For the @steddie-spooktober day 26, 27 & 28 prompts : blood, scary movies & mask
rated: T | cw: minor injury | tags: Steve Harrington has a crush on Eddie Munson, pre relationship, post s4, Eddie Munson takes care of Steve Harrington, elusions to sub space
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Steve is trying to watch the movie, he really is, even if horror was never really his thing. Eddie’s eyes went so bright when he picked it out at family video, distracting Steve. Then he complimented Steve on the pumpkin decorations he’d made for the windows which distracted him further. And finally he handed it over at the counter in a way that made their fingers brush; essentially shutting down Steve’s brain completely. So then, by the time Eddie asked him if he’d seen it, all steve could manage was a no and a nod at the date set to watch it together.
Which somehow ended up with Eddie on his couch and their pinkies entwined.
Steve might have the image of it seared on his retinas, he can’t stop looking at them.
The place where they’re touching. Where he’s touching Eddie. Touching a boy, on his parents couch.
Freddy Krueger jumps out. Steve’s father’s face flashes in his minds eye. His heat rate skyrockets.
Steve jumps up. ‘I’m just gonna go to the bathroom, you I’m, do you want more popcorn?’ He asks.
Eddie jumps too, staring at Steve with wide eyes. ‘Uh, no I’m good. I’ll pause it yeah?’ He asks, already sliding off the couch and shuffling over to the set.
Steve nods and walks out, does use the bathroom even though he didn’t know he needed too. Checks the back door is locked, it is.
It’s started to rain; Eddie needs to drive safe he thinks as he slices an apple for himself.
But his hands are still damp and the blade slips. Nicks his thumb.
He’s bleeding. Red oozing out over his palm.
‘Shit, shit!’ He vision starts to tunnel, something smells weird, something mouldy. He’s bleeding and mouldy and and.
‘Steve.’ Eddie’s there, cradling his hand. ‘Sit for me yeah?’ Steve’s in front of the island stool. He sits. He swallows but his mouth is dry.
‘Wound care was a vital learning stage in my clumsy and overconfident life cycle as a child. Scraped my knee more than I ate craft cheese, and grilled cheese is my shit.’ Eddie says, holding a kitchen towel against the wound. ‘Plasters?’ He asks.
‘Bathroom.’ Steve rasps, replacing his own hand over the towel as Eddie instructs.
At some point Eddie comes back, sticking a plaster over the cut and Steve feels like he’s floated off somewhere else entirely.
‘Woah.’ He says shakily; Eddie prodding around the covered wound in a way that makes everything go fizzy, he focuses on his breathing; on not throwing up.
He comes too laying on the couch, his head in Eddie’s lap. He thinks about sotting up for a moment, but the scratch of Eddie’s nails in his hair is just too good.
His mouth feels slow and awkward but manages to mumble. ‘This’s embarrassing, you saw me bite into a bat and now, ugh.’ He laughs weakly.
‘Steve I would give my single remaining nipple to never see you put on whatever mask you had to in the upside down.’ Eddie’s voice rumbled from above Steve’s closed eyes.
‘Hm.’
‘I mean it. Just relax okay?’ Eddie’s other hand strokes over his cheek. Steve feels like his whole body’s in a warm bath.
His jaw cracks as he yawns sleepily, his mind a dark expanse, thoughts float near the surface but don’t quite breach; the ebb of Eddie’s fingers sending them back beneath.
One slips past though, syrupy slow. ‘Mmm don’t wan, don’t want you to see me as different. As like, without the, the whatever. M’Indiana jones. M’supoosed to be like the hero, or, or the side kick you know? Robin to my Robin. Not, not this.’
Eddie’s quiet for a moment, as Steve’s floats. ‘There’s no mask right now?’ He asks gently.
Steve shakes his head, makes a little nu uh sound.
Eddie’s fingers don’t stop moving. ‘Each year the great pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere.’ Floats out from the TV, the movie is different, Steve just now realises.
‘Stevie, you’re the prettiest you’ve ever been.’ Eddie whispers.
Sometime after that, sleep makes the world go black.
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