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Aftermath | Chapter 9 | Eddie Munson

Eddie Munson x Female OC | E.M x Karmen Jones

Chapter Summary: The staff at Hawkins Memorial Hospital make no effort to hide their disdain for Eddie. But there had been one nurse during his stay that didn't outright treat him like trash during their brief interaction. When Eddie comes face to face with her again, he starts to think that maybe there is hope for him to have a normal life again. That maybe people would understand or at the very least, forget.

Story Summary: Eddie wakes up in the Upside Down after 'dying' in Dustin's arms. He wakes up again in the hospital and is reunited with his loved ones. This story covers Eddie's time in the hospital and overall physical recovery after the Upside Down.

This fic is part of the She Feels Like Home series. It sits between Boxing Day and Drop Out but can be read as a standalone.

Chapter Tags: Nightmares, Flashbacks, Angst, Hurt/Comfort , Fluff, Mentions of being eaten alive, ASL, (American Sign Language), ASD !Eddie, Autistic Eddie, Non-verbal Eddie, Abandonment Issues, Healing, Getting Better, Season 4 Spoilers.

Notes: This chapter is long overdue and tbh just a love letter to someone that has supported me unconditionally. I’m unashamed about the meta/fourth wall breaking jokes in there that probably only they will get.

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A piercing scream had Eddie whirring on the spot. One foot through the threshold of his bedroom door he looked back down the hallway towards the living room. The walls seemed to close in as the hallway stretched, distance daunting him as he began to run along the narrow corridor.

Suddenly the walls of the trailer that were adorned with comforting adages and homely decor turned baron and sterile before his eyes. The single flickering light at the end of the hospital halls didn’t illuminate his path well enough for him to avoid the obstacles being dropped in front of him. The tip of his reebok nudging up against something soft and warm as he found himself tripping and falling. Hovering just above the ground, suspended and yet still mid-fall, stuck in slow motion before his stomach was in his throat and he felt bone shatter under the hard thump as he finally hit the ground.

The wind was knocked out of him. Pain radiating through his weakened limbs as he coughed and gasped. Tired muscles fighting with broken bone to try and push himself to his feet.

His hands were slipping in the warm sticky substance oozing from the thing he’d tripped over.

The person he’d tripped over.

He tried not to look at her. Green and white stained red in his periphery as he tried to get up. The blood-curdling shrieks in the distance were much more urgent to him than his past. The screeching never ceasing as he finally managed to get himself on his feet.

He called out as he ran. His shouts a whisper in his throat. Anything that made it passed his lips, just unintelligible words. He tried his best to reassure her he was there. He was not running away this time.

He was coming.

He was going to save her.

His legs were giving out. They had him stumbling. Limping towards the low hum of the flicking overhead lights. He’s running as fast as he can but it’s like wading through water.

He realized as he finally reached it that the linoleum floor had turned to grass. He stared at it under his blood stained sneakers and wondered briefly why the soil was wet.

Question answered as his eyes trailed upward slowly, revealing the edge of lovers lake. A lump in his throat as he tried desperately to let forth a scream. No sound emanated from his throat as he fell to his knees in front of Karmen. Her body suspended in the air above him.

Mangled and broken, just like Chrissy’s.

The screaming had stopped.

He hadn’t saved her.

He watched in eerily silence as she fell to the water, body heavy and lifeless just like Patrick’s.

Eddie was actually shouting now. Now that it didn’t matter. He clawed at the soft earth as he felt warm hands wrap around his middle.

Suddenly he was being pulled backward, away from the wet grass and the choppy lake. Away from the stench of death and into a warm bedroom coloured with cool tones and floral patterns.

He was being held and caressed and whispered to about how it was all a dream and he could relax.

Someone was cooing in his ear and reminding him that they were both okay.

He stared down at his body and realized that his shoes were gone. Dirty jeans replaced by comfy sweats.

His legs were intertwined with hers atop a fuzzy blanket.

The realization slowed his breathing and spread warmth throughout his chest.

It was a dream.

She was alive.

He followed Karmen’s voice, turning to look at her with a small smile on his face before being met with sunken eyes and a wide mouth locked into a silent scream.

Eddie jolted awake for real this time. Pulling in a raspy gasp and choking on it momentarily as the healing wounds on his chest protested at the stretch.

He wasn’t in Karmen’s bedroom. But the cold, sterile feel of his hospital room prison was still infinitely better than being on the edge of Lover’s Lake and watching his own lover’s lifeless corpse slowly sink beneath the surface.

He stared at the fluorescent light above his bed. Burning his eyes and flickering ever so slightly like it had been in his dream. He’d become accustomed to it during his time here. It was barely noticeable but just enough to drive him insane as he tried to read. Pulling him from his imagination and grounding him back here if he ever tried to escape.

