Jan 7, 2020
getting better at becoming a ghost by thecopperkid ( @the-copperkid )
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“What? You’re not scared, are you?”
“No,” he answers, indignant, but he doesn’t even convince himself. “No, I just --”
“You know what they say about fear, right?” the voice asks. “That it’s almost indistinguishable from arousal. That your body can’t tell the difference.”
“They don’t say that,” Steve says, poking his head out the door and looking left to right. He’s just fucking exasperated. “Nobody says that.”
“I say that.”
Steve gets a Scream-style call while he's babysitting the kids on Halloween night, and right now would be a really good fucking time for Billy to get home from work.
Billy likes masks.
