soulmates~reddie

chapter five

!Warning! Homophobic slurs, violence, mention of blood...

'So... Bowers huh?'

Eddie gulped loudly, Richie probably watched everything that just happened between the blonde and brown haired boys in front of the door to his chemistry class. "Yeah, apparently. Believe me, I'm just as confused as you Rich." Eddie said with a soft sigh.

"You apparently don't mind it. Correct me if I'm wrong but normal people don't kiss their bullies out of nowhere.." Richie said back with a hint of jealousy in his tone. "God Richie, he's my soulmate after all. And besides, why do you care? I can kiss whoever I want." Eddie snapped back. Richie sighed and leaned back in his chair, "I don't care Eds, kiss whoever the fuck you want." the tall one answered back. "Don't call me that." Eddie mumbled back.

Chemistry and the next few periods went by quickly and the boys left the classroom as quickly as they could, because they were getting annoyed by eachother. Eddie couldn't stand Richie's foot constantly tapping against the floor, or him clicking his pen, everything Eddie normally adored got him on his nerves now. But the other one was getting annoyed too. He started to get annoyed by Eddie continously sighing or him being distant from Richie, he didn't like it at all.

The boys walked to the bike racks, seeing all their friends waiting for them their. They walked over to them and just as Eddie was about to say hey to the rest of The Losers he felt a hand on his waist turning him around. "Don't fucking touch him Bowers!" Eddie heard the voice of the fierce red head. "I can touch my boyfriend when I want to Marsh." Henry calmly answered back.

"BOYFRIEND?" he heard the group say in unison. "News flash! Henry Bowers and Eddie Kaspbrak are soulmates! They discovered it right after lunchbreak." Richie explained to them, while pulling one of his weird voices. "Cut it, four eyes. Yes, boyfriend." Henry said to The Losers. He kissed Eddie's cheek and asked if he was coming with him. "Just let me say goodbye to them, wait in the car for me, okay?" Eddie smiled up at the blonde one. He nodded and leaned in to give Eddie a kiss. The smaller boy pushed himself up on his tiptoes, pecked the other one's lips and turned to his friends.

"What the fuck was that?" Beverly yelled at him. "What was what?" Eddie asked nonchalantly, even though he knew well enough what Beverly meant by that. "Everything that just happened Eddie, I don't underst-", Beverly was cut of by Stan "How long do you know?" he asked in a serious tone. "Since I turned 17.." Eddie mumbled back. "But we saw you during winterbreak, you didn't have that streak back then." Ben quietly said, while trying to calm his girlfriend. "Yes, I did. I just covered it up with my hood or a beanie." Eddie answered back. "And here I was, thinking you were just cold while actually you were hiding that your Bowers' soulmate, fuck Eds." Richie now said.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want anyone to know...but know the whole school knows, so yeah..but I have to go, Henry is waiting on me. Bye guys." Eddie turned around and started walking to the schools parking lot, looking for the blue car, while he heard his friends say bye to him too. The brown haired boy spotted the car, walked over to it and got in. "Hey babe," Henry said while trying to give Eddie a kiss.

Eddie pushed Henry on his chest to stop the boy from kissing him. He saw something flashing in Henry's eyes but they quickly turned soft again. Instead of returning the kiss, Eddie asked what they were going to do. "I was thinking about going to my house? I will make hot chocolate for you if you want." Henry silently asked. Eddie, who knows Henry's​ hot chocolate probably can't compete against Eddie's,  took a deap breath and started talking, "Look Henry, I know we're soulmates but I want to really know if this isn't a trap to hurt me or something...it's just, I mean, you used to be my bully.." he choked on his words, trying not to cry.

"Oh no, no baby. That's all in the past now. I wont hurt you." he smiled while caressing Eddie's cheek with his thumb. Eddie nodded and leaned back in his seat. "Okay, let's go to your house then." he said while intertwining his fingers with Henry's. This isn't that bad actually, Eddie thought to himself, but deep down he knew that this was just the start of something that is going to haunt him forever.

They arrived at Henry's house and Henry quickly got out of the car to open Eddie's door, "After you, kind sir," he said with a bow which made Eddie giggle. Eddie didn't like that he actually didn't mind being around Bowers. They walked through the frontdoor after Henry had opened it and they walked in. That's when they we're stopped by a deep voice, a voice that belonged to Oscar Bowers.

"Ah son I see you're home, who's your friend?" the deep voice said to the two boys. "That's Eddie, Eddie is my-" Henry started with his voice trembling, but was cut off by his dad, "Your soulmate huh? I see, I see. Well it's faith I guess. It's fucking faith that I now have to raise a fucking fag!" his dad yelled. Henry held his arms in front of his face to protect it, standing in front of Eddie to protect the boy, when his father took a big step forward.

Eddie started panicking and searched for his inhaler. He found it and quickly put it up to his lips before pulling the trigger. Henry was now shaking with fear while his dad pulled him by his arms, causing him to fall to his knees, fully displaying Eddie now. "So you're the lucky one who's dating my son huh? Bet your dad isn't proud of you either." Oscar said while pushing a finger against Eddie's chest.

Now Eddie started trembling to, his dad probably wasn't proud of him at all, about how he thought of boys, how he had kissed Henry, how he didn't listen to his mother...his dad wouldn't be proud. Eddie started crying and slowly stepped backwards. The words hurt him, they hurt him deeply. Once he felt his back push against the door, he let himself slide down. He was a fag and his dad wouldn't be proud of him.

Henry couldn't take it anymore, watching his dad take down his soulmate. He had enough of his dad's behavior. While Oscar was talking to Eddie, Henry managed to grab his switchblade and went to stand behind his dad. Eddie looked at Henry with big eyes when he saw the switchblade in his hand. "Hen no!" Eddie yelled, but it was too late. Just as Oscar was about to turn around, Henry had stabbed him in the neck. Oscar quickly fell onto his knees, frantically trying to grab for the blade but with no luck. Finally, Oscar's body went limp and both boys stared at the scene in front of them.

Henry slowly pulled out the switchblade, with Eddie staring at the lifeless body in front of him. He couldn't believe it. Henry just killed his own dad to save Eddie. Henry walked to the kitchen to wash of his blade and hands, that were covered in blood. His dads blood. Eddie stood up, legs shaking, and walked to the kitchen. "Holy shit, Hen", Eddie started, "I can't believe you did that to save me." He looked up at the boy with glossy eyes.

"I would do anything to protect my soulmate." Eddie smiled and kissed the boy and for a moment they forgot about the body in front of the door and just thought about eachother. "Now we have a shared trauma," Henry said with a smirk when Eddie broke the kiss, "that only brings us closer together, you know."

[A/N] Okay, so I know it's a lot of stuff between Henry and Eddie now but there's gonna be reddie soon, I promise.