Heat Of The Moment (Part Two)
summary: ‘Adopted daughter to police chief Jim Hopper, Shea has a hard enough time fitting in at Hawkins high, throw in monsters, meddling kids, and alternate dimensions into the mix and she’s not sure how she’ll survive.’
content warning: some angst, character deaths, period-typical racism, period-typical sexism, canon-typical violence, possible smut later on??? (honestly we’ll see), cussing, mutual pining, found family, drug use, this is a reader insert but I hate using y/n so your nickname is ‘Shea’
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The Runaway
A series of rapid-fire bangs ripped her from her deep sleep. Jumping up to answer it, she quickly grabbed the closest thing she could find to cover her cold form, a red flannel hanging over the back of the raggedy yellow couch, and put it on over the top. A blurred figure immediately raced past her the minute her door opened, not giving her even a second to speak before he started pacing around in her living room, fear and confusion clear on his face as he chewed on his already short nails.
“Eddie? What's wrong? What time is it?” She said checking her wristwatch, it was just past midnight.
“She’s dead, she’s fucking dead man!”
“Who’s dead? What’s going on?”
“She just started floating and her bones just fucking-” he was pacing in her living room, limbs shaking as tears started to flow freely.
“Her eyes! Christ her eyes Hopper!“
“Eddie!” Shea cried, grabbing him by his face as she got him to look at her “You gotta try and calm down, you're not making any sense!”
“I-I didn’t know what to do or where to go!” He cried as he held on to her arms, she bought them to sit on the couch.
“She just came over to buy something stronger, I wasn’t gonna fuck her up or anything I was just gonna give her some Special K to take the edge off I swear b-but- fuck!”
“I-it’s gonna be ok Eddie” Shea still couldn’t quite make out what Eddie was saying but she knew something had happened to someone and whatever it was Eddie was fucking terrified. Pushing his hair from his face Shea jumped in her skin as Eddie slapped her hands away.
“No it’s fucking not! She fucking dead Hops aren’t you listening to me!”
“I’m trying to Eddie but you’re not making sense!”
“Oh god I think I’m gonna puke” Jumping back up Eddie went back to pacing the room slowly to ease his stomach, one hand on at his mouth as he bit at his thumbnail, the other rubbing at his forehead.
“Let me get you some water or something alright just hang tight,” Shea said jumping to her feet to fetch him something to drink but his next words stopped her in her tracks
“I shouldn’t have come here.”
“What?”
“Oh god I-I came straight over here I’m so fucking stupid! What if someone saw me, w-what if I was followed, man? I lead ‘em right here!” His pacing continued as he picked up his speed
“Eddie don’t-“
“I dragged you right in the middle of all my shit!”
“Hey look at me alright!” Shea shouted, grabbing his attention as she grabbed his hand. Her fingers intertwined with his ringed ones as she held them.
“I don’t know what’s going on right now but I’m gonna help you Eddie nothings gonna happen I got you”
“You don’t get it Hops what if-“
“Whatever is happening I can handle it! I promise.”
“I should leave…I don’t wanna-” he said, beginning to pace the room again before Shea stopped him by putting a hand to his chest
“It’s the middle of the night I’m not letting you drive around, especially with how you are right now, not alone at least.”
“No way in hell I’m dragging you out with me in the middle of the night!” He said with a huff as if that was the most ridiculous idea he’s ever heard.
“Then stay here tonight” Shea said nearly metaphorically knocking the wind out if Eddie as he wasn’t expecting that from her at all
“But-“
“You need rest” “Whatever’s going on we’ll figure it out in the morning. Together. I promise.” She said looking him dead in his eyes as if looking for her answer there.
After some more convincing on her part Shea had managed to talk Eddie into sleeping on her couch. Grabbing some blankets she got him some water before heading to her room, taking her pants off and going to bed herself. Like she told Eddie, whatever was happening she’d help him deal with it all in the morning.
When she woke up the next morning the night before felt like a fever dream. Throwing the covers off of her body she rushed into the living room expecting to find Eddie resting peacefully on the couch but instead found herself faced with a pile of blankets and an empty living room. Panic-stricken, Shea raced around the house looking to see if she could find any trace that Eddie was there but found none.Throwing on some pants, she grabbed her keys and hurried out the door.
“Robin! I need you.” Shea said bursting into the video store, sweat on her brow as she raced up to her friend.
“I’m with a customer right now can’t this wait?” Robin chuckled nervously as she stared at her friend awestruck as she held the phone to her ear. Shea looked visibly shaken as she burst through the doors covered in sweat.
“No I uh have a thing and I uh reeeeeally need you and Steve right now!” She stressed as she hopped over the counter.
“A thing?” Robin mouthed, placing her hand over the receiver to muffle herself.
“Yes a thing!” Shea whispered back, growing more impatient.
“Like a thing, thing ooooor?”
“Christ Robin it’s a thing like Scoops Troop thing !”
“OH!”
“Yes oh!”
