Headcanons For Stranger Things Eddie Being Friends With A Friendly Ghost Child Yn Please? They Look Up

Headcanons for Stranger things Eddie being Friends with a Friendly Ghost Child yn please? They look up at him and likes to make cool things for him? Like imagine in a dnd session where there’s a cold windy night as a scenario,they make the air go chilly and make strong wind noises,they would scare others away if they’re beingrude to Eddie’s ((maybe even saving him?? ))

Aw I love this idea!! Let's say Ghost!Y/N’s around 10-11 years old

Also these hcs got long so half of them (aka the angstier ones that go into major spoiler territory) are under the cut!

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The memories of your death remained fuzzy; not even the wounds on your ghostly form could help you recall what exactly happened the day you perished.

Not only that, but you were stuck in the living world for some reason...

Yet you didn’t despair over this. In fact, you stayed hopeful and optimistic. Even if you couldn’t move on, you wanted to at least find some new purpose in your afterlife.

So you explored Hawkins, which led you to the highschool where you noticed cliques of science nerds, band geeks, preps, and athletes in the lunchroom. It made you wonder where you’d fit in if you were still alive, but you weren’t exactly sure...

Then you hear a student’s boisterous voice taking jabs at the groups, proclaiming that “conformity is killing the kids”..or something like that.

You didn’t fully understand what he meant, but when you saw his long hair, rings, and biker jacket, you instantly admired his aesthetic.

He looked like the coolest guy ever standing up on that table, mimicking devil horns when confronted by a jock.

Then you officially crossed paths with him after noticing he dropped a D&D dice as he’s walking down the hall, listening to heavy metal. You happened to love D&D as well and knew it was important that he had it.

“Hey! I think you dropped something.” Forgetting that he probably couldn’t see you, you picked it up and tried getting his attention.

Eddie stops short when he sees you in front of him, removing his headphones with wide eyes.

You’re worried that you scared him, but then he smiles and thanks you, remarking that you seemed way too young to attend highschool right now.

Meanwhile, you’re perplexed that he can actually see and hear you.

He doesn’t realize you’re a ghost until the jock from the cafeteria sees him and scoffs like “Hey, druggie. You talking to air now?”

“No, Carver.” Eddie sneers back. “Don’t you see the kid standing right there?!”

“...what kid?”

Suddenly, he realizes that Jason does not see you at all and he clams up.

The jock continues taunting him until an invisible force knocks the books out of his hands. He freaks out and runs away, before Eddie sees you reappear.

“Why is that guy so mean to--oops, uh..” You feel awkward as he stares at you in shock, worried that he’ll run too. “Hi.”

“H-Hey....so.....you’re a real ghost?”

“Yeah. But it’s weird how only you can see me..”

“Yeah, that’s weird but...pretty cool, I guess. Although this reminds me of a session I made where the party had to defeat evil ghosts who tried turning them against each other through possession.....you’re not evil, are you?” He eyes you suspiciously.

“What? No! Of course not!” You huff. "We're not all evil."

“Then why are you still here among the living?”

“I dunno. I’m still trying to figure that out. But I promise I won’t hurt you.”

Although cautious at first, Eddie quickly became friends with you and invited you to join the Hellfire Club that day, wondering what cool powers you had.

Even you weren’t sure, but you experimented with them and provided his D&D session with an eerie atmosphere for immersion purposes.

Eddie began with “On this cold, windy night..” and you decreased the temperature of the surrounding air and made windy sound effects, blowing out some of the nearby candles and relighting them when appropriate for his story.

This sent shivers down the club members’ spines as they wonder how he’s able to do that. They suspect he hid fans around the place. 

But you and Eddie just grin at each other, finding a way to make this game even better.

Outside of club, you hang out with him at his trailer, listening to him practice a Metallica song on his guitar and brainstorming new ideas for D&D sessions.

You quickly see how harshly he’s treated by other students, including that “Carver” guy who reminded you of bullies from your school, so you’ll harmlessly prank them and send them running scared. You both get a kick out of it.

Unfortunately, these fun times don’t last forever as things start to go wrong in Hawkins.

After Eddie witnesses Chrissy’s death, he panics and avoids you.

But you have no idea what happened or why he’s so terrified of you all of the sudden. You're certain you haven't insulted him in any way..but it took you forever to find him and confront him about this.

“Eddie, what’s wrong? Did I do something?”

“Just don't follow me anymore. Go haunt somebody else!!”

“What? I-I don’t understand. What did I do wrong?? What happened-?”

“CHRISSY IS GONE, [Y/N]!!!” He finally screams. “THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED!!”

You flinched as he yelled at you, but you’re horrified at the revelation. “That..nice cheerleader? She’s dead..?”

Part of him feels bad for startling you, but he gets choked up as he accuses you of possessing and killing her, believing you lied to him about never hurting anyone.

With tears in your eyes you try defending yourself. “Eddie, I..I wasn’t anywhere near your trailer that night. I would never do that to anyone!”

“B-But if not you, then who else?!"

“I don’t know! But I swear I didn't do that to her. Please..you have to believe me. Why would I ever break my promise? Why would I want to hurt anyone you cared about?”

Even after Eddie stops running from you, he’s still emotionally distant, which worsens after he’s accused of more murders and thinks making contact with you somehow “cursed” him.

This wasn’t the cool rebellious dungeon master you once looked up to anymore. He became so..withdrawn. Yet you didn’t wanna abandon the only person who could see you. So you never left his side.

Once Dustin and the others find him and explain the Upside Down--he realizes he was wrong about you and apologizes.

Of course you forgive him, knowing he’s just scared and confused.

Though all this talk about the UD leaves you wondering if it had something to do with your inability to move on. Maybe you’ll find answers there and help stop the real monster who was ruining Eddie’s life.

So you venture into the dimension with the group, and its supernatural forces somehow allow everyone to see you. And this leads to a very awkward explanation from Eddie on how you both met. Your injuries carried over, but you reassured them they didn't hurt.

