AnArrowForAnEye
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Eddie never was a planner, but his new life necessitates having some idea of where he’s going, and when he’ll get there. He’d like to think that makes him more mature, but he’s still flying by the seat of his pants when it comes to the big picture. Getting his CDL was a way to escape Hawkins. To see the country, even if he’s mostly seeing long, lonely stretches of interstate in between depots.
There are bright spots. Hazy desert sunrises that make him want to write a sad song, and the occasional free evening to take in a show, meet some locals. Follow a pretty girl to her apartment if she’ll have him.
Most of the time, though, life comprises shitty diner burgers and far too little sleep. It's a lonely existence, but it suits him fine, until the night a strawberry-blonde ponytail at a gas station in Kentucky stops him in his tracks.
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09 Oct 2025
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Okay, so, he didn’t like Chrissy Cunningham. That would be fucking ridiculous. The gorgeous, eternally-out-of-everyone’s-league cheerleader and the super senior burnout? Even without the existence of her hairline fracture of a boyfriend, Eddie wasn’t obtuse enough to daydream about their shared school experience becoming anything akin to a John Hughes film, alright?
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Eddie and Chrissy lie to themselves.
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16 Aug 2025
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Maybe she should go home. Fake a sudden flu. Anything to escape his cutting analysis of her.
Or maybe he’s just a little too similar to the guy in her fantasies. The ones where she’s overwhelmed by leather, long hair, and throbbing guitar solos. The ones that won’t quit no matter how many times she kisses Jason. No matter how many times she lets him feel under her skirt.
She stares at herself in the mirror, cupping her face with hot hands. “What is wrong with you?”
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15 Aug 2025
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“Chris. Seriously. I hereby give you permission to have a one-night stand with the scuzzy bar boy.”
“But—”
“Trust me. Look at that guy. He’s not judging you—he’s an idiot.”
Chrissy looks at Eddie, who has gone from staring at them to half-wrestling Gareth, the two of them grabbing each other around the middle and punching at kidneys. How that happened in the span of thirty seconds, she doesn’t know, but it certainly makes him more approachable.
(Or: what if Eddie's dad never went to prison, and he didn't stay in Hawkins long-term.)
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26 Jun 2025
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Chrissy ruins lunch by lobbing a carrot stick at Jason’s head. Not hard—it bounces off his forehead and falls to his tray, where it lands in a pile of mashed potatoes—but it’s still a projectile. A statement.
Later, in shop class, she spies Eddie Munson's notebook beneath a work bench and starts believing maybe she's as tough as the monsters she finds within it.