HELLS BELLS
Summary: When 009 wakes up after 001 and 011’s battle, she escapes the lab through the gate to the Upside Down. On the hunt for a gate to bring her out of the Upside Down and away from Hawkins Lab, 009 comes across a harrowing attack on Eddie Munson at the hands of demobats. Witnessing the brutal attack, 009 steps in to take matters into her own hands.
A/N: hello my name is lindsey! I just posted this chapter today, but accidentally deleted it :( please show some attention if you have already I would appreciate it sooo much. I had this really fun idea for a fanfic but I haven’t seen anything quite like it so I decided to write it myself :) please go easy on me, I haven’t written in years. I just wanted to explain a little before we get into it. I played into the time being frozen thing a bit more, so although 009 goes into the Upside Down and is there for years, she has no idea. So I decided to keep her short hair from the lab cause hair shouldn’t grow if time isn’t passing right? :) I hope that makes sense. P.s. I proof read but your girl isn’t perfect so please don’t hate me for typos or grammatical errors :) this is a fix it fic!
ALSO PLEASE DONT STEAL THIS THANK YOU :) nobody has my consent to post this on any other websiteeeee
Word Count: 1.6k
Pairing: Eddie Munson x Fem!Reader (she/her) -I will refer to her mostly as “you” but also 009, and she will eventually develop a name :)
Warnings: language, violence, mentions of blood, crying, emotional, graphic descriptions of gore, please let me know if I forgot any!! 16+ ONLY
Part two here (also linked at the bottom)
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Chapter One: The Hoard
You gasped heavily as you shot up quickly, looking around in fear and confusion.
BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP… the alarm sounded over all intercoms, the volume nearly deafening.
The once fluorescent lights now dim and flickering erratically.
You squint your eyes as you try to gather why the lights are flickering, or why the alarm is sounding… or why you’re even on the floor. As one particular bright flash of light brightens the room, tears fill your eyes. Everywhere you look, blood is smeared and spattered as if there was a massacre. Your eyes widen as your gaze falls upon where the blood had come from; your brothers and sisters unmistakably dead- all with their eyes missing from their heads.
Tears begin to stream down your face, horrified at what had done this, scared you’d be next. You stand quickly, searching for a way out. As you search, something pulls your focus.
An emanating red glow met with unpleasant wet sounds as if someone were walking through mud. Slowly, your eyes adjusting to the intensity of the red light, you move closer as your mind fills with wonder as to what it could be. “ITS IN HERE!” You hear someone yell outside of the rainbow room, not too far down the hall. You turn between the door and the mysterious red gate, debating your options. As the footsteps grew closer, you took a shaky breath and quickly crawled into the gate- knowing it was your one chance at escaping.
As you climbed through the gate, wet slimy substances coat your skin as you walk quickly through the dark tunnel. You tremble in fear as your bare feet walk against the pliable, mysterious floor that almost gave way to each step you took.
Finally reaching the end of the tunnel, your eyes widen as you see much more than you had ever expected. A sky, much like the one you had seen out of windows occasionally- except red, stormy, and dark. A ground, much like the one you had pictured walking on when finally escaping the lab- except slimier, not what you’d imagined. Even decaying old trees that had delicate, burnt leaves littering the branches.
You screech in fear as a creature with a flower like face, running on all fours stalks dangerously close to you. It only turns to look at you after you screech, your eyes widening as you realize it’s beginning to slowly prowl up to you. You quickly raise your hand to it, closing your eyes and begin to picture it being thrown far away. You open your eyes slowly as you hear a thump off in the distance, letting out a light sigh of relief as you see it run in the opposite direction.
You quickly retreat to the tree line, in which you continue walking for what must be hours. But you didn’t mind, as it was the first time you had ever been outside since you could remember. Even if this wasn’t the “outside” you were necessarily picturing, it was still much better than the hell hole that was the Hawkins Lab.
Snapping from your thoughts you begin to hear an unfamiliar sound. Almost.. music? You turn in circles slowly, trying to figure out where it may be coming from. After determining the direction, you quietly and carefully advance towards it.
You come to the edge of the trees, clear view of a trailer park you hadn’t come across yet while walking. Your eyes widen as you notice two people standing on top of one of the trailers. One was smaller and crouching with what looked to be brown curly hair, while the taller one was wielding a guitar. You had never heard music anything like it.
The only thing Papa would let you and your brothers and sisters listen to was music to help them focus and occasional lullabies. You watch in shock and awe as he plays his guitar flawlessly, confusion and worry rapidly growing in your mind as you know that the creatures in the Upside Down will surely be fast to follow the music just as you had.
You furrow your eyebrows in concern, wondering what they could possibly be thinking. Unless… they were trying to lure you. Although unreasonable, your paranoia began to set in, promising yourself in that moment that you will not show yourself to anyone. Sudden ear-piercing screeching fills the air from all directions, approaching rapidly. Looking to the sky in fear, you see a huge hoard of bats heading straight for the two boys atop the trailer.
You feel slight disappointment as the loud music disappeared as quickly as it appeared, seeing the two boys scramble into the front of the trailer, leaving you to watch in terror as the bats begin to swarm the trailer.