When a demobat spots you, it swoops down to attack--only for it to fly right through you and crash into a wall.

That’s when you realize the monsters can’t harm you, and you use this to your advantage in distracting the swarms of demobats sent by Vecna, especially when they come for Eddie and Dustin.

You choose to stay behind in the UD to keep them away from the portal for as long as possible, snatching the sheet so Eddie can’t chase after you.

Eventually Vecna is seemingly defeated, and Eddie and Dustin return to the dimension, but neither of them can find you anywhere.

Days later, there’s still no sign of you in the real Hawkins, and this leaves Eddie a total wreck as he wonders what happened to you.

Were you corrupted by the UD? Did a monster find a way to harm you? Or did you simply pass on without saying goodbye?

He still had to hide from a town who hated him, and despite having friends who believed him..he's never felt so alone.

You were just a kid. A brave kid who made the ultimate sacrifice for him, a cowardly adult who accused you of murders you weren’t even capable of committing.

It crushed him. He was proud of himself for that concert, for not running from the swarm but facing it.

But he couldn't help you.

He feels like he failed as a shepherd, losing one of his sheep forever.

And he laments over this while taking a smoke break in the woods, the same place where he once connected with Chrissy.

But he becomes frustrated when the lighter’s flame keeps going out, which was a habit of yours to deter him from smoking.

Then...he hears a familiar voice.

“You know that's bad for you."

Eddie turns and gawks as he sees you sitting beside him, in a fully corporeal human body. Your wounds were patched up and your eyes no longer looked lifeless--as if you’ve been reborn.

Apparently the time you’ve spent in the UD allowed you to travel between dimensions, and you found a way to keep the corporeal form you gained there in the real world (although it’s temporary).

You just smiled at your friend once you finished explaining why you were gone for so long. “So I basically leveled-up and gained mastery over-”

Immediately Eddie breaks and hugs you, sobbing with relief and thanking you for all you’ve done for him, apologizing again for how he treated you before.

And again, you forgive him and hug him back, promising you won’t leave.

You ended up finding your new purpose after all:

Eddie was in desperate need of a guardian angel..and you were the perfect candidate.

#In Loving Memory of Eddie Munson (and his wig)

eddie x platonic! experiment! reader

just realized it can be seen as a slight! steve harrington x platonic! experiment! reader as well due to their cute little sibling antics so i’ll tag it as that as well. 😭

the in-between series : not really any eddie in this one unfortunately but! season 3 will have a nice surprise, including the both of you. so please don’t kill me 😭

a/n : this. is too fucking long 😭 and i forgot how to add the keep reading symbol omg , kill me now actually 🧍🏾‍♀️

part 3!

part 1 , part 2

season 2 : starting middle school

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- so you didn’t actually start school until september of 1984

- steve and hopper thought it’d be better to do some type of home schooling, before just throwing you in with the sharks

- and they also wanted you to get used to being around people who didn’t know about your special abilities

- you needed to be taught that not everyone was as cool as will , dustin , lucas , and mike

- plus you realllly needed to be taught not to use your powers when you were upset

- because the summer of 1984 was interesting to say the least

- you were playing around in the pool , while nancy sat on the edge of it, reading a book and steve was throwing a ball back and forth with you, while sitting next to her

- when all of a sudden a glass bottle went flying over your fence , exploding at the side of the pool. and nearly hitting nancy!

- as the three of you ran to the fence to see what was going on, you three saw some older teenage boys running back to a car with some girls in it who were giggling at the situation

-“oh go screw yourself tommy!” steve yelled at them opening the fence to give them a piece of his mind

“have fun with your slut, harrington!” tommy h. yelled back as the car quickly began to pull off

- after seeing nancy look so visibly upset and steve try to get to them before they got too far

- you stood on the lawn watching them leave with a sharp glare, tikting your head to the side as blood began to trickle down your nose

- all of a sudden the two back tires blew out and the car began swerving down the street, and you could hear the teens screams of terror from the inside of the car

“tommy stop! what the hell are you doing?!” you heard one of the girls shriek.

“it’s not me i swear it’s like the wheel’s got a mind of it’s own!” he screamed back.

- steve and nancy could only watch in shock as the car only stopped once they jumped the curb crashing into mr. poll’s car, who was ironically just walking away from it and into his house after a long day of work

“what the hell! my car! my lawn! you damn kids are gonna pay for this shit!” he screamed, marching into his house to call the police. they couldn’t exactly run away anyway being that the doors were stuck.

- steve jogged back to the two of you, ushering you back into the backyard before mr. poll could try to associate the three of you with what just happened .

“oh my god, oh my god, ohmygod!” steve said pacing back and forth, with his hands on his head once he realized the cause of what just happened.

- you just casually wiped your nose and went back to playing in the pool. as the two tried to quietly go back and forth about what just happened

“steve! calm down! it’s okay!” nancy whisper yelled at him.

“okay? okay?!” he couldn’t stop thinking of what would happen when hopper got there.

- he knew he’d tear him a new one for this.

- he just didn’t want you to get taken away!

- it’s bad enough that hopper feels like you may be too much for steve to handle.

- what with him dealing with a superpowered child of his own, let’s just say that he learned the hard way that temper tantrums were pretty next level.

“that could’ve been so much worse, they could’ve hit a fire hydrant! or a person! someone could’ve died!”

“died? that’s being a bit dramatic steve. they weren’t even going that fast and i’m pretty sure she knew what she was doing!” nancy rolled her eyes.

- truth be told she was a bit biased.

- i mean this was the same group that publicly shamed her for doing something she didn’t even do!

- so she didn’t feel too bad about what happened

-besides they were fine other than just being scared!

steve attempted to whisper yell back but due to his nerves he was a little louder than he thought and turned around once hearing you chime in.

