One Scoop For Two (Eddie Munson X Reader)

One Scoop for Two (Eddie Munson x Reader)

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Eddie Munson x Reader (She/Her)

Warnings: none

Synopsis: Eddie keeps walking past Scoops Ahoy but not going in. Once Steve and Robin realise it’s because of Y/N, they help try to set them up

Y/N notes: none

Guys I miss Scoops Ahoy. The whole of Starcourt mall actually. So I wrote this. It’s like a mix of season 3 and 4. Season 3 setting, season 4 Steve and Robin dynamic and Eddie’s there ofc<3

Also I proof read this when I was half asleep so sorry for any mistakes! Enjoy reading:)

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“give it up for eddie munson, a free man at last!” robin yelled, holding her glass up in the air as everyone cheered.

“i was in jail for two days.” eddie said, sipping his beer.

“it was the worst two days of my life.” you pouted, putting your head on his shoulder.

“yeah cause fighting interdimensional monsters is so fun.” steve said, rolling his eyes.

“don’t be such an anti-cupid, steve.” nancy teased.

“yeah,” robin said. “young love is beautiful.”

“hear that, baby?” eddie asked you, pecking you on the cheek. “we’re in love.”

“‘course we are.” you said. “i wasn’t gonna call up my asshole cousin to get harrington out of jail.” 

“woah, woah.” steve protested. “what is it? hate on steve day?” 

“no, that’s february 4th.” robin said.

“that’s your birthday, robin.”

“i’m assuming you won’t get me anything, so i took matters into my own hands.”

“you’re so — ”

the two began arguing as an annoyed nancy got up to escape to the bathroom, leaving you and your boyfriend virtually alone.

“thank you.” eddie said. “i don’t think i would’ve been here if it wasn't for you.”

“don’t thank me, eds.” you said. “i was lying before, i would’ve done it for anyone. including steve.”

“i’m not talking about the lawyer,” he said, turning around to face you completely. “i mean, that was really fuckin’ helpful, and i immensely thank you for that, but i’m just talking about in general. believing me ‘n shit.”

“i’ll always believe you.”

“yeah, you say that, and i’m really flattered, but i’m just saying it would’ve been really easy to not believe me. But you still did, and you got everyone else on board… if you didn’t then i probably would’ve been face down in a ditch, bludgeoned to death by the basketball team or something.”

“i’ll always believe you, eddie.” you repeated, cupping his face in your hands. “even when it’s crazy, or unbelievable, or if everyone else in the world doesn’t – i’ll always be right here.” 

he smiled, his cheeks squishing in your hands. “i think you’re way too good for me.”

“so i’ve heard.” you laughed. “i missed you so much.”

“can’t go two days without me, baby?”

“after all this shit,” you said, “i can’t go two minutes without you.”

“‘m not opposed to that.” he said, releasing his face from your hands and resting his head in your neck. “you can’t get mad at me for blastin’ my music at 2 am when you’re tryna sleep, though.”

you grimaced. “maybe i’ll just sleep at my parent’s house.”

he whined dramatically, the vibrations on your skin giving you goosebumps. “fine, but you’ve gotta listen to somewhere in time with me, ‘kay?”

“i guess they say love’s all about sacrifice...”

“that reminds me.” he said, looking back up in your eyes. “i love you too.”

“was waitin’ for that.” you smiled, pressing your lips against his. what started as a teethy, chaste kiss turned deeper when he slid his tongue in your mouth.

“woah, gross!” robin yelled, pulling the two of you out of your moment.

“thought you were pro-love today, what happened?” you asked.

“that was before i saw eddie’s tongue enter your mouth.” she said, fake gagging. “now i’m disturbed.” 

“that’s a funny way of sayin’ you’ve never been frenched before.” eddie said, laughing at his own joke.

“gross.” robin mumbled. “dudes are gross.” nancy laughed and threw her arms around her, patting her shoulder in reassurance.

“mmhmm,” you said, the cheap beer you were drinking finally hitting your head at you leaned into eddie for another kiss. “let’s show ‘em how it’s done, munson.”

he smiled and kissed you again, dramatically ramming his tongue into your mouth over and over until he could hear steve and robin’s cries for them to stop.

eddie x platonic ! experiment ! reader

this takes place from the pov of reader , directly after she left the trailer and into the events of season 1

also this is kind of a steve x newly adopted sister! reader as well when i think about it being that she doesn’t reunite with eddie yet.

part 1 🤍

the in-between the three years :

season 1 - after you left the munson trailer

- a few hours after you’d left , you were back in the forest, you found a small house that said “castle byers” and decided to stay in there for the night hoping the owner wouldn’t come back.

- thankfully it was late so nobody else seemed to be around

- as you sat there thinking about the day, you couldn’t get the image of eddie’s frightened expression out of your head

- the moment just replaying like a loop in your head

- over and over and over and over again

- the first person you meet outside the lab, who was good to you, and you scared him !

