Something Stranger ~ [ Steddie ]

Chapter 8; Snapping Hearts

Steve POV
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Robin went up the rope, I could see Eddie gesturing for me to go up, so I grabbed the rope. I heard a noise from behind me, I turned around, letting go of the rope. "What are you doing?" Eddie peeped from behind me. I gave him a confused look. He walked closer to me. "Why are you going back there?" He asked me. "Your just gonna let them be the ones to save you? I thought you could do stuff for yourself, Harrington." What the hell. "Eddie where the hell is this coming from?!" I yelled, completely outraged he would be saying this, but, I was hurt. He started to back me into a corner. "What? Scared? I thought that you were strong, Steve. Yet you couldn't even beat Jonathan Byers, and couldn't even protect the children from Billy Hargrove." Eddie's voice started to change, forming into the voice of my father. He'd always call me weak, emotionally damaging me to live up to the Harrington name. He was the most feared person in his highschool and wanted me to be just like him. Sometimes he'd be drunk and throw glasses at me, etc. I blinked, and the room around us changed.

It was the house, the Byers household. I was standing outside with Billy, as a horrified Max watched through the window. I was reliving it. He walked inside, but this time just punched me, I couldn't get up. He grabbed and hurt the children, I couldn't do anything. "Your too weak to help them." I heard the voice of my dad say. I ran out of the house, down the street. But as I ran down the road, on the side of the road I would see scenes, me and Nancy breaking up, scenes with my dad, etc. each became worse than the last. Eventually I stopped running, I curled up on the ground, but I couldn't cry. I couldn't stay there forever. I looked up, and i was in the Creel household, I saw a family, assuming the creel family. It was like I could hear an inner monologue of the boy..

Eddie POV
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"STEVE- STEVE WAKE UP!" I smacked him, trying to do anything to wake him out of that. Everyone else from the other side of the gate looked in horror. "MUSIC!" I screamed from the upside down. They all rushed to my room, and I looked back over at Steve, I had no idea what to do. It felt like hours that he was stuck like that, but without even the music, he got out of the trance, he fell into my arms, hyperventilating and freaking out. Just then everyone came back, relieved. I got Steve back to the real world, and climbed back up myself.

Steve took a minute to calm down, and told us about the things he saw, that Vecna was Henry Creel, who was actually a number like the girl they referred to as Eleven. He explained he saw visions of Hawkins, falling, our hawkins. Everyone took a breather, and we started to form a sort of plan of how we were going to kill this son of a bitch once and for all.

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Timeskip
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"We'll drive Erica, Max and Lucas to the Creel house, then we enter the upside down, Eddie and Dustin get themselves set up with the music, while us three go for Vecna." Nancy said, now all we had to do was get some guns and weapons from a nearby store. "We need a car, thankfully I know just where to find one." I sighed, Max gave me a Michael Myers mask to cover my face. I motioned for everyone to follow me as I went out the door and snuck over to one of the working trailers. I snuck in through the window and went to the front. I started working on the wires, so that the car could start. Steve came behind me. "How on earth do you know how to do this??" He laughed, but I could tell me was genuinely confused and surprised. "While other old man's were teaching their children how to throw and catch, mine taught me how to hot wire." I replied,  Robin came up from behind steve. "I'm not sure how I feel about you driving Eddie." She was right, I never was a good driver. "Oh I won't be driving, Harrington will take this sucker, won't you big boy?" I went close to his face and laughed as I could see the confusion and embarrassment on his face. I pulled the last wire and the car started. I ran out of the seat and to the passenger seat as Steve took the wheel, and we quickly drove out of there.

Eventually we arrived at the store with all the guns, supplies and shit. I stayed in the car, since I clearly couldn't show my face, Max, Dustin and Lucas stayed with me as the others went in the store. I could hear Lucas and Max talking about the plan, Lucas was worried about her I could tell. Dustin went over to me. "So, Robin told me about what she saw in your room." He gave me one of his cheeky smirks. I gave him a cough, gesturing for him to keep his mouth shut. "SO ITS TRUE-" he shouted, I covered his mouth. I groaned. "If I hear one peep out of you about that to anyone else, your dead." Here I am again, threatening a child. He laughed and pinky swore with me. Not long later the door slammed open. I got startled and fell out of the seat. "Lucas, your old friends are here." Nancy said in a hurry, he panicked, as I realized they were the same people who were chasing me on the lake. Nancy rushed to the driver seat and I went to the back of the car. Robin took the passenger seat as Nancy slammed her foot on the pedal, and went. I sat down, and Steve sat next to me. The sun started to set, and I could see the kids all getting huddled up and trying to sleep, before we all went in for the final battle against this mind stealing killer.

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