“they could have…hurt nancy” you gestured to the broken bottle on the floor by where she was previously sitting, as you climbed back put of the pool and over to them.

“you could’ve hurt them, sev!” steve exclaimed

“they could have hurt nancy!” you repeated, this time yelling, and looking over to her when you noticed something on her thigh. “and i…knew what i was doing, steve!” you walked over to her pointing at what you saw.

“see! they.hurt.her! they deserved it! they are bad!”

-you turned her to face steve, showing them a small trail of blood going down the side of her leg from where a small shard knicked her.

“oh! seven i’m okay, i swear! i don’t even feel it at all” nancy tried to reassure you, as you got a towel and went to help her.

“they aren’t bad, they’re just assholes okay! and that doesn’t excuse you trying to hurt them, we need to be better then them, we are better than them! i could’ve just called the cops on them, and they would’ve gotten what they deserve! steve exclaimed , although getting angrier at the sight of nancy bleeding.

-you and steve continued to go back and forth, as the three of you went back inside the house, nancy getting ready for hopper to possibly show up.

“oh, because cop’s are any help, right?” you replied sarcastically, remembering what eddie said all that time ago.

“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 to his uncle

“then you call the police edward!-“

“jesus christ” eddie rolled his eyes, throwing his hands in the air. “since when are they any help! i did what i thought was right, and i don’t regret it!”

“i did what i thought was right, and i don’t regret it okay?!” you yelled at him.

- steve was surprised to hear you say that without stuttering or pausing between your words.

- but he didn’t dwell on that for too long being that this whole situation surprised him

- you two had never argued before. about anything

“sev, you’re not listening to me! you could’ve killed them!” he yelled back at you, shaking your shoulders, trying to make you understand the severity of the situation.

“steve i don’t think you need to keep saying tha-“ nancy tried to mediate before this got worse.

- while you didn’t use your powers too often, she new your emotions could get the best of you sometimes, and didn’t want to learn what would happen if you got more upset.

“nancy! would you please! stay! out of thi-“ he began to yell, his frustration getting the better of him

“if i. wanted to kill them… i would have.” you said eerily poking him in the chest, before pushing his arms off of you and stomping upstairs to your room, waving your hand back, making the door slam behind you.

“great going steve, awesome communication skills you’ve got there.” nancy seethed sarcastically, walking out of the house, and slamming the door behind her as well.

- she decided she’d rather wait for hopper outside, than continue to be in the middle of that.

-the situation across the street was quickly mediated by hopper once he arrived, who had the children and mr. poll go to the station with officers,, powell and callahan and just have mr. poll talk with their parents about his messed up car and how it’d be payed for.

- now when he walked across the street to the harrington house, because he knew that two tires popping simultaneously on a clear street wasn’t exactly normal.

- nancy explained to him what happened between the bottle, and what they said, to what you did, to your argument with steve.

“she was only trying to defend me, i really think she doesn’t know better.” she said before getting into his police truck, per his offer to take her home.

- and once he got inside the house, it was the same story, just from steve’s point of view

“and then she was like- “well if i wanted to kill them i would have.” i mean what kind of bullshit were they teaching her in that damn lab!” he exclaimed, once again pacing around.

“just.. give her some time, kid” hopper said calmly.

“we’ve spent this entire year teaching her the things she’ll need to know for middle school, and now we have what- 20 days? to teach her not to physically hurt bullies with her mind?!”

“stev-“ hopper began

“what if someone picks on her or- or one of those boys she hangs out with and just-“ he copied the head jerk thing you do. “snaps their arm or leg?! or worse their neck?!” he said interrupting hopper, putting his hands on his head in distress at the mental image.

“harrington! sit down. you’re making, my head hurt” hopper said rubbing his forehead.

“what-“ steve began stopping his pacing but not sitting.

“sit! down!” he raised his voice.

- steve quickly sat

“myself and my… reinforcements will teach her what to do in case of bullies okay? she’ll be alright!” he explained calmly.

“w-well i can help!” steve said.

“no way!” hopper chuckled as he got up, bracing himself to go talk to you now.

“hey, why not?” steve asked about to get up to follow him.

“because you’re about 5 seconds away from an aneurysm, at this rate, kid” he chuckled again, holding his hand up gesturing for steve to stay downstairs.

“word of advice to you though, i suggest you give her some space.” hopper said, as he began walking up the stairs.

- the situation was mediated much quicker than hopper thought, with you agreeing to learn how to keep your emotions in check and to think of the possible consequences before using your powers in such a way again.

“and if you really wanna make ‘em pay, a quick,” he showed you his fist before swinging at the air and then doing the same with the other one ”one, two should get ‘em.”

- you nodded taking in this important information

“and if that doesn’t work a quick hit to the privates should set ‘em straight”

- he winked before leaving the house, he still did have nancy to take home, and to add a charge of trespassing and assault to the other kids charges

- plus he had a kid of his own to get home to before 8:15.

- skip to the next morning where steve went downstairs, to find you already awake, eating breakfast and watching, the new scooby-doo mysteries.

“hey, morning.” he mumbled, still half asleep and ruffling your newly growing hair (imagine it’s kind of how el’s was in season 2, but slightly longer due to steve teaching you hair care 😭)

- honestly i feel like no matter what race you are , he will do and learn everything he can to have your hair be as healthy and “luxurious” as his 😭

“morning” you responded, through a mouthful of “waffelos”

- he made his own bowl and sat next to you at the table, quickly becoming enamored with the cartoon

“steve?” you quietly called out

“what’s up?” he looked at you

“do you…forgive?” you asked feeling guilty about arguing with him the day before, being that you stayed in your room the rest of the day and didn’t see him until now.

“yeah kid, you’re good. do you? forgive me i mean.” he asked feeling just as guilty for yelling at you for defending your friend the only way you knew how.

- you nodded your head , bumping his fist with yours before continuing to watch tv together.

