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Eddie Munson Fic Ch.3

Hi guys sorry I've been like MIA for a hot minute there but here's chapter 3! I don't really know how I'm going to continue this story because I was waiting for vol. 2 for more inspiration but I simply am going to act like it never happened ! :)

(also this pic of Eddie is one of my favs he just looks like a Disney Princess ya know?)

Summary: you're left alone with Eddie and you guys talk. There's like mutual pining ig oh and Steve and Robin are there.

Warnings: Alcohol consumption, cursing, talk of monsters in the ST universe (if there's anything I missed pls harass me)

The weight of the conversation and its implications lingered in the air and hung over the small group like a cloud. You slowly walk toward Eddie, kneeling to meet his eye level, and grab the beer bottle that he’s clutching like a lifeline. Mainly because you don’t want him to hurt anyone else or even himself but partially because something in you is looking for an excuse to grasp his shaking hands. You set the bottle down away from his reach and place your hand on his shoulder while rubbing soft circles to try and calm him down. You glance up at your cousin expectantly like you’re just here waiting to hear what plan he’s concocting in his head. Eddie slowly softens under your hand, and you move to sit down on the floor next to him knowing whatever has those gears running in Dustin’s head might take a while to turn into a coherent plan. Steve grasps his shoulder signaling that it’s getting late, later than any of us expected.

“Eddie, we need to go home and get you some food or something so we can come back and figure out what to do,” Dustin calmly explains to him.

“What? No, you can’t leave me here alone, man. I don’t know if I can handle that. All I can see,” Eddie pauses, “All I can see is her body and think what if that happens to me.” He throws his head into his hands pulling at his hair.

“I can stay,” You say, “your mom knows I usually spend the night with Steve when I’m in town. Just tell her I’m with Steve and Robin. We’ll be fine here.”

“Absolutely not,” Steve steps forward, “We’re not splitting up. Not when this Vecnar dude is around. It’s best we keep each other in our line of sight.”

Dustin remembers the walkies he and Max have in their bookbags which happen to be in Steve’s car. He jogs out and grabs them fiddling with one before handing one to you.

“What am I supposed to do with this?” You say getting off the ground.

“We can keep everyone in check with walkies. If anything happens, we’ll all know and be able to help.” Dustin exclaims as he walks back towards Steve, “Crisis averted now let's go get some monster ass-kicking supplies.”

As they all file out of the shed you turn around to see Eddie still shaking but standing.

You walk towards him and ask, “Hey uh are you okay? I mean you’re obviously not, but um do you need anything?”

He looks at you and grabs you eliciting a shocked gasp from your mouth pulling you into a bear hug. You move your arms to rest on his lean, muscular back rubbing up and down to try and soothe him. He has his arms wrapped around the back of your head and your upper back. He’s holding onto you like you’re the very air that he breathes - for dear life. He begins to sob onto your shoulder while you begin to pull back to try and talk to him.

“Hey, you can talk to me about it. You don’t have to keep this bottled up anymore. Unfortunately, I’ve - we’ve all dealt with this before. About three times actually and each time we made it out so I’m sure Dustin and Steve will come up with a plan,” You moved to sit on the ground leaning against the cool metal wall and gesture for Eddie to follow.

After a few minutes of silence Eddie breathes in deep and exhales shakily, “Have you uh ever seen it you know - happen in front of you? Like, like someone dying?”

Under your shirt a necklace with a small oval pendant seared into your skin demanding attention after being forgotten for so long. You grab the necklace fiddling with the pendant on the chain for a second before answering him.

“Yeah. Yeah, I have. It was um Billy. Billy Hargrove, Max’s step-brother,” You paused checking to make sure Eddie was okay before continuing.

“You know that mall fire that he supposedly died in? Yeah, that wasn’t true he was um,” You tried to think of the easiest way to explain the madness that had ensued in Hawkins last summer,

“He was possessed by this creature, no monster, from the upside down. We uh call the place where all these things come from the upside down by the way. This monster wasn’t like the demogorgons or demodogs we’d seen before. It was like a giant evil spider thing made of-”

You stopped thinking, ‘Maybe telling him it was a creature made of melted human flesh, or uh people actual people wasn’t the best idea right now.’

“-Nevermind. It basically was trying to kill our friend El and well all of us. But before it could get to her Billy stepped in the way and uh sacrificed himself. He died right there in front of all of us.”

