#stareth

I’ve gotta get my ass in gear to finish up a few big bangs I signed up for! Send me emojis and I’ll write three sentences. Projects marked with an asterisk* are still kept under wraps, but I can share from the rest.

👩‍⚕️ Steve Harrington Big Bang; 3+1; Steve has good parents

⏳ Sapphic Mini Bang*

🔑 Monster Hunting Trio Mini Bang*

🥁 Keeping Rhythm; Steve/Gareth

🚿 Shower Sex; Steddie Bingo Fill; NSFW

gareth would be so good at keeping it secret okay, steve would be the one that would fold to robin and then argue that it doesn't count because she's an extension of him, and gareth would just roll his eyes but like, you can't look at steve and robin and not get it—

anyway it's like. a two level secret. because on one hand they know their friends are safe even though the rest of corroded coffin might raise some eyebrows at gareth dating a former jock/popular kid, so that secret is just them being giggly teenagers in love wanting to keep something to themselves.

his neighbour is actually eddie - the cute guitarist that he got stuck in the elevator with once because his life is full of clichés - but apparently eddie is having friends over because that's not eddie

the noise in the background makes him very unsure if it's a band meeting or dungeons & dragons or drugs (he got to know plenty about eddie in that elevator okay) but more importantly, the guy who opened the door is cute and steve must be staring, shit—

and then eddie is walking over to question who's at his door, and based on the shit eating grin, he definitely noticed steve's staring

"Eggs!" steve blurts out, and then immediately dies inside while eddie laughs at his expense, and the cute guy looks to be contemplating five different answers, each more judgemental than the last if the raised brow and narrowing eyes are anything to go on, and could this get any worse

"Is that code for anything?" cute guy finally asks.

did steve mention that he was dying, dead, no longer on this plane of existence—

"Sure, bambi, I can check if I have eggs." eddie says and steve gets sidetracked by being called bambi and then suddenly there are eggs in his hands and gentle hands are pushing him back towards his apartment.

he works with argyle and robin, and sometimes helps out as a bartender

eddie and gareth are there with the rest of the corroded coffin and steve is definitely flirting with both of them (mostly to get them to spend more money)

Eddie walks into Gareth’s bedroom, expecting it to be empty. Jeff has no interest in stick-and-pokesm and Frank had other plans, so it should only be the two of them. But standing by Gareth’s desk and looking through his music collection is no other than Steve “King” Harrington. And he’s looking mighty comfortable in a bedroom that he has no reason - no right - to be in. Just standing there reading the back of a casette, wearing the tightest shirt, tightest jeans, tightest everything.

Before Eddie can say anything however, Gareth walks in, completely unsurprised at Harrington’s presence. In fact, Gareth only pauses to close the door behind him and hand Eddie a Yoo-Hoo before walking up to Harrington to see what cassette caught his attention.

“I should play Bad Boy for you later. I think you’d like it.” Gareth notes, picking the Quiet Riot cassette out of Harrington’s hands and putting it aside. “Eddie’s here, so we can start.”

Eddie looks up from the bottle he had been opening when he hears his name, and offers Harrington something that might be a smile. It’s not answered. Instead, Harrington looks down at Gareth with a pout.

“You didn’t say anyone else was coming.”

“Eddie’s safe.” Gareth puts a hand on Harrington’s arm for balance before kissing his pout away.

Eddie did not spend two years lying about not having a crush on Steve Harrington for this to happen. He almost drops the bottle, his mind blanking at the sudden influx of information; Harrington has been okay with kissing guys this whole time, Harrington is kissing Gareth, Gareth is kissing Harrington, when the fuck did that happen, and did Gareth say earlier that Harrington would like a metal song?

His mouth must be hanging open. This can’t be real.

Harrington looks much happier when the kiss breaks, and finally acknowledges that Eddie has been standing there this whole time.

“I’m Steve. I think we had Social Studies together?”

They did. Eddie didn’t think Harring- Steve knew.

“Uh, yeah. Ms O’Donell. She hates me.”

“I think she hates everyone,” Steve gives a little laugh that shouldn’t be cute but somehow manages to be. “So, did you give yourself those then?”

He’s nodding to the swarm of bats on Eddie’s arm, and it takes a moment before it connects that Steve is there for stick-and-pokes. Eddie is really done with getting surprised by him.

“They’re a good warm-up.” Eddie shrugs off, and finally opens his bottle. He immediately gulps some of the chocolate milk down to avoid more conversation. He still can’t believe what’s happening. It’s almost more shocking that Steve is interested in tattoos than guys.

“You didn’t forget your lighter, right?” Gareth asks. He had been gathering the supplies they’ll need while Eddie and Steve talked, and has beginning to set up on the bed.

Eddie is about to find his own when Steve gets one out of his pocket and hands it over. Okay then. Better for him to save on lighter fuel.

“I’ve got the ink.” Eddie offers instead, putting the bottle under his arm so he has both hands free to go through his pockets for the small container.

It doesn’t take them that long to set before up, and Eddie finds himself sitting on the floor with his back against the bed, adding another bat to the swarm. Gareth and Steve are up on the bed, talking through something as Eddie works. He does his best to not listen, doesn’t want to hear them being all gross and in love. (He’s happy if Gareth’s happy, but… Steve. It’s kind of hard to see his long-time crush with someone else, especially when he used to think he had a crush on an asshole. But Steve is actually kind of awkwardly charming and it sucks.)

Eddie has been humming melodies as he worked, trying to figure out a bridge for a song he’s working on. Focused on the music and the repeating pattern of the stick and poke, he doesn’t notice at first that the others have moved from the bed. He almost drops the needle when he looks up and Steve is suddenly next to him, curiously watching the process.

“Does it hurt?” Steve asks, when he notices that Eddie’s paused.

“Not if you do it right. Unless you have a low pain tolerance.”

steve as the local babysitter vs gareth as the local dogwalker

their work is just overlapping enough where they have an intense rivalry, and it's not helped at all by the people who mix them up

occasionally, steve will end up walking a dog or two while gareth babysits, because they're both unwilling to let the job get to the right person (and some people are hard to turn down, okay, steve won't disappoint any old ladies or their dogs—)

and very rarely a family will ask steve to babysit their kids at the same time as gareth walks their dog, forcing them to interact and not just stare glare at each other

they make fun of each other constantly but will also get distracted making fun of other people (or dogs, some dogs just look funny) instead, and sometimes that leads to actual conversation, and maybe some could be insults, could be compliments about the other's hair/clothes, and okay maybe their rivalry is kind of stupid and they actually like each other