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🪐 — steve harrington ;
bones feel too big for his skin, one hand reached out with the wallet, the other making patters between his pocket, his hair, his thigh. there’s no way to stand normally when he wants to throw up, when he cannot remember why he even thought this might have been a good idea in the first place. but @musecraft is still looking at him and waiting for words to fall. ❛ you dropped this. ❜
TO BE GRACED WITH HIS PRESENCE AGAIN after long weeks spent avoiding each other is a little bit overwhelming. the anger & hurt & longing is all mixed up inside, & it wells up to the surface when steve approaches him. a his hand is extended out toward him, tommy’s wallet between his fingers. it’s not much of a peace offering. but for once, he’s sick of fighting, at least with steve. they were supposed to be on the same side, after all. ❝ thanks, ❞ he mumbles, dark eyes stuck on his former best friend’s all-too-familiar face as his hand closes around the well-worn leather. ❝ you didn’t have to do that, dude. ❞
🪐 — podrick payne ;
no other choice but this, no other path he would take even if he were given the option a thousand times before. there is almost laughter when @musecraft asks why, when her gaze lands on him as if she sees the entirety of his soul. for her, always for her. ❛ there are things you do only for love. ❜
SHE’D KNOWN BEFORE SHE ASKED, but she would never tire of hearing the sweet affirmations from his lips. & luckily, it seemed mo matter how many times she asked, her beloved never grew cross with her for being asked to repeat himself. ❝ well of course, i knew that much, ❞ margaery teases, her face smiling & her tone joyous as she clings tightly to podrick’s arm. ❝ but what i meant was, why me ? what have i done in this life that could possibly warrant such a fine love — from such a fine man ? ❞
🪐 —open prompt sent by @artereis / podrick ❛ i hope that you’re okay . ❜
SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ELATED. everything her family had worked for since the day she’d been born was finally within their grasp. after two failed attempts at making a strategically beneficial match for her, at last margaery had secured a betrothal to the eldest son of the royal family. she would be queen; it was her grandmother’s dream realized. but in spite of her family’s undeniable victory, there was a heavy weight that had settled in her stomach, a sense of dread that only grew more & more intense as her wedding date approached. & when podrick was standing before her, it became almost overwhelming. her breath caught in her throat & margaery began to despair — how could she marry another when her very heart felt as though it was trying to burst from her chest whenever podrick was nearby ? but it was not her choice to make; this was her duty to her family. her head held high in resolve, her lips curl into a well-practiced smile, though in her chest her heart is split open & aching. ❝ of course. it’s my honor to be of service to my family & to the kingdom. ❞ it wasn’t truly an answer to his question, & margaery hopes that it goes unnoticed — or does she want him to notice the false note in her voice, that somehow he will hear the truth behind her carefully measured words ? even she cannot say for what she hopes.
🪐 — STEVE HARRINGTON.
oceans of empty space; to know someone that well, have them feel like they’re another part of him, only seems to mean that the ability to read them doesn’t leave. he sees every flicker of emotion as it plays out, feels it punching deep in his stomach, an emptiness, an aching. it’s easier not to look tommy in the eyes, but that only leaves him staring down at the worn wallet, the way their fingers seem so close for a moment, like he could flex his and close the gap between them, like there’s a simple way to make this right. ❛ it’d be a dick move if i made off with your wallet. ❜ he lets go. pretends he doesn’t feel the way the space becomes more palpable, the opening up of a wound that’s still bleeding. it drops and he counts the specks of dirt on his shoes, kicks them into the ground as a way to keep moving, swallows back a sickness. ❛ be careful, yeah? someone else might have. ❜
ANGER ALWAYS COMES EASIEST to tommy, but something about steve makes it hard to hold onto his aggravation. what had transpired between them had been real shit, & it had hurt like it — but there was still so much more that lingered beneath that. & whenever steve was near it wasn’t anger that rose up in his chest, but something much more painful : regret. ❝ yeah, they might. but you wouldn’t. ❞ tommy chews his lip, fighting the instinct to fall back into his place at steve’s side. they’d been best friends for so long, two halves of one inseparable unit. they’d known each other better than anyone. & maybe they don’t know each other like that anymore, but tommy likes to think that he can still read steve. the way his eyes remain fixed on the ground, the way his shoes scuff in the dust — it’s obvious to anyone who really knew him that there’s something else steve wants to say. & maybe he’s wrong, but maybe what they had hasn’t been entirely pushed out to make room for nancy wheeler. ❝ hey man, you think you might wanna come over again sometime ? no big deal, but maybe we could just hang out. like the old days. ❞
🪐 — STEVE HARRINGTON for tommy !
fear clogs in his throat, heavy, leaving him breathless as the situation unfolds. there’s a certain unluckiness to the way they end up in these situations, a worry that has set up inside of his stomach and remains there in residency, never fading even when the world is meant to fall to safety. there’s something strange about @musecraft, something off that he cannot quite explain, except that it lingers, heavy in his stomach. ❛ you doing okay, tommy? ❜
THERE’S SOMETHING ELSE IN HIS BRAIN, but he can’t figure out what. all tommy knows is that he feels wrong, everything off, the world a little bit slanted. his head hurts, & there’s a ticking in his ears that he can’t figure out where it’s coming from, an unfamiliar chime played on a loop. & then, all at once, steve’s voice cuts clean through everything else, tommy’s eyes going clear as they land on the familiar face. ❝ steve ? ❞ awareness of where he is returns slowly, tommy rubbing at his eyes with the back of his hand as he tries to clear his thoughts. ❝ uh, honestly man, i don’t really know. ❞ he feels better now, but the strange sensation lingers, his breath still coming a little shallow into his lungs. ❝ please tell me you have some kinda idea of what’s going on ? ❞