After only a couple minutes, you see the front door swing open once again. “Eddie! EDDIE!” You hear just before the door closes, the guitar guy (who you could only now assume was Eddie) hurriedly grabs a bike and climbs on- pedaling faster than you even thought someone could.
A breath catches in your throat as you see him hit a rock, his body tumbling the ground. Eddie got up and began to run, screeches of angry bats coming from behind him. Suddenly he stops, thinking about all the times he had run, before slowly shaking his head. He takes his shield and spear into his hands, raising them to the sky. “COME ON!” He yelled angrily into the hoard, a small bit of weight lifting from your shoulders as you notice his confidence. He must’ve done this before.
However, just as quickly as your confidence boosted- it came crashing back down. You flinched at the sound of Eddie letting out a pained cry as the first bat bit him. You could hardly bring yourself to look as another wrapped it’s long tentacle-like tail around his neck; causing him to fall to the ground, beginning to gasp for air. His hands quickly drop his weapons as he desperately tries to get a grip of the tail wrapped tightly around his throat.
Just as you’re about to step in, you hear the younger boys voice again. “EDDIE! EDDIE NO!!” He screamed as he limped as quickly as he could to the hoard of bats ravaging his friend. The screeching got more and more deafening as more bats arrived every second, intense panic and fear setting in as you watch the horrific scene unfold.
Silence.
All of the sudden, there was silence. The screeching stops as the bats now lifeless bodies drop to the ground. Before you could see anything else, you swiftly turned and began walking in the opposite direction in search of another gate to escape from. You had to keep your promise to yourself. No one could know who you were, or where you came from. No one could see you. You sighed shakily, feeling useless for not helping. Suddenly the faint sobs and screams from the young boy longing for his friend filled the air.
He was dead. You were sure of it.
You felt your heart break as the scene replayed in your head. Slowly your feet stop taking steps, almost involuntarily. Battling the worry in your gut and your intense distrust for people, you remember the bad things they would have you do at the lab. Sometimes having to battle younger children, sometimes hurting them although not intentionally. You were not a bad person.
Slowly you turn your body and begin walking back towards the trailer park, shaky and heavy breaths leaving your lips as the nervousness builds at the possibility of someone finding you and sending you back to the very place you swore you’d never return.
As you reach the tree line once again, you suddenly notice that the harrowing cries of his younger friend were gone. Your eyes scan the trailer park cautiously to see where he was, but there was no sight of him anywhere. After ensuring the surroundings were safe enough, you quietly approach Eddie’s lifeless body as he lay motionless on the ground.
His eyes. They were riddled with sorrow… pain, but also.. a sense of pride. It’s as if his eyes were taking in everything and nothing all at once. His expression was something you had never known before- so warm, a light still shining behind his eyes, even after everything he had endured.
Slowly you sank to your knees by his side, blood covering a few spots of your white hospital gown as you carefully move his jacket from his chest. Your eyes scanned over his white shirt, that was now completely riddled with tears and bloodstains. ‘HELLFIRE CLUB’ you read to yourself in your mind, wondering if you were supposed to know what that meant.
“I don’t know if I can do this, but I’m going to try, okay?” You say softly, looking over your shoulder every few seconds to make sure nothing was sneaking up behind you. Delicately placing your palm against his heart, you flutter your eyes closed and begin to focus as hard as possible. After only a few seconds, the familiar feeling of blood running from your nose and down your lip returned.
Focusing on the life you saw behind his eyes, you begin to feel the sensation of tiny little electric currents moving all throughout your body. Although your eyes were closed, your vision began to gradually fill with a white light, causing you to focus harder.
The current grew more intense as it moved down your left arm and into the hand that was pressed firmly to his chest. A deafening high frequency begins to play deep in your ears as the light in your vision becomes blinding- before everything goes dark and silent.
The currents had subsided.
You slowly opened your eyes, tears brimming at the edges the moment your eyelids opened. You aren’t powerful enough. Just as you’re standing up, his body snaps to life as he lets out a deep guttural gasp causing you to fall back in fear. Eddie quickly rolls over onto his hands and knees, coughing violently as the remainder of the blood leaves his lungs.
You look down at your left hand in shock. You did it. You had practiced your special power of healing with Papa, but only on dead animals and insects- never a human. Papa always told you that you weren’t ready, and wouldn’t be for a long time.
“Who are you?! Where’s Dustin? What the FUCK just happened to me??” He asked erratically, practically yelling. “We need to get out of here, do you know a way out?” You ask in desperation, knowing more creatures could be coming any second. Eddie snaps out of his panic and turns to look at you- extending his large hand out to you, causing you to briefly notice the blood stained silver rings that adorned his fingers. “Come on, this way. We need to hurry.”
End of Chapter One: The Hoard
Read part two here
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A/N: hey! Thanks for reading to the end, that’s so niceeeeee. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, please let me know what you guys think, also if you have any other ideas for stories and such (mainly with Eddie Munson but I’ll take others too lol) pleaseeee let me know. I’m going through a breakup rn so I think it’s time to get back into writing :) also chapter two will be out if not tonight, then tomorrowwwww
