In Case You Haven't Seen Vol2, This Request Kind Of Has Vol 2 Spoilers !! Don't Read Ahead If You Haven't

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in case you haven't seen vol2, this request kind of has vol 2 spoilers !! don't read ahead if you haven't seen it pls D:<

BUTTTT, i'm requesting an eddie fluff (kinda au) where the reader is with him and dustin, and as he takes off to be chased by the bats, reader goes with him and they fight them off together. eddie gets hurt pretty badly but lives, and reader takes him to their house and gets him all cleaned up. dustin even stays over because he thought for sure that eddie and reader were going to be killed, they all lay in reader's living room, reader and eddie cuddling on the couch, sitting up, while dustin just keeps his head on eddie's leg and falls asleep.

i just rlly miss my boy :(( him n dustin's bond is so beautiful and i just,, can't believe it.

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I Can Be Your Hero

Summary: Eddie wants to be the hero, but you're not going to sit on the side-lines and watch him be torn apart. However, you will be there to put him back together again.

Pairing: Eddie Munson x gn!reader

Warnings: VOL. 2 SPOILERS, mentions of injury, major fluff

Word Count: 3.1k

A/N: Sorry it's been so long, I was on holiday. I've never written fluff before so I have no idea if this is good. Anyways, enjoy this and act like vol. 2 didn't happen because that's what I'm doing.

You were cornered. Demobats were bashing the walls of your boyfriend’s run-down trailer (well, the upside-down version) from all sides, desperately seeking a way in to feast on your flesh. You, Eddie and Dustin stood back-to-back, weapons poised, ready to attack when the bats finally penetrated through the trailer’s walls. All you could hear was the heavy breathing of the three of you and the hellish screeching of the bats. Eventually the noise faded and it seemed as though the bats were retreating.

‘Hey dipshits!’ Dustin yelled. ‘Give up that easy, huh?!’

‘Shh,’ you scolded.

‘Is that really necessary?’ Eddie whispered.

A second after Eddie spoke the demobats returned. This time they took a new approach.

‘They’re on the roof,’ you said, as the three of you followed the sound of the small creatures scratching the top of Eddie’s trailer. The scratching led you to a vent and suddenly terror pulsed through you.

The boys soon understood what had paralysed you in place as they too stared up at the small vent on the ceiling.

‘They can’t get in through there, can they?’

As though Dustin’s words were its cue a small demobat suddenly burst through the vent. Eddie practically jumped in front of you, wielding his weapon like a psycho. He began hitting the bat back up the vent. You and Dustin joined him, all three of you yelling to mask the fear coursing through your veins.

You soon realised Eddie was no longer beside you. You couldn’t risk looking away from the ceiling in case a demobat got through so you shouted, ‘Eddie?!’

‘Get out of the way!’ you heard him scream from behind you. You turned around and saw him running towards you, shield in hand. You grabbed Dustin and pulled him to the side causing you both to fall to the floor, allowing Eddie to block the vent with his makeshift shield.

‘Holy shit,’ Eddie mumbled, his voice barely audible.

‘Nice one,’ you said, scrambling up from the ground and wrapping your arms around Eddie.

‘Thanks,’ he replied, his voice muffled by your wild hair. He placed a kiss on your forehead as you held each other.

‘Uh guys,’ Dustin’s voice startled you. ‘I don’t mean to ruin the moment but, Eddie, are there any other vents in your trailer?’

Eddie’s hands fell from your waist and his eyes widened. ‘Shit.’

Eddie raced to his room, you and Dustin in tow. But it was too late. Demobats were swarming the room, more entering through the tiny vent as you all stood there, frozen by fear.

‘Let’s go!’ Eddie eventually shouted, pushing you out of the way and slamming the door. Soon the whole trailer began to shake as the bats tried with all their might to break through the door.

‘Go, Henderson, go!’ you screamed, pointing at the rope you’d made from sheets that led to safety.

Dustin didn’t hesitate to do as you said as he quickly scrambled up the rope and fell onto Eddie’s stained mattress that lay below (or was it above?)

You looked back at Eddie. He was holding his spear in one hand, shield in the other, preparing himself to battle whatever came through that door.

‘It’s not gonna hold,’ Eddie yelled, ready for the onslaught of bats that would be heading your way any second. ‘Hurry!’

