for @keenely.

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[keenely]

Well, in case you were wondering, my three would be you ( not sorry! ), Robin, and Tom Cruise.

[ she's joking. ..right? ]

[bestfeature]

Don't need Tom Cruise when you have me. Kinda redundant.

And I'm taller.

[keenely]

Oh, is that right?





Wait, is that right..?

[bestfeature]

That is a fact.

[keenely]

Well, that changes everything. I'll need to rethink my third pick.

Although I'm very curious why you know how tall Tom Cruise is...

[bestfeature]

Because I work at a video store and learn a lot of stupid obscure shit.

[keenely]

What do you think is the MOST stupid obscure thing you know now?

[ apparently 3am!nancy doesn't know how to stay on one subject ]

[bestfeature]

That Tom Cruise is 5'7".

[keenely]

C'mon, no way. That can't be the most obscure thing.

[bestfeature]

Okay, well. Indiana Jones? Totally responsible for PG-13 being a thing now.

[keenely]

Really? Wait, but that's actually pretty cool.



Oh! There we go, that's a good one. Harrison Ford. He's the third person I'd want with me on the island.
With us, technically. Since you're still on the list.

[bestfeature]

Okay. Okay, yeah. That's valid.

[keenely]

Although if I actually wanted to bring in someone practical for survival, I'd want Indiana Jones to be the one stuck there with us.
But that introduces a whole other level of options for people to bring with us, so... I'm just going to stick with Harrison Ford. Maybe we'll have a better chance of being rescued if we have an A-List celebrity on the island with us.

Have you picked your third yet..?

[bestfeature]

Yeah, okay. That's fair logic.

[ There's a long pause. ]

I'm going to give Munson a slight edge. But I swear to christ, if you tell him I said that

I will deny it for fucking ever

Just feels wrong to not have the four of us in some kind of mess now, you know? You, me, Robin, Eddie. We'd get off that island between the four of us easy.

[keenely]

Aw, but he would be so touched to hear that you would want him there. Are you sure I can't tell him?

[ she wouldn't, but it's fun to tease. ]

I do know what you mean, though.
We would just need to help him find a healthy middle ground approach to certain things, that's all.
You know
somewhere between running away, and running head first into a solo battle against a swarm of demobats.
Although I do think his hospital stay might have been enough to help him put that together on his own.

[bestfeature]

Yeah, here's hoping.

At least Robin would be there to, you know, balance that out with her whole

everything

[ he adores her, he really does. ]

[keenely]

Her whole... habit of catastrophizing when presented with even the most mild threat?

[ nancy does too, honestly ]

[bestfeature]

Yeah. That's Robin for you.

[keenely]

It's good, though. I mean, sometimes I forget just how insane all of this is, but I don't think Robin will ever lose that perspective. We need more of that, I think.
We all balance each other out in different ways, like you said.





Which I suppose means I should switch out Harrison Ford for Eddie, too, huh? And merge our two hypothetical deserted islands into one.
But we both still get to pick three things.

[bestfeature]

What? No. Fuck Eddie. You keep Harrison Ford if you want.

[keenely]

Ummm, maybe I want Eddie on my island more than Harrison Ford now. I can change my mind if I want to.

[bestfeature]

I can't believe this is our foursome. What the hell.

[keenely]

Really? It seems completely normal to me.

[bestfeature]

Seriously?

[keenely]

No, absolutely not.

I'm grateful for it, though. Which sounds cheesy, I know, but it's true.

[ grateful to have friends again, yep. which is sad, but it's the truth. nothing like time spent fighting monsters in the upside down to make her realize how much she's isolated herself over the last couple of years. it would be unfair to blame jonathan entirely, but he certainly never saw anything wrong with keeping themselves closed off from most ( all ) people that were in their lives before they got together. it's a lot to process.

and she really, really does want to tell him that she's grateful to have him back in her life again, properly and not just adjacently, but she doesn't.. quite know how to navigate this. she doesn't know what's okay and what's poking at a subject they haven't revisited yet. because he gave her an eleventh-hour confession, and she had exactly four seconds to respond, but couldn't form the words for everything she was feeling in that moment before robin flailed her way back to the two of them. so his confession is sitting in limbo, and hers is tucked away somewhere in the back of her mind. being worked and reworked at least four times a day. ]

As much as I wish we never had to deal with the Upside Down again after last summer, I'm especially glad that you're in my life again, too.
We make a really great team, you know?