The tense interaction was interrupted when one of the other figures emerging from the distance squinted and cocked his head at the sight of Dustin, making a vague pointing gesture before a wide grin burst onto his face while he laughed in both recognition and disbelief. "That can't be you. Mine eyes deceive me."
At this, Dustin barreled forward and practically tackled the other young man into a bear hug, holding on tightly and not even bothering to hold back the fact that tears were streaming down his face. "You're back. Holy shit, you're back!" Dustin said with a slightly hoarse voice before pulling away and looking back at the girl behind Eddie, who looked on sheepishly. "And Chrissy!"
"Hi - oh!" she said with a slight yelp, surprised by the fact that Dustin swept her up into a hug in his excitement as well. "Wow, hi to you too, Dustin," she said with a hesitant laugh, knowing that she really had hardly known him at all.
"What on God's green earth," a voice nearby began, starting off slightly muffled as its source stepped out of their car, "is going on here?"
Beanie Cunningham, having followed along despite not having been invited, looked on at the unusual set of reunions occurring before her eyes and found her eyes immediately drawn to the face that she had only recognized from photographs: her aunt who had been dead for over twenty years. Chrissy Cunningham. And Chrissy, upon looking at the girl who had just approached, immediately saw a young woman with her brother's eyes and gently covered her mouth with a small gasp.
"I feel," Eddie interrupted, walking with a flourish into the center of the group before removing his leather jacket and laying it on the ground by Beanie while his voice lilted in an almost inappropriately whimsical, sing-song cadence, "as though you may want to have a seat for this one. It's a bit of a doozie."
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
In the summer of 2010, a handful of those lost to the Upside Down are mysteriously returned to a new world they know nothing about. As they struggle to navigate this vastly different new time, will they find a way to create new lives for themselves in a strange future? What lurks in the Upside Down, waiting to emerge if they do not? (Primary Ship: Eddie/OC)
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theartofmadeline
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stormborns
turnnoffyourmind
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