There was no thinking, no putting a plan together or coming up with a way out of this. All there was, was you running towards Eddie as the bat dragged him across the trailer park by the neck.
You had your weapon in hand and no course of action, you were just going to do whatever the hell you could to save Eddie's life.
The bats were more focused on him, giving you time to swing at the bat whose tail was wrapped around Eddie's neck. Eddie flailing and grasping at it, trying to break free.
The impact from your bat of nails caused the demonic creature to screech so loud that your entire body went numb for a moment.
"Get!" You hit it again "The fuck" and again "OFF HIM!" The last thwap sent the bat flying for the sky, Eddie gasped loudly - entering a coughing fit as he tried to catch his breath.
You dropped to your knees beside him, the colony of bats over head making their own thunder above.. waiting for the perfect moment to swoop in.
You thought he was a goner, he was mere seconds from death..
You thought your own life flashing in front of your eyes was bad but it was nothing compared to seeing yours and Eddie's lives together, your relationship, his life, flash before your eyes.
You couldn't let yourself cry yet, Eddie and you still had to figure out how to get out of this situation alive.
"Go back," his voice was hoarse, still trying to recover "What -no!" You yell in confusion "Jesus fucking Christ, Y/N. Run, go through the gate!" Eddie's voice was still strained as he sit up, looking and sounding completely defeated.
"No, no way in hell." You mutter, grabbing his hand "I'm with you in life... and in death." You help him to his feet as best as you could, his army green jacket now all torn up and the leather sleeves chewed to pieces.
"The bikes, we can use the bikes -" Eddie starts frantically as you shake your head, realizing how this ends for the both of you "There isn't enough time," you cried.
It was you and him against thousands of bats, If not more. The only weapon wielded was the one you had crafted, there was no way you and Eddie could make it back to the trailer unscathed.
"I got a stupid idea again," he yelled "you seem to be having a lot of those," you yell back over the sounds of the demonic creatures and storm above.
You follow behind Eddie as you both run towards a shed, he flings the doors open and laughs manically.. pulling out a chainsaw.
"If this doesn't give them a warning, I don't know what will." He grinned, pulling the cord as the chainsaw roared to life.
"There's no way you're going to—," you start "It's our only shot," he yells
The colony of bats swarm above, swooping down almost like they were taunting the both of you.
Standing side by side, you readied your weapons "I love you," you yell to him, "I love you, princess. Now let's kill these hell spawned monsters."
The endless wave of bats dove down at you and Eddie, all seeming to form a straight line to the both of you.
They were so fast.. there were so many..
You swung your bat against the demonic creatures as fast and as smooth as you could, hearing the chainsaw beside you rev loudly and the sickening sounds of it cutting through flesh filling the air.
You could hear bat after bat drop, seeing their blood spew everywhere as they were cut in half.
But they just kept coming.. when five were killed, there would be twenty more. It was truly endless.
You feel like a train hits you at full force as you're rushed by the demonic bats, sending you off your ass and flying across the trailer park,
You groaned in pain as you lay there on the ground, a searing pain shooting down your leg as you grasped at it.. the nails from your bat now embedded in your leg.
"Fuck," you cried in defeat, "fuck.. fuck!" Your fist collides with the ground as you hear the chainsaw get closer, Eddie's voice muffled due to the sounds of his weapon.
Screaming in agony as you pull the bat out from your leg, shaking and trembling as the pain sends shockwaves through your body "Oh shit," Eddie sees the damage as he approaches you, sounding faint as he spoke.
"I can't make it out of this," you tell, Eddie now trying to keep the bats away from you as you lay helpless on the ground,
"Yes you can! I believe in you and.. we got to make it to see our wedding, right?" He yelled back over the chainsaw,
You began hyperventilating from the pain, only able to grab onto your leg and hold it like that would somehow take the agony away.
Eddie was fighting like hell but you knew he couldn't keep the bats away from you forever and soon they would be dodging at him again.
You were both going to die right here, in this world full of dread and destruction.
The chainsaw sounded like a scratched record as it stopped, Eddie frantically hitting the side, "Shit, shit, shit!" He pulled on the cord relentlessly but the chainsaws battery wouldn't sputter to life.
