#and steve and robin CO WROTE THE SONG

[teenbiology]

short skirt / long jacket is a sexy song i’ll say it out loud

[thelovelylolly]

could you do a robin buckley x theatre kid!reader?? i think it would be so cute if maybe robin has seen her in the school musicals and stuff but was always too shy to talk to her!!

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summary: robin sees you in one of your shows and gets a little crush on you... warnings: fem! reader, theatre kid *vine boom sound*, I wrote this on my phone while at my show’s rehearsal too lol (which means this is also not proofread) word count: 1k notes: as a theatre kid, thank you for this request lol

Robin didn’t want to necessarily see the musical, but if it meant getting out of math class, she didn’t mind. She was sat in the middle of the audience and thought she was going to take a quick nap, then the music started and you came out. Alone, in the spotlight.

As you started to sing, Robin was immediately hooked. Not on the show, on you. Your voice, your presence, your looks. She felt her heart race and her face blush as you continued with your song, pacing the stage as your cast-mates joined you.

She didn’t even think about a nap or anything else while you were on stage. Your performance was captivating, holding not only Robin’s attention, but everyone in the audience’s. Even if you weren’t singing or apart of a scene, if you were in the background, Robin’s eyes were on you.

Intermission came and went, but Robin couldn’t wait for act two to start and to see you perform more.

Robin didn’t consider herself a big theater fan. She loved movies, but she wasn’t interested in seeing live theater that often. Maybe if Steve or the kids dragged her, just not on her own free time.

Act two came and went. Robin stood with everyone else as they applauded, her eyes locked on you as you took your bow. You and your cast-mates left the stage and the lights came back up. Robin filed out of her row and into the isle, following her peers out of the auditorium.

Once in the lobby, she started down the hall to go back to class, but she stopped when she saw you. You were walking arm-in-arm with a co-star, laughing and still in your costume. Robin’s heart skipped a beat as her feet planted her where she was.

When you passed by her, she finally spoke up.

“Hey,” she said quietly, but it caught your attention. You stopped and turned to look at her, a soft smile on your face. “Y-you did really good.”

Your smile grew wider. “Thank you.”

You held her gaze for a few more moments before your co-star pulled you into the crowd, leaving Robin blushing and falling for you.

———

Robin suddenly wanted to go to every show, more specifically, the shows you were in. It didn’t matter if you were the star, the supporting role, or in the ensemble, Robin wanted to see you. She didn’t know any of the shows, but it was worth it.

Steve noticed her new hobby, and brought it up one day as he drove her to work.

“So…you’re into theater now, huh?” He asked, drumming his fingers on the steering wheel.

“Yeah, I-“ Robin started, but quickly stopped herself. “Why are you bringing this up?”

Steve hummed, “I think someone has a little crush.”

His sing-songs voice made her roll her eyes.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“I do, though,” he replied. “Your actress crush came in to the store on your day off with a friend. I overheard them talking about you, specifically she was talking about you.”

“And? What did she say?” Robin quickly perked up.

“‘Don’t know what I’m talking about’, huh?” He teased, earning a slap on the arm from her. “Fine! She thought you were cute and wanted to talk to you after her shows, but you always leave before she can.”

Robin leaned back in her seat, her gaze turning to the window. Maybe there was a chance that you liked her back, just a little bit. The thought of talking to you gave her butterflies, you had left her a bit starstruck.

“Earth to Robin!” Steve said loudly, waving his hand in front of her face.

She blinked and looked back over at him. “What?”

He laughed. “You’re totally head over heels for her.”

“I’m not!”

“You are!”

The rest of the ride consisted of Steve and Robin arguing over her little crush.

———

You excitedly scanned the crowd the best you could when you first went on. Even with the stage lights in your eyes, you spotted her in the middle seat, where she always is. Robin.

Your friend had a class with her and told you everything about her the moment you hinted at even liking her. You noticed her at your shows and you were developing a little crush on her, but she always left before you could see her after the show.

The rest of your performance went by quickly and you were the first one off stage. You were determined to catch her before she left. You raced out the door and down the hall to the lobby, watching the stream of people exiting the theater for her.

You spotted her and smiled, pushing your way through the crowd to get to her. You reached out and tugged on her sleeve, causing her to turn around.

Her eyes widened and her mouth opened, but no words came out.

“Hi,” you said timidly.

“Hi,” she replied in the same tone. The crowd moved around you two, making it seem like it was just you and her.

“Y-you were great.”

“Thank you,” you answered, “I’ve seen you at all my shows, but I never catch you afterwards.”

“Yeah, I, uh, I usually have to go…” Robin said, lying through her teeth.

“Well, I’m happy I was able to catch you. I’ve been wanting to talk to you.”

“About what?”

You smiled wider and blushed. “If you want, I…I’d really like to hang out with you sometime.”

You noted the blush that dusted her cheeks.

“I-I, uh, I’d love that!” She quickly answered, stumbling over her words with how quickly she said them. She returned your smile and the two of you slipped your way away from the crowd.

“Um,” you glanced around before snatching a program from a stand and a pen. You quickly scribbled out your number on the piece of paper then handed it to her. “Here, call me and we can figure out the details.”

Robin smiled and took it. “Okay, great.”

You two stood there smiling at each other for a moment, then she pointed her thumb back. “I…I should get going.”

“Okay, I’ll see you later,” you said as you waved her goodbye. You watched her leave and sighed.

You quickly and turned to go back to your dressing room. You wanted to get out of costume and go home.

You couldn’t wait for her call.

[riality-check]

more daisy jones-adjacent things. this time, they're finally starting to hate each other a little less.

parts 1, 2, and 3, for your reading pleasure. less drugs this time around, but way more talk about steve's ptsd. part 5. part 6. part 7.

ao3

Steve has never co-written anything before. All of his songs are his, from start to finish. Every note, every chord, every syllable is his invention, and he takes them all very seriously.

That's not to say that he doesn't accept help. He wouldn't be himself if he wasn't constantly bouncing ideas off of Robin and Dustin and Lucas, and he always has other people look it over and offer suggestions.

But the initial creation? That's all him. Steve likes that kind of control.

Writing with a band is very different. Eddie declares it, the song Steve pissed him off enough into writing, done after they've got lyrics and a lead guitar part.

"They'll write the rest," he says, like it's that simple.

Steve can't imagine letting go that much. In all honesty, he's scared shitless. He's never been good at being nice. Charming, yes. Nice, no. And he doesn't know how he'll be nice if the drum, bass, and rhythm guitar parts suck.

It's his song. Well, his and Eddie's, which is weird to think about, but still.

Steve has never co-written anything before.

And, to make matters worse, he fell asleep last night.

He knew it was coming. He's never made it past seventy-two hours, no matter how hard he tries or how high he gets. He knew it was coming, and he prepped as best as he could.

That didn't stop him from sleeping in three hour bursts, at max. Torn between the nightmares and the exhaustion and the crash, he freaked out, passed out, and repeated the cycle until he had to get up and go to the studio.

At least this time, last night, he was back in the Byers house. Scary as shit, with the initial confusion never fading, but it's the best of the nightmares he gets. Between the dogs and the torture, Steve's brain has plenty of worse things to torment him with.

Maybe he should be grateful, but he's never been good at dealing with what he's given.

This morning, he doesn't need to take anything. He's tired, but not that tired, and he's trying to give himself breaks when he can.

He doesn't want to die. He just wants to stay awake.

He has a coffee, though. That's mostly for the taste. His tolerance is shot to hell, so it's not like caffeine makes a real difference.

Steve walks into the studio, coffee in hand, and sees the band setting up and tuning their instruments. Jeff gives him a little wave, Gareth nods absently as he tightens his snare, and Archie positively beams.

"Steve, you're a saint," he says, a little mischief in his eyes. "Different chords, finally. I could kiss you."

Steve laughs and promptly cuts himself off when he sees Eddie staring at him.

"Do I have something on my face?" he asks once the silence has stretched on for too long.

"Why are you here?" Eddie asks bluntly.

Steve, notably, doesn't flinch back. He doesn't snap. He doesn't do anything that he would regret later.

He just says, steadily, "I can go if you don't want me."

He stands there, and he swallows back his hurt. He thought Eddie was finally warming up to him. He took Eddie's fighting words as an improvement from being ignored. And, as usual, Steve thought wrong.

"Hang on a sec," Jeff says. He sets his guitar down and stands between Steve and Eddie. "I said I wanted Steve on backing vocals for this."

"Is Steve not on backing vocals?" Gareth asks from the other side of the room.

"Far as I know, he is," Archie says with a pointed look at Eddie.

Eddie turns to look at Jeff instead. Steve watches their intense staring match and thinks about just walking out.

Before he can take the first step, Eddie says, "Fine."

"Fine what?" Steve can't help but ask.

"Stay."

Steve nods, but he turns to Jeff. "Are you sure? It's fine if-"

"I'm sure," Jeff says. "I think you wrote this song more for your register than mine."

"Oh, shit, I'm sorry-"

"Don't be," Jeff says. "I changed everything I can't hit, but I just want a little more support, you know?"

Steve looks around the little studio space, around at all the cables and amps and mics and instruments, and he counts. Then counts again.

"There's only four mics," he says.

Jeff picks his guitar back up and gives it a little strum. "Share with Eddie."

"What?" Eddie says, looking like he would rather walk out than do that.

"Nothing against you, Steve," Jeff explains, ignoring Eddie. "I'm just a big personal space guy. Can't focus otherwise."

Steve looks over at Eddie, still sitting, still scowling.

"Fine," he says, because he'll be professional, even if Eddie won't.

"You guys are fucking killing me," Chrissy says, and Argyle, the audio engineer next to her, nods in agreement. "Can we get this show on the road?"

Gareth gives them a little salute, one that Chrissy rolls her eyes at. "We all ready?"

"As we'll ever be," the rest of the band choruses.

Steve shrugs. "Yeah."

"You warm up?" Eddie asks, walking toward his mic.

Steve follows. "Never do."

Eddie rolls his eyes, but then Chrissy gives them the all-clear, Gareth counts them off, and they start.

And something switches.

Steve knew this would be higher energy. Different genre, different sound, whatever. But there's something fucking electric about playing with a band instead of being by himself in an iso booth, drilling vocals until he has a take he's happy with.

Recording with a band brings a different sort of energy. It creates a feedback loop, getting them higher, playing faster, sounding better.

Steve tells himself to back off. He's not the star of this show. He's been invited, and a quarter of the people in this room don't want him here.

But filling in the gaps has always come easy to him, and he gives the backing vocals his all.

And somewhere between the guitar solo and the end of the song, Eddie smiles at him for the first time.

It's quick, but it's blinding. Steve didn't think Eddie could smile until he does. It's quick as a flash and wide and feral and a little mean, but it's there, and it's directed at him.

But just like that, the first take is over. It was messy and imperfect, and as soon as it ends, Eddie is back to scowling at him.

But it's not as harsh. And that's how Steve knows that he wasn't imagining that little bit of something.

"Holy shit," Archie says, as soon as they're done. "This is gonna be a good song."

"It's gonna be a great song," Jeff says.

"I want more from Steve," Gareth adds, and the rest of the guys agree.

Even Eddie, however begrudgingly.

"Alright, boys," Chrissy says. "You've got the fun out of your systems. Let's focus and make some music."

Steve looks over at Eddie, who nods, however slightly. And he thinks, because he has never been able to kill hope a day in his life, that they could make a good team if Eddie could stop hating his guts.

[themousefromfantasyland]

The unproduced Into the Woods Adaptation with Jim Henson Company Animatronics

By Erin McCarthy | Dec 24, 2014

[...]

The show won three Tonys, but Hollywood didn’t come knocking until a few years later. In the early ‘90s, the Jim Henson Company and Storyline approached Sondheim and Lapine with a movie adaptation of the musical that would mix live actors with Henson creatures as the show's animals. The duo signed on, and Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel—who wrote City Slickers and A League of Their Own—penned the script.

Sondheim also wrote two new songs for the project, which he included in Look, I Made a Hat, the second volume in his books of collected lyrics. The first was a new opening number, “I Wish.” While the Broadway show’s first song featured the main characters singing about their wishes, the film version expanded the song to include villagers who sang of their wishes (“I wish my well was filled with beer,” “I wish my son-in-law would disappear,” “I wish my cow could go with me to school”) as they went about their business, and featured a narrator doing a voiceover.

The second new song, "Rainbows," was for the Baker and his Wife and “occurs a bit later,” Sondheim writes in Hat, “when the Baker is despairing about his inability to have children and the wife is trying to conceal her impatience with his pessimism.”

[...]

