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STAINED CLASS (better by you, better than me & its interludes) by palmviolet
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Aug 2024
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Dean knows exactly why he’d pulled Cas out of the Empty. It’s not charity. It’s selfishness. He’d made Cas lose his paradise, the version of life the Empty had created for him with his mirage of Dean, just because Dean was too scared to be alone. Dean had promised Cas that he’d pretend for him. He’d said he’d do whatever Cas needed to be as happy here as he’d been in the Empty’s reality. But Dean doesn’t even know how to be the person Cas thinks he is.
Either Cas is lying, or his standards are impossibly low. Cas apparently thought it’d be enough for him just to be near Dean. But that’s not what love should be. It should want something back. Dean’s own feelings are irrelevant. He wants Cas, wants to be someone who deserves him. He can’t have him. He can’t construct a monologue about his reasons for loving Cas like Cas had done for him. He’s pretty sure that holding Cas’s hand would make him combust, after so long subsisting on scraps of shoulder-pats and Cas only touching him to heal him.
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I exhaled. “Organic parts gross me out.”
It was still waiting with its feed open. It said, “So you’ve said.”
There was the weirdest tension in my abdominal area. “But this doesn’t involve organic parts.”
Another beat of silence. ART’s tone changed. “No.”/ART writes a code. Murderbot runs it. Nothing for anyone to get weird over.
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Steve’s never understood why adults always praise him for being a “people person” as if it’s some great accomplishment.
What, like it’s hard?
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Or: Steve Harrington is your average American teenager, he just had to work harder than most to learn how to ignore the emotions bumping into him.
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The pings were all from Overse’s interface and routed from a transit ring called Trans-All, the kind of ping that was just are you in range – are you in range – are you in range. It was a call for help and it fucking terrified me, because I was answering it way, way too late.
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Ratthi goes missing. Pin-Lee isn't used to losing. Murderbot isn't used to having anything to lose.