Hellfire (An Eddie Munson Story)

Stacy swore she'd never come back to Hawkins, Indiana.

After seven loud, reckless years in Los Angeles-sneaking into clubs, chasing music, and outrunning grief-being dumped back into a town that still smelled like coffee and conformity feels like a punishment. Hawkins is small. Hawkins is quiet. Hawkins is everything Stacy is not.

But Hawkins is changing.

Strange things hum beneath the surface of the town, and so does something else: noise. Real noise. The kind that leads Stacy straight into a smoke-choked dive bar and into the orbit of Eddie Munson-loud-mouthed, sharp-smiled, metal-obsessed, and unapologetically himself.

As Stacy tries to survive senior year, fractured family ties, and the weight of a future she refuses to plan for, she finds herself tangled in late-night music, Hellfire Club chaos, and a connection that burns louder than anything she left behind in LA.

Eddie isn't safe. Hawkins isn't either. And the closer she gets, the harder it becomes to tell which dangers are supernatural-and which ones come from wanting something too badly.

Because sometimes the worst thing about going back home is discovering it knows exactly how to break you.

Notes:
-Canon divergence/alternate timeline
-Chrissy still dies/Eddie has an alibi