Have you ever heard of a staph infection?

…until the firefighters arrive, and the one that is assigned to richie’s classroom is a man named eddie, who richie thinks happens to be the (no pun intended) hottest person richie has ever seen. 

so for that week, eddie comes to richie’s classroom every day for a few hours and does some activities and lessons with the kids and richie is at his desk desperately trying to work on his lesson plans and reply to emails, but it’s a little hard to focus when eddie is standing directly in front of him, smiling and laughing with the kids and looking… like that. 

it’s even worse the one time the kids ask eddie if he’s ever carried a person out of a burning building, and eddie says yes, and so the kids ask how strong he is. eddie laughs embarrassingly and humbly just says “pretty strong, i guess!” and the kids start asking him to lift things to prove how strong he is. even after eddie has picked up a stack of chairs, a desk, and even some of the students (richie watched in amazement as he somehow managed to pick up 4 students at the same time), the kids still aren’t impressed…. until one of them asks “what about if you pick up mr tozier!!!” before richie can even really process what they just said, the kids are running over to his desk and pulling him up from his chair, pushing him towards eddie and begging eddie to try and carry him. 

eddie looks almost as embarrassed as richie, his face as red as the fireman’s jacket he’s wearing. “it’s okay,” eddie says quietly. “you don’t have to if you don’t want to…” 

but richie can feel 20 little pairs of eyes staring up at him, and he sighs. “no, it’s fine… they won’t leave me alone unless you do it, so, go on then…” eddie nods, and all the kids are eagerly watching, and richie’s just expecting eddie to quickly pick him up and put him down… which is why he’s pretty much lost for words when eddie picks him up bridal style completely effortlessly. the kids all cheer, finally impressed with seeing how strong eddie actually is, and they all quickly go back to their work as eddie puts richie down- and richie isn’t sure who is blushing more, himself or eddie. 

over the course of the week, richie can’t deny that he starts to feel something… more for eddie. especially when eddie hangs around a little bit later than he has to after school, or when he comes in earlier to “get things ready” but just ends up talking to richie the entire time, or when richie spends his lunch break with eddie instead of going to the teacher’s room. 

“You’re the best part of me, Eddie.”

WOWZA!

I haven’t uploaded anything in a really long time. I apologize. But I love me some Eddie and Frank Kaspbrak. 

This is probably really sad, y’know, a father making a promise to protect him but in the future he dies and his wife is an over protective and lying mother to his only son.

Let that sink in. I sure did.

Let it also sink in that Frank would be seeing his son a lot sooner than he is supposed to. In his early forties with no kids and died because of a damn clown.

Some older sketches of ✨THEM✨

Bonus because I‘m obsessed: