Steve Having Siblings Much Older Than Him Gives Me Life

Steve having siblings much older than him gives me life

in a shocking turn of events, steve harrington has siblings. quite a few actually. and in another turn, steve isn't even his first name.

in fact, it's his third.

finding this out was a shock, especially since it wasn't from steve that everyone found out.

steve was in the bathroom fixing his hair when the phone rang, and he shouted down to robin who was in the living room to go ahead and answer it.

"hello, harrington residence?"

"uh. can i talk to eli, please?"

robin paused. who the hell is eli?

"um, sorry. there's no eli here..." she trailed unsurely, moving to hang up the phone.

"oh sorry. uh, steve. can i talk to steve? it's his sister, marianne."

robin almost dropped the phone, steve had a sister?

"oh, sure. one second."

she covered the phone with her hand and called out for the boy. "steve! your sisters on the phone!"

she didn't get the response she thought she would, because he called back, "which one?"

"marianne!"

and suddenly he was beside her, grabbing the phone and shooing her away.

while he spoke to his sister, robin made herself busy, grabbing steve's walkie and alerting the rest of the party of the new development.

"guys. steve's name isn't steve, it's eli! and he has siblings! plural!"

the cacophony that this statement caused was almost overwhelming, and by the time steve was done talking to marianne, eddie, dustin, and the rest of the rugrats were at the door begging for explanation.

steve was confused, until eddie looked him in the eye with a smug glint and breathed, "hey, eli." and the time it took for steve's face to turn cherry red was record breaking.

"uh. what? why- uh. why did you call me that?"

robin looked at him blankly, "i answered the phone, dingus. marianne started asking for eli."

steve sighed, "okay so like. here's the thing. Steve is my middle name- well one of them. and i only go by eli around family." the group stared. "we didnt know you had a family." dustin said flatly.

"well i had to get here somehow." steve retorted, and eddie chuckled. "he meant we didn't know you had siblings, eli."

"okay. don't call me that, and yeah. i have six, im the seventh. everyone else is a lot older than me."

his audience was placated with that answer, for now at least.

and when everyone but eddie left, the house was filled with breathy sighs of "eli." followed by soft giggles.

and soon they weaseled out his full name. which turned to be a resounding "Eli Reginald Stefano Harrington. The third."

followed by a shocked,

"The third?!"

learning how to become fluent in pet names with the girls

Eddie: and now sir Stefan you will face the most dangerous sceme of all… AN MLM

Steve: oh you mean like gays? I have to be gay?

Eddie: wait a minu-

Steve: is this like a support group thing? Or like gsa? Do I just have to date a guy? Can I do that?

Eddie: Stevie hold on-

Steve: omg can I be dating that hot rocker elf with curly hair? Actually can we be secretly married? Omg with a dog that I named after my hot rocker elf husband.

Eddie: no-

Steve: wait I can’t? why not?

Robin: yeah Eddie why can’t sir Stefan have a happy life with his husband? That’s seems kinda homophobic of you ngl

Steve: yeah Eddie! stop being homophobic and let me and my hot rocker elf husband live in peace!

*Breathing heavily* I need a fic of this

Steve is ABSOLUTELY the “drug dealers girlfriend whose the passenger seat princess ™” and just liked going on little adventures when Eddie goes to sell. Is more than thrilled that date night is stopping by a couple parties and a few dudes houses, 7-11 runs, and eventually making out by lovers lake. Give this boy a hickie and a slurpee and its a fucking movie as far as he’s concerned.

Eddie is the plug whose always in a rush bc “I left the boyfriend in the car man what do you want make up your mind”. The “takes Stevie everywhere like a little dog”. The “babe you got me a slurpee 🥺 a-and a red velvet cookie?🥺” the “making out with Steve at the mouth of someone’s driveway”.

Argyle is the final girl, from all of them he is the one with most possibilities to survive

give it up for our man argyle who:

let jonathan vent his heart out and so generously shared all his weed

gave jon, will, and el rides to school every day

did a whole airport pickup for them and mike

called mike a shitty knockoff and put him in his place for being so fake with will while also being cool af about it

did his best to reassure el about the skate attack

saved the cali crew's asses from being shot to death

stole his company vehicle

had a man die in the backseat

had to bury mans body

made him a gravestone

had a thing with susie's sister eden and hotboxed in the van

identified the tracks leading to NINA and el

came up with the plan and secured them the Nevada surfer boy pizza location for their rescue mind mission

made a delicious pineapple pizza and got mike to have yet another fruity experience

put up with those two backseat boys with MAD ATTITUDE towards him the whole time, always questioning and rolling their eyes

probably paid for insane amounts of gas and food cause hes the one with a job

DROVE THEM ACROSS THE COUNTRY TOWARDS THE LITERAL GATES OF HELL

can actually identify edible and psychedelic mushrooms WHICH WILL PROBABLY SAVE THEM in the coming apocalypse

ALL with a smile on his face (minus the brief, REASONABLE freakout), a great attitude and not even asking anybody to worry about how HE'S getting home, paying for this shit, and explaining this to his parents and/or the cops if he gets caught for burying a DEAD BODY, running from the military WITH their fugitives, and stealing his work vehicle.

the guy is an absolute hero and he does it all with rainbow socks, long luscious hair, and a joint in hand. legend.

Eddie likes how sweet and protective and kind and brave and every other nice quality about Steve Harrington. But he also loves how truly bitchy and catty his boyfriend could be. Like especially after both of them make the brave (and truly dumb choice) to be open about their relationship in a small town like Hawkins. Steve’s parents had already disowned him and everyone already thought Eddie was a freak so hiding seemed stupid.

Like they went into a diner for lunch and some guy that used to be on the swim team with Steve made some homophobic comment about Steve only being on the swim team to stare at naked guys in the locker room. Of course, Steve was quick to belittle him and embarrass him in front of his girlfriend, picking him apart with knife like words.

Same thing happened when some girl around their age made some shitty comment about Eddie being a freak and murderer and her friends laughed. She graduated with Steve. He proceeds to tear her down with ease, picking apart her makeup and hair care routine and her entire fucking personality.

It was truly wild for Eddie to see the shift from his nice, sweet baby girl boyfriend to an absolutely devastating mean girl. And he couldn't help but love how the sharp hurtful comments shoot out of Steve's mouth when they are aimed toward would-be bullies. And if that meant Eddie would pull him into the nearest dark empty spot and show him how much he loved that mouth, so be it.

Because Steve was sweet, kind, amazing, but Steve is also a bitch.