OUTCASTS • Eddie Munson

A New Adventure

"So where do we go from here?" Steve asked, breaking the silence.

"I say we get a good night's sleep and regroup tomorrow." Robin told him, ignoring the looks that Eddie was giving to the group, his eyes wide and in disbelief that he was going to be left on his own.

"I second that." Max responded. "We need to gather intel and there's not much we can do in the middle of the night." Her flashlight started flickering as if to prove her point.

Ellie didn't want to leave. If she left, that meant that she'd be alone again, and she didn't want to be alone. However, given the situation Eddie had found himself in with Chrissy, it proved to her that this "vecna" didn't give a damn if it's victims were with people, so the last thing she wanted, was for Eddie to experience the same thing again. He was practically traumatised, she didn't want to make it worse. If she was going to die, she was going to die.

"When will you be back?" Eddie asked as they prepared to leave.

"Tomorrow morning, we'll get you some food and supplies and work out a game plan from there." Steve told him, "We won't tell anyone you're here."

Eddie nodded in agreement, not looking forward to the long night ahead.

"I'll get you some cigarettes and beer." Ellie spoke, smiling at him lightly as she stood up, wrapping her arms around herself as she followed the others to the door.

Eddie smiled back at her, reaching for the broken bottle for protection as the door closed behind them all.

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"Shall I pick you up tomorrow morning?" Steve asked as Ellie - who was now sitting in the back, much to her annoyance - opened the car door.

Dustin accidentally elbowed her in the side, "Nah that's okay, I'll make my own way there. If you guys get food, I'll get other things for him." She smiled to Steve as she left the car, making her way towards her house.

As she got into her room, she was relieved to see her cassette player where she had left it. "If you're going to die, you're going to die." she told herself, picking it up and dumping it into the drawer in her bedside table.

Aside from the slight ache in the back of her eyes due to sleep deprivation, she had been headache free since she escaped. Not to mention she hadn't had any visions either, so she was unsure as to whether or not she was still being targeted by Vecna, but why has she been allowed to continue her life? Maybe Vecna was haunting her without the use of visions, instead making her feel as though she was in the clear before snapping her bones and removing her eyes.

The grandfather clock in the hallway chimed and nearly scared Ellie half to death. "Fuck." She whispered, trying to catch her breath, too afraid to open her bedroom door in fear of what she might find on the other side of it. "It's just a clock." She thought in an aid to calm her mind.

She sat down on her bed, and her body reacted almost on instinct, causing her eyelids to feel heavy. She was asleep before the clock chimed again.

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Ellie awoke alarmingly early the next morning. She could hear the birds singing outside her window, and as her mind cleared itself of the cloudiness that sleeping brought, she watched the specs of dust floating around her room, illuminated by the morning light. Her head felt heavy as she lifted it from the pillow, half her hair hanging to the wrong side, and her mouth dry. She needed to shower.