on the way back max was completely silent. she just held my hand tightly not loosening her grip the slightest bit. " Guys we can't go back to mine and y/n's" dustin says out of nowhere. "Why?" steve and eddie ask. "didnt you just hear what will said on the walkie". 

"im sorry dustin but we are all processing what just happened" i sent him a look which made him realise that he was being a bit rude. "sorry. but we cant go back there because will said that jason is snooping around, so i just dont think its safe enough". we all nodded in agreement and decided to go back to reefer ricks. 

once we arrived, we hid in the spare bedroom of the house and locked the door until the others arrived. i sat on the bed with max while the others were thinking of a plan on what to do next. "im sorry y/n" max said more tears making their way down her cheeks. "you dont have to apologise, its not your fault in any way" she just shook her head in response not being able to say anything else". she had the look of guilt all over her face. but i couldn't understand why. was this what vecna does to you?

once the others had arrived el comforted max along with me. "so whats the next move?" mike asked. "we need to tell my mom and hopper, they will hopefully know what to do" will was fidgeting with the belt on his jeans. we all agreed. we where sat discussing the upside down when suddenly i felt like the air was beig sucked out of my lungs. i furrowed my brows wondering what was happening. my heart now beating like a war drum. "you ok y/n" eddie said making everyone's attention shift to me. feeling all their eyes on me made me feel 10x worse. i just wanted peter. i look to max whos eyes were now widened. "yeah i think the rooms just a bit crowded for me" he nodded his head and opened the door for me which i quickly walked out of, my steps staggered, making my way to the outside for fresh air. i felt lightheaded as if i was about to pass out. my palms sweaty and breath shaky. i looked around trying to find something to take my mind off of it.

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"steve?" everyone turned to max shocked as this was the loudest, she had spoken since what happened. "y-yeah?" he answered scared just incase something bad was going to happen again. "Where are the files?" she asked and nancy scurried around in her bag for them. she laid them all out on the bed reading through them. "whats wrong?" asked steve. "are you experiencing something new?" robin asked but she just ignored them reading through all four files. her eyes went wide, and her breathing started to quicken which scared the others. 

"WHATS WRONG MAX ANSWER ME PLEASE" steve begged

she looked up to them with new tears in her eyes. "all files have the same pattern" she pointed to each one. "extremely vivid nightmares causing you to wake up with a cold sweat" everyone nodded with confused looks. "nose bleeds with unknown causes" she pointed to some writing on each file saying, 'unknown nosebleeds'. "Hearing the chime of the grandfather clock" she only pointed to three files this time. "oh my god" nancy held on to the edge of the bed to support her as the realisation hit her. "what. what's wrong?" steve asked stupidly. suddenly robin ran out of the room making him realise. 

"y/n has vecnas curse" everyones hearts plummeting to the ground.

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i looked at the trees and bushes that where swaying in the wind, examining there every colour and movement to take my mind off the feeling. i walked over to the singular patch of blue flowers that stood out in the green grass.

tick tock tick tock. 

suddenly i heard the loud chime of a clock. i looked around to realise it wasnt just any normal clock it was a grandfather clock embedded into a tree. "no no". i didnt know what to do. i just stood there like a mannequin. i watched as the bushed movement began to slow, the chimes of the clock playing over and over again in my head like a broken record player. then everything spun back to real time. i fell to my knees realising what this meant, the sticks stabbing into my body not even effecting me because my mind was to busy processing what i had heard. "Please what do you want. please dont hurt me".  the only thing i could think of doing was running. running as far as my legs could take me. but before i could start running i snapped back to reality. everyone was surrounding me. some crying, some stressed. "Guys i-i have..."

"vecnas curse" eddie finished my sentence. 

just then Joyce pulled up with hopper. she ran straight to me and will pulling us both into a hug. then she pulled max into one. "steve explained everything to us" she said tears in her eyes. "we are going to save you guys, ok?" hopper reassured us giving us his smile that always made us feel what i could only explain as warm and protected. the others headed inside apart from eddie. 

"you cant do shit like that to me" he let out a breathed laugh. 

