the freak (eddie munson)

9

Rose Vila Wheeler

          That whole night was like torture. I was honestly debating getting up and sleeping on the couch. After everything that took place before Steve The Cockblock Harrington interrupted what was supposed to be something really good and exciting, we didn't speak one word to each other after that.
For a while I pretended to be asleep, and I know for a fact he wasn't sleeping either. So we were just both accepting the fact that we knew we were both up with each other in the defeating silence.

I guess now all I do is pretend I don't remember anything because I was high. That's sounds like a solid plan. Yeah. I don't remember anything because I was high!

             "Wait- wait. So this Victor Creel guy,  he isn't the one doing this?" Eddie questions.
It's just me, Steve, Max, Lucas, and Eddie in my basement going over what we know. After telling them about Jason, we all decided he isn't something to focus on. We just have to keep Eddie close by.
And I have to keep away from him. Far far far away from him.
I can't screw Eddie with everything else going on. That would just make me seem terrible considering the entirety of the situations we're in. And I'd be selfish.

"No. That's not what we think. The story he told Nancy and Robin didn't make sense... he told it as if he was in a trance too. Like one minute he saw flashbacks of his trauma and then the next he opened his eyes and both his kids were dead." Steve replies.
"So he got blamed?" The sudden realization hits me. This Vecna thing has been around way long before-hand. And we're really just a few steps away from figuring this all out. But then again, why would he stop just killing for 30 years and randomly decide to kill two teens. Could El possibly have something to do with this after opening the gate?
Yet still I myself am freaked out, I know that what I had was just a dream. I haven't had any symptoms related to Max or anyone else that has died or anything, so I'm scared that I'm under his curse. Which I can't be. It was just one nightmare.
This thing has me paranoid.

"Okay so far everyone that Vecna has cursed they all died. Except for this old weird Victor Creel guy." Dustin says watching as Steve paces around the room.
"If anyone knows how to beat this curse thing it's him because he survived." Steve stops pacing, "Yeah well we're just assuming he was cursed we don't even know for sure if he was Henderson."
That also puts my mind into a spiral. How would the one survivor who we assume was a survivor of Vecna's curse still alive? What did he do to survive?
"Wait so El didn't create the upside down?" Lucas questions.
I shake my head, "No. She just opened a gate."
"How did she though?" Eddie questions.
"I don't know."
We all go silent.

Robin and Nancy come running down the stairs, "We have a plan."
I stand up from the couch following them to the table.
"So thanks to Nancy's newspaper minions, we are now rockstar psychology students at the university of Notre Dame."
"I'm now Ruth."
"And I'm now Rose."
I scrunch my nose up at the sound of my own name being used, "Ruth?" Steve questions looking towards Nancy.
"Rose? My name seriously?" Robin mouths the words "sorry" before continuing the plan.
"So we called the asylum and we asked to speak to Victor Creel for an assignment we're both co-writing on schizophrenics."
"To which they said no."
"But- we landed at 3'o clock with the director." Nancy finishes.
"Now all we have to do is charm him and convince him to let us talk to Victor."

I blink my eyes shut closed, "So we're all just gonna rely on this Victor guy for all of our questions? I mean what if he really is crazy and he just doesn't know what he's talking about anymore? Like what if he truly is schizophrenic?"
"Then we hope. Let's hope we can find a way to rid Max of her curse." We all look back towards Max, she's writing. She's been writing forever now.

Steve pauses, "Wait, where's mine and Rose's?"

Obviously Eddie can't have a fake record. He's the most wanted in Hawkins, unless we shave his head and disguise him, maybe. But he most definitely would not want a buzz cut again.