Sondheim.com, a fansite dedicated to the lyricist/composer, got a peek at a version of the script in 1994, and wrote that “The story basically follows that of the show's first act, although the story unfolds in a different manner, without a narrator or a Mysterious Man”:

Several confusions of the play have been fixed. For example, Rapunzel is no longer related to the Baker, nor does she give birth to twins, so the question of why the family curse didn't affect her has been erased. At the end of the first “act,” the Giant rises from his fall and goes on a rampage, allowing the rest of the story to unfold more-or-less as it did in Act II of the play. The intricate back stories of the Baker's father and the witch's mother have been deleted, eliminating "No More" and changing a bit of "Last Midnight." There is no "second bean," so the Baker's wife's scenes with Cinderella are fairly different. Finally, at the very end of the movie the wife reappears, having tricked the Giant into thinking she was dead. Strangely, there has been no effort to integrate “Children Will Listen” into the action. Rather, the camera just switches to a shot of the witch singing the song against a backdrop of Rapunzel's tower, followed by a montage of the survivors going about their lives after the giant.

“Although there will certainly be more work done on the script before it becomes a film,” the site concluded, “what we've seen is certainly promising, and will definitely be entertaining, even if it's not the Into the Woods we all know and love.”

Two readings of the script were held in Los Angeles: The first included Martin Short as the Baker, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the Baker's Wife, Neil Patrick Harris as Jack, Mary Steenburgen as his mother, Kathy Najimy and Janeane Garofalo as Cinderella’s stepsisters, Cynthia Gibb as Cinderella, Rob Lowe as her prince, Christine Lahti as the Witch, Daryl Hannah as Rapunzel, and Michael Jeter as the Giant. At the second, Robin Williams played the Baker and Goldie Hawn was the Wife; Cher played the Witch, and Steve Martin played the Wolf. Carrie Fisher and Bebe Neuwirth were the stepsisters, Moira Kelly played Cinderella, and Kyle MacLachlan was her prince. Brendan Fraser played Rapunzel’s prince. Elijah Wood was Jack and Roseanne Barr was his mother. The cast was rounded out by Danny DeVito playing the Giant. In 1995, Rob Minkoff, co-director of The Lion King, signed on to direct.

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[thestrangearchives]

putting my stranger things band au out into the world

weve got steve on main vocals/guitar

robin on bass/backup vocals (although there are a couple songs where she takes main)

and max on drums

do they have a specific genre? who tf knows i chose these songs for their lyrics and story but i imagine some would be modified to create a more uniform sound

now for the album in order(please hear me out on some of these):

Dear Reader- Taylor Swift (steves song to dustin)

BNBG- Djo (steve meeting eddie and discovering hes bi)

To Love a Boy- Maya Hawke (robin song!! self explanatory)

Change- Djo (steve reflecting on who he used to be vs who he is now)

Dial Drunk- Noah Kahan (steve gets arrested for xyz and his parents wont answer)

Somebody’s Baby- Sidney Gish (robin song 2!! start of her crush on nancy)

Acolyte- Slaughter Beach, Dog (90% written by steve before eddies death and finished after)

Run the World!!!- Dayglow (written by max! they all call it their fun song but its definitely still more about her ptsd and depression)

Strange Time- Matt Maltese (steve wrote this soon after eddie died)

Coffee- Chappell Roan (duet between steve and robin about their shared ex, nancy. they all ofc still love her and are very close friends but this was written during a rough patch post ronance breakup)

Brother- Fenne Lily (co-written by max and steve about their relationship)

ceilings- Lizzy McAlpine (steve keeps forgetting that eddie has died)

Francesca- Hozier (stobins soulmate song! written by robin because she knows steve feels guilty about dragging her into the upside down but she doesnt regret it because now she has him)

vague storyline is that steve starts getting into music to cope with all of the upside down shit sometime between end of season 1 and season 2. he starts seeing eddie after season 3 and is head over heels for him before eddie (still) dies at the end of season 4 and is (obviously) heartbroken.

after max heals she starts learning the drums to help process emotions better and also around this time robin and nancy start a budding romance. steve learns about max playing the drums and starts having jam sessions w her and later on robin also joins and its just very cathartic for them all. nancy and robin are kinda on again off again until steve and robin write Coffee together which firmly puts them in the past and they remain good friends after. (i love ronance i swear but for whatever reason in this au i just dont see them lasting longterm) (also i feel bad because the story of Coffee feels like it makes out nancy to be a villain and i love her i swear)

after a few years steve, robin, and max decide to start playing local bars and small shows and eventually are discovered and release their first and only album. the album gets wildly popular and they tour for a bit but none of them really wanted fame and decided that they really just preferred making music in their living rooms. they do pop up shows at small venues every now and again and they still consider themselves A Band.

likely they get rediscovered on tik tok or something and everyone is coming up with theories on the story of the album(stupid shit like ‘he said eddie in acolyte right’ ‘no dude he said annie steve isnt gay god some people’ or some weird love triangle involving steve robin and some mystery person) so they all make a video talking about the history of the band and steve comes out and opens up about how some of the songs are about eddies death (which starts another fire once people find out that steves eddie is eddie munson because obviously everyones heard of the hawkins murders at which point steve releases a video basically telling everyone to not talk about shit they know nothing about and to fuck off and leave him alone and after that the band is never heard from online again) happily ever after the end :) i just needed this out of my brain

[parkerbombshell]

Rules Free Radio Sept 17 2024

Tuesdays 2pm - 5pm  EST Rules Free Radio With Steve  Caplan bombshellradio.com On this week's Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan, we'll hear new music from The Armoires, Robyn Hitchcock, James Clark Institute, The Grip Weeds, The Peawees, The New Bardots, Chapel of Roses, Franz Ferdinand, Suburban Key Party, Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men, Cumgirl8, Nilufer Yanya, Mark Rogers, London Grammar, one from an extensive new 8 CD box set by Faces of their BBC performances, and a couple more new ones. Classics and in-betweens by Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac, Hindu Love Gods, The Lemonheads, The Chambers Brothers, Eurythmics, Nina Simone, Otis Redding, Electric Flag, Bill Withers, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Bedouin, and more. In the third hour, we’ll pay tribute to a prolific songwriter, JD Souther. He wrote and co-wrote songs I’m sure you’ll remember. He collaborated with The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, and others including the Souther Hillman Furay band, and he produced some fine albums of his own. We’ll hear a cross-section of his work. The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms James Clark Institute - Black Licorice, Red Lips The Chambers Brothers - Love Is All I Have Hindu Love Gods - Raspberry Beret Robyn Hitchcock - I Can Hear The Grass Grow The Armoires - You Oughta Be Cut In Half The Grip Weeds - Strange Bird The Peawees - She Cries As She Kills Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having An Average Weekend The New Bardots - Athena Chapel of Roses - It's Not Nothing Franz Ferdinand - Audacious Suburban Key Party - Beautiful Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men - Mind Reader Lear Haven - Soulbreaker Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Pt. 1 & 2) Cumgirl8 - Ahhhh!hhhh! (I Don't Wanna Go) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Nilufer Yanya - Ready for Sun (Touch) Bedouin - Rise and Fall London Grammar - LA Nina Simone - I Can't See Nobody Faces - You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It) Otis Redding - Hard To Handle Night Beats - Thank You Electric Flag - Sunny Tindersticks - Don't Walk, Run Bill Withers - Moanin' and Groanin' The Soul of John Black - Scandalous (No. 9) Linda Ronstadt w/ J.D.Souther - Hearts Against The Wind Raul Malo - You're Only Lonely J.D. Souther - New Kid In Town Bruce Springsteen Patti Scialfa - Linda Paloma Linda Ronstadt - Faithless Love The Eagles - The Sad Cafe James Taylor w/ J.D. Souther - Her Town Too Mark Rogers - It's Plain to See (I've Been Blind) Robin Zander - I've Always Got You Souther Hillman Furay Band - Fallin' In Love The Eagles - James Dean J.D. Souther - Dance Real Slow J.D. Souther - This House Read the full article

[corneliafma]

☆ –– +6 wanted connections! theo clark, our joe keery, is looking for their younger sibling, robin to their steve, and fwb. you do not have to contact the player beforehand. johanna torres, our aubrey plaza, is looking for their ex-husband, first love, and best friend. you do not have to contact the player beforehand.

☆ –– theo clark (JOE KEERY) is looking for their ROBIN TO THEIR STEVE. this character should be 26-32, and looks like MAYA HAWKE, MADISON BAILEY, MIDORI FRANCIS,  JONATHAN DAVISS, JEREMY ALLEN WHITE, DYLAN O'BRIEN UTP. they are based on the song LONG LIVE(bandmates too?) or UTP and you DO NOT BUT CAN! have to contact the player (@backtotheo) before applying for this role. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: please put a brief description of the connection here. think coworkers who started at one shitty job together, then ended up working together at various other shitty jobs to the point they had a single resume. best friends. partners in crime. found family.

☆–– theo clark (JOE KEERY) is looking for their YOUNGER SIBLING(S). this character should be 24-29, and looks like DANIELLE CAMPBELL, ELLIOT PAGE LAURA MARANO,  , UTP. they are based on the song NEW ROMANTICS (rival band? hilarious?)/HITS DIFFERENT/WELCOME TO NEW YORK or UTP and you DO NOT BUT CAN! have to contact the player (@backtotheo) before applying for this role. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: theo has two younger siblings. his bio states he fled from home (pittsburgh) to nyc about ~5 years ago. it would be fun if one (or both!) of his younger siblings showed up there too. up to you if they're new in town or have been around a while. i'd imagine they were close at one point, but their dad could be...a handful and their mom passed away and theo hasn't been home much since, so they might have some fences to mend. 

☆–– theo clark (JOE KEERY) is looking for their FWB. this character should be 27-35, and looks like NATALIA DYER, NAOMI SCOTT, VANESSA MORGAN, KATIE STEVENS, MASON GOODING, DYLAN O'BRIEN, MICHAEL TREVINO, UTP. they are based on the song GETAWAY CAR/IS IT OVER NOW/CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS/RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME/LONG LIVE or UTP and you DO NOT BUT CAN! have to contact the player (@backtotheo) before applying for this role. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: just what it says on the tin. friends who hook up. (although it could be fun to have one or both of them have developed some ~feelings~. open to multiple of these as theo is still getting over his ex.

☆ –– jo torres (AUBREY PLAZA) is looking for their (EX)HUSBAND. this character should be 41-50, and looks like CHARLES MICHAEL DAVIS, DIEGO LUNA, HARRY SHUM JR., CHRIS PINE, UTP they are based on the song WELCOME TO NEW YORK/DELICATE/THE LAKES/UTP and you DO NOT BUT CAN! have to contact the player (@untakenroadss) before applying for this role. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: jo and this muse met while jo was a resident physician in california. they share a 12-year-old son together. their marriage was happy if loveless. jo cheated on him with his college roommate...who happened to be a woman. (he was cheating on her, too, but probably only once before it all fell apart). they're separated now. possibly they're in the midst of a fairly messy divorce and custody battle. i wrote that he was a doctor, too, but it's fine if he had a bit of a mid-life crisis and changed careers. jo herself is now teaching at the medical school. i was thinking he comes to new york mostly to spend time with their son but also maybe is relatively new to the city and she's one of the only people he knows so he asks her to dinner and she's weird about it because they're exes but he's fairly relaxed about the whole thing. i honestly think that once they work through their shit they could be good friends and co-parents to jake. also, his family has hated her for years and now has a reason to.

☆ –– jo torres (AUBREY PLAZA) is looking for their FIRST LOVE. this character should be 40-45, and looks like DICHEN LACHMAN, GEMMA CHAN, LUPITA NYONG'O, ANNE HATHAWAY, UTP (BUT JO'S LIKE SUPER GAY, DUDE). they are based on the song 'TIS THE DAM SEASON (B) and UTP and you DO NOT BUT CAN! have to contact the player (@untakenroadss) before applying for this role. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: jo and this muse grew up together. she was probably the first girl jo really liked. they were together for a while, and then they weren't, but every time jo was back in new york, their paths crossed. what that looks like is up to you, but i kind of imagine them as being distant for a few years, then eventually falling in to hooking up whenever jo was in town. they're probably both in the city now. whether that's new for your muse or not is up to you, but jo's marriage crumbled because she cheated on him with another woman (and she has a 12 year old kid) so there is a LOT of room for some ~drama~

☆ –– jo torres (AUBREY PLAZA) is looking for their BEST FRIEND. this character should be 35-45, and looks like ANNA KENDRICK, KRISTEN STEWART, BLAKE LIVELY, UTP. they are based on the song STYLE/IS IT OVER NOW/GLITCH/BAD BLOOD/UTP and you DO NOT BUT CAN! have to contact the player (@untakenroadss) before applying for this role. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: the meredith to jo's cristina. the shauna to her tai. think ride or die friends, the kind who would help you bury a body if you asked them to. wine nights and binge watching and spending too much money and bitching about their exes. also probably get into a LOT of hijinks together. give it all to me.