The sound of the bats overwhelming, you couldn't even see them anymore. They were just one big whooshing glob in the sky.
Eddie knelt down beside you, tears steaming down his face. He was crying so hard he couldn't even make a sound. Holding you in his arms, he once again used his body to cover you.. to protect you from the bats.
They were inching closer as each second passed. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he cried into you, knowing there was nothing more he could do.
All either of you could do was sit there and wait for the bats to come down and tear you both to shreds.
You could ask Eddie to turn back, climb back into your Hawkins but you knew he wouldn't. He would fight with you until your last breath that he wasn't going to leave your side.
"The best part of my life.. has been you." Your lips tremble, the pain radiating to every inch of your body now. "I don't wanna die," you cried.
"Just close your eyes, baby." He whispered into your ear, his voice cracking as he held on to you tightly "I got you.." Eddie gritted his teeth through the sobs.
A thunderous clap from above came roaring down on you and Eddie, feeling like you were in the middle of a tornado as the bats flew in circles around you.
Eddie let out a blood curdling scream, a shriek so loud and guttural you wished you were deaf instead of being able to hear it.
The bats tearing into his flesh like it was made of butter.
This was it. This was how it ended.
Or so you thought.
Just as fast as the demonic creatures came down to attack, they were gone just as quick.
"Eddie? Eddie!!" You shook him as he bobbed his head up and down, bringing his head up to look at you with a weak smile "I'm okay," he lied, his nostrils flaring as he spoke.
"Guys, go now!" You could hear Steve's voice from behind you, off in the distance. "What are you doing here?" You yell "You guys didn't answer over the walkie talkie, I got worried." He yelled back, now fighting off the wave of bats on his own.
"Go! Robin and Dustin are on their way, I'll be fine!" He continued to swing, you and Eddie looked at Steve and then to each other "I SWEAR TO GOD, you're going to get us all killed!" Steve screamed. "I got this!"
Somehow Eddie rose to his feet despite the damage his body had just endured, holding on to his side as he winced in pain. His hand shaking and jittering as he helped you to your feet, you both groaning and crying out in agony.
Your leg dragged as you walked, Eddie supporting you to help keep you on your feet and moving. Every step you took was tortuous, you could feel all the holes in your legs from the nails.. they hit deep. So deep that you weren't sure how you weren't blacking out from the pain.
Eddie was slow as he walked too, his own groans of suffering shattering your heart. All either of you could think about was getting in the trailer, climbing that rope and going back to your Hawkins.
Placing a chair under the gate, Eddie weakly helps you climb on to it. Making it so there's less rope to climb with your injured leg.
A scream of terror breaks the silence outside, Steve. "We can't just leave him," you go to turn around as Eddie stands on the chair, pushing you through the gate.
"I won't." He says, now upside down to you as you land on the mattress in your own world. You stand up as best as you can "What the fuck are you doing?!" You yell through the gate,
"You would never forgive me or yourself if I just left him to die," he grunts as he uses his makeshift sword to cut away at the rope (sheets tied together) that go from Hawkins to the other world for access.
"Eddie, stop!" You plead, "don't do this," you beg, trying to grab a chair in your world to use as leverage so you can get back in the upside down but it's no use, you're too injured and you'd never reach the gate.
"I'll be okay," he yells through the gate "I love you, baby." He gives a small smile as he leaves your view "Eddie! Eddie! Please god no, don't do this."
But he was already gone.
You pace.. well, try to. Thinking up a way to get back into the other world, all the while injured and barely able to walk let alone move.
You hear the faint sounds of master of puppets being played again. Nearly jumping out of your skin as the trailer door fly's open "holy shit," Robin looks at your mutilated leg "What happened?" Dustin eyes your leg and then the gate.
"I thought you were with Steve?!" You quickly realize it had been a lie, Robin and Dustin had not been on there way to help him "We left through a gate near the Creel house.. Steve was right behind us and then the gate.." Robin trailed off wide eyed, her own body covered in dirt and debris with minor injuries
"And then the gate closed." Dustin frowned. "What.. do you mean.. It closed?" You were terrified and fuming all at once. "Gone, poof. There one minute, vanished the next." Robin waves her arms around like she's casting a spell.
