What It Took To Keep You Breathing
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Relief flooded him, so strong his knees almost buckled. Dustin was on the ground, kneeling—or crawling?—near the wire fence surrounding the trailer park, the demobats scattered around him. Steve thanked the heavens as he approached. Dustin seemed relatively unharmed, upright and moving, but where was—
"Steve, help!"
Steve went breathless in shock, and this time his legs gave out completely, as he crumpled to the ground. Dustin wasn't crawling—he was doing chest compressions. And there, splayed before him in a mangled mess of torn skin and pooling blood, was Eddie.OR Steve saves Eddie’s life, but the aftermath leaves him shaken. With the town sealed off, they’re trapped in a new reality of quarantine, grief, and feelings that grow harder to ignore.
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- Part 1 of What It Took To Keep You Breathing
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Dustin’s favorite line floated back to him, never tell me the odds. Eddie got it now. Really got it. Because knowing the odds—feeling them—was something else entirely. It wasn’t just numbers or logic. It was this looming, invisible countdown pressing in from all sides, ticking toward something you couldn’t stop.
And his odds? Well. They weren’t looking great.OR As the fight with Vecna draws near, Eddie lingers in the calm before the storm, tracing the shape of a future that seems to be slipping just out of reach.
prequel to What It Took To Keep You Breathing but can be read as a standalone, still mostly canon-compliant
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- Part 2 of What It Took To Keep You Breathing