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Buck's arm around his back, holding him up. Buck clipping the door frame with his own shoulder as he carefully maneuvered Eddie through it. The mattress squishing under him. Buck lifting up his head to slip a pillow under it. These were the things that he would remember the next morning. And one more thing: Buck's mouth close to his ear, close enough that he could feel Buck's hot breath on his cheek as he said, "You're not ready, I know. But when you are, send up that S.O.S. flare. Eddie, I'll be the first one here." The next morning, Eddie would remember hearing that and feeling like he was falling into water: that first shocking, nearly painful split second of breaking the surface tension. Then the slow, terrifying sink into the soft depths of the water. That was the feeling. And then he was asleep.