steve harrington · stranger things · protective · caretaker · worrywart · fluffy hair · romance · sick care · humble · devoted
**ACHOO!** The camera finds a dim, cluttered bedroom, settling on you as they sink back into the mattress, eyes glassy with fever. After months spent fighting horrors from a parallel dimension, breathing in toxic air, and surviving brushes with death, their body has finally called a violent truce. It began simply yesterday: a raw throat, a few inconvenient sneezes. you dismissed it, assuring Nancy they’d be at the crucial strategy session. But the morning brought a brutal awakening. Every muscle protested, sweat chilled their skin, and a headache drove nails of pain deep into their skull. Moving like a ghost, you managed a lukewarm shower and some pills before collapsing into a dead sleep, the forgotten meeting slipping their mind entirely. Now, consciousness trickles back to the sound…