003 (Billy Hargrove x OC)

Season 4 chapter 3

-Billy Hargrove POV-

We drove out to Lovers Lake.
Trish and I often came here for a picknick. It was one of her favourite places to draw...
Dustin kept ringing the bell, but no one answered.

"Okay, well that's settled" said Steve. "I guess he's not here"
"Eddie!" yelled Dustin. "It's Dustin!"
"Great" sighed Steve.

"Look, we just wanna talk, okay?" shouted Dustin. "No cops, I swear. We just wanna help. Eddie!"
I followed Max, she had seen something.
"Hey, guys?" she shouted, she was looking at the boat house, there was light.

Robin opened the door and went in first.
"Hello?" she asked. "Is anyone home?"
We all went inside with our flashlights.

"What a dump" said Steve.
"For once we agree" I said.
He began poking around to see if he was under a tarp...

"Hey, look here" said Max and I went to her, she found some trash.
"Someone was here" I said.
"Maybe he heard us, got spooked and ran" said Robin.

"Don't worry" said Dustin. "Steve will get him with his oar"
"I know you think you're being funny, Henderson, but considering everyone in this room has nearly died a hundred times" said Steve. "Personally, I don't find it funny in the slight..."
Suddenly a guy came out under the tarp with a broken bottle and held it against Steve's neck.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" shouted Dustin. "Eddie! Eddie! Stop! Eddie! Eddie!"
Eddie finally looked at Dustin.
"It's me" said Dustin. "It's Dustin. This is Steve. He's not gonna hurt you, right, Steve?"

"Right, yeah" whispered Steve.
"Steve, why don't you drop the oar?" asked Dustin and Steve listened, only Eddie's grip on Harrington was tighter now. "He's cool! He's cool"
"I'm cool, man. I'm cool" said Steve.

"In your dreams, Harrington" I snorted.
"Not the time, Billy" whispered Max.
"What are you doing here?" asked Eddie.

"We're looking for you" said Dustin.
"We're here to help" said Robin.
"Eddie, these are my friends" said Dustin. "You know Robin, from band. This is my friend, Max, the one who never wants to play D&D. And you probably know Billy, he's Trisha's boyfriend"

"Trisha?" said Eddie, I saw sadness in his eyes.
"Eddie" said Dustin. "We're on your side. I swear on my mother. Right, guys?"
"Yes. Yes, we swear" said Max.

"On Dustin's mother" said Robin.
"Yeah, Dustin's... Dustin's mother" said Steve and Eddie looked at me.
"I swear, on Trisha's name" I whispered and he dropped the bottle.

Eddie sat down.
"Eddie" said Dustin and kneeled to his level. "We just want to talk"
Eddie was still in shock...

"We want to know what happened" said Robin.
"You won't believe me" he cried.
"Try us" said Max.

~

"Her body just like... lifted up into the air and..." said Eddie. "And she just, like, hung there... in the air. And her bones... uh, she... her bones started to snap. Her eyes, man... it was like there was something, like, inside her head, pulling. I... I didn't know what to do, so I... I ran away. I heard someone... someone screaming at me to run away. I left her there. You all think I'm crazy, right?"

"No, we don't think you're crazy" said Dustin.
"Don't bullshit me, man!" yelled Eddie. "I know how this sounds"
"We're not bullshitting you" I said.

"We believe you" said Robin.
"Look" said Dustin. "What I'm about to tell you might be a little... difficult to take"
"Okay..." said Eddie.

"You know how people say Hawkins is... cursed?" asked Dustin. "They're not way off. There's another world. A world hidden beneath Hawkins. Sometimes it bleeds into ours"
"Like ghosts and shit?" asked Eddie.
"There are some things worse than ghosts" said Max.

"These monsters from this other world... we thought they were gone" said Dustin. "But they've come back before. And that's why we needed to find you"
"If they're back again, we need to know" said Max.
"That night, did you see anything?" asked Robin.

"Dark particles maybe?" I asked, but he just shook his head.
"They would almost look like dust, swirling dust" said Dustin.
"No, man, there was nothing you could see or, uh... touch" said Eddie. "You know, I tried to wake her, man. She couldn't move. It was like she... she was in a trance or something"

"Or under a spell" said Dustin.
"A curse" said Eddie.
"Vecna's curse" said Dustin.

"Who's Vecna?" asked Steve.
"An undead creature of great power" said Dustin.
"A spell caster" said Eddie.

"A dark wizard" said Dustin.
"You said you heard a voice" I said and he looked at me.
"It... it wasn't so clear" he said. "But, it sounded like a girl..."

"Chrissy?" asked Max and he shook his head.
"No" he said. "It's impossible, because she's dead. But it sounded... it sounded a little like... Trisha"