The age old story of two best friends falling in love...
... Only, one's a lab experiment with an entire Upside Down hunting her down, and the other won't leave her side, no matter how hard she tries.
steve harrington x fem oc / season 2 o...
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chapter thirty-eight nightmare on morehead street (rest in peace)
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HAWKINS IS EERILY QUIET, FOR SPRING break, as the three girls drive into the centre. Ruby hasn't been here for months, save her drive when she returned home a couple days ago, so the differences in Hawkins take her out. Shops, despite the mall being bulldozed, are still quiet and unkempt, painted signs faded from the suns of many summers. Grassy patches near the town hall, which should be green and decorated with flowers, have patches of dried-out mud, like no one cares to look after it. And, at last, various Hawkins signs vandalised, someone spray-painting HELL onto them. For a town Ruby doesn't like, she can't help but feel bad.
They arrive at the library, sitting around the corner from the town hall. There's no cars around — which again, for the town centre during spring break, is shocking. Ruby remembers this place sprawling with teenagers, before the mall took over and then the stories about the town turning everywhere into a wasteland.
The three get out of the car, Nancy walking straight ahead without them. Ruby exchanges a confused glance with Robin; Ruby gets that for whatever reason, Nancy doesn't like Robin, but why is she taking it out on her? What did Ruby do? And, anyway, what is Nancy's deal? Ruby knows Nancy was iffy about Robin last summer, thinking she had a think for Harrington, but Robin can't do that now, she's friends with Ruby (and knows Ruby has the ability to kill her.) Ruby thinks it's so weird.
But, Robin's not one to give up. She does a little run to catch up to Nancy, trying to talk to her about her grand theory.
"Help me get this straight." Robin looks across at Nancy; Ruby can feel the irritation seeping out of Nancy's bones. "Eddie's uncle, Wayne, thinks that Victor Creel escaped from Pennhurst Asylum and that he's the one running around committing these murders?"
"Pretty much," says Nancy, through gritted teeth.
Robin opens the library door, holding it open for the other two. "But Victor committed the eyeball murders, like, way back in the 50s."
"Well, '59."
Nancy avoids Robin's eye contact, slipping past her. Ruby gets to the door, and smiles weakly at Robin. Ruby was the shit at Hawkins High, she knows a thing or two about icing someone out — and Nancy is making her feel uncomfortable.
The three walk into the library. There's a couple of people about, an old man reading something Shakespearian. The smell of printer ink and old books fills Ruby's nose. She leans against the front desk, already wishing they could go. Spending the day with my ex would be less painful than this, she thinks.
"So, that means these murders predate Eleven in the Upside Down by about thirty years?" says Robin.