(aww)

time skip to you starting school :

- so the day has finally come

- you are officially a seventh grader, along with , dustin, lucas, will, and mike.

- thankfully you had one class with all of them, science with mr. clark. and they each were at least in one other with you

- math with lucas

- english with mike

- art with will

- and social studies with dustin

- you didn’t join the a.v club with them, but instead decided to try branching out and finding something that you wanted to do

- you actually ended up joining the chess club!

- you thought: “hey! i remember playing this with mr. peter sometimes, too bad he quit all that time ago, didn’t even get to say goodbye”

- it was unfortunately not that easy but you prevailed! and ended up joining the team

- so overall everything was going fairly well!

- i mean you still missed your sister a lot.

- and while you still missed eddie a lot as well, he was slowly becoming one of those people in life that you just continue to hold them close to your heart, and try to remember them in the best ways.

- and then just like that!

- it’s almost halloween!

- the boys told you all about the yearly tradition of wearing your halloween costumes to school and you were excited gor your first real halloween!

- steve’s (and lawfully yours as well) mother was actually home the week before halloween and took you shopping for a costume!

“so what are we thinking sweetheart?” she asked looking around. “dorothy, indiana jones? garfield? oh you’d look so cute! uhh or how about-“

“janine melnitz!“ you said, being that the boys already planned their costumes and you wanted to match

“oh, the secretary from ghostbusters?” you nodded, as she put her hand to her chin, staring at you in thought.

“i can work with that!” she said grinning, grabbing your hand, and escorting you back to the car to continue her errands for the day.

- she ended up giving you a blouse from her closet and gave you a pair of glasses that were hers from high school. “thank goodness i kept these huh?” and she bought you a red wig, and cut it to frame your face.

- unfortunately she did have to leave the night before, to meet steve’s (and your) father in indianapolis for a conference. but not before reminding steve :

“please remember to take pictures before she leaves for school in the morning, steve!” she said during dinner

“yeah, mom i will.”

“i mean it steve, do not forget!” she said sternly.

- being that her and mr. harrington weren’t around too often, she liked to have pictures of things for her to look back on. what with steve having seemed to be growing up so fast, she wanted to do the same with you before you were all of a sudden his age and almost out of the nest.

(i typed this on my phone and there are NEST EMOJIS⁉️)

“yes, okay! jeez! no faith, am i right!?” he said jokingly, looking over at you to back him up.

“you do… forget things sometimes.” you giggled with mrs. harrington

“is it just always shit on steve day?” he asked jokingly.

“language!”

- as per demand, the next morning, steve made sure you were ready earlier than usual so he could take lot’s of pictures before he dropped you off.

- it was like the mom in him just jumped out!

- i imagine it as the same cute little sequence of the boys moms taking pictures of them and then it’s just steve doing the exact same thing 😭

“okay now say, “may the ghosts be with you” he said.

“nobody ever said that 🧍🏾‍♀️”

“oh whatever! just do a pose please!”

(i headcannon that steve has just always been so bad with movies 😭)

- you just did a few and your infamous 🤟🏾and tongue pose

- he dropped you off soon after that, you, steve, and nancy getting out of the car and saying bye to them before going your separate ways, walking with will towards the bike rack, to wait for the others.

“knock ‘em dead velma!” steve called out behind you.

“janine!” you and will said at the same time, before looking at each other and giggling.

- you and will joined the other boys as they were finishing singing the theme song, and started naming each other.

“hey, spengler!”

“egon! yeah!”

“venkman!”

“janine!” they all yelled simultaneously, grinning.

“woah, woah hold on!” mike halted, looking at lucas

“what?”

“why are you venkman?” mike asked lucas

“because i’m venkman.” lucas said, as it was obvious

“no, i’m venkman.”

“why can’t there just be two venkman’s?” will interjected.

“because there’s only one venkman in real life. we planned this months ago.” mike said.

“i’m venkman. dustin’s stantz, you’re egon,” he pointed at will. “and you’re winston.” he said to lucas.

“i specifically didn’t agree to winston.” lucas reminded him

“yes, you did!” mike exclaimed

“no he didn’t.” and “i don’t think he did” you and will said at the same time

“nobody wants to be winston, man.” lucas said in response to mike, as dustin shook his head in agreeance.

“what’s wrong with winston?” mike asked confused

“what’s wrong with winston?” he repeated “he joined the team super late, he’s not funny, and he’s not even a scientist!” lucas listed off.

“yeah, but he’s still cool.” mike countered

“if he’s cool, then you be winston.”

“i can’t!” mike exclaimed.

“why not?” lucas asked, knowingly.

“because…” mike stuttered

“b-b-because your not black?” lucas mocked him.

“mm-mm-mm” you tsked shaking your head in disappointment.

HELP THIS WAS YOU AND LUCAS FR :

“i didn’t say that!” mike jumped

“you thought it” he argued

- they continued to go back and forth, as you and will watched in amusement, before you noticed dustin was looking around in confusion.

- let’s just say you weren’t particularly pleased with them to learn that you guys were the only ones dressed up.

“i swear to god we aren’t making this up sev!” dustin exclaimed following behind you as you walked ahead of them stopping at your locker, to get your things for class.

“uh-huh, sure dustin!” you said walking into the one class you didn’t have with any of them, shaking your head.

- but you did share it with max, who you met the day before, being that she was new qnd in you and the boy’s homeroom.

- she noticed your outfit, and actually liked and complimented it, telling you she’d be dressed like michael myers for the night and that she’d look out for you.

- after school, you were riding on the back of dustin’s bike while you all rode home. you were going to hang out with dustin before you all went trick-or-treating,

- you silently listened to their conversation, when you heard what sounded like the revving of an engine coming up not far behind you.

-as the boys began panicking and riding faster, you looked back and glared at the car, blood beginning to trickle down your nose, but before you could do anything further, the car quickly swerved, and you spotted through the front windshield, someone who looked a lot like max with her hands on the wheel, staring at you guys in horror.

