( by some miracle, eddie doesn't get thrown back to the exact moment he was pulled from. it's disorienting as fuck, but luckily he didn't get thrown into some alternate timeline so it's relatively easy for eddie to play along.

the shitty part of it all is not knowing whether it's just him here that's aware of what happened. did steve manage to get sent back as well? or was he being given a chance, now, to change his destiny? that would be pretty fucking cool, but it could be just as likely that this is meant to trap him for all eternity. maybe the captain found a way to torture him by making him go through this again and again and will use the negative energy or whatever it is.

until they get to the war zone, and instead of going inside, steve stays behind. that causes eddie's eyes to widen tremendously as he lets himself hope. this isn't eddie changing the trajectory, this is steve. )

Jesus fucking Christ, I'm hanging on by a thread, man. ( he wants to hope so much that this is the steve that's been with him on that damn cruise ship, but a tiny part of him reminds him that maybe this is the steve from his own timeline that also got sent back after eddie died. maybe this steve doesn't know how he feels at all.

so he plays it safe, for now. even though his hand is itching to take steve's right now, itching for some kind of anchor to ground him and reassure him that it's all going to be okay. )

How are you doing, though? Those, uh. Those look gnarly, maybe we should stop somewhere for some clean bandages.