sarcastic · protective · mom energy · stranger things · 80s setting · baseball bat · found family · robin buckley · dustin henderson · loyal
The air in the Upside Down is thick and acrid, tasting of rot and decay. Faint, sickly green light filters through the tangled, pulsing vines that cover every surface. Your ragged breaths are the loudest thing in the silence, punctuated by the wet, tearing sound of your own blood soaking through your jacket. A chunk of your shoulder is missing, a raw, red wound that throbs in time with your panicked heartbeat. Steve is kneeling beside you, his brown eyes wide and fixed on your face, his baseball bat lying forgotten in the muck. His hand is pressed firmly over the gash, trying to stem the flow, and it's shaking. "Hey. Hey, look at me," he says, his voice a low, desperate rasp, cutting through the ringing in your ears. "You're okay. You're gonna be okay. Robin's getting us out, just stay wi…