[ Also false, she absolutely has, because she's watched Mike get picked up from Hellfire more than once. Karen Wheeler is a babe. Steve should be flattered by the comparison. Ted Wheeler looks like he's made out of library paste. ] it's a compliment! i just said you had nice wrists and that they COULD be considered slutty. not that they themselves were slutty. i mean if you want me to keep going i can list all your other slutty body parts.
[ She will hate his sweaters. Hate them so much she'll want to see one on her bedroom floor. ] hey, i never said it was a bad thing. just that if you go around looking slutty and biteable you gotta be prepared for people to bite you. especially when you give them permission. this one's on you, harrington.
oh baby, you ain't seen a lecture yet, believe you me.
[ Eddie can and happily will launch into a full on hour-long presentation about any topic if given the opportunity. Steve better prepare himself for diagrams about slutty wrists and ankles. ] then what were you angling for?
( Steve feels strangely stupid, now that he is sober, and apparently he tried to hit on Eddie and she took it as invitation to chomp on his forearm instead of what he intended. how do you explain drunk logic when you aren't drunk and have it make any sense. )
My mouth. I wanted you to know what my mouth tasted like. Not my arm.
[ When he puts it like THAT it seems really obvious. Now she's also feeling stupid.
In her defense, she's really not used to boys like Steve hitting on her. Either they're a lot more crass about it — she's been asked for a blowjob while actively selling drugs before, like giving away a service for free in the middle of a cash transaction makes any sense at all — or they look at her like she's some kind of wart-covered toad. She wasn't prepared! ] first of all, you probably just tasted like beer and weed and i know what that tastes like. but also, if you wanted to make out you could have just said!
( somewhere, somehow, Robin can SENSE he's striking out. another tally has been drawn on the "you suck" side. )
I was trying to be... I don't know. Flirty? But now that you've brought up the whole beer and weed thing, probably for the best you decided to bite me instead.
hey, i never said i didn't like the taste of beer and weed.
[ Robin needs to slow her roll, okay, there's still time to get a tally mark on the other side of the board. ] do you need a demonstration? here. watch and learn. hey steve. your slutty little waist and dorky polo shirts have bewitched me. you wanna make out?
( damn. she's good. as always Eddie makes this shit seem so easy!! Steve really thought he was good at flirting with girls, before he tried to flirt with Eddie. )
Yeah, I definitely do. Though, I don't taste like weed and beer right now, if that's what you're into.
[ He can't see her silently freaking out and chewing her fingernails down to little nubs while she waits for his response. Hopefully if he's repulsed now that he's not drunk and/or high they can play it off as a joke.
Hopefully he's not...
Oh. He's not. Okay. Shit. That's great. Nice. ] i think i'll find a way to soldier on through the disappointment.
You think or you know? I could use a bit more confidence on this one.
( he cannot fuck things up with Eddie by taking a risk on a makeout she isn't sure she won't be disappointed by. dustin would LITERALLY murder him. and for his slutty wrists and slutty polos, Steve's confidence just ain't where it used to be. )
fishing for compliments already and you haven't even kissed me yet. is this going to become a pattern, sweetheart?
[ There's like a 0.002% chance she'll be disappointed by Steve making out with her. Even if it's just for the novelty factor, she'll have a good time. And if he's terrible at it, well, that'll give her more ammunition to make fun of him with for the rest of time, so that's a win in her book. ]
[ How could he not be sure if they were compliments? She's not going to go around telling him his chest hair is sexy or something, that would be so weird. ] steve, what part of me biting you makes you think i don't want to kiss you? if i wasn't interested i would have just pushed you out of your chair and told you to fuck off.
sounds like you hang out with the wrong kind of girls, honestly.
[ She'd typed out something a lot more defensive at first but made herself delete it and try again. She's capable of some restraint! Also, she's stuck on the I don't want to screw things up with you part. Huh?? ] look. we'd been drinking. i thought maybe sticking my tongue down your throat would be really awkward for like a million different reasons. sorry for looking out for you.
( welcome to the entire basis of his character arc, eddie )
Yeah, I get it. That it could have gone bad, I mean.
( hence the fact tipsy Steve was the one with the balls to try and make a move. sober Steve is the more responsible one, that doesn't want to ruin a friendship with want kiss pretty girl. that doesn't want to make things weird and uncomfortable when they're sharing Henderson custody and who knows when the world is gonna try and end again. but... it's out there. right? tipsy Steve shot his shot, and sober Steve confirmed it.
so might as well just ask what he's wanted to ask for awhile now. )
It still could be, you know. Awkward. So if you still want to look out for me, you better let me know quick, before I ask you what you're doing tonight.
