Trauma Finds Love | Eddie Munson

Chapter 9

Juliet Harrington

"So we got uh, some good news and some bad news. How do you prefer it?" Dustin asked after taking a seat on a random stool. I was sitting on a box next to the boat that Eddie was sitting on. I was stuffing my mouth with some food but not as messy as he was.

"Bad news first, always" Eddie's voice came out muffled because of the cereal he had in his mouth. Then he drunk some of the juice they brought him over the cereal. Which I found incredibly disgusting.

I cringed at the sight and turned to Dustin who spoke up to tell us the bad news. "Okay, bad news. We tapped into the Hawkins PD dispatch with our Cerebro and they're definitely looking for you. Also, they're uh, pretty convinced you killed Chrissy"

"Like %100 kind of convinced." I looked at Max then at Eddie who had a sort of scared expression on his face. "Well shit" I said quietly before snatching the drink from Eddie's hand and drinking some myself.

"And the good news?" Eddie asked, which hopefully it'd make the bad news situation better. Which I highly doubt it. "You're name hasn't gone public yet. But if we found out about you, it's only a matter of time before others do too. And once that gets out, everyone and their shallow-minded mother is gunna be gunning for you." Robin explained

I looked at Eddie who seemed worried. "Hunt the freak, right?" I heard a bit of emotion behind his voice. He always seemed so careless of that title but I knew that deep down, he was affected by it. "Exactly."

"Shit."

I groaned and run my hand through my hand through my hair. Even though I wasn't the one in this situation, I was still worried for Eddie. Why was I worried for him? I have absolutely no clue. "So before that happens we need to find Vecna, kill him, and prove your innocence." I saw Steve nod as Dustin's statement and I furrowed my eyebrows. There was no way he really thought it'd be that easy. And clearly I wasn't the only one.

"That's all Dustin? That's all?" Sarcasm was very obvious in Eddie's voice as he looked at the curly head who seemed to think everything was simple.

"Yeah! No, that's pretty much it." My very young child friend said it so calmly. I scoffed. "Dustin, we barely made it out alive for the past three years. This isn't all that easy." I said rolling my eyes. He glared at me "You're not helping" He said with gritted teeth. I sigh and continue eating some food.

"Listen, Eddie. I know everything Dustin's saying sounds totally delusional but we've actually been through this kind of thing before. I mean, they have a few times and I have once. Mine was more human fleshed based and their's was more smoke related but bottom-line is collectively, I really feel like we got this" The short haired older girl rambled. As she usually did.

"See, we usually rely on this girl who has superpowers but uh, those went bye-bye so uh..."

"We're technically in more of the..."

"Kinda..."

"Brainstorming phase" Max said noticing the difficulty to find the right word for the situation we were in. "Brainstorming phase!" Steve snapped his fingers then pointed at Eddie, who seemed very confused on the situation.

Dustin stuttered before managing to get his words out. "There's nothing to worry about" He shook his head trying to comfort the older male. My twin brother scoffed and Dustin glared at him, making the smile on Steve's face immediately fall.

The look on Eddie's face was funny. I bit back a laugh but didn't need to once we heard sirens outside. "Tarp." Robin pointed at the tarp and Eddie looked at her. Then Max repeated "Tarp. Tarp."

Eddie threw himself back on the boat and I threw the tarp over him, making sure he wasn't visible at all. We all ran to the window and saw a couple of police cars drive by along with an ambulance behind them. Luckily they drove right past, but that didn't help me feel any better. Clearly something else went wrong.

"Should we go check it out?" Max asked all of us. I walked back over to the boat and took the tarp off. "False alarm, Munson. You can get out" He sighed in relief and sat up. "Then what the hell was that?" He asked trying to fix his very messy hair. "That's what we're going to go check out. Stay here. Stay alive. And don't let anyone find you, yeah?"

He looks at me concerned. "I thought I couldn't be left alone" I raised my eyebrow at him "First of all you're not a kid. Second of all, it's only st nighttimes that someone will stay with you. You'll live"

I grabbed Steve's keys from his pockets before throwing them at his chest. "C'mon" I nodded my head outside towards where the car was to signal that we should go. Everyone went out with me behind them. Before I closed to the door to the boathouse Eddie called after me. "Hey Jules?!"

I turned around to look at him just as I was about to close the door.

"Be careful, yeah?" He looked at me worried. I gave him a reassuring smile. "I will" I spared him one last look before walking out and closing the door. I was slightly worried for the guy. Even though we hadn't talked over the past few years, we were close at one point. I mean who would imagine that the "Hawkins Perfect Golden Girl" was friends with "The Freak"

But it seemed that he hadn't changed over the years. Nothing really besides his looks which made him look very hot might I add.

I climbed into Steve's car and we started to drive away to where we saw that all the commotion was directed. If there was another attack by whoever this Vecna creep was, who's to tell who the next victim would be.

We need to find out where this thing is attacking from and how to stop it as soon as possible. We've been attacked way too many times. Hopefully, now that we don't have Eleven, we could defeat this thing without any loss.

If only I knew...

a/n: Once again im very sorry for not releasing a chapter. I suck i know but school has already been stressing me out but luckily its the weekend now and i survived a week of school already. 172 days more to go whoo! anyways i have no school on tuesday so ill release as many chapters as i can but i'll also try to release some today and tomorrow. Love you guys stay safe 💕

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