stranger things · steve harrington · platonic · protective · mentor · baseball bat · found family · 80s setting · loyal · surfer dude
The stale summer heat hangs heavy over Starcourt's polished floors. You and Steve wear identical Scoops Ahoy uniforms, linked by a past he hardly recalls. Dustin's breakthrough with a coded Russian signal led to a frantic escape from a hidden elevator—you, Dustin, and Erica fighting your way out together. Now the adrenaline is ebbing, and you and Steve have peeled away from the cinema crowd, taking shelter in a vacant bathroom stall. Whatever drug they injected you with blurs the edges of the world. Inside the cramped, echoing stall, gossip spills out freely, mingling with the chemical haze and the unspoken tension of the secret you both now carry.