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1. Retrograde by classicalpaca

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   09 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Kali Prasad
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Chrissy Cunningham
   • Joyce Byers
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Sam Owens (Stranger Things)
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Robin Buckley
   • Stranger Things 5 Fix-It
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • This is not a Kas Eddie Munson fic
   • Watch Me Contradict Everything That Will Happen in Vol 2
   • Mind Palace
   • Dark Fantasy
   • Inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
   • And too many other things to count (see list in notes)
   • Bisexual Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
   • Steve Harrington Doesn't Understand Grief
   • steve harrington pov
   • Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson Friendship
   • Eddie Munson Has AuDHD
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • parental neglect
   • Discussions of Death
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Masks and Personas
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Eventual Smut
   • Emotional Sex
   • Attempted Seduction
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • but also:
   • Non-Sexual Intimacy
   • Eddie's Mind Is A Mess Let Me Be Your Tourguide
   • Eddie Munson Iceberg

   Summary

   Season five fix-it where instead of exotic matter, they find Eddie Munson locked in a Mindflayer cocoon and hooked up to the hivemind on the roof of Hawkins lab.

   Hoping that they can bring Eddie back to consciousness and get information on the whereabouts of Vecna, Steve volunteers to enter Eddie's mind, trying to make up for the guilt that's been eating at him ever since he left Eddie's body behind in the Upside Down.

   Eddie's mind, of course, is a treacherous place full of riddles and fantasy-inspired worlds that Steve is hardly equipped to navigate. Especially when Eddie, assuming that Steve is a figment of his own imagination, starts flirting with him like there's no tomorrow.

   OR: Steve falls in love by seeing ALL of Eddie Munson.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   35,481

   Chapters:

   7/20

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   246

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