Sober {Eddie Munson}

Eddie My Love

Chapter based on the song Eddie My Love by the Chordettes.

The drive to The War Zone was relatively calm. Eddie had found a bag of pretzels in one of the cabinets and was currently trying to toss little pieces into Dustin's mouth. Marguerite could hear Steve talking to Nancy up front and presumed they were talking about chickens since she heard the word nuggets.

"Are you sure you want to be bait for Vecna?" Marguerite asked as she said down next to Max
"Yeah. I can just escape again and then you guys can kill him." Max said

Marguerite nodded and Max got ready to slip her headphones back on.

"You know you don't have to act so cold." Marguerite said
"I'm not acting cold." Max replied
"I just...I feel like I barely know you these days. You never talk to me like you did before." Marguerite said
"Yeah well you've been too busy hanging out with Eddie for the past few months that it's basically impossible to even get time with you." Max said
"Didn't know it was a crime to be spending time with my boyfriend." She grumbled
"Yeah well then don't complain about not knowing what's going on in my life." Max said before putting her headphones back on and clicking play on her tape.

Marguerite wished she could have thought of something else to say but instead her words died on the tip of her tongue. She slowly stood back up, let Lucas take her spot next to Max and then moved to sit beside Eddie who was munching away on his pretzels.

"Everything okay?" He asked
"Yeah...it's fine. I'll just talk to Max about it later." Marguerite sighed

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"Have fun!!" Marguerite waved to the group as they filed off the camper

She and Eddie had forced Dustin and Lucas along with Steve and the rest despite both their distastes with going into The War Zone.

"I can't believe we actually got Henderson away from me." Eddie laughed
"Tell me about it. The kid worships you, almost as much as he worships Steve." She said
Eddie nodded as he sat down on the floor.
"He's kinda cute in his own way y'know. He's like the dork in science class with all the answers who sits behind you and aces all the tests." Marguerite said

Eddie just rolled his eyes as his girlfriend talked up his future head of Hellfire.

"How long do you think this will take?" Eddie asked nervously bouncing his leg
"Dunno. I'm sure nothing longer than half an hour or so. They know it's a long ass ride back to Hawkins and then we gotta go kill this asshole so they'll be quick." Marguerite said

Eddie nodded and Marguerite could tell he was on edge. After all, this was his first time close to the public since Chrissy had died. She stood up from her seat and plopped down in the passengers seat and pulling open the glove box. Inside was a half smoked pack of cigarettes, a used tissue, and a few tapes. Most of them were from some backwater artist that she had never even heard of, one however caught her eye.

"Eddie listen to this." Marguerite smiled before popping the tape into the car

The regal voices of The Chordettes filled the camper.

"Your names in the song!" Marguerite happily pointed out holding up the little cassette case.

Eddie My Love, I love you so
How I've waited for you you'll never know