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    There’s an odd lurching sensation in the back of his mind, half remembered: as if some vast piece of machinery is gearing up. He had the same feeling when they first met Ben, and then Bev and Mike; when they built the clubhouse; when they stepped through the door of the house on 29 Neibolt Street. A sense of inevitability, of the world bending itself to some unseen will.

    Or: after everything, Richie goes back into the tunnels to bring Eddie home.

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    28 Mar 2026

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    feel some amount of need to add this whole thing to my quotes note but will settle for bookmarking it

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    There are strangers standing on her doorstep, the five of them, with the same shell-shocked expressions, walking open wounds. Four men and a woman, all looking like they’ve been to the edge of hell and back, and she has no clue who they might be.

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    In which Patty grieves her family and a family finds her.

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    31 Mar 2026

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    There are people she needs to call. She takes down two mugs when she goes to pour the coffee. She has to put one back.

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    28 Mar 2026

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    Richie can imagine, and it's awful. It's grotesque. It's as bad as anything the clown ever came up with to torment them. Fierce little Eddie, the spark in him slowly smothered to death, buried in the crushing gloom of Sonia Kaspbrak's house.

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    Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”

    “Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”

    “Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”

    “Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”

    Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.

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    21 Feb 2026

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    “Compromise,” Lucas offers. “You– you stay until Will wakes up, and then you go home. And you take a shower and you maybe eat something if you can, or take a nap– anything. Just– I can’t have you spending every second of the next few days hovering around his bed, okay? I can’t watch that.”
    “You do it.”
    “Yeah,” Lucas says, a bit sadly, “exactly.”

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    Will bites his lip and nods, looking down at his shoes again so Richie won't see how hard he's holding back a giddy smile.

    Everybody in the party knows everything about him. Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to keep a secret from Mike for a little while. 

    It's kind of exciting. Sneaking in a boy Mike hates.

    Will shakes his head, trying to clear Mike from it for the night. Only when he looks back up at Richie, Richie has this conspiratorial smile on his face, like maybe Will isn't the only one eager to piss off Mike Wheeler. 

    OR: the concept of Richie Tozier being Will Byers' dirty little secret and Mike Wheeler being so jealous he can't breathe. Byler endgame.

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    09 Jan 2026

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    yes. yes yes yes

    after reading the finished work: possibly the perfect fic this is exactly what i want everyone take notes!