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Hi hellow THANK YOU for the aks
Do you prefer the beginning, middle, or end of a story? Middle! I always struggle to do intros and world building, and wrapping up a story makes me sad lol. But I got boundless PLOT for the middle parts lol
How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them? Oh so many. Like a lot. More than several. Hmmm... I've been thinking a lot about the college au I've been working on that had nb reg and trans James and so much angst and pining and wolfstar and past jily and maybe some future jegulus. Ask me again when I didn't just get home from getting my wisdom teefers out and I'll find a snip to share!
Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride? Scandals probably. Or NEMS (the uni au from above) because that is my magnum opus and I shoved all my HCs in there for everyone and there just so much I want to happen there yk? It'll be wild. It is will and I only have a chapter and a half written but in said chapter and a half there's at least three bjs so like... They're all having a good time before the other shoe drops in chap 2 lmao
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Something’s off. Steve notices it as soon as he gets home. It’s nothing major, really, but something’s definitely off. There’s this weird silence in the hallway, instead of the usual metal that Eddie is basically blasting 24/7 whenever Steve isn’t home. There’s the absence of Olly showing his little face around the corner of the door to the kitchen upon hearing Steve coming in. There’s also the absence of some crazy scent explosion emerging from the kitchen like on a usual Tuesday evening.
Steve calls out Eddie’s name, questioning, not sure if he should be worried.
“Here!”
He releases a relieved breath and gets into the living room. Eddie is his usual messy self, wild curls hanging over one end of the couch and feet wrapped in colorful socks over the other, with Olly curled up and purring on his chest.
“Hey there,” Steve says. It isn’t until he comes closer to lean down for a kiss on Eddie’s forehead, that he notices something is most definitely very, very wrong. Eddie’s eyes are swollen and red-rimmed, salty traces covering his cheeks and used tissues scattered all over the floor next to the couch. His hands are clenching into Olly’s fur, his chest is heaving unsteadily.
Eddie looks up at Steve, blinks once, twice, to get the water out of his eyes, a fresh tear rolling down his cheek.
“What happened, love?” Steve covers Eddie’s hands with his own, creating their familiar pile of Olly-Eddie-Steve, his thumb stroking over the back of Eddie’s hand.
Eddie takes a deep, shuddering breath, squeezes his eyes shut for a second. “Wayne’s sick.”
XXX
The thing is, Wayne has always been the strong one. Always. He was the arms that caught Eddie, the hands that wiped away his tears, the lips that kissed his bruises better despite his prickly beard. And now he’s - frail. There’s simply no other word for it. And Eddie doesn’t think he’s ready to be the strong one yet. That’s not how it’s supposed to be. Of course he knows that Wayne isn’t some immortal being, that he’s lived a life of harsh physical labor and cold Indiana winters, of canned beans and breakfast cigarettes since he was only a boy... But this is different. This isn’t how it was supposed to go. And Wayne knows that, too.
“I always thought it was gonna be my lungs that’d do me in,” he tells Eddie.
Eddie never thought of his uncle as an old man. But now, sitting next to his hospital bed, both his hands clasped around Wayne’s, he sees it. He sees the lines on his forehead, the near-white shade of grey of what little hair he has left on his head, the tired look in his eyes, the age spots scattered all over his arms...
Eddie releases one of his hands to wipe over his eyes. He feels another pair of hands squeezing his shoulders from behind him, reminding him that he isn’t alone, that there’s still someone else who can be the strong one when Eddie can’t.
He takes a breath.
“Nothing’s doin’ you in, man,” he manages to choke out, strengthening his grip on Wayne’s hands. Those strong, calloused hands, that have lived through so much. The hands that caught him countless times. The hands that held him tight whenever he needed it. The hands that wiped away his tears. The hands that fixed his van. The hands that ruffled his curls. The hands that held a fishing rod like a pro. The hands that tirelessly drilled holes in walls and assembled furniture when Eddie moved out of the trailer and into the apartment he and Steve got in Indianapolis. The hands that are currently resting limply on top of white hospital sheets. Frail hands.
“Ed...”