- you were so used to raised hands, “shocky sticks” , and yelling that you had only acted on instinct

- you didn’t want that man to hurt eddie. you just wanted to protect him!

- he did so much for you and that was how you repayed him! by hurting his “uncle?” (that’s what he called him. what is that anyway?)

-as you layed on your side to get some rest, something hard was poking into your hipbone

- you still had eddie’s walkman attached to your outfit, which was also his !

- you remembered what eddie taught you about how to control it to play the song , and followed those instructions.

- after the third loop of “children of the grave” you’d finally fallen asleep.

- you couldn’t tell how much time had passed since you’d fallen asleep

- but when you woke up and it was significantly colder than it was before, you knew something wasn’t right

- you slowly began to sit up , before nearly jumping out of your skin at the sight of a liitle boy (who looked your age) sitting next to you looking scared out of his mind

-“…he-hello? are..you..okay” he didn’t seem to notice you as he continued to rock forward and back, mumbling something under his breath.

- as you were about to reach over and touch his hand, you quickly realized that there was a slimy, dark tentacle-like thing surrounding the inside of the small “castle”

- you knew exactly where you were. and exactly who this boy was

- on one of the mornings that eddie’s uncle hadn’t been there you would watch cartoons with eddie, but a few times when he was doing something else around the trailer, you boredly flipthrough the stations with a flick of your head before landing on a channel , with loud, interesting, music that caught your attention

“we interrupt this program with breaking news! 12 year old, will byers is still missing! it has been 3 days now , and his mother is worried sick! if you have seen this boy please contact hawkins police station at this number! that number is 3-“

- his voice trailed off as you stared at the boy in the picture for about 30 seconds

- before having the channel quickly change back to-

“he-man, and the masters of the universe!” eddie said with a weird voice, while he shook your shoulders manically from behind, before jumping over the couch, and stood in front of you, as you looked at him like he was crazy.

“news is a drag, van, someone goes missing like everyday” he said plopping down next to you on the couch, as he was quickly immersed back into the adventures of the man with the yellow hair

-and you were too but not before closing your eyes with this “will byers’” face in mind. you could find him

- you could find anyone , it was your purpose after all

- but this time you wanted to find this person

- and you were going to

- but you’d have to do it when you were alone, so you opened your eyes, slightly looked at eddie from the corner of it, making sure he didn’t notice and discreetly wiped your nose of the blood coming out and was quickly immersed back into the television as well.

-back to now

- “seven! seven where are you! el you said she passed here? are you sure? seven!!!

- you jumped up at the sound of voices, ready to fight if necessary.

-“will.” you whispered to him knowing you wouldn’t be hear much longer.

“will byers. my name is seven.” you whispered holding his hand and interlocking your fingers.

- now the thing is, will saw you but he thought he was hallucinating, and either way he had to keep singing, it felt like the only thing keeping him alive at this point

“i can help you… but. we need to go somewhere else.” you said trying to help him get up.

“..no…it’s too late.” he finally looked at you, “..he’s coming..” he whispered eerily before continuing his past ministrations.

- you recognized the words he was mumbling

- another song eddie had you listen to

“now’s not usually my taste, but my uncle likes it and it’s catchy so-“ he whispered, rolling his eyes before putting the headphones on your ears as you sat cris-crossed facing each other on his bed.

“should i stay or should i go?” you whispered to him.

will looked at you again, actually feeling like he sees you this time.

“ ‘s my favorite song” he whispered

“maybe she’s in it ?” another one of those voices from before said.

“will,” you held his cheek with your hand. “i will come back for you”

- as you started to come back into the real world, will’s body vanishing. you knew that you had to find him. you knew that you could find him.

- and you would.

-as you became aware of your current surroundings again, the footsteps got closer and louder you prepared yourself for the worst

- until the flap opened and you were now face to face with a boy who looked like he could be your age with curly hair and a hat, who looked at you with wide eyes before smiling and screaming

“guys!!! i found her”

before you could react another face popped into the tent but this time it was your sister !

“sister! i thought..” you were cut off by the both of you pouncing each other into a hug, while you teared up at not bring alone anymore

“i found you” 011 said squeezing you tight.

soo short timeskip because weee need to get to season 2

- long story short , you go through the rest of the events if season 1, but you were surprisingly with jonathan and nancy when the demogorgon came to the byers house, being that you spoke to his brother about meeting him before.

- and since you were there then of course

- you met our beloved steve (back when he was in his king steve era of course 😾)

- now of course seeing jonathan and nancy alone in a house together with a bunch of weapons was jarring enough

- but he was even more confused when he saw a little girl with a buzzcut and a very bloody nose, looking like she was preparing for battle as well

- when the demogorgon popped through the ceiling, and nancy tried shooting it before jonathan pulled her away and down the hallway, steve was about to run that way as wel, until he noticed that you were still standing there with your hands raised in the air and little sparks of flames began to appear on the monster .

