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eddie does not have an easy relationship with the concept of love.

his mother told him she loved him, but then she left.

his father used his love as a weapon; sharp and barbed and entirely conditional.

the first boy eddie had ever loved, took advantage of it. strung eddie along with flirty glances and lingering touches and those three little words whispered into eddie's ear, hot and dirty, and just the necessary push to get eddie to fall into bed with him. when eddie woke the next morning he was alone. he never saw that boy again.

falling into a relationship with steve harrington is almost too good to be true. eddie pinches himself over it often, wondering whether this is all some sort of elaborate dream his overactive imagination has come up with, wondering when he'll wake up from it. but a month ticks by. then two, then three, then they're coming up on six. and seven. and eight.

and then steve tells eddie that he loves him.

and, oh, it frightens eddie. scares him so deeply because... because he loves steve too. so much that it overwhelms him. he's never felt so strongly for someone before, and he doesn't know what to do with all of the feelings.

he wants to lay himself bare for steve like that, but every single person that has held his beating heart between their hands has dug their fingers into it and made it bleed. has torn it to pieces and left it ruined, a mess of mangled muscle and viscera, bloody and raw and smeared across the cold, hard floor.

so, when steve tells eddie that he loves him, he does what he knows how to do best.

he runs.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #was feeling particularly ANGSTY today folks #thinkin about eddie panicking when steve tells him he loves him bc everyone who says those words to eddie either doesnt mean them or leaves #thinkin about steve and how HURT he would be bc hes had such a hard time opening his heart since nancy broke it #and he finally has let someone in finally let someone get that close to him and the second he shares his love they leave him too #and that HURTS #thinkin about eddie and steve coming back together and learning how to be vulnerable with each other #learning how to rely on the trust that theyve built between them to know that theyre here for the long haul theyre not leaving #thinkin about eddie and steve finally getting to a place where they dont have to be scared anymore #(oh also eddie ofc comes back to steve and explains and he's able to tell him that he loves him back and its scary but its also beautiful)#mack writes #macks ficlets

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