The From AU

Explicit | Buddie | chapter 1/? | 6k | tags: alternative universe, different first meeting, slow burn, getting together, horror elements, minor character death, blood & injury, explicit sexual content, multiple PoVs

Eddie pulls out of the forecourt, following the signs back to the highway. The road they're on is bordered closely by trees and they drive for far longer than he expects without reaching an exit. He slows, craning forward, slightly losing sense of where they are, although he's sure they're going in the right direction.

'Do you have signal?' he says and Chris looks down at his phone.

'No. Did we go the wrong way?'

'I don't see how. We should have joined up with the highway by now.'

They were making good time and Eddie was hoping they'd get to their hotel tonight, get a bit of time to rest before meeting Shannon for dinner. If they're lost it could add hours to their journey, they'll have to stop somewhere else and Eddie is already tired from driving practically nonstop for several days. He has a map in the glove compartment but as he reaches across Chris to pull it out, the road starts to curve, following the bend of the river, and Eddie has to slam on the breaks so they don't crash into a tree, its whole trunk jagged and splintered at the base as if it was snapped in two, the tangled ball of its roots ripped out of the earth, blocking the road.

This fic is dedicated to my beloved kasia @buckpussy who has listened to me endlessly going on about this idea for weeks and encouraged me to actually write it❣️

Also thank you to maurine @adamsvanrhijn who hasn’t seen From OR 911 and still gave me some pointers on American locations and road trips 🙏

Spoilers for the first season of From, although this diverges pretty quickly from the plot of that show so it’s mostly the setting and some scenes here and there that I’ve borrowed for my nefarious purposes (buddie getting together) 😈