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“I tried being optimistic. For you, for us, for everyone but what the fuck does optimism do right now? What if this is all bullshit? Just a baseless, stupid, stupid conviction that has no—”
El can’t take it anymore.
She pulls him into a hug, wrapping her arms around him as tightly as possible, and his words peter out into soft, tempered cries, his face pressed into her shoulder.
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Mike and Eleven talk for a little while longer at the cabin, right before El goes to find Will. It leads to a conversation that exposes them both, in a way that they both need.