Pre-buddie getting together, I want Abuela, Pepa, Sophia, and Adriana to be invited to a 118 bbq. Maybe Sophia and Adriana are visiting and Eddie wanted them to get to know the 118. Chris had shown Buck a tiktok a couple of days before where a woman calls his husband by his full name in front of his family and everyone’s reaction was so funny, so he decided to try at the bbq.
Everyone is chatting in different parts of the yard, having a good time. Pepa and abuela are sitting at the table with Athena, Bobby, and Karen. His sisters, Maddie, and May are standing while talking lively. Eddie is sitting on a picnic blanket with Chris and the other kids. Buck comes out the house, raises his voice, deep and serious, and in an almost perfect accent goes “Edmundo Diaz!”
Everyone stops talking immediately. Eddie’s frozen, jaw on the floor while looking between his family and Buck, not knowing what to say. Abuela, Pepa, Sophia, and Adriana start looking at each other, too. The 118 doesn’t know what to do. Pepa goes, “Eddie, qué hiciste ahora?” (Eddie, what did you do know?). Adriana starts laughing, basically bending over from laughter. Sophia’s smiling and says, “Someone’s in trouble. Chris let’s go inside, leave your father to his fate.” Abuela gets up and walks towards the house, tapping Eddie on the shoulder and encouraging him, “suerte, mijo.” (good luck, son) Eddie genuinely doesn’t know what to do. Let’s out a small, “I didn’t do anything” to his abuela.
When the 118 also start standing up to leave, Buck finally says its a joke that he saw on tiktok. Sophia and Adriana start laughing again. Sophia says, “Eddie, neta, pensé que hoy dormías en el sofá.” (genuinely, I thought you were sleeping on the couch today) Pepa’s helping Abuela go back to the table but tells Buck sweetly, “whatever it was, I was on your side, Evancito.” Then, Abuela turns to Eddie and tells him “Pórtate bien, Edmundo!” (Behave, Edmundo!)
Eddie laughs it off, telling Buck that that scared him shitless and to not scared him like that again. Ultimately, he let’s it go and everyone goes back to their conversations. However, his family’s reaction stays on the back of his mind. He and Buck aren’t dating [yet]. He has just recently started to admit to the possibility of having feelings for Buck, not even at the sexuality crisis stage of it all. But his family reacted like it was the most normal thing in the world. Like Buck already had that spot in Eddie’s life and they welcomed him fully. And Buck had accepted their affection, ecstatic they were on HIS side. He did always fit well with Eddie’s [his] family.
everyone sees steve crawling out of the back of eddie’s van at the end of his lunch period every day his last sememster and it starts two rumors:
the first is that eddie and steve are fucking.
the second is that steve is addicted to drugs.
the truth is that eddie found steve asleep on his park bench in the middle of the fucking woods the first day back from Christmas break and was like, “dude, no. what the fuck.”
so now eddie spends his lunches eating sandwiches in his driver’s seat, mumbling to himself and trying to ignore the sleeping jock in the back.
Famous Eddie Munson who is in a public long term relationship with normal guy Steve Harrington.
Eddie Munson who’s known to be a “Wife Guy.” He’s obsessed with Steve Harrington and it’s enduring.
That is, until a photo of him and a random pregnant woman makes rounds on Reddit and it goes viral.
Everyone is so disappointed to learn that Eddie is nowhere close to the wife guy he pretended to be.
And they let him know.
There’s nasty tweets sent to him. There’s comments all over his personal Instagram account. There’s even comments on the corroded coffin band account.
“He doesn’t deserve you.” “You fumbled so hard!” “Wow. Just wow!” “Fucking loser!” “So disappointed!! Burning my merch!!” “How DARE you sing ‘My Knight’ on stage and then pull this shit!!”
The worst part? The girl could pass as Steve’s sister. She’s got the same golden brown hair, tall, freckles.
Everyone is quick to take Steve’s side, but it’s hard to see how he’s taking it. His social accounts have always been locked. He doesn’t answer message requests. But fans continue to show support, in hopes that he sees.
“Sue his ass, Steve!” “Date me instead!” “We love a Single King!”
It’s like this for days across social media platforms. Everybody hating on Eddie and showing support for Steve. But there’s radio silence from the both of them — even corroded coffin hasn’t mentioned a thing.
That is —
Until Eddie posts a photo of him and Steve in the hospital, holding a baby in their arms. Both of them look so happy and in love — nothing like what the fans had expected to see.
The caption reads:
“Thanks @ RobinBuckley🔒 for doing all the hard work for @ StevieHarrington1🔒 and me.”
(Steve’s username is StevieHarrington1 because he got locked out of StevieHarrington and didn’t remember his password so he just started over)
Wayne gets off work and finds some kid wandering around a parking lot covered in bruises and nearly in tears because he can’t get the lid off a bottle of ibuprofen, and just takes the kid home.
He never really gets a clear answer out of the kid about where he lives or anything other than being worried about pissing off Hopper and his head hurting, so he stops trying.
He puts the kid to bed on the couch, leaves Hopper a nasty voicemail, and then stays up as long as he can manage to make sure the kid doesn’t die in his sleep.
This is how Eddie wakes up a couple hours later to find his uncle slumped over in a chair and Steve “The Hair” Harrington asleep on the couch.
