#i like girls named chris all right orz

[neonponders]

Part 21 for @wrecked-fuse ‘s pocketverse 🎀

Part 20

( pt. 7′s art 🎩 ) ( pt. 9′s art 👀 ) ( pt. 14′s art 💨 )

~ on ao3 ~

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Steve had to admit that things moved a bit too fast for both his and Eddie’s liking. Because now he nearly jumped out of his skin as the doorbell rang while little Chrissy and Eddie played in the shoebox room.

Little Steve and Billy had gone with Big Eddie and Billy to Eddie’s trailer. That was the sticking point. Neither Steve nor Eddie wanted to trade littles, but all three of them agreed that overwhelming Chrissy was not the best idea.

“Billy - ” Steve had tried before they left, but Billy put a hand on his shoulder to hold him at bay.

“I won’t lose them. Relax.”

“You’re not the problem. They’re tiny and they wander - ”

“They’ve got two pairs of eyes on them,” Billy reminded with a look at Eddie, however Eddie mirrored Steve’s anxiety.

“Need I remind you that mine has wings? He’s not pocket-bound like the others.”

Billy sighed, “Between Chrissy and Steve - ”

“Robin.”

Billy and Eddie looked at him, the latter barking, “Buckley? What about Buckley, Steve?”

“She’s on her way, and she already knows about mine and Billy’s. You’re right, I’m not stupid enough to try and look after Eds alone.”

Eddie took a deep breath, beginning to bounce on the balls of his feet, but that did give him enough reassurance to stop arguing.

Steve looked to Billy a final time, who wore a soft smile as he looked down at his shirt pocket. “You chipmunks ready?”

“Weady!” they sang.

“Where do you wive, Eddie?”

“Under a waterfawll?”

“Is yourw carw woud and bwue wike Biwwy’s?”

“What food is therwe?”

Eddie exhaled something almost like relief as he followed Billy out of the house.

Now Steve answered the door and huffed with unresolved anxiety. “Hey.”

“Hey,” Robin snarked. “That kind of attitude shouldn’t be allowed before 11am.”

“Sorry, I’m just waiting for Chrissy.”

“I know,” she consoled, having already heard a short version of the story over the phone. “Where are the new tinies?”

She followed Steve into the living room, where he called, “Eddie? Chrissy? Do you wanna meet Robin?”

Robin froze when the lid on the shoebox popped up and landed askew. Steve reminded, “Use the doors, Eddie.”

Robin sank onto the couch as the little Eddie walked out of the box holding Chrissy’s hand. Robin inhaled in awe and smiled warmly. “Pretty. Hi, Chrissy. I’m Robin.”

A little hand waved up at her but Chrissy hugged Eddie close and introduced, “This’s Eddie.”

“Hey, Eddie...are those wings? Ohmygod.”

Eddie flew up with Chrissy hanging from his hand like a keychain. Steve cried, “Eddie!” as he held his hands underneath to catch her.

Robin outright caught them both and fumed, “You can’t just fly someone up without their permission.”

The bubbly giggling Chrissy wasn’t adding to this lesson, and she said on Robin’s palm, “I like to fwy.”

“That’s fine, but he still needs to warn you first,” Robin sighed as Eddie had more trouble getting his bearings with his wings in the way. “Does the bigger Munson have wings we don’t know about?”

Robin helped the little guy up so a wing could free itself from underneath his body while Chrissy said, “Eddie’s wings arwe pwetty. They’rwe on his skin.”

“Oh,” Steve realized. “Tattoos.”

Robin frowned. “By that logic, B should have two heads.”

Before anyone could respond, the doorbell rang. Eddie and Chrissy popped up on Robin’s hands, looking hopefully and anxiously between them. Steve announced, “That’s probably her. You guys ready?”

Eddie said loudly, “Nay! Is she weady for us?”

Steve frowned. “Was...that a no, or...?”

“Just answer the door,” Robin hushed. As he left to do that, she held the littles’ gaze. “Give her a minute to get comfortable, okay? Follow our lead.”

Both Eddie and Chrissy saluted and went into the shoebox room when they were set down. Robin adjusted the lid back onto the box as Steve and the bigger Chrissy entered the room. She smiled, “Hey. Robin, right?”

