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Dustin was only there in fragments. Pieces of himself that he played up in an attempt to shove aside his real feelings. They called those fragments his masks, and they never knew which mask he would hide behind on any given day.
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Dustin refuses to talk about how utterly broken he feels, and hides behind six different masks. The Party is worried about him and wishes he would just talk to them.
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Just a lil exploration of the way Dustin might’ve coped in those 18 months after Eddie’s death.
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For a second, she was confused as to why Dustin had the letter she wrote to Steve, but then she looked at it, really looked at it, and that definitely wasn’t her handwriting. That’s when she noticed that the letter was just the first one in a whole stack. She picked them up and flipped through them.
Steve. Mom. Lucas. Mike. Will. El. Suzie. Robin. Nancy. Erica.
Some part of her had a pretty good idea of what those letters were. Though another part was refusing that thought steadfastly, desperately searching for some other logical explanation.
Until she got to the last letter.
Max.
And she knew. She knew without a doubt what those letters were going to say. But her mind couldn’t wrap itself around it - didn’t want to.
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Max finds out Dustin has written some letters of his own.
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They saved the world on a Friday, and Max knew that the day after was a Saturday, but every day blurred together, and time didn’t feel real. It could have been hours, days, or even weeks; she wouldn’t know. She was still stuck there, that Friday, watching the Upside Down disappear, taking El with it.
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“Want me to go in with you?” Steve asked, while helping her out of the car and into the wheelchair. Max nodded, because, yeah, she didn’t want to do this alone.
And she wanted to get better, she really did. She wanted nothing more than to wake up knowing what day it was - that it wasn’t still Friday.
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Max has a long road to recovery, but luckily Steve is there to drive her to and from physical therapy and cheer her up on the way.
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Then, when sobs turned to sniffs, and hammering hearts turned to steady beats, Steve tried to lighten the mood and put on his best teasing voice.
“You know, maybe you should practice your running? Get a little faster so you can outrun the monsters instead of tripping. You should join me on my next run.”
And it was nothing but a joke, yet for some reason, Dustin agreed to it, and he looked so eager to do so that Steve couldn’t find it in himself to admit that he wasn’t serious.
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Steve and Dustin have a heart to heart and then they go for a run? Fun times.
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Mike hadn’t known how much Dustin was struggling until he found himself hurting in the same way as him. They meet up at the quarry to keep each other company through their grief and maybe eventually they heal.
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Dustin talks and Mike listens, but somewhere along the way he starts to understand.