Using all the strength you had left you hauled yourself up the rope. Your arms ached from exertion but Dustin’s encouragement kept you going. When you were almost at the surface you looked back down at Eddie. He was still facing the now almost obliterated door with seemingly no intention of turning around.

‘Eddie!’ you screamed, holding out an arm for him to join you. ‘Eddie, come on.’

Eddie turned around to face you, a determined look in his eyes.

‘You go and keep Henderson safe. I’ll catch up,’ he said quietly, grabbing your outstretched hand and placing a kiss on it. Your body tensed up.

‘No, no. I’m not leaving you here.’ Your voice broke as you imagined leaving Eddie here alone with hundreds of those deadly monsters.

‘Please, just go, Y/N,’ Eddie said sadly. ‘We haven’t given the others enough time. I need to keep distracting the bats.’

So many thoughts ran through your head. You couldn’t risk losing Eddie. But there was no way you could convince him to come with you. Suddenly you had an idea.

‘Well, if you’re not going, neither am I,’ you said, jumping down from the rope. Eddie’s face dropped.

‘No, no, no. Y/N, you have to go, please,’ Eddie whined.

The door to Eddie’s bedroom was now nearly completely gone and you knew you wouldn’t have enough time to climb back up anyway. But Eddie wasn’t going to accept that. Without thinking you grabbed the spear from his hand and cut the sheets so half fell to the floor and the other half fell into Dustin’s hands on the other side.

‘What are you doing?’ Dustin shouted up at you.

‘Just get somewhere safe,’ you yelled back.

And right at that moment, the bats finally got free, filling the entire trailer.

‘Run!’ you shouted, pulling Eddie after you. You burst through the door that led out into the dark, baron land of the Upside Down. ‘Get on a bike,’ you ordered Eddie while rushing to do the same. You began cycling away just on time as a swarm of demobats began rushing after you.

What the hell do you think you’re doing?’ Eddie’s voice was strained as he tried to shout over the loud screeching of the demobats.

‘Did you really think I was just gonna leave you in here?’ you replied. ‘And anyway, we have a better chance if there’s two of us.’

‘I don’t think we’d have much chance against these things if there were twenty of us.’

You were thankful for the shields you’d made from trash can lids as demobats hit you from all sides. Without them you’d have been long dead. Your legs were beginning to burn as you continued to cycle for your life.

‘Listen, I’m sorry ok,’ you panted, your breathing rapid from your manic pedalling. ‘I know you were just trying to keep me safe but I couldn’t just let you die in here. We’re in this together, ok?’

But Eddie didn’t reply. His sudden silence made you sick with concern.

‘Eddie?’

You looked back, trying your best not to lose your balance, but stopped dead in your tracks when you realised your boyfriend was no longer behind you. Looking back, you saw a large swarm of bats circling something. That something was Eddie.

You began racing back to him, so annoyed with yourself that you hadn’t noticed him be hit from his bike by a huge bat. When you finally reached him, you threw yourself into the middle of the circling bats, put your back against his and began swinging.

‘I’m so sorry. I didn’t realise you got hit,’ you yelled.

‘You should’ve kept going,’ Eddie said, his usual confident tone slightly less present in his voice. ‘I’ve got this all under control.’

But you could see that he didn’t. Blood was seeping from below his bandana and from what you could tell he seemed to be limping.

The two of you managed pretty well for a while, swinging your weapons at oncoming bats and using your shields to protect yourselves. But the bats kept coming. And there were hundreds of them.

‘They better hurry up,’ you said. ‘I don’t know how much longer we can do this.’

Every bone in your body was exhausted but somehow you kept going. The string of demobats hurtling towards you was relentless. All you could do was hope Steve, Robin and Nancy could get to Vecna before you got hurt, or even worse, Eddie.

As though somehow the bats heard your thoughts you abruptly no longer felt Eddie’s back against yours. He screamed as a group of demobats swarmed on top of him, pinning him to the floor. You felt helpless as you watched them tear at his clothes, some even gnawing into his skin.

‘Y/N,’ he called, his voice riddled with pain.

‘I’m trying,’ you replied. You wanted more than anything to get to Eddie, bat those monsters off him and help him but if you tried to do that then they were sure to get you too.  All you could do was move towards Eddie and stand over him, stopping anymore bats from getting to him. However, that didn’t stop the creatures that were already on him from ripping him apart.

