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prettyboyeddiemunson · 6 months

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It's been years since you last stepped foot into Hawkins. Not intentionally, well....sort of. As soon as you graduated high school you left, the Welcome to Hawkins sign barely able to be seen in your rear view mirror. You went to university, only keeping up with your friends through letters and calls that slowly dwindled from weekly to holidays only.

It was bittersweet being back. You wondered how old everyone would look. Would the kids you babysat even remember you (you hoped you were their favorite). Was it finally finished, the Upside Down?

You cursed the Upside Down, because while it was its own special level of hell (Dante should have visited Hawkins), it created it's own hell for you. It tore you and your best friend apart.

Eddie Munson. Plans to graduate together, go to a big city for your university and his music career. Late nights sitting in the back of the van talking about everything and nothing. The way your pinkies would lightly touch each other before jerking away, that slowly turned into interlocking them. You craved to hold his whole hand.

But that didn't happen. Will Byers went missing and then Barb, and you helped look for them. You ran into Nancy and Jonathan in the woods, each of you yelling at the other for being in the woods "alone" (hey, you at least stole your neighbor's shot gun to defend yourself and left a note at your place incase you didn't come back). You weren't expecting a whole different world, just someone who lacked empathy and craved violence.

The first time was hard enough, suddenly having to explain to Eddie why you were friendly with the popular kids, even Steve fucking Harrington. The second time? That...that was torture. And it's what tore you apart.

Eddie has always been able to tell when you are lying, even if no one else can. It's the one thing you promised you wouldn't do to each other- lie. So when Eddie catches you limping post demodog bite? You claim it was a wolf. He knows it wasn't, but what else can he say? Then you disappear and show back up with Steve Harrington's face beat in? Nope no thats not okay!

It drew a wedge between you. You graduated and got out. You wanted nothing more to do with the Upside Down. Of course, having to deal with a simple mall fire as the media put it really solidified things. Being covered in bruises and cuts, even some ash, banging on Eddie's trailer that night. When he opened the door and you clung to him crying, and Eddie held you close.

But then he asked what happened. And you told him the truth. It really isn't too believable to say "hey I fought a creature from another dimension and also Russians at the mall". Hell, even talking about what happened with Will Byers makes very little logical sense. That NDA was a godsend for you, taking away the tricky part of navigating this conversation.

Except that night you told him. And he laughed in your face. The glare he had, the saccharine smile as he called you out for lying. The way his voice cracked when he said "you can't even tell me the truth? I thought we would be something, but if you don't even trust me"

Yeah. You hated the Upside Down. You hated that it drove a wedge between you. And you hated yourself just a bit, for never coming back.

You were sitting in your dorms listening to the radio when an aftershock of an earthquake hit. Breaking news later that day told of an earthquake tearing Hawkins apart, many missing and presumed dead. You called Eddie's line but it didn't connect. You called Dustin's, same thing. Only Steve Harrington's line connected, and he told you what happened. Someone called Vecna. But they actually defeated him, stood over his dead body and made sure ("its like those horror movies, you got to be sure the killer doesn't come back...we made sure").

But Eddie was gone. Missing. Presumed dead. And it broke your heart. That was three years ago. You hadn't talked to anyone since last hearing Max made a mostly full recovery (sadly, she never would get her sight back). Hopper apparently wasn't dead but...thats the last you heard. You wouldn't read any other letters. Any time Hawkins or the Upside Down came up in calls, you shut down. Everyone knew to avoid it.

To be back in the town being rebuilt...felt wrong without him. The fact the townsfolk knew nothing about what really happened? Crazy. And now you're home. But it isnt home. Eddie was home. You wish you had a chance to tell him. Wished you hadn't ran away. Wished you weren't such a coward.

And when you walk into the Buckley-Harrington house and see a familiar face with dark curly hair, you think your heart stops. And you think your wish may just come true

THIS IS SO GOOD WTF

AND THAT CLIFFHANGER OMG 😩😩😩

#anon #long post /

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