"You guys got to get back through," you groan, your leg failing you as you hit the floor with your ass "yeah, yeah uh… oh! Towels? Shirts?" Dustin thinks quickly,
He starts darting around like his feet are on fire collecting things to make another rope.
"Back, sweetheart." You hear Eddie's voice ring, looking up through the gate to see him and Steve all bloodied and bruised, holding each other up for support
"Oh thank the fucking heavens," you let out a huge sigh of relief as you see Eddie's shit eating grin; full of pride, looking down at you.
"I love you, you idiot." You yell frustrated but relieved "I love you more," you hear Eddie laugh to himself.
Just as Dustin drops a bunch of supplies on the floor below the gate, the three of you look up as you hear a distorted, squelching sound coming from above.
You see Eddie and Steve's faces looking down at the three of you, just as confused and before anyone has time to let a word out..
That gate closes too. Just like Robin said, gone.. poof. It happened in seconds. It didn't close slowly, it just… glitched almost and then it was gone.
If all the gates were closing or maybe now all gates were fully closed.. that meant both Steve and Eddie are stuck in the other world with no way out.
They're banished.
A crackling sound came above and then radiated below, you, Dustin and Robin all share a glance as you run outside.
The ground shook violently as you held onto anything stable to keel yourselves upright. Watching as the ground split into two below you.
It was like a never ending sinkhole that just kept on going and going.
Making lightning like streaks across the ground as it separated and crumbled, glowing a fiery red.
It was like it was one big… super gate, tearing Hawkins into two.
This was nothing like the gates that had opened before, not only was it taking over half of Hawkins but it seemed to have a protective barrier almost, not that any of you were willing to jump in and find out.
You couldn't see into the other world through it like the other gates.. this one seemed much more intentional.. taunting.
It was destroying your world as you knew it, black smoke poured out of it and a familiar storm poured down over head, one consisting of a blood red sky, just like in the other world.
"I think.." Dustin starts slowly, looking over the edge of the newly separated ground; Eddie's trailer fully split into two,
"Something may have got a little fucked up." He stated the obvious, wearily.
Little did you know yet, the upside down was now freely bleeding into Hawkins at any pace or speed it desired.
"okay we got to get you to the hospital.. if we still have one," Robin urges. You groan as you begin to walk back to where Steve had parked the trailer before going into the other world.
Every step felt like your leg was going to snap, it was a burning and blinding pain that you had never felt before. "We will say we took the trailer under drastic measures because of… the earth splitting into two and we can say you got hurt during it." Dustin quipped up a quick plan
"I get you guys are worried about me but.." you trail off, the topic of Eddie and Steve having been avoided until now "I don't think they're coming back," Robin whispers quietly
You gulp hard. This can't be your world, surely you're going to wake up any moment and it will have all been a terrible nightmare, right?
Your mind refused to believe Eddie and Steve were gone; stuck in the upside down forever or worse, already dead.
How were you ever suppose to come to terms with it? To live with it? This was a world you didn't want to exist in either, anymore.
You lost two of the most important people in your lives, in quite literally the blink of an eye.
"I guess I'll drive, I don't exactly have my license but.. desperate times." Robin laughs, knowing you were in no condition to operate a vehicle let alone a trailer
You all seat in the trailer.. it being so eerily similar to how it was on the drive there. Quiet, words unspoken..
All taking a breath, trying your best not to break down. You knew Dustin was going through it just as bad, two of his best friends were gone and Robin, her best friend in the entire world was now in a world that none of us could reach.
"They're gone," The realization hits Dustin, hits all of you. They're gone.
Robin puts the trailer into drive, the same silence washing over the vehicle once again as you all cry to yourselves.
A banging on the trailer door causes you all to jump in your seats, great.. probably the police chasing you down for the stolen vehicle.
You all stay quiet, exhausted. None of you had any more fight left.
The three of you crowd the front of the trailer, waiting for the impending trouble you would all be in.
The door jiggles and rattles, swinging open "What, you were gonna leave with out me?" Steve's voice filled the air, your heart dropped into a pit you didn't even know existed. He's alive. He's alive!
Robin rushed to Steve, throwing her arms around him.. you were of course thankful he was alive. That he somehow made it back but all you could ask was
"Where is Eddie?!"