The image of Billy being stabbed in the chest by the Mind Flayer played in your head as you blinked away the water that began to pool in your eyes.

“That wasn’t even the worst part. It sounds weird to think about, but we’ve seen people that have sacrificed themselves for us before. But I never had to sit in that person’s room looking at all of the belongings they had collected over the years before. I- I had a-” you wondered if mentioning your weird past with Billy to the boy you liked was a good idea.

‘He probably already knows. I should just be honest it’s not that bad,’ you decided.

“I had a thing with Billy. It wasn’t anything serious or anything, I mean nothing about Billy said ‘stable.’ And before you judge me for that I didn’t know what a shitty person he was until Max told me. I thought I could change him you know? Make him nicer to Max and turn him into a good person. We just hung out sometimes and talked about all the things in his past. He shut me out and well everybody else too when the Mind Flayer took over. And you know so I didn’t think I was that close to him or meant anything anymore, but Max still asked me to help pack up his things. It was a lot. I mean I had been over to their house before but being in his room knowing how he died and why he did it and not being able to tell anyone but the eight other people that were there was- It hurt,” You took a deep breath before continuing,

“She gave this to me,” pointing at the necklace, “He was wearing it when it happened and uh Max told me he would’ve wanted me to have it. I mean I felt guilty this was a guy I had considered a friend in a weird way, and I didn’t think I meant anything to him. It was weird but anyway she told me that in small moments of him not being a total jackass he’d ask her about me. I never take it off. I know it’s odd it just seems like it’s protecting me in a way. Sorry I just totally talked your ear off about a situationship thing - I just we’ve all been through so much shit I just want to let you know you can talk to any of us about it. I don’t want you to feel like you’re in this alone,”

You looked to your right at Eddie who had been watching you with an intensity in his eyes you just couldn’t decipher, and he slung his arm across your shoulders pulling you into a hug.

Eddie wasn’t going to lie he felt his heart ache a bit when he heard you talk so tenderly about the boy who had sacrificed his life to save you. The boy whose necklace is around your neck right now. A boy just like him who also obviously had feelings for you. He gulped at the last thought, “Thank you I mean like really. Just listening to you talk got my mind off things for just a little bit,” Eddie grins down at you eliciting a weak smile from you.

You hear the sound of tires on gravel as Steve’s car pulls into the driveway and the commotion of two of your friends unloading and approaching the shed.

“Hey we bring gifts of food,” Robin says looking at the two of you on the ground huddled close, and raising her eyebrows.

“And booze,” Steve adds playfully.

“Oh, thank God,” Eddie groans as he stands up to grab a beer from Steve.

“So, Max and Dustin had to go home for the night but will join us all in the morning. Is there any way we can get into Reefer Rick’s house to sleep, Eddie?” Steve looked at Eddie expectantly.

“Yeah, uh lemme just grab the key- “Eddie says through a mouthful of goldfish.

You help Eddie grab the food and haul it towards the house while Robin and Steve go back to the car for their overnight bags. They had argued with each other before coming to the conclusion “if we have to hide from the cops and interdimensional demons why can’t we do it while comfy?”

Which is quite a valid argument to you seeing that you were still in jeans. You move to the front door to unlock it and usher Steve and Robin in. None of you turned the lights on knowing that just your movement around the house could garner attention from prying neighbors. Hawkins wasn’t that big of a town and if someone was on the run for murdering a cheerleader of course the neighbors would be suspicious of a known drug dealer's house. Empty or not.

You grabbed the small bag of toiletries Robin handed you and a change of clothes and set off to find a bathroom. You gave your eyes a small second to adjust to the darkness while you sat on the closed toilet taking in the events of the day. You never thought the cute D&D boy would switch from public enemy no.1 to innocent victim in less than 24 hours but here you were. Blinking slowly, you began to brush your teeth and take off your clothes. When you spit the toothpaste out in the sink you changed into the pajamas aka sweatpants Robin bought and internally thanked her. It was only March, and it was bound to get cold tonight. You began to pack up your things the best you can and exit the bathroom finding your way back to base camp.

“Want a beer? I know it's warm beer. It's not ideal but lifts our spirits a little bit,” Steve offered, and you silently took the beer and thanked him. Sitting down you stayed close to Eddie on the couch just in case he needed anything. You didn’t feel like talking much, so you simply closed your eyes, placed your head on Eddie’s shoulder and drank your beer. Even though you’ve only known this man for what 36 hours give or take, you felt close to him. And not in the trauma bond way obviously, but Eddie just has this aura around him. It drew you in like a moth to a flame almost like Billy did. However, Eddie was basically a character foil of Billy in your mind, the two couldn’t possibly be any more different. And that difference was good.

