[ Most successful retreat in recent history, 10/10. If Steve thinks brainwashing is a real legitimate concern they need to have, he's just gonna not say anything about it. Eddie clearly has enough to deal with. Besides, if they get brainwashed they won't even be worried about it anymore. ]
No we're not actually coming back to apologize! Screw that.
[ Eddie asking extremely valid questions and Steve being like how dare you even think that. God, maybe he shouldn't be getting all exasperated at the dead guy just because they're in a messed up situation.
It's a net positive that he's here. And another net positive that anyone's here, but also a negative, but Steve doesn't want to get into all the bullshit moral math at play right now. If he does that, he'll have to think about how convenient it was that he was making a stink and then Eddie Munson showed up, who happens to be someone he'd want to stick close to, who is familiar enough that he knows he's a solid, trustworthy dude, but he doesn't know well enough to tell if he's like a pod person.
(Does the guy seem off? Weird? For sure. But Eddie was already weird, to his memory. Like, Robin weird, kind of Dustin weird. Very talky, very anxious, very smartassed. That's holding up. He looks like he's fresh from demobat hell, so that's gonna add to the whole... energy either way, so.)
Steve doesn't wanna deal with any extra paranoia right now, honestly.
Call a spade a spade until it stops being a spade. Here there be Munsons. He'll drag him back to Dustin and his uncle and his, his nerd club friends. In one piece. ]
One, only option. Two, I can't promise I'll have a thousand answers. [ Now, is there... a non-awkward way to say...? ] But it's, uh. It's good to see you, man. For the record.
[ There is not a non-awkward way to say that. RIP. ]
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No we're not actually coming back to apologize! Screw that.
[ Eddie asking extremely valid questions and Steve being like how dare you even think that. God, maybe he shouldn't be getting all exasperated at the dead guy just because they're in a messed up situation.
It's a net positive that he's here. And another net positive that anyone's here, but also a negative, but Steve doesn't want to get into all the bullshit moral math at play right now. If he does that, he'll have to think about how convenient it was that he was making a stink and then Eddie Munson showed up, who happens to be someone he'd want to stick close to, who is familiar enough that he knows he's a solid, trustworthy dude, but he doesn't know well enough to tell if he's like a pod person.
(Does the guy seem off? Weird? For sure. But Eddie was already weird, to his memory. Like, Robin weird, kind of Dustin weird. Very talky, very anxious, very smartassed. That's holding up. He looks like he's fresh from demobat hell, so that's gonna add to the whole... energy either way, so.)
Steve doesn't wanna deal with any extra paranoia right now, honestly.
Call a spade a spade until it stops being a spade. Here there be Munsons. He'll drag him back to Dustin and his uncle and his, his nerd club friends. In one piece. ]
One, only option. Two, I can't promise I'll have a thousand answers. [ Now, is there... a non-awkward way to say...? ] But it's, uh. It's good to see you, man. For the record.
[ There is not a non-awkward way to say that. RIP. ]