- later that night, as you walked around neighborhoods with the boys, listening to them have some debate about a candy called “nougat?” whatever.

- when all of a sudden, somebody jumped in front of you all, wearing a michael myers mask with a knife, making the boys scream.

- lucas’ scream made you jump more than the jump scare did. 😭

“holy shit! you should’ve seen the look on your faces!” she laughed, taking off her mask and revealing her self as max.

“and you?” she nodded her head at lucas “who screams like that? you sound like a little girl.” she laughed beginning to walk away as you caught up with her, giggling.

- she stopped to see the boys still standing there in shock.

“hey you guys coming or not? oh i heard we should hit up loch nora. that’s where all the rich people live right?” she chuckled, continuing to walk.

“i live there” you said to her as you two kept walking while the boys trailed behind.

“wow, really y/n?” she asked surprised. “yeah but skip old man poll’s house, he’s an ass.” you giggled.

“and you can call me sev.” you smiled at her.

- and that’s how you two became fast friends.

- that night you went home with dustin to hang out and wait for steve to pick you up, after him and nancy’s party thing.

- as you two walked up his driveway, him practicing different ways of saying “tubular”, when you two heard a weird chittering sound coming from inside his trash can

“mews, is that-“ he was cut off by a loud clang, coming from the inside of it. making you and him drop your candy bats and him detaching his photon blaster from his back, before approaching the can.

“dustin i don’t think you should be going to it, what if it’s something with rabies!” you exclaimed, shivering in disgust, as the can kept shaking.

- he screamed as he flipped open the can, before freezing at the sight inside of it.

- thus beginning the adventures of you , dustin , and dart.

- you didn’t stick around much longer, being that steve had come to get you pretty earlier than expected.

- but you promised dustin you’d come over tomorrow to learn more about this thing. you didn’t really have a good feeling about him keeping it.

- as you piled into the car you noticed something,

“where’s nance?” you asked while buckling yourself, being that you planned on watching horror movies with her and steve that night.

“jonathan took her home, she wasn’t feeling well.” he mumbled, you sensed he was upset and decided not to press further.

- you soon found out that your predictions were correct and that dart was from the upside down, and then things just went really downhill from there.

“seven, quick kill it!” lucas screamed

dart grot bigger, grew legs and escaped

you tried to burn it, but dustin stopped you

will got possessed had a seizure

then, being that the boys kept shutting max out whenever they started to talk about the upside down , she got mad . which led to this moment :

- as you and lucas caught up with max outside after school, they started to argue about keeping secrets from her

- just standing there, listening to them go back and forth, you looked across the parking lot, catching eyes with an older boy , leaning against a blue car, who was staring at the three of you quietly.

“did you keep secrets from el?” she asked sassily

- that caught your attention.

“how do you know about el?” you asked.

- she never answered, leaving you to keep wondering who told her about your sister.

- you went home with steve that day, just hanging out in your room, when all of a sudden dustin’s voice filled your ears, repeating

“code red! code red! someone please pick up! i repeat, this is a code re-“

“what’s wrong!?”

“sev, thank god! just come over so i can explain! over and out!” he said before signing off before you could say anything.

- after leaving the house, but not before telling steve and your’s father (who was packing to go on a business trip.) where you were going, you quickly got on your bike, riding over to dustin’s house.

- long story short, dart ate dustin’s cat, so after quickly helping him bury him, you two headed over to the wheeler’s house to look for mike.

- after not being able to find mike or nancy you two were about to head to lucas’ house, until you saw steve hopping out of his car with flowers in hand, talking to himself.

“steve!” dustin called out, you two speed walking to him.

“sev? i thought you were at home, wha-“

“are those for mr. or mrs. wheeler?”

“no?”

“good. nancy’s not here” he said snatching them out of his hand and walking towards steve’s car.

they went back and forth before dustin asked.

“do you still have that bat?”

“bat? what bat?” steve asked confused

“the one with the nails!”

“why?”

“i’ll explain it on the way!” dustin said as you two got in the car.

“now?”

“now!”

“oh my gosh, steve.” you put your hands on your head in exasperation

- now you find yourself walking on a train track with steve and dustin , dropping raw meat on the ground trying to bait dart, towards the place lucas told you guys to meet him at.

- you weren’t really listening to the conversation your brother and dustin were having, more focused on the fact that, if dart’s a baby demogorgon.

- does this mean none of this is truly over? did your sister die for nothing? was will, safe? who would die next?

- questions after questions began to pour into your head, your body moving on auto-pilot until hearing lucas’s voice echo across from you.

“i said medium rare!” he shouted , as you spotted max next to him.

- as you jogged over to meet the two, you heard steve say “who’s that?”

- now a few minutes later, as you max and steve set up the place to get ready for dart, dustin and lucas were huddled behind a car arguing about something.

“so, you have powers huh?” max asked from next to you.

“lucas told you?”

“yeah. i don’t believe him of course but i do believe you’re definitely cool enough to be some kind of superhero.” she said.

- you didn’t respond only lifting your arm towards her and lifting the metal sheet she tried to pick up and gently dropping it next to the abandoned bus, with your powers.

“holy shit!” she exclaimed with wide eyes.

“sev actually stands for seven.” you quietly told her.

- you were ready for her to turn tail and run, never to see her again, until she all of a sudden said.

“that’s cool as hell! you’ll have to show me more later, when we’re done dealing with, whatever this is ‘kay?

- you nodded, happily agreeing

- soon it was nightfall, and the five of you sat around waiting for dart to show up. you and lucas on the roof keeping an eye out, max sitting in one of the bus seats, steve sitting on the ground flicking a lighter open and closed, and dustin pacing around the inside of the bus.

- once max came to the top you switched with her, going back inside the bus, you climbed down to see steve and dustin talking.