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Upside Down---MEDUZA, Poppy Baskcomb -23

Gone (Da da Da)---Imanbek, Jay Sean -25

Stereo---SUM SUN, Sly Chance -22

Here We Go Again---Oliver Tree, David Guetta -15

I Feel Love---Freya Ridings -61

Chemical---Post Malone -26

Part Of Me---Cian Ducrot -28

Reborn---SIDEPIECE, *Kyle Walker remix -27

Sweat---ESSEL -84

Just The Kinda Feeling----Yotto, Lost Boy -21

Hungry Heart----Steve Aoki, Galantis, Hayley Kiyoko -32

Something's Coming---Cheat Codes, Lady A -29

Good Time---The Dare -33

Church Outfit---Poppy -34

Heaven---Niall Horan -35

Left & Right---Ownboss, FAST BOY -46

No One Dies From Love---Tove Lo -30

So Many Ways To Get Downtown -- Proxima Parada -36

Begin Again---Jessie Ware -40

<>Hey Little Mama---Margan Evans -(re entry)

Dancing All Alone---Morgan Page, TELYKAST -44

<>Hooked---Sam Short -(re entry)

Everything You Have Done---GENESI, *MEDUZA remix/cut

River---Mylie Cyrus -37

<>This Is What Losing Someone Feels Like---JVKE -(re entry)

Dancing In The Courthouse---Dominic Fike -47

Bright Lights----Kx5 f/ AR/CO -39

Back To You---Bob Moses, Amtrac -41

Say Say Say---Kygo, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney -42

Anyway---Cash Cash, RuthAnne -54

Run A Red Light---Everything But The Girl -99

<>Broken---Isak Danielson, Lost Frequencies -(re entry)

<>Too Many Things---The Linda Lindas -(re entry)

<>Don't Give Up--Zoe Wees (re entry)

<>Change---LAUREL -(re entry)

<>Sleepwalking---Matt Sassari, Goodboys -(re entry)

Psychos---Jenny Lewis -48

It's Euphoric---Georgia -49

Mrs Hollywood---Go Jo -50

Rain On My Mind---Diplo, Paul Cauthen, Sierra Ferrell -62

Revelations---ZHU, Devault, BabyJake -63

Stars---PNAU, Bebe Rexha, Ozuna -66

Voodoo---Gorgan City -68

Dance Around It---Joel Corry, Caity Baser -69

Die For A Night---A R I Z O N A -70

No Sleep---Regard, Ella Henderson -58

Don't Call Me---Slushi, Leah Kate -71

End Of Time---Zara Larson -75

Blood & Sugar---Boys Likes Girls -76

Dressed For A Funeral----Groupthink, Sunday Scaries -77

Won't Forget These Days---Fury In The Slaughterhouse, VIZE -78

What A Life---Dave Aude, Jeffery Jones -79

Gangster---W&W, VINAI -81

You'll Never Walk Alone---Duncan Lawrence -82

All You Need Is Love---Nicky Romero, Jonas Blue, Nico Santos -85

I Just Wanna Know---Katerine Li -86

Back To This---Matt Sassari, Soshy -88

Bleach (Move On)---Cash Cash -88

Just Alone---Heartaahe -91

Welcome To Dinna--Francis Mercier, Black Uhuru -55

Queencard---(G)I-DLE -96

The Throne---DJ Minx -100

Himbo---Curtis Waters -56

***Killer Queen----Robin Schulz, FIL BO RIVA -(new)

***Was I Supposed To Care---Groupthink -(new)

--Sing Hallelujah---Dr Alban (re-current)

<>The One----INJI -(re entry)

<>Puppet On A String---Abe Parker (re entry)

--I'm Not Dead Yet----Mike Posner (re current)

You Were Right---ILLENIUM, Wooli, Grabbitz -67

<>Deju Vu---Abraham Alexander f/ Mavis Staples -(re entry)

***A Year Ago---James Arthur -(new)

Baby Again...----Fred Again..., Skrillex, Four Tet -(re entry)

***Lungs Burn---Little Image -(new)

***Back Around----Tiesto, AR/CO -(new)

***Lipstick Lover---Janelle Monae -(new)

Dancing's Done---Ava Max -43

I Wrote A Song---Mae Muller -45

On & On---Armin Van Buuren -51

[garudabluffs]

Steve Silberman with David Crosby.

San Francisco-based Steve Silberman is many things — among them, an authority on autism, who wrote the best-selling "NeuroTribes." He's also given TED Talks on the subject, as well as a keynote speech at the United Nations. His science writing is included in best-of anthologies and he won a Gold Record for co-producing the Grateful Dead's box set "So Many Roads."

He was also one of the late David Crosby's closest friends — something you'll know if you follow his Twitter feed which has, since the singer died earlier this month, been filled with photographs of the two, including one where the two lean forward, eyes closed, to share a kiss.

Silberman joins Here & Now's Robin Young to remember his close friend and the podcast they produced together.

Episode 4: Time is the Final Currency

January 27, 2020

Freak Flag Flying

Steve (narration): "Thanks for joining me for the end of my wide-ranging conversation with singer-songwriter David Crosby about his career, his inspirations, the challenges he’s faced over 50 years of making some of the most beautiful and original music of our time, what it would take for CSNY to reunite, and the message he’d like to send to future generations."

Steve: And were you all playing in coffeehouses and whatnot?

David: "We were trying to. We were trying to do whatever. But I’m pretty sure it was Kantner who must have done it. The thing about Jerry, which you know, is that there was serious magic there. Garcia was like a consummate musician. He worshipped music. He ate it for breakfast. He rubbed it in his hair. He fucked it. It fucked him. He loved it with his whole entire being. He wanted the music to come out. He knew it was hiding all around him all the time. Wanted to coax it out of the walls, “Come out, music, come and play.” He was a magical cat that way. He was as flawed and normal a human being as everybody else in every other way. Made all the same mistakes. Totally human guy, and I’d seen all of it. But when it came to the music, it was holy, and he was the priest. He was just marvelous that way, with an instinctive, natural bent. If he could touch a guitar, he’d play something, and it would be right. It would be just right as shit. And it would almost always be right as shit, and something you never would have thought of."

David Crosby and Jerry Garcia - Walking in the Mountains - PERRO Sessions 1970/71 https://youtu.be/3QrtLof82qM

the tuning: D G D D A D 1

1 year ago The Wall Song 2 - PERRO Sessions https://youtu.be/ZNiF6IHsJ4U

50 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBF_7_EW70

"There's some nice commentary on this over here in this article, on the 25th anniversary of Garcia's death. Crosby tells the story behind the giggle in the first part of the tune."

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/david-crosby-remembers-jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-anniversary-1234729939/ 7

"there's a cleaner version of this, just search google for 'It Crawled From The Vault #13", or bluoz kids and dogs"

It Crawled From The Vault #13 - Bluoz

https://www.bluoz.com › blog › 2009/05/15 › It-Crawl...

May 15, 2009 — possibly one of the best songs they ever did, and you can't buy it. Tamalpais High (at about 3) aka Kids and Dogs.

[1-800-munson]

The Witch || Eddie Munson

Paring: Eddie Munson X Reader

Request: Eddie x reader, where reader is badass and sarcastic/funny, listens to metal among other stuff, maybe also has powers or is into tarot/magic, college age, super bff with the Hawkins gang (she taught Dustin and Co. some cool D&D strategies), a total hidden nerd but seems more mean or unapproachable. And like one day maybe she goes to the cafeteria because Dustin forgot something and that's how Eddie meets her (he heard a lot about her nevertheless) and she also puts Jason (this f***** idiot) in his place and from then on i guess you can develop, like how they meet again (maybe she watches him when he is on the run and have talks and shit) and he invites her eventually on a date - Anon/ @blue-serendipity

Word Count: 1.8k (I think? all I know I accidentally wrote all of st4)

A/N: Thank you so much @burnthoneydrops, for helping me with the tarot card part!! 

Send in requests!!

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“Dusty! Y/n is here, you’re gonna be late!” Claudia said to Dustin through his closed door, Dustin sighed and told suzie to hurry and try to hack the school site. Once she managed to change his grade in Spanish he quickly ripped his door open and said bye to his mom and grabbed his bag from the couch. You honk your horn again, you sighed and threw your head back onto the headrest, you turned up your car’s stereo and hummed along to metallicas, master of puppets. You perked up when Dustin came running out with a poptart and his school bag in hand.

“About time!” you smiled as he hopped in the car. “Sorry! I was talking to suzie!” he explained as you quickly drove to Hawkins high. “How is she doing?” You were very close to Dustin and the party, you were their original babysitter before Steve had come along. And you had been their very first dungeon master. You considered the kids your own siblings. You had been unsure when Dustin one day showed up with Steve Harrington at his side, you and Steve didn’t expect to get along at first, it all had changed the night of the snowball dance when he had helped Dustin try to get the girl he liked, maybe Steve wasn’t that terrible. Steve had also realized that night you weren’t like him and his old friends had assumed, He was surprised to say the least when one night he had walked into the wheeler’s basement and saw you playing dnd with the kids.

“She’s good!” you both kept talking about her and dustin the whole drive to school. You smiled and turned up the car’s stereo louder as your favorite metallica song came on. “What is this y/n?” Dustin asked you, yelling a bit. “Metallica’s for whom the bell tolls, i love this song!” you tapped your fingers on the steering wheel. “Curb y/n!” he yelled, making you laugh. “I can see it dustin.” you smiled and parked the car.

“Talk to you later y/n! Thanks for the ride!” Dustin quickly collected his things and bolted out your car before you could stop him. You chuckled at him while you slung your bag over your shoulder, before you left your car you grabbed the four brown paper bags from your backseat. “Morning y/n!” You turned your head and saw Steve dropping robin off next to your car. “Morning you two!” You greeted. “Oh Steve, good luck on your date with Heidi.” Steve gave Robin a look that said she remembered and you didn’t!

“Don’t you need to go and open the store?” Steve rolled his eyes and drove off. “Nice band hat!” you laughed and smacked the feathers on robin’s band uniform. “Did you do Mr Miller's homework?” Robin asked you as you walked to your lockers. “Yes, let me guess you forgot?” she nodded at you. “Please let me copy your homework! If you let me, if you ever need a kidney I'll give you mine! Just please let me copy it!” she pleaded as you placed the brown bags into the locker.

“Alright, I’ll let you copy it in second period! But if I need those kidney’s you better not wimp out!” you smiled as robin nodded eagerly. “Alright, now let us go sit through Jason's boring speech about high school basketball!” you both groaned and walked towards the gym. You and Robin split ways, her going with the rest of the band and you walked to the bleachers.

You walked over to Mike, Dustin and max. “It’s just that Suzie's a certified genius!” “you do realize el saved the world twice right?” you smiled at the boy’s conversation “And yet, you still have a C in spanish!” you leaned over to the trio.

“Do I get credit or does it all go to my sister who has powers too?” the trio jumped, apparently none of them noticed you standing right next to them. “El and y/n saved the world twice, my bad.” Mike held his hands up.

You groaned as everyone cheered louder as the basketball team walked out. Yourself, Dustin and Mike lazily clapped for the team. You held back a groan as you watched Max dodge lucas’ wave towards her. “You know I think I can speak for all of us when I say, it’s been a tough year for all of hawkins. So much loss. And sometimes I wonder, how much loss can one community take?”

The gym went quiet. “In dark days like this, we need something to believe in. so last night. When we were down by ten points at half to christian Academy, I looked at my team.” Jason turned to the players he played with the night before. “And I said, think of Melissa, think of heather, think of Billy,” you had a look of disgust on your face. How could Jason use peoples death’s as a high school pep rally speech.

“Think of our heroic chief of police, Jim hopper!” You felt the trio’s eyes on you as Jason brought up your deceased father. “Think about every one of our friends that perished in that mall fire. What did they die for.” you scoffed, that had caught the attention of the people behind you. You looked forward and ignored them.

“For us to lose to some crap school? NO!” the crowd cheered on Jason, “For us to return with our heads hung low in defeat? No! Let’s win this game. Let’s win this game for them, and that’s exactly what we did.” You rolled your eyes. You knew your dad would have cared less about your school’s basketball team winning.

You sighed, thinking his speech was over but was completely wrong. “And that’s what we did! We embarrassed those candy asses in their own house,” you turned to Dustin with a bored expression. “He’s still talking?” you groaned. “And tonight, tonight we’re gonna bring home the championship trophy!” you lazily clapped, “Tonight?!” Mike asked dustin.

“How is that possible?!” Max leaned over to the pair. “It’s called a tournament. You win one game, you go until there’s one team left.” the pair scoffed. Mike stared at Lucas in disgust as he high fived his teammates. You smiled as the teacher’s let everyone go. You waited and walked with robin to your class together.

