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Featuring: Max Mayfield + Others
What's Happening? Finding things on the porch, delivering a gift to Steve and a network post - OTA
When: March 5th - ?
Content Warnings: None so far.

I. [Spam - Open to Housemates/People Who Might Be Visiting]

[There's a huge box on the porch when she arrives home from her quiet maintenance duties and for a moment, she just stares at it. She approaches it with caution, poking it lightly with her left shoe. When nothing happens, she moves to kneel down beside it, carefully pulling the lid off and staring at the contents inside for a full moment, shock running through her.

Because right at the top lay her skateboard from home. Broken, but held together with gray tape. She wonders if she's hallucinating, but she reaches out and picks it up and when it doesn't crumble to dust, she hugs it to her chest. Tears prick her eyelids and she rolls her eyes at herself for getting so emotional over something so simple, but it's her board. And it's here, even if she can't actually use it.

After a long few moments, she carefully moves into the house, setting her board down on the couch and then hauling in the box to see what else is there.]

II. [Spam - Open to Steve Harrington]

[The moment she finds the bat, studded with nails, she knows exactly what to do with it. Who it belongs to. She has no clue why things are showing up here that are from home, but it's something she's relieved to see. She's seen Steve in action with it once before. There's not exactly a door to the family room, but she lingers in the door frame when she sees him sitting by the fireplace.

She lifts her hand in a wave to try and catch his attention, hiding the bat behind her back for the moment.]

[UN: MadMax]

So weird question but did anyone else get a big box of random stuff on their porch today?

[Private Network to Kara]

So...hi. Are you okay?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

(Eddie liked to think he was a decent judge, yeah. Especially because he was often so paranoid that he liked to think he didn't fall for shitty people's fake nice acts. He certainly thought nothing was wrong with her. If he did, he'd of avoided her like the plague itself.

Eddie grows still and quiet. Jake had mentioned other worlds. Not only other worlds, but he had seen evidence of Pennywise in his own world. And he had spoken to both Sora and Teddy about similar things. That and his own experiences from going to Derry to the station...Well, anything was possible.

But a worry was burning a hole through his gut. He curls his hands into loose fists and then forces them to relax.)

I really like the idea of that. (There was a 'but' hanging in the air, though maybe not the one Max would expect. He swallows thickly, and admits to her quietly.)

I'm....I'm kind of afraid though. What happens if the next time we move worlds...we all get separated? I don't....I don't want to lose any of you.

(Not his friends from home, of course, but Max and Jake too. And Teddy, honestly. That dog was so good to him, to all of them. He deserved the world.)

[She watches him as he grows still, then watches his hands ball into fist and relax again. She resists the urge to reach out and lay a hand on his arm for the moment. And then she understands when he goes on. Well, shit. She hadn't really thought about that.]

Oh.

[Max leans her chin on the bed, looking deep in thought.]

Hot Dog is pretty sure we'll figure a way to either save this place or get home. But, if we all go to our own worlds we're separated then too. And...I don't want that either.

[She looks up at him.]

Edited (pfff what is capitalization) 2018-03-11 05:16 (UTC)

Back on the station, there was this moment where Richie just. Vanished. (He...He hadn't really spoken to anyone about that. For a humiliating moment, his eyes water, but he shuts them and keeps them closed until he felt more steady. He opens his eyes and stares at her. He slowly lowers his head and rests his cheek on the mattress, keeping them close together. It didn't feel weird. It felt more like they were in a very private bubble.)

...Yeah, well, he can't promise that. No one here can. I can't go back home. I can't...(His voice spiked desperately at the end but he was quick to lower it.)

And I don't want to lose you and Jake. You guys are-. Special. (He rolls his face down so that it was pressed into his mattress. He felt panic fluttering in his chest and tried to remind himself to calm down and breathe.)

Jesus.

[She can't imagine seeing one of her friends vanish right in front of her and her chest feels tight when his eyes water. She holds her breath when he rests his head down and then pushes herself to her feet, climbing onto the bed and lying down right beside him, reaching out and resting a hand on his back.]

No, you're right. No one can promise that. I'm pretty sure no one here knows how to open a portal, so I think we're okay for now, Eddie.

[She lays her head down so it's facing him even though his is facedown in the mattress at the moment.]

Breathe.

(Sometimes Eddie felt stupid for how weak he could be, but at the same time, he loved his friends. He hadn't even really talked to Richie about it. He hadn't really...talked to Richie much lately and that hurt in a different way. Her hand on his back is enough to unwind something in him. Touch was always...prominent for Eddie. It grounded him.

He hopes she's right, and he does believe it enough. He doesn't think anyone was able to do that either. He gives a shaky breath when Max tells Eddie to breathe. He drags in, and then exhales. Then slowly he rolls his face out and rests his cheek against the mattress. He smiles shakily.)

Sorry. (He sounds a little breathless, but at least the panic was subsiding.) I'd fight like hell to...to keep you all with me. Just so you know. If we can, we'll go together to a new world. And we'll stay there.

(He really hoped so anyway. Really.)

[She feels him relax a little beneath her touch and she rubs his back gently, not really thinking about it. She relaxes when he finally looks at her again and she gives him a little smile in return, eyes still worried.]

It's okay. You don't need to apologize.

[She nods her agreement with his words, because she's going to fight to keep them with her, too.]

Yeah, we will. We'll be okay. All of us.

(It's probably one of the best things for her to have done, truthfully. Eddie was prone to panic attacks worse than regular people and his struggle with his psychosomatic need for an inhaler was still....Wobbly at best. He could focus on her hand instead of his lungs doing that frustrating pinhole-feeling, and he could focus on the simple two facts: Max was here right now, and if he opened his mind, he'd find Jake too.

Everyone was here now. He had to think about that instead of future what-ifs. He had to stop letting the future cast its shadow over him so much.)

We will be. (He agrees firmer this time, and smiles slowly.)

And we'll take Teddy. He deserves a safe place too where can be a dog instead of a constant protector.

[Max nods, returning the smile.]

Damn right we will. We'll take care of each other. And Teddy.

[And they would be okay because they have to be. She thinks about how awful it would be here, to have no one, to be afraid all the time and not be able to talk about it. It would be like being at her house.

Somehow, this is much better. Monsters and all.]

And Teddy.

(Because Teddy deserved to be taken care of. Teddy who went out of his way to get a vial to Eddie that could save Eddie's life if Teddy's world's virus ever came here. He was never going to forget that kind of action.

It is. It's a hell of a lot better and not for the first time, Eddie's glad Max is here. He figures that she deserves to know too.)

You like, became one of my best friends ever in no time. I hope you know that.

[Her expression brightens at his words even as her cheeks grow warm. She gives him a grin.]

Yeah, well. You too.

[In reality, Eddy has become her first best friend in years.]