- he didn’t really have time to think before he literally picked you up and ran, not thinking “why and how the hell was she doing that.”

- now when the thing left and nancy told him to leave and that, that thing was going to come back, he did! (i don’t blame him! ) and just as he was getting into his car, he looked at the house and saw the flickering lights, before getting a newfound confidence and running back in, grabbing that bat, and swinging on the thing.

another time skip (😾) to after all of these events

- you went into the upside down with joyce and hopper to save will, while eleven was with mike, lucas, and dustin.

- after successfully saving him you all went back to the school where everyone reunited with everyone, but for some reason you felt a bad feeling in your chest, like how you felt when you left eddie but worse.

- that bad feeling was correct after you realized that your sister was gone.

- now you’ve lost two people in your life and you didn’t know what to do.

another mini time skip to the end of season one : christmas time (i’m so sorry 😭)

you were staying with the byers for the time being, while hopper tried to find somewhere for you to stay and you and the boys had actually gotten pretty close !

- + you were closer with nancy, jonathan , and even steve as well.

- actually at the end of the boy’s campaign, instead of watching them, you were in the kitchen of the wheeler house watching and helping mrs. wheeler do her baking , while nancy, mr. wheeler, and steve watched a movie, waiting for jonathan to pick you and will up.

- after nancy went to go get jonathan’s present and mrs. wheeler had excused you from the kitchen being that she was finished. you had went to get your coat from the living room, while jonathan went to get will and you saw steve.

- now see, steve was well aware of what was going on with you, being that when he spoke to hopper about you and asked what would happen to you, hopper inquired that you couldn’t exactly stay with the byers family forever, and he said he’d try to find someone to adopt her.

- steve without even thinking said-

“well, i mean she can stay with me.” he shrugged nonchalantly, as if it was the most obvious answer.

- as if he wasn’t talking about adopting a literal child while he was still in high school.

“stay.. with you?” hopper asked incredulously

“well- well not stay with me like, i adopt her but like, my parents could do it. they said they’ve been thinking about it, which i mean i’m not sure why being that they’re never really here to begin with-“ he cut himself off with a laugh before getting back on track.

“but if i can convince them that there’s already a little girl just ready and waiting to have a family, i’m sure they’ll eat it up and do it in a heartbeat” he pshhed as hopper still looked at him as if he’d grown a second head.

“think about it, they’re never here, they won’t even have to know about her littleee,” he put his hands up and wiggled his fingers like he was doing magic.

“and the most questions they’ll ask is what’s up with her hair, and we can cover the tattoo, they’d be none the wiser i promise, plus they only really stick around for like the really important holidays so we’ll never even see ‘em!” he said enthusiastically, as if that wasn’t cps-calling worthy information but hopper thought about it.

“so if they’re never around… who exactly’s supposed to take care of her?”

now it was steve’s turn to look at hopper incredulously.

“…me! chief! duh! me! i mean it can’t be that hard it’s not like she’s a baby, we can enroll her at hawkins middle, she’ll be with jonathan’s brother and them, it’ll be great!

“i’ll look into it harrington.” hopper patted him on the shoulder before walking away.

- low and behold, steve’s parents got into contact with hopper asking if it was true about the little girl who’s parents “died in a tragic house fire” and when he confirmed, they jumped at the chance to adopt you!

- something about charity work being good karma or something.

- so congratulations! you’re officially a harrington! 🎆

- except you didn’t know that yet

- see steve, wanted to wait to tell you, so little did you know this was the last night you’d be staying with the byers.

- as you were nearing the end of your rounds of hugging the people of the house goodbye, even though you’d be seeing them the next day (a habit you picked up. i wonder why 🤔)

- you were walking up to steve, to tell him later but he had stopped you.

“hey kiddo, you doing good? ” he asked awkwardly putting his thumb up while saying good, not really knowing how to say what he wanted to say, even though he begged hopper to let him tell you himself.

“yes..good ” you said copying his 👍🏾 gesture.

“that’s great! so can i uh ask you something real quick?”

- you simply nodded still not really used to speaking that much

“so.. you know how..” he trailed off looking for a way to explain to you what would happen. i mean, did you even like him enough to want to live with him, let alone have him basically be your brother?!

- man he was stressed out now. he did not think this through

“so, you know how mike is nancy’s brother?”

“yes” you nodded, not seeing where this was going

“… and.. will! is jonathan’s brother!” he exclaimed

“…yes” you knew all of this already, was this a test of your knowledge of your friends?

“well.. how would it make you feel… if.. i…was your…brother?” he finally got out

“my…brother?” you asked not really understanding

yeah! like you know how my last name is harrington? yours would be to! we’d be brother and sister!” he said waving his hands at his sides

“like…family?” you asked him in awe

- you would love to be family with steve! he reminded you of eddie in some ways, and was cool in his own.. steve-ish way!