“How’s your sister doing in california?” Robin asked as you both sat in your seats. “She’s doing good, she’s a little sad since I can't fly with Mike to see her.” you replied while you handed Robin your homework to copy.

“What are you doing this spring break then?” you sighed at her. “I’m gonna work at the police station this break. Turns out my dad’s death can get me more than insurance money!” you smiled, robin’s eyes widened at your words. “It’s a joke robin, you're allowed to laugh.” you both chuckled.

“What are you ever gonna do there?” she asked as she hurried writing down the answers. “I’m gonna be the receptionist and the occasional assistant!” you stated.

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“Are you gonna have lunch with me?” Nancy asked as you unlocked your locker and grabbed the four paper bags. “Yeah, I just have to go give these out!” Nancy giggled at the full bags in your hands. “What’s in those?” she took two from your hand and walked with you to the lunchroom.

“These past weeks i’ve been making max lunches, then Dustin asked for me to make him some and the robin wanted to join in as well.” you explained as you took a bag from her. “Could you take this outside with you, i’ll be out there real quick!” she nodded and walked outside where you and her regularly had lunch.

You walked over to Max, who sat at a table with other loner kids. “Here, Ham sandwich, with no mustard, again my bad, that was Dustin's.” you handed the bag to her, she gave you a nod of appreciation. “Now where’s robin?” you said to yourself as you scammed the room and spotted her eating a school lunch with vickie.

You groaned at her. “Damn it buckley!” you said under your breath. You walked over to Dustin and mike. “Wheeler, Henderson!” you called out for them, you noticed their other friends freeze at your voice.

“Did y/n hopper just yell your names?!” Gareth asked, slightly panicked.

“What did you do to her that she’s calling for you two?” Jeff chimed in. Dustin shrugged and turned to you. “Hey y/n. What’s up?” Eddie watched quietly as you placed down the bags. “Robin isn’t eating the lunch I packed for her, so here’s the turkey sandwich with mustard. For you Dustin and the other is a ham sandwich so you two can fight over it!” you sighed and pointed to each bag.

“Thanks I guess.” you scoffed at mike and smacked the back of his head. “Don’t give me attitude, I'm not steve!” The pair turned to you.

“Now, I'll see you both, I don't know when. Mama bear Steve is picking up your asses after school!” you quickly dropped before walking away from their table. “I don’t want that sandwich anymore.” Mike said to Dustin as the whole table stared at the bag in the center of the table.

“Gareth?” Dustin offered but he shook his head. “I’m good, jeff?” Jeff did the same as gareth.

“I’ll take it henderson!” Dustin smiled and handed Eddie the ham sandwich. “So how exactly do you both know y/n?” he asked as he took a bite. “She was our babysitter and old dungeon master..” the table went quiet before they all laughed at Dustin's words.

“Bullshit, no girl like y/n plays dnd or anything remotely close!” Eddie told the pair as he watched you accidentally bump into jason. “You want something?” The table turned to watch you and jason. “Yeah actually, I want you out my way!” you said with a bored expression. You both glared at each other as you walked past him.

“Yeah, I doubt she plays dnd.” Dustin sighed and unpacked the bag and ate the food. “Speaking of playing, uh, Lucas has to do his thing.” Dustin explained to eddie.

❀❀❀

You sighed as you sat down across from Nancy, under a tree. “So is Jonathan coming down here for spring break?” Nancy went quiet at your question. “Uh, no he’s gonna look after el and will for the break since his mom is working.” she explained, you raised an eyebrow at her. “But Jane said-! Never mind, I'm keeping my mouth shut!” you smiled at her and quickly took a bite of your food. “Are you gonna go see el this break?” she asked, you quickly swallowed your food. “Sadly no, i got a part time job at the police station, turns out i can get more than my dad’s insurance money!” you smiled.

“How are you doing since that happened?” You sighed, everyone would avoid talking about your father’s death around you. “I’m ok, It’s a struggle knowing that my other relative is all the way in cali, but i’m ok..” Nancy rubbed your arm in comfort.

“So when do you start at the police station?” She quickly changed the topic. “I start Tomorrow at six.” you grinned.

The day quickly went by, you smiled as you walked towards your car. You had barely got in when there was tapping on your window, you sighed and turned to see Mike, Erica and dustin. You groaned and rolled down your window. “What do you kids need?” all three looked at each other. “We need you to drive us to hellfire tonight! Please y/n.” Dustin pleaded to you. “Just tonight?” they all nodded at your question. “Fine! But I'm not picking any of you up after!” they nodded and let you drive away from them.

❀❀❀

It was five, The phone hadn’t stopped ringing. You sighed and ran to pick it up. “Hello?” you held the phone between your shoulder and ear as you tied your shoes. “Where are you?” mike asked, making you groan. “I’m going right now!” you groaned and hung up the phone before running to your car.

You picked up Dustin then Mike, Erica had gotten dropped off by her parents. “And why am i taking you two to the school at night, I know you two aren’t gonna watch lucas play tonight.” You asked the pair. “We’re playing dnd- WE COULD’VE ASKED YOU!” Mike realized as you pulled into the school’s parking lot where the three of you spotted Erica waiting.

“Could’ve asked me what?” you question as the pair collected the snacks they were in charge of bringing from your backseat. “We needed a sub tonight, ugh!” Dustin groaned, you laughed at his realization. “We gotta go, bye y/n!” Mike rushed dustin.”Bye you three, oh have a good trip to California mike!” you waved to the trio before they all rushed inside the building.

You went to back out of the parking space but stopped when you saw the notebooks the boys used during dnd. You groaned and turned off your car. You got out and grabbed their notebooks.

“Always forgetting their shit!” you said to yourself as you entered the school. You walked to the clubrooms and quickly spotted hellfire’s. You chuckled to yourself at the hellfire club logo on the door. You knocked on the door. “Who else is coming? I thought Fred was busy with the school’s paper to play tonight?” you heard through the door.

You opened up the door, Eddie turned to the door and was surprised to see you standing there with two notebooks in your hand. “Y/n?” Erica questioned as she watched you walk over to Dustin and mike. “Just here to give you your shit!” you handed the boys their notebooks.

“Now I'll leave you all be!” you walked to the door but was stopped from leaving by eddie asking “You play hopper?” you stopped in your tracks and turned towards eddie. “Why would you like to know?” you placed your hands on your hips as you waited for eddie to reply.

“Henderson let it slip to us that you play, so do you really?” he asked, leaning back into his throne. “Occasionally I do.” you shrugged. You walked closer towards Eddie, he quickly got up from his throne and walked closer as well. “What’s your class and level then?” you both we’re up close to each other. “Mage and i’m a level 16.” you both stared at each other before eddie cracked smiled. “Never thought girls like you would play this sorta stuff.” you stared at eddie “Well i’m full of surprises!”

“Do you mind if I watch you all play?” you asked eddie as you both stared at each other “You can go with mike to get the other chairs.” you nodded and grabbed mike as you two walked to another clubroom to steal the chairs.

“She really does play, damn it!” Jeff cursed and pulled out a ten dollar bill and handed it to gareth. “You two were betting?” Dustin asked the pair as he opened up a pack of gummy fruit.

“Yep!” Eddie leaned over to dustin. “Is she dating that harrington guy, you talk about?” he asked, Dustin turned to eddie with wide eyes. “Her and Steve, no way! She said she sees him like an annoying older brother, and she threatened to use her- I mean she was gonna beat him up the other day so no.” Dustin explained.

Eddie nodded and sat down on his throne and waited for everyone to be ready to start.

❀❀❀

It had been four-ish hours since you walked into their clubroom and stuck around to watch them all play, everyone in a while you would lean and whisper a tip to Erica as she would play.

You chuckled as you watched them all huddle into a circle to discuss their next moves. You and Eddie watched them amused.

You both tried to listen in. you had managed to catch gareth saying something about fleeting which made Dustin call the others pussies. You chuckled. “Gareth’s right, I gotta tell them.” Eddie said quietly to himself, you looked at Eddie and shook your head. You noticed the blank paper on the floor, you picked it up and quickly wrote something down with Eddie's pen.

“If I may inject gentlemen, lady applejack.” They all turned to face eddie. “While I respect the passion, you’d be wise to take Gareth the great’s concern to heart. There is no shame in running. Don’t try to be heroes, not today, k?” You walked behind Eddie, acting like you dropped something and held up the paper that had your writing on it.

‘DON’T LISTEN TO HIM! DON’T DO IT!’ You held up, they each read the paper. Dustin held up his finger towards you both. The group quickly reformed their circle. You folded the paper and stuffed it into your back pocket.

“What should we do?” Gareth asked, “Listen to y/n, she’s won almost every campaign she’s been in.” Dustin told everyone.

“Are you alright?” Eddie asked, turning to see you behind him. “I’m fine, I found my missing bobby pin!” you sat back down, as the other finally decided to do. “Let’s kill this son of a bitch!” you smiled as they listened to you.

“The chances of 20-1!” Jeff explained to Dustin, he held up his finger “Never tell me the odds! Give me the D20.” he titled his head to the side. Eddie smirked and picked up the D20 and tossed it to him.

Dustin took a deep breath in before rolling his dice. You held your breath as the black dice rolled onto the table, you groaned as it landed on a 11. “That’s a miss!” everyone groaned. You handed Erica the dice and whispered a quick good luck. Erica shook the dice in her palms. You sat on the edge of the foldable chair with baited breath as she threw the dice on the table.

Eddie and you both stood up as the dice landed, it was a 20. “Crit hit!” she cheered. You smiled at the group. “That’s why we play!” Erica smiled and posed as Eddie bowed to her. “Told you, she always wins!” Dustin cheered as he hugged you. You chuckled as Erica joined the hug.

“You used your powers didn’t you?” she whispered, making Dustin look at you with wide eyes. You laughed at the two of them “Nope, that was just your pure luck!” you smirked as she let go of you. As she walked to get her notebook, she looked up at you and you acted like you were wiping your nose.

You chuckled at her face. “I assume I'm taking you three home huh? Since mama steve is trying to find you guys a stepmom.” you laughed as you followed the hellfire member’s out of the school. “I’m sitting in the front seat!” Erica told Mike and Dustin as they walked towards your car.

“Hey dustin.” he turned to you. “What?” you looked over and watched Eddie wave to the other members as they got into their car and left. “Is Eddie dating anyone?” Dustin looked at Eddie then back to you. “Don’t do it y/n! He’s my friend!” he pleaded as he got into the backseat with mike. You sighed and watched as Chrissy Cunningham skipped over to Eddie's van and quickly got in after greeting him. “Well, that answers that question..” you groaned as you opened your door.

You had completed your first few official work days, you were finally granted four days off. You had just gotten home when you heard urgent knocking on your front door.

You groaned as you walked over and answered the door. “Wanna go grocery shopping?” Dustin smiled at you. You stared at Dustin for a moment. “I’m gonna snap one day henderson.” you told him as you grabbed the jacket you threw onto your couch. “Great, let's hope it’s not today!” he told you as you both walked to Steve's car. “Hey y/n!” you greeted robin back as you hopped in the backseat with max and dustin.

“So why are we all shopping as a group?” you asked as Steve pulled up to the small grocery store. “We need to get stuff for eddie..” Dustin said quietly as you all got out and walked into the store. “And why can’t he get them himself?” you were pulled by dustin, who explained the whole incident in a hushed voice.

“So eddie’s officially on the run because he might’ve been blamed for his girlfriend’s murder? Wow, that relationship turned toxic quick.” you said to yourself as you pushed around the shopping cart. “Ooh, yoohoos!” you placed a case into the cart. “He didn’t ask for them y/n, put ‘em back.” you looked at steve offended. “You can boss the kids around but watch it with me!” you pointed your finger at him. “Plus who doesn’t like yoohoos? If he doesn’t then i’ll know if he killed chrissy or not” you told him as you placed another 4 pack into the cart “Aren’t you lactose intolerant?” “...No, I just get stomach cramps after I have milk, cheese and eggs.” Steve stared at you. “You're lactose intolerant!” you rolled your eyes and quickly pushed the cart away from steve.

You sighed as you carried four bags in each hand to the boat house, where Eddie was. Dustin kicked the door open with his foot. “Jesus christ!” he groaned. “Delivery service!” Dustin told him. Eddie sighs in relief “Oh and y/n’s here too.” You tried to pop out from behind Steve's frame and attempted to wave at Eddie, Steve doing the same.

“What is she doing here?” Eddie asked as he went back to sitting in the boat, you all sat around him on the deck. “She’s on your side eddie.” Dustin calmed him with those words. “Well I'm not sure, do you like yoohoos?” you asked him as you pulled out a case. He nodded at you. “Alright, I'm on your side!” you smiled and pulled out two bottles and hand eddie one.

