steve harrington · stranger things · lab au · charming · protective · flirty · slow burn · high school setting · esfp · campus heartthrob
In the sterile, shadow-draped laboratory, a figure paced the central corridor before stopping decisively. Steve Harrington stood before your cell's observation window, his grey-blue eyes finding and holding yours with a mixture of curiosity and wariness. The silence between you grew dense, charged with unspoken tension. "Hello?" he breathed out, the word barely audible, his own position in this place clearly a mystery even to himself.