“yeah sev, like family. ” he repeated with a wry smile , showing you the papers with your name, your birth name, of which hopper and dr. (a nice doctor) owens presented to you a few weeks ago. the only difference is that the last name on the paper said “y/n harrington”

“now it’s not finalized yet so-“

“finalized?” you asked him staring at the paper

“yeah.. that means like, things on the paper can be changed, nothing’s official yet.”

- now he didn’t expect you to burst into tears. and he especially didn’t expect you to tackle him into a hug

“i want you to be my family” you whispered to him happily.

“i.. want you to he my family too.” he whispered, hugging you back.

- not noticing mrs. wheeler snap a picture of the two of you, awing at the beautiful moment

- truth be told after losing your sister and eddie, you were planning on leaving soon, not wanting to feel like a burden to the byers or to anyone else, but hopper was constantly checking up, as if he knew what you were planning, so you pushed the thought away all together.

- so having steve sit in front of you, asking if you wanted to be his sister was great! you couldn’t wait to start your new life!

- that night you’d packed your things up (which wasn’t really much at all) and thanked the byers for everything, before getting in the car with steve and going to your new house

- on the way there, you held the paper in your hands with all of your information, you didn’t really understand what any of the rest of the words meant

- but the words DOB: stood out to you being that all it had was a year and no month or day written on it , saying

“N/A, N/A, 1971”

“steve?” you asked, quietly over him humming whatever song was playing softly in the car.

“yeah? what’s up?”

“what is “D O B”

“it means date of birth. your birthday” he said remembering that when he was looking over the documents , he noticed that, and realized they probably couldn’t find it for some reason.

- when owens and hopper told him that they were going to put the standard “january 1, 1971” he asked them not to, and to let you decide what day felt right for you

“so you know what that means?” he asked looking over at you before looking back at the road

“no, what..does it mean?”

“means you can choose when you’re birthday is! that’s sick! whatever month, and whatever day you want, you get to decide!”

“there’s christmas! halloween, fourth of-“ his voice trailed to the back of your mind as he continued naming holidays for yiu to choose.

- but you could only think of one thing at that moment

on the fifth day of you staying with eddie , you walked around the trailer, looking at all of his things.

- you had gotten bored and eddie fell asleep playing his guitar, so you decided to explore .

- as you approached the fridge, because eddie says the best thing to do when you’re bored is eat, watch tv, listen to music or play the guitar, and two of those options were null and void when you new the second you changed the channel from thundercats, he’d wake up and tell you he was still watching it

- so you had the walkman on and listening to, that same song you’d been obsessed with by black sabbath

-before you could open the fridge door you noticed a multi-colored paper book, stuck to it.

- you took if off of the fridge and sat at the table with it looking at all the days and months

- as you flipped through, and got to a month , you looked at the days and saw the words

eddie’s birthday - written in blue letters in one of the boxes

- when he’d woken up not too long after , you asked him about it.

“yup! my b-day’s E/B/D” (whenever eddie’s birthday is because i don’t knowww = E/B/D😭)

“when’s yours?” he asked, sitting down across from you with a bowl of cereal

- you shrugged , eating yours

“don’t know”

“well that’s just absolutely unacceptable!” he said dramatically throwing himself off the chair

- you had started to get used to eddie’s theatrical ways, it never failed to put a smile on your face

“i just got the best idea in the world!” he exclaimed jumping off the floor with both arms stretched out towards you pointing at you

- uh oh. last time he said that , he had you look out for mrs. nolan, while he spray painted the back of her mobile home. the only one in the park (😼)

“quick! ozzy , eddie , or gene?!” he demanded

“ozzy!” you answered without thinking

“yes! i have taught you well young one!” he said shaking your head back and forth

“you! now share a birthday with the prince of darkness! ozzy osbourne!” he exclaimed

“yay ☺️” you loved ozzy! over the past few days eddie had made it his life mission to make you the biggest music connoisseur he knew. even better than him!

- your mind came back to the present and steve was still going!

“easter ! new years, valentines day! there’s so many to choose from i mean, the list goes on!”

“december 3” you told him

(cute fun fact about her is that her birthday is actually december 2nd! of course she doesn’t remember that and nobody else knows but her parents)

“huh?”

“december 3 is my birthday now” you responded looking over at him

“hmm, well that just passed so we can wait till next year to celebrate.” he was quiet for a second , as you two arrived at his house, and getting out the car

“so why that day?” he asked , as you two walked up the driveway with your things in hand

“it’s ozzy’s birthday” you looked at him like he should know, that it was common knowledge, that it was the biggest day of the year

“who’s ozzy?” he chuckled

“ozzy..osbourne” you said , looking at him like he grew a second head

“nope! doesn’t ring any bells, sorry sev!” he chuckled as he unlocked the front door and gestured for you to walk in.

- you just ….. 🧍🏾‍♀️

- you couldn’t believe your ears, how did he not know! was he living in a hole!

