And you got there how, exactly?
Get where?
The Wheeler house. Did you take the Henderson shelter?
No. Nancy drove me.
Nancy drove you?
Yes.
We don't drive ever, do we? Do we?
No.
No, we take the tunnels, and we don't surface until it's clear, until it's safe.
I wore my hoodie.
Oh, well, geez, that's great. I don't know what we've been crawling around in the mud all this time. We should've just drove you around in your hoodie.
...
You're more like me than I'd like to admit.
What, a stubborn punk-ass?
You heard that?
You talk loud.
Yeah, I guess I am a stubborn punk-ass. Or at least I was. I never listened to my pops either. Always thought I knew best. Pissed him right off. I remember one day it got so heated, he took me to the recruitment office. He made me enlist right there. He thought the Army would do me some good. Give me some structure, some discipline. But the thing was, I thought I was smarter than the officers.
Were you?
Sometimes. But mostly, no, I was just dumb. Naive. I used to trust my gut and my instinct. Never... Like you. Did a lot of crazy things in that war. Reckless things. You might call them brave, but there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. Saw a lot of brave men die in that war. Friends of mine. My daughter... Sara. She was brave. Bravest person I ever knew. She stared death in the face. She never got scared. She never wavered. Fought her heart out. The doctors said they never saw anything like it. They thought she was gonna make it, too.
So that's why you don't want me in here. Because you think Vecna will win and I will die.
I don't think... I don't think anything. I've just been around long enough to know that you can't count on anything in this life. I don't wanna lose you. I won't. Which is why whatever happens from here on out, wherever this blood leads, I need you to do what I say.
So don't be a stubborn punk-ass like you?
Yeah, don't be a stubborn punk-ass.
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