“So we got uh, good news and bad news, how do you prefer?” Dustin asked Eddie as he ate honeycomb before taking a swig of the yoohoo. “Bad news first, always!” Dustin nodded. “We tapped into the Hawkins pd dispatch with our cerebro, and they're definitely looking for you. Also they’re uh pretty convinced you killed chrissy.” Eddie looked at Dustin with wide eyes.

“Like, 100% convinced.” Max chimed in. “And the good news?” “Your name hasn’t gone public yet, but if we found out about you, it’s only a matter of time before the others do too, and once that gets out everyone and their shallow minded mothers will be gunning for you.” Robin told him.  “Hunt the freak, right?” He looked at everyone. “Exactly.” he sighs “Shit.” Dustin sat up. “So before that happens, all we need to do is find vecna, kill him and prove your innocence.” Eddie stared at dustin. “That’s all Dustin, that’s all really?” Dustin nodded at him. “Yeah, that’s pretty much it.” “Listen Eddie, I know everything Dustin's saying sounds totally delusional. But we’ve actually been through this kinda thing before. I mean they had a few times, and I have once.” Eddie turned to you and Steve, which Steve nodded at Robin's words while you drank the milk.

“Mine was more flesh based, and theirs was more smoke related, but bottom line is, collectively, I feel we got this.” Robin smiled at him. “You see, we normally rely on this girl who has super powers. But those went bye-bye so- OW!” Steve held his arm as you punched him. “Screw you.” you told him with a blank face. “I literally get no credit.” You groaned out and threw yourself back onto the deck floor. “We usually rely on y/n and her sister who have powers-” Steve jerked away from you. “But her sister lost hers and y/n has her powers still but uh there not very helpful.” you propped yourself up on your elbows and stared at steve.

“Dustin, you’re safe today, I'm gonna get steve.” you threatened as you got up and chased steve around. “We’re technically in a brainstorming phase.” Max told him. “There’s nothing to worry about.” Steve scoffed and nodded in agreement.

“So Hopper has powers?” Eddie asked with wide eyes. “Yep!” you replied as you tried to get steve. “What are they exactly?” you sighed and stopped following steve. “Well, I can move stuff, I could tell when my sister would try to find someone by using her powers and uh I can make people see shit that’s not really there-!” you smiled at your words. “What?” Steve asked as you smiled at him. “I can make people believe something’s there, we can defeat venca and i can make the police and everyone think someone else did the murder! That’s it!” you explained with a smile on your face. Eddie stared at you with wide eyes.

You all panicked when you heard sirens. “Shit!” Steve said as he looked towards the windows. “Tarp!” Robin told you and Eddie, you both quickly tossed it onto his body. Once he was covered you and the others ran to the windows and watched as the cars drove past the house. “Where do you think they’re going?” Robin asked out loud. “With that many cop cars, I'd assume vecna took another victim.” you told the others quietly as you watched more police cars drive past. “C’mon!” Steve said as he grabbed his car keys. You went to follow but stopped when Steve pointed at you. “Not you! You can stay and keep Eddie company.” You looked at Steve with an upset expression. “I told you earlier you can boss around the kids but not me!” you went to walk past steve but he nudged you back.

“Keep Eddie company and make sure no one comes here.” you groaned as Steve closed the boat house door. “Am I that bad?” Eddie asked as he laid in the boat with the tarp covering his legs. You sighed and walked back over. “No, I'm sorry.” you apologized and sat down on the deck, your feet in the boat. “What have you been doing to keep yourself busy while staying here?” you asked as you looked around the house. “I’ve been throwing paper into those old paint buckets.” he shrugged, now sitting up and looking at you.

It had been about two or three hours since the others left you and Eddie in the boat house. You two had been sitting in silence most of the time.

You sighed and put your hands in your jacket pockets, you smiled as you pulled out your deck of tarot cards you had stuffed into the jacket. “What are those?” he pointed to the deck of tarot cards. “Oh these are tarot cards.” you smiled and placed. You picked up the deck of cards. “Want a love reading?” you asked him. “Um, sure.” you smiled and helped him out of the boat and onto the deck. You both sat across from each other. You started to shuffle the deck. Eddie watched as you let the cards fall out of the deck “Are you gonna get those?” he asked you with a confused face.

“You can leave it!” you told him as the last card finally fell out. You smiled and collected the cards and laid them in between you and eddie. “Alright the first card is..the sun, this a good card, it’s about growth and good change. Like things are about to improve, that sorta thing!” Eddie nodded as you flipped the card rightside up. “Next, you got the two of cups, this one is about harmony and partnership. Balance between two opposing forces that whole deal.” you explained to him. As you flipped the card over.

“And the last one is the lovers card, which is about unity and harmony; follow your heart’s desire.” you smiled at him as he took in the reading. “And you got that all from those cards? That’s cool!” Eddie smiled back. “I know right! Jason and his idiot friends call me a witch for being into this kind of stuff. But Screw them and their shallow minded families.” Eddie smiled wider as he watched you rant about jason. “I’m sorry your girlfriend died.” you told him, which made eddie tilt his head at you.

“You know chrissy?” Eddie's eyes widened and he started to shake his head at you. “Oh no, we weren’t dating! She was dating jason.” he explained, which made your eyes widen. “Oh!” before either of you could say anything else you both turned to the walkie talkie, you had placed into the grocery bags. “Dustin! Do you copy?” Robin asked. “Yeah I copy.” he said out of breath.

“So, Nancy’s a genius! Vecna’s first victims date back all the way to 1959 Her shot in the dark was a bull’s-eye!” you and eddie were confused, since when did nancy join robin? “Ok, that's totally bonkers, but I can't really talk right now.” he said, still out of breath. “Wait what are you doing?” you and Eddie scooted closer to the walkie talkie. “Breaking and entering into the school, to retrieve confidential and extremely personal files.” you and Eddie look at each other with wide eyes. “They're doing what?!” “Can you repeat that?” Robin asked in shock.

“Just get your ass over here. Stat.” Dustin ordered. “Wait where’s y/n?” Robin asked. “I don’t know probably making out with eddie, she has a-!” You quickly grabbed the walkie talkie and screeched into it “Shut it henderson! WE have a walkie talkie as well!” you screeched into it. “Sorry! Sorry! I didn’t mean too!” He apologized. “You have a what?” Eddie asked with a smirk on his face. “Nothing, he’s just talk shit, like usual.” you flashed him a smile before walking over to the boat.

Somehow Steve and the others had forgotten to pick you up from the boat house. Leaving you no choice but to sleep in the boat house with eddie. You two decided to sleep on opposite ends of the boat but you both somehow ended up spooning.

You and Eddie woke up around the same time. You both had eaten most of the grocery and both woke up hungry, Eddie somehow managed to convince you into going inside reefer rick’s house.

You both searched the cabinets and pantry, trying to find any kind of food. “Nope!” “Nothing!” you groaned from the pantry. You turned as you heard Eddie snort. “Yeah, you’ll do.” you walked out and saw eddie getting a pot for spaghetti-O’s you laughed and walked up to him “What you don’t like these?” you asked as you opened up the can and poured it into the pot. “Not really.” he told you, you scoffed and turned to him. “Maybe you are a psycho. Who doesn’t like spaghetti-O's?!” you asked as you stirred them. “Oh, get me the other can!” he sighed and handed it to you.

After you had placed the food into bowls you quickly rushed to the bathroom due to an unexpected visit. “Hey Dustin, this is Eddie the banished. You there?” he said to the walkie talkie. “Dustin, can you hear me?” “Dustin?” you grabbed it from his hands and spoke into it “Earth to dustin.” Eddie sighed as he waited. “Hey, it’s nancy.” you groaned as you fixed your pants as you walked over to eddie.

“Wheeler, Hey! Me and y/n are gonna me food delivery very soon.” you grabbed the walkie talkie from his hands. “I need an extra special delivery nance! Very soon, unless you want me bleeding all over the deck floor!” you told her, which made eddie look at you with wide eyes. “No, no, no don’t do that we’ll bring you guys stuff. We’ll be there as soon as we can.” eddie quickly leaned over your shoulder to talk “yeah, yeah, yeah, listen could you pick me up a six pack? I know its stupid as shit to be drinking right now but a cold beer would really calm my jangled nerves.” nancy stayed quiet for a second. “Sure…wait y/n why are you with eddie?” you groaned.

“Oh because my lovely friends left me here overnight!” She stayed quiet for a second. “Uh, I'll call you back in a second.” “wait nance don’t you dare-!” it was too late she had left.

A Couple Of Hours Later

You both knelt down when you heard a car pull up, eddie turned and peaked out the window. “Shit, shit, shit!” he turned to you as he recognized who it was. “What?” you whispered. He said nothing and rushed to the other window. “What?” he turned to you for a second. “Jason and his friends!” your eyes widen. Eddie grabbed the walkie talkie and tried to get a hold of Dustin or the others.

An hour had gone by and Jason and his goons were still there. “Dustin, Please are you there?...Never mind!” you looked at him confused, he held out his hand. “Ladies first!” you looked at him confused as you got into the boat.

“I wish I didn’t skip gym!” you said as you helped eddie row the boat to the middle of the lake. “HEY FREAK!” you and Eddie turned and saw Jason and one of his buddy’s. “He’s talking to you. Not me!” you told him as you continued rowing. “WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR GOING?!” “Shit.” Eddie looked at you for a moment before he started rowing. Eddie tried to start up the motor but it failed on you two.

You started to try and row faster as you saw Jason get into the water. “Forget it edward!” you told him as you paddled. “Shit, shit, shit!” Eddie cussed as they swam right behind the boat. You started swinging the paddle at Jason to keep him and his friend away. “Hey c’mon let's go, we almost have him! Patrick.” Jason told his friend, who looked frightened. Before you knew it his friend went under water for a minute before popping back in the air. You and Eddie fell out of the boat and into the water in shock at his friend’s body.

Jason was to distracted with his friend being dead that he didn’t notice in the moment you swam away with eddie. Andy had called the police and waited in the front of the house while Jason was in the backyard with Patrick's body.

The next morning you and Eddie had found a construction site. Eddie had the idea to wait and steal a walkie talkie from one of them, luckily one of them had to use the restroom so they took off their toolbelt, when one was looking Eddie grabbed it from the belt and made a run for it, you, following shortly behind him.

You two had somehow made it to skull rock. You chuckled as you both sat down on the ground to take a breather. Eddie tried to get ahold of Dustin and the others “Dustin, can you hear me? Wheeler?” Eddie spoke into the walkie talkie, you crossed your fingers in hopes of them finally answering you two.

“Eddie, holy shit, are you guys ok?” Eddie curled his finger before he rubbed his eyes and sighed. “Nah man. Me and y/n pretty damn far from okay.” you sighed and leaned your head against the rock. “Where are you guys?” Dustin asked. “Uh, skull rock you know it?” he asked Dustin, “Steve does!” you chuckled to yourself. “Uh, yeah that’s near, Cornwallis and uh-!” “yeah, I know where it is.” Steve could be heard in the back.

“Hold tight, we’re coming. We’re coming!” you and Eddie sighed at his words. “I’ve seen some fucked up shit but that! Was a whole new level of fucked up!” you confessed to Eddie as you both leaned against the rocks. You both stayed quiet for a bit before he broke the silence. “You’re not like how everyone claims you to be, you know y/n?” you looked at him confused. “What like a witch?” you smirked.

“No, everyone claimed you were this mean, bitchy and unapproachable girl, but you're just a big secret nerd on the inside!” you both smiled at his words. “Well, you’re also not how i expected you to be either, i thought you were this weird, mean dungeon master, but you’re very fluffy yourself!” Eddie chuckled, “You got the weird part right.” you laughed and got up and walked around the rock.

“If we make it out of this weird situation, do you think we could uh, never mind.” you turned to eddie. “If we could, what?” he shook his head at you. “It’s nothing, it’s stupid.” you walked over and sat next to him. “Tell me please” He opened his mouth to talk but quickly closed it and dragged you behind a rock to hide as you both heard footsteps coming closer to you two. “Bada bing, bada boom. There she is, Henderson,” Steve held back a bush and went through, the others following.

“Skull rock, in your face man. In your stupid, cocky little face.” Dustin looked at his compass confused. “Doesn’t make sense.” “Yeah, yeah, even with it staring at you in  the face you can’t admit it. You can’t admit it, you can’t admit that you were wrong, you butthead .” Steve said with his hands on his hips, in full mom mode now. Eddie jumped down from the rock he hid behind, scaring dustin.

“I can concur, you Dustin Henderson are a total butthead.” He sighs as he pulls up his pants a bit. You sighed and went to crawl off the rock, you had no clue how Eddie decided to jump off of it. “Jesus, we thought you guys were goners.” Dustin told you and Eddie as he walked over to hug eddie. “Yeah, me too man.” Eddie confessed as he hugged Dustin back awkwardly. Steve ran over and helped you climb down from the rock and onto the ground. Eddie and Steve had a quiet stare off for a moment before the others came walking up.