[ Steve may have fallen off his pedestal, but she spent four years of her life going to school with him, there's still a part of her that looks at him and thinks King Steve, the jock with the good hair and bitchy friends, the mean-girl bullying they'd indulge in with anyone who didn't keep their heads down. He was never cruel to her, not directly, but some patterns of behavior are ingrained early on and hard to break.
Plus, y'know. She's only a mere mortal. Getting rejected by the hottest guy at school — yes, he's not in school any more, shut up — would bruise her ego pretty solidly.
Better to make it weird by biting him. Obviously. ] eh. i'm not really all that responsible. you're sober now, you're on your own.
( honestly she has a point sometimes you just gotta put a boy in his place canines first )
What are you doing tonight? I'm really hoping it is making out with me in the back of the movie theater, but I'd hate to assume.
( unbelievably, he still feels out on a limb on this. despite the bite mark still in his arm and this entire goddamn conversation. it's like he's back in the sailor suit, his chances of failure tallied on a whiteboard behind him. it's just a lot harder to ask a girl out when you already know you like her, turns out. )
[ Also, he did kind of ask for it. ] it's so weird that you say that because that's exactly what's on my calendar.
[ It had been really tempting to extend the what movie? line like she fucking cares what movie Steve wants to ignore. But she couldn't bring herself to do it, too busy being stunned that he actually just came right out and asked her. ]
( thanks SO much for inducting him into biteplay eddie 🥹 /not sarcastic )
Yeah? ( if he's grinning like a dumbass at his stupid magical 80's phone with a texting plan, well, Eddie will never know. it's a giddy sort of relief to get a yes, that's all. that's totally what is happening here. )
[ They are absolutely going to revisit this later. Maybe she'll even throw in some hair-pulling into the mix for fun. ] you tryna say you're embarrassed to be seen getting out of my van or something? what if i want to come pick YOU up?
[ She doesn't, actually, she really wants to see Steve drive his stupid precious BMW into the trailer park to come get her — also, she loves her van, but the engine isn't exactly what she'd call reliable most days — she's just incapable of backing down on any issue without putting up at least a token fight about it.
Also, she's feeling weirdly giddy herself and it's making her overcompensate. ] yeah. that sounds good.
( well steve doesn't have to experiment with that one, he doesn't obsess w/ his hair this much to NOT have it pulled on??? get real )
Don't threaten me with a good time, maybe I'm tired of being the chauffeur all the time. You can drive me to the movies, I've got no problem with that.
( unless she's a crazy driver, and then he might have a problem with that. )
[ Hair pulling + biting = ?? ] no, you already offered. no take-backs. i want the full Harrington Date Experience please.
[ She is absolutely a crazy driver. Why did he think Robin asked her not to drive the RV? Yes, she'd been on the run for days and barely slept and was running on a combination of cheap gas-station snacks and pure adrenaline, but Robin could just tell letting Eddie get behind the wheel was a bad idea.
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Date: 2022-10-05 01:57 am (UTC)it's a compliment! i just said you had nice wrists and that they COULD be considered slutty. not that they themselves were slutty.
i mean if you want me to keep going i can list all your other slutty body parts.
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:08 am (UTC)I'm starting to think it'd be just about anything.
Maybe I'm fine having (maybe) slutty wrists and shirts and waists, you ever think about that?
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:11 am (UTC)hey, i never said it was a bad thing.
just that if you go around looking slutty and biteable you gotta be prepared for people to bite you. especially when you give them permission. this one's on you, harrington.
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:32 am (UTC)( a lot of wasted effort, if that is the case. since the only thing that bothers him about it is that he doesn't really remember that well. )
Just so you know, asking you what I tasted like wasn't angling for you to bite me.
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:39 am (UTC)[ Eddie can and happily will launch into a full on hour-long presentation about any topic if given the opportunity. Steve better prepare himself for diagrams about slutty wrists and ankles. ]
then what were you angling for?
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:57 am (UTC)My mouth. I wanted you to know what my mouth tasted like. Not my arm.
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:03 am (UTC)[ When he puts it like THAT it seems really obvious. Now she's also feeling stupid.
In her defense, she's really not used to boys like Steve hitting on her. Either they're a lot more crass about it — she's been asked for a blowjob while actively selling drugs before, like giving away a service for free in the middle of a cash transaction makes any sense at all — or they look at her like she's some kind of wart-covered toad. She wasn't prepared! ]
first of all, you probably just tasted like beer and weed and i know what that tastes like. but also, if you wanted to make out you could have just said!
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:23 am (UTC)I was trying to be... I don't know. Flirty? But now that you've brought up the whole beer and weed thing, probably for the best you decided to bite me instead.
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:29 am (UTC)[ Robin needs to slow her roll, okay, there's still time to get a tally mark on the other side of the board. ]
do you need a demonstration? here. watch and learn.
hey steve. your slutty little waist and dorky polo shirts have bewitched me. you wanna make out?
