horror movie || Steve Harrington x F! Reader

THREE

By the time they had reached Lipton's place, it was dark out. Dustin and Max handed Steve, Robin, and Y/n a flashlight. Dustin walked up to the door and rang the doorbell but received no response. He rang it again and waited a few seconds before ringing the doorbell again, and again. "Okay, well, that's settled. I guess he's not here" Steve commented on Dustin's repeated ringing.

Dustin knocked on the door "Eddie! It's Dustin!" He yelled. "Great," Steve muttered. "Look, we just want to talk, okay? No cops, I swear! We just want to help" Dustin said flashing his light into the window of the door. "Eddie!!" He yelled again.

Dustin continued to bang on the door "Reefer Rick!" He yelled. "Don't scream that" Steve scolded. Y/n shined the lights into the window. Y/n stepped off the porch shining her light around. Max followed behind and both spotted a shed. "Guys" Y/n called out. The remaining three walked behind Max and Y/n and saw the shed. Robin led the way and made her way into the shed "Is anyone home?" She called out shining her light throughout the shed.

Y/n walked in shining her light and looking around for any signs of Eddie or Rick. "What a dump" Steve muttered. Turning off his light, Steve grabbed an oar that hung from the wall and began poking at the covered boat. "What are you doing?" Dustin and Y/n asked looking at the male. "He might be in here" Steve replied. "So take the tarp off" Dustin retorted. "If you're so brave, you take the tarp off!" Steve replied. Y/n shook her head at their bickering.

"Someone was here," Max said "maybe he heard us. Got spooked and ran" Robin replied. "Don't worry. Steve will get him with oar" Dustin said with sarcasm. "I know you think you're being funny, but considering mostly everyone in this room has nearly died a hundred times, personally I don't find it funny in the slightest—" Eddie jumped out of the boat and pushed Steve against the well "Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!" Steve shouted.

Eddie held a broken bottle up to Steve's neck. "Wait! Wait! Wait! Eddie, stop!" Y/n exclaimed. Max and Robin ran up behind Dustin and Y/n who didn't let them through. "Eddie! Eddie!" Dustin shouted. "It's me...it's Dustin. This is Steve. He's not gonna hurt you, right, Steve?" Dustin continued.

"Right. Yeah," Steve replied looking at Eddie. "Steve, why don't you drop the oar?" Dustin suggested. Steve dropped the oar but Eddie inched the bottle closer to Steve's neck. "Hey, he's cool. He's cool" y/n said softly. "I'm cool, man. I'm cool" Steve added.

"What are you doing here?" Eddie asked, "we were looking for you." Dustin answered. "We're here to help" Y/n added. "Eddie, these are my friends. You know Robin, from band. This is my friend Max. The one who never wants to play D&D. Eddie...we're on your side. I swear on my mother!" said Dustin, "right guys?"

"Yes"
"Yes—Yes we swear"
"On Dustin's mother.."

"Yeah, Dustin's—Dustin's mother" Steve stammered. Eddie's hand shook before finally releasing Steve. Steve grunted as he moved away. Eddie pressed up against the wall and slowly slid down. Y/n and Dustin slowly approached the dark-haired boy. "Eddie..." Y/n said slowly. Y/n and Dustin kneeled slowly in front of Eddie. "We just want to talk..." Dustin said reaching for Eddie's hand. Eddie flinched. "Okay—okay...." Dustin retreated his hand.

"We just wanna know what happened," said the (e/c) Y/n's eyes softened at the frightened boy before her. "You won't believe me..." Eddie sniffled. "Try us" Max challenged. Eddie looked at Y/n. Y/n slowly reached for his hand. He didn't flinch "tell us," she said softly. Steve watched from afar. There was no grin on her face instead it was there was concern.

"Her body just, like, lifted up into the air and, uh...and she just, like, hung there. In the air. And her bones...uh, she..." Eddie's voice trembled and closed his eyes. Y/n squeezed his hand in a comforting manner. "Her bones started to snap. Her eyes, man. It—it was like there was something, like, in her head, pulling. I-I didn't know what to do, so I...I ran away. I left her there"

"you all think I'm crazy, right?" Eddie scoffed and moved his hand away from Y/n. "No. We don't think you're crazy." Dustin said. "Don't bullshit me, man! I know how this sounds." Eddie rubbed the bridge of his nose. Y/n was trying her best to understand. It sounded like something straight out of a horror movie. But Eddie seemed scared to death. How was she not gonna believe him?