You sat next to Eddie who drank out of a flask. “When we swam to shore, I tried to call you guys but uh-!” He took another swig. “Our walkie was busted, drenched so we pulled an eddie and uh ran.” you explained, eddie looked at you slightly offended. “Do you know what time the attack happened?” Nancy asked you both. “Yeah, I know exactly what time it was, our walkie wasn’t the only thing that got soaked.” he tossed Nancy his watch. “9:27!” Robin nodded. “The same time our flashlights went kablooey.” you watched as Dustin kept pacing “Which means, what exactly?” “That the surge of energy was venca attacking patrick.” Nancy tossed Eddie his watch back.

“Now we need to go to the upside down and drive a stake into his heart.” Max sighed “Why a stake? Is he like a vampire? Is he a vamp?” Steve asked, confused. “It’s a metaphor.” you explained. “A bullet should work on him, right?” Eddie asked out loud. “I say we chop his head off!” you looked at lucas with wide eyes. “I would say all of the above but we can’t do any of that til we find a way to the upside down.” “We need El to get her powers back.” Max sighed.

“Everything was way easier when we had this girl, she had super powers.” You looked at Max and Steve offended, You stood up. “Screw you! Damn you want a gate try the murder spots...” you groaned out. “Hey uh, henderson isn’t cursed is he?” Eddie asked as he noticed Dustin pacing around. “Cursed, no he’s fine, mental..absolutely!” “BOOM!” you all looked at dustin, confused. “Bada, bada, boom! I was right! Skull rock is north.” Steve looked at Dustin “Seriously? You’re serious?” “mmhmm!” Steve crossed his arms. “This is skull rock. Okay? You’re totally, absolutely, 100% wrong, right now!” Dustin nodded at him. “Yes and no.” Steve groaned and ran his hands through his hair in frustration.

“Oh my god!” he said quietly. “The compass worked correctly when we left the wheeler’s, it was working on curly but it started to slip the further east we went. Now it’s way off.” Everyone looked at each other confused. “When I was leading us here, I wasn't wrong. The compass was!” “So you’re using faulty equipment! You’re still wrong!” Steve sighed. “Except it isn’t faulty. Lucas, do you remember what can affect a compass?” Lucas itched the back of his head. “An electromagnetic field!” “Yep!”

Dustin smiled at steve. “I’m sorry I must've skipped that class?” Robin told him. “In the presence of a stronger electromagnetic field, the needle will reflect towards that power. So either there’s a giant magnet around here or…” “There’s a gate!” “But we’re nowhere near a lab?” Nancy said out loud. “But what if there’s other gates, smaller, less powerful” “A snack size gate?” “exactly!” “But how, why?” Steve asked dustin. “No idea but all i know is that something is causing this disturbance, and last time we saw something like this it was a gate.”

You looked at everyone with wide eyes before groaning. “Why does no one listen to me! I might join vecna’s team at this point! At least then he might listen to my ideas!” you sighed at them. You stood up and made your way to where they all came through. “Hey! Where do you think you’re going? Eddie’s still a wanted man, we can’t exactly walk through the woods!” you rolled your eyes at steve. “Oh my god steve, there’s a spider on your head!” you squealed, making him and the others panic. “Kill it!” he screamed as nancy ‘’picked it off’’ his head.

You watched them with a smirk as you made the group hallucinate, killing the spider. “Oh god..” Steve sighed and looked up at your smirking face. “What?” “There was nothing there dingus.” Eddie looked at you with wide eyes. “Why does everyone forget I have powers too, good ones at that!” you muttered under your breath as they all looked at you. “C’mon before I actually decide to join team vecna!” You yelled at the group. You stopped and waited for eddie. Who went to grab his flask and walkie talkie.

It had been about 2-ish hours when dutsin finally found the lake. You groaned as he led you all to where Patrick had died. He would’ve walked right into the water if Eddie hadn’t pulled him back a bit. “Oh man, you gotta be shitting me!”

Steve said out of breath. “Call it!” you yelled and smiled as you were right about the murder spots being portals. “I thought these woods were familiar.” Eddie replied. “Lover’s lake..” robin sighed. “My house is over there then what the fuck?! I’ve been near Eddie this whole damn time!” you muttered.

“There’s a gate in lover’s lake?” Max asked, confused as everyone stared at the water before them. “Patrick died here so I assume so” you shrugged. “Only one way to find out.” you and Eddie looked over and saw a boat. You both walked over and yanked the tarp off. You coughed as dusk flew off of the tarp. “It’s in my lungs!” you dry coughed. Eddie smiled and patted your back as you coughed it out.

Steve and Eddie placed the boat into the lake. “Easy, I said, easy man!” Steve bossed Eddie as they held it down. “Sorry dude.” Eddie apologized as robin used his and steve’s head to help stabilize herself into the boat. “That’ll work too I guess.” Steve said quietly. Eddie quickly got in and held his hand out to help Nancy in. Dustin went to walk onto the boat but Eddie pushed him back. “Are you trying to sink us?” You held back a laugh at his words. “This thing holds three people tops, okay?”

Dustin stared at Eddie with an offended expression. “It’s better this way! You look after Max and keep an eye out for trouble.” Dustin scoffed. “You keep an eye out! It’s my theory!” you groaned. “You heard nance!” Robin chimed in “Who put her in charge?” “I did.” you giggled “Compass.” Nancy held her hand out to Dustin, who groaned before reluctantly handing it over.

“Here y/n!” Steve tossed you the backpack. You groaned at the weight. “Where are you going harrington?!” he smirked, he quickly pushed the boat a bit before getting in. “You asshole! You said three!” you groaned at steve. “Sorry,” he whispered. You rolled your eyes before you walked over to the rocks where Max and Lucas sat, waiting.

“Bedtime at nine kiddos!” you and Dustin flipped off the others as they paddled away. “Miss you already!” Robin waved.

“I don’t regret making Steve believe he had a spider in his hair anymore.” you told the other as you all watched them paddle to the middle of the lake. Lucas and Dustin took turns looking through a pair of binoculars. “Wait, wait they’re stopping!” Lucas told dustin. “Why are they stopping?” he questioned, squinting his eyes trying to see what they were doing.

Dustin picked up the walkie talkie. “Guys what’s going on?” Silence is what Dustin was met with. “C’mon talk to me guys, what’s going on?” you and max watched as the pair got robin to answer. “Uh, dustin your compass has gone from wonky to wonky with a capital aah!” you raised an eyebrow at her words.

“Ugh, when did Steve get so hairy!” Lucas shuttered, “Right! I keep telling him he needs to tame that jungle but he claims that the ladies dig it.” you quickly got up with max and walked over to the boys. “Let me see.” Max grabbed the binoculars from Lucas and stared right a steve. For about thirty seconds she stared at him uninterrupted, Lucas, Dustin and yourself all looked at each other in shock. “Y/n don’t be shocked! You’d do the same if it was eddie!” Dustin smacked your arm as you watched Max stare at him. You turned your head as you heard a snicker come from the walkie in Dustin's hand.

You smacked his arm and grabbed it from his hands. “Shut up dustin! He heard you!” you fell onto the rocks and held your head as Eddie tried his best to peek at you from the boat. “You guys realize if there’s a gate down there it’s a watergate.” Dustin laughed at his own words. Lucas and Max just stared at him blankly “I’m so hungry, I thought you were talking about watergate salad right now..” you confessed.

A minute had gone by, you snapped your head as you heard footsteps and police walkies. You panicked and shoved Dustin “What y/n! No, Eddie isn’t shirtless!” he groaned. “Police!” you pointed behind you. They noticed the flashlights and quickly ran into the woods.

“Stay with me!” Max told you, Lucas and Dustin before she stood up from behind the log you all were hiding from.

“Hey officers over here! I found the killer!” Max yelled out, making your eyes widen at her. “Shit!” “Go!” Dustin and Lucas ran behind you and max. Dustin tripped and was caught by a police officer. You three stopped and were also caught along with dustin.

They had dragged you all to the wheeler’s house where the kids' parents were. “What exactly were you all doing at the lake?” powell asked your four, the kids all sat on the couch, you stood behind them. “We were umm…” they all looked at each other. “We were going for a walk powell.” you told him with a straight face. “A walk at 9 pm?” Callahan asked you clearly not buying it. “To the lake..we were gonna take a swim..” Dustin squeaked out. “Dusty, Someone was just murdered there!” Ms Henderson told him, close to crying. “Yeah, we didn’t know till we got there..”

“That’s why we didn’t swim!” Lucas chimed in. You scoffed as callahan eyed you suspiciously. “And was Nancy with you at this late night swim?” Mrs Wheeler asked you four, you all stared at each other before answering all at once. “No.” “yes!” “nope!” “yeah she was there!” you all looked at each other with wide eyes, “She was there but she needed to leave mrs wheeler.” you explained politely.

“It’s all a little confusing.” “And that’s when you guys came!” you nodded at lucas. “Yeah, and they dared me to say what I said…about the killer,” Dustin and Lucas chuckled, while you let out a sigh. “Have any of you had contact with eddie?” powell asked looking at you four, “that psycho…killer freak?! God no.” Dustin squeezed the pillow he held.

“Nope, absolutely not.” “No, never heard of him..” you held back a groan at the kid's answers. “That’s a bunch of bull.” Erica said, stepping forward. Her and lucas’ parents scolded her “I mean, you realize they’re lying to you! The whole couch is on fire.” she replied sassily.

“Are you lying to these policemen, dusty?” you felt bad for lying to Ms Henderson. “No, he would never miss henderson!” you replied before Dustin would give himself away. The parents started to argue over Mr Wheeler's comment. “Shut up!” Powell yelled over everyone, causing them to lower their voices. “We’re gonna try a more civilized approach. One at a time.” He announced, everyone nodded at his words.

“You two first!” You pointed at yourself and max as Powell stared at you. “Why me! I’m not even in hellfire!” Max groaned and followed two other officers to a different room. “Why me! I don’t even know Eddie like that!” It was somewhat a lie, you and Eddie had got to know each other very well in the past two days of being on the run with him. “Follow me.” powell walked out of the room, you scoffed at him. “Do I need to cuff you?” you stuck your hands out at callahan. “Could you blindfold me as well?!” you told him snarkily before you walked into a spare room the wheeler’s had, callahan following behind you.

You sighed as you sat down on the bench at the end of the bed. “Ms hopper, jason accused you of being at a murder sight of another student, if tell us now and you won’t be in that much trouble.” Powell calmly explained to you. You sighed and looked at the pair “You’d take Jason's word over mine!” you placed your hand over your heart, acting offended. The pair groaned as they tried to get you to open up.

“You think I'd help that- that satanic son of a bitch?!” you told the pair as you paced around the room. “I told you already I was at my house when the others came and asked if I wanted to go for a swim. If you need certain details of what I was doing then I was putting away my dead father’s clothes!” you had participated in the drama club so you really weren’t a stranger to crying on queue. The pair panicked and ended their investigation with you and went out to tell the adults. You sighed and wiped away your fake tears.

“So anything from either of them?” Mrs Wheeler asked as Max put her headphones back on. You sighed and noticed Dustin waving you and max over, you elbowed her and nodded your head towards Dustin's. You both looked at the adults before walking over to him. “Miss Mayfield and Mrs hopper's stories make sense, they really went for a night swim.” Powell explained as he looked at the notes from Max's investigation.

“Honestly I shouldn't have gone with Hopper first, she’s a cryer and kinda mean.” Callahan added. The parents nodded. “We’ll find your daughter Mrs Wheeler, don’t worry.” “I just know one of these little brats is gonna squeal, I just know it! Where are they?” Callhan asked another officer. “Upstairs, moping.” Callahan nodded and walked upstairs to Nancy's bedroom. He could hear whispering.

“Let officer callahan in..” he waited a minute before opening the door, he looked around and saw the open bedroom window and ran over.

“I’m gonna break my fucking ankles if I fall, henderson!” You whisper yelled to Dustin as you tied up the old skates Nancy had in her closet, “Not my fault you don’t know how to ride a bike y/n!” he sassed at you as he tied a rope for you to his bike.

“Hey! Excuse me, Get back here!” You all jumped, you sighed and picked up the pocket knife from your pockets and looked back up at Callahan, “Sorry phil!” you told the man before slashing the police car tires and skated towards Dustin's bike. “GO!” you told the teen as you held tightly to the rope. The parents had heard the yelling and ran outside but it was too late, you all were riding/skating away from the house.

You all had made it to Eddie and Max's trailer park. You all rushed inside. “Ugh, why does it look like that?! It looked like a 13 year old’s acne” You groaned as you looked up and saw the portal. “Get me something sharp!” you looked around and spotted an old broom against the wall. You quickly grabbed it and started stabbing it through the ceiling.

