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Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Dustin Henderson, Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley, Vecna (Stranger Things), Wayne Munson Summary:

One of my readers suggested I turn this one shot into a short little fic and I loved the idea, so here it is

Final chapter of Another Life

Chapter Five

Jayden ended up taking the whole week off, trying to wrap his head around what Alex had told him. At first he didn't believe Alex and he spent two whole days trying to pretend what he said wasn't real. But there was a nagging feeling that something had been missing from his life, and maybe this was it.

On the third day he finally worked up the courage to go on his computer and do some research. He booted up his computer and then went onto the internet.

"Okaaaay, Hawkins."

He typed in the name and the first thing that came up was Hawkins Indiana. He clicked on it and went through a few pictures and articles. Pictures of Hawkins High and Hawkins Middle School. Pictures of a few neighborhoods. The schools seemed familiar and so did Forest Hills Trailer Park. It was like he'd been to those places before but he couldn't pull up any memories.

The articles he read were about tragedies that had befallen Hawkins from 1983 to 1989. A Barbara Holland going missing and reported dead and a little boy named Will Byers that had gone missing, was found dead in the quarry, then miracelously was not dead and labeled Zombie Boy, both happening in 1983.

In 1984 it was strange crop deaths that were never explained, and a man named Bob had died a mysterious death. In 1985 there was a mall fire and a lot of people had died. The names that for some reason stuck out for him were Billy Hargrove and Jim Hopper, Hawkins local police chief. 

In 1986 there was a massive earthquake as well as three satanic ritual murders. Those among the dead were Chrissy Cunningham, Fred Benson, Patrick MacKinny, Jason Carver and Edward Munson, along with others that died in the earthquake.

Finally, in 1989 there was a town wide panic, that the gates of Hell had opened up and monsters had flooded Hawkins. Many had died and among them was Steve Harrington. Edward Munson had been blamed for the satanic killings, at least until 1989 when the town saw Steve Harrington die the same way the other killings had happened and by a monster that had come into Hawkins.

His mind reeling, Jayden stepped back from his computer. This was a lot of information to process and he was struggling to believe any of it was real. According to Alex, he had been Steve Harrington in his previous life and Jayden had been Eddie Munson in his previous life.

None of it made sense, yet all of it made sense. Over the next three days, memories started slowly coming back to Jayden. Memories of his previous life. He remembered his parents, Alan and Elizabeth Munson. He remembered that his mother loved Muddy Waters and had records that she would take everywhere she went and called them her plane tickets.

He remembered his father teaching him how to play guitar. He remembered his mother putting those records on and dancing around the living room with him. He remembered his father was away from home a lot. He remembered his mother singing him to sleep when he had nightmares or reading him a story before bedtime.

He remembered his mother getting sick. He remembered her dying and her funeral when he was six. He remembered that when he was eight, he started living in his childhood home alone. His father would disappear for years at a time. He had to teach himself how to cook and clean and take care of himself. Sometimes he would go without heat or electricity.

He remembered his Uncle Wayne would come by every two weeks with groceries and to check on him. He remembered in middle school he was forced to participate in the school talent show, so he'd formed his band Corroded Coffin with his best friend Ronnie and a couple of other kids, and they'd played Painkiller by Judas Priest.

That was his first interaction with Chrissy Cunningham. She'd sat with him before the talent show and talked to him, pointing out that her mother was there to see her do her cheer routine, but he'd picked up on some issues, though he'd never questioned it.

He remembered high school, and the torture he'd endured. Being labelled a Freak, a Cultist, among other things. He remembered that he had been bisexual, but he remained steadfast, that in this life he was gay. He remembered Senior Year, 1984. He was 18 years old. 

Whenever his father would come back into his life, it was always to try and rope Eddie into some illegal activity. At 18, Eddie was a bartender at The Hideout, a little dive bar in town. It was where his band was allowed to play, Tuesday evenings for an hour. In previous years he'd tried to kiss Ronnie and it turned out she didn't like him that way but they'd still remained best friends.

She was supposed to get ready for college. His father had strode in, roped him into stealing 20 pounds of weed and selling it to Reefer Rick for $15,000. He'd only agreed because he had a girlfriend who'd scouted him and gotten him an audition at a record label in LA and he was going to move in with her. He was poor so he needed $5,000. 

He'd had a gun pulled on him twice, the second time he'd been shot at. He'd quit his job, Principle Higgins had called him a rotten apple infecting others, blackmailed him into dropping out of high school by threatening to ruin Ronnie's chances of going to college. 

The people they'd stolen the weed from had been his fathers old coworkers, worked for a drug kingpin. His father had lied to him, manipulated him. They'd set fire to Eddie's childhood home, burned his mothers records, which he'd tried to save but to no success. They'd shot a cop, Officer Callahan outside the burning house.

His father had tried to tell Eddie he needed to run, that he'd be arrested just for being a Munson. But Eddie had refused, tried to help Callahan, tried to put pressure on the wound and stop the bleeding. And his father had stolen his keys, took off with his van. Bailed on him.

