He's the best person I've ever met. [It almost feels like a good-natured challenge - "You think he's a good kid? Well I'll show you!"] Once in kindergarten, he gave a total stranger his favorite toy because she looked sad. He was always doing stuff like that, all the time.
[Some part of him needs to speak the good things, needs to erase everything that happened in his last few days in Hawkins. Will is a force of good, a force of light, not some vessel for a terrible monster.]
[That tone, the fierceness of it, actually makes him smile. Maybe it's weird, but, honestly? Seeing someone who cares so much about their friends.]
Then I'm sorry you're here without him. [Yeah, more kids here isn't ideal. But being here without someone you care for that much? That's got to be worse.]
And I'm more sorry I didn't get a chance to know him better.
[Mike is the rare tween who not only says he would die for his friends, but has actually almost done so. If loving one's friends was an Olympic sport he'd get gold.]
It's okay. [It's not, but he's not sure what else to say.] It really sucks back home, but I guess it sucks here too. I don't know where he'd be safer.
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He's the best person I've ever met. [It almost feels like a good-natured challenge - "You think he's a good kid? Well I'll show you!"] Once in kindergarten, he gave a total stranger his favorite toy because she looked sad. He was always doing stuff like that, all the time.
[Some part of him needs to speak the good things, needs to erase everything that happened in his last few days in Hawkins. Will is a force of good, a force of light, not some vessel for a terrible monster.]
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Then I'm sorry you're here without him. [Yeah, more kids here isn't ideal. But being here without someone you care for that much? That's got to be worse.]
And I'm more sorry I didn't get a chance to know him better.
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It's okay. [It's not, but he's not sure what else to say.] It really sucks back home, but I guess it sucks here too. I don't know where he'd be safer.
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[He would say it. But on the other hand, he's not from their world. So he can't say for sure.]
... but you'd know that better than I would.
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[He tucks his foot up into the seat, grubby sneakers shedding dried grave mud.]
My sister's boyfriend, [ he clarifies.] He's here.
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[He ends up leaning on the hood for this, the trepidation on his face turning to something warmer.]
Both parts of it. That you know he's okay -- and more familiar faces for you.