Master of Puppets [ EddiexReader | Stranger Things ]

Holy Diver

The ride to Reefer Rick's was tense and little was said, you rode shot gun to be able to easily point out his house.

"It's up here on the left" you pointed to the small dirt driveway leading down to the house. Steve slowed and turned left, wincing a little as his car bumped up and down on the uneven gravel. You pulled up to the house and Dustin jumped out ringing the doorbell and calling out for Eddie. You stayed back a little and looked around the property.

"Rick! Reefer Rick!" Yelled Dustin, giving up on calling out for Eddie

"Don't scream that" Steve chastised

"Reefer Rick" Dustin continued

"Is that a foot?" Steve whispered

"No that's a shoe" you heard Dustin say before you picked up your flashlight and looked around a little more.

"Hey guys?" You called them over pointing your flashlight towards the boathouse. You all started to go towards it, flashing lights through the windows before heading inside. The floorboards creaked as you all made your way into the boathouse. A layer of dust covered every surface and a damp smell filtered through your nose.

Steve started poking around a small boat with an oar saying that he might be in here as Max noticed some food wrappers. You started to head towards a small table when all of a sudden something shot out of the boat and pinned Steve to the wall.

You could see a broken bottle against Steve's throat as you yelled in fear and surprise. Dustin was yelling at Eddie to calm down. He introduced Robin and Max before introducing you, Eddie gave you a sideways glance before dropping the bottle.

"Why did you invite the prom queen, you think she's here to help?" Eddie asked, your heart leapt to your throat.

"Of course she is, she's how we found this place" Dustin said calmly, still trying to speak gently in order to keep Eddie calm.

"How on Earth do you know where Rick lives?" Eddie looked towards you and you felt your cheeks immediately heat up.

"I uh occasionally buy weed from the guy" Eddie gave you a wolfish grin.

"Do you now princess?" His smirk faltered as he seemed to remember the events that led him here and he backed up and slumped down against the wall.

"Hey, Eddie, just tell us what happened" Dustin said, putting a hand on his shoulder

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you" Eddie rasped, thinking of last night.

"Try us" Dustin responded.

Eddie started from the beginning with meeting Chrissy in the woods so she could buy from him, what led them to his trailer and what conspired there. You eyes widened as he recounted the way she was in a trance, your heartbeat sped up as he mentioned her bones breaking and you felt sick to your stomach when explained how her eyes looked.

You felt sick to your stomach, you knew that this was Hawkins, it was clear Eddie had nothing to do with this. Your heart broke as you looked at him and thought about what he had seen and rage flared in your veins when you thought about what Jason and the rest of the team must be thinking now. It was obvious everyone is going to think Eddie murdered Chrissy.

"So where do we go from here?" Steve said and looked to the group.

"We need to get Eddie somewhere safer, if we found him it's easy enough for anyone else to and it's only a matter of time before everyone will be gunning for him" Dustin said and looked to the group.

"Hunt the freak right?" Eddie said looking despondent.

"Where can we hide him? We can't exactly hide him in one of our basements? We have parents, they'll notice" Steve said.