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Jan. 18th, 2023 11:49 pm
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you know the drill.

Date: 2023-11-29 05:12 pm (UTC)
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[Okay, now Steve's rolling his eyes here, because that's so bullshit. He knows it's bullshit because he knows that you can learn from your mistakes and people here are choosing to stay ignorant.]

See, here's the thing. They aren't afraid of that. They are afraid of what is different and choose to not understand it. They want to not understand it because it lets them be afraid and angry and superior. Trust me. I was the most popular guy in school. I know how it works.

[With that he has some of his pasta and grins at the other thing.]

Of course you can freeze bread. You do it pretty late in the process and it lasts about six months. Not that I ever let it get that far. There are just some days you want hot bread. Or cinnamon rolls. I've usually got a backup pan of that.

Date: 2023-11-29 06:01 pm (UTC)
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[But see, here’s the thing. The day is won. The psychotic psychic man-child is defeated. They’ve all lived. And Eddie? Eddie could finish one last year and then leave and never look back. As she should. Find a place where she’ll be appreciated.]

I really don’t know what telling you this means at all. I’m not El. I can’t get into people’s minds.

[He’s also not Henry but that’s a whole other thing he’s not evoking. Instead he’s focused on eating the primavera and critiquing it in his head. Not enough zucchini he thinks.]

Date: 2023-11-29 06:18 pm (UTC)
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[Leave Robin? Leave Dustin? Leave Max? That’s so completely not happening it’s ridiculous. Plus he doesn’t have a lot saved up right now, what with the quietly helping Susan with the medical bills while the feds go through their stupid process of arguing with Hopper and Joyce and El. Sooner or later those three are going to earn quiet little settlements for them all. Then and only then (and when Robin’s graduated) will Steve be able to leave.

Not that any of that can be expressed. The question isn’t raised, the conversation isn’t happening, and Steve is smiling in pride at the reaction to his cooking.

Until he processes the other thing.

You’re going to have to make me breakfast one day.

There are implications to saying a thing like that. The reason you’d make a girl you were dating breakfast would be that she had stayed over. The idea makes him blush, just a little.]

So, uh, you like it then?

Date: 2023-11-29 06:35 pm (UTC)
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It’s not spoiling. I mean, I make this stuff for me too.

[He does like his own cooking after all.]

A guy’s got to eat, you know? It doesn’t take much difference in time and effort to cook for two.

Date: 2023-11-29 06:47 pm (UTC)
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[Maybe there is social strata going on here. Steve wouldn’t know it actually. He doesn’t get to eat food made by other people outside of restaurants often. With the Hagans, the Wheelers, the Hendersons, the Sinclairs and the Hollands only, and most of the were at least upper middle class.]

I mean, yeah I guess? But wouldn’t you prefer something fancy? Like a restaurant or something?

[Clearly he hasn’t cooked for other people nearly as much as he could have. There had been a bit of nerves there, and saving it for special occasions. He’d cooked for Tommy and Carol here once and he’d gotten teased that he’d make someone a very good wife someday. So it had been uncomfortable.]

Date: 2023-11-29 07:18 pm (UTC)
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[Strange how something like that never even occurred to him. Like, even with Max’s mom moving her into the trailer park, even having been in Eddie’s place a few times, none of that had really sort of percolated down into his brain. Even Robin’s family, who had a hard time making ends meet, had always seemed strange to him. And the Byers. That was clearly Joyce’s property, regardless of whether or not she had always been able to make the rest of the ends meet.]

I’m sorry. I… guess I don’t get it. Mark another point down for Steve not understanding other people.

[Good at people sometimes, completely clueless like this.]

At least you had Wayne though.

Date: 2023-11-29 08:11 pm (UTC)
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[Yeah, his childhood was something else entirely.]

I think Hawkins might be a, like, magnet for bad fathers. You can’t escape them here.

[Lonnie Byers was apparently shit. Ted Wheeler was uninvolved in his childrens’ lives. Max had mentioned a lot of shit about Neil. Dustin’s father had never really been in the picture. And Steve’s father…]

We’re all sort of doomed to bad fathers I guess. They just don’t care.

Don’t worry about it i know it happens

Date: 2023-11-29 10:32 pm (UTC)
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Listen, I didn’t find them. I was kidnapped. By Dustin. Literally. He intercepted me when I was looking for Nancy when she broke up with me.

[So he sort of just acquired them whether he wanted them or not. Which he only regretted sometimes.]

I’m more lucky to have them than they are to have me, if it comes right down to it. Without them, well, I don’t know what I’d have.

Date: 2023-11-29 10:55 pm (UTC)
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[Well for that Steve agrees.]

I had to bribe him with promises for other activities this week to make sure he didn’t drop in unexpected tonight. He’s done that before, on date nights. It’s been awkward.

[And he didn’t need to mention that Dustin would absolutely flip if he found out his ‘babysitter’ and his DM were on a date together. It would be a betrayal. The specific reasons for which would no doubt be decided on the spot and quite numerous.]

That’s probably overstating things. I do my best, but I’m not the be all, end all. There are people way more important than me. I just put myself between them and harm however I can.

[And he got hurt a lot because of it. Because he knew his body and a strong arm was all he had to offer beyond transportation and money.]

Date: 2023-11-30 12:15 am (UTC)
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[Oh they are definitely not hooking up tonight. There is ice cream cake. Who wants to hook up when there is ice cream cake?]

I’d have carried anyone out of there. And you did help save my life. So I think we’re just fair here. It doesn’t need to be bigger than it is.

Date: 2023-11-30 04:03 am (UTC)
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[Standards, Eddie. You deserve a guy who will give you more than just ice cream cake to get you into bed.

Still, he’s looking at her like he doesn’t quite get her. Like maybe there was something about Eddie Munson that he missed over the years and he’s trying to understand it now.]

You know, I’m starting to wish I met Robin and you when I was young, before I got close to Tommy and dealt with all of that bullshit.

Date: 2023-11-30 04:23 am (UTC)
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[What's a check, mate?]

Yeah, but it's not like Tommy and Carol and all of them didn't get me in trouble in entirely different ways. Maybe I needed different trouble than for throwing parties or for bad grades or things like that.

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