@batsittter said: ❛ I think I’m just gonna head home. ❜ ( from the good place sentence starters. )
despite herself, she’s hovering in the doorway, silhouetted by the light pouring through from the kitchen and the living room onto the front yard. they’re starting to pack, which is part of why steve’s even been around. joyce, in the end, needs all hands on deck to handle all the kids coming around to help pack everything up. she tried her best to keep him from helping too much, and directs dustin and most of the other kids to be helpful and not annoy steve too much, but he still looks exhausted by the end of it.
she chews on her lip, watching him make his way carefully down the front steps towards his car.
they visited him a few times in the hospital, the whole byers family and once along with nancy, trundling down to see him. the hospital still makes joyce sick. it makes her think of will and the fact that modern medicine couldn’t do a damn thing for him, and listening to the slowly improving rattle of steve’s lungs in the bed made her doubly sick.
“ are you sure? ” she isn’t trying to be overbearing. jonathan tells her that she can be like that sometimes, when she isn’t distracted with work and now, that grief so big it feels like it’s gnawing at her, at every piece he can get. “ i mean, ” joyce corrects, “ be careful driving home. you can always... we’ve got a couch, if you’re not feeling up to it. open offer, okay? ”
