Runaway ~ (Completed) ✅ ~

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(y/n) - your name

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"Shit! The police are here!" (y/n) gasps as Billy quickly breaks the car harshly when they see the red and blue lights up ahead of them, turning his headlights off to not get noticed before he slowly reverses a few meters back to hide amongst the forest trees. He cuts the engine off before the couple gets out of the car, running through the trees to stop behind a stump and peering over to see the house Eddie was hiding at surrounded. There were police cars, officers and even kids from Jason's gang of douchebags were there.

"Looks like they didn't find Munson." Billy whispers, trying to overhear what the police offers were saying.

"Another student died..." (y/n) whispers, hearing Jason talk about one of his friends floating in the air over the lake before dying and blaming it on Eddie for using his devil powers. "Shit... that's another life gone... this is too much... we lost so many from the StarCourt Battle..."

"I know..." Billy mumbles out, placing a gentle hand on (y/n)'s shoulder knowing that she got hit by all her memories that came back to her, including the memories of all the lives that were taken. "We need to check the lake. Munson went over it and probably reached the other side."

"Let's go before they figure it out too..." (y/n) whispers, shaking her head of the terrible memories as Billy and her crept away from the crime scene. They snuck past the officers, following the path of the lake to the other side using their flashlights. The couple walked in silence, Billy looking over his love with concern as he noticed her frowning.

(y/n) rubbed her head as it pounded from the flash of images and memories that kept winding through her mind, of all the death and all agony that she had to experience along with everyone else. Of all the suffering they went through, losing people close to them, their friends and family... Nancy and Steve losing Barb, Joyce and Will losing Bob, Eleven losing Hopper and (y/n) losing her little brother...

"Hey," Billy whispers, stopping his love and holding her shoulders. "what's wrong darling?" he frowns seeing her eyes tear up, trying to hold back from breaking down as he tilts her chin up softly to have her look at him. He knew that she didn't have the chance to process getting all her memories back with escaping the Upside Down, going to the hospital, the Hawkins group thinking she was an enemy and going to Victor's house to then get an SOS from Eddie.

"I let my brother die..." she sobs and Billy pulls (y/n) into his arms, knowing that this was the first time she was properly grieving for her brother now that she remembered him. "He's gone and it's all my fault! I shouldn't have run away from home! I shouldn't have left him! He died because of me!"

"That wasn't your fault (y/n)! You didn't know what was going to happen! No one would've ever thought about monsters from another world! None of it is your fault!" Billy tries to explain to (y/n), to let her know that she wouldn't have known. That she wasn't the one that killed her brother."

"It shouldn't have been him! It should've been me! Why am I alive and he's not!? It should've been me! Not him! Not my brother! It's not fair! It's not fair that he's gone!" she cries out as she grips his shirt, him cradling her head against his chest as he falls to the floor with her. "I'm supposed to look after him! I'm the older one! I was supposed to take care of him! It should've been me!" Billy rocks (y/n) as she cries and his heart breaks knowing why she was so caring with the kids during the time her memories were gone, knowing why she treated his own sister like her own along with the rest of the young punks. She blamed herself for her sibling's death and she was going to make sure that nothing ever happens to the kids again.