Runaway ~ (Completed) ✅ ~

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(y/n) - your name

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"How many times?" Dustin asks (y/n).

"Kid, don't push it." Billy hisses but his love pats his arm to let him know it was ok. It was too late anyway.

"3 times..."

"What!?" Billy exclaims. "It happened two more times after that night!? Why didn't you tell me!?"

"It was by accident with Mike and Eleven and the other time-"

"-she was triggered by seeing StarCourt Mall..." Steve explains, remembering how scared he was when (y/n) just fell to the floor. "I couldn't wake her up man. Your eyes were just dull and no matter how hard I shook you, you wouldn't wake up until Max put your headphones on."

"That's exactly what happened with Chrissy..." everyone goes rigid at Eddie's words, (y/n) feeling a wave of fear wash over her.

"Don't you fucking dare say that!" Billy hisses at Eddie, grabbing his shirt violently. "I'm not letting anything happen to (y/n)!"

"I'm sorry man! I'm just telling you that's the same thing that happened to Chrissy!" Billy growls and Steve forces him to let Eddie go.

"So Chrissy must've heard the clock chimes as well before she..." Dustin mumbles out, clearing his throat. No one noticed the pale look on Max's face as she stepped back in fear from the group, coming to a realisation as she held her arms.

Everyone quickly shut up when they heard sirens outside the shed and Eddie jumped into the boat as he pulled the tarp over him to hide, the rest jumping to hide beneath the windows. Steve and Billy peeked up through the window to see police cars and an ambulance racing down the road past the shed.

"What do you think that was about?" Steve whispers.

"We should check it out, see what the police knows." Robin says and (y/n) nods.

"Or why they're here in case they close to finding Eddie. Then we should move him from the shed." everyone agrees and tells the poor boy to stay hidden in the boat before they run out to get into the cars. Steve drives off with the kids and Robin, Billy in his car with (y/n) following behind Steves's car. It didn't take much time to find the police, stopping a few meters away.

"Stay hidden darling." (y/n) moves to crouch in the space behind the passenger seat and the back seats of the car, leaning against the cushion as she wore her disguise. Billy looks at Steve as everyone got out of the cars, looking toward the body that was on the road before it got covered by a white sheet by the emergency services. "Shit..."

"What? What is it?" (y/n) asks, peeking up through the open window.

"It's a dead body..." Billy frowns, looking at the others before Dustin brought the group over to his car to talk altogether. 

"This must've happened only last night..." Dustin whispers, the group covering for (y/n) from prying eyes as she sat properly up on the car seats.

"(y/n)... you don't think..." Steve mutters, concerned about her breakdown last night and she pales.

"You think her hearing the chimes was like a signal that this undead thing killed another person?" Billy asks and everyone went silent. "Fucking hell..."

"I don't know how but it makes sense. She must've heard Vecna by accident." Dustin says.

"So what, I'm connected to him!?" (y/n) hisses out, not liking this conversation.