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Why Him? || Steddie

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Reads 84,373
Votes 1,830
Parts 48
Time 6h 42m

creative-circles

As Eddie goes into his second round of Senior Year, he finds himself caught into a situation he would have never imagined himself in...friends with Steve Harrington.

Somewhere in the multiverse, season 4 was Steddie confirmed...so I wrote a story about it. It follows some of the plot from the season, but with newer content based off the changes that I've made. 

With that being said there will be some spoilers from the original plot.

-THIS BOOK IS GOING UNDER EDITS TO BE BETTER! It's still readable I'll never post an unreadable chapter, or story, but if it's different than the last time you read it, that is why. If chapters are missing, I merged a few because it should have been one chapter in the first place. If you read it without paying attention to chapter titles, it'll be in order! More information is on conversations-

Art by: nasnyys on tumblr
Original character design: Duffer Brothers Stranger Things
Story: creative-circles

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#1 mlm fic 10.7.22
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A Rekindled Love (A Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson Love Story) by clairebear107

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Baby metalhead by _t1mb3r_

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