You can tell through the small glimpse into Eddie that he’s just … perfect. Like aside from the fact that he is a super super super senior and a prime murder suspect - you just felt like the boy whose shoulder you’re resting on was going to be important to you.

‘I suppose that if you’re extremely lucky and happen to find the “one” you know. But the fact that I’m going to have to wait and see if we both make it out to find out what he’s going to mean to me is fucking terrifying. It’s like I haven’t gone through enough. Whatever the fuck I did to piss the universe off in my past life must’ve been some bad shit. Because of course, I’d find the love of my life as soon as the whole world’s about to end.’ You thought.

You must’ve been thinking for quite some time because the boy next to you spoke in a hushed tone, “she told me what happened. What uh happened with Billy and I- I- just- being roped into this is insanity. Absolutely batshit. How the fuck did you all even survive THAT many times? Also, without the entire town finding out how?”

“Well, we almost didn’t make it out like quite a few times actually. We’ve lost some amazing people and it’s hard to not be able to tell the truth about how they died. But Hawkins isn’t ready to know the truth. If they knew of the horrors that lurk in the upside down, they’d just be in even more danger. It sounds insane but we actually have this thing under control with our little group here we just uh usually aren’t spread out across the country.” Steve responded.

“So that’s it? We fight this alone? I don’t know man I saw what happened to Chrissy I don’t think this is whatever ‘horrors’ you’re used to.”

“Munson, would you believe that I’ve had to fight off a creature that has a mouth for a face that opens like a flower and has hundreds of razor-sharp teeth? Oh, what about a huge monster that manifested itself in our world by possessing people and then turning them into mush to create its body? Nothing here has been normal since El came.” Steve glanced down somberly.

“We’ve lost people too Eddie. We know what you’re going through and the fact that they even mentioned Billy to you is something.”

Eddie’s head turned to look at you maybe his newfound feelings for you weren’t as one-sided as he thought. He just wished you had come to visit Dustin earlier in the year when he would have had some sort of time to truly appreciate you. It’s only been what like 24 hours since you met him at Hellfire and already you have managed to calm his panic down with one simple touch. Eddie was scared out of his mind and knowing that you were somehow involved in all of this terrified him. You seemed harmless, innocent even he didn’t even think you could hurt anything - even if you wanted to. With his lovestruck gaze never leaving the top of your head he finished his warm beer in one long swig and kissed the top of your head.

Startled by the sudden and quite random contact you opened your eyes to Steve and Robin looking at you with their jaws practically on the floor. You knew Eddie liked you but good God in front of the two menaces you call your best friends? You would never live this one down if you survived whatever the upside down throws your way. You sat straight up shoulder grazing Eddie’s shoulder and also downed your beer in one solid go.

“Alright guys I think we should all try to go to sleep. Who wants first watch?” You asked as you stood trying to hide the heat in your face from Eddie.

“I got it. Insomnia’s a bitch am I right? I’ll wake Robin up next and then it’s you last.” Steve said pointing at you.

“Wait uh what about me? Don’t I need to contribute something?” Eddie quipped.

“I feel like you probably haven’t slept in a while, Eddie. We would rather have you well rested and ready for tomorrow. Remember we can handle this.” Robin commented.

Eddie moved to lay down on the couch as you stood looking for a blanket, “Hey uh I know this is gonna sound weird but could you just like hold my hand or something? To let me know someone else is here.” Eddie asked as he gingerly grabbed your wrist.

“Oh, um yeah of course I’m just gonna sleep on the floor gimme your hand,” you said as you nested on the floor next to him.

He reached his hand down from the couch and grabbed yours like a lifeline. You remembered how scared you had been with your first encounter with the “third kind” so you just wanted to make sure he knew he wasn’t alone. You propped your arm up on the pillows Robin stole from the bedrooms and tried to get as comfortable as possible knowing that you were walking headfirst into the fire for a fourth time. Eddie’s grip never faltered, and you never stopped rubbing small circles on the back of his hand with your thumb until the soothing grasp of sleep swept over the two of you, plunging you into a dreamless sleep.

A/N: I WROTE THIS BEFORE STEDDIE I KNOW I'M SORRY

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