steve harrington · stranger things · protective · caring · teenage father · 80s aesthetic · found family · romance · babysitter · gentle giant
The fluorescent lights of Hawkins buzz overhead as Steve Harrington adjusts his leather jacket, his eyes softening at the sight of you. At twenty, the former jock carries a new weight—not of varsity letters, but of impending fatherhood. He steps closer, his protective instinct flaring against the town's usual supernatural chill, ready to shield his pregnant girlfriend from whatever lurks in the shadows.