[✓] 𝕴 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖆 𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖎𝖘 {Eddie Munson x OC}

Forty Five

I stood frozen at the window until I realized we could all be in danger.

"Everyone, this is not a drill. El, you need to hide," I announced. "Nance, stay by me."

El stood up, looking frantic. Jonathan began to push the couch to reveal a hatch underneath.

Mike and Will were helping El climb into the hole when the cars stopped. Nancy and I went outside.

She had a gun on her, somehow.

But then the car doors opened and I thought I had died.

Again.

Standing up in all of his (now bald) glory was none other than Jim Hopper. With Joyce Byers.

"Jonathan, Will! Get out here now! El, you can come out. It's safe."

I walked down the steps in shock as both Hopper and Joyce walked towards us, smiling and holding hands.

"Are you kids okay?" Joyce asked me.

"We're all fine, mostly. But I'm confused on how you're alive," I said, looking up at Hopper.

Jonathan and Will walked out of the cabin and Joyce ran to her kids. They hugged and she was crying and then everyone was crying.

"I'm proud of you kids," Hopper said.

"We tried our best," I said.

Steve and Robin were walking out of the cabin now with El behind them.

The second El saw Hopper she literally shoved Steve out of the way and flew through the air.

Everyone stopped as El collided with Hopper.

"I missed you dad," She whispered, crying. "I left the door open. I never gave up."

I walked away so they could have their moment. Steve, Robin, Nancy, Eddie and I were standing to the side, watching everyone reunite.

The five of us had each other, and the people we cared about were already safe.

So seeing someone this happy gave me hope for our future.

One of the government agents with Hopper took out some duffel bags with new identity papers for El and some basic protection equipment.

The agents stood guard as we all went back into the cabin.

According to Hopper, both the Byers and Hoppers would be sharing this cabin as per the government's newly published most wanted list. Their house in Lenora was already cleaned up and their stuff was being shipped back to Hawkins.

Dr. Owens was MIA so the only funding they could get was whatever his underground government group could scrape up to keep them in hiding.

They would need to move again in a few months, but only after the military presence in Hawkins died down.

Nancy and I agreed not to tell Hopper and Joyce about our parentage until all of the government agents left.

The next few weeks were hectic. Officials had to go on TV and pronounce Eddie not guilty, claiming that the deaths were caused by "bone snapping parasites" in the water supply. Many residents began to make plans to leave Hawkins.

School resumed as normal but there were fewer students. Eddie's band friends were in the hospital still after they got beaten near an inch of death by Jason and his friends.

Graduation was happening early so people could move away. Eddie and I had become inseparable in school. Whenever someone tried to call him a murderous freak or attack him, the lights in school "mysteriously turned off" and we were able to get away unharmed.