reddie oneshots

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hi i miss you guys so i wrote a short little story for you all. is everybody ok? how's school? i got a girlfriend and i'm so happy. i love you!

     it seemed like a perfectly normal wednesday to eddie, until he was walking to fourth period and suddenly surrounded by the bower's gang. they circled him tightly.
     eddie spun in a circle, trying to keep his eyes on all four boys at once.
       victor pounced, and held eddie's arms behind him tightly as henry landed punch after punch on eddie's face.
     "please! please stop!" eddie sobbed as tears, blood, and snot poured down his face. "please!"
     while eddie's attention was on henry, belch slipped between the two stealthily. he unzipped eddie's fanny pack, quickly grabbing the inhaler from it and zipping it back up.
     "go!" patrick, who was on the lookout for possible threats, such as teachers or the loser's club, yelled.
     the four older boys scattered, leaving eddie to himself.
     blood seemed to be everywhere; he felt lightheaded. eddie sank down to the floor, leaning back against the lockers.
     he was gasping for breath, and he fumbled for his inhaler, but he couldn't seem to find it. he knew he packed it this morning, just like he did every morning. but it wasn't there now.
     "eddie?!" a voice cried.
     eddie looked up. he was met with a very blurry richie tozier.
     "holy shit, what happened to you?" he cried.
     eddie tried to answer, but he couldn't fucking breathe. he took in a shuddery gasp, and his eyes rolled dangerously back in his head.
     richie cupped the asthmatic boy's face. "oh, shit eds! stay with me!" he cried, patting eddie's face until they made eye contact.
     eddie could barely see; everything was a blur. blood ran down his throat, making it even harder to breathe.
      richie began fumbling around in eddie's fanny pack. "where's your inhaler eds?" richie demanded, panicked.
     eddie shrugged before completely passing out in richie's arms.
     "no no no eds!" richie screamed, his voice echoing across the hallway.
     a teacher rushed out of her classroom; it was ms. douglass. "mr. tozier! what's going on?" she cried.
     richie opened and closed his mouth, looking pitifully up at her with tears pouring down his face. "help him... please," he begged.

     an ambulance came to take the young eddie kaspbrak away. richie rose with him.
     he sat and watched silently as the doctor said he couldn't find eddie's pulse.
     he began to softly sob as the doctors tore eddie's blood-stained shirt off him and shocked him with the defibrillator.
     he cried harder when eddie's heart finally restarted, the line on the heart machine moving steadily up and down.
     one of the two doctors sat down beside him, wrapping a reassuring arm around richie's shoulders; the other doctor moved to sit up front in the passenger seat. both richie and the doctor watched eddie's bare chest move jaggedly up and down.
     richie stayed right by eddie's bed at the hospital until the smaller boy woke up nearly four hours later.
     eddie blinked around confusedly, his eyes finally coming to a rest on richie, who was very zoned out, staring at the beige wall.
     "'chee?" eddie croaked.
     richie turned to eddie excitedly.
     "what the fuck happened?" eddie asked roughly, his voice cracking in multiple places.
     richie pressed his forehead to eddie's. "i was so worried about you." his voice wobbled dangerously, tears threatening to spill from his eyes.
     "'chee?" eddie's voice wobbled too, with both fear and worry for his best friend.
     richie didn't remove his forehead from eddie's, but still began to talk. "henry fucking bowers went after you, and one of his minions took your inhaler... you- eds you stopped breathing-" richie sobbed, clapping his hand over his mouth.
     eddie drug richie into the small, uncomfortable bed beside him. "shh," he whispered. "i'm ok."
     "i was s-so scared eddie, i thought- i thought you were going to die!"
     eddie forced a smile on his face for richie's sake. "it'll take a lot more then that to take me away from you. you know that."
     "it's not fucking funny eds," richie snapped. "i don't want you to die."
     tears welled up in eddie's eyes. "i'm sorry 'chee..." he whispered, ashamed.
     "oh eds," richie groaned, wrapping the small boy in his arms. "i'm sorry, i didn't mean to yell," he soothed.
     eddie sniffled into richie's chest. "it's ok. i'm sorry too."
     richie buried his face in eddie's soft hair; it smelled like strawberries. "eds..." he mumbled bashfully.
     "hmm?"
     "i love you," richie breathed, his heart pounding unevenly.
    "oh. cool." and with that, the sedatives that the doctors and nurses had been giving eddie since he arrived finally kicked in, and he passed out once again, but this time in peace and continued to breathe.
     richie sat, opened mouthed for a moment, unbelieving of his luck. of course eddie fell asleep as soon as he admitted his feelings for the shorter boy.
     however, luckily for richie, eddie had processed richie's words, and also, felt the same way. he told richie this as soon as he re-awoke.
     richie couldn't help but kiss him, grinning like an idiot. this 'kiss' consisted mostly teeth, but for both boys, it was perfect.
     "as soon as you get out of here, we're gonna go on a date... to the movies! or the arcade. or both!" richie told eddie excitedly without moving his lips from eddie's.
     eddie giggled. "i'd love that 'chee."
     richie moved his face back slightly. "if they let you out tonight, we can skip school tomorrow and go have fun!"
     "i've never skipped school," eddie told him matter-of-factly.
    richie gasped. "really?"
     eddie nodded, a small smile tugging gently at his lips.
     "well, there's a first for everything, and it looks like tomorrow will be your first day of skipping school."
     "you know, that was my first kiss too?" eddie mumbled.
     richie grinned, blushing, very happy eddie's eyes were closed. "really? i never would've known," richie told him, untruthfully.
     "really?"
     "mhm. wanna try again?"
     "yes!"
     richie had his lips against eddie's in a millisecond; the feeling was intoxicating.
     "i love you."
     "i love you too."

    eddie was able to leave the hospital that night, and as promised, both boys skipped school the next day and went on their date.