"I'll take a mental note" a warm tear slowly running down my face. 

it was getting quite dark and hopper had just gone out to fetch us all some dinner. "so we could go back through the gate" dustin stated. "the gate isnt open though me and hopper shut it" joyce said placing her cup of water down on the table angrily. "theres a gate where fred got...taken. but the road is on constant watch" nancy stopped pacing the room. "does that mean a new gate is created each time someone gets killed by vecna?" lucas asked. that when we all realised. "my trailer. we could sneak in there" eddie said proud of himself knowing that he figured something out. "we can head there to-" just then there was a noise outside interrupting joyce. 

i peered cautiously around the corner so i could see out the window. "its jason" i whispered. i heard eddie put on the coat to hide himself.  "hey, HEY I SEE YOU Y/N" shit obviously I wasn't being that cautious. "Sneak eddie out of the back door while I distract Jason" I whisper to Joyce. i walked over to the door rubbing my eyes and letting a fake yawn escape my mouth to try and give the image that i had just woken up. 

"hey Jason, what brings you here" I try to play it cool. "just looking for eddie munson" the look of pure disgust took over his usual expression. "thought he would be here the neighbours reported movement in the house and they knew Rick was still in jail. So I thought the freak would be here" I try to put a shocked look on my face

"oh no I'm Rick's...cousin I saw that there where raccoons.. In the um trash so I thought I'd check it out" so far he seemed like he was believing it. "ah so no sight of Eddie?" he tried to hide the fact that he was looking at my surroundings behind me for any clues. "no but I know someone said they saw him hiding in the forest" what a shit excuse.

"this one over here?" he pointed to the one behind him. "and you never thought of calling the police?" just then there was the sound of a car driving against the gravel. it was hopper who pulled up a couple of feet away from me and jason hiding the food immediately.  "how may I help you two?" he put on his cop voice as he walked over.

"this young lady" he pointed towards me as if hopper would get confused on where i was. "said she saw that freak, Eddie munson in the woods" Jason gave hopper a proud look. "ah OK ill be sure to check that out. Thank you" we both nodded as hopper pulled out his torch and pretended to to search for Eddie. "well I'm glad your safe. Have a nice evening" he started to walk off. Finally I let my shoulders drop and I let out a deep sigh.

"Hey Jason you might wanna have a look at this" I suddenly heard one of his friends say. Shit. I walked out of the door and went over to where Jason and his friends were. Hopper joining me. "well chief I think we just found your criminal". I looked at hopper to try and know what the next move was but I got nothing. "right kids stay back ill call for backup". At this point eddie was a couple of meters away from land rowing the boat as fast as he could. "no why should I wait longer" Jason said taking off his jacket. his friend then doing the same thing. "theres a gun in the car if you need it to protect yourself from him" jason said placing his hand on my shoulder reassuring me. i just nod to play it cool. he then jumps in the lake with his friend. hopper immediately running over to stop them. "oh no" i heard a soft voice behind me. i turned back around and the others had come out of the house. 

as soon as eddie saw that jason and his friend where coming he tried to row even faster. but he couldnt go fast enough to get away from jason. before we knew it jason was trying to jump up the side of the boat almost tipping it over. i went to shout for them to stop but saw a weird glowing coming from under the water. "hey guys? what's that red glow under the water?" everyone was looking. just then jasons friend was pulled under water. "JESUS H CHRIST" i heard eddies distant shout. jason now panicking. "PATRICK" jason was shouting then dipping his head under water trying to look for his friend. it was all quiet and we were all looking around confused. 

suddenly Patrick shot out of the water and flew into the air. "NO NO NOT AGAIN" eddie shouted on the verge of tears. "IS THIS WHAT YOU DID TO CHRISSY FREAK?!!???" jason tried to grab eddie over the edge of the boat but failed. the silence was then met by the gut-wrenching sound of patricks bones cracking then a slight pop as his eyeballs where being sucked back into his head. which was soon met by a splash as his body fell into the water. "im calling for backup immediately. "I NEED BACK UP AT REEFER RICKS NOW NOW" hopper was shouting into his walkie. we all stood there in shock.