Together, until the end | Eddie Munson

Save him pt.3

Eddie's face twitches sharply in a grieving grimace. Eddie collects enough energy to bring one of his shaking hands to the girl's cheek "I trust you..." Vivien sees him smile, close his eyes, and then he starts coughing heavily.

"No no no no..." the girl gasps shaking Eddie's shoulder "Eddie, Eddie! Stay with me, please, stay- Open your eyes!"

She feels like her head is about to explode.
All she feels is pain. Pain in her heart, in her chest, as if it could burst at any moment.
Pain in her lungs that won't allow her to take a full breath.

Suddenly she sees a group of teen running from the woods.
It's them. Steve, Robin, Nancy!
"Man down!" Nancy yells.

"Steve! Steve... help!" With all her strength, she screams his name across the street. Her voice breaks as she watches Steve desperately. "I need help!"
Steve starts to run faster than he can not understanding what happened.
Robin screams as he approaches "LIVE! Oh God..."
Steve's look bounces from Eddie's body to Vivien's teary face.
"Is it...?" Steve asks her but at the moment the girl can not speak or move, she has not even checked her pulse.
"Okay... okay, breathe. We have to hurry." She sighs of relief as I lay my fingers on Eddie's jugular and notice that he is still breathing "Don't you dare die Munson...not here, not today and not in front of her."

"Hey, hey, come on." Robin helps the girl get up while Steve, with Vivien's help, lift Eddie's body.

"Where is Dustin?" chiede Steve poggiando una braccio di Eddie sulla sua spalla
"He's up there, I couldn't let him come here with me, he was dangerous..."
"Okay, okay... he'll help us." he reassures her in a calm voice.

The boys run as fast as they can to get to the van. Lightning and thunder still make themselves felt in the dark sky as the group shouts "Come on...come on let's go!"

Eddie's head looks leaden, and his vision is clouded. There are so many voices, everyone says something, everyone is panicked. You can't really say that. But you can always tell Vivien's voice in the middle of everything. He can't seem to move his body anymore, and he's so cold. Right now he just wants one more of your hugs, one of those that could drain the strain from his body in an instant. But there's no time to waste.

"Vivien...are you hurt?" Steve asks, looking at her arm
"Oh this...is nothing." Vivien notices a concerned look on her friend's face, is worried about the girl, about the blood on her arm, has never seen her cry so much and for Eddie...

Nancy pushes the van door and immediately the guys are rushing inside
"DUSTIN! Dustin!" Steve yells at the portal so that the kid could hear them "Okay you have to help us!
"Steve?" says surprised Dustin "Oh no no no no..." starts to tear as soon as he sees Eddie's body thinking the worst.

"Dustin...is alive. We have to run to the hospital, okay? O-now you will help us. Throw us a chair and reposition the mattress under the portal." Vivien says in a broken voice.

After Dustin has placed the things, everyone jumps into the chair and falls with a thud on the mattress on the other side. "Be careful." recommends Steve.
First Nancy, then Robin.
"Holy shit... how do we get him up there?" the girl thinks aloud.
It takes the effort of all four, but they manage to drag him to the other side with an unconscious descent.

"Oh God" Dustin exclaims as the older boys lift Eddie up again and get out of the van.

The camper is parked where it used to be, right next to Eddie's van, so they're getting in fast. Steve gets behind the wheel as usual trying to reassure Vivien with a caress on her face "I never wanted this to happen, if I knew I wouldn't have-"
"Steve is not your fault. We weren't supposed to be heroes today, but someone changed their mind." The radio turns on automatically and a faded song starts, "Time after time" by Cyndi Lauper.

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time
If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting
Time after time

"Eddie and I will sit in the back."

Dustin yells at Eddie to stay awake while Nancy continues to yell at Steve for pressing the gas with Vivien trying to stop the bleeding by putting laces where she could or simply pressing on the wounds where she could not.

Deep at night. The sound of the wind in the trees. The light of the full moon shining through the vehicle's window.
Vivien is sitting next to the boy, her warm hands on his face. She is smiling at him, even through the tears.
"Hey...you'll be fine, it's all over ...I made a promise after all" the girl whispers to him, wiping the blood from his face and placing a light kiss on his cheek while he struggles to keep his eyes open.
The young woman is removing the curls from his face while he blinks slowly to the touch. He's weak, pale, cold and bleeding on her.

She gets a lump in her throat when she sees him like this. Eddie was usually the happiest person. He was running, jumping, excluding the appearance he is literally a child.
"What happened?" Dustin asks, eyes full of tears not shed, bringing her back to reality. Vivien sniffles and starts explaining it to him.

"When I got there... it was terrifying. There were bats everywhere, like a lot. Some of them bit me, one strangled me..." she sighs "But suddenly they stopped flying and fell to the ground lifeless. Then I saw... I saw him, covered in- I tried to help I swear... I swear, but he's too heavy I waited- I don't know- I was-" she starts to panic gesturing with her hands nervously.
"Okay... that's fine. I'm sure he'll be fine. He's strong, isn't he?" Dustin nods nervously
"I just think... if I had been there with him and helped him fight them maybe... I would have been more hurt now but we would have been fine I mean- Maybe it would have been...my time to clean up the mess." slows down, ending what he always wanted to say.
"W-what mess?"

"Viv, honey let me help you..." Robin interrupts them as she joins the boys in the back of the camper, kneeling, taking Vivien's arm and starting to bandage and putting pressure on it
"Fuck..." Vivien gasps "Assholes bats..."
"Sorry..." Robin apologizes while Vivien nods her head to not make her worry.

"So...it's all over?" the girl looks into her eyes looking for comfort "Max? Vecna? What happened?"

"Vecna has been roasted properly." she responds, pointing to Nancy "And for Max, we haven't heard any chimes. It should be all right." she continues bandaging her wounds. To those words she feels as if her heart is lightened, a little, as if they had just lifted a rock from a mass of rocks.

"How's it going with him?" Robin asks, lowering her tone of voice. Vivien looks again at Eddie, he is sitting with his chin resting against his chest.

"It should be stable...the blood doesn't come out anymore. But I'm afraid." She admits, her voice is cracked and the sound of the radio and the sound of Eddie's struggling to breathe cloud her mind.
"I know..." Robin nods sadly, placing a hand on Vivi's hand to reassure her.

"He didn't run away this time. He fought, he was brave, I never would have done that. But he did, and now..."
What did he do to deserve this?

Hey guys! What do you think of this story? I hope you're enjoying it and not i hope i'm not disappointing your expectations<3 (btw I made a spotify playlist with songs that remind me of this story if you want https:///open.spotify.com/playlist/01zkXfq4TPu4RZbR6dnGR?si=si4DPOMxuuQCmCmO4skcFtJoow)