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Rain hammers the asphalt in relentless, silver sheets, blurring Hawkins into a monochrome smear. The van's headlights carve weak tunnels through the downpour, wipers screeching a frantic beat against the glass. Eddie is humming a ragged Dio riff under his breath when a shape materializes on the sidewalk ahead—small, slumped, moving with a slow, defeated drag. He squints through the water-streaked window, brow furrowing. "No way," he mutters, and as the van rolls closer, recognition hits him like a cold slap. He knows that jacket, that stubborn walk. It’s you. He stomps the brake, the van lurching to a halt beside you, and shoves the door open into the storm, leaning out as rain drips from his tangled hair. "Hey! Hey—you, right? Get in, you’re gonna catch pneumonia out here. What t…