He hated the damn thing. But he’d rather stare up at it every day for the rest of his life than ever have to stare up at Karmen’s mangled body for real.

Fuck, he hoped the kids were right when they said they’d defeated Vecna. That he was gone for good and Eddie would never have to see another person murdered in that horrific manner ever again.

Even if he could sometimes spend his waking hours not thinking about the things he’d seen during the week from hell.. He wasn’t sure his dreams would ever let him forget.

The soft sound of rustling paper caught his attention. He stifled a gasp as he turned to his side, expecting to see Wayne sitting next to him in the visitors chair, flipping through the morning paper. He frowned at the empty seat, eyes wandering towards the clock above the end of his bed and realizing it was still fairly early. Wayne would either be on his way over, if he was coming or already asleep and Karmen would be at work.

Eddie grunted as he repositioned himself, using his slowly returning strength to push himself up on his elbows. He looked towards the opposite wall and was surprised to find a nurse sitting in the other, usually unoccupied, chair that had been pushed up against the wall out of the way.

Eddie looked her up and down cautiously as he watched her eyes flit across the page of the book she was holding. She paid him no mind or perhaps, hadn’t realized he was awake as he studied her with a confused frown. Wondering what she was doing in his room voluntarily when most of the nursing staff argued daily over who’s chore he was for that particular shift.

He thought maybe he recognized her from early on in his stay. Maybe the first time he awoke in the hospital or more correctly, the first day he really remembered waking up.

He had fuzzy memories of Karmen laying in bed with him.

Yeah… He did remember her. From the small parts of that day he could recall.

He hadn’t seen her since she loomed over him with a needle in her hands. An apology on her lips as a man much bigger than he was, held him down and she injected him with a sedative.

He shuddered at the memory.

In retrospect she had been incredibly nice. She had let Karmen lay in bed with him and not said anything rude when he was freaking out about being left alone at the end of the day.

While he did appreciate it, he couldn’t help but feel it had set him up with a false sense of security in what his hospital stay would be like. She had shown him basic kindness and he had taken it at face value and inadvertently expected it from the rest of the staff.

God forbid.

He thought sarcastically.

Doctors and Nurses that showed kindness and compassion? It’s not been heard of.

Eddie hadn't seen her again since that night. Hadn’t really thought about her since but faced with how he had probably behaved that day, he figured she had been avoiding him like everyone else.

All of the staff he’d encountered so far had been pretty horrible to him and it was starting to take a toll on his mental health. To be passed around like a burden by people that were supposed to care for his well-being.

Even the people that were supposed to save his life were almost goading him to end it.

So why is she here?

He asked himself.

“Good morning.” She greeted him as she finished her page and looked up with a smile that unnerved him purely based on the fact it was directed at him sincerely. The book in her hands was lowered to her lap as she squinted towards his vitals monitor and seemed content with what she saw.

Eddie nodded at her faintly, averting his eyes but still feeling her watching him as he struggled to find something else to look at. Large brown orbs eventually came back around to her, only to find she had gone back to her book.

What’s happening…

He cocked a brow in question. Looking between her and the open door to his room a few times before pushing himself into a seated position.

He fiddled with his fingernails, trying to decide if the silence was awkward or not as he unconsciously waited for something to happen.

Obs? Blood Test? Paperwork?

Nothing.

The other nurses had not spent more than a second longer than necessary in his presence. They did their assessments and dipped within minutes. She wasn’t even doing an assessment and she was still… There. Just reading.

It felt unusual to sit in silence with a stranger. He hadn’t been forced to do that since before he went on the run.

He hadn’t missed it.

As if hearing his thoughts, the nurse looked back up. Catching him staring and smiling to herself as he rushed to turn away and pretend he hadn’t been.

He chastised himself silently for letting his eyes wander. Last he remembered he was looking at his own hands.

“Your heart monitor has been going off all night.” She told him in a way that sounded stern but somehow Eddie knew she didn’t mean it like that. Knew he couldn’t help it. “I had to keep coming in to monitor you in person so I figured, might as well read my book in here instead of the Nurse’s Station.” She shrugged, pages in the novel she was holding fluttering against one another as she did so. “Besides, your heart monitor is a lot less annoying than Ally yammering about Rodney from the 3rd floor.”

Eddie smiled at the random remark before he could hide it.

Nurse Ally was a bitch.

He’d wished he could speak when she’d stabbed him a little too hard with a needle while bragging to Nurse Bec about the daisies Rodney had bought her. He would have loved to be the one to tell her that Nurse Sandra was bragging about the roses she’d received from the same Rodney.

Drama between the Staff really was the one and only saving grace of a dreadful hospital stay. Eddie liked watching General Hospital during the day when he skipped school. He always thought it was super dramatic but he was realizing during his stay that they actually did a good job with the realism.

