We all escorted to Max's trailer, so we were away from the gate. All sat on the sofas, i was next to Eddie, my hand on top of his. We were waiting to hear what Nancy had saw.
"He... showed me things.. things that haven't happened yet." She said slowly. "And.. i saw- a dark.. cloud.. spreading over Hawkins. The whole town on fire, dead soldiers.. and this- giant... creature- with- a gaping mouth.. and- this creature wasn't alone.. there was so many monsters.. an army- and they were coming into Hawkins... into our neighborhoods.. our homes.. and then...- he showed me my mum- Holly- Sam- Mike- and they were- they were all..." Nancy began crying, tears falling down her face.
I felt my eyes watering hearing the words. Our family, we were all going to die if nothing changed. The whole of Hawkins was.
"He's just trying to scare you Nance," Steve said, looking down. "I mean- it's.. it's not real." He tried to assure her.
"Not yet... there- there were something else.... he showed me gates- 4 gates- spreading across Hawkins. They looked like the ones outside Eddie's trailer. They just kept growing." She said, still crying. I leaned my head on Eddie's shoulder. We were best friends, so there was nothing weird about it. "But this wasn't the upside down Hawkins.. this was our Hawkins- our home." Everyone looked so scared. Even Steve, and he was always so strong.
"Four chimes." Max said. "It always chimes four times. Four exactly."
"I heard them too," Nancy said.
"He's been telling us his plan this whole time." Max said.
"Four kills... four gates..." Lucas said. "End of the world."
"If that's true.... he's only one kill away-" Dustin said.
"Oh christ. Jesus christ!" Eddie said in frustration, stressing out.
"Try Mike again, try them again." Steve told Max.
She had been trying to get hold of Mike, Eleven and the others all day. Did they know about it?
"Anything?" Dustin asked.
"No. Rang a few times and went to busy signal."
"Maybe you punched it in wrong, try again." Steve said.
"I didn't punch it in wrong."
"Well, you gotta know."
"Dude, i think she knows how to use a phone." Dustin said.
"Yeah, i'm just saying., she could've typed it in wrong."
Max rang it again, but put the phone back again after.
"Same shit."
"How is that possible?" Lucas asked.
"I told you, Joyce has this teleworker job, she's always on the phone, Mike won't stop whining about it." Dustin said.
"Yeah but, this phone's been busy for like, what? 3 days now? That's not Joyce. Something's wrong."
"She's right, it can't just be a coincidence." I said. "It can't be."
"Whatever is happening in Lenora is connected to all of this, i'm sure of it." Nancy spoke, looking out the window. "But Vecna can't hurt them. Not if he's dead. We have to go back in there. Back to the upside down."
"What? No no no no no." Steve said.
"Nope, nope." Eddie said, shaking his head.
"Okay let's think this through-" Steve got up.
"What is there to think through?" Nancy said.
"We barely made it out of there in one piece."
"Yeah because we weren't prepared! But this time, we will be! We'll get weapons, and protection, we'll go through the gate, we'll find his lair, and we'll kill him."
"Or he'll kill us." Steve said. "The only reason you survived is because he wanted you to. He's not scared of us."
"And for good reason! We were wrong about Vecna. He is super powerful. He could turn us inside out with the snap of his fingers! It is not a fair fight!" Robin said.
"So then, why fight fair?" I asked. "He's like El. We can know his weaknesses. When he next kills, i bet he's in that attic. Body defenseless."
"We forgetting the army of bats?" Steve asked.
"Well, what if we were to distract them?" Dustin suggested.
"And how are we to do that exactly?" Eddie lifted himself from the chair.
"No idea."
Eddie sat himself back down after hearing Dustin's reply.
"But once those bats are gone, it's so easy. Defenseless."
"Okay as good as that theory sounds, we don't know the pattern of his killings." I said.
"We don't know when Vecna is gonna attack, we don't even know who he is going to attack." Robin said.
"Yeah we do." Max interrupted. "I can still feel him, I'm still marked, cursed. I ditch Kate Bush, it draws focus back to me."
"Max- you can't. He'll kill you." Lucas said, concerned.
"I survived before, I can survive again. I just- need to keep him busy long enough for you guys to get into the attic. And then you can chop his head off, stab him in the heart, blow him up with some explosive Dustin cooks up, i honestly just really don't care how you put this asshole in his grave- just whoever it is, whatever you do, try not to miss."
"How are we gonna get weapons?" Erica asked, which was a good point.
"I got an idea." Eddie said, getting up from his feet and going to the table. Everyone hovered around the table, as he placed down some leaflet poster thing. "Check this out, Warzone. I've been there once, it's huge. They got everything you need for uh- well uh- killing things basically."
"Do you think fake Rambo has enough guns there? Is that a grenade? How is any of this legal?" Robin said.
"Well lucky for us, it is, so." Eddie gave a sarcastic smile. "This place, is just far enough outside of Hawkins. As long as we steer main roads, we oughta be able to avoid cops and uh, angry hicks."
"Angry hicks?" I chuckled.
"If we're trying to avoid angry hicks, maybe we shouldn't go to some tore called The Warzone?" Erica said with sass.
"Normally i'd agree, but we need the weapons so, i accept the risk." Nancy said.
"Me too." Lucas said.
"Yeah but is it worth the time? It would take all day to bike there and back." Dustin spoke.
"Who said anything about bikes?" Eddie added.
"What you got some type of car we don't know about?" Steve questioned.
"It's not exactly a car, Steve." He smiled. But- it'll do. Hey, red, you got a ski mask or a bandanna? Something like that?"
Max gave him the mask she wore on Halloween. He looked so funny, i couldn't stop laughing.
He lifted the mask, "In order for this to work, you have gotta stay quiet Sam." He laughed gently, and pulled the mask back down.
"Alright, sorry." I giggled. As i knew i wouldn't be able to keep quiet, when we ran, i made my hand cover my mouth to hold in any noises. We got to a camper van. Eddie opened the window and hopped on in, then everyone else followed behind.
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The Real World | Eddie Munson | pakora078
FanfictionSlowburn Romance between Eddie Munson and Samantha (Sam) Wheeler, set in season 4 of Hawkins, Stranger things. Contains cuss words and use of drugs, alcohol etc. There is no smut in this book. Enjoy. :)