They Get To Have THEIR Future (finally)
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Steve really does try not to think about it in terms of…time.
Maybe that’s foolish. It’s mostly denial. Lots of it isn’t reliable anyway: the score his body keeps isn’t accurate, too many near-misses with a fucking alternate dimension skewing the results.
It’s been four years. Roughly. Depending on what the start point is. Whether it’s that Spring Break, or the first winter. Or the spring after, when Robin begged him to go with her—there’s still time. Maybe it’s measuring from the graduations, the kids—only Erica’s left at Hawkins High, now. It’s…that could be where the time starts from.
Or it could be the summer, that first summer. The one that taught Steve what it was to have a heart, just to fucking break it.
Could be that. Impossible to say.
(It’s been 3 years, 7 months, and 14 days. Steve had only counted in retrospect, in the wreckage left behind, because while he’d known there was a deadline in it, to it all, he’d thought he could be enough. That he could change a mind. He’d thought…
Foolish things. Bullshit. Didn’t matter.
Could be any fucking date.)
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Or: Eddie gets the fuck out of Hawkins. Steve stays behind. It’s not even messy—until it kinda is.