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Fanfiction writers. I've an idea for you! Stranger things fic idea that can be platonic or romantic, just mostly angst and healing. Steve centric.
I've seen a lot of people saying that the characters don't pay Steve's character growth much attention beyond his initial "not an asshole anymore" or just the fact they keep digging at him being "ditzy" "an air head" "why do we have to explain everything to you?!" Thing.
People also say Eddie is one of the few who didn't do that. He was kind, understanding, ect.
Well let's take this and work with it.
Post S4 where Vecna turns Eddie into a pawn but fucked up enough that Eddie HATES him and how he treats him and the others. There is a slowly growing secondary horde hivemind with Eddie as the start. But they gotta be careful or Vecna will notice.
Kas!Eddie doesn't remember being Eddie but some aspects of his personality remain, including his habit of collecting strays.
So when he's sent to Hawkins to kill one of the party members, one that would break them all, he takes notice of Steve. He KNOWS he's the glue to the group but to his mind he sees everyone else is treating Steve like Vecna treats him.
He also notices this human is sick, bites from the flyers had become infected and no one has noticed.
Kas!Eddie sees this as an opportunity to technically complete his mission while gaining a new member to his own Horde. So he sneaks into Steve's house in the dead of night while the young man is sleeping.
Steve is curled up in bed, feeling cold but sweating from his fever. He wakes but is so out of it from the fever that he is near incoherent.
He sees Eddie smiling at him but it feels off, he has enough time awake to feel a cold hand on his head and the feeling of falling before he passes out.
Kas!Eddie is very vampire esk but also gained Vecna like powers, including that of fiddling with the mind. So he sits beside Steve, brushes hair out of his face, and gets to work.
He looks into Steve's mind and sees how protective he is of "the ones who hurt him" he even sees his own face in the memories (so he was something else before he was this, thats good to know).
He works slow, causing Steve's brain to emphasize all the faults, hurts, and neglect by the other humans. He also calls up his want of the experiences with Eddie.
He doesn't do it all in one night.
It's a subtle change that takes several days. Making it all seem like a natural progression.
Steve starts to pull away from the others which unfortunately goes unnoticed due to everything going on. He experiences on again off again fevers from the infections in the demobat bites but they haven't gotten worse so he hasn't started to panic yet.
Steve has "dreams" during his fever nights where a very pale Eddie takes care of him. Tutting at his wounds, resting his cold hands on Steve's forehead, even feeding him cooled tomato soup (spoiler, it's not soup).
At one point Steve wakes up and cries because even a dream dead guy cares more than his friends.
Steve doesn't notice how easier it is to be in the cold now. He doesn't notice when he starts cooking meat rarer and rarer. He doesn't notice when his friends start to look at him in confusion because they're starting to realize he's acting off.
It's then that the last part of Eddie's plan commenced. He uses the knowledge of his past self, (learned by looking into the mind of Steve, corroded coffin guys, and Wayne Munson) to act in a way that would put Steve at ease.
He wakes Steve up, apologized for dying, tells Steve what Vecna has been doing and mentions how it mirrors what is being done to him way to much. Or something like that??
Either way he offers to take Steve with him where they can not only get away from this damn town but also Kill Vecna. Steve, after weeks of unknown "help" readily agrees.
Eddie tells Steve that he is like him thanks to the venom of the demobats, which is why they were infected so badly. This is only partially true, he's also been feeding Steve his own blood for a while to make sure he survived the change.
So we have kinda dark Kas!Eddie taking care of hurt Steve all while they both work on killing Vecna.
Once it's all said and done, perhaps they stay as they are, perhaps they revert back and Eddie has a crisis of "omg what have I done?!"
I just want a mostly happy ending for them
Have fun
Edited to fix spelling and missing words because I wrote this at 3 am because of insomnia and didn't want to lose the idea
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