Every one of Eddie’s screams made you more and more frantic. You knew the minute you cut that rope that there wasn’t much chance for either of you to get out of there, but now you were in the moment, probably only minutes away from death, you had a new motivation.

Had you been alone you’d most likely have been killed already and you would’ve been okay with that if it helped save your friends. But you couldn’t let Eddie die. Maybe it was because you wanted more than anything for Eddie to get out of there and clear his name as a murderer, or maybe you were just selfish and knew you couldn’t live without him, but something took over you.

Before you even realised what you were doing you began pulling demobats from Eddie’s limp body.

‘Get. Off. Him. You. Stupid. Fucking. Bats!’ you panted. Adrenaline pulsed through you. Not even the flocks of bats scratching at your face could stop you.

‘Y/N,’ Eddie whimpered, his voice weak and shaking.

‘It’s okay,’ you said pulling a bat from his stomach and hurling it as far as you could throw. ‘It’s okay, I got you.’

But deep down you knew this would only work for a while. Each time you ripped a bat from Eddie, two more took its place. And now they were beginning to overpower you too. Your face stung with a thousand pin pricks where the creatures has scratched and bitten you. It seemed your efforts were in vain.

All you could do was hold Eddie as the bats enveloped you.

Except they didn’t envelope you.

Suddenly, there was silence. You lifted your head from Eddie’s chest to find all the demobats that had been slowly eating you both alive lying motionless on the ground.

‘What happened?’ Eddie asked, trying and failing to pull himself up.

‘I don’t know,’ you replied. ‘Let’s just hope the others killed Vecna. That would make all the bats die, right?’

‘To be honest, I don’t care how this happened. I’m just glad I’m no longer bat food.’ Eddie stifled a laugh but tensed up, grabbing his waist.

‘Stay still,’ you ordered, pressing down on his stomach to stop the bleeding. ‘We can stay here as long as you need to.’ You placed a kiss on his forehead.

‘Hey, what about your face?’ Eddie pointed at a particularly deep cut on your cheek. His eyes looked dazed from all the blood he’d lost.

‘I’m fine,’ you grabbed his hand in yours. ‘I’m more worried about how the hell we’re going to get you out of here.’

You looked around for something that could help you carry Eddie back to the gate. There was no way you could get him back on your own. Not in the condition he was in. But all you could see were hundreds of dead demobats.

And then, as if by magic, you heard the familiar yell of your young friend.

‘Eddie! Y/N!’

Dustin’s voice echoed through the entire Upside Down.

‘Dustin! Over here!’

As Dustin came into view you could see he was limping pretty badly.

‘How did you get back? I cut the rope,’ you asked as Dustin hobbled his way over to you.

‘I jumped,’ he said matter-of-factly, pointing at his swollen leg.

‘Hey Henderson,’ Eddie mumbled from the floor. ‘Sorry you missed the party.’

‘Holy shit, Eddie,’ Dustin knelt down beside his injured friend. ‘What did they do to you?’

‘Oh, you know, knocked me off a bike, ripped all my clothes, tried to eat me. Just the usual demobat stuff.’

Every time he spoke his voice seemed stronger, giving you a little bit of relief.

‘You think you can get up for me?’ you asked.

‘I can try.’

And so, you and Dustin spent the better part of an hour painstakingly helping Eddie back to the gate. Stops were frequent as he needed time to regain his strength but eventually you made it. However, actually getting up through the gate was even more difficult.

Dustin climbed through first, luckily this time with no further injury to his leg, and threw you the piece of tied together sheets that fell to that side of the gate. You tied the cut sheets back together and with great difficulty Eddie climbed through. You could see more blood seeping through Eddie’s ripped shirt and knew all that effort hadn’t been good for his wounds.

‘We need to get you to a hospital right now,’ you said, taking your jacket off and wrapping it around his waist as a temporary compression bandage.

‘No, no hospital,’ Eddie replied. ‘I’m still wanted for murder, remember?’

‘Eddie, we have to. You’re bleeding,’ you pleaded.

‘I’m fine. We just have to go some place safe and get some bandages. I’m fine, I promise.’

Although he didn’t look fine; he looked as though he could collapse at any moment; you had to agree it wasn’t safe for him to go to the hospital.

‘Okay, fine, let’s go to my place. My mom has a bunch of medical shit. I’ll see what I can do.’