He looked back up at the nurse and shifted uncomfortably as he realized she was still looking him over.

Expectantly.

Like she was waiting for him to talk.

He cringed internally. She probably was, actually, waiting for him to talk. He couldn’t remember if she knew he couldn’t or not.. Even if she did, she probably assumed he was ‘over it’ by now like everyone else expected him to be.

He exhaled louder than he meant to in the silence. Looking away again and feeling bad for the first time since he’d woken up here that he couldn’t force himself to make small talk anymore. She seemed as nice as he remembered and he really didn’t want to piss her off and push her over the other side of the fence by snobbing her.

“The monitor only goes off when your heart rate exceeds a certain threshold. It’s usually pretty high and tends to only happen when someone trips into the wrong rhythm or… Is extremely stressed.” The nurse continued as if she hadn’t paused to let him think about his new favorite Medical Drama. She didn’t miss the way his bpm ticked up as she spoke. “I was watching and listening pretty closely and your heart is healthy. So, it seemed like you were having some pretty terrible nightmares.” She said sympathetically. The sound of Eddie swallowing, thick between them in the otherwise quiet room.

Please don’t ask.

He begged her silently. Not that he could accidentally slip up and tell her anything if he wanted to. But there was an irrational part of him that worried if asked the right yes or no questions, he could give himself away to an experienced nurse that could read his heartrate like a polygraph test.

“But that’s not my business is it?” She asked rhetorically. Some of the tension leaving Eddie’s shoulders at her words. “You seemed to calm down when you could sense you weren’t alone. So you were my neediest patient and you didn’t even press the call button once.” She teased, making Eddie’s lips quirk.

Of course she remembered that he didn’t want to be alone. That was why she had to sedate him after all. She remembered how scared he was for his loved ones to leave him there.

She felt bad for him, he realized.

Any other time, the thought of someone pitying him like that would make his skin crawl. But for some reason, the knowledge that this woman empathized with his plight was a calming thought. The fact that she actually seemed to know what a ‘bedside manner’ was, was a welcome surprise.

He liked her.

She also definitely felt bad for sedating him. He couldn’t remember fully or for certain how he had acted, but he knew deep down he deserved it and he wished he could tell her that.

“I didn’t mind though. I’ve been on vacation and I didn’t get to finish my book before I got back.” She explained. “I really just wanted to finish my chapter and your room is the perfect place to hide.” She joked, holding up the paperback so Eddie could see the cover.

Worth It.

He thought it said. Squinting as if it would give him a better view from across the room of the large block writing that spanned the entire front.

He tried to ignore the off-hand comment about his room being the perfect place to hide. He knew she didn’t mean it to hurt his feelings but he heard it for what it was. It was the perfect place to hide.

Because no one wants to come in here…

He told himself as he reached for his glasses on the table beside his bed.

The nurse looked between him and the book, realizing with a chuckle that he must be trying to read it.

“Worth It.” She said aloud, stopping him from reaching for his frames. “It’s a 1920’s romance novel.” She answered without him needing to ask. “Two young lovers meet at a Valentine's Day dance and the rest is history.” She said in a wistful voice as though she was pitching the book for a movie.

Eddie must have made a face because she snorted under her breath. Tutting aloud as she closed the book with a slap and pushed herself up from her seat.

“It’s very sweet.” She said, as she crossed the room. Mirth in her tone as she defended the story. “You should give it a try.” She smiled, placing it down on the tray table.. “You know, if you think you can handle all the sappy shit and almost sex scenes.”

Eddie frowned at her, a question on his lips.

Almost?

“It’s a romance. Not an erotic novel.” She answered him, again without having to be asked. “Not that there’s anything wrong with those.” She clarified as she turned away. “My wife writes those kinky things.” She said under her breath, more to herself than him.

Eddie wasn’t sure he’d heard her correctly so he didn’t comment. Not that he could have if he wanted to. But did have about twenty questions loaded up so far for if he ever saw her again once he could speak.

This woman was an enigma. Unlike himself, apparently. She was making him question if perhaps he had never been half as mysterious as he’d thought he was. He hadn’t ever spoken to her and yet she could read him as well as she could her book.

He pointed to the novel she’d left by his side, yet another question on his lips as she wheeled the small cart with all her observation machines to his bedside. She nodded at him, giving permission for him to pick it up as she shoved a thermometer into his mouth. He picked up his glasses as she set up the blood pressure machine. Putting them on his face and taking the novel into his hands as she wrapped the cuff around his arm.

He read over the back cover before turning it around in his hands and examining the cheesy picture on the front underneath the large title. Snorting at the model chosen for the love interest and how much of a disparity there was between what he looked like on the cover and how he was described in the blurb.

