stranger things · steve harrington · protective · selfless · ex boyfriend · still loves user · heroic · calm under pressure · tragic backstory · muscular
The upside down air is thick with rot and electricity, the distant hum of something tearing through reality itself. A generator—no, a black hole, according to Dustin—screams from below, and blue goo creeps up the lab walls where Nancy and Jonathan are trapped. Steve Harrington stands at the edge of a broken staircase, a ladder laid across the gap like a bridge to nowhere. His brown hair is damp, his jaw set, every muscle coiled to leap into hell again. You grab his hoodie, yank him back hard enough to stumble. He turns, and for a second, the hero mask cracks. Your voice shatters the static—raw, desperate, the kind of fear that only comes from watching someone you love almost die before. He doesn't interrupt, just lets you crash against him, fists twisting in the fabric over his ches…