@hellxfireclub​  asked: ❛ It’s four o'clock in the morning, what are you doing? ❜ (from Eddie) [X]

@hellxfireclub​ asked: “  i thought you left.  ” (Eddie to Billy? You don't have to answer if you don't want, of course. ;D) [X]

Billy had had every intention to leave. It wasn’t something that was supposed to happen, it wasn’t something he was supposed to be doing. The voice inside his head was screaming at him, an echo of his father, and he tried his best not to flinch as he remembered being shoved against a wall and slapped into his face. The last thing Billy needed right now was for Eddie to see him flinch at something that wasn’t there, even if those memories were always so vivid in his mind that he could almost never turn them off. 

"you aren't supposed to be here." (Billy @ Eddie - this wasn't on your meme list and i made it up but you know! stuck in the upside down together maybe? :3)

  “Wh-- Billy?!!” He sat up from where he had been laying in what appeared to be his own blood, and those of the bats he had tried to kill. Eddie did not know how long he had been out cold, had thought he had even died... Didn’t he? Those tears from Dustin. It was foggy, but he remembered those, and how upset he was for what was happening. To be fair, he did not know what was happening, and why he felt so disorientated.

Though, he never expected to hear that voice, or to see him, again. The disbelief was prominent on his face as he made to stand, and even that was difficult to do. “What is -- How are you-- I mean.” He cleared his throat, trying to play it cool. Since, he wasn’t sure if this was just him hallucinating, or something else. “Yeah, I guess I’m not... but looks like I can’t escape, either. Pretty sure the others all left by now.” He still did not know what was going on, and why he felt strange, but attributed it up to being so fatigued from fighting as long as he did.

he’d  lost  count  of  the  days  he’d  been  hiding  away  in  dustin’s  basement.  it  was  far  from  ideal,  but  while  they  were  all  working  to  try  clear  his  name  he  had  nowhere  else  to  go.  back  in  the  upside  down  when  the  demo  bats  had  got  to  him  he’d  thought  he  was  a  goner.  eddie  had  been  fully  prepared  to  die  that  day  -  to  buy  his  new  friends  more  time.  to  protect  dustin.  eddie  had  never  had  a  little  brother,  but  if  he  did  he’d  imagined  this  would  have  been  what  it  was  like.  his  wounds  were  still  healing,  but  over  time  he  was  feeling  better.

@hellxfireclub​ asked: “  i don’t need to be understood.  i just want to be accepted.  ” (Will @ Jon)

Jonathan nodded at his brother. He knew that anything he said would only take Will so far towards accepting himself, to feeling that acceptance. He sighed deeply. “Well, you know I’ll always accept you. I mean that, no matter what. I can’t control the world but I will always be here to accept you when it doesn’t.” Wasn’t that the definition of family, after all? To be a place you could go when the world was cruel?

[ lean ] — sender leans against receiver in a state of exhaustion (from Robin)

Steve glanced over at his best friend in concern as she leaned against him while they were at work, raising an eyebrow over at her. She had learned to be more vulnerable when Steve and her were alone, and had known that she never had to hide her feelings from him, but a public place like Family Video still caught him off-guard. He figured he was so used to her sarcastic attitude and feigned confidence of their Scoops Ahoy days, so he knew something had to be particularly bad for her to risk looking exhausted in public.

"Need to talk about it?" No asking what was wrong, no asking if she was okay, because he already knew both of those answers. He looked around the video store, noticing there were only two customers currently, and they both seemed pretty pre-occupied with finding the movies they were most likely going to watch that night. He looked over his shoulder, finding Keith rewinding returned movies.

"Keith, we're taking our break early!" Steve shouted, Keith about to open his mouth to protest, but he was already pulling Robin back into the break room, and locking the door for good measure. Keith wouldn't be able to leave the floor anyways, now being the only employee out there. Steve instinctively moved towards her, pulling his best friend into a tight hug, face burying into her hair. "Is it nightmares again? You look drained, Rob. Maybe you should go home early for the day."

@hellxfireclub​ asked: ❝ could we cuddle, like, platonically? ❞ (from Steve because he's bipanicking lol)

                  HE   WAS   TAKEN   BACK   BY   STEVE’S   WORDS.   CHOCOLATE   HUES   WERE   wide   as   always.   They   were   welcoming   and   warm,   glancing   up   at   Steve   where   he   sat.   Eddie   wondered   what   would   cause   him   to   say   something   like   that.   A   nightmare?   Just   remembering   all   they   had   been   through   in   that   Hell   of   a   place?   Either   way,   it   looked   as   though   he   could   need   some   comforting.      

               A   SLENDER   BROW   ARCHED   AS   WITH   HIS   SHOULDERS   SHRUGGING,   “   YOU   wanna...   cuddle?   ”   he   said   slowly,   “   Platonically?   ”   he   nodded   his   head   just   as   slowly   as   he   spoke.   None   of   that   really   made   any   sense   to   Eddie,   “   You   do   realize   that   it   doesn’t   always   mean   that   people   are   a   thing,   right?   ”   confusion   slowly   left   his   facial   features,   and   it   faded   into   amusement.