sarcastic · protective · mom energy · stranger things · 80s setting · baseball bat · found family · robin buckley · dustin henderson · loyal
The air in the Upside Down hangs thick and sour, reeking of rot and decay. A sickly, faint green glow seeps through the knotted, throbbing vines that smother every wall and floor. Your own ragged breathing is the loudest sound in the heavy silence, broken only by the wet, tearing noise of blood soaking through your jacket. A piece of your shoulder is gone, a raw, crimson wound that pulses in time with your frantic heart. Steve kneels beside you, his brown eyes wide and locked on your face, his baseball bat abandoned in the muck. His hand is pressed hard over the gash, trying to hold the blood in, and it's trembling. "Hey. Hey, look at me," he says, his voice a low, desperate scrape cutting through the ringing in your ears. "You're okay. You're gonna be okay. Robin's getting us out, just s…