in my head // eddie munson

chapter nine

A/N: 2746 words, enjoy.

"It was so real." Olivia spoke, sitting on a couch in Max's trailer.

She just told the group what Vecna showed her.

"Yeah, but it's not." Steve said logically.

"Not yet." She shook her head. "There were four gates. And it- it was like they were eating Hawkins. Our Hawkins."

"Four chimes." Max spoke and everyone looked at her.

She looked at everybody before speaking again. "Vecna's clock. It always chimes four times.

"I've heard them too." Olivia nodded.

"He's been telling us his plan this whole time." Max realized.

"Four kills. Four gates. End of the world." Lucas spoke.

"If that's true then he's only one kill away." Dustin said.

"Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ." Eddie whispered.

"Try 'em again. Try 'em again." Steve told Max, pointing at the phone.

Max dialed in the number and waited for an answer, but she didn't get any.

"Nothing?" Dustin asked.

"No. It rang a few times, then it went to busy signal." Max shook her head.

"Maybe you punched it wrong. Try again." Steve spoke.

"I didn't punch it in wrong." Max argued.

While the group argued about the phone, they didn't know that Eleven was watching them.

She admired all of them.

Her eyebrows slightly rose when her eyes landed on Olivia.

She looked different than the last time Eleven saw her.

Her hair was longer, her skin was paler, she was skinnier, her make up looked different and she has new facial piercings.

'Argyle would like her.' She thought, knowing a thing that the stoner has for gothic girls.

"This can't be a coincidance, whatever is happening in Leonora is connected to this." Nancy looked out the window. "But Vecna can't hurt them. Not if he's dead."

She turned to look at the group. "We have to go back in there. Back to the Upside Down."

"Absolutely no. No!" Steve got up from his seat.

"Nope." Eddie spoke, shaking both his hand and head.

"Bitch." Olivia whispered, looking at Nancy.

"We have to think this through." Steve told Nancy.

"What is there to think about?" She asked him.

"We barely made it out of there in one piece!" He yelled at her.

"Yeah, because we weren't prepared." Nancy argued. "But this time we will be. We'll get weapons and protection."