- a few weeks later after being officially established in the harrington home, steve took you to the music store to get more tapes for your walkman

- funny story is that when you finally reunited with el and met mike, lucas, and dustin, el noticed that you had new clothes and a weird machine on your hip, and wanted to ask where you got them from, realizing that you were staying with someone but never got the chance to.

- and everyone else figured you got it from the other

- nancy figured you got it from jonathan, jonathan figured you got it from steve, steve thought you got it from jonathan.

- and so forth

- so when he took you to stock up, while also getting some for his own collection

- he noticed you eyeing something on the back wall

- it was a black electric guitar with dark red patterns on it, that became prominent and shined whenever it moved in the light.

- you were completely in love with it! it reminded you of all the times you had with eddie that one week.

- as steve watched your interaction with the instrument he asked the employee,

“how much is that anyway?”.

- so one night a few days later when you got home from hanging out with the boys. you walked into your bedroom , and saw somthing large gift wrapped on your bed.

- as you cautiously walked over to it a tag that read ;

“from steve, happy late birthday :)”

- you ripped the wrapping open and low and behold!

- the guitar plaguing your dreams since the moment you laid eyes on it was right in front of you!

- you ran out of your room and into steve’s

- he was on the phone with who you’re assuming is nancy but you tackle him into a hug anyway.

“thank you stevie, thank you, thank you, i love you so much!”

- before he could even respond, you ran back out the room and gasped, hooking it up to the amp you hadn’t even noticed was also in the corner of your room

- he chuckled and tuned back into what nancy was saying

“what was that about?” she laughed , being happy to hear you so happy and opening up to people

“ahh she was just eyeing this guitar at the store the other day, so i decided to get it for her.”

“aww steve, that’s so sweet! you’re turning out to be a great big brother.” she said genuinely

“ahh it’s nothing, my parents are actually gonna start looking into finding an instructor to teach her how to play so-“

- he was cut off by the sound of what he thought was the beginning of one of your (many, being that you now had this widening collection) rock band vinyls booming and exhoing loudly across the hallway.

- he sighs

- “she’s playing that song again, huh” she giggled at the two already having sibling-like antics

- “yup you know the one, hold on a second” he grimaces, putting the phone down and walking to your room, thinking he’s going to have to remind you about the “music can’t be too loud rule”

- even though it wasn’t his ideal choice of music, he didn’t mind it, not at all!

- he just didn’t want to deal with that old prune mr. poll sending the house another noise complaint

- how the old man can hear that, but not when someone’s talking right to his face is completely beyond steve but, hey what can you do

- so imagine steve’s surprise when he stood in your doorway watching your fingers expertly dance across the chords, and hearing the exact same sounds he’s heard about a thousand times since you got a stereo and were able to play children of the grave from literal dusk to dawn

- he was so confused, how did you learn how to do that

- last time he checked , you :

lived in a lab , pretty much your whole life

escaped with el

stayed with eddie “the freak” munson for a week

got lost

el found you

and then all the bullshit with the demogorgon and will

- so when did you have the time to learn how to do.. that!

- he was so in shock , that when you stopped and looked at him expectantly he realized you’d said something to him

“sorry huh?”

“was that fucking metal or what man 🤟🏾? you asked him enthusiastically , not realizing you say “the bad word ™”

“yes! absolutely! “ he said putting both thumbs up, having no idea what that meant or where you could have learned that word from , and being too in shock to really check you on it

- before he could even say anything else you were right back at it , and steve just decided to go back to his room in shock

“steve! you there? what happened?” nancy asked

“huh? oh it’s just that, that wasn’t her stereo, that was her….playing…expertly.” he trailed off, realizing that you had to have been with someone else before staying at the byers household

“what? she chuckled.

“that was her playing the guitar you just got her, that she just opened 5 minutes ago?” nancy asked incredulously

“uhuh” is all steve could say

“…nice, guess she doesn’t need those lessons after all” was all she could say

“and she said and quote “was that fucking metal or what?” “

“see now i don’t believe you!” she giggled not even being able to imagine her saying that.

the next week as they were back in school after the break, neither steve nor nancy really payed any mind to an eccentric eddie munson as they passed him while he went on one of his infamous loud-ass tangents in the lunchroom

but nancy and steve did share a funny look when they heard him say “it was so fucking metal man you would’ve loved it!” as steve watched him do the exact thing you did with your hand when you said that

- but of course , steve being steve, didn’t think much of it at all and went back to talking to nancy about a party coming up ☺️

the in between part 2 for season 2 will be up soon ! 😻😻😻

not okay

STRANGER THINGS Vol 2 | Papa (4.08)

imagine eddie seeing you for the first time & he hears “i just died in your arms tonight” in his head while his eyes widen at the sight of you <3

