Best friends, and THAT'S all... ♡Eddie munson♡

{1} Last Will And Testament.

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5374 words.

It's been exactly 3 months and 4 days since Eddie's father, Al, and now deceased Mavrik held him hostage, beat him, starved him, most of that coming from one person.
It has been a wobbly recovery for him, sleepless nights because of discomfort and night terrors, healing his bruised up and fractured body, his busted nose which was now splint free and healed being one of the only things that had got considerably better.
3ish months later and he still had dark bruising around his side's, arms, legs and back, the swelling had gone down as well as the size of the bruises but not the discoloration of skin.
He had new burns on his arm, circular ones, from cigarettes, that stood out more than the older ones littered about his body, obviously, and the side of his head where he was hit with a metal bar has had it's staples removed, no infection occurred which was great, he has a scar now and his hair is slowly growing over the patch that was shaven, he can wash his hair properly now and cover up the patch with all his other curls which he's happy about.

You both spent about two weeks with Uncle Wayne at his trailer, just getting Eddie back to as much normality as possible, being in a place he felt safe, WITH people he felt safe with.
Steve and Robin dropped off things, food mostly, Eddie's favourite soup from town, and had grabbed the both of you spare clothes from the apartment, the kids also stopped by to see him, Wayne not minding the visitors but he did keep it timed because he didn't want Eddie overwhelmed so soon after what had happened.
When you did finally get back to the apartment, he was a little more talkative and alert, moving from places instead of staying in one spot like at his uncle's where he was either on the sofa or in his bed, he was making his own food though you did offer, and he even played a bit with Odie when Steve came back with her, he looked after her for a while.
He was sleeping with one of the bedroom lamps on which wasn't like him, usually you both slept in darkness, but you just put it down to him needing some sort of stability and safety when sleeping after what he'd dealt with, however long it look him to feel himself mentally you were going to do everything you could to help him get there faster.

There had been numerous nights of him jolting awake in heavy sweats and tremors which in return jumped you awake in panic for him, he never freaked out on you or anything when he'd wake up like that, he just needed a moment and to be told he's safe and okay, he usually got back to sleep pretty fast and would stay asleep till morning.
He wasn't allowed to work for those months, Kent's instructions, he said Eddie still had his job when he was recovered enough, but with Kent's age he still had to recruit a person just as a sort of part time for three months, Eddie wasn't happy but he understood, not working for 3 months drove him nuts, he didn't know what to do with himself, it was thanks to Dustin Mike Lucas and the rest of the Hellfire gang to keep him SANE with campaign planning, movie nights, Super Mario Bro's, Legend of Zelda, and Final Fantasy.
His Uncle and your mother checked in daily, either by call or in person, always bringing something with them.

Now that it had been 3 months and 4 days, Eddie was back at work...you still felt it was too soon, but arguing with him wouldn't help anything, so you supported his decision only if Kent didn't send him out, not for a while yet, and no extreme heavy lifting.
With that, he'd been working for 3 days upto now, Kent had cut his times and made him leave two hours earlier than usual, Eddie wasn't going to argue with that, it was either listen to Kent and get back to work like he wanted, or to not work for another month or more because he wants to force himself and be stubborn.
Getting back from a very hands on job really  knocked it out of him, he was asleep on the sofa not even half hour of being home, you had to wake him up for dinner most of the time which he apologised for because he'd of helped prepare it if he didn't fall asleep.
But you didn't mind, he was catching up on sleep and resting, then eating his dinner with second helpings, he was getting his strength up.