[ well it's a good thing eddie isn't privy to steve's thoughts then, huh? because the last thing he needs is any extra attention on his own issues. eddie's been through enough, deals with enough, to worry (more, to worry more, because it's not like he has made any of this easy on eddie) about. plus- this is about eddie getting out of his own head, and maybe a little more, if everything keeps going okay. and things are going okay- eddie is grinning, vibrating with energy like steve has gotten so used to seeing, and even if their conversation today had started off with something dark and heavy- he feels good that it's been turned around. feels good about this.
eddie drives the car like it's made of porcelain, and steve's reminded of the first time he was down here- dean, who had been trying to get steve out of his own head about nero. to get steve to do something, to connect with someone. honestly, the whole reason he's brought eddie down here was how impactful that had been for him, how much it had worked, and how steve doesn't really have a whole lot of examples of this kind of thing working.
now- does he have a very different idea of how this is going to go? yes. and it's already heading healthily in that direction. they just have to keep it going.
he drinks, lets eddie carefully move the car out of the garage and out onto the flat kansas road. eddie starts off in a direction, still careful, but steve gives him a little time to get comfortable. takes another drink himself, the passenger princess he is right now, and it's only when eddie asks him again for directions that he sighs. ]
Okay, dude, for one- you have to actually drive this car like it's supposed to be driven. You're not gonna crash into some minivan out here. Have fun. [ he gestures out to the flat, desert-like nothingness that stretches out before them.
the sun is setting on this version of dean's horizon - the colors brilliant and picturesque and all the ways those travel magazines his mom used to be obsessed with characterized them. whether it's the horizon itself, or steve's intent and influence that it's making it happen, but he's pretty pleased. ] And two- go for the Horizon. It's not that far.
[ a pause, and then steve grins himself - conspiratorial. ]
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eddie drives the car like it's made of porcelain, and steve's reminded of the first time he was down here- dean, who had been trying to get steve out of his own head about nero. to get steve to do something, to connect with someone. honestly, the whole reason he's brought eddie down here was how impactful that had been for him, how much it had worked, and how steve doesn't really have a whole lot of examples of this kind of thing working.
now- does he have a very different idea of how this is going to go? yes. and it's already heading healthily in that direction. they just have to keep it going.
he drinks, lets eddie carefully move the car out of the garage and out onto the flat kansas road. eddie starts off in a direction, still careful, but steve gives him a little time to get comfortable. takes another drink himself, the passenger princess he is right now, and it's only when eddie asks him again for directions that he sighs. ]
Okay, dude, for one- you have to actually drive this car like it's supposed to be driven. You're not gonna crash into some minivan out here. Have fun. [ he gestures out to the flat, desert-like nothingness that stretches out before them.
the sun is setting on this version of dean's horizon - the colors brilliant and picturesque and all the ways those travel magazines his mom used to be obsessed with characterized them. whether it's the horizon itself, or steve's intent and influence that it's making it happen, but he's pretty pleased. ] And two- go for the Horizon. It's not that far.
[ a pause, and then steve grins himself - conspiratorial. ]
Just trust me on this, okay? And drive.