Skin
Steve Harrington x reader
warnings: just a scar mention!!
a/n: willow!!!!! hope ur well!!! sorry this took forever and is kinda short 🥺🥺 <3 u
prompt: @mrs-steve-harrington: “As for a request (very excited to see that it's song prompts!): Skin by Sixx:AM. Steve Harrington, Stranger Things, and romantic. And absolutely NO worries if this doesn't inspire any ideas, I won't mind. But congrats again on your followers :D”
Fragility. That’s all they saw when they looked at you. You may have all gone through the same battles, but they’d still tiptoe around the facts when you were around.
Of course you were emotional, you hated the thought of the things you saw, the things you had to do to survive. They forget that you pushed limits they hadn’t even considered were possible. You had scars from horrible things you did for the greater good.
But Steve knew better than to act like you were weak just because you couldn’t always handle the memories. Steve knew you were stronger than anyone else he’d ever met, or fought with, so when he started to notice your friends treat you more delicately.
“They just can’t handle what you did for them, y/n. They can’t handle that they had you resort to that.” Steve whispered to you, rubbing your back gently and tracing the prominent scar through the fabric of your t-shirt.
“It’s fine, Steve. I can’t control if they’re uncomfortable.” You whispered back, which others quickly noticed. It wasn’t long before they started whispering, too. It was funny, though. You went to great lengths to protect them, maybe now they were just trying to protect you.
“Bullshit, half of them wouldn’t be here without you.” People were starting to notice your sideline conversation and little glances around the room.
“Is there something wrong?” Nancy interrupted, almost as if she were annoyed by the way you two left the rest of your friends out. Awkward silence and the clearing a throat or two within the room followed as you looked over at your boyfriend. You merry chuckled at the question after a few moments and Nancy cocked an eyebrow.
“No, not at all.” You offered a kind smile to her and the rest of your cautious friends, lifting your bag off the ground beside you. “But I gotta cut this meet short, right Steve?” You stood up and Steve didn’t waste a second to follow.
“Yeah, gotta get out of here.” He grabbed your hand tightly and you took to the door, waving bye to everyone.
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