Batshit Soulmates Part 7
Hey guys! We're almost back to where we started and I fix a glaringly obvious plot hole. Why use alcohol to make Molotov cocktails that could back fire and hurt you when FLARE GUNS FUCKING EXIST AND HAVE FOR DECADES IN THE 1980s?!
GIF by thehound-and-thebird
We also get Eddie and Steve having a moment in the bathroom of Max's trailer. And the reason Eddie didn't want to use his handkerchief.
In Medias Res| Prologue|Pt 1|Pt 2|Pt 3|Pt 4|Pt 5|Pt 6|
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Steve looked back over his shoulder and into Eddie’s eyes. “We need music!”
Eddie scrambled to his feet. “Robin! We need music!”
They both turn and run into Eddie’s bedroom, rummaging through his stack of cassette tapes.
“What the hell is this?” she held up Iron Maiden. “Where’s the real music? Blondie, Madonna, Cindy Lauper...”
Eddie snatched the tape from her. “This is real music!”
Dustin came running in. “Hey guys! You really need to hurry!”
Then they heard it, Steve and Lucas harmonizing. Eddie grabbed his acoustic and ran out there. He listened to them for a moment and then started playing. It was rough and barely music, but it worked.
Nancy gasped, startling to life.
Steve pulled her in for a hug as everyone breathed a sigh of relief. She babbled about monsters and guilt and horrible visions of the destruction of everything she held dear.
“Let’s get you topside,” Steve murmured, “and we can talk about what this all means.”
They got everyone out of the Upside Down and safely over to Max’s trailer.
Steve was exhausted. He just wanted to take Robin and Eddie and run. None of them had skin in the game. Nancy had made that clear enough. Over and over again.
They also weren’t going to listen to him. He felt like he was screaming into the void. Echoless and empty. His last nerve had been beyond frayed for the last five days. He just wanted to rest.
“Fine.”
Every head snapped his direction.
“But if we’re going to do this,” he growled, “we’re going to do it properly. We need weapons and supplies. And the four of us,” he pointed to the older teens that had been in the Upside Down, “need showers and food. Also, in case anyone forgot,” he pointed down at his ripped and badly bandaged torso, “I need to have this properly bandaged so I don’t bleed out at a crucial moment!”
The silence was deafening.
Nancy folded her arms and rocked back on one heel, staring at the floor.
“I’m sorry, Steve,” she murmured. “I did forget you were injured. Let’s get everyone all cleaned up.”
“And I know where to get supplies,” Eddie said softly.
Steve turned to him and nodded. “Let’s get us all cleaned up, did anyone think to grab Eddie some clothes while we were at his trailer?”
All he got in return were blank stares. Steve pressed the palms of his hands into his eye sockets as he fought the urge to scream.
“I’ll go!” Max said. “I’ll be less likely to be noticed poking around.”
Eddie grimaced he wasn’t sure how he felt about Red getting into his underwear drawer, but she was right. Anyone else would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
He watched as she snuck back out and then turned to Steve. “We need to get you taken care of first. There won’t be much hot water for the rest of us, but Stevie here needs it to clear out his wounds.”
Robin and Nancy nodded.
“Fucking demobats,” Dustin huffed.
Steve snapped his fingers. “I knew they would be called demo-something. It’s always demo-something.”
Dustin turned to him slowly. “What did you think they were going to be called if not bats, Steve?”
Steve shrugged. “Some kind of bird, I don’t know.”
Suddenly there was an uproar from almost everyone. Except Eddie.
“Why would you think that, Stevie?” he asked over the din.
“Because demogorgons don’t look like demogorgons and you originally thought the demodogs were some new species of reptile, so how I was supposed to know you were actually going to name it what it looked like.”
“What does their version of a demogorgon look like?” Eddie asked, suddenly curious.
“Tall, thin, leafy, with a head that opens like a Venus fly trap,” Robin said excitedly.
Eddie turned to Lucas and Dustin and raised an eyebrow. “That sounds more like an umber hulk than a demogorgon. You know, the thing with tentacles and two heads?”
Lucas shrugged. “We were like eleven years old when named it and hadn’t had a lot of experience with the game yet.”
Eddie nodded. “Fair enough.”
He tugged on Steve’s arm and led him into the bathroom.
“Strip and into the water, pretty boy,” Eddie said, turning on the shower. “I’ll go grab some towels and the first aid kit.”
Steve nodded. He gently took off the denim vest and set on the sink. Eddie’s expression softened and smiled.
He got back out just as Max had returned.
“I grabbed two pairs of boxers,” she said. “One for you and one for Steve. I hope that was okay.”
“Just what were you doing in Eddie’s underwear?” Lucas asked, wide eyed.
Max rolled her eyes. “Eddie hasn’t been able to change his in almost a week and that lake water can’t have been good for Steve, so I made an executive decision.”
