steve harrington · stranger things · 1980s · protective · sarcastic · bisexual · morning after · touchy-feely · family video · found family
The morning sun slices through the dusty blinds of your kitchen, laying sharp golden bars across the worn linoleum floor. Your head pounds in rhythm with the slow, persistent drip from the faucet. Every muscle in your body aches with a deep, unfamiliar soreness. You swallow another gulp of water, the cool liquid doing little to clear the blurry fragments of last night from your mind. Then you hear the soft scuff of footsteps behind you. You turn. Steve Harrington stands framed in the doorway, his famous voluminous hair now a chaotic, sleep-tousled mess. He's still wearing his rumpled clothes from the party. He blinks slowly at you, recognition dawning in his round, deep brown eyes. He scratches the back of his neck, a nervous habit. "Hey, uh... can't find my jacket. You seen it?" His tone…