"We're not bullshitting you," Max replied. "We believe you," Robin added. Eddie let out a sharp exhale. "Look, what I'm about to tell you guys might be...a little difficult to take." Dustin looked at Eddie and Y/n. "Okay," Eddie said slowly.

"You know how people say Hawkins is...cursed? They're not way off." Y/n and Eddie put all their attention on the curly-haired boy. "There's another world. A world hidden beneath Hawkins. Sometimes it bleeds into ours."

"Like ghost and shit?" Eddie asked "there are some things worse than ghost" Max responded. "These monsters from this other world...we thought they were gone. But they've come back before. That's why we needed to find you." Dustin continued. "If they're back again, we need to know," said Max. "That night, did you see anything?" Robin inquired. "Dark particles, maybe?" Max added. Y/n looked at Eddie as he shook his head no. "It would almost look like dust, swirling dust." Dustin described.

"No, man, there was nothing you could see or, uh, or touch. You know, I tried to wake her, man. She couldn't move. It was like she was in a trance or something." Eddie said. "Or under a spell," said Dustin.

"A curse"
"Vecna's Curse"

"Who's Vecna?" Steve and Y/n asked. "An undead creature of great power," Dustin answered. "A spell caster," Eddie added.

"A dark wizard."

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The next day Steve picked up everyone and they all headed back to Eddie. They grabbed a few bags from the grocery store before heading toward the shack. Dustin opened the door and "Jesus!" Eddie sighed. "Delivery service" Y/n held up the food in the bags with a smile.
Eddie exhaled and Steve gave him a small wave.

"Here, I got you some Honey Comb and some Yoohoo—"Y/n looked through the bag before Eddie took it. "Sorry, hungry" he replied and opened the box of cereal. He sat down on the boat and began to stuff his face with the cereal. "So we got bad news and good news," Y/n said as she stood beside Dustin who sat on a stool. "How do you prefer it?" Dustin asked. "Bad news first, always," Eddie said with food in his mouth before taking a sip of his yoohoo.

"Alright. 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." Dustin informed. "Like, 100% kind of convinced" Max added. "And the good news?" Eddie looked up at Y/n. "Your name hasn't gone public yet. But if we found you it's only a matter of time until others do" Y/n explained. "And once that gets out, everyone and their shallow-minded mother is gonna be gunning for you." Said Robin.

"Hunt the freak, right?" Eddie said. "Exactly" Robin responded. "Shit" Eddie cursed under his breath. "So, before any of that happens, we need to find Vecna, kill him, and prove your innocence," Dustin concluded. "That's it, Dustin? That's all?" Eddie looked at the curly-haired boy. "Yeah, no, that's pretty much it" Dustin replied nonchalantly.

"Listen, Eddie. I know everything Dustin is saying sounds totally delusional, but we've actually been through this before. I mean, they have a—a few times, and—and I have once. Mine was more human-fleshed-based, theirs was more smoke-related, but bottom line is, collectively, I really feel we got this." Robin said with a grin. "We usually rely on this girl who has super powers" Y/n and Eddie looked at Steve, "but, uh, those went bye-bye, so..." he trailed off.

"So we're technically more in the—"
"Kinda"
"Brainstorming phase"

"Brainstorming" Steve snapped his fingers. "There's—there's nothing to worry about" Dustin spluttered. Steve scoffed and looked at the boy and girl with a grin on his face. It went quiet for a second before it was disrupted by wails of sirens. "Shit. Tarp!" Y/n told Eddie. "Tarp. Get under the tarp" Y/n said. Eddie did as he was told and hid under the tarp.

Everyone scurried to the window and watched as Police cars passed by. "We gotta go check that out," Max said. Everyone nodded. Y/n kicked the boat softly "Hey, we're gonna go check something out. Don't do anything stupid" Y/n said to Eddie. "Yes, ma'am" Eddie replied from under the tarp.

Everyone headed out to Steve's car and got in.

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