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if your lungs are still working it must be the mud by cruisercrusher
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Oct 2023
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Summary
Steve couldn’t help but be haunted by the last time he did this, his vision flickering between the real world and flashes of blue. Eddie’s eyes were open then as they were now, they were dead and dark, just like now. But in the Upside-Down, back when Eddie’s blood was still red, he was desperate. Dustin was crying, and Nancy was yelling at them that the gates were starting to close. Last time, Steve had to give up, had to take his hands off Eddie’s chest that he’d already cracked. Eddie was already gone, and the rest of them had to go, too.
Now, he was determined. Eddie’s eyes were open and instead of gazing unseeingly up at the moonless, starless sky, they were locked with his. Steve was caught in the beam of his gaze like he was hypnotized, and it was Eddie’s command that compelled his arms to keep pumping, to keep his fingers and wrists locked, and his body wasn’t his to control. It was easy. To breathe, to push rhythmically against Eddie’s broken sternum, to ignore the strain in his shoulders. He was going to be the reason Eddie’s heart would beat again. And it felt good.
Or, Eddie comes back as a zombie. A story about souls and bodies and love and eating flesh :)