Steve: Why Do You Let Me Win So Easily When We Race Up The Stairs? You Don't Even Try

Steve: Why do you let me win so easily when we race up the stairs? You don't even try

Eddie: Um-- it's nice to see your smile when you win!

*later*

Steve: He's staring at my ass, isn't he?

Robin: Yep

Steve: Young adulthood is extremely lonely but also wildly freeing. I've gotten coffee at three different cafes today

Just… hard of hearing omega steve being sad because he’s figured that he’s never going to be able to find his soul mate because he can’t hear them laugh. In a universe where you know who your soul mate is by the sound of their laugh, the sound of their voice, etc. Any noise the person makes you’ll just know. Of course he can faintly hear his dates talking, but it’s commonly only a slight buzz. He hasn’t been able to find good hearing aids that don’t agitate his ears, and if he can’t find his soul mate then he’s going to find someone for true love. And if he wears his aids most commonly said person doesn’t put a whole lot of effort into making sure he understands them.

The problem isn’t that he can’t hear them talk. He’s okay with that. He’s used to that, he was mostly born like this and then a few to many concussions messed his hearing up more. The problem is when he makes the date laugh they make it soft. To soft for him to hear. Like they are trying to not be themselves around him. Betas are shyer then the Alphas. Which means they laugh softly, afraid to mess up the opportunity of making it with a omega. Then most of the Alphas were to busy trying to make him laugh so he doesn’t catch what they are saying. So he’s given up on the thought of mates.

Then he meets Eddie. Dustin’s DnD dm. Whatever that means. He doesn’t have his hearing aids on, knowing that the loud noise of the kids would overstimulate him. The smell of Alpha filling his nose, a scent like fresh cut wood, coffee and nutmeg. It’s a relaxing scent and he beams as he finally meets the “other guy” to Dustin. It’s no secret that Steve is a omega, everyone knows it. Though he doesn’t give a shit and will talk to every one the same. Instead of being shy or reserved with a alpha like most omegas he’s open and sincere. Part of the reason why he has so many people around him to begin with.

Dustin does something, causing Steve to retort a soft joke. Feeling the words leave his mouth, probably with a slight slur to them from not hearing them fully. Which no one cared about. Though what startled him is Eddie. Who tosses his head back and laughs. Actually laughs and it goes back to his brain. He can hear it through the buzz. Eyes wide and a soft flush to his face and just like that he knows. That this Alpha was his. Who doesn’t know it yet.

“You have a nice laugh.” He hums gently. Watching the small blush on Eddie’s face, confusion showing next. Obvious to ask how he could hear him considering he hasn’t been able to hear anything else. Steve turns his head catching something Dustin does and laughs himself. Not realizing Eddie was having the same realization as him.

What they both don’t know is that Dustin set this whole thing up.

Robin: I literally cannot believe I let you talk me into this 

Steve: I literally said "I have an idea," and you just went along with it without question

Something woke Dustin in the middle of the night.

He was at Steve’s house since his mom was out of town and Steve had- because he followed Dustin’s mom’s rules to the letter- made Dustin go to bed at a reasonable hour because it was a school night.

It must have been some time because he had been asleep for long enough to have a lengthy dream about Lucas and Will dueling with swords made of dragon tails.

Dustin made his way downstairs without turning any light on to look for the source of the sound. He was familiar enough with Steve’s house to navigate it by moonlight alone.

He stopped before he made it to the kitchen.

The floor creaked underfoot and something in the kitchen crashed. “Shit!” Steve said. “Dustin?”

“Um, no?”

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