He'd been arrested, he'd called his girlfriend to tell her he couldn't make the audition. She'd freaked, called him an asshole for possibly ruining her job and broke up with him. He'd been bailed out and then moved in with his Uncle Wayne, who'd managed to save his guitar from the wreckage.

He'd noticed his uncle drowning in overdue bills so he'd tried to get a job. No one would hire him so he'd turned to dealing drugs for Reefer Rick, who'd said if he ever needed it, he'd have a job with him. He'd found out Higgins was a drug addict and blackmailed him into letting him go back to school and keep his D&D club Hellfire Club open.

He'd failed senior year. Twice. Ronnie and another guy from the band had gone off to college and he had two new members, Gareth and Jeff. Throughout these memories coming back to him, Jayden tried to put them off as just dreams, because they would only come to him when he was asleep.

But on the seventh day, Jayden was starting to go crazy. So he'd done some more research. He'd found a picture of Steve Harrington, and his mouth dropped. Alex looked almost exactly the same, though his hair was a lighter blondish brown than Steve's and his eyes were more amber gold than Steve's.

Wanting to dig deeper, he found a picture of Eddie Munson in 1986. And all Jayden could do was stare. Because Jayden looked exactly the same as Eddie Munson did. The only difference was that Jayden liked eyeliner and black nail polish. He had more tattoos and different tattoos than Eddie Munson.

And then visions flooded Jayden's mind. Vivid ones. Chrissy's death. Meeting Steve. Patrick's death. The Upside Down. The bats. Shredding Metallica's Master Of Puppets. Bats tearing at his flesh.

Memories. Jayden gasped and rubbed his head which was now starting to hurt. He remembered. He remembered it all. He scrambled off his chair, searching frantically for Alex's address, because calling him just wouldn't do. Once he found it, he got in his car and drove to Alex's apartment.

Alex was eating a frozen dinner and watching a rerun of Friends when he heard frantic knocking on his door. Frowning he got up and went to the door, swinging it open. Jayden was there, eyes wide and breathing heavily.

"I remember. Steve. I remember."

Alex blinked a few times.

"Eddie?"

Jayden surged forward then, mouths crashing together and hands cupping Alex's cheeks. It was a hungry and desperate kiss, mouths and tongues tangling as Alex pulled him in, kicking the door shut behind them. They kissed until they could barely breathe and finally they pulled away.

"You remember?"

"I remember it all. God, why did I tell you to make him pay instead of fucking kissing you?"

Alex started crying then. Because Jayden did remember. He held Jayden tighter. 

"God, why didn't I kiss you? I knew that wasn't what you really wanted to say, I knew there was something else there."

"Neither of us expected it to be the last time we would see each other. But Steve you found me. In another life, you fucking found me."

"I was always looking. Always looking, and I never gave up. I would spend this entire life looking for you if I had to."

"God I love you so fucking much."

"I love you too Eddie. In our previous life. In this life. In the next one. In every life."

(Most elements of this chapter is Eddie's canon past from the book Flight Of Icarus. It's just a brief summery but this is a disclaimer. I do not own any elements from Fligh Of Icarus, just adding it into this fanfiction to give backstory to Eddie and the memories of Eddie that Jayden recovers when they start coming back to him)

I love the whole Eddie is gay trope, I really really do, it's great. That being said, I do think that people really should start reading Flight Of Icarus. It gives us a beautiful backstory on Eddie set in 1984, we get information on his parents, it gives us a backstory on certain Eddie scenes in the show, it's a wonderful read. On top of that, it gives us an emotional and sexual relationship between Eddie and a woman. Confirming that Eddie is in fact into women, which would indicate that he's bisexual. It just gives us more information on Eddie. You're more than welcome ti say he's gay, but I think that canonically he's bisexual

So I know I've been reading a lot of fics where the third member of Corroded Coffin is named Freak. I feel like that's because people don't actually know his name. But I looked it up and his name is Doug Teague. So you have Eddie, Gareth, Jeff and Doug. You're more than welcome to keep his name as Freak or whatever you'd like it to be. Just thought I'd announce that his name is Doug for those who don't know

I love the whole Steve's parents started leaving him alone at a young age. But what if it's reversed? In Flight of Icarus Eddie's mother dies when he's six and he's raising himself and living alone by the time he's eight. So what if his father starts leaving him alone after his mother's funeral? Little six year old Eddie, who's father left for a couple of weeks. Then a couple of months. And then a couple of years. I just think that's something we could explore. Also in the book, Eddie doesn't move in with Wayne until his house burns down when he's 18

Can somebody please write a Rockstar Eddie Munson and Personal Bodyguard Steve Harrington fic? I need this

Eddie Munson Headcannons 🦇🕷🎸

friends/lovers with eddie would include!

