Everybody's got two hands - @spikedbats
Apr. 29th, 2023 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cheerybombSpring break had been... eventful.
As it turned out she hadn't been losing her mind, but she had been under attack by an actual dark wizard, or something like it. It also turned out that the people who liked to say that Hawkins was cursed weren't entirely wrong, either. Both of which were things that she wanted to forget but knew she wouldn't be able to. The curse of knowledge or something like that.
But Eddie, with the help of Max Mayfield of all people, had actually saved her life. Of course, the fact that she was in the hospital recovering for the rest of the week afterwards -one ankle broken, the other sprained, and a dislocated knee, not to mention the jammed wrist and elbow that had happened when she fell- she hadn't been able to say so, or, rather, she had, but her mother refused to believe it, insisting that she'd hit her head and forgotten, or simply blocked out the trauma of 'that boy' trying to kill her.
But, with a shocking lack of actual evidence to that point, a stack of personal testimonials to the contrary, and Jim Hopper returning from the dead -something else that had happened while she'd been in the hospital- to shake some sense back into the Hawkins police, they'd been forced to conclude that it had been an accident and nothing more.
She'd been discharged from the hospital within hours of being admitted, and while she was still mostly unaware of what had happened with everyone else while she was recovering -aside from the brief moments she'd seen in her dreams and the even briefer explanations she'd been given- she was actually alright with that, given the state Eddie and Max were in when she'd managed to visit them during her own follow-up appointment.
But in the days and weeks that followed, things changed almost as much as they stayed the same. The town suffered what everyone was calling an earthquake, but had, apparently been caused by the death of the dark wizard that had been hunting her and had also caused the Creel Murder House to just collapse in on itself into a sinkhole that no one had known was under it.
She also reconnected with Steve Harrington, who she hadn't fully realized she'd missed until they were back in each other's orbit, and more than that, the two of them devised a plan to make sure Eddie graduated, because as far as she was concerned it was the least she could do in return for him saving her life.
Mostly what this meant was a lot of afternoons and even evenings spent at the Harrington house over the next couple of months, and while they were cramming Eddie full of all the information he was going to need, sometimes the three of them just talked, and that was even better because as it turned out, she wasn't used to having friends, though a few of the girls on the squad still stood by her after everything, and that was good too.
Surprisingly, the plan worked, and Eddie had graduated, by a very narrow margin, but that still counted. After that had been Chrissy's birthday and her first act of adult rebellion had been to cut her hair. The second had been to quit choir -she'd already dropped out of cheer after the spring break injuries- and while she knew she was going to pay for both those things, as she was still very much living under Laura Cunningham's roof, she couldn't really bring herself to care, because she felt free and a little reckless for the first time in her life.
Of course, as soon as her mother found out about her quitting choir, the ultimatum was that she shouldn't even come to church that Sunday, to which she'd replied 'alright, I won't', and that was what led to a rather cryptic invitation from Steve that she should come over because he 'knew she hadn't had an actual birthday in a while' which had mostly made her laugh, but she wasn't really opposed to it, and was entirely unsurprised to find Eddie's van already out front when she arrived, though with no other vehicles, she wasn't entirely sure what to expect as she stepped up onto the porch to knock.
As it turned out she hadn't been losing her mind, but she had been under attack by an actual dark wizard, or something like it. It also turned out that the people who liked to say that Hawkins was cursed weren't entirely wrong, either. Both of which were things that she wanted to forget but knew she wouldn't be able to. The curse of knowledge or something like that.
But Eddie, with the help of Max Mayfield of all people, had actually saved her life. Of course, the fact that she was in the hospital recovering for the rest of the week afterwards -one ankle broken, the other sprained, and a dislocated knee, not to mention the jammed wrist and elbow that had happened when she fell- she hadn't been able to say so, or, rather, she had, but her mother refused to believe it, insisting that she'd hit her head and forgotten, or simply blocked out the trauma of 'that boy' trying to kill her.
But, with a shocking lack of actual evidence to that point, a stack of personal testimonials to the contrary, and Jim Hopper returning from the dead -something else that had happened while she'd been in the hospital- to shake some sense back into the Hawkins police, they'd been forced to conclude that it had been an accident and nothing more.
She'd been discharged from the hospital within hours of being admitted, and while she was still mostly unaware of what had happened with everyone else while she was recovering -aside from the brief moments she'd seen in her dreams and the even briefer explanations she'd been given- she was actually alright with that, given the state Eddie and Max were in when she'd managed to visit them during her own follow-up appointment.
But in the days and weeks that followed, things changed almost as much as they stayed the same. The town suffered what everyone was calling an earthquake, but had, apparently been caused by the death of the dark wizard that had been hunting her and had also caused the Creel Murder House to just collapse in on itself into a sinkhole that no one had known was under it.
She also reconnected with Steve Harrington, who she hadn't fully realized she'd missed until they were back in each other's orbit, and more than that, the two of them devised a plan to make sure Eddie graduated, because as far as she was concerned it was the least she could do in return for him saving her life.
Mostly what this meant was a lot of afternoons and even evenings spent at the Harrington house over the next couple of months, and while they were cramming Eddie full of all the information he was going to need, sometimes the three of them just talked, and that was even better because as it turned out, she wasn't used to having friends, though a few of the girls on the squad still stood by her after everything, and that was good too.
Surprisingly, the plan worked, and Eddie had graduated, by a very narrow margin, but that still counted. After that had been Chrissy's birthday and her first act of adult rebellion had been to cut her hair. The second had been to quit choir -she'd already dropped out of cheer after the spring break injuries- and while she knew she was going to pay for both those things, as she was still very much living under Laura Cunningham's roof, she couldn't really bring herself to care, because she felt free and a little reckless for the first time in her life.
Of course, as soon as her mother found out about her quitting choir, the ultimatum was that she shouldn't even come to church that Sunday, to which she'd replied 'alright, I won't', and that was what led to a rather cryptic invitation from Steve that she should come over because he 'knew she hadn't had an actual birthday in a while' which had mostly made her laugh, but she wasn't really opposed to it, and was entirely unsurprised to find Eddie's van already out front when she arrived, though with no other vehicles, she wasn't entirely sure what to expect as she stepped up onto the porch to knock.
