Jun 23, 2023
Everytime i stop worrying about something ive been worrying about for a while~ i think everything is ok for like a minute. BUT something else horrible immediately comes along for me to worry about. The horrors never end
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Everytime i stop worrying about something ive been worrying about for a while~ i think everything is ok for like a minute. BUT something else horrible immediately comes along for me to worry about. The horrors never end
I still have to pay my rent,,,
Loop seventy nine, Eddie accepts it.
He’s read enough science fiction, he’s read enough fantasy, and he’s spent enough hours high off his ass rambling to friends about the implications of time travel to have a better than average understanding of it, even before his understanding of the universe tore open on his ceiling. There’s a few theories.
The first is that time travel into the past is impossible, no further questions necessary.
The next is that time travel is only possible to the future, and that the traveler could never return; a one way trip.
One argues that travel into the past could happen, but it would be impossible for the traveler to change any event.
The last argues that if someone travels into the past and changes things, it splits off the timeline into a new thread, and the original continues as it was before.
None of them make sense for a time loop where the events change around him. Not just butterfly effect. New changes separate from what he does keep happening. He spent enough time testing it after making Henderson brainstorm with him in loops nine through sixteen to be sure that yes, he can change events, but it’s not just him changing things. None of the others know it’s happening, even though Eddie cornered everyone. Other things change, even if Eddie is identical to the loop before, but he’s the only one who remembers.
The bats get through faster. The ceiling of the trailer collapses. The gate tears open.
So on loop seventy nine, once again lying on the ground, bleeding and crawling to get over to Dustin, Eddie accepts it.
Dustin was always too smart for anyone’s good, and this time, he saw something, maybe the despair of knowing what was coming on Eddie’s face. Before either of them touched the rope, Dustin ran to distract the bats. And no shit Eddie followed. Eddie knew how bad it hurt, and he never wanted Dustin to feel that.
He’s never let it happen before. Seventy-eight times in a row, he kept Dustin safe from the bats no matter what it cost him. This time, Dustin ran and Eddie followed.
The bats fell, the fight ended.
And Eddie started dragging himself to check on Dustin.
There’s less blood on the ground than it takes to kill Eddie, but by the way the kid is shaking and grey, Eddie already knows.
So yeah. Loop seventy nine, Eddie accepts that this isn’t a loop. This isn’t time travel. There isn’t some magic combination of duck and slash and run that is going to save himself and save the day. He’s not going to defeat Vecna. He’s not going to get out of this alive. Everytime he opens his eyes, it’s a fresh countdown to dying all over again. Eddie isn’t going to end this, because there’s nothing to end.
It’s not a loop.
Turns out the Christians were right about him.
This is what he has to look forward to from now on.
Dustin trembles in his arms, saying something dumb about the dice being unlucky, trying to make Eddie laugh, even as the kid smiles with bloody teeth.
This is the first time Eddie watches Dustin die.
This will be the last time Eddie watches Dustin die.
He’s in hell, and this is his eternal reward, and he can’t change much, but he is never going to watch this -- he is never going to let it happen again.
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I... am not sure if there will be more of this. but I'm putting a tag on it, just in case.
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