[ steve doesn't think much about the state of hawkins as they speed through it, seeing the breaks and splits in the road as obstacles to get through rather than things to update eddie on. because honestly? honestly, the town is in tatters, panic and mass evacuations, missing people, bodies. steve supposes he'll need to tell him about the earthquakes, the high school, the chaos. but right now, it doesn't feel like it matters - none of it matters. his entire world feels limited to this single car, and a destination laid out in front of him.
( he doesn't know what it means, how okay with that concept he is. how part of him wishes they could just stay here forever - in this car, surrounded by shadowed trees, his headlights the only thing pushing them forward. eddie, who is definitely staring at him, who is living and breathing and looking at him, and steve... he's kind of okay with it. with this. with whatever this is. )
steve feels a bit sick, when eddie says yeah i think so. feels his hands tighten around the steering wheel. there's really no reason that it should hurt this much, hearing eddie's side of this, dustin getting to him, feeling nothing at all. he hates even thinking about it, which makes it that much easier to focus on the next bit of information, to feel his face scrunch up even as his eyes are on the road. ]
No? That's all she said? Just no? [ steve almost asks who, but eddie just said he didn't know. and because that doesn't make any sense. like - it is crazy, right? crazier than normal? though steve might not have a great handle on what that's supposed to even mean, these days, with a crater fully quartering off the entire town.
and maybe he should be taking that into account. how this is crazy, yes, but everything is always crazy. this isn't the first time that steve's entire world view has been turned on its head, and it probably would be the last. if anything, it's the sound of eddie's groan that worries him, how the laugh can barely hang on. it tightens something inside his ribs, something painful and protective, but steve just keeps driving. keeps wishing he could either go faster, or that he lived closer.
which of course means eddie asks him exactly what steve wasn't even thinking about. about the shell around them, the chaos he and the others have been trying to work through for the last day or so. steve sighs, keeps his eyes on the road. ]
They're calling it an earthquake, but something must have gone wrong. The gates opened and cut through town - four segments, just like we were afraid of. I don't know if it actually happened, because he's not...you know. Here? Vecna, I mean. But something happened.
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( he doesn't know what it means, how okay with that concept he is. how part of him wishes they could just stay here forever - in this car, surrounded by shadowed trees, his headlights the only thing pushing them forward. eddie, who is definitely staring at him, who is living and breathing and looking at him, and steve... he's kind of okay with it. with this. with whatever this is. )
steve feels a bit sick, when eddie says yeah i think so. feels his hands tighten around the steering wheel. there's really no reason that it should hurt this much, hearing eddie's side of this, dustin getting to him, feeling nothing at all. he hates even thinking about it, which makes it that much easier to focus on the next bit of information, to feel his face scrunch up even as his eyes are on the road. ]
No? That's all she said? Just no? [ steve almost asks who, but eddie just said he didn't know. and because that doesn't make any sense. like - it is crazy, right? crazier than normal? though steve might not have a great handle on what that's supposed to even mean, these days, with a crater fully quartering off the entire town.
and maybe he should be taking that into account. how this is crazy, yes, but everything is always crazy. this isn't the first time that steve's entire world view has been turned on its head, and it probably would be the last. if anything, it's the sound of eddie's groan that worries him, how the laugh can barely hang on. it tightens something inside his ribs, something painful and protective, but steve just keeps driving. keeps wishing he could either go faster, or that he lived closer.
which of course means eddie asks him exactly what steve wasn't even thinking about. about the shell around them, the chaos he and the others have been trying to work through for the last day or so. steve sighs, keeps his eyes on the road. ]
They're calling it an earthquake, but something must have gone wrong. The gates opened and cut through town - four segments, just like we were afraid of. I don't know if it actually happened, because he's not...you know. Here? Vecna, I mean. But something happened.