An excited puppy; sweet, innocent, and in desperate need of someone to play with.

The long haired, shirtless man on the cover looked more like a version of Steve Harrington that had never had a haircut than an excited puppy. But what did he know? Eddie figured the author probably didn’t have much of a say on the cover illustration.

He flipped it open regardless. Intrigued by the blurb. He pulled it closer to his face out of habit. Forgetting that he could read properly now that he had his glasses.

He read a few lines here and there while the nurse took his vitals. Putting it down in his lap and shrugging as she took the thermometer from his mouth and inspected it.

I mean, it’s not terrible.

He admitted, only to himself. Looking back at the nurse and trying to hand it to her as she packed up her cart.

“You can borrow it.” She said as Eddie furrowed his brows. Looking back at the novel and realizing it didn’t contain a bookmark. “It’s not exactly my first read.” She smiled, gesturing towards the worn edges of the book before pushing the cart back to where she had taken it from.

She turned back to him as he studied her with a cautious gaze.

Like he was scared it was a trick.

It could be an elaborate plot to get him kicked out… Act all nice and ‘lend’ him something before claiming that it went missing on its own. He couldn’t defend himself… Suddenly he’d be in hot water for stealing from the nurses. They’d finally get out of taking care of him. He’d probably die from an infection at home.

Win win.

He thought to himself bitterly.

“You seem like maybe you need a distraction.” She admitted when he didn’t speak. “For when your people aren’t here.” She added as he raised his brows at her.

Oh.

“My next shift is tomorrow night. You can give it back to me then if you don’t like it okay?” She asked, sensing his hesitation and waiting until he nodded back slowly before continuing.

“Your people love you.” She said softly, taking him by surprise. “They care if you get better. They want you to stay with us and they will understand if you want to sleep while they’re here so you can get some proper rest.” She smiled, making Eddie balk at the sudden shift. Tears springing to his eyes unexpectedly at the encouraging words.

He thought that maybe he really needed to hear that. Hear that from someone that wasn’t one of his people. That had no obligation to lie to him about it all.

His lip trembled as he looked back down at his lap, unsure how to respond and still deciding when she took the lead and decided for him.

“Alright. I have to go and do my handover now.” She said cheerily, giving him whiplash as he continued to stare, not realizing how unabashed he seemed when he wasn’t truly seeing her. Still internally trying to understand why exactly she was being so damn nice to him.

She was almost gone when he thought to ask her name. Opening his mouth like he was going to speak before sighing in frustration and closing it again when nothing came out.

It wasn’t the first time he’d forgotten since he’d been there that his brain wasn’t working properly. It was like his body wanted to go back to normal but there was something still blocking him from being able to do that. A trauma he could only see in his periphery holding a barrier in place and stopping his brain from forming anything other than basic sounds and if he really, really concentrated, one word at a time.

He liked the mystery nurse. But he couldn’t afford to use the brain power on her when he wanted so desperately to see Karmen smile at him again like she had when he’d forced out a goodbye recently.

“My name is Jo.” She answered his unasked question as she hovered in the doorway, tugging at her shirt where her name was embroidered into the fabric.

She had figured he knew that already. But after watching him practically inhale the book to be able to read it despite wearing glasses, she wasn’t so sure he could read her shirt while she was moving around.

Eddie nodded gratefully at the offered information. Smiling weakly as he gave her a small wave to say goodbye.

It was amazing what being treated with basic human decency by a medical professional could do for his usually foul morning-mood.

He smiled to himself, wondering what ‘Jo’ was short for as she waved back. She turned towards the door and Eddie wasted no time flipping to the first page. The notes and acknowledgements catching his eye before he could move on to the beginning of the first chapter.

Author Jody lives in Indiana with her good friend Kel and their shared pets-

Eddie jerked his head up at the sound of footsteps. Snapping the book closed and slipping it under the covers as Wayne entered the room. The man was back stepping as he said goodbye to Nurse Jo before turning around and raising a brow at the sheepish look on Eddie’s face.

BUT IS NURSE JO REAL??? She is. 😂 Karmen and Wayne both interacted with her. But Eddie doesn't put those pieces together until much later.

More Notes: I told you guys I wasn't abandoning this story. ;) Eddie deserved to be shown a little kindness from a stranger and who better to do that than the one person that has shown me continued love and kindness in this fandom and outside of it and not stop encouraging this series from start to finish. I love you Nurse Jo. 🥰

Apparently Fabio, who I was going to reference as the romance novel model, got his big break in 1987! The year AFTER this story is set. So my plans for Eddie to think the romantic interest was some Fabio looking ass man went out the window. Lucky for me I saw a video earlier of a pretty man that looked like Steve Harrington in a Pantene commercial.

Part 10

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