( The moment Steve opens the door, Eddie finds himself deflating, practically collapsing against Steve in what is probably a far more intimate manner than their friendship would allow for. But out of everyone, Steve is the one he turns to, maybe because nobody knows that he and Steve hang out regularly. Maybe a part of him hopes that Steve won't think him crazy, might even understand when he tells him the wildest story that, if he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he would think completely insane.
He says nothing at first, fear still gripping him too tightly to make out words coherent enough that Steve would understand. Instead, he clings tightly to Steve and lets himself be guided into the doorway so that Steve can close the door and he can have his breakdown with at least some sense of privacy. Eventually, he calms down enough where he trusts his voice to not be broken by sobs or by hyperventilating. )
I...I didn't know where to go, I. Shit, Steve, I --
( He can still see Chrissy's emotionless face, Chrissy just standing there, frozen in place, eyes completely white. How Eddie had tried to wake her, shake her, but nothing snapped her out of it until finally she floated above him, pressed against his ceiling, with the sickening sound of bones cracking and the terrifying visage of that girl who just wanted to buy some drugs to help her sleep through the night contorted until she looked like one of the monsters in his Dungeons & Dragons handbook. )
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He says nothing at first, fear still gripping him too tightly to make out words coherent enough that Steve would understand. Instead, he clings tightly to Steve and lets himself be guided into the doorway so that Steve can close the door and he can have his breakdown with at least some sense of privacy. Eventually, he calms down enough where he trusts his voice to not be broken by sobs or by hyperventilating. )
I...I didn't know where to go, I. Shit, Steve, I --
( He can still see Chrissy's emotionless face, Chrissy just standing there, frozen in place, eyes completely white. How Eddie had tried to wake her, shake her, but nothing snapped her out of it until finally she floated above him, pressed against his ceiling, with the sickening sound of bones cracking and the terrifying visage of that girl who just wanted to buy some drugs to help her sleep through the night contorted until she looked like one of the monsters in his Dungeons & Dragons handbook. )
You're never gonna believe me.