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:44 am (UTC)Yeah, I definitely do. Though, I don't taste like weed and beer right now, if that's what you're into.
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:50 am (UTC)Hopefully he's not...
Oh. He's not. Okay. Shit. That's great. Nice. ]
i think i'll find a way to soldier on through the disappointment.
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:47 pm (UTC)( he cannot fuck things up with Eddie by taking a risk on a makeout she isn't sure she won't be disappointed by. dustin would LITERALLY murder him. and for his slutty wrists and slutty polos, Steve's confidence just ain't where it used to be. )
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:51 pm (UTC)[ There's like a 0.002% chance she'll be disappointed by Steve making out with her. Even if it's just for the novelty factor, she'll have a good time. And if he's terrible at it, well, that'll give her more ammunition to make fun of him with for the rest of time, so that's a win in her book. ]
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:56 pm (UTC)( Eddie compliments as weird as she flirts, but, you know. he's like 90% sure. )
I'm just saying you don't have to "soldier through" something you don't wanna do.
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:59 pm (UTC)[ How could he not be sure if they were compliments? She's not going to go around telling him his chest hair is sexy or something, that would be so weird. ]
steve, what part of me biting you makes you think i don't want to kiss you? if i wasn't interested i would have just pushed you out of your chair and told you to fuck off.
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-09 09:15 pm (UTC)[ She'd typed out something a lot more defensive at first but made herself delete it and try again. She's capable of some restraint! Also, she's stuck on the I don't want to screw things up with you part. Huh?? ]
look. we'd been drinking. i thought maybe sticking my tongue down your throat would be really awkward for like a million different reasons. sorry for looking out for you.
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I get it. That it could have gone bad, I mean.
( hence the fact tipsy Steve was the one with the balls to try and make a move. sober Steve is the more responsible one, that doesn't want to ruin a friendship with want kiss pretty girl. that doesn't want to make things weird and uncomfortable when they're sharing Henderson custody and who knows when the world is gonna try and end again. but... it's out there. right? tipsy Steve shot his shot, and sober Steve confirmed it.
so might as well just ask what he's wanted to ask for awhile now. )
It still could be, you know. Awkward. So if you still want to look out for me, you better let me know quick, before I ask you what you're doing tonight.
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:30 pm (UTC)Plus, y'know. She's only a mere mortal. Getting rejected by the hottest guy at school — yes, he's not in school any more, shut up — would bruise her ego pretty solidly.
Better to make it weird by biting him. Obviously. ]
eh. i'm not really all that responsible. you're sober now, you're on your own.
[ Ask her, Steve. ]
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:43 pm (UTC)What are you doing tonight? I'm really hoping it is making out with me in the back of the movie theater, but I'd hate to assume.
( unbelievably, he still feels out on a limb on this. despite the bite mark still in his arm and this entire goddamn conversation. it's like he's back in the sailor suit, his chances of failure tallied on a whiteboard behind him. it's just a lot harder to ask a girl out when you already know you like her, turns out. )
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:49 pm (UTC)it's so weird that you say that because that's exactly what's on my calendar.
[ It had been really tempting to extend the what movie? line like she fucking cares what movie Steve wants to ignore. But she couldn't bring herself to do it, too busy being stunned that he actually just came right out and asked her. ]
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:57 pm (UTC)Yeah? ( if he's grinning like a dumbass at his stupid magical 80's phone with a texting plan, well, Eddie will never know. it's a giddy sort of relief to get a yes, that's all. that's totally what is happening here. )
I can pick you up. 6:45?
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Date: 2022-10-09 10:02 pm (UTC)you tryna say you're embarrassed to be seen getting out of my van or something? what if i want to come pick YOU up?
[ She doesn't, actually, she really wants to see Steve drive his stupid precious BMW into the trailer park to come get her — also, she loves her van, but the engine isn't exactly what she'd call reliable most days — she's just incapable of backing down on any issue without putting up at least a token fight about it.
Also, she's feeling weirdly giddy herself and it's making her overcompensate. ]
yeah. that sounds good.
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Date: 2022-10-09 10:10 pm (UTC)Don't threaten me with a good time, maybe I'm tired of being the chauffeur all the time. You can drive me to the movies, I've got no problem with that.
( unless she's a crazy driver, and then he might have a problem with that. )
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Date: 2022-10-09 10:13 pm (UTC)no, you already offered. no take-backs. i want the full Harrington Date Experience please.
[ She is absolutely a crazy driver. Why did he think Robin asked her not to drive the RV? Yes, she'd been on the run for days and barely slept and was running on a combination of cheap gas-station snacks and pure adrenaline, but Robin could just tell letting Eddie get behind the wheel was a bad idea.
And she was right. ]
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