smoke seshes in the woods🍃

him being your absolute best friend

getting close with dustin and mike bc of him

attending all of his campaigns

him literally worshiping you. you are his most prized possession💃🏻🧎🏻

sharing jewelry

him letting you do his eyeliner before his shows so he looks “hardcore”

him being so nervous when you first get together and not wanting to mess up a pretty much perfect friendship

bringing him and the rest of the hellfire club snacks and treats bc “ growing boys need their nutrients” 🍴

constantly play fighting and wrestling to the point were the rest of the club is just like 🧍

him playing guitar for you every time you come over to his place

you, music, and d&d being his only outlets

you being the only one to calm him down when hes in one of his moods

him being the only one to truly make you feel seen

🕷 🕷 🕷 🕷 🕷 🕷 🕷 🕷

a/n: eddie has me feral this season is so good. if u haven't finished it yet go finish it NOW!

jamie campbell out did himself...... had me screaming and throwing up

season 4 is just steve harrington being a single mother of 6

I can`t fucking believe that vol 2 was written so fucking poorly and talentless.  like wtf was this??? this was the thing that we`ve all waited so impatiently for a month?? that`s some sick and stupid joke. st s4 vol 1 was actually pretty good AND THEN WE GOT THIS BULLSHIT AND DON`T GET ME STARTED ON MY BOY EDDIE. WE REALLY GOT ANOTHER FUCKING PRECIOUS QUEERCODED EDDIE IN 80TH WHO FUCKING DIED IN SOME INTERDIMENSIONAL SHITHOLE)))) WHO COULD`VE BEEN SAVED)) ONCE! AGAIN! THEY COULD HAVE PULLED HIM OUT this boy deserved so much more  also downgrading steve to being nancy simp))) shut the fuck up. get fucked. eat dirt, duffers 

I can`t believe that I had to go through this eddie-was-left-behind-when-he-could-have-been-saved trauma again eddie kaspbrak, eddie munson, come on, boys, we`re leaving because you deserved so much better 

I swear from this time on after eddie kaspbrak and eddie munson I WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER QUEER CODED LIL GUY IN A HORROR SETTING IN THE 80TH NAMED EDDIE IN MY FAVS E V E R I`M DONE WITH EDDIES I`m done being heartbroken and treated like that and they both should have been AT LEAST pulled out of this pit 

“why do you want every character to be queer“, “you already have one openly confirmed gay character - that`s enough”,  “there weren`t any gays in the eighties, that`s so not real“-   we`re talking about a fucking sci-fi show about super powers, another dimension and monster creatures - I`m pretty sure these are the things that weren`t real in the eighties and not lgbtq+ people eat dirt.

It`s the way that we continue to find out that all the iconic lines, the uniqueness of characters - these all came from the actors. because they understand their characters to the tee. so why the fuck do we need the dumpers to write the script when all they do is ruin the originality that the show had in the first 2 seasons, they destroy the character development, queerbait and write some stupid deaths that shouldn`t have happened. it`s such bullshit.  all i`m saying is that we should fire them and let joe quinn rule it

Ok, it`s the delusional stage BUT correct me if i`m wrong but we haven`t actually seen anybody die in the upside down... people died in hawkins, but not there. will had been able to survive there for a long ass time and now we know that vecna is still alive and i repeat - we haven`t seen anybody die there   so?? eds?? my love?? stay where you`re, i`m coming to get you, babygirl

i think the reason why we like eddie so much, why his death affected us so much, even though it was rather predictable with such shity writers, is because a lot of us see us in him. this dorky, nerdy, affectionate goofball that can`t seem to be still for a minute, who looks  for some people quite intimidating, but actually he is a big softy, who adopts people under hiw wing so they won`t feel excluded. he is misunderstood by many. he spends his days either perfecting the route for the game or learning new tunes - what a menace to society! well, and selling some stuff between all it...  he is the character with whom you sympathise, whom you want to succeed in the end. he is just so warm and familiar that such way of dealing with his character is such a slap in our faces.   eddie, my love, you will always be famous

you know, i  would be fine if Eddie didn't show up in season 5. BUT only if he could finally finish school in season 4, his name is cleared and he left Hawkins with his boyfriend  to become a cool musician. and then their 6 little nuggets would come to visit them. 

Stranger Things 4 coming out later than we thought?

Disclaimer: I got this off the internet so I'm not 100% sure on this information, but it does make sense.

Announcment: It is said that Stranger Things 4 wont be coming out until about May 2022, this rumour isn't hard to believe as in a recent interview Gaten Matarazzon told the interviewer that there are strict rules to follow whilst filming as Covid 19 is still existant. He does confirm that they have gone back to filming and it could take longer as they don't know what the future holds for them as the covid restrictions are slowing down production and the world as this pandemic continues. However at least we know that Stranger Things 4 is still coming out. just a little later than we hoped.

Steve/Joe x Reader Imagine requests

Heya so feeling like being a writer this week so if y’all have any requests for imagines feel free to DM me I will write almost anything and everything so dont hold back, and be very specific of the plot depending on the outcome you want. Other than that cant wait to hear your requests!!

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honestly just excited for st4 so i can see steve in new fits