“I’m sorry ma’am I’ll have to call you back.” Robin finally said not even giving the woman on the other end time to respond as she hung up the phone and turned her full attention to Shea.
“What the shit why didn’t you say it was a thing , thing the first time you dingus!”
Robin said, crossing her arms over her chest.
“I did! Where’s Steve?” Shea asked not wanting to waste anymore time
“In the back I’ll get him.” With that Robin raced to the back and returned with Steve in tow both worried for their clearly distressed friend.
“Shea? What are you doing here, what's wrong?” Steve said starting to sound panicked as he place a hand in Shea’s shoulder and looked her in the eyes, Robin had briefly told him she was there and looked scared but he didn’t expect her to look as freaked out as she was, the last time he had seen her like this was with Billy and the Mind Flayer and well…Steve didn’t really want to thing about that but he hoped that whatever this was about wasn’t nearly as bad.
“Look I-I don’t know the full details of what’s going down but long story short something happened last night with Eddie and now I can’t find him!” Shea explained biting at her nails, she had looked all over town at all his usual hangouts that she could think of before coming to her friends and couldn’t find a trace of Eddie anywhere plus the cops were crawling all over his place, what if something happened to him? What if he got hurt? What if-
“What do you mean you can’t find him? What happened last night?” Steve said, breaking her out of her train of thought.
“He came over last night all shaken up I-I couldn’t really get anything outta him but fuck you guys shoulda seen him I’ve never seen him look so scared!“ Shea cried as paced from behind the counter. “I went to check on him this morning but he was gone, I drove by his place on the way here but there were cops everywhere.”
“Did he tell you anything at all last night?” Robin asked, trying to soothe her friend as she rubbed her back reassuringly.
“ I couldn’t get much outta him besides ‘she’s dead’ and him talking about someone floating but I think… I think this might be an upside down thing” Shea whispered the last part as if just saying the words would conjure up some kind of monster or something.
“Christ” she cursed, sinking down to the floor, her knees to her chest as she scratched her head, this was all too much for her to handle.
“Ok just try and relax here Shea we don’t know what happened yet” Steve tried to reassure her as he sank down to the floor next to her, Robin following suit. He placed a hand on her knee as his thumb rubbed small circles as he tried to console her.
“What if something got him Steve, what if they’re coming after all of us by going after people we know? W-what if someone’s after El?” She covered her mouth as actual tears began to fall from her eyes. It was bad enough that her sister lived in anther state but if she was in danger? She couldn’t even bring herself to think about what she would do if she was.
“Hey calm down”
“I-I gotta check on her”
“Shea she’s ok alright don’t start freaking out”
“She doesn’t have her powers, Steve! She can’t-“
“Hey let’s just figure out what’s going on first ok?” Robin said from beside her trying to get her to take a deep breath and think for a minute.
“Maybe we can get some more answers on the news” Steve said standing as he grabbed the tv remote.
‘We don’t have a lot of details now, but we can confirm the body of a Hawkins High student was discovered early this morning in the Forest Hills Trailer Park. The police have not yet released the name although we are told they’re currently in the process of notifying the family.’
“Holy shit” Steve swore as he and the others, now on their feet, watched the live news feed of the police pulling a black body bag out of Eddie’s trailer.
“That’s his house” Steve said stunned
“That his house. You didn’t tell me it was at his house” he repeated, sounding more pissed off by the second, throwing Shea for a loop. She hopped it was her imagination
“What difference does that make?”
“Jesus Shea what if it really was him? Huh? Do you actually know that it wasn’t him?” Steve said, crossing his arms over his raised chest.
Oh he was definitely mad now.
“It wasn’t him, Eddie would never do that.” Shea said matter of factly crossing her arms over her chest too.
“You were with him last night for fuck’s sake! He could have hurt you or worse!”
“You don’t know shit about him Steve!” Shea shouted raising herself to Steve’s level
“Yeah you said the same shit about Billy and look what happened!” Steve shouted back, Shea stared at him dumbfounded, her scar on her stomach starting to feel hot and sensitive.
Now that was a low blow, even for Steve.
“Ok that’s enough let’s break it up guys” Robin said trying to come in between the two before it could get ugly but the damage was already done. Steve continued on anyways, not yet realizing that Shea had completely shut down on him.
“I mean come on what if he was high on something or was possessed did you even stop to think about any of that shit Shea?”
“Steve!” Robin yelled, breaking him out of his rant.
“What?” He said looking back and forth between Robin and Shea who had her head down as pure anger swirled behind her dark eyes. “Shit Shea look I didn’t mean-“ he said moving to comfort her but she backed away.
“Fuck off Harrington.”
Ignoring Steve’s presence Shea turned her full attention to Robin “I gotta call El”
“You can use the phone in the back.” Robin said, pointing to the closed back room. Shea nodded before taking one look at Steve from the corner of her eye and storming off, slammed the door behind her.
“I probably shouldn’t have said all that.” Steve sighed rubbing the bridge of his nose.
“Yeah no shit Sherlock.”
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