- it was nice to see dustin getting along with your brother, he didn’t have an older male figure in his life so, it made you smile to see them interact kind of like brothers .

- you were pulled out of your thoughts by a loud growling noise. dart was out there, he just wasn’t taking the bait

“steve? steve what are you doing?” you turned around to see your brother pick up his bat, pointing at you two saying,

“just get ready”

- next thing you know, steve’s out there with the bat trying to lure dart to him.

- from the corner of your eye you saw movement behind steve and to the right

“steve watch out” “three o’clock! three o’clock! you heard lucas yell out.

- you looked to see three more behind steve, and didn’t hesitate before running to the door witn dustin opening it, and screaming for steve to come back.

- you quickly used your powers to send one of them flying as steve hit one before booking it back to the bus.

- as steve was occupied with hitting one over and over that’s head stuck into the bus

- dustin and lucas jumped, as one sunk its claws into the metal behind you guys

- while max and you heard slow thumping noises on the top of the bus

- one of the creatures stuck it’s head into the opening of the top of the bus, growling at the two of you as max started screaming

- just as you were about to use your powers on it, steve burst over and in front of the two of you, yelling at it

- before anybody could do anything else, something caught it’s attention and ran off

- timeskip to you all at the byers house, as hopper tried to get ahold of somebody on the phone.

- you sat on the couch with will’s head on your lap, silently watching nancy and jonathan interact, you looked over seeing steve watching them too, before wiping his nose snd walking away.

- as mike began talking about how bob was the founder of the a.v. club, your mind started to drift.

- you liked bob, you hadn’t known him very long, but he was real nice to you! showing you and will cool comics, he even did a 500-piece puzzle with you once! you wisjed you could’ve been there to save him.

- time skip to you, mike, joyce, jonathan, and hopper, sitting in the room with will, as everybody told him a story of a memory they had with him

- you noticed from the moment you began recalling the first time you saw each other in the upside down, he looked at you in an unsettling way.

“do you remember my name? it’s-” you began telling him but he cut you off

“seven. i know who you are.” he said eerily before turning back to joyce. “let me go”

- hopper noticed that will had been tapping repeatedly on one of the legs of the chair.

-once the group figured out he was communicating through morse code, they continued to ask him questions while deciphering what he was saying

- now short time skip to everyone getting in position, getting ready to fight the demodogs

- nancy and hopper had their guns, lucas had his slingshot, steve had his bat, you were ready to use your powers and, was mike seriously holding a candlestick right now?

- all of a sudden a demodog went crashing through the window, but you quickly realized it was already dead

- you’re attention was then pulled to the sound of the door unlocking, and slowly pushing open to reveal,

“eleven?”

- while mike had a breakdown in will’s bedroom about hopper hiding her, you were just happy that your sister was alive and here with you

- skip to , joyce , jonathan , and nancy left to get the mind flayer out of will , while eleven and hopper got ready to go close the gate

“why can’t i come? it’ll be better with both of us there.” you pleaded to hopper.

“it’s just too risky kid, we don’t know what could happen.”

“i’d feel much better with you here, anyways.” steve included.

“i can help! she shouldn’t have to do this alone!” you yelled, beginning to feel useless.

- eleven killed the demogorgon and then disappeared, what would happen this time? she could’ve been with you all this time if you were there the first time around. you just wanted to protect your sister. why didn’t they understand that?

“she won’t be alone, i will be right there next to her to protect her.” hopper tried to reassure you.

“then bring me wherever will is, i can help burn it out of him with my powers!-“ you exclaimed.

“this isn’t up for debate, you aren’t going anywhere, you’re staying here, end of story.” steve said walking away after hopper.

- el walked up to you, putting her hands on your shoulders to face her.

“you can protect our friends if you’re here.” she said.

- you thought about it “fine, and i know you just want me to play bodyguard to your boyfriend.” you joked

“hey, what’s with that outfit, by the way? you asked, before she promised to tell you later.

- after hopper and el left for hawkins lab, you, lucas , and max cleaned the broken glass, while mike paced around back and forth, and steve and dustin tried to fit the dead demodog in the byers’ fridge.

- you weren’t really listening as they were going back and forth about, the lab being swarmed, dustin trying to get the name demodogs around, and steve comparing everything to a sports game (again)

- you tuned in once again, once dustin said that you all weren’t exactly left with nothing to do

“so you got all the tunnels feeding in here.” mike said pointing to one of the drawings around the house.

“maybe if we set this on fire-“ he continued

“oh yeah? that’s a no.” steve said immediately shitting down the idea.

“the mind flayer would call away his army.” dustin inquired, ignoring steve.

“they’d all come to stop us.” lucas continued.

“hey.” steve tried to say again.

“we circle back to the exit.” mike also continued on.

“guys!” steve interjected again.

“by the time they realize we’re gone” mike exclaimed.

“el would be at the gate.” you and max finished.

“hey. hey! hey! this is not happening.” steve clapped, getting everyone’s attention, before putting his hands on his hips.

“but-“ mike started

“no, no, no, no, no. no buts. i promised i’d keep you little shitheads safe, and that’s exactly what i plan on doing. especially you!” he exclaimed, pointing at you.

“we’re staying here. on the bench. and we’re waiting for the starting team to do their job. does everybody inderstand that?” he asked, as you all sighed.

“this isn’t a stupid sports game!” mike repeated from earlier.

“i said does everybody understand that? i need a yes.”

- before any of you could answer, the moment was cut off by a loud engine revving outside of the house and you all could hear loud rock music playing.

- max quickly walked over to the window with lucas.

“it’s my brother. he can’t know i’m here. he’ll kill me. he’ll kill us.” she said slightly panicking, looking at lucas.

- steve looked up with a determined expression on his face before marching outside, and standing in front of the door.

- you all watched from the window, as steve and billy, had got closer to each other, seeming to have some weird standoff.

