For Monster Fighting and General Wellbeing Purposes
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Steve’s holding Eddie’s hand—limp, the blood’s not even sticky anymore, his rings are caked, glued to his frigid skin; but Steve can’t help it.
He can’t not hold Eddie’s hand.
“Are you ready to accept the evidence in front of you?”
No. No he’s not because if he accepts it, then it’s true. If he accepts this then—
“You lost, Steven,” and Vecna comes to him as a flickering thing in his vision, half veined and vine-riddled, monstrous, and half a thin blond man: same monster in a different suit.
The shuddering image of him looks like bad reception on a television screen: that’s honestly maybe more terrifying than either on its own but.
Steve thinks he’s kind of beyond terror.
—
In which they lose the final standoff. Everyone’s gone. Vecna has Steve at his mercy. And it’s all Steve’s fault, he wasn’t enough, he failed them all—
But being at Vecna’s mercy means maybe…nothing’s as it seems.
By default.
(Or: Steve gets Vecna'd. All bets are off.)
UPDATE: now with one of the kids having a say for themselves about the prospect of losing Steve.