falling for him<3 //steddie//

chapter 15: safe

⚠️ TW ⚠️ mentions of a knife, and stabbing
Eddie ~
We drove to Steve's house and as we start to brainstorm a plan like we did for the first attempt to kill Vecna, Steve calls Robin then hangs up the phone. "I think I have an idea." Henderson says. Nancy and Robin walk in and sit down on the couch nest to everyone else. Dustin stands up in front of everyone and starts to talk. "Eddie's right. We need bait. Someone to distract the mind flayer because as we know, Vecna controls it so, we distract the mind flayer, we distract Vecna. Will?" "Yeah?" "You're the only one who has been taken over by the mind flayer. Can you distract him?" "What happens if he chooses me to be his host?" Will asked.

"I've seen you run in P.E, you are way faster than the mind flayer. Nancy. Can you go with Will?" "Um yeah, I can run pretty fast." Nancy answered. "Nancy. No. You could get killed! Are you out of your mind!?" Robin yelled. "Robin, I'll be okay." Nancy assured her."Okay now, we need to figure out how to kill him while he's distracted. Fire won't work. We need something else. Something that will work." Henderson says, visibly thinking. "What about stabbing him in his heart? It works for a vampire. The undead. Since Vecna won't die, let's treat him like the undead!" I suggested, while standing up and walking over next to Dustin. "Yes!" Dustin exclaims. "I'll stab him." I offered.

"No Eddie. I will. We don't even know if it will even work." Steve replied. "Steve." "Can everyone go outside for a sec?" Steve asks. Everyone goes outside as I put my eyes back on Steve. "This isn't up for discussion. I'm doing it." Steve sternly says. "No Steve! What happens if it doesn't work? Huh? What happens when someone can't get away and dies. I'm not letting that be you!" I yell. "Let's flip a coin." Steve suggests. "Heads or tails?" I roll my eyes and he pulls a coin out of his pocket. "Tails." I respond. He flips the coin and catches it. "Tails." He whispers.

He looks at me holding back the floodgate of tears in his eyes. He hugs me kisses my cheek. "No." He says. "I'm doing it, love. Plus, I'm not gonna die to some freak named Vecna and, all his little, loser demogorgons." I say with a smile. He sniffles then laughs. He kisses me then we walk outside. "Me, Eddie, Will, Nancy, and El are going to the upside down. Everyone else stays in Hawkins. Safe." Steve says. "Woah, woah, woah. That was not the plan, Steve." I say looking at him. "You're not going alone." He responds.

I sigh and look at robin. "Watch them and make sure they don't try to follow us." "I'm the babysitter?!" She asks with a crazy look on her face. I ignore her and look at the kids. "If we're doing this, we've gotta do it now." I say. Everyone piles in the car and I start driving to the gate in the woods. Once we get there, I park and we all walk to the gate. Max and El hug and so do Mike and Will. "Ready to go?" I ask.

They both nod and me and Steve help them down. Nancy and Robin hug before we help her down. I climb down before Steve does and wait for him to climb through. He finally climbs down, and looks at Nancy and Will. "He gets too close, you get out okay?" I toss the other walkie to Nancy. "And let us know when he's distracted." I added. "Okay. You ready Will?" Nancy asks "As ready as I'll ever be." He replies back. Me, Steve and El start walking to the Creele house. "El, you're going to hold him still while Eddie stabs him okay?" Steve tells her. "Okay." She responds, sounding slightly angry. "You okay kid?" I ask El. "I'm ready to finally kill him. He hurt my friends." She responds.

We get there and stand outside waiting for Nancy to give us the green light. "Okay. We have him! Go!" Nancy yelled over the walkie. We run inside and run up to the attic. We see him and, I give El a nod. She starts to hold him in the air while Steve hands me a knife. "Be careful." He whispered. I nod and walk up to him. I look back at El making sure she's got a good grip on him and I stab him right in his heart. He opens his eyes and looks down at me and El as he takes his last breath.

Steve ~
Eddie slowly starts to back up, handing the knife back to me and, giving El the go ahead to let him go. She lets him down and we start running just in case he magically came back to life. We saw Nancy and Will panting, holding their knees. "We got him!" Eddie yelled. We ran over and I helped Will climb back to Hawkins. I lifted El up and helped her too. I looked back at Nancy. "Are you okay?" "Yeah. Just tired." She said while still panting.

I helped her back up and then he climbed up and through the gate. I put my hand through the gate for Eddie to grab onto and I pulled him up. He looks at Eleven. "Can you close the gate?" Eddie asked, pointing at the gate we had just climbed through. She stood up and nodded. As she closed it, I put my arm around Eddie and he  laid his head on my shoulder. Max ran up to El and hugged her after she had closed it. "I'm so glad you're okay." She said.

"Let's get you all back to Mike's house so your parents don't get mad. And, No one speaks of this. Understood?" I say. They all nodded their heads and we piled back into the car. We drove back to Wheeler's house and luckily we got there just in time. We all quickly ran inside and started talking like everything was normal as we saw Hopper's car pull into the driveway. They walk in and look at us. "What did you do?" Hopper asked me. "We stayed here?" I reply. He gives me a 'I know what you did' look and then runs and hugs El.

"Thank you both so much." Joyce says as she pulls us both into a hug. "No problem Ms. Byers." I say. Me and Eddie walk back to my car and sit down. "I told you babysitting isn't the worst." I say, sarcastically. He puts his head on my shoulder and yawns. I wave to Nancy and Robin who are getting in their car, about to leave. They wave back as I start driving back to my house. When I get there, I gently tap on Eddie's shoulder. "We're here." He sits up and rubs his eyes.

We walk in and lay down on the couch. The phone starts to ring. I look at Eddie, and see that he's fast asleep. I get up and walk to the kitchen. "Hello?" I answer the phone, whispering, trying not to wake Eddie. "Steven?" "Mom? What's wrong?" I ask because I hear her sniffling. I watch Eddie stumble in the kitchen and sit down in one of the dining chairs. "It's your father. He's been in an accident." I pause. "Mom.. is it bad?" "I don't know. Please just get here." "Okay mom, I'm on my way."

I hang up the phone and look to Eddie. "What is it, love?" He asks. "M-my dad. He's in the hospital." I felt hot tears run down my face. He stands up and grabs the keys. "It's okay Steve." He walks me to the car and helps me sit in the seat because I can't see anything through my tear filled eyes. He's fine. I just kept repeating the same thing in my head over and over again. I really hope he's okay.

A/N: hey readers! i hope you enjoyed this chapter! thanks for reading! also, sorry for not posting more chapters today, i was really busy. much love♥️
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