(y/n) - your name

(y/f/n) - your full name

(D/n) - different name

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(y/n) frowns as she sees Eddie leans against the shed wall, crumbling to the ground. His hands shook while he held the glass bottle, staring off into the distance and she kneels down in front of him. She carefully takes the broken bottle from his hands, setting it down on the floor before holding his hands. She knew that he just needed to hold someone or have someone to hold him to just ground him, that someone was there for him. Steve sat on the side, sighing in relief that he wasn't shanked by a terrified metalhead. Billy kept his eyes on the punk as his love calmed him down, arms crossed and leaning against a wall next to Robin.

"Eddie... hey we're here now ok? Nothing is going to happen to you." (y/n) speaks up, shushing Dustin before he could ask Eddie what he saw. The poor guy needed to feel like someone cared for him at this moment, he didn't need to be interrogated yet. Eddie looks down at (y/n)'s hands, thankful for the warmth in the freezing shed and he squeezes them. "You're ok..." she squeezes his hands back to let him know that someone was there for him.

"We just want to talk Eddie." Dustin says.

"We want to know what happened." Billy says as he moves to stand next to (y/n).

Eddie closes his eyes as he cried, sniffling before shaking his head. "You won't believe me..."

"Try us." Max nods, letting Eddie tell the group everything he was forced to witness when Chrissy Cunningham died in front of him.

"I... I didn't know what to do, so I... I ran away. I left her there." Eddie shudders out, (y/n) helping him move from sitting on the ground to sit on something more comfortable before he buried his head into his hands. (y/n) shuddered against the story the metalhead told the group, Billy holding her tight while rubbing her arms. He pursed his lips, officially not ok with what this thing could do to people and he was worried about who it would go after. "You all think I'm crazy, right?" Eddie scoffs, thinking how stupid he could be for anyone to believe him.

"No. We don't think you're crazy-"

"-don't bullshit me, man!I know how this sounds!" Eddie cuts Dustin off, shakily wiping his tears away.

"We're not bullshitting you." Max says.

"We believe you." Robin speaks up as well.

"We uh, we all went through something as horrific as that Eddie." the said boy looks at (y/n) when she said that, frowning at her but he could tell she wasn't lying. A skill he picked up during hell that was Hawkins High.

"Look, what I'm about to tell you might be a little... difficult to take." Dustin starts, trying to carefully explain to Eddie about everything the group had gone through, about the Upside Down without scaring the metalhead into thinking the group needed to go to rehab. He tried not to reveal too much about the other world beneath Hawkins. The last thing he wanted was to push someone into that horrible side of the town. He didn't want to make that same mistake, wanting to keep his friend safe.

Ignorance is bliss right?

(y/n) held her arms as she looked around, a terrible feeling suddenly washing over her that made a chill run down her spine. "Billy..." she whispers, looking around when she suddenly heard those nightmare-inducing chimes. "Billy." she gasps, her hands immediately reaching up to her ears as it got louder and he looks down with worry.

"What's wrong?"

"Headphones!"

"Shit!" Billy runs outside to the car and (y/n) runs outside too, ignoring the calls of the group who were worried. Her heart raced in panic when Billy searched through the bags in the car, her looking around in fear hoping that she wasn't taken to the red place again.

"What's happening!?" Steve ran out of the shed to see (y/n) kneeling on the floor, gritting her teeth to prevent her screams to spill as the chiming got louder.

"Hurry!"

"I can't find it! Shit, shit, shit!" Billy internally screams at himself, throwing things out of the car to try and find the one thing that would help his love.

"Hargrove! Where are the headphones!? (y/n) needs them!" Steve calls out and he finally finds it, ignoring how Steve was holding his girlfriend when he runs back and drops to the floor to put the headphones on her.

(y/n) holds onto Billy as she buries her head against his chest, screaming when the deafening chimes quieten down and be replaced by the music. He shook as he held her, holding her head against his chest and he breathes out shakily knowing she was still with him. Billy curls around (y/n), holding her tight as she gripped onto the back of his shirt, Steve frowning with worry as he ignored the sharp pain in his chest seeing the couple together.

"Let's go darling..." Billy whispers, looking around before picking up (y/n) in his arms and carrying her back into the shed with the others where it was more safe. Steve immediately shakes his head when Dustin was about to ask him what happened.

