[He imagined a best case scenario and a worst case. Best case: he's from the point in time where they actually functioned as something approximating a team. Worst case: he remembers in excruciating detail how it felt for a bullet to punch into his liver and bleed him out slowly.]
[But that wasn't the end of it.]
[Stupid for him to think it was. He was still alive when It took him, and then he reappeared in a flare of static, slumped and silent.]
[No question where he ended up in the in between.]
[Didn't want to consider that possibility. Or maybe just - didn't think to. That there would be a permanence to that.]
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[But that wasn't the end of it.]
[Stupid for him to think it was. He was still alive when It took him, and then he reappeared in a flare of static, slumped and silent.]
[No question where he ended up in the in between.]
[Didn't want to consider that possibility. Or maybe just - didn't think to. That there would be a permanence to that.]
I'm sorry.
[He says it slowly, clearly.]
[Make sure it's obvious that he means it.]