Eddie x platonic!experiment!reader

hii i haven’t been able to get this out of my head. so i decided to write it down 😊 also i needed this right now because the duffers have me messed UP

also this is my first time writing so 🫣

and another thing is being that i’m black, i envision the reader as black. but anybody could read this being that i won’t put anything physical appearance-specific other than reader’s hair, which she ends up growing to be similar to eddie’s but honestly i feel like any race can have that hairstyle just different textures so 🫶🏾

(reader is the same age as el being that they’re “sisters” and it’s pretty much a similar dynamic as dustin and steve because i love their dynamic so much 😭)

summary : pretty much the same plot of el meeting the boys and how they were when they first met except it’s reader and eddie

part 2 🤍

part 1 : how they met

- so you’re in the same friend group as dustin , lucas , mike etc.,

- but FIRST we of course need the backstory

- so. you were born in 1971 and lived a pretty ordinary life in Illinois until your parents could no longer handle things setting aflame or go flying across the room without you ever picking it up whenever you lost your temper.

- so after many calls, doctor’s appointments and evaluations (and maybe some attempted exorcisms 😧), you were finally referred to dr. brenner who (of course) was very quick to take you in and “help” you.

- a 3 year old you is now residing in hawkins national laboratory , where you met el, 008 (kali), and the very friendly orderly named Peter.

- now. fast forwarding to 1983, the year that you and 011 escaped hawkins lab and the year that will (🫶🏾) went missing.

- unfortunately not long after you two had left the lab together, you lost each other in the chaos of being in a new environment:(

- as you’re wandering around this new environment (being that you haven’t really been outside in years) you’re tired beat and bruised from wandering around in a forest for about 2 days (you’ve honestly lost count) and just want to find your sister.

- you’re starting to lose hope when you begin to hear an unfamiliar sound in the distance. it’s unlike anything you’ve ever heard before!

- it stimulates your ears in such a way that, little 12 year old you just can’t help but to follow it.

- as you being to get closer to this peculiar sound, you realize that you’re no longer in the woods, but are now on the outskirts of a trailer park .

- as you walk through this new place (fear at the back of your mind of being in a strange place at night nonetheless) determined to find the cause of this noise,

-you see in the distance a boy not much older than you sitting on a picnic table, holding a large object in his hand and- “oh my gosh, the noise is coming from that thing!“ you think as you slowly walk over.

- now from a 16 year old eddie’s pov, he knew that playing his guitar at 10 p.m wasn’t exactly ideal, but his uncle wasn’t home and he was bored ! and if any of his neighbors had a problem with it , especially mrs. nolan (that old hag) they could simply come outside and tell him to shut up. (not that he would listen.

- so when he heard footsteps coming towards him, he figured that’s exactly what was about to happen so imagine his surprise when he looked up and saw some kid in a hospital gown, with a shaved head and no shoes?! he was appalled!

- so back to you now.

- instead of being skeptical of the boy in front of you, you’re eyeing the weird thing in his hands, with caution. only being able to think “what is that?” “can it hurt me?” and “i want to keep hearing that sound”

- your thoughts now being cut off by this boy in front of you.

eddie : “ummm… hi?”

you : “🧍🏾‍♀️”

- eddie’s completely freaked out at this point becauseeeee who the hell is this??? is he about to get murdered??? is this what he gets for trying to antagonize that old ass mrs. nolan???

- so he slowly puts his guitar to the side and hops off the table

- of course you noticing this, which automatically puts you in fight or flight mode because this guy is bigger than you and could be just like papa and the bad men.

“hey, are you okay? do you need help? a-are you hurt or something?” he trails off noticing the cuts and bruises on your bare legs and the dried up blood under your nose. 

- he remembered seeing on the news his uncle had it on over the past few days of kids being abused and/or abducted in nearby towns and immediately thought that this was the case. and being that this kid looked scared from just him getting up and walking towards them he figured that was the case.

“i-i’m not gonna hurt you i swear. what’s your name?”

“…”

- seeing you jump at the slightest sound and looking around frantically when other trailers lights began turning on at the previous commotion he figured they should probably go somewhere more private.

- he put his hands up to show that he meant no harm.

“you should come inside before anyone sees you, some neighbors’ll be quick to call the cops the second they see something weird so..”

- as you were about to run away the closer he got the sound of something howling in the distance made you jump towards him in fear and he decided it’d be best to lead you into the trailer and away from potential prying eyes. (damn mrs. nolan and her nosy ass)

- he held his hand out for you to take , which you did , as he guided you into his trailer.

- short time skip brought to you by eddie giving you clothes to change into (it was a short sleeved van halen shirt and sweatpants which is important information to know for later) and him completely freaking out when you tried to undress directly in front of him.

“oh my gosh, oh my gosh- what the hellll? don’t just do that!”

- of course at the sound of him raising his voice from the calm tone he was using before, you immediately cowered away from him, thinking you did something wrong.

