EDDIE MUNSON IMAGINES

DREADFUL DREAMS

"jesus, what the hell happened!" you yelled, looking at dustin for an answer while your boyfriend was laying on the ground and hysterically laughing.

"the russians gave them something, i don't know! i wasn't with them!"

you looked at him in slight shock.

"you weren't with them?" you questioned as erica shook her head, breaking up the conversation.

"look, nerds, you both need to just relax, okay? we have to go find help for the two idiots over here, so _______, just stay with them," she said, grabbing dustin and running off to go find help.

you squatted down, looking at him as he stared back at you, laughing slightly. robin looked over at the two of you, getting up and leaving as you yelled for her to come back. she refused as you sighed, standing up to leave and find her, but steve grabbed your hand and pulled you back down.

"where are you going?" he asked, sitting up as you smiled sweetly at him.

"i have to go get robin," you told him.

"no, no," he replied, shaking his head.

you sighed, pulling him up as you wrapped his arm around your shoulder and placed an arm around his waist to keep him up as you two began walking to find robin.

"robin!" you called into the mall, steve placing his hand on the side of your face as you shook him off and looked over at him.

"i need-" he started as you nodded, rushing off to the bathroom as you let him in.
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"steve, you okay?" you asked, standing outside of the stall as you waited for a reply. he opened the door, walking out and leaning against the stall's doorway. he nodded, giving you a gentle smile as you looked up at him.

"i'm okay," he replied, looking at the cuts on your arms. "the question is are you?"

"harrington, you were drugged and you're asking me?" you asked, crossing your arms.

"isn't that what a good boyfriend does?" he chuckled as you smiled up at him.

"maybe so," you replied back softly, seeing his eyes admiring you. "um, so, we need to find robin before dustin finds out i couldn't keep the two of you drugged rascals together."

"why was dustin in charge?" he chuckled, looking down at you.

"because i was too busy worrying about my boyfriend rather than the two of you at the same time," you replied.

he smiled back at you, looking down towards his shoes before replying to your sentence.

"if we make it out of this alive, i'm going to give you the best night of your life," he muttered, grabbing your hand and slowly pulling you towards him as you blushed heavily.

"why's that?"

his hand wandered up your arm as you shivered slightly, yet you enjoyed how it all felt.

"because," he muttered, looking down into your gaze. "we survived a mind flayer attack and evil russians all in one summer, babe."

you nodded, your lips still smiling up at him as he leaned slightly closer to you shook your head, catching him slightly off guard.

"we have to go find robin, harrington," you muttered, looking up at his bloodied and bruised face. "like i had promised dustin."

he sighed, pressing a brief kiss to your cheek before moving one swiftly to your lips. when he let go, he smiled at you gently, before the room turned dark red and soon blackness overtook everything.

suddenly, darkness all over.

and suddenly, you felt as if you were suffocating. it was getting harder to breathe, it might have been the flayer coming to get the two of you, but it didn't matter much because you felt his hand let go and all you felt was cold.

you sat up, breathing heavily as beads of sweat formed around your forehead. the memories of last summer had been twisted because of the fear, and the fact that steve had broken up with you a few months later really twisted the knife further.

you had assumed that after everything you two had gone through, he would still be with you. he understood it all. he knew what had happened down to a tee. and yet, he had called you to end it simpler for him.

less of a mess, in his words.

eddie shifted slightly next to you, transporting you back to the present times as you laid back down, still feeling the fear gnawing on your skin. you placed your hands over your face to try and ignore it, but the darkness made it worse.

you decided for the latter, standing up and opening his door as you headed into his den to collect your thoughts and relax for a moment.

you needed to sit with your mind and remind it that harrington had left you- and that you needed to take it as a sign that you were meant to be with someone else.

with eddie.

you took a seat on the couch, relaxing as you tried to breathe normally.

this night was going to be a long one.
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"princess, hey, wake up."

you shifted slightly, sitting up as you remembered where you were. you looked at your boyfriend with a confused look who was squatting in front of you.

"yeah?" you asked softly.

"why are you out here?" he questioned, his eyes softly admiring yours.

"i had a bad dream," you mumbled.

"about last summer?" eddie asked as you nodded slowly.

he sighed, taking a seat next to you on the couch as you began to shake your head.

"eddie, it's, like, four in the morning. you don't have to coddle me," you told him gently, about to get up to go get a drink of water, but he grabbed your waist and pulled you into his lap, holding onto you tightly. he pressed a kiss to the side of your head as you settled into his embrace.

"i'm not coddling you, i'm being a good boyfriend by asking what's wrong," he muttered into your hair as you closed your eyes to try and enjoy it.

"it's just that night is haunting me. it's the only memory that replays over and over again," you told him, your hand resting on his. "i don't even know why because harrington and i were so happy at that time. why would it be the one to haunt me?"

eddie sighed, holding you tightly.

"i'm not entirely sure, princess. i think that maybe because you're still dealing with the heartbreak of him leaving you so suddenly that a good memory was now taken over by that thought. it's the only thing to come to mind for me."

you nodded, allowing silence to take over the room.

"do you want to go back in the bed?" he asked. "i'll hold you all night long, princess."

you debated the thought, tossing it around your mind for a moment before agreeing as he helped you up and the two of you went back off to his bedroom to hopefully control your dreadful dreams.