||CRAZY OVER YOU|| eddie munson

The plan.

"He showed me things that havent happened yet, the most awful things." Nancy tells us about what she saw, whilst we all sit in max's trailer.

"I saw a dark cloud spreading over hawkins, downtown on fire, dead soliders." I squeeze eddies hand, clearly worried, he squeezes it back lightly.

"And this giant creature, with a... gaping mouth and this creature wasnt alone. There were so many monsters, an army, and they were coming into hawkins, into our neighbourhoods, our homes, and then..."

I place my hand on her shoulder. "Take your time." I say, "he showed my mom." My face turns pale. "And holly. Mike. and they were, they were all...." Her breathing becomes heavy.

"Okay but hes just trying to scare you nance, right? i mean, its not real." Steve says, trying to reassure her. "Not yet." She continues. "But there, there was something else." We all turn our attention back to her.

"He showed me gates. Four gates, spreading across hawkins." I hold eddies hand tighter. "And these gates, they looked like then ones outside of eddies trailer." She pauses for a moment.

"But, they didnt stop growing..." She looks up at all of us. "And this wasn't the upside down hawkins... this was our hawkins, our home." I swallow the lump in my throat and move closer to eddie, slightly nervous.

"Four chimes." Max says. "Vecnas clock, it always chimes four times." We all look up at her. "Four exactly." Nancy looks at the both of us. "I heard them too."

"Hes been telling us his plan this whole time" "Four kills." I say, "Four gates." Lucas says. "End of world." Dustin finishes. "If thats true." "Hes only one kill away..." Me and max look at eachother, Eddie gets up.

"Oh jesus christ. Jesus christ!" i gesture for him to sit back down and i place my hand on his shoulder.

"Try em again try em again." Steve says, signaling for max to try the Byers again. "Anything?" Dustin says? "No." "Rang a few times, then went to busy signal."

"Maybe you punched it wrong, try it again." Steve suggests. "I didnt punch it in wrong" "Well, i dont know." Steve puts his head in his hands.

"I think she knows how to use a phone." I say from eddies shoulder. "Im just saying, she could've typed it wrong smartypants." Steve says, sticking his tongue out at me.

"Same shit again." Max says, putting the phone down. "How is that possible?" Lucas says. "Joyce has this telemarketer job, shes always on the phone." I add in. "Mike wont stop whining about it." Nancy adds on.

"Yeah but this phones been busy for what, 2 or 3 days now?" "Thats not joyce." I say worryingly. "No way, somethings wrong." Max says, looking down at me.

"Shes right." Nancy says. "It cant just be a coincidence, it cant be." "Whatevers happening in Lenora is connected to this." Dustin says. "Im sure of it." "But vecna cant hurt them." I say. "Not if hes dead." Dustin butts in.

"We have to go back into the upside down." "Woah no, no, no. What? No." Steve says. "Lets think this through." "What is there to think through." Dustin says standing up.

"We bearly made it out of there." "Yeah, because we weren't prepared. But this time we will be, we'll get weapons and protection." He continues. "We will go through the gate, we'll find his lair, and we kill him."

"Or he'll kill us." I add in, Dustin glares at me. "What? you were just not going to add that part in?" He ignores that. "The only reason you and Nancy survived was because he wanted you both too."

"Hes not scared of us." "And for a good reason."  Robin butts in. "We were wrong about Vecna, Henry or One." She pauses. "Sorry, what are we calling him?" "One." Dustin and Lucas say. "Vecna."

Me and Eddie say. "Henry." "Right." Robin says. "We've learned something new about Vecna/Henry/One, hes a number, just like eleven. Only a sick, evil, male, child murdering, version of her." "With really bad skin." I add in.

"Exactly." Robin continues. "But my point is, he's super powerful, could turn us inside out with a snap of his fingers, its not a fair fight." "Then why fight fair?" Dustin butts in. "Your right, hes like eleven, but that gives us a upper hand." We all look at him confused.

"We know elevens strengths, and weaknesses." "Weaknesses?" "When el remote travels, she goes into this sort of trance-like state, i bet the same is true of vecna."  "that would explain what he was doing in that attic." I add in.

"Exactly, when he attacks his next victim, ill bet you he's back in that attic, physical body defenseless." "Defenseless? what about the army of bats?" Steve butts in. "True, we'll have to find a way past them."

"And eh, how do we do that exactly." Eddie says. "No idea." Eddie mumbles. "Well, great." And buries his face in the crook of my neck. "But once they're gone, he doesn't stand a chance. It'll be like slaying sleeping Dracula in his coffin."

"That all sounds good in theory, but there's no pattern to vecnas killings." Nancy says. "Not one that i can decipher."  "We don't know when he's going to attack next." "We don't even know who he's going to attack next."

"Yeah we do." Everybody turns to look at Max. "I can still feel him." I look at her worried. "Im still marked, cursed. I ditch kate bush, i draw his focus back to me." I sit up properly. "Max, you can't, he'll kill you." I say, hoping she'll change her mind.

"I survived before, i can survive again." I frown. "I just need to keep him busy long enough so you guys can get into that attic. Then you can chop his head off, stab him in the heart, blow him up with some explosives Dustin cooks up, i honestly dont care how you put this asshole in his grave, just, whatever it is.... whatever you do.... try not to miss."

I get up. "Hey eh, can i use your bathroom?" She nods. "Down the hall on the left." I begin walking to the bathroom, i get in and close the door. I look in the mirror as tears run down my face, i cant let max do this, ive already lost billy, i cant let her, billy wouldnt want that.

I hear a knock on the door. "Hey, its eh eddie, can i come in?" I quickly wipe my tears. "Yeah eh, come in." He walks in and looks down at me. "You were crying, weren't you?"

I look up at him, tears slightly forming again. "Eddie.... i cant let her do this, i eh, i already lost billy.... i cant lose her, billy wouldnt want it, i dont want it, billy told me to promise him that i would always take care and protect max and so i will."

Eddies eyes soften and he lifts his arms out, gesturing for a hug, i wrap my arms around him and he rubs my back gently. "I know love, i know."

After staying in that position for what felt like hours, yet was only minutes, eddie broke the hug and looked down at me. "Hey, Elodie?" I look up at him. "Yeah?"

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