“i’m sorry, it’s just… you shouldn’t just do… that. you know in front of people especially guys you don’t know. get it?” he said repeating the movements you had previously done.

“so i’ll be right outside this door andd you just knock when you’re finished changing okay?” awkwardly putting his thumbs up and not even waiting for an answer before he walked out and closed the door behind him

another timeskip to you and eddie now sitting at his dining room table, as he tried to get you to answer his questions while having you eat some left over pizza, that he had sitting out from several hours prior

- or just really say anything at all at this point

- he thought about taking the pizza from you if you didn’t answer his questions but you were really fucking it up (😭) and he was absolutely astonished

“have you never tried pizza before?”

- you slowly shook your head at him. but to him that’s progress so!

“soooo my name’s eddie. what’s your name?”

- when you just blankly stared at him while eating he figured this wasn’t going to be a very productive conversation until you set the slice down, held out your arm and pointed at the inside of your wrist.

-he saw what looked like ink on the inside part of your wrist.

“007?” what’s that mean?

when you pointed to yourself and softly said “me” he almost missed it.

“wait, i’m sorry. you? like your name is seven, like the numb-“ he stopped himself. starting to think that whatever or whoever this girl was involved with was wayyy beyond his original understanding.

- noticing that the topic was making you uncomfortable he decided to let you sleep for the night so they could hopefully talk more in the morning.

- the next morning he woke up to the sound of a guitar playing and saw you sitting on the floor in front of his bed, holding it the same way he was when you found him the night before. except you were just staring at it and tentatively pulling the strings and letting them snap against the wood.

- now normally seeing anybody handle any type of guitar, (especially his) like that would’ve sent him into an aneurysm. but the more he thought about it, the more he realized you probably didn’t know any better as crazy as it sounded to him.

“you like it?” he asked.

- having not heard him get up or notice him sit down next to her she jumped and quickly put it down on the floor

“i’m sorry” you said looking down in shame at touching his stuff without asking. you just wanted to hear the pretty sounds from the night before

“hey it’s okay, i mean it is pretty cool isn’t it” he said picking it up off the ground and started playing the beginning of some song

“see, you don’t pull the strings like that,” he said replicating what you were doing minutes prior. “you go like this see?”

“play.. one from last night” you said

“what?” he asked, looking confused before whispering to himself “one from last night…oh! sorry.” he apologized because his slight outburst made her jump.

“the one from last night when you walked up to me! yeah?” she nodded

thus that led to a day’s worth of guitar lessons and showing you all of his favorite songs and bands as you listened intently and watched as he danced around to each song.

“like the shirt you’re wearing! van halen? see look .” he showed you each of the members and saying their names. “and last but certainly not least! eddie van halen!”

“eddie…that is your name 🫵🏾” you looked at him intently

“huh? oh! well i mean yeah, we have the same name but everybody knows that i’m the original of course.” he pshhed. trying not to get too excited at the fact that you were opening up to him more

- he then went on to show you black sabbath, metallica, and all of his favorites throughout the rest of the morning.

- the one that stuck out to you the most was “children of the grave” from black sabbath’s master of reality album. which also happened to be the one he was playing the previous night that you heard.

he figured you liked it a lot (when for some reason everytime he left the room and it neared the end of the song it would start rewinding even though he swore he never saw you get uo to rewind it.) to the point where he put the tape into one of his (too many) walkman’s and let you listen to it in your ears instead of out loud.

- he didn’t want any noise complaints from that goddamn, old ass, mrs. nolan (no seriously what is his beef with her 🗿) and for her to call the police

he also told you the story of ozzy osbourne biting the head off of a bat with a very enthusiastic reenactment of it.

“gosh that shit was so metal” he said nostalgically.

“metal?” you repeated

“yeah.. it means like hardcore you know, but in a good way! metal 🤟🏻” he said sticking his tongue out

“ metal 🤟🏾” you said copying him and his hand gesture making him chuckle.

“so we should think of some nicknames for you, because i don’t really think we should walk around calling you seven, huh?” he seemed to be thinking really hard, putting his hand to his chin in a “🤔” way. you copying him as you stared at each other.

“sev? that sounds cool or how abouttttt van! you know because of the van halen shirt i gave you. or! how about dio or ozzy! from black sabbath! but since you’re a girl, how about dia or ozz!” he rambled enthusiastically

- you just nodded your head yes to each of them. making eddie burst out laughing much to your confusion.

“well i think you deserve an award for being the bearer of so many names milady.” he jumped up and jogged into his room before coming back with something behind his back.

“butttt since i have no medals or trophies to give you, i figured this should be good.” he said handing you his walkman with the children of the grave cassette tape in it.

“consider it a gift from “the great sir eddie munson” he said bowing theatrically making you laugh as he showed you wear to connect it to your outfit and how to operate it.

you stayed with eddie for about 3 or 4 days. and eddie being eddie, figured that you were more important than school at the moment so he just simply… didn’t go.