You wrapped your arm under Eddie’s once more and you and Dustin led him out to the truck. You laid him down in the back then began driving, finally letting your muscles relax.

‘You sure you don’t need a hospital, Henderson,’ you piped up after a few blissful minutes of silence. ‘That leg looks pretty bad and at least no one’s after you. I could drop you off.’

‘Hell no. You think I’m leaving you after that?’ Dustin exclaimed. ‘I thought you were both dead. No way, I’m staying right here. Besides, I don’t think anything’s broken.’

You smiled at Dustin’s words. Never did you think you’d care so much for a literal kid, but here you were putting your life on the line for him.

The rest of the journey was silent, aside from the occasional whine from Eddie when you drove over a bump in the road. Eventually, you made it to your house. Your parents were out for the night so you had no need to sneak in. You would’ve taken Eddie to your bed but it was upstairs and you knew there was no way he was making it up there. So, you settled for the couch.

‘Dustin, keep your leg still, okay? Eddie, I’m gonna get you cleaned up.’

You darted to your mother’s medical cupboard and grabbed compression bandages and antiseptic cream. Then, you got a basin of water and a cloth from your bathroom.

When you returned the scene in front of you made your heart melt. Eddie was lying on the couch, one leg hanging over the edge while Dustin sat on the floor, leaning his head on Eddie’s dangling leg, both of them had their eyes closed.

‘Eddie,’ you whispered close to his ear. His dark eyes fluttered open; a glint of pain still remained in his dilated pupils. ‘I need you to sit up for me.’

Eddie obeyed and pulled himself up, leaning on you for support. You cleaned his wounds gently and surveyed his body. Most of the cuts were painful but not overly deep, except for the large gash on the left of his torso.

‘This is going to hurt,’ you said, preparing to apply the antiseptic cream to the still bleeding wound.

‘Ah, Jesus,’ Eddie winced as the cold cream stung his skin. ‘I thought this was supposed to make me better.’

‘It will, dummy. Just give it time.’

Lastly, you fastened the compression bandage around his torso. It was a lot more efficient than the one you made from your jacket which was now sodden in blood. It wasn’t perfect and you would’ve loved to have taken him to a hospital, however, considering the circumstances, you did the best you could do.

You hadn’t realised how completely exhausted you were until you finished patching Eddie up. You couldn’t even find the strength to clean your own wounds. All you could do was throw yourself on the couch next to your boyfriend.

‘Here, let me,’ Eddie said, reaching for the cloth soaked with water. He took your chin between his finger and thumb and softly cleaned the crusted blood from your cheek.

‘I still can’t believe you did that,’ Eddie mumbled, staring deeply into your eyes.

‘Well, I wasn’t just going to-,’ you began but Eddie cut you off.

‘I mean, I was supposed to be the hero and you totally stole my thunder,’ he chuckled, wincing once more at the pain.

‘Oh, you thought I was just gonna be your sidekick, huh? And anyway, I think you had your hero moment when you played guitar on top of your trailer in the middle of the Upside Down with a swarm of demobats headed straight for you,’ you laughed.

‘Yeah, well, at least I didn’t run away this time.’

You leaned forward and kissed Eddie gently, making sure you didn’t hurt him. The moment his lips met yours you felt relief. You felt like everything might actually be okay.

Eddie pulled away and leaned his forehead against yours.

‘I love you,’ he whispered.

‘I love you too. Just don’t ever think I’ll allow you to risk your life without me again.’

‘Yes, ma’am.’

There was a sudden rustling below you as a half-asleep Dustin turned to face you both.

‘Ugh, please get a room.’

All at once everything felt normal again. Just sitting here, staring into Eddie’s eyes, Dustin at your feet, snoring softly. This was all that mattered. For a moment you forgot about Vecna. You forgot about the Upside Down and the Mind Flayer and the demogorgons. You felt safe.

do the duffer brothers really want him back in season 5? WHAT? 

slut SLAAAAY

SLAYED

can joseph quinn stop being such a fucking easy person to love?!? homeboy is one of the only celebrities who isn't problematic and is such an easy person to adore, i don't like it 😭

💀i'm die 

"mom i threw up"

Joe crying today after someone told him how loved he is by everyone and calling out how poorly he was treated by the staff at the convention yesterday I am losing my mind he deserves the world JOSEPH QUINN YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS