Unlikely Couple

Moving Forward

(Some spoilers to Vol 2)

Chrissy's POV

"Eddie? Where are you?" I asked, looking around the upside down. I was still wearing Eddie's old hoodie, a pair of my old ripped jeans Jason heated me wearing, and my hair was in my classic high ponytail. "Eddie!!" I shouted once more holding my trashcan lid shield and spear.

I walked for what seemed like forever until I saw him... Laing on the floor bleeding, Henderson by his side crying. I ran towards him dropping my weapons. "No, baby no," I said dropping to my kneed at his side. "I did this for you Princess, all of this was for you," he said cradling my face, blood pooling under him and running down the sides of his mouth.

I held his hand to my face with both of mine, tears rolling down my cheeks."No, no it's going to be ok. We'll get you to the hospital," I said looking at him.

"I didn't run baby, I didn't run"

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I awoke in a sweat, my heart was racing and my breaths were shakey. I looked at my clock, it read 3:01 am. "It was just a nightmare, Chrissy, you're fine," I tried telling myself but I was too shaken up. The sad part was it was, it was mostly real... A sad memory.

I tried getting comfortable but I couldn't shake the feeling I had. Everything will be ok in the morning at school. It's starting back up tomorrow finally. Spring break took a couple of extra months due to the 'earthquake' and all the people taking refuge there in the gym.

I had woken up 2 minutes before my alarm went off which pissed me off. I was sad that I had to leave my comfy bed and take off Eddie's sweater I'd been living in for months. I put on a cute flowy black skirt with my pink hellfire shirt that was made special for me. I put a cute black bow in my hair with my new pink and white shoes. Perfect!

I slung my pink and black backpack over my shoulder and headed downstairs. Could you guess what my favorite colors are? Anyway, before I could exit the house, my mom stood in front of the door with her hands on her hips.

"How are you going to school? I don't want you to walk alone" she asked me and I rolled my eyes. "Jason, now can I go, please? I don't wanna be late" I said and she brought me into a hug. "Be careful, I don't want you to go missing again" "Moooom, I won't, I promise" I said she nodded kissing me on my cheek. "Ok, good, also I'll loosen that skirt when you get home, it looks way too small on you," she said and I looked down frowning. "Yes mother," I said leaving feeling insecure now.

I walked down the street a little bit before stopping at the corner waiting for my ride. I looked down at my skirt, which I bought by myself for the first time and I was very happy that it fit perfectly... I thought it was cute.

I was snapped back out of my thoughts by a clunky old van honking at me. I looked up as the door swung open revealing the handsome man driving it. "Hop on in Princess, your craptastic chariot awaits" I smiled getting in. He kissed me on my cheek, made sure my seatbelt was secure, then put the van in drive making an illegal U-turn to head to school. He placed his hand on my thigh as he drove.

"Oh, I picked you up a few things to eat. You don't have to eat them all but I want something in your system before you go three more hours without eating." He said pulling out 2 things from the brown paper bag. A single hotcake with butter and syrup, and one hash brown.

"I know you can't eat two hotcakes without getting sick so I only ordered one with a hash brown," he smiled putting his hand back on my thigh. "Thank you handsome," I said taking a bite of the hotcake.

"It sucks that your parents hate me and I can't pick you up at your house instead of down the road," Eddie said looking at me. "I know... But it's ok, as long as I'm with you I don't mind," I said holding his hand as I took a bite of food.

Eddie is the only person I can eat in front of without feeling judged for being a pig. I made myself so sick that I can't even eat more than twice a day and it's not even that much. Eddie cares about me and doesn't get mad when I can't eat a lot or when I eat too much. He's happy when I eat a lot, that way he knows I've eaten enough.

Eddie lifted his arm to scratch his back and his shirt came up a bit. I saw his now scared sides from the demobat attacks. He got it worse than Steve did right before they rescued me. I thought he was going to die for sure...

This town has changed since that day, lots of people moved out, and very few moved in. Actually, the only people that moved in are moving BACK in and that's the Hopper-Byers family. Jonathan's weird friend moved back to California, and Jim Hopper "comes back from the dead" like his stepson Will Byers.

Max was out of the hospital, she still had some broken/fractured bones but magically she wasn't blind. She had scars on her face under her eyes and her left arm was broken right leg was fractured. She had her arm in a cast and her leg was in a boot. Eleven or Jane won't leave her side, her hair grew quite a bit and it's cute and curly.

Jason unfortunately isn't dead, I know it sounds bad but I wish he was... His dumbass friend saved him from getting cut in half. He's still a dick but at least I'm not with him anymore. Dustin's leg is better and so is my ankle, I hurt it the same way Dustin hurt his leg.

My Eddie is not only a free man but a hero, my hero. He helped save the world and I saved him in return. Dustin and I drug him back to his trailer and wrapped him up. When Steve, Nancy, and Robin came back from frying the Vecna, they helped me get him back up in our dimension. He was in the hospital for a little and almost got arrested, but Hopper cleared his name

At school, Eddie helped me out of the van as Steve pulled up to drop off Robin and Nancy. "Have a good day you two!" he shouted as they walked away together. "Sure thing mom!" Robin yelled back. I held onto Eddie when I saw Jason driving by. He gave me a quick wink before Eddie flipped him off holding me tight.

Walking in the hallways again didn't feel real. This is the first time I'm walking in the hallways not feeling scared or insecure. Eddie just makes my problems disappear. On one side of the hallway, Lucas, Dustin, Mike, and Will were talking about tonight's campaign. On the other, El was holding Max's hand, holding her backpack, and helping her get things out of her locker.

Eddie put his arm around me as we walked. Everyone kept giving us looks, especially my cheer "friends" they whispered amongst themselves as we walked by. "What is she doing with that freak." "She could do so much better." "I can't believe she cheated on Jason, he didn't deserve that" I held onto Eddie tighter holding back tears. I'm not the bad guy Jason is...