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1. In darkness, I cry in vain by LunieWeird

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   17 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley/Vickie
   • Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Argyle (Stranger Things)
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2
   • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Eddie Munson in the Upside Down
   • Billy Hargrove in the Upside Down
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • Kinda
   • Billy Hargrove Lives
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Dustin Henderson Needs a Hug
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Friendship
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield in a Wheelchair
   • Blind Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
   • Steve Harrington Is a Mess
   • Steve Harrington Has PTSD
   • Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents
   • Vecna is Defeated (Stranger Things)
   • for now
   • Blood and Injury
   • Blood and Violence
   • Billy Hargrove Needs a Hug
   • Billy Hargrove Redemption
   • Sort Of
   • Billy Hargrove Being an Asshole
   • Billy Hargrove Tries to Be a Better Person
   • Trapped in the Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   Darkness swallowed his vision, Dustin's heartbroken sobs fading to complete and utter silence. The pain in his sides ebbed away to numbness, cold seeping through his bones. The smell of his own blood pooling under him faded to non-existence. His thoughts, usually a constant untamable flow of nonsense, shrunk to only one singular realization.

   "This is it."

   Edward Munson, the freak of Hawkins high, is wholly and truly gone. Left behind by his friends in the panicked chaos of their escape from the Upside Down, his body lays cold and broken as a testament to his life being over.

   So why does he wake up, alive and breathing, in the Upside Down?

   And why is Hargrove there?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,080

   Chapters:

   1/?

   Kudos:

   16

   Bookmarks:

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