(God. Eddie understood that feeling intimately. He never thought he deserved his friends. It really didn't take a lifetime at all to understand these simple facts.)
We do. Bill's really good at taking care of all of us. Richie's really good at taking care of me in particular. He's always there when I'm freaked out or being stupid.
(Bill was incredible, and he definitely was like his brother, but Eddie hardly wanted to undersell how important Richie was too. All the Losers were important, but Eddie would be lying if he said he didn't have a particular bias and closeness with Bill and Richie that he didn't have with the others. Either way, he was glad that this man seemed to understand how these things worked.)
I'm glad you and Frank can take care of each other. I think adults forget a lot of the time that they don't need to be alone just cause they're grown up.
(It was nice to know that adults could have friends like that too. Especially after what Eddie and the others had seen of their futures. Being adult had once seemed so hopeless, but looking at David, Eddie wonders if maybe it wasn't so hopeless after all. It makes him feel...light. Good.
This winds up making Eddie smile genuinely.)
I'll do my best then. I promise.
(Eddie puts his device away then and offers both his hands out to David, palms up. On each palm there was a star burst of scarring, three straight lines crossed on each palm, counting to a total of six scars total between his two hands. A visible sign of Eddie's devotion and strange sort of magic that Eddie himself was unaware of. It might seem like a strange gesture, maybe, but Eddie was looking up at David expectantly.)
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We do. Bill's really good at taking care of all of us. Richie's really good at taking care of me in particular. He's always there when I'm freaked out or being stupid.
(Bill was incredible, and he definitely was like his brother, but Eddie hardly wanted to undersell how important Richie was too. All the Losers were important, but Eddie would be lying if he said he didn't have a particular bias and closeness with Bill and Richie that he didn't have with the others. Either way, he was glad that this man seemed to understand how these things worked.)
I'm glad you and Frank can take care of each other. I think adults forget a lot of the time that they don't need to be alone just cause they're grown up.
(It was nice to know that adults could have friends like that too. Especially after what Eddie and the others had seen of their futures. Being adult had once seemed so hopeless, but looking at David, Eddie wonders if maybe it wasn't so hopeless after all. It makes him feel...light. Good.
This winds up making Eddie smile genuinely.)
I'll do my best then. I promise.
(Eddie puts his device away then and offers both his hands out to David, palms up. On each palm there was a star burst of scarring, three straight lines crossed on each palm, counting to a total of six scars total between his two hands. A visible sign of Eddie's devotion and strange sort of magic that Eddie himself was unaware of. It might seem like a strange gesture, maybe, but Eddie was looking up at David expectantly.)