“wait… guys is this a one-way glass or did he just look right at us?” you asked backing away from the window, pulling max back with you.

“nah i think we’re good sev.” dustin said, until all of a sudden the boys saw billy, point his cigarette directly where they towards the window where they were sitting with steve turning to look as well.

( nah that scene really made me mad like- they were all up in that window as if he didn’t have eyes ! and then dustin had the nerve to say some-😭)

“shit, did he see us?” dustin asked after they all ducked down.

“really dustin? 🧍🏾‍♀️” you said exasperatedly.

- not even two seconds later the door slammed open, with billy walking in. but wait where did steve go?

“well, well, well.” he said slamming the door.

“i thought i told you to stay away from him, max” billy said as he walked up to max.

- you stood in front of lucas, in case billy decided to try anything. still confused and concerned for whatever he did to your brother for him to not be back in the house by now.

“billy, go away.” max tremored

“you disobeyed me. and you know what happens when you disobey me.” he said eerily

“billy.” max warned

“i break things.” he moved passed max and pushed you out of the way before grabbing lucas, and slamming him against the shelf in the corner of the room.

“billy! billy, stop!” max and the others were yelling at him.

“get off of him!” you scrambled to get up, about to use your powers or run and jump on his back, (whatever your brain registered first honestly) before a hand on your shoulder stopped you.

(notice how every damn time you’re about to use your powers something happens 😐)

“stay away from her! you hear me?” he yelled continuing to push him against the shelf

“i said get off of me!” lucas yelled kneeing him in the crotch, making billy go stumbling back.

“you’re so dead sinclair! you’re dead.” he yelled, as he began to stand up straight.

- he was stopped by steve pushing and turning him around.

“no. you are.” steve said before punching him in the face.

- as they went back and forth fighting, between the others cheering steve on, and steve getting a few good hits in at first, until billy picked up a porcelain plate and broke it over your brother’s head, getting the upper hand.

- so yeah steve was getting his ass beat!

- before you could do anything, max grabbed one of the sedatives used for will, and walked over , abbing billy in the neck with it.

- after max slammed the bat near his dick and threatened him. (i loved that part 😭 slay max ‼️)

- as everyone carried the supplies needed to burn thbe tunnels, you carried steve to the car using your powers and piled into the backseat along with, mike and dustin, with steve layed across your laps, and you holding an ice pack to his head as he was still knocked out.

- all the while lucas was in the front seat with max, giving her instruction son where to go

“he’s gonna freak out when he wakes up.” you inquired knowingly

- and before you know it he started groaning and moving his head, looking around before deliriously saying,

“nancy?” he asked, looking at mike, who looked at him in confusion, like he was crazy.

- he kept groaning, before going to touch his (very much broken) nose, before fustin gently guided his hand away from his face

“hey buddy… shhhhh, shhhhh” dustin tried to reassure him

“it’s okay. you put up a good fight. he kicked your ass, but you put up a fight. you’re okay.” he continued as steve started to become more coherent.

- after steve had a breakdown about a thirteen year old driving a car, and max getting fed up before quickly making a turn and eventually stopping right before where the tunnel was, you all piled out of the car and to the trunk to gear up as you tried to calm steve down.

“hey, there’s no chancd we’re going to that hole, all right? this ends right now!”

“steve you’re upset, we get it.” you began

“but right now, a party member requires assistance and it is our duty to provide that assistance.” dustin said.

“now i know you promised nance that you would keep us safe.” he continued.

“so, keep us safe” you finished, as dustin handed his backpack with his bat with nails in it to steve.

- steve just sighed before taking the bag.

- after you all got down there, steve began leading the way down the tunnel, to find the hub.

- sometime along the way dustin stopped to look at one of the weird things on the wall, not long after, it sprayed some freaky spore stuff right into his face causing him to freak out, about it getting in his mouth, which caused the rest of you to freak out.

- after the scare you all made it to the “hub” and began soaking the place in gasoline.

- steve sighed. “i am in such deep shit for this.”

“alright firestarter, go ahead.”

- you made sure you all were far away enough, before glaring directly at the middle lf the hub, a trail of blood coming out of your nose, when all of a sudden the flames overtook the tunnel and vines, of which the latter began to shriek and flail around, almost as if it was in pain itself.

- as you and the others ran through the tunnel, a vine wrapped around mike’s leg, dragging him to the ground, as everybody tried to pull him away from it, and you trying to pull it off of him, steve came through and began hitting it with his bat.

- after successfully getting the thing away from him, and getting ready to start running again, a loud shriek from right behind you, caught everybody’s attention.

- steve got in front of max, lucas, and mike, with his nat ready, while dustin got in front of everyone, and you got in front of him, ready to attack it if it decided to jump at anyone.

- dustin recognized it as dart, calmly walking up to him , offering him some nougat that he had left over.

- after having a cute little moment with him and saying goodbye, you all continued walking, and getting back to the hole, you got in through.

- after helping everyone else get back out, as you and steve were about to help push dustin through, you heard a cacaphony of screeches coming your way, as demodogs were stampeding right towards you all.

- you were about to try to setting them aflame, while steve grabbed you and dustin to shield you two from them, when they all went barreling passed you as if you weren’t even there.

- you and mike looked at each other before simultaneously saying.

“it’s el.”

- thankfully, you learned once getting back, that the mind flayer was successfully removed from will’s body, and that el closed the gate.

- time skip to two months later, the night of the hawkins middle school sno-ball dance. you were in the backseat as steve dropped you and dustin off in the front.

- you got out after hugging steve goodbye, before walking in, as steve wanted to give dustin a “man-to-man pep talk”

- after greeting everyone, and watching as they all left to dance, will whisked away by some girl, lucas and max going yo dance eith each other, and dustin going up to a group of girls.

- mike was sat at one of the tables, and you went to the snack table where nancy was and greeting her before she walked away somewhere.