“Eww, it crunched! It’s a crunchy pimple” you squealed and shoved the broom through. Goo fell onto the other side. “Gross it was like a pimple, ugh!” you gagged and tossed the broom through. “No way.” You all could hear steve. Dustin laughed as he looked at the others through the ceiling. “Hi there!” you all waved. Everyone laughed in shock of your theory being right about murder spots being portal’s.

“Holy shit, this is trippy.” you nodded at robin’s words. “Let's get sheets and something soft for their landing!” you order the kids around. Lucas and Dustin tied sheets and blankets together while you, Erica and Max went into Eddie's room and got his mattress.

“IS THAT AN ALF COSTUME!” You laughed hard as you saw Eddie's closet wide open. “More importantly is that what I think it is?” Max pointed to the pack of trojans on his nightstand. Your eyes widen at them. You kept bursting into giggles as you stared at the pack of condoms then towards his bed that had random stains.

“Lucas! You help them, I'll help dustin!” you giggled as you walked out of eddie’s room. You noticed when Max and Lucas pushed Eddie's mattress out, Max was barely touching it.

“Those stains are uhh, i don’t know what those stains are…” you laughed as you finished tying the sheets and blankets together. You handed dustin the pile of tied fabric. “I don’t know how these psychics work but uh, here goes nothing!” he threw the sheets up into the portal, the others let it pile onto the floor. Dustin sighed and let go of the sheets. You all clapped as it stayed still with their weight on it.

“Guess I'm a guinea pig!” Robin told Nancy and the boys as she climbed the makeshift rope. “Oh thank god.” she sighed out as she sat up on the mattress. Nancy, Steve and Eddie stared at each other before Eddie spoke up, “Alright I guess I'll go!” he sighed and hopped onto the rope and climbed through. “That was fun!” He grabbed Dustin's hand and got up from the mattress. “See you on the other side.” Steve told Nancy who chuckled “See you on the other side.” She hopped onto the rope and climbed through. You smiled and went to turn to Eddie but froze as you saw a burnt version of your father and a bruised El, 

Will had written to you and told you she had bullies at their school, you had always stuck on your mind.

“E-el?” You stuttered out, frightened by the sight. “It was your fault I lost my powers y/n!” el said as she held her bloody, broken arm. You took deep breaths and tried to remind yourself it was just vecna trying to get to you. “No it wasn’t jane!” You told the girl and you looked around and tried to leave the cabin that was destroyed. Once you exited you saw what you assumed to be vecna’s lair or his home. You walked down the steps and jumped as you heard a clock chime behind you.

“You and your friends were so close to finding out the truth about me!” you jumped and turned behind you, looking for where the voice had come from. “Tell me how is eleven?” you tried to ignore his voice and kept looking around “I’ve been meaning to check on her but as you can tell i’ve been busy!” You jumped back as you saw the mutilated bodies of chrissy cunningham, fred benson and patrick mckinney. You looked around and noticed a door with a rose on it.

You watched as Vecna showed you his life growing up with his powers. “Me and you are alike y/n, i didn’t fit in with the other children either. Something was wrong with me, all my doctors and teachers told my parents I was broken like yours.” You watched a younger venca sadly at his new house. “My parents decided a fresh start in Hawkins would cure me, you understand that pain don’t you y/n?” you sighed as you remember after your mother had left you and your dad, he had moved on and married another woman named Diane, they had a daughter together, but sadly she soon left him after Sara had passed away due to cancer. Your dad had enough and moved you two back to Hawkins, Indiana for a new sour start.

“As if the world would be different there right?” you nodded your head and listened to venca as he showed you more memories. He explained his home had come with a nest of black widows in the vents and how he loved them, since they were similar to him.

“Deeply misunderstood. Like us y/n.” you watched the surroundings change into the attic of the creel house, where young venca had a small shrine towards the spiders. It all changed quickly, you were now outside where you witnessed him kill poor rabbits just like he had killed the other students.

You couldn’t stand it and ran inside the house where you heard vecna once more. “My parents had done terrible things y/n” you looked around as you heard a baby crying. “I showed them who they really were. I held up a mirror to them. My naive father thought it was a demon, cursing them for their sins.” You watched the memories he showed around you. “Our mother’s were alike, they both despised us for our powers, my mother knew I was holding up that mirror, she called a doctor, an expert. She wanted to have me locked away, to fix me. Just like yours tried y/n.” you were surprised when he showed you your own memory. 

You watched as little you had heard yelling from the living room, so of course hid behind the stair railing and listened to your parents bicker.

“She needs to be sent away jim! She gave two kids broken noses at her school after they stole her toy! That doesn’t sound like a NORMAL six year old to me jim!” you felt tears build up as you watched younger you hold back tears as well as she listened to your mother talk about you as if you weren’t her own daughter.

“You are not sending her away y/m/n! I won’t let you!” your father stood up from his spot on the couch. “Well then I'm leaving you with that vicious demon I called a daughter!” you counted down the second and on queue she slammed the front door and never came back. You blinked and you were back to venca’s memories. “She left me with no choice.” you watched as younger vecna used his powers to kill his own mother. 

“With each life I took, I grew stronger, more powerful.” you watched as his father took him and his sister away from their mother’s corpse. “They were becoming a part of me. But I was just a child, and I did not know my limits yet. And it nearly killed me.” you watched as he tried to kill his father as well but failed due to him passing out.

You watched as the police held his father up against a wall and arrested him. “He was arrested, blamed for the death of my sister and mother, just as I planned.” you sighed as you watched the police take away his father. “But I was far from free, I woke up from a coma only to find myself placed in the care of a doctor, the very doctor I hoped to escape. Dr martin brenner.” you watched as a young brenner walked into the room. 

“But the truth is he did not just want to study me. He wanted more, he wanted more control. When papa realized he couldn’t control me, he tried to recreate me.” you watched as Brenner tattooed 001 onto his wrist. “He began a program. And soon, others were born, you were born. And I'm so glad you were y/n!” you shivered as a younger, human version of himself walked closer to you and cradled you in his arms.

“I was glad your own sister was born until she betrayed me and sent me away!” he seethed and showed you, a very young el sending vecna away to the upside down. You looked around as the surroundings changed back to Brenner giving vecna his tattoo. “See there’s nothing to be afraid of is there..y/n?” you froze as Brenner looked up at you. “Take a seat and I'll fix yours!” you shook your head and ran away from vecna or brenner, whoever it was. You groaned as you kept bumping into the walls of the lab.

Meanwhile…

“Y/N! STAY WITH ME, ALRIGHT! HURRY UP OVER THERE!” Steve yelled to the back of the trailer.  “HURRY UP!” Erica nodded and ran into Eddie's bedroom where it was torn apart, trying to find any kind of music. “Steve said you need to hurry!” She informed them, going through Eddie's drawers hoping to find a walkman as well. “Yeah, NO SHIT!” Dustin yelled from the closet, Lucas behind him as well. “We’re trying. We can’t find anything.” Max told her while she and Nancy held up cassette tapes of metal bands. “Seriously what is all this shit?!” Robin asked eddie. “What are you even looking for?” Eddie questioned getting a shoebox with tapes in it. “Madonna, blondie, Bowie, beatles! Music we need music!” Eddie looked at Robin with wide eyes “This is music!” he argued back. “What’s her favorite song? Does anyone know?!” Nancy asked out loud which made everyone stop to think for a minute.

“Metallica! Something about balls and trolls!” Eddie stared at Dustin confused before it clicked. “For whom the bell tolls!” Eddie quickly pushed Robin over and grabbed the tape and his tape deck and ran into the living room where Steve was holding you down, hoping you wouldn’t float up.

“I got it harrington!” Steve let go of you and helped Eddie place the tape in while Eddie placed the earphone over your ears.

You groaned as you turned the corner and saw the door barricaded by wood panels. You managed to pry two off the door before you froze as vecna called out for you. You slowly turned and watched as he walked over “What are you doing? It’s not time for you to leave.” you quickly turned back around and tried to pry off the wood panels. “We’re just alike y/n. Join me, why don’t you.” you sighed and grabbed a plank from the floor and swung it at him.

“Or don’t! See what happens to Hawkins then..” you quickly pried off the last plank and ran through the lab door. “Take your seat y/n!” you froze as Brenner stood in front of you. The room had gone pitch black. It was a minute before it came back on and there you were strapped into the chair.

You moved around, trying to worm your way out of the chair as vecna walked closer. “I want you to tell eleven, I want you to tell her, everything you see.” he told you, lifting his hand up towards your head.

Flashes of the creel house falling apart, Eddie's trailer being split into two, A clock chiming, the ground being split like Eddie's trailer. “Tell her...everything” he leaned in closer. “NO!” you thrashed around. He continued to show you flashes of Hawkins being split into two, Eddie with blood on him, your dad alive and fighting something, el with brenner.

“WHY ISN’T WORKING?!” Steve yelled to Nancy and Robin as they watched you, still under vecna’s trance. “I don’t know! It should’ve worked by now!” Robin panicked as everyone watched you, carefully.

You gasped and fell back as you were finally free from vecna’s trance. “Y/N!” Steve hugged you as he held your body from hitting the floor fully.

You panicked and looked around the trailer. “It’s okay, you’re alright y/n!” Eddie helped calm you as you looked at him and still seeing the flash of him with blood all over. “We’re all here y/n!” Steve helped sit you up. Max guided everyone across the street and into her trailer.

“He showed me things that haven’t happened yet. The most awful things, worse than what we’ve dealt with.” you told everyone who raised an eyebrow at your words.

“There was a dark cloud over hawkins. Downtown was on fire, the ground was split into two, so was the old creel house and Eddie's trailer. And don’t get me started about how he showed el or, or my dad!” you stood up from the chair and paced around the small living room, thinking about the visions he had shown you. “There were dead creatures and this giant creature, with a big gaping mouth and that thing wasn’t alone either there was a shit load of monsters.” Erica, Eddie and Steve watched as you paced in front of them.

“An army and they were coming into Hawkins, into our neighborhoods. Our homes and then he showed me my dad alive but he was fighting something and, el she was with Brenner again too! Which isn’t possible cause Joyce has her safe and sound…I hope she does.” You stopped pacing and thought back to the vision of Jane with brenner.

“He was just trying to scare you y/n.” Steve looked up at you as you shook your head at him. “He kept telling me we were alike, our powers are strong, our mothers despise us, our parents moved us to Hawkins for a new start.”

“He kept telling me to join him and he tried to do the same with el when they were both in the lab, but she sent him the upside down I assume.” “Yeah but it’s not real.” you sighed at Steve “Yet steve! It’s not real YET!”

“He showed me gates, there were four gates. Spread out hawkins, the gates looked like the one in eddie’s trailer.” you explained to everyone. “They didn’t stop growing either and this wasn’t upside down hawkins, this was our own hawkins.” Everyone stayed quiet, processing your words.

“Four chimes.” Max was the first to speak, everyone turned to her, confused. “Vecna’s clock, it always chimes four times.” Max looked over at you. “Four exactly.” “I heard ‘em too.” you and max rolled your eyes as you both realized what it meant. “He’s been telling us his plan, this whole damn time.” you scoffed and sat down across steve, eddie and erica.

“Four kills, four gates. End of the world.” Lucas said, looking between you and max.

“If that’s true, he’s only a kill away.” Everyone sighed at Dustin's words. “Jesus christ!” Eddie groaned as he rubbed his face with his hands, “Try ‘em again, Try ‘em again!” Steve told Max who nodded and went to call Joyce's house for the fifth time.

“Anything?” Dustin asked. “No. it rang but it went back to a busy signal.” Steve and you groaned. “Maybe you punched it in wrong, call again!” Steve groaned. “I didn’t punch it in wrong.” Max argued back.

“Well, I don’t know?!” “I think she knows how to use a phone.” “I’m just saying, she could’ve typed it wrong!” Steve told Dustin as he ran his hands through his hair. “Same shit.” you groaned and slouched into your seat. You went to look over to Max but quickly sat back up when you saw El's shadow behind her.

“How is that possible?” “I told you Joyce has this telemarketer job, she’s always on the phone!” Dustin reminds lucas. “Mike won’t stop whining about it.” You didn’t break your stare from your sister’s shadow. “The phone’s been busy for what, three days now? That’s not Joyce, no way somethings wrong.” You made a sound of agreement with Max, a small smile on your face, realizing El needed to have her powers to find someone.

“That fucking shithead!” you muttered as you watched the shadow stand next to max.

“What?” Eddie asked you, you looked away from the shadow at him. “It’s nothing!” you reassured him before going back to watching the shadow. “Whatever's happening in Lenora is connected to this! I’m sure of it. But vecna can’t hurt them.” Nancy said as she looked out the window.

