Coping || STEDDIE

Wrong Emotions

The plan was pretty simple, they were going to perform a sort of exorcism. Similar to what they did to Will when the mind flayer was controlling him, or that's how Jonathan explained it.

"So... How are we going to do that with Eddie? It isn't like he's just a vessel for something else, he has literally become this thing... this being." Robin countered slightly, and then Nancy sighed, "If only we had more information on what the hell kinda things we're dealing with these days."

"He was so... himself. But he had fangs and wings and long ass fingers with sharp nails on the ends..." Steve murmured to himself.

"I mean maybe we can use Eleven? She's got like badass powers that might be helpful. Maybe she can go into like his dna or something and like... fix him." Robin stated, shrugging slightly. They had been at the Byers home for hours, and it was almost 6 pm, the sun was setting and everyone was slightly on edge.

"I mean, that could work. She's done weirder crazier shit then that before." Mike added in, the kids had since then migrated to the living room, and were watching the adults plan. And at some point Dustin and Lucas showed up too, but they weren't really expecting the conversation they were overhearing, "But she isn't going to go alone."

"No. Nope." Hopper stood up, suddenly aggressive, and shook his head violently.

"But hop, we need her." Joyce started.

"She can hold her own." Max added,

"She's pretty badass if you let her be." Nancy said like it was completely obvious.

"Um... Guys.." Will started, but his words were quickly trampled as everyone started arguing about involving the kids.

"We've literally fought these things like 4 times now, this isn't anything new for us. Especially not for El." Mike said, standing up from where he sat with Eleven laying on him.

"Yeah, and we have all made it out time and time again. Why the sudden disbelief in our abilities?" Max also stood up and everyone continued their argument, except for Steve and Will.

They made eye contact from across the room, and Will looked horrified. His eyes were wide and there was sweat dripping down his face, his mouth was slightly open. And worst of all, his hand was on the back of his neck.

"He's here."

Steve jumped up and locked the front door to the house, everyone scrambled to try and do something productive and helpful. "What?? Who's here? Eddie??" Robin said as she stood in the middle of the living room and pulled at her fingers.

Joyce is commanding the chaos, ordering Hopper to get all of the kids, including Eleven, out of the house through the back and away from whatever the hell Eddie had become. As she says this though, the door starts thumping.

It's slow and timed, almost like a rhythm. But the force behind it is so strong that the wood of the door started bending slightly, and it looks as if it's about to swing open. Steve immediately lunges for it, pressing his entire body weight against the door to keep it closed. Robin and Dustin try to help, and it kinda works. The door isn't about to open.

The adults use this time to force the kids, other than Dustin because he's actively helping, out of the house. "EDDIE??" Robin screams as she uses her hands next to the doorknob to try and keep it closed at the end, Steve in the middle with his shoulder pressed against it, and Dustin next to the door hinges trying his best to be productive.

He soon realized he isn't doing much and opts to run to the window that looks outside, he sees the lights above the door illuminating a person. It looks like a normal person, long curly hair and normal looking limbs. No add ons or oddities such as wings.

"Eddie?" Dustin chokes out, and Eddie's eyes flash towards his. Dustin watches as he continued to beat on the door, but he does so while staring Dustin down. A grin playing on his demonic features, and Dustin could see the long pointy canines.

"Open up the door~" Eddie sang to Robin and Steve, but they both knew he could tear it down if he really wanted to. He was toying with them, this was a game to him. "Cmon pretty boy, let me in~" If Steve wasn't fearing for his life then he might've blushed, but now isn't the time he scolded himself and grunted at the force of holding back the door.

What the fuck happened to y-" Dustin started, but was cut off when the door broke sending Robin and Steve flying across the room.

"Hey Henderson." Eddie regarded the boy with a half tilt of his head and a smirk, but stalked towards where Robin and Steve had crashed on the floor, halfway into the kitchen. "Eddie..?" Was all Dustin could muster as he stood in the living room breathless.

"Why does everyone look so scared? I'm just here to join in on the planning. You know, like old times." Eddie said as he stalked closer to where Robin and Steve laid in a bloody heap. They had cuts from pieces of wood and Steve's head was bleeding from landing on the tile of the Byers' kitchen. "So... Amigos, where's the rest of the crew? They just left you guys behind?"

Steve tried to push himself up, his hands slipping on the pieces of the splintered door. "Fuck Eddie." Steve groaned as he continued his attempt to get off the ground, Robin next to him was out cold. She had slammed into the wall next to the couch, and was now slightly ontop of Steve completely unconscious.

Steve pushed her lower body off of him as he sat up and forced himself to stand, swaying slightly. He'd been through worse, like when the Russians beat his ass and left him and Robin high.

"Oh hey big boy, standing all on our own arent we." Eddie grinned as he stalked closer, Dustin was frozen in the same way Steve had been just that morning, when they first saw Eddie.

"Maybe if you didn't give us a reason, we wouldn't be so on our fucking guard." Steve growled at him, his eyebrows furrowed in anger and his completely normal human teeth grinding together.

"Oh- Right. Sorry 'bout that sweetheart. I got a little..." Eddie started, then moved like a swift wind and pressed himself against Steve, one arm wrapped around his back and the other taking Steve's hand in his own. "Carried away.." He murmured into Steve's ear, and Steve felt his breath hitch.

His heartbeat quickened, but he didn't feel the urge to run or to beat up Eddie, no this was something entirely different. Steve wasn't sure what to do with his arm so he let it hang there, caught up in this intoxicating moment.

"Eds..." He started, then snapped out of it and his face was back to a twist of anger. "If you fucking bite me again I will actually hurt you." He snapped trying to shove Eddie off, but his strength was again, unmatchable.

Eddie let go, practically pushing himself off of steve as he did so, and Steve fell against the wall. "Fine- fine." He put his long nailed hands up in surrender, "I'm sorry for biting you and then like the whole drinking your blood 'n shit. That was a wildly inappropriate reunion, and I admit to that." Eddie turned in a circle as Steve stood over robin, one hand braced against the wall and the other clutching the back of his head.

"You know Eddie, it would be really fucking easy to accept that your back. But notice how Henderson hasn't said a word since he saw you?" Steve said quietly, groaning. This made Eddie turn and look at Dustin, who was clutching his hat and staring at Eddie in disbelief.

"Oh- hey kid. How's Hellfire holdin up?" Eddie asked nonchalantly, as if he wasn't an entire vampire who just knocked one of Dustin's friends unconscious and almost bit the other.

"You touch him and I swear to fucking god"Steve started, but cut himself off as he noticed Eddie's eyes go all soft. He started walking towards Dustin, slow at first, and Dustin all but collapsed into his arms.

"I really missed you man." He said into Eddie's shirt, which was the same shirt he died in. Somehow, some way, Henderson wasn't crying. No, he was just in awe. It was almost like he thought he was dreaming.

"I missed you too kid." Eddie grinned at patted the curls atop his head.

"What the fuck..."

(iA/N: i want to make it happy i really do. but i literally cannot think of any way to make this end happy. I want them to have 6 nuggets and run off to like California where Eddie won't be called a freak. But maybe not this fic 😭😭. If u have any suggestions for how to make it happy, help a girl out.)