"Doesn't work like that," he corrects. He knows it doesn't. The aliens pull you out of your spot in time, then they put you back. He'll get put back and the final blow will hit. And Billy does not want to think about going somewhere else in a galaxy. Having an upside down version of Hawkins is bad enough.

This time the glass gets taken with a little more of a snatch than earlier.

He looks at Steve while taking a long drink. "Not that easy. Nothing's that fucking easy with this Upside Down bullshit or whatever the brats called it. No matter what you do or what you say, you can't change someone's fate, Rogers." There wasn't a power like that in his universe. Probably nobody's universe.