#hellloooo omg

[caffeinatedomens]

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[townfuckup]

i can't believe you came back, but i'm glad you did.

he's leaned over, the side of body against brick for support. there's some couch throw over him, something given in passing by misses byers while they wait. he's watched the cars pull up, people piling out. he noticed no one travels alone anymore. some of the faces he's seen since, others were wrapped up in the 'quakes' and recovery. all try to put pieces now in place, adjust to the mandates forced on their small town. it's what he's heard on the radios, between passing conversations and waves of coherency between medication. yet today it's the first day he feels like he can stomach less of it.

he remembers the grating tones of excitement that echoed off hellfire's walls. between wheeler's and henderson's endless chatter he seemed to know jane well enough before having properly met her. with some exception's.

wheeler's the last to trail up, his words stringing together in an awkward honesty. it's as if their stories of characters were pulled from the board and brought to life. “ yeah man, ” he forces himself upright, sneakers digging into soil. it drags in the way his body protests, begs for more rest. it's the comfort of familiarity, of seeing his lost sheep found and well. “ me too. ” his hand extends, taking in @subconcern's into his own. it's an simple shake fueled by fondness, desperate feelings that tug wheeler closer to initiate an embrace. the same one dustin had given, awkward at first that settles into something normal like. “ real glad to see you in one piece. ”