Y/N x Eddie Munson

Chapter 23 - Blackout

Steve POV

"Hey kid, focus" Hopper clicks his fingers to try and grab my attention back.

I can't help being distracted, really I can't. Emergency rooms are just so loud!

The constant thrum of background noise, if you can even describe it as background noise, are drowning out my thoughts...or maybe it's the slight buzz from the beer, but I didn't even drink that much because of the girls.

The overwhelming noise in this particular emergency room however, is a whiny scream that's coming from behind a curtain the other side of the ward. It's bugging me so much, Have I heard that voice before?

"Kid, come on, I know you've been drinking" I turn my head back to face him with my best attempt at a sheepish apology on my face before he continues, "Look, just tell me what happened? You've brought a semi-conscious underage girl into the emergency room to get her stomach pumped. You can see the predicament I'm in here" He half heartedly smiles at me, his best attempt at reassurance.

"I didn't do anything to her Hopper! She's my friend. We were at Tina's party and she went out for a smoke. She wasn't that drunk I swear! Or I wouldn't of let her go out there alone" Hopper is quietly taking notes, the screaming still the backing track to my retelling of the night. "She was out there less than five minutes before we heard shouting and by the time I got out there to see if she's okay she's passed out in Eddie's arms"

"Eddie Munson?" Hopper eyes me skeptically "Party's like that don't seem like his bag, why was he there?"

"Eddie and Y/N are kind of together, it's not official yet or anything. But Hopper, Eddie didn't do this! The guy adores her he'd never hurt her." I look down at my hands as they wring out the napkin I've been holding for the five hundredth time. "There's this kid called Ged Carter..."

"Blonde? Mohawk? Rides a motorcycle?" Hopper questions knowingly. I nod.

"Yep that's the guy... well he's been skulking around Y/N for weeks. Manhandling her, making her feel pretty uncomfortable. I even had to scare him off a couple days ago when I came to pick her up. He had her pinned against a wall and she was trying to push him off!" Hopper had stopped writing in his notebook and was looking directly at me now, very seriously, "I...I didn't actually SEE him at the party but I just have this feeling you know? That he did or tried to do something to her"

"Right, We'll look into him, thank you Mr Harrington. Bring Y/N down to the station in the next couple of days to make her statement, and keep out of any more trouble .... CAN SOMEONE SHUT THAT IDIOT UP" He ends with a huff, practically barking the order to his deputy who's standing near the source of the wailing.

Hopper strides over, whipping back the curtain to reveal Ged, bloodied, bruised and muddy clutching his arm to his chest. Good he deserves to be in pain I think dryly in my head. He was red in the face from crying and screaming but no nurses had made an attempt to look at him yet.

"Well look who we've got ourselves here" Hopper remarks approaching Ged. "Looks like you've had a busy night here, now why won't you let these nice doctor's look at that clearly broken arm of yours?" He questions cocking his head. Ged is now silent as fear washes the pain from his eyes and he comes face to face with the Hawkins police chief. "Is it maybe, I don't know, because you have some illegal substances on your person, that may incriminate you in the drugging and attempted assault of a girl tonight? Is that it Ged? Or am I way off?"

"N-n-no, no it's not that"

"Oh really? So you won't mind getting into a gown and handing over...all of this" he gestures to Ged's outfit " What are you dressed as again?"