- he taught you how to do things that he considered basic life skills.

playing children of the grave on guitar

headbanging without hair | he was real adamant on that one because :

“imagine when you finally do get hair, you’ll be a fucking pro kid, i’m tellin ya!”

“fucking pro!” you repeated determinedly

“oooh umm don’t say that! don’t say that!”

he even took you to main street for a few hours. (but not without an amazing disguise of course ;)

now when his uncle finally came home early one day he wasn’t too pleased with the finding out that eddie had been skipping school. that disappointment was quickly replaced with confusion, at walking in and seeing a young girl with a buzz cut in his nephew’s clothes sitting at their table while eddie looked to be enthusiastically explaining “that damned board game” (dungeons and dragons) to her.

“h-hey uncle wayne, um i can explain everything , this is seven-“

“i think we should talk son. now”

without giving him a chance to explain, wayne dragged eddie to his room, slamming the door behind them, leaving you in the dining room by yourself, where you could only listen to the back and forth between the two.

“what the hell is going on eddie!?”

“listen she came up a few nights ago wearing some hospital clothes, and-and-and with a bunch of cuts and bruises, man! she needed help! he confessed

“then you call the police edward!-“

“jesus christ” eddie rolled his eyes, “since when are they any help!” he wasn’t actually asking, because he knew exactly how much “help” they could be

“i’m sure chief hopper would be glad to help her get back to where she needs to be, but she can’t just stay here!

“why not!?”

“ ”why not”?! they could think that you kidnapped this girl! or worse you could be harboring a damn fugitive for all we know!-“

“i didn’t! and a fugitive?! seriously? she’s a child! i- this is unbelievable!” you heard the door open back and eddie stomp back into the dining room where you were with his uncle trailing right behind him.

as they continued to argue in front of you, and the argument continued to get more and more heated , a moment passed where wayne raised his hands to put his face in his palms but you were too quick to react, thinking that he was going to put his hands on eddie and raised your hand, sending wayne flying across the room and hitting the wall with a loud and strong thud that shook the trailer.

- as you realized what you just did and touched the blood that began to drip from your nose eddie started to yell.

“oh my god! jesus h. christ! what the fuck was that man!” he looked over at you with what looked like fear on his face, before he ran to his uncle to make sure he was okay, as his uncle just stared at you in pure shock.

“i-i thought he was going to hurt you, i didn’t mean too i’m sorry!” you yelled and before they could respond you panicked and ran out of the trailer.

“sev! sev, wait it’s okay! you don’t have to run!” eddie yelled once he overcame the initial shock and confusion of what just happened, as he ran after you. but by the time he got outside you were nowhere to be seen.

2 weeks had passed and eddie looked for you non-stop when he wasn’t in school, but no sign of you. and all the hype was currently around looking for the byers kid who was reported missing the day after he met you.

- he would’ve thought he had just made you up in his imagination if not for the slight dent in the wall from where his uncle flew into. but what really reminded him of you being real was when one day his uncle came home with something for him

- eddie was sat on his bed retuning his guitar, when his uncle came and leaned against the doorway.

“hey eds i’m ‘bout to head out, try not to stay up too late alright?”

“okay. have a good night.” he said without looking up from what he was doing.

- you see eddie hadn’t spoken about what happened that day, since that day, so ultimately wayne didn’t either, not exactly knowing what to say about it. therefore they didn’t really have any type of conversation since that day.

“and um, i haven’t been able to catch ya but,” he tossed a manila folder next to him. “garrett from the photo shop caught me at the grocery store the other day, gave me that, said you never came to pick those up so he asked me to bring ‘em to ya.”

“i don’t remember developing any pictures but, thanks wayne, i’ll look at them.” giving a half-hearted smile before going back to what he was doing.

“alright kid, see ya later” wayne said walking out.

- the second eddie heard the front door close , and his uncle pull off in his car, he hung his guitar up and picked up the folder.

- he opened it, pulled out the prints, and his eyes widened as they immediately teared up, nearly breaking down at the sight before him.

- a picture of you and him at the general store sat in his hands the both of you doing the 🤟🏾pose he taught you with your tongues out.

- now he wasn’t only crying because he was upset that you were gone possibly forever and without a goodbye

- and because you were probably out there thinking he hated you

- he was also crying of relief at the fact that he wasn’t crazy and that you actually exist and that he had proof of it

- now this wasn’t proof to show you off or anything, he didn’t even plant on showing anybody the picture

- but proof that he had met what he thinks was the coolest kid ever and could only hope that you were doing okay wherever you ended up.

- he quickly grabbed a marker and wrote on the back of the print “eddie & van nov. 1983” pinning it next to where he would hang his guitar.

- eddie was happy that he had something to remember you by, being that he didn’t think he would ever see you again.

- and he didn’t. see you again that is. and you didn’t seem him either

.- not for another 3 years at least.

- but that’s a story for another time i guess 🤭