- during the slow dance you were happy to see that el had finally arrived and was dancing with mike, dustin dancing with nancy, max and lucas shared a kiss, and will dancing with that girl.

- all of which you happily snapped a picture of on your polarioid, before going back to eating the majority of the snacks on the table, you spotted a bowl of pop rocks bags.

- you smiled , picking up a bag as a memory came to you all of a sudden

- eddie walked around the conveniece store with the cart, you trailing close behind him, as it was his turn to get the groceries, according to his “uncle wayne”

- you were decked out in one of eddie’s large “k.i.s.s” hoodies , the hood on you, covering your shaved head and successfully covering your “007” tattoo.

“don’t worry van, we’re almost out of here. besides i won’t let anyone touch you. ” he reassured you as he noticed how you kept clinging to him, scared of being caught by “the bad men” you told him about.

“i’m just looking for these damn- ah! here we go!” he exclaimed pulling a box of the shelf before, turning around and dramatically presenting them to you.

“pop rocks!” he yelled excitedly, as you just looked at him blankly.

“right. you’d never even had pizza before the other day, why would i expect you to know what pop rocks are.” he said opening the box and pulling two packs out, and handing one to you.

- you copied how he ripped open his pack and did what he did, throwing your head back, and pouring the contents into your mouth.

- you quickly began to cough, confused and shocked on the sound in your ears and sizzling on your tongue and-

“i think it’s…in my throat!” you rasped out, holding your neck.

- eddie laughed loudly at your reaction, patting your back half-heartedly, gaining the attention of a few other shoppers but one you saw specifically abandoning her cart and came over to see what was going on.

“edward munson, you aren’t supposed to be opening food in the store! are you even going to pay for that? and who’s this?” a short, older lady exclaimed accusingly with a shrill voice at eddie, standing behind him with her hands on her hips.

- eddie’s smile and laughter left as quickly as it came, as he rolled his eyes, before turning around and facing her with a fake smile.

“hi ms. nolan, to what do i owe the pleasure of your nosiness today?” he asked sarcastically as you stood behind him.

“don’t get smart with me you, cad!” she exclaimed disgustedly.

- he quickly lost his fake smile as well

“i don’t have time for this today you old bat, i need to be home by a certain time.” eddie responded seriously, as he grabbed the cart and started to wheel around her, with you trailing behind, holding onto his shirt, before her arm shot out, and grabbed his forearm tightly.

- now you were on alert

“you know you’re turning out to be exactly like your father, eddie.” she said in his ear with faux concern.

“i mean first it’s groceries, next thing you know you’ll be a full fledged criminal, wanted for murder i bet.” she whispered tauntingly with a disgusting smile on her face.

- you didn’t really know what she was talking about but eddie? a murderer? never. eddie wouldn’t hurt anyone! you on the other hand-

- looking to see his reaction, being that he didn’t respond , you were surprised to see his usually outgoing manner, look so grim. he actually seemed really upset at her words and of course that made you upset.

“eddie is…not a murderer. he is not bad.” you said to her, stepping out from behind him, and closer to her.

- eddie tried to intercept, but you two just continued to stare each other down.

“or kidnapping apparently! why am i not surprised munson.” she said to him but still sneering at you.

“let. him go” you said staring right back at her, as blood began to drip from your nose.

“or what little girl?” she said tauntingly, getting in your face.

“uhh ms. nolan? you’re entire cart is kinda on fire right now!” eddie said panicking as well as other shoppers , at the bright light that flashed from the corner of his eye all of a sudden.

“what are you talk-“ she cut herself off to see that her entire cart, along with its contents were indeed on fire.

- along with her purse, that was sat inside of it that was now quickly melting as well.

“oh my god! my purse! somebody help! she yelped and yelled running back to her cart trying to fan it out, along with an employee.

- eddie stared in shock at what had just happened.

- but before he could react you started to walk away, with him following with the cart of groceries.

“we go home now.” you said eerily calm as you two began walking towards the registers.

“uh yeah- let’s go.” he agreed. after the things were quickly scanned, you two walked out to the parking lot, towards his van.

“sorry you had to deal with that old crone’s grating ass voice, van, but i mean, hey i just want to thank whatever higher power did that, little trick!” he joked, but you didn’t laugh.

“you are hurt.” you said pointing to his arm, where there surely was a bruise, beginning to form on his forearm where his thermal was rolled up to, from where she was squeezing him.

“oh that? psh i’m fine, don’t even feel it honestly. besides” he paused, wiping the blood from your nose.

“i’m strong, i can handle a little pain.” he said, smiling.

“now! shall we go home, and indulge in this entire box of pop rocks, milady?” he said dramatically as you two got into his van, gesturing at the box in your lap.

- you quickly shook your head no, with wide eyes, grimacing at the remembrance of how it felt sizzling in your throat and stomach.

- he laughed loudly, pulling out of the parking lot, exclaiming-

“whoo! more for me then!” he yelled loudly, out of thw window, making you laugh.

- the memory itself wasn’t too nice, due to the ms. nolan being an old crone part, but remembering the way eddie handled it and the pop rocks part is what made you smile, giggling a bit, still observing the small bag, before putting it back.

- you were still traumatized by the odd candy after all, you thought, before making your way down the rest of the table, to get some punch as well, before someone tapped your shoulder. ;)

a/n

oh. my. goodness. gracious that took me wayyy to fucking long. BUT i’m so excited to start writing for season 3! which i will start right now even though i’m literally finishing this one at 5:47 a.m. 😼

@tuffluuhv @reasontobebeautiful @sadbitchfangirl

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the fact that i haven’t read any fics where the crew decides that they want to have a somewhat normal time for once in there lives, and so steve, robin, eddie, nancy, jonathan, and reader sign up to be summer camp counselors, with the kids attending, as well of course, and all of a sudden kids and other counselors start going missing, and nobody knows why is criminal !

might just write it myself at this point but i don’t know where to start 😭

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