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☆ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 29

                           "HELP!" SAM'S voice was getting weaker and weaker but she didn't stop, she kept begging for help and holding Eddie thightly.

And finally, finally, her tear-filled eyes spotted three silhouettes running from the woods.

"Steve!" Sam screamed. "Robin! Nancy! Help!"

From another direction she heard Dustin's screams.

"Hang in there, love." Sam softly said, looking down at the boy in her lap. "You are going to be fine."

Eddie barely managed to nod, eyes closed and the hold on Sam weakening and weakening.

"Hurry up!"

"Holy shit! Sam!" Robin shouted from few feet away, panting and eyes wide.

"Eddie, buddy, hey!" Steve shouted, faster than the rest as he made his way around Sam, immediately pulling Eddie on his feet. "It's okay, Sam, let go. I'll carry him-"

"No!" Sam shouted, tightening her hold on Eddie and pulling him along with Steve towards the trailer.

Robin and Nancy finally made their way next to the three and hurried up to help hold Eddie, all of them moving the dying boy towards his trailer. Eddie's eyes were closed but his hold on Sam was gone, completely gone.

"Jesus- oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!" Robin shouted, panicking.

"Holy shit," mumbled Nancy, voice a bit shaky.

"Eddie!" Dustin scramed, waving his hands at the group as they pulled Eddie closer.

We are close, come on. Sam kept thinking. We are almost there.

God her arm was dripping with both Eddie's and her own blood. The pain was becoming unbearable since she was also using her wounded arm to hold Eddie and white stars kept swimming in front of her but she wasn't letting go. No one could make her let go anyway.

"Come on, buddy, we are almost there." Steve reassured, gritting his teeth and pulling Eddie faster towards Dustin who was holding the door open for the group to move Eddie inside.

Sam had never been this relieved in her entire existence. The moment she saw the three running towards her and Eddie, Sam's heart started to beat a bit more and her panicked tears turned into soft and relieved sobs. If it weren't for them, Sam would have watched Eddie die in her arms. Now though? Now as they pulled Eddie in the middle of the livingroom, under the gate, now Sam could bring her hope back.

Eddie was going to be fine.

He had to be.

"Steve come with me first." Nancy instructed, trying to stay collected and already pulling herself in the new makeshift rope that Dustin must have made after calling the three on the walkie-talkie. "We need to pull Eddie up."

Steve nodded and Robin took his side to hold Eddie as Nancy dropped onto the real world, grumbling a bit since she halfway fell onto the floor. The mattress that Sam had pulled away were still halfway under the gate so it gave Nancy a somewhat safe landing. Steve didn't waste a second and was pulling himself onto the rope just as Nancy pulled the mattress under the gate, helping Steve on his feet as soon as he fell.

Nancy then threw the rope that Eddie had cut with the spear and Sam, Dustin and Robin tied it around Eddie before tying him with the new rope. They were going to pull Eddie up with that, hoping he could hold on a bit more.

"Come on!" Steve shouted, spreading his arms.

Sam considered the idea. How the hell were they going to pull Eddie up the rope and then down? But she didn't have time to think before she was climbing on top of a table that Dustin had pulled under the rope with his soft sobs. She and Robin managed to raise Eddie up, struggling a great deal and listening to Eddie whimper in pain. Sam was working on autopilot, she wasn't processing anything except that  needed to get Eddie out of there and bring him to a hospital. Everything else didn't matter.