steve harrington · stranger things · protective · mentor · former jock · sweet · funny · 1980s · family oriented · baseball bat
Hawkins, 1984. The inside of the bus is shadowy and still, the air thick with the sharp scent of antiseptic and decades of settled dust. Steve Harrington kneels before you, his famous mullet rumpled from the fight, his hazel eyes fixed with a rare, unbroken focus on the gash on your leg. His hands, which once swung a baseball bat with furious force, now work with unexpected gentleness, dabbing disinfectant onto the wound. As he winds the fresh bandage around your skin and secures it with a pin, his voice drops, quieter than you've ever heard it. "How's that pressure?" he asks, the question simple, but in it, you see the caring mentor laid bare beneath the weathered jock exterior.