Eddie grabbed the backpack she had used to stuff the clothes in with a thankful smile. “One I deeply appreciate, Red.”
He also got the first aid kit from her and went back into the bathroom. Steve was as clean as he could get all things considered. He was toweling off his chest when Eddie came in.
“Red brought you a change of underwear, if you don’t mind wearing some of mine,” he muttered.
“As long as they’re clean, Eds,” Steve said, “I would wear Tommy H.’s at this point.”
Eddie chuckled. “Fair enough. I just didn’t want to offend your rich boy sensibilities.”
Steve scoffed. “I don’t have any of those anymore. The Upside Down has a lovely way of getting rid of that kind of shit, fast.”
Eddie nodded, but turned away so Steve could pull on the boxers.
“Thank fuck,” Steve muttered. “I prefer briefs, but they’re dry and that’s like heaven right now.”
Eddie turned around and breathed through his nose. Seeing Steve in his boxers was really doing something for him that it really shouldn’t.
“Let’s get those wounds wrapped up,” he said hefting the first aid kit.
Steve nodded. He leaned up against the sink and let Eddie put on gauze and proper bandages on the wounds on his sides.
“I hope wherever you plan to get supplies has shoes, man,” Steve said as he struggled to put on the sweats, “because I really need to stop running around barefoot.”
Eddie looked down at Steve’s feet and back up at Steve. “Shit. You walked all through the forest and to Nancy’s house barefoot and then rode a bike all the way to Forest Hills, again WITHOUT SHOES?!”
Steve blushed. “I don’t see what the big deal is.”
“The big deal, Stevie,” Eddie huffed, “is that you’re our tank and if you are too hurt to protect the squishy ones, then everyone gets hurt, okay?”
Steve nodded. “Sorry. They don’t usually care.”
Eddie looked back at the closed door and then back at Steve. “I think you’re wrong. But if you don’t tell them you’re hurt, they can’t take care of you.”
Steve nodded again, he went back out there while Eddie took his turn. Quickly get the worst of six days of being on the run off of him. He merely rinsed his hair out of the dirt and whatever the hell that shit is that is constantly falling in the Upside Down.
He stepped out and dried himself off, using the towel Steve used. It didn’t look like Max had a lot of towels and they still had Robin and Nancy to get through.
He run his hair out and got dressed. When he pulled out the Metallica t-shirt and the one pair of black jeans he owned that didn’t have rips in the knee, he almost wanted to kiss her forehead. God, this was perfect. She even put in socks. He put his shoes on and yeah, they were still kinda wet, but it was much better than everything being kinda wet.
Nancy went next and then Robin, each girl just taking the time they needed to get the Upside Down off of them.
Eddie pulls out a phone book and lays on the table. He goes flipping through it and lands on the section for camping gear and guns.
He points to the biggest ad. “This is where we are going to get our supplies, it will have everything we need. Guns, ammo, whatever you need to take this bastard out.”
Steve pressed up against Eddie and leaned over his shoulder to see what he was pointing at. The War Zone.
“What about alcohol?” Robin asked. “Last time we used Molotov cocktails to take out these monsters.”
“Yeah!” Dustin said. “Fire works great on these guys. And the further away we are to light them up, the better.”
“So flare guns,” Eddie said nodding. “They’ll have those too.”
Nancy and Dustin shared a confused glance.
“What’s a flare gun?” Nancy asked.
Eddie looked around at all the confused faces. “You’ve seen the flares they shoot up when someone is in distress right?”
There were a couple of nods.
“Those are fired from guns,” he explained. “Essentially they are fireworks in a gun.”
“Yeah,” Lucas said, “we’re going to want a lot of those.”
There was a murmur of agreement from everyone.
“Now all we need is transport,” Nancy said. “We don’t have bikes for everyone.”
“Oh,” Eddie said. “I’ve got that covered, too.”
Steve frowned. “What, have you got a car hidden around here somewhere?”
Eddie straightened up and smiled at him. “It’s not a car, and it’s not mine. But it’ll do.”
Steve frowned, but Eddie turned to Max. “Hey you got a bandanna or a mask I can use?”
Max tilted her head and looked up. “Yeah, I’ve got something.”
“Why don’t you use your own hankey?” Nancy asked, pointing to his back pocket.
He held it up. “You mean this? The thing that has been through Lover’s Lake and the Upside Down and I’m pretty sure the smell alone would kill me?”
Nancy blinked for a moment and then waved her hand in concession.
When Max came out of her bedroom carrying the mask, Eddie grinned.
“You’re my favorite.”
“Hey!” Dustin protested.
But Eddie and Max just grinned.
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And if you saw this last night, no, no you didn't. Boops distracted me.
