title: haunted house with a picket fence pairing: steve/eddie word count: 48,614 chapters: 6/9 summary:
When he looks out into his yard, holding aloft the bat like itāll do something, he sees Eddie looking up at him, soaking wet and hair plastered against his face, skin soft in the moonlight, and then Steve blanches, moves back a step. āWhat the fuck, Harrington,ā says Eddie, eyeing the bat, somehow cheerful, āthereās no way thatās going to do any damage from up there.ā
The familiarity of Eddieās toneāthough thereās nothing normal or familiar about this interactionāhas him moving back to lean out his window, propping up the bat to look down at Eddie. āWhat are you doing?ā he hisses.
āI wantedāI wanted to see you,ā says Eddie, after a pause, and Steve thinksā
Well, Steve feels it wash over him, the wanting, and aches.
* or, it's 1983, & steve keeps remembering things that haven't happened.