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If you put a gun to his head, Eddie might say it started the day Max walked down those stairs in tottering heels, eyes dark and lips red, and asked, ‘What do you think? Is it too much?’
Flick off the safety and he may well admit that it was more likely when they were in the hospital together, hours spent at each other’s bedsides, long after visitors had been turned away.
Rest your finger on the trigger and Eddie would eventually utter the truth, brittle and trembling—that really, truly, it had all begun long before that. Before the Upside Down, and Vecna, and Chrissy Cunningham.
It had started with the first winter snow gathering on the ground. With fogged up windows, and the outline of a snowman, and a shared smile covering the small eternity between them.