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Hiii I noticed u have great taste in fics.. so i’m gonna ask if you can recommend a few hsr & genshin fanfic writers?? Pls & ty 🙏🏼
oh man,, this is such a great question. i’m touched you decided to come to me!! i’ll go ahead and list some writers and the fics that came to mind first (most of them are angsty, i apologize, but those are what usually stick w/ me 😭😭)
dulcesiabits — my all time favorite fic in general is still your shadow under the illusory moon + part two. also dissection of a liar, which i read and went hunting for again because i forgot it was a fanfic and mistakenly remembered it as part of his canon character stories. i was Really Confused. i looked through the wiki and game for a really long time. anyway, dulcesiabits herself also has a bunch of fics for other fandoms (including hsr) + other genshin characters, and everything i’ve read from her has been absolutely heart-wrenching and world view altering (positive)
perpetualcynicsm — The Writer Ever for everyone who likes long fics and wants to get invested (their current wip is over 130k words). their work is absolutely amazing and clearly has so so much effort and passion put into it. i’m not even that big of a fan of xiao but they got me to read about him anyway. i still haven’t gotten to to dance amidst a sea of flowers but i WILL. terribly underrated as a whole
thenyxsky — not sure what else to say except for when reading awaken i died just like heizou did. it had me on the edge of my seat and then left me feeling like a part of me was left in the page. it was so so good and AGAIN incredibly underrated
ruershrimo — one of my favorites was hair, which remains one of my favorite lyney drabbles in general to this day,, such good characterization and so poetic. super super underrated for the third time and also a really sweet person in general
noraszoo — ohhh my god i found their blog through one of my mutuals recently. their writing is so sweet and descriptive and their dialogue!! particularly loved keep my blankets warm and my name in your mouth
m1d-45 — i’m not the biggest fan of sagau usually, but their work introduced me to a flavor of it i actually liked and changed my mind. my favorites i can remember reading were wandering and (what about me?)
aeroblossom — their writing and theories and the little things they notice in the game are all so good. a symptom of something wrong and a curse-bearer in particular. so vivid and compelling, really feels like you’re there, watching someone go through everything in real time or even going through it yourself. once again, so awfully underrated. criminally, even, for how much of an emotionally reaction these gave me. god
thebomb-thebird-andtheburntbitch — i love her dialogue and the way she breathes life into scenes and characters that are typically overlooked or gotten awfully wrong. i loovveddd changsheng’s favorite, and tolerance.. oh man. one of the only fics i’ve ever read where blade actually feels and acts like blade.
i have plenty more, especially including my mutuals, but i didn’t want this to get too long so i just put in the ones that i vividly remember left me with a gaping hole in my chest where my heart had previously been (positive). the ones that gave me a visceral reaction and changed the way i see the world (also positive). i’m sure there were more that also did that to me but it is 4 am and i want to post this now 😭😭 if you do want an exhaustive list all the writers i could recommend, feel free to send another ask! i could talk ab them all day and all night so please don’t be afraid, i’m sure i’ll have more to recommend every week
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For the writer ask 🍄, 🥤, ❄️, 🥐, ☁️
Thank you so much for asking! 🥹💖
🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings
As I said in a previous ask, I’m not much of a ship-y person, so these questions are really difficult for me. You get Clorivia (Clorinde x Navia from Genshin Impact)
One of the few things they fight over is what to have for dinner. Clorinde rarely has an opinion - as long as it’s filling, she’ll eat almost anything. And Navia gets tired of being the one to decide all the time. So she posed an idea of a sharpshooting contest to see who gets to choose. This way, if Clorinde wins, she HAS to make a choice. Not that Navia will ever back down from trying her best, though.
Clorinde sees this as an opportunity to make Navia eat something that is genuinely healthy so she’s fine with winning.
🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love
I cannot recommend @akumicchi’s Ge’hria enough. She’s managed to cram so much lore into a drabble about dragon Kirishima it’s amazing!
@a11eya’s Soullights (I will never call it by its updated title, it’s a done deal for me!) I’m not a huge fan of Bakugou, but this one makes me melt.
@thebomb-thebird-andtheburntbitch’s Moonlight -x- Sunlight - I love the premise of KnY in the modern day, and the way she writes Kyoujurou is amazing!
❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
Ahh, I’m having so much trouble choosing, there’s so much I’d love to read! And so many great writers!! My brain is bluescreening at all the choices ‘cause I want this and that and the other one! I can’t choose!!! 😫
🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh
I love the old meme templates like ‘insanity wolf’ and ‘bad advice duck’. Also ‘go to horny jail *bonk*’
☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?
Misheard anime lyrics 😅 It’s the Japanese pronunciation of the English word ‘believe’ (biriibu) which I heard as ‘birinbu’. I added the boom for extra oomph 💥
Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game
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