Eddie The Bloody Handed *STEVEXEDDIE*

Hungry Like The Wolf

"E-Eddie?" I asked in a low voice. 

He tilts his head slightly like he doesn't know what I said. I was terrified of what was staring back at me, he wasn't the Eddie I had known. Hell I didn't know if this even was him.

"Eddie?" I finally gather the courage to speak but my voice is shaky.

He looks as if he's studying me and after another minute he looks back up at me. "Steve?" This time when he speaks he sounds more like Eddie.

"Eddie w-what happened to you? We all thought...we all thought you died.." I stammered as I spoke.

"You're afraid. I can hear your heart pounding."

I try to steady my voice as I speak "Hear my heart?" I shake my head "Eddie what happened to you?" I ask again.

He sighs and plops down on the edge of my bed "Well it's going to be a bit hard to take in but I'm not human anymore. I'm sort of like a vampire."

"A-A vampire?" I ask in disbelief.

He nods "Yeah, guess those bats that killed me were some kind of vampire mutant bats or something. "

"But wait if you were alive then why didn't you come back sooner?"

He tilts his head up and looks at me "All of the gates we had used before were closed. It took awhile to find one that was open."

"Oh."

"By the way, is that my vest you're holding?"

I can feel the instant heat in my face and I drop the article of clothing I'd been holding in my hand. "Uh, no."

"Does this mean someone missed me?"

I cross my arms and roll my eyes "Well everyone has missed you Eddie. I just didn't get a chance to give it back to you."

He stands and makes his way to stand in front of me. I slowly raise my head all the way up to meet his eyes. How had he gotten taller? Was this a vampire thing? I watch as his hand moves up and one of his sharp claw like fingernails brushes against my cheek.

"I think you missed me more than you're letting on Harrington."

I gulp as his nail runs down the side of my throat "I-I"

He bends down so his face is level with mine. He stares at me like he wants to take a big bite. Hell no, I am not dying now. I gather up all the courage I have and shove him away from me. I make a break for my bedroom door but he grabs the back of my shirt and tosses me to the floor. He straddles me and I try to shove him off which only makes him pin my arms down.

"Eddie let me go." I continue to struggle but he doesn't seem to let up any.

He leans down close to my face "You know I could kill you right now if I wanted to. I could rip your pretty little throat out and drink all of the blood in your body in a matter of seconds."

I stop for a moment but then I continue to try and break free of him. I think I caught him slightly off guard because I was able to pull myself up almost into a sitting position but as quickly as I came up I was slammed back down. I blink a few times as black spots begin to appear in my vision. This is it, I think to myself as my vision goes black.

I raise my hand up to shield my eyes from the sun as I slowly blink them open. I sit up and look around my room. I'm laying in bed and its morning now. Had it all been a dream? Had I scared myself so bad that I had some kind of mental breakdown? I try to clear my mind as I get up and walk to my bathroom. I go through my normal shower routine and after wrapping a towel around my waist I walk over to the bathroom counter and wipe away some of the fog on the mirror.

I stare at myself for a minute before I frown seeing something on my neck. I turn my head to the side and move my hand up to feel the area. I almost let out a scream when I see two puncture wounds on my neck. Oh my god, it was real. He was really here, last night had really happened. Worse, he drank my blood! 

I had to call Dustin about this, maybe he or one of his friends would have an answer. At least I hoped. I make my way downstairs and quickly dial the number into the phone. Finally at the last ring the phone is answered.

"Hello?"

"Henderson, hey."

"Steve, hey buddy are you okay? You really freaked out last night."

"Uh yeah that's actually what I needed to talk to you about. Can you come over?"

"Well actually I was gonna-"

"Please Henderson this is important. I think my life and maybe others may be on the line here."

He sighs "Fine I'll be there." With that he hangs up and I put the phone back on the base.

About twenty minutes later Dustin knocks on my door. I open the door and quickly step outside with him.

"Uh Steve isn't the point of me coming over to you know come over and not go for a brisk jog away from your house?"

I stop walking when I reach the middle of my driveway and then turn to face him. "Okay maybe it'll be okay to talk about here since we're in the sun."

"Talk about what Steve?" He tosses his arms up as he asks.

I take a deep breath "Henderson you aren't going to believe what I am going to tell you."

"We'll see if you ever tell me." 

"Well...Eddie's alive."

I watch as Dustin's face falls "That's not funny Steve. Why would you even joke about something like that?"

I shake my head "I'm not joking, look." I turn my head to the side a point at the two holes on my neck.

"Steve I think maybe you got bitten by a venomous snake and now you're losing it."

I look back at him "No he's really alive! Well dead but alive, but still walking the earth!"

"Okay and you think two holes on your neck is going to prove that Eddie is still alive?"

"I may have skipped the part about him being a bloodsucking freak."

"So let me get this straight, you think that Eddie is somehow still alive but he's a creature of the night, I really believe that."

I grab his shoulders and bend down a little so our faces are level with each other "Henderson we have been through so much crazy shit together, why would I lie to you about this? There is a blood thirsty undead Eddie running around killing what ever he's killed, even taken some of my blood last night, and I think he's going to come back again to finish the job."

He is silent for a minute and then he looks back at me "Okay so say that Eddie is back from the dead and is some kind of vampire, we'll need to be prepared for when he comes back."

"Does this mean you believe me?"

"I will believe you until I have evidence that you are insane, at which time I will send you far away to an asylum."

I pull him into a hug "Thank you for believing me Henderson.."

He pats my back "No problem buddy, but if we want to be prepared for Eddie before the sun goes down we should get started."