"ʏᴏᴜ ᴀᴄᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ⵊ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀss ᴏɴ ꜰɪʀᴇ ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʀʏ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ."
From her birth, her destiny was set in stone. But, who's to say that destiny can't be changed?
One spring break, in the lonely town of Hawkins, Indiana a circus comes to cure the inha...
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A week had passed since the Upside Down split into fours, merging with the world above it and though it was in shambles, Hawkins finally had a chance to rest—some residents more than others.
Everyone flocked to churches, Hawkins High, anywhere they could start to rebuild from what they had thought was a natural disaster but only a few knew what had actually happened. El, Mike, Jonathan, and Will had returned after their whirlwind trip and greeted Nancy with open arms. Dustin, Steve, and Robin had spent the week at Hawkins High, helping out. Jim Hopper, Murray Bauman, and Joyce Byers had even returned from Russia and Lucas spent nights in the hospital beside a bed-ridden Max who was still out cold in a coma.
It had been a week since ash fell from the sky.
But for now, things seemed steady in Hawkins as steady as they could be.
Monitors beeped, wires and an IV drip were hung up and a nurse came around every hour to check up on the patient in room 218 at Hawkins General whose room was littered with balloons, get-well cards, flowers, and teddy bears—most being from the workers of the circus. Eddie Munson sat in a chair beside the hospital bed, holding a bandaged hand with his left hand while using his right to write in a basic composition notebook. He had the notebook for years, since middle school, and he'd write anything in it. From songs to his thoughts to campaign ideas, he kept his whole mind in it. Even thoughts of Soleil when he realized he fell hard for her were written down, right next to the three songs he had written about her in the past week.
He looked up from his writing through his eyelashes to Soleil who lay on the bed, she had a tube down her throat, gauze was placed over the burns Adelaide couldn't fade away, and Soleil was knocked into a coma from being brought back to life. Between her and Max, the hospital staff was no less than shocked that they both survived.
The dirt from her face and hair was gone. Eddie had made sure that the hospital was able to wash her hair and if they weren't doing it right, he'd take over, the way Soleil showed him how to. He even managed to get a silk scarf from Cassie, who was one of the first ones to visit the young woman, and tied her hair up for her.
Cassie visited Soleil the most besides Eddie and when she saw her in the bed, she had to step out of the room. She had thanked Eddie for staying with her girl and Eddie couldn't accept her thanks—his guilt was too heavy to hold but he tried to forgive himself, he knew Sol would tell him not to beat himself up over this.
Soleil was stable now but when she got to the hospital, it was a frenzy, Eddie could barely see her as doctors and paramedics swarmed around her. All he could remember from the ambulance ride was the paramedics sticking a needle into Soleil's chest because they had to "release the pressure in her chest." That was just terrifying but not as terrifying as when they had to rush her into surgery to put a tube into her chest.
