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3.2

*then next morning*

"delivery service" dustin called as you, steve, dustin, max and robin entered the shed his was staying in holding supplies, such as food etc

eddie exhales, and you notice steve wave his hand cutely

we all sit around eddie as he's sitting in the boat scoffing down some of the food we brought him, "so we got, uh, some good news and some bad news." dustin starts, "how do you prefer?"

"bad news first, always." eddie says his mouth completely full of the cereal he was eating

"all right. bad news, we tapped into the Hawkins PD dispatch with our cerebro, and they're definitely looking for you. Also, they're, uh, pretty convinced you killed chrissy."

"like 100% kind of convinced." max says

"and the good news?" eddie asks turning back to dustin

"your name hasn't gone public yet." robin says, "but if we found out about you, it's a matter of time before others do too. and once that gets out, everyone and their shallow-minded mother is gonna be gunning for you."

"hunt the freak, right?"

"exactly."

"shit."

"so, before that happens, we find vecna, kill him, and prove your innocence."

"that's all, dustin? that's all?"

"yeah, no, that's pretty much it."

"listen eddie, i know everything dustin is saying sounds totally delusional, but we've been through something similar to this before." you say

"i mean they have.. a few more times then me, and robin, robin here, this is her first time. Mine was more human-flesh-based, theirs more smoke-related, but collectively we've got this." you explain

everytime you spoke amongst the group you could feel the undertone of tension as you talked to eddie, your skin feeling clammy once done, it felt awkward to talk to him after what had happened, as you couldn't forget or forgive him for what he did

"yeah see we usually rely on this girl who has super powers." steve says referring to el, "but, uh, those went bye-bye, so uh-"

"so we're technically in, in, in more of the—"

"kinda—"

"brainstorming phase." max says

"brainstorming." steve says pointing at the girl and clicking his fingers in realisation, as she explained better than robin and steve's ramble of words

"there's.. there's nothing to worry about." dustin splutters, making steve scoff and laugh - eddie's face had the look of worry plastered over his features giving dustin a 'really' look

a siren wails outside making us all stop and eddie start to panic, "shit." steve whispers

"tarp." robin orders, "tarp. tarp." eddie quickly pulling it over himself as the rest of us head to the two small windows at the front of the shed, multiple police cars and a fire truck heading straight past us.

and of course we follow them shortly after, leading us to the trailer park where max and eddie lived where we found nancy looking for fred someone who worked with her on the newspaper

we caught nancy up about our theory on venca and what had happened to chrissy, "so your saying that this thing that killed fred and chrissy, it's from the upside down?"

"if the shoe fits"

"our working theory is that he attacks with a spell. or a curse. now whether or not he's doing the bidding of the mind flayer or just loves killing teens, we don't know." Dustin explains