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Wayne pulled over on the side of the road to park his truck, the old bucket of bolts having thankfully survived the resent earthquakes that had sent his home and most of his belongings into a fiery inferno. Checking to make sure no other telltale headlights were shining down either side of the path, he stepped out of the car and moved around to the back, pulling out the flashlight he kept back there.

It occurred to him anyone else out there to spot what he was doing might call it suspicious, the uncle of a suspected killer out in the predawn hours getting ready to go over the scene of one of the murders, but the thought only made him give a derisive snort. If the cops were so eager to close the case on the so-called ‘Hellfire Murders’ with his nephew in the frame, they could deal with him checking their work now the area was no longer an active crime scene.

Nancy narrowed her eyes at him. “Back it up Eddie.” She said, pulling the gun from the back of her pants and holding it to her side. She knew it probably wouldn’t kill him... even though she wasn’t exactly sure what he was now.

He resembled a Vampire, but she decided that she wasn’t going to go down that route. Some things needed to stay in books, and Hawkins was enough of a hell hole to suddenly have things from Bram Stoker come to life too? No thank you. 

She opened a bag “I brought you food, but guessing you decided to eat early.” She said.

Nancy shook her head “Did you kill them?” She asked. If he had, she had to find the body, she couldn’t leave it, not in the mess he would of left it.

“We discussed this.” She told him. “You have to stay low, people still think you’re a monster Eddie, and do not make them right.” She told him. She hadn’t even told the others he was back. She was still protecting him. Still trying to give a reason for the town to be wrong about him. And it killed her that they were actually going to be right about this.

She still refused to call him by the name he told her he wanted to go by. She wanted to use his given name, remind him of who he was.

Eddie was shaking from where he had sprawled out on the floor of the home he had Just broken into, it wasn’t often he was let out or Kas was weak enough he could gain control. “.. s-Sliep?… Sliepnir? Please .. man I need you are you there ?” His voice was broken and he was so scared . He was a monster now.

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Sleipnir had been preparing for Kas's eventual return. He had told himself it did not matter who the vampire used to be. All that mattered now was survival. His survival. And with an ever growing amount of scars on his throat and neck, it was now or never.

Sleipnir had followed the noise, heart in his throat as he was brandishing the sharpened stake. Some kid down the arcade said it would work.

Sleipnir had the upper hand, Kas's back in his sight as he drove his hand up. But the stake came tumbling from his fingers, hitting the floor in a clatter as Sleipnir staggered backwards.

"I will fully confess I have no idea what that means, but, yeah, you better not. I'm making a choice here to love you, no matter what kind of creature you are, and whether or not it will put me at risk when it comes to Vecna. That's my choice." Voice was incredibly firm, eyes narrowed in what the kids often referred to as his 'stern mom look.' He knew Eddie was going to argue that choice, but it was his to make.

At the mention of Eddie wanting to just leave the Upside Down with him, though, Steve found himself confused. "You can't leave?" For some reason, that just didn't compute with him. The Upside Down had multiple gates across Hawkins that the gang had all come in and out of. And all of Vecna's army - demogorgons, demodogs, the Mind Flayer - had come out of as well.

“Well well what do we have here ? A new snack? Or some other strange person who’s gonna be calling me by a fake name” Kas sneered .

(Here ya go billy and Kas!eddie meet ))

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They figured they could sneak Eddie to the “Topside” Hawkins for Halloween. It seemed easy enough and Chrissy desperately wanted to go on a normal date with Eddie. This was as close as she was going to get.

Even though this place was scary, there was one upside. Eddie. At least here, she had him, and he could see her. She wasn’t alone, like she had been in the beginning.

She thought this place was Hell. 

And maybe it was. Maybe she was stuck in Hell. But Eddie... he brightened it somehow.

She had tried to go back to Hawkins, but the moment she put her hand through the portal, she started to disappear. And fear had taken over. She was scared to go, scared to not exist. So she had stayed, and then, then she found him, injured, having been attacked. She wanted to help him, so she stayed till his last breath.

She wasn’t sure if he saw her, but she saw him, she saw the others cry over him, and then leave. But she wouldn’t go. She stayed. 

And she had every day since then.