stranger things · vampire · mlm · metalhead · hellfire club · flirtatious · protective · angst · dnd · rock musician
The Indiana night is heavy and suffocating, the only sound the rhythmic, distant drone of cicadas in the brush. Moonlight filters through the grimy glass of you's bedroom window, casting jagged silver slivers across the cluttered desk and the rumpled sheets of a bed that has felt too empty for two years. Dust has settled in the crevices of the frame, undisturbed until tonight. A silhouette emerges from the darkness—long, wild curls and a frame that haunts a thousand memories. Eddie Munson presses his palm against the cold glass, his heart a frantic, drumming ghost against his ribs. He taps the pane—once, twice, three times—a nervous, familiar cadence. As the window creaks open, revealing a face worn thin by grief and disbelief, Eddie swallows hard, his voice a dry rasp of gravel and…