✓ | flow ( eddie munson )

thirty-one. no I in team

third person

          Veda Henderson opens her eyes, her hands up near her face in a natural defensive reflex. Her surroundings are new and unfamiliar to her, hospital walls splattered in blood with broken pieces of the building around her. She looks down, her hand clamping over her mouth in shock when she spies multiple bodies of young kids. Each kid has a shaved head and their own bloodied hospital down. The closer she looks, the more she can spot the signs of Vecna's terror. 

    "I'm going to be sick," She mutters into the skin of her hand, moving down the crime scene corridor. 

    The lights start to flicker like a horror movie, causing Veda to look up with eyes as wide as saucers before taking off running. She knows this is just a hallucination, another one of her visions, but she can't help but feel fear.

    Unbeknownst to her, Eddie Munson stands by her body in the real world, shaking her by her shoulders and staring into her clouded eyes. He feels as though his whole body is shaking on the inside as if he's freezing without feeling cold. His eyes zip between hers, looking for any sign of the girl he's come to love. 

    "Veda, you're freaking me out!" He yells, tapping her once more. His taps become more aggressive, panic starting to seep into his muscles and make them stronger with adrenaline. He looks up at the hole in the ceiling, the one Veda imagined him going through even though both of them are still stuck in the upside down. "Whatever you guys are doing up there, hurry!"

    Erica makes eye contact with Eddie as he yells before taking off in the direction of his bedroom where the others rifle through his things. 

    "Eddie says you need to hurry!" Erica informs in a panic.

    "Yeah, no shit!" Dustin screams back, his hands shaking as he tosses Eddie's things around, desperately looking for a cure for his sister. He knows that she's been in these visions before, and her eyes have clouded the same way. But, this is different. Veda was always aware and looked the same every other time. But this time, she almost looks dead as if Vecna is killing her.

    "We're trying, we can't find anything!" Max exclaims, feeling fear for not only Veda but herself as well. She feels selfish for thinking so, but Veda gives her a sense of comfort she isn't ready to let go of. She feels as though, if the brunette is alive and well, Max herself has a chance. 

    "What even is all this shit!" Robin yells, the music cassettes falling from her shaking hands as she yells. 

    "Dustin, what's her favourite song?" Steve yells, grabbing some of the fallen cassettes and holding them up. 

    "I don't know!" Dustin screams back.

    "How do you not know? She's your sister!" Nancy criticises, feeling guilty for yelling at the child as soon as she did. 

    "You think I don't know that? She's a very private person!" Dustin defends, tossing more things to the ground in a haze. Eddie and Veda are close, something in here has to help her. It just has to. 

    "Wait, wait wait," Robin heaves, sliding Eddie's cassettes over the bed as she searches for a particular one. She thinks back to earlier in the night when she was in Veda's house in the upside down, how the girl has a cassette on her vanity with her favourite song written in bold. "It's a Metallica song!"