@fxndomadventures sent from Eddie
" i... i don't care what happens to me. i didn't care what happened at all. but then you started yelling, and now... now i realize that i care quite a lot about what might happen to you. "
"You know sometimes I think that yelling at you is the only way to get anything through that thick fucking skull of yours! I was scared to fucking death! I care what happens to you, Eds, okay? I care a fucking lot--" Richie stopped himself from saying more. Saying things he still couldn't let himself say. Eddie was married. Whether Eddie loved her or not wasn't the question. He was married. And Richie might have been a lot of fucking awful things, but he would never be That Guy intentionally.
"We all care, Eddie." Rich took a breath, lowering his tone. If he yelled anymore one of them would start crying, he knew it.
"So if nothing fucking else... think about how hurt we were hearing about Stan. Something happened to him. That he did to himself. I can't do that shit again."