Steve "Indiana State Hoe" Harrington (mr_mom) wrote in snapthread,
"Chief! Holy shit!" Steve crossed the distance between them, unable to hide his shock. "What am I doing here? You're - "
There's no polite way to tell a man he's dead, and Steve falls short. But Hopper looks - hell, he looks like he just walked straight out of that underground commie lair, right down to the blood on his mouth and the bruises on his face. It makes Steve's eye throb and his stomach cramp, phantom pains from that night.
(Him and Robin, bent over in the bushes on the far side of the parking lot, puking their guts out while the mall burned merrily in the background. Whatever drug the Russian bastards had given them was a bitch to get out of their systems.)
"This is going to sound totally nuts," Steve began, because there's no easy way to say we're in a parallel world, no, not that one either. "But somehow we...we were brought here, uh, I guess. To this - town. There's no way out that I know of."
"But how are you - ?" Fuck it, he's just gonna ask. "You - didn't make it out of the mall."