"What happened to her?" Eddie asks and the two grown guys-plus Max-narrows their eyes at the metalhead who was confused as to why (y/n) was shaking in her boyfriend's arms, wearing headphones over her head.

"Nothing-"

"-shit (y/n) are you ok!?" Robin gasps when she notices her friend trembling and everyone immediately complains. "What? What did I say?"

"(y/n)?" Eddie was confused at the different name. "I thought her name was (d/n)."

"Yeah, we may or may not have been lying to you." (y/n) says, Eddie narrowing his eyes at this girl that he didn't feel like he could trust now.

"Why would you lie about that-"

"-because I'm dead, or well I was dead and I came back alive." the metalhead blinks in confusion at the supposed dead girl who looked well alive to him right now.

"You what now?"

"My name is (y/f/n). I died at StarCourt Mall." everyone could sense the cogs turning in Eddie's head and he gasps when he realised.

"You're that dead chick!?"

I fucked a dead girl!?

"The whole school saw pictures of your dead body from the newspaper! It was everywhere!" (y/n) grimaces at that, thinking how a bunch of people she didn't know saw her dead and mutilated.

"How did you not recognise (y/n)!?" Steve rubs his forehead in disbelief.

"I never saw the picture but I knew the name of the girl-I mean knew your name. You're declared dead in Hawkins! How are you alive!?"

"A lab brought me back to life."

"Fucking metal." Eddie nods.

"Eddie, we're going to come back tomorrow ok, bring some stuff for you but you gotta lay low." Dustin says, remembering that he needed to get home quick before his mother throws a fit for how long he was out today.

"Wait no-"

"-we promise to be back ok? Don't answer to nobody and just stay hidden." Robin says as Steve ushers everyone out of the shed, complaining about needing to drop Dustin back home.

"We shouldn't leave Eddie in there, he's terrified!" (y/n) says.

"Munson is a grown man, he can handle himself-"

"-grown man or not, he's traumatised after seeing someone literally snap, crackle and pop in front of him!" (y/n) cuts Billy off, everyone shuddering at how she described Chrissy's death.

"Do not, I repeat, do not say that again." Robin visibly shakes.

"Someone should stay with him, or maybe he can stay at one of our places? He shouldn't be all alone! No one would think that Eddie would be staying with one of us-"

"-it's too much of a risk (y/n)." Billy says, his love frowning up at him but in truth he didn't want Munson near his love. He ushers her into his car as Max hops in the back. "I know you want to help but the best thing to do is get some rest before we get thrown into this again." he says, revving up his car and driving off as Steve drops Robin and Dustin back home.

"I need to catch you up on the rest of what Eddie said too." Max says as she leans forward in her seat.

"About?" (y/n) turns in her seat, Max explaining whatever Dustin said to Eddie.

"It's not the Mindflayer. Whatever this is, it's not physically here in Hawkins."

"Shit... This is something new?" Billy grips the steering wheel tight, memories flashing by his eyes.

"Yeah, Dustin called it Vecna. This thing puts people in a curse or a trance and kills them that way."

"From the Upside Down? How is he doing that? How does he have that much power?" (y/n) immediately grew worried. How were they going to defeat this thing if it wasn't here and it hunted people with mind powers?

"I don't know... Dustin said it's some undead creature..."

"How the fuck are we supposed to kill an undead creature!?" Billy hisses. "I knew that we should've never got involved!"

"Love-"

"-this is too much! Even for us! We can't fight this thing if we have no way of killing this thing!"

"We have to try..." Billy sighs as he looks at his love, seeing her hold her headphones in fear. "We have to try and do something so he doesn't hurt anyone else..."

"It doesn't always have to be us."

"Then who else Billy? Who else?" he looks away in defeat, gripping the steering wheel as he drove his family back home. Billy parked the car once they were in the driveway, Max jumping out to get into the house and leaving the couple to sit silently in the car together.

"I can't lose you (y/n)... we don't even know how to help you, whatever you're going through either. What if something happens to your headphones? If I can't save you..." (y/n) moves to hold Billy's hand in hers. She didn't know what to say to quell his fears. She couldn't promise him because even she was afraid to break them if something happened. There wasn't a sliver of a bright future now, it was dark and unsure and just terrifying.

Billy and (y/n) didn't know what they were going to do.