Robin brightened. “That’s right. I didn’t think you’d noticed with...all the flips and stuff during practice.”

Steve’s brows furrowed. “What are you doing at cheer practice?”

Chrissy answered, “We share the gym with the band when the weather is bad.”

“Oh,” Steve nodded and started toward the kitchen. “What do you want to drink?”

“Just water, thanks.”

As Chrissy sat down, Robin watched Steve pantomime fainting behind her with a dainty hand on his forehead. Robin controlled her face and scratched her scalp, making her middle finger particularly prominent.

“Not to be one of those people who can only talk about work, but I never see you come around.”

Chrissy nodded like an apology. “I like movies, but cheer practice goes late. The sports teams have seasons, but we’re all year.”

Steve returned with a pyramid of water bottles in his hands. “That seems unfair, that you don’t get a break.”

“It’s good for the school, that we’re able to sustain some kind of sport for every season. Other schools that only have football or basketball give their cheer squads a break.”

“Do you have a favorite? That’s for both of you,” he added for Robin’s benefit.

Robin answered, “Any traveling games, for me. Any reason to get out of Hawkins.”

Chrissy smiled. “I always like the swim meets. We haven’t gotten to do many of those since you graduated.”

Robin’s eyes tilted at Steve, equally annoyed and fond, as he beamed. Before he inflated himself too much, she said, “The swim coach comes into Family Video sometimes, always implying that Steve would make a good assistant coach.”

Steve picked up, “More like he’s tired of the one he has.”

Chrissy’s features opened as she encouraged, “That’s a good idea, though. Remember when you used our pom poms and made Renée Connors pee herself?”

Steve and Robin burst out into laughter. Chrissy joined them and insisted, “People look up to you! You help them want to be there. That’s so much better than a drill sergeant coach.”

Steve recovered, “I think it was a combination of the speedo and pom poms, but yeah, that was a great day. You got bumped up to cheer captain that week, didn’t you?”

She gave her ponytail a toss and smiled proudly. “Something was in the air.”

And then she shrieked as the shoebox lid flipped off. Steve’s eyes went huge as he stared at Eddie yelling, “HEWWO!”

Robin caught her face in her hands. “Subtle, slick.”

He frowned at her, jumping up and down on one of the beds, using his wings for extra air time. “You said a minute!”

Steve tried to find some kind of conversational bandaid for this as he watched Chrissy slowly recovering and leaning forward. “Chris, I’m sorry. This was supposed to be slow - shit.”

“Too swow!” little Eddie chided and waved. “Hi, Chwissy! I’m Eddie!”

Chrissy just watched him, speechless. Robin and Steve exchanged worried looks and she asked, “How do we explain this?”

“I still haven’t figured that out. But, uh...you know regular Eddie Munson, right? There’s now a small one - they’re not the same. Eddie dropped them off, but we didn’t want you to be overwhelmed by too many guys in the house.”

“I’m the emotional support bro,” Robin said flatly.

“Robin,” he clipped.

“Them?” Chrissy said quietly.

Steve took a deep breath and called, “Chrissy? Do you wanna come out? You don’t have to if you want to stay in there.”

The cutout door folded open as little Chrissy emerged. Big Chrissy’s concentrated frown spread apart in a look of wonder, and perhaps a little fear.

Steve counted on his fingers as he tallied off, “They’re real, little people. They’re not dolls. They have feelings - ”

“I had a dream like this.”

Steve froze and Robin blurted. “What? ”

“I, uh,” she shook her head to move her bangs out of the way of her eyes. “I don’t know. You forget dreams when you wake up, right? I didn’t think...or. Um.”

Robin supplied, “There’s a little Eddie Munson right there. You can consider the cat out of the bag.”

“Robin,” Steve hissed, but he prioritized sitting on the floor and putting a hand near small Chrissy, just in offering. She accepted and sat on his fingers.

Chrissy watched this, as well as Eddie finally landing and walking out of the box to come stand next to little Chrissy. Her jaw hung open until she caught it in her hands, holding her mouth while she processed.

“Wait, you said Eddie dropped them off here?”

Steve nodded and Chrissy thought aloud, “Then...he knows? He knows.”

“If it helps,” Steve offered, “He’s with Billy Hargrove, who has our own littles with him. We’re all figuring this out as we go, but so far it’s you, Eddie, me, and Billy.”

Chrissy looked at Robin. “Do you...?”

She shook her head. “I don’t have one. Yet. I mean, they seem to be coming in pairs and I haven’t dreamt about anyone recently. Steve?”

“Robin,” he refused with a tone implying he wasn’t talking about his dreams any time soon.

Little Eddie bounced like his bigger self as Chrissy leaned forward and carefully reached out her hand. “Hi, Chris...”

The little one hopped up and rushed toward her fingertips, an emotional dam finally breaking. Chrissy gasped a little when their skin touched, no doubt feeling the same rush of warmth that Billy and Steve experienced.

Little Chrissy’s cheeks bloomed pink as Chrissy smiled down at her. She looked up at Eddie, whose wings had wilted lower and lower. “Eddie?”

His wings sprang up but he ran for her -

“Oh, gosh!” Chrissy exclaimed when he crash landed onto her palm, passed out.

Robin wondered aloud, “I think a fuse blew.”

Steve consoled, “I think he’s been waiting for you a long time. He’ll be fine.”

#harringrove #wrecked-fuse #neonponders #pocketverse #pocket!au #like magnets #i like girls named chris all right orz

[tcmpcral]

1. FIRST NAME: masha.

2. STRANGE FACT ABOUT YOURSELF: my father’s birthday is the day before mine :v

3. TOP THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU FIND ATTRACTIVE ON A PERSON: i mean, i’m asexual and aromantic but aesthetically i guess i could say the quintessential. roman?? nose for some reason fjfeka; i just like the look of them lies down also certain kinds of genuine smiles get me right in the heart. dark eyes are also very nice. or perhaps i should say like. when someone has dark eyelashes?? i think that’s it. also i’m always reminded of a girl i went to ireland with who had a seriously endearing case of doe eyes, and i’m still not sure if her eyes were just naturally that shape or if she used makeup to get that Look but either way i thought she was extremely pretty the whole time lmao the fact that she was also very sweet and thoughtful didn’t hurt either

4. A FOOD YOU COULD EAT FOREVER AND NOT GET BORED OF: rice and eggs fjjfiea; eggs in general, tbh. possibly also noodles. and dumplings. cheesecake. lotus paste. smoked cheeses hhhh sALMON. sweet potatoes. maybe pears and apples listen i’m sorry i love food, there can’t be Only One

5. A FOOD YOU HATE: hominy fjfkda; cauliflower. uhhhh also tuna casserole blegh. asparagus jfjkf;da oh YEAH I HATE BOLOGNA TOO i can’t. i can’t do it hhhhghg. and yet i love vienna sausages and deviled ham...

6. GUILTY PLEASURE: whispers taking the long way home so i can spend more time listening to the radio and singing along with it probably lmao

7. WHAT DO YOU SLEEP IN: whatever i wore the previous day fjfjiea; I’M SLOPPY

8. SERIOUS RELATIONSHIPS OR FLINGS: technically neither, but i guess i’d take flings over the other

9. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN THE PAST AND CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WOULD YOU AND WHAT WOULD IT BE: lies down i do kinda wish i hadn’t dropped out of high school. on that front, it’s worked out in the end, but. still. it would have been nice to have kept up with my friends orz on a different front, i’m conflicted about it, but. sometimes i wonder how much better my life might be today if i’d gone straight for nursing instead of getting an art degree ._.

10. ARE YOU AN AFFECTIONATE PERSON: i. think i can be

11. A MOVIE YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN: yeah it’s still the kung fu panda trilogy lmao. but also tokyo godfathers, shutter island aaand. idk jurassic park? tremors? a good chunk of the x-men movies bc i’m not very picky with them and there’s things i like about most of them?? thinking emoji oH there’s also that movie push from 2009. the one with chris evans :v

12. FAVORITE BOOK: a little princess, war of the worlds, uhhh on the beach, house of stairs, the secret garden. i was once weirdly attached to this book i read in jr. high called where the lilies bloom. i also loved heidi uhhh. see, there were all these obscure books i read in late elementary school and jr. high that i loved that i often have trouble recalling rip. like there was one called eva, and another called home before dark. one named belle prater’s boy. the crystal garden. sweet sassy tree hhhh almost anything written by robert cormier ahaaa

13. YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP ANY ANIMAL AS A PET, WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE: i’m honestly very happy keeping dogs as pets, but i’ve always wanted to. like. idk, maybe pet a wolf or a fox or other wild canid. i’d also like to maybe have a cat someday. and parrots and other birds are adorable and i love them, but. oof. they just seem. Intimidating pets. maybe someday i can have ducks or geese again, tho. oh, and. i’ll admit i’ve always been amused at the thought of having a pet goat, bc my grandmother apparently did as a child lmao

14. TOP FIVE FICTIONAL SHIPS [IF YOU ARE AN RP BLOG, YOU CAN USE YOUR OWN SHIPS AS WELL]: oh boy there’s. a Bunch. let me think... i. still have a very big soft spot for germany/italy hhh. uh. i hope the rest of them don’t have to be canon bc..... yeah. anyway still attached to beerus and whis... wheezes and both euroshipping (kaiba/bakura) and what’s apparently called stormshipping now (fubuki/manjoume). and ok i have to go with another hetalia one bc i’m such a sucker for france/russia lies down i was also once a big lex/zex shipper, and i still have a soft spot for. what it once was. not entirely too comfortable actually shipping it now since i haven’t Kept Up with kh and i’m not 100% on zexion/ienzo’s age anymore squints

15. PIE OR CAKE: ....whichever one cheesecake falls under :v

16. FAVORITE SCENT: ohghfjfkda there’s A BUNCH. aloe vera, bleach, lysol, sweet pea, tea, tires, sawdust, cucumbers and melons, ginger, beer

17. CELEBRITY CRUSH: yeahh, i still don’t really have one but. i do have a lot of affection for weird al lmao

18. IF YOU COULD TRAVEL ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD YOU GO: whispers i would love to go to russia some day, but i think everyone knows that lmao. i’d also love to revisit ireland, especially killarney and blarney castle. and i’d love to revisit sorrento. and possibly italy in general tbh aaaa. i’ve also always kinda wanted to visit china 6_6

19. INTROVERT OR EXTROVERT: pretty sure i’m an introvert, but i also happen to be one who really loves crowds

20. DO YOU SCARE EASILY: i’m a. very jumpy person kffja; also certain topics Disturb me way more than others, and ngl i have something close to an Actual phobia of the dark rip

21. IPHONE OR ANDROID: i’ve never had an iphone, so probably android

22. DO YOU PLAY ANY VIDEO GAMES: animal crossing. also tetris when i’m bored. i love puzzle games like poppit and bejeweled lmao i used to play kingdom hearts and super smash brothers, and i miss them both tbh. i also played crisis core, two star fox games, and the world ends with you at some point. and uh. a handful of legend of zelda games when i was a kid. my favorite game is probably majora’s mask :v

23. DREAM JOB: comic book creator orz or some kind of concept artist for animated movies. but. i’ve come to terms with the fact that i’m not really. Good(TM) enough for that, so nowadays i’m much more interested in something more mundane like nursing. as long as it’s night shift, i want it

24. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A MILLION DOLLARS: SO MUCH. get my car back in shape, pay off my grandparents’ house probably, go back to school fINALLY, move out lies down there’s so much i could do with that money lmao

25. FICTIONAL CHARACTER YOU HATE: there. aren’t any tbh lies down the most i usually get to is feeling neutral toward a character lmao except i just remembered umbridge exists so she might count

26. FANDOM THAT YOU WERE ONCE A PART OF BUT AREN’T ANY LONGER: not counting the ones i keep coming back to, there’s uhhh. gundam wing, star wars (waaaay back when the phantom menace was first released lmao), digimon, x-men evolution. i was in the MCU fandom for like a month before i lost interest XD;; i might count yugioh and yugioh gx as part of this, but. i’m still kind of invested in those tbh

all of these i’ve just kinda fallen away from thinking emoji i’ve never really had a bad fandom experience, so. you know

#;dash games #long post #i'm #such a windbag #lies down