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Mary Harrington finally gives up one day, boards a plane home alone knowing that her husband is likely already in bed with a woman ten years younger than her. For the first time in her life, she doesn't feel hurt. Only mildly disgusted, maybe with herself too.

She arrives in Hawkins to ruins that are slowly getting rebuilt, smoke almost cleared, and weird whispers about her son and his new friend, the trailer trash Eddie Munson. Something about being too close, too intimate for two men. She feels the familiar disdain, the words "what would your father think" - and then exhales and lets them go. She is past caring about Richard Harrington.

Instead, she sits down with them. She is honest, she was in love once and she knows those eyes - Steve's look like her own, after all. Behind the adoration, she sees the darkness in Steve's face, the pain, and thinks - I couldn't fix my husband, but I can fix this. She gently asks them both if anyone has been giving them trouble. When she hears several familiar names of local God-fearing women, she laughs for the first time in what feels like forever. "Leave them to me," she says.

She stops by for coffee. Chats a little. Gently opens the topic of the rumors about her son. And then: "I understand, Linda. Homosexuality is a sin. What a funny thing, one could say the same about fucking my husband last spring. Of course, it's been so long...I'm sure your husband knows?" One by one, the rumors quiet down and Mary's smile grows into its old radiance.

The first evening back, she summons all the remaining rage, disappointment and sadness over wasted years, poking at old wounds until she's sobbing. And like that, she calls Richard and wails into the phone how everything is destroyed, their house almost gone, and gently guides Richard to the brilliant idea of signing over the small flat in the center he's been renting to Steve. She knows Richard has no patience for her emotions, and she sobs out how Steve has been fixing the town, how he'd become everything Richard had ever wanted, a true pillar of the community, but he has nowhere to sleep, oh how it's breaking her heart, what would the town think-

He promises to send over his lawyer the next day. She thanks him through the tears, says one last "I love you" and with the click of the ended call, dries her tears and pours herself a glass of wine. "How did I do?" she asks.

Steve just laughs and hands her a cheese plate he's been preparing in the kitchen. He nudges Eddie who is staring with wide eyes. "What?" asks Steve with a smirk. "You've always admired my bitchiness and pragmatism. Where do you think I got it from?"

The flat is signed over the next day. Mary kisses her son and Eddie goodbye - she would go back to her parents for a while, she says, just to get the divorce finalized. Plus, one of her old friends still seems interested, her being the one that got away and all that, and Mary intends to test that theory. She will keep in touch, she says. And for the first time, Steve believes her.

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i love my baby

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suddenly, i’m in love with you

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i need him bad bad bad

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him.

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i am not okay

i need an inhaler

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Djo

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Djooklyn

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ooh la la

that’s the spot

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djoc

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djo a bossy dom

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AU where Eddie asks Steve why Tommy is so salty and Steve is like:

“Oh yea, we dated.”

Eddie just stares at him slack jawed “huh?”

“Did you not know this?”

“Is this why you thought homophobia wasn’t real? Because you thought you were out with Tommy?”

“I mean, everyone knew and nobody ever gave me issues when I was with Tommy.”

“I’m calling Nancy right now and asking if she knew because I bet she did not.”

“Of course she did.”

\/\/\/

“Nancy, did you know Steve dated Tommy?”

“What?!”

Eddie gives Steve a smug look “That’s all Nancy, thank you.” Eddie says through a smirk before hanging up the phone.

/\/\/\/

“So me being caught getting actively blown by another dude was just what? Completely heterosexual activities?” Steve squeals disbelievingly.

“Perks of being Hawkins Golden Boy, everyone ignores you’re a flaming queer.” Eddie pauses. “You put too much work into your hair and clothes to ever be 100% straight.”

Steve makes a face that looks like Eddie had just spat on his shoe.

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djo songs are so unserious. This guy will write the most heart-wrenching, extistential piece about insecurity in one’s identity and being perceived by others and just calls it Egg

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