Sweetheart........ An Eddie Munson story

Chapter 11: Thats all?

Kali's POV:

"So, honesty time, how did Billy really die?" Eddie's voice was soft as he spoke. I knew this question was going to come up and I knew I had to tell him, I just didn't know how.

After our little dance, we decided to sit against the wall of the boathouse and talk. I had told Eddie that I would answer any and all questions he had to the best of my ability.

And boy, did he have a lot of questions.

I had already explained about Will and El and about how they now lived in California. I explained about what happened to Hopper. I spoke about the demo dogs that Steve and I had to fight off. I had explained everything to him.

Over the course of the conversation Eddie pulled me in between his legs, so now my back was resting against his chest and anytime I got upset, he would play with my hair and hold my hand to calm me down.

Honestly, this boy was the sweetest human.

I let out a sigh as I thought about how I was going to explain about Billy's death. I could already feel the tears forming in my eyes as I thought back to that moment.

"Okay, so, remember I told you about that giant fleshy monster we all fought last summer? Well.."

Billy screamed as he held the monster back with his bare hands, Kali's pace quickened as she watched more tentacles grab onto Billy's side, he screamed loudly as one final tentacle pushed through his chest "Billy!" Max let out an ear shattering scream as she watched her brothers body fall to the floor. Kali ran over to him, falling to her knees as she lifted his head onto her lap, Max fell at the side of her as she pleaded for her brother to open his eyes "I'm sorry" he muttered as he held Max's hand, he opened his eyes and stared up at Kali, lifting his hand to her face as he wiped a few of her tears away "I love you" he coughed as he tried to breath, "no Billy please, please don't leave me" Kali sobbed as she watched the light slowly leave his eyes, his hand rested on her stomach and he smiled slightly "look after your mom" he whispered before he fell completely silent.

"And that's how Billy really died" I sobbed. I hated thinking back to that night, I tried to avoid talking about Billy as much as possible but Eddie deserved to know the truth.

I felt Eddie's arms snake around my chest and my waist as he pulled me in for a tight hug from behind. I felt so safe whenever he held me, like his embrace could protect me from anything.

"I'm so sorry sweetheart" he whispered against my ear. There was nothing but silence between us as I continued to sob into Eddie's arms.

We stayed like that for a while, Eddie's embrace didn't falter as he held me close to him. This was home to me now.

This was my safe place.

Both of our heads snapped towards the window as we heard a car door slam shut outside. We looked at each other before carefully making our way over to the window, Eddie grabbing the glass bottle just in case we needed to protect ourselves.

Just as we both peered out the window the front door flung open and we both jumped. I grabbed hold of Eddie's arm as he held the bottle out in front of us. Both of us let out a sigh of relief when a familiar curly head walked through the door, holding bags up in the air as he gave us a wide grin, "delivery service".

I sat next to Eddie in the boat as he began shovelling cereal into his mouth. I swear this boy is an absolute pig when it comes to food.

Dustin, Max, Steve and Robin all stood in front of us. I couldn't help but notice how nervous they all looked as Dustin cleared his throat, "so we got, uh, some good news and some bad news. How do you prefer it?"

"Bad news first, always" Eddie answered with a mouth full of cereal. I rolled my eyes at the metalhead before nodding over to Dustin as a signal for him to continue.

"All right bad news" he sighed as he ran his hands through his hair before putting his baseball cap back on, "we tapped into Hawkins PD dispatch with our Cerebro, and they're definitely looking for you. Both of you" he stated as he looked between the two of us.

Well shit.

"Also, they're, uh, pretty convinced that you both killed Chrissy. Like 100% convinced" I looked over at Eddie, terrified of the news we had just heard. He grabbed hold of my hand, intwining our fingers and sending me a soft smile before he turned back to Dustin, "and the good news?".

"Your names haven't gone public yet" Robin continued as she gave us both a sympathetic look "but if we found out about you, it's a matter of time before others do" she offered us a sad smile as both of our eyes widened.

Fuck. How is this happening right now.

"And once that gets out, everyone and their shallow-minded mother is going to be gunning for you" I heard Eddie sigh next to me when he realised what this meant, "hunt the freaks right?".

I hated when he called himself that. Eddie Munson was the furthest thing from a freak and it killed me to know that the town had branded him a freak just because he listens to metal and plays D&D. It wasn't fair how the world treated him and I would spend the rest of my life convincing him that he isn't a freak.

"So before that happens, we find Vecna, kill him and prove your innocence" Dustin made it sound so easy.

"That's all, Dustin? That's all?" I spoke sarcastically as I looked over at the curly haired boy, "yeah, no, that's pretty much it" he smiled back at me. Oh if only it were that easy.

We all continued conversing back and forth. Robin explained how we had all been through this a few times before so we stood a good chance at defeating this Vecna. The main difference being that those previous times we had a girl who had actual superpowers to help us and now that she didn't have those, and the fact that she was in California, kind of put a stop to those plans.

How the fuck were we meant to defeat Vecna without El by our sides?

I was broken from my thoughts when police sirens blared past the window. Shit. This is it, we've been found, we're going to jail. Fuck this can't be happening.

I couldn't even register what was happening around me as I started to panic. I felt the tarp being thrown over me and I was pulled into Eddie's chest as we lay in the boat. His hand started stroking my hair as he held me close "shh, it's going to be okay princess" he soothed as he placed a light kiss to my forehead.

As soon as I inhaled his scent I could feel my body relaxing. I melted into his touch as we waited for the all clear. We heard the front door open but neither of us moved until Dustin called out to us, "we're gonna go check it out, you guys stay here".

Where else are we going to go Dustin?

We waited until we heard their car pull away before we moved out from under the tarp. Eddie made his way over to the window to make sure that nobody was around before he came back over to me.

I felt frozen in place. What the fuck were we going to do? Our names may not be out there in the world yet but this town is filled with judgemental assholes who wouldn't hesitate to pin it on either of us. They probably think we performed some kind of satanic ritual and sacrificed her to the fucking devil or some shit.

Honestly, the sooner we both get away from this town, the fucking better.

"Hey sweetheart, look at me" Eddie spoke softly as he reached for my hands. I looked up and met his gaze, he didn't looked scared at all, those beautiful brown eyes were filled with concern and guilt more then anything.

I smiled up at him as I slowly stood from the boat, my legs giving way slightly as I gripped onto Eddie's arms, "it's okay, I got you princess" he lulled as he helped me step out of the boat.

"Are you hungry?" He smiled down at me as I continued to get lost in his eyes. I've said it once and I'll say it again, his eyes are mesmerising. I nodded up at him and I swear I saw a mischievous glint in his eyes "follow me" he grinned as he took my hand and pulled me over towards the door.

I don't know what he was planning or where we were going to get food from, considering Dustin and everyone else had just bought us some food but I continued to walk behind the metalhead as he opened the door and pulled me out into the world.