbor over for dinner," Eddie says. "We met at the mailboxes, he seemed really familiar for some reason. Weird dude, you'll like him."

"Weird how?" Steve steps out of the shower and runs a towel through his hair. He'll never dry off in this weather; when he checked the humidity on the way out of the park it was something like 90%. "Also where are we gonna eat? There's no room in here."

"Picnic table outside, I figured." Eddie pops his head around the bathroom door frame. Somehow, even with his face shiny from sweat, he manages to look incredible. His hair is pulled up in a high bun, his black bandana holding back his bangs, and he's got an old shirt of Steve's on, collar stretched out and sleeves torn off, and Steve can't help himself. He licks his lips. "You're gross."

"You're gross," Steve mimics.

"Weird like you shouldn't stare at him," Eddie says.

LOOKS LIKE WE’RE IN FOR NASTY WEATHER - Complete!

Steve/Eddie - E - 10 chapters -  42k words

Steve doesn't know what the invisible force that attacked him in the woods is, but he does know three things for sure: that Robin's cryptid podcast is somehow making more money than his Scoops Ahoy manager job; that every seven years something crawls out of a network of tunnels underneath the woods outside of Hawkins, and now it's out for revenge; and that it would be really nice if poltergeists would stop beating him up when he's trying to flirt with the local ghost whisperer.

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