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Summary
The problem is that once you know it's there — the world that lurks under the world — you can't ever go back to being normal again, no matter how much you want it. No matter how desperate you are to just go back to being the man (the boy) you were before. Sometimes, lying awake in the middle of the night, tracing the ragged scars on his side, the echo of the friction burn around his throat, Steve finds himself thinking back and back, past Family Video and Scoops, Ahoy!, back to when the most important thing on his mind was whether Nancy Wheeler actually wanted to make out with him. When he was still King Steve. When he could hide in that, and feel safe.
He thinks about how, sometimes, his head feels heavier without a crown.
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Since everything that happened in the Upside Down, Steve hasn't been able to get Eddie Munson off his mind.
Series
- Part 1 of These Latter Days