“No, I’m serious,” Eddie says. He’s always been good at running. No way in hell he’s gonna stop that habit now. "You're gonna get better. And when you do, we'll take you back home, okay? Not to Hawkins - to your real home. You, me, Steve and the van, right? You’ll see the mountains again. We’re gonna drive all the way across them, get you back to the other side, ya hear me? It’ll be this great adventure, just the three of us. We’ll stay there for as long as we want to. And then we’ll go back to Indy, and you’ll move in with us, and we’ll take care of you. And you’ll be there when we get a real house, you’ll be there when we get our first little nugget, and every next one of them, and you’ll get to play with them and see them grow up and see us goin’ grey and gettin’ old and wrinkled and fat, and you’ll be there when Lord of the Rings gets made into a movie and when world hunger gets solved and when gay marriage becomes legal and when we get our first black president and when The Police reunites... That’s how it’s gonna go, you understand?”
There’s this look in Wayne’s eyes, this look that completely terrifies Eddie, and he can’t do a thing except for collapsing onto his uncle’s chest, breathing in his scent and crying against his shirt as Wayne’s hand tangles itself in Eddie’s curls. And it doesn’t matter - it doesn’t matter that Wayne is weak and sick and lying in a hospital bed. Because he’s still the strong one. He’s still the hands that catch Eddie when Eddie breaks down. Even now.
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They should’ve known that Eddie would be right. Of course they should’ve known. No God can turn down someone as stubborn as Eddie Munson - not even a God Eddie doesn’t believe in.
Wayne missed the mountain air, the perfectly prepared corn fritters, the drool in the voices around him, the natural hospitality. It’s good to be back, to get to share his roots with his boys. But it’s not like coming home. Home is where his own parents moved him some fifty years ago, with dreams of a better future that didn’t quite hold for them. Home is a rickety trailer park that doesn’t have warm water most of the time. Home is the woods around Hawkins, the rolling hills, the chilly autumn wind. But most of all, home is the smile of the boy who took him here. It’s long dark curls and big brown eyes that are currently tearing up because Wayne is standing next to him and getting stronger by the day and very much alive. It’s the memories they share, of Wayne opening his arms to catch Eddie when he was so much smaller than now; of going fishing at Lover’s Lake in the weekends; of cigarette stubs and beer bottles and metal boxes that Wayne chose to not know the contents of; of laughter and crying and fear and comfort and a whole shared lifetime, a boy growing up and still needing to be caught again and again and again.
And Wayne still does it. He still catches his boy. His two boys, now. And he’s planning on keeping to do that for a long, long time.
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Reg: I'm in love with the *idea* of you. I'm not in love with *you*.
James: aren't you, though? What is it you love?
R: the way your voice sounds after you come. That you wash yourself in the shower literally from head to toe, starting with your hair and always ending with your feet. That you are incapable of driving without reaching over to hold my leg every five minutes.
J: those ARE me though. Not an idea. Those things are just me. All my idiosyncrasies. Like how you act cold but turn into the clingiest barnacle in the afterglow of sex, that you keep your hair shaggy so you can run your hands through it when you're nervous, which is a lot, that you never seem to be able to name your emotions but you feel them so deeply all the same. Like right now. And I think- I think you DO know what you're feeling, you're just too afraid to admit it to yourself lest it become too real. I think you're afraid to feel anything at all because you don't think you can handle that heartbreak. But you're going to anyway if you never let anyone in. Let me in, reg, please.
R: I- I can't. I can't be like you. You feel everything so much and everyone can see that and- and i-
J: you can. You can let people see how much you care. And I know you do. Letting others see that isn't a weakness. It's a sign of strength.
R: what if I'm not strong like you.
J: you are, I know you are. Look at all the shit you've been through and that led you here. You're so strong reg, now let me see it.
**Quiet**
R: I... *Crumbles* I don't want you to leave me.
J: I won't. I won't, reg, never unless you want me to.
R: I'll never want that.
J: good, because I fear you're stuck with me now.
**Wet laugh**
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Okay but can someone please explain to me why Fizz is set up to be popular by being a clown even though he’s dressed as a jester and the completion that’s a clown competition is just actually a singing competition that has nothing to do with actual clown shit????
Like Glitz and Glam were hot and their song was good but??? The whole point was it was a clown competition? And that they should be funny right? Like??? What even is this?
Like haha the joke of fuckface being sexist by saying girls aren’t funny but the competition was once again just about being sexy and singing actually so why the clown and circus motifs if you don’t actually do any circus shit?
Like it was a great performance but it had nothing to do with what the competition was suppose to be? And don’t tell me that’s the point and how the industry changed because that wasn’t what the story was trying to tell.
Like I’m just confused
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