Shot In The Dark - An Eddie Munson & Y/N Story

14 ~ "Don't You Dare Leave Me!"

I'm tired, so fucking tired. I feel like we've been fighting off bats and vines and god knows what else for hours... but they just keep coming. Not a single one of us have been able to get near Vecna yet, but he keeps calling for me, taunting me endlessly as he begs me mercilessly to "join him" - but what the fuck does he want with me?

My body aches like it's been carrying the weight of a thousand planets on my own shoulders, my eyes begin to burn from the repetitive explosions of lightening and Molotov cocktails by Robins hand, my face covered in soot and blood as I battle tirelessly on beside my friends and boyfriend. Each one of us taken a blow or two, some worse than others but all still standing nonetheless. Although I can feel by body weakening with every clap of thunder or screech of the Demobats, I have to keep going... I caused this and now I have to end this. Taking a beat to catch my breath, I look around at my friends as they wage on, taking hit after hit from every beast and obstacle imaginable while only getting a few blows in themselves. The onslaught feels never ending as I watch each of the people I care about be thrown to the ground and rise to their feet, only to find themselves back on the ground each time.

"Eddie! Look out!" I screech at I watch a Demobat hurtle through the sky towards him, the tail quickly grabbing him by the throat. I throw my hands out and watch as the bat is torn in two above his head, falling to his feet as it releases him, covering him in thick, crimson blood. His gasps turn to a light chuckle as he wipes the blood from his face, winking at me with his beautiful grin before returning to throw everything's he's got at a new flurry of bats overhead. God, he's fucking beautiful when he's battling danger. It's wrong of me to think so lustfully about his right now, but fuck, I just can't stop gawking at him, practically drooling at the sight of him as he slashes and stabs at whatever comes for him. Distracted as I watch Eddie swing his spear into the gut of a low swooping Demobat, a jolt of furious energy pulses and my body is sent hurtling backwards to the ground.

My eyes open as I look around the spot my body collapsed onto, the pain from the collision radiating throughout my body from both the fight and the fall, I see each of my friends, those I care about still battling furiously around the clearing. "Ed- agh! Eddie!" I groan as I painfully crawl towards him, praying I reach him without further harm, but it's as though he can't see me, like I'm invisible or too small for him to see. "Eddie, help!" I call out as I feel my weakened body falter as I try to stand, only collapsing back into a heap on the ground each time. "E-Eddie... please!" my voice breaking into sobs as I continue desperately to grab Eddie's attention, each cry for help falling in deaf ears despite him looking directly into my tear soaked eyes every time.

With the last Demogorgan finally slaughtered effortlessly with a fatal blow from Nancys shotgun, our attention lies solely on the Demobats still circling ahead as they lunge towards us again and again and again. Still unable to bring my weary body to its feet, I stay low as I focus my energy on the bats overhead, tearing them and slamming them into the ground with what little of my powers still resonate within me. "Th-this is... all your fault, Y/N..." the echoing sounds of Eddie's thoughts creep into my brain, flooding my senses with negative emotions. He can't really think they, right? Those fucking tears flood back to my eyes as my heart breaks silently at his scornful thoughts. "We're gonna die down here and it's all her fault!" I hear, this time from Dustin but I've little time to process it as I hear the deafening thoughts of everyone else - "We were fine until she came along!", "This fucking freaks gonna get us all killed, I hope she was at least a good lay!" and the worst of all, from the girl that was meant to be my family, "She should have died in that lab with everyone else!" - each thought cutting through my heart like the sharpest barbs.

I can't regain my concentration, the hurtful thoughts of my so-called friends still tearing me apart, my powers faltering as my heart breaks. The bats overhead take their shot, now able to reach me without retaliation, they commence their onslaught as they bite at rip at my skin, shredding and ripping portions of flesh. I feel the unmistakable slickness of a vine coiling around my arms as I'm dragged through the clearing toward Vecna, screaming for help as the bats continue to take their chances. "Eddie! Help, please!" I plead but he only chuckles cruelly, savouring the peace of the bats no longer attacking him or the others. Watching with a grin as my body is raised in the air by the vines before him, blood now spilling from every limb as I hang in the air, defeated and heartbroken. "I have what I want, leave now and face no further wrath." Vecna taunts in an effort to convince my friends to flee and leave me in his clutches. There's no way Eddie would do that, he loves me!