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h-i-raeth · 2 years ago

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wipgame: Barb Lives Side A (Alive) [i'm barely on the periphery of ST but i know that this was Unjust]

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“Let them think I’m dead. They were never going to give my parents a body to bury anyway.”

“But your parents--”

“Are never going to believe that I just ran away after all once they get a good look at me. What the fuck am I supposed to tell them?” And she gestures to the scars left over from her time in the upside down, the pattern of shallow stab wounds like a bed of nails wrapping around her right forearm, the discoloration from burns on her hands. “That I got mauled by a mountain lion? That’s believable.”

“So you just want them to grieve you even though you’re not dead?”

“Yeah, Nance! Yeah, I fucking do. I want them to grieve and move on with their lives and skip town and not get involved with this bullshit.”

#wip wednesday #no tag for this fic yet #part of the point of this fic + Trapped is like. The idea of how messy it would be for Barb to have been alive #but assumed dead + have her death still affect the narrative (particularly the social dynamics of post-s1 through to the finale of s2)#while also like. having survived and having messy feelings about not having been saved and having had the worst days of her life happen #partially because her best friend wanted to fuck a boy and not listen to her advice #like a dead girl can't forgive really but she can't condemn either. sort of thing.#the other point of this AU is that I want Barb + Will to interact #the rest of the point of these AUs is to be extremely self indulgent #anyway this scene in particular is about the fact that by the time Nancy learns that Barb isn't actually dead #she's already sent the 'chemical leak' story to the press #in order to be able to tell Barb's parents that she's dead and get them some closure #no easy peacetime girl here to be found

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