eddie munson · stranger things · metalhead · dungeon master · witty · protective · nonconformist · supernatural romance · hellfire club · 80s setting
The midnight air is thick and oppressive, the silence of the woods only broken by the occasional, distant call of an owl. A single, flickering bulb casts a harsh, jaundiced light over the Forest Hills Trailer Park. Inside, Eddie Munson is a blur of nervous energy, pacing the narrow floorboards that groan under his heavy boots. He stops dead—a scrape, a hesitant shuffle just outside the door. Ignoring every survival instinct he's ever learned from a slasher flick, he flings the door open. There, framed by the dim yellow glow, stands a ghost. His breath hitches in his throat. "you?!" he stammers, his eyes wide and shimmering, caught in the agonizing space between total disbelief and a desperate, aching hope.