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Steve gets a tattoo.
Eddie knows that cling film plaster patch anywhere. The thing is, no one is talking about it. Steve just shows up at the next get together with his damn bicep wrapped and NO ONE says a word.
So Eddie doesn't either, still too tentative in their friendship.
No one elaborates, no one mentions it. Days turn to weeks, and Eddie learns to ignore the burning question he has. They're still as close as ever, but he never does actually catch a glimpse of that tattoo.
He almost forgets about it.
Until he's on stage.
He's finally made it on stage, with his boys beside him, he's finally getting back his life, better than even before the bats had tried to take him out.
He's just adjusting his guitar, tweaking the strings, when he looks up into the crowd Jeff is hyping up and sees him.
There, amidst the crowd is Steve. Though for a second, Eddie can't recognise him.
His hair is styled differently, a faux hawk with the sides pressed down. Bold black-lined eyes peer up at him, crinkling at the sides as Steve smiles.
He's got on the leather jacket he and Eddie had thrifted a month ago, only the sleeves are gone, ripped off to show his arms, his guns. Boy are they guns, holy shit he loves Steve Harrington's arms.
Except, something breaks his line of vision, a streak of black along the skin.
Steve's not so far from the stage that Eddie can't see it. In fact, it's big enough that it's all Eddie can see right then.
Red and black glisten on that bicep, mimicking the very guitar he's holding, crossed over with that nailed bat that he's all too familiar with.
He looks up at Steve again and the fucker blows a kiss at him, as if he's not wearing a fishnet mesh under the leather vest and he doesn't have Eddie's guitar melded onto his skin.
Eddie plays the best damn show of his life.
He's got a boy to ask out after.
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