#we trying

MYTHOS -- excerpts from a very angsty Steve oneshot that I can't stop trying to perfect

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Most importantly, he knows when his usefulness has reached its peak.

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"Yes. If it means they live, then yes. I'd die for them a thousand times over."

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Thick thorns sprout at broken angles, latching into the soft give of the carpet, through the plastered on wallpaper into the drywall underneath.

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His resolve quivers. The years of fighting weigh on him. His entire life spent fighting, fighting for love in people who never loved him. Fighting for people who always left him behind. Fighting to be noticed, to be admired, to be wanted.

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"Oh, Steven, you really are so easy."

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Steve grips the bat in both hands, flexes his fingers around it, feels it practically vibrating with warmth, radiating through his entire being.

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This was hard choosing which sentences to use! Wanted to tease a few things :) sorry steve is suffering so much in this one <3

COMPLICATED -- excerpts from a semi-abandoned Robin POV fic where she's tasked by Steve to come help cheer Eddie up post s4

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Can't a town have some time to breathe?

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One of their main features. She scans across the table to the back, where a stack of other Ringwald features sit -- Related Ringwalds as Keith had called it, with all too much smirk to his voice.

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Most of Main Street is still deserted, none of the shops open, most of the efforts diverted toward the school to help people get back on their feet.

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"...Patrol duty?" Robin walks over, stops a few feet before them, maneuvering the tricky bag situation she rigged up for the ride over in her arms.

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"Look, just come over, okay? You don't have to bring anything. Just come help me annoy him into accepting our attention." Steve pauses.

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"I know you think I'm this like magical feel better fairy, but honestly, I think I should hang up that title and start slinging cones again."

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"Chocolate? Gummy?"

Steve coughs slightly. "Um. I don't know."

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"Alright, Munson, what's your movie vibe?" Robin glances around the store, eyeing the shelves of videos.

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Tim Curry. Tim Curry. If he's queer, Tim Curry.

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"Everything okay? Apart from making me feel like the world's shittiest best friend?"

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Does Eddie even like movies? Fuck, she's stupid. She heard "feel better" and booked it to movies like she does for Steve.

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I struggled a bit on these, but my personal favorite is the Tim Curry line :) it makes me cackle in and out of context

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