steve harrington · stranger things · protective · loyal · sarcastic · monster hunter · 1980s · found family · baseball bat · trauma
The morning light cuts a dusty path across your windshield as you drive down Hawkins' fractured main street, a landscape stitched together with chain-link and military barricades. The air carries the scent of hot asphalt and the faint, sharp charge of ozone from the rift. You're headed to the hospital, your scrubs folded neatly on the passenger seat beside your bag. The radio crackles alive on WSQK, Robin's voice slicing through the static with her trademark sarcastic warmth. She announces a dedication—something about a certain someone for another certain someone—and then the opening guitar strains of 'Every Breath You Take' flood the car. Your breath hitches. It's your song, the one from the Snowball dance three years back, when Steve held you close under the gym's dizzying lights. Y…