( and that's all it takes. the carefully constructed wall steve had built in an attempt to keep up this façade comes crumbling down and he's closing the space between them, moving to join eddie where he sits. )
You remember, ( he manages before he's pulling eddie into a desperate kiss. he'd just spent the last two weeks in a miserable spiral, positive that eddie was lost and suffering and there was nothing he could do to save him. now here they are, with a second chance and no explanation as to why. this shouldn't even be possible.
you can never go home, they'd said. you can never go home because you'd never left it. if you even tried, you'd be obliterated. steve had been filled with a hopelessness like he'd never known these past two weeks. and now...
he breaks the kiss just so he can get a look at eddie properly, his hands cupping either side of eddie's face as he looks him over. they're both filthy. they smell. it's definitely a far cry from their cushy existence on the ship, torture aside.
steve doesn't think he's ever been happier. )
You were gone. I thought he sent you to the Nothing. I thought — ( he stops, too choked up to continue. he doesn't want to cry, not when the others could come bursting back in at any moment, but he'd been so certain he would never see eddie again. this whole thing is a risk they're going to have to get used to but steve can't part from eddie just yet. he wraps his arms around him tight, buries his face in eddie's neck, and allows himself to shed a few tears of relief, just this once. )
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You remember, ( he manages before he's pulling eddie into a desperate kiss. he'd just spent the last two weeks in a miserable spiral, positive that eddie was lost and suffering and there was nothing he could do to save him. now here they are, with a second chance and no explanation as to why. this shouldn't even be possible.
you can never go home, they'd said. you can never go home because you'd never left it. if you even tried, you'd be obliterated. steve had been filled with a hopelessness like he'd never known these past two weeks. and now...
he breaks the kiss just so he can get a look at eddie properly, his hands cupping either side of eddie's face as he looks him over. they're both filthy. they smell. it's definitely a far cry from their cushy existence on the ship, torture aside.
steve doesn't think he's ever been happier. )
You were gone. I thought he sent you to the Nothing. I thought — ( he stops, too choked up to continue. he doesn't want to cry, not when the others could come bursting back in at any moment, but he'd been so certain he would never see eddie again. this whole thing is a risk they're going to have to get used to but steve can't part from eddie just yet. he wraps his arms around him tight, buries his face in eddie's neck, and allows himself to shed a few tears of relief, just this once. )