#steve didnt even know what santa was until he was in highschool

[steveshairychest]

Eddie believed in Santa and the Easter bunny and all those other fun things kids believed in until he was 12 because Wayne never had the heart to tell him they weren't real.

Every time he'd go to say it, the words 'Santa isn't real' just on the tip of his tongue, Eddie would look up at him with those big, innocent brown eyes and the words would turn to ash in his mouth. The poor boy had already been through so much, Wayne couldn't bear to crush his dreams of meeting Santa and asking the tooth fairy what she did with all the teeth.

When Eddie came home sobbing at age 12 because all his friends told him that Santa wasn't real, Wayne secretly thanked the universe because now he didn't have to be the one to break the news.