“Not if he’s dead! We have to go back to the upside down” you turned to nancy with wide eyes. Eddie and Steve let out a bunch of no’s and nope’s at nance’s idea. “Let’s think this through!” Steve stood up and walked over to her. “What is there to think through?” she asked. “We barely made it out of there!” “Yeah, because we weren’t prepared. But this time we will be, we’ll get weapons and protection. We go through the gate and we'll find his lair and kill him!” you sighed as you got up and sat next to eddie who already looked stressed. You rubbed his back in comfort.

“Or he’ll kill us! Y/n only survived because he wanted her too! He’s not scared of us!” “For good reason, we were wrong about venca. Henry. One, sorry what are we calling him now?” Robin asked, confused. “One” “Vecna” “one “ “henry” “henry” “vecna” you all looked at each other confused. “Right, we’ve learned something new about vecna/henry/one. He’s a number like eleven and y/n, only he’s a sick, evil, male with child murdering version of them with really bad skin! But my point is, he’s super powerful. He could turn us inside out with a snap of his fingers. It’s not a fair fight!” “Why fight fair?!”

“You’re right but that gives us an upper hand, we know y/n and eleven's strengths and weaknesses.” you smiled as you played with eddie’s somewhat knotted hair. “Weaknesses?” Erica asked, turning to dustin. “When they both remote travel, they both go into a trance state. I bet it’s the same with vecna!” you smirked and looked at the shadow behind max and lucas.

“That would explain what he was doing in the attic!” “Exactly! I bet when he attacks his next victim, he’s back in that attic, physical body defenseless.”

“Defenseless, what about the army of bats?!” Steve asked. “Give ‘em a distraction! If they’re distracted they can’t hurt anyone meaning vecna is severely and royally screwed if he’s alone” you smiled at the pair. “And how do we do that exactly?” Eddie turned to you. “Not sure yet.” you groaned and fell back into the couch “Y/n’s right! He won’t stand a chance, it’ll be like slaying a sleeping dracula in his coffin.”

“That sounds good in theory, but there is no pattern to vecna’s killings. At least not one I can decipher” You sighed. “We don’t know who he’s gonna attack.” “Yeah we do.” Everyone turned to max.

“I can still feel him, and y/n’s now marked two so either of us could be his next kill…one of us could ditch our songs and focus him on us.” She explained to the others, you quietly groaned as you watched the shadow behind Max.

“Now she knows!” Eddie turned to you with a concerned look. “I’ll keep him busy long enough so that you guys can get into the attic. Then you can chop his head off. Stab him in the heart, blow him up with some explosive dustin cooks up. I honestly don’t care how you kill this asshole. Just, try not to miss.”

Everyone stayed silent, trying to figure out an official plan. “Where do we even go for the supplies!” Robin asked, Eddie jumped up and ran to grab the newspaper.

“Check it out. The warzone. I’ve been there once, it’s huge! It has everything you would need for um…killing things!” Eddie explained as he placed a newspaper on the table for everyone to see the ad for the store.

”Is that a grenade! Look how any of this legal?!” Robin asked as she looked down at the flyer. “Well luckily for us it is! This place is just right outside of hawkins! As long as we stay clear of main roads we can avoid cops or uh angry hicks…” he said with an uncomfortable smile on his face.

“If we’re trying to avoid angry hicks, maybe we shouldn’t go to some place called the warzone!” Dustin pointed at Erica, silently agreeing with her. “Normally I would agree with you but we need the weapons, so i think it’s worth the risk!” Nancy said as she crossed her arms over her chest. “Me too!” Erica looked at Lucas surprised. “But It'll take all day to bike from here to there!” Dustin said with a groan.

“Who said anything about biking?” Eddie said as he stood up straight. “What? Do you have a car we don’t know about?” Steve asked, confused. “It’s not exactly a car steve! And it’s not exactly mine, but it’ll do.” Eddie said with a smile. Everyone looked at each other confused.

“Hey, red, you got a ski mask or a bandana, something like that?” Max thought about it for a minute before running to her room. Eddie waited till you all were outside to put on the mask. “I’m gonna pee!” You said as you leaned onto Robin, laughing at Eddie in the mask.

“Y/n, Shush!” Steve shushed you as they all peaked out behind Max's trailer.

“Sorry!” you told Steve, still letting out giggles every now and then. You all followed Eddie as he made his way to his neighbor’s RV. You all ran behind the side of it and waited as Eddie opened the window and crawled into the RV. “Damn..” you whispered to yourself as you watched Eddie hop in “Y/n! Stop looking at his ass!” Steve whispered-yelled at you. “I’m going, I’m going!” you hopped up and had steve help you crawl in fully.

Once in, he ran to the front of the RV, locking the door as he went by. You helped the others get in while Steve walked up to the front with eddie. “Where did you learn how to do all this?” Steve asked Eddie as he hotwired the RV. “Well, while all the other dads were teaching their kids how to fish, or play baseball, my old man was teaching how to hotwire.” you and robin looked at each other shocked at his words.

“Now, I swore to myself I wouldn’t wind up like he did, but now i’m wanted for murder, and so grand theft auto! So I’m really living up to that munson name!” He smiled at steve. “Kinda hot, if you ask me!” you muttered, earning a head shake of disapproval from Dustin and lucas. “He learned how to hot wire as a child and my dad taught me how to shoot a gun! We’re a good pair!” you smirked at the boys, shutting the window you all came through.

“Uh, Eddie, I’m not really sure I love the idea of you driving!” Robin told him, over Steve's shoulder. “Oh I'm just starting this sucker. Harrington’s got her, don’t ya big boy!” Steve looked at Eddie shocked. You all jumped as the RV started up and the owner’s started banging on the door. “EVERYONE HOLD ON TO SOMETHING!” Steve warned, giving everyone a split second to grab something before driving out of the trailer park.

“Oh my god! Oh my god!” Lucas and Erica held onto the bar near the door’s entrance. Dustin and Max holding onto the seat cushions they sat on. Nancy, Robin, yourself and Eddie holding onto the car’s dinner table area.

You giggled as you looked up at Eddie on the top of the table booth seat. “Oh they don’t look happy! DRIVE STEVE DRIVE!” Dustin told Steve who pressed the gas pedal and sharply turned the RV, thrashing everyone around in the back.

“I mean it’s not everyday you lose your car and house in one fell swoop!” Robin told Dustin as her and Nancy held onto for dear life.

“Are you head banging?!” you giggled as you watched Eddie, above you. “Maybe, or it’s Steve's driving!” you both smiled at each other. Once Steve had gotten on the road everyone in the back calmed down and got to sit in comfortable positions. You and robin smiled at each other as nancy when to sit by steve mid drive.

You sighed as Dustin sat down in front of you. “What?” you asked him as he gave you a look. “Why don’t you tell Eddie about your feelings for him?” you raised your eyebrows at his words before looking around the RV, robin, eddie and erica were out cold. Lucas and Max were too busy with their own conversation. “I don't know henderson!” you shrugged. “Bullshit!” you turned your head towards steve and nancy up front. “Not bullshit actually.” he rolled his eyes at you.

“Ok, maybe I'm scared that if I have my dad’s curse and one day he’ll disappear or leave me, I guess..I mean look at my dad, mom, el!” you explained. “Eddie’s not like that y/n! He won’t just randomly one day leave you.” Dustin told you.

“You never know! I didn’t think my dad would die and el would leave to go live in cali without me.” Dustin got up from his side of the booth and walked over to hug you. You laughed a bit as he squeezed you.

You dozed off for about 20 minutes before you got shaken awake by robin, telling you all had arrived at the store. Yourself, Max, Robin, Erica, steve and nancy got out of the RV and made your way into the store. ”So much for avoiding angry hicks!” “It looks like hickville in here...jesus christ..” you said as you all walked in and looked around the store. “Let’s be fast!” you all agreed and split up. You walked around the store with a handheld basket and picked up a lighter and lots of lighter fluid, you grabbed three boxes of nails as well.

You walked over to Nancy at the gun case. “Hi, could we see that one please!” you smiled as the attendant got it down and handed it to you. “Try this one nance. That’ll do nothing to vecna.” you told her, handling her the rifle. She cocked it and nodded at you. “How much is this?” The attendants looked over at you both. “120.99 but I'll throw in 20 rounds of buckshot for ya!” you both nodded at him.

“Hey, could I see this pretty .357, please?” your eyes widen at the voice next to you. Nancy and you slowly looked over to jason. “Here you go son.” “Thank you.” Jason stopped as he looked over. You quickly used your powers to hide yourself. You walked away from him but bumped into two other jocks, that broke your focus and showed yourself to them. You recognize one as Andy, he was there the night Patrick died.

“Y/n?” You looked at Andy before quickly running over to nancy. “What are you doing here, hopper?” You shrugged at jason. “I could ask you the same thing!” he walked closer to you. “I know what you did.” you didn’t flinch as he got up close to you. “Good, now leave me be, before I give you the same fate as your girlfriend!” You smirked at him. “Let’s go y/n!” Steve moved you and Nancy away from jason.

You looked back at him and watched as he ran to go get his other friends. You groaned as you walked behind the store and into the RV. “What happened!” Lucas asked you and steve. “Gotta go!” Steve told them, sitting in the front seat. “Your old friends are here!” Erica explained, throwing a bag onto the table. “Y/n threatened Jason too!” Eddie looked at you with wide eyes as you sat down next to robin. Steve quickly started the RV and drove out of the store’s parking lot.

“Oh! Steve, stop here!” you told him as you saw a sign for a small convenience store. “What why?!” you thought for an excuse. “I have to get something here!” “Like what y/n?!” You sighed, did it really come down to this excuse... “I have my period steve!” you yelled, which made Steve quickly turn into the store’s parking lot. You quickly sighed and got out of the RV and ran inside the store and went right to the hair products and grabbed five cans of hairspray. You smiled as the cashier handed you the bags with the hairspray cans.

You quietly got back into the RV, Steve was silent the whole ride. You smiled as he pulled into an empty field near a very empty road. You all unloaded and grabbed the stuff you had bought from the warzone.

You walked with Eddie and Dustin and helped them make their shields. “Ow! My finger!” Dustin groaned as he accidentally smashed his pointer finger with the hammer. “Give it here, tiny child!” you stuck your hand out for the hammer, and got to work. “How’s she feeling?” Dustin asked Eddie, who acted like he was using it. “Light but durable. Deadly. But reliable!” the pair chuckled as you hammered the last nail into Dustin's shield.

“Hear me now! There will be no more retreating from Eddie the banished!” you and Dustin smiled at eddie. “Hey, you’re ready for bat-tle.” Dustin chortles at his own joke. You and Eddie looked at each other with a blank look on your faces, Eddie looked at Dustin, confused. “You get it?” you held back a laugh at his face. “Bat-tle, B-A-T.” Eddie and you stayed silent. “No?” he groans. “I thought I had a good one..” you smiled as you watched Eddie tackle him.

“What are you doing?” Dustin asked Eddie, distraught. “Tackle him!” You cheered Eddie on as he pushed Dustin away. Dustin quickly ran back and tried to tackle and give Eddie a wedgie now. “Give him a wedgie eddie!” Dustin looked at you with wide eyes. “No wedgies! No wedgies!”

“Never change, Dustin henderson!” you smiled as you watched the pair. “You either, y/n hopper! Promise me?” Eddie ran over and tried to hold you into a hug. “We weren’t planning on it!” you laughed as eddie tickled your sides. “Say it y/n!” “I promise!” you laughed out. “Good.” Eddie smiled and let you go. “Good?” “Good!” you all laughed.

“Hey sinclairs how are those spears coming along?” Lucas gave you all a thumbs up, Erica quickly gave Lucas a confused look.

All three of you laughed and kept playing around in the field since you were the first ones to finish. You laughed as Dustin almost fell over the small hill you all sat on.

“Are you nervous?” you turned to eddie. “Of?” he sighed and sat down next to you. “Of being vecna’s next victim?” you thought about it for a minute.

“Not really, I know I have a really amazing group who wouldn’t let me get taken by him!” you gave him a small smile.

“I’ll be really upset if I miss out on your awesome metal concert.” you both smiled and turned to watch dustin.

“I won’t let that happen to you.” You chortle at his words. “Good!”

You all rode in the RV in silence as you dropped off Max, Erica and Lucas at the creel house. Steve parked the RV in the woods, near the trailer park.

After you all went over the plan, you all made your way into the trailer park and right towards eddie’s trailer. You all slowly made it into the portal one by one. You were the last to fall through. You giggled as Steve and Eddie lifted you up off the mattress.

You all made your way out of the trailer to set up. “Hey, guys, listen.” you, eddie and dustin turned to steve. “If things here start to go south, I mean at all, you abort! Draw the attention from the bats for a minute or two. We’ll take care of vecna!” you three looked at each other.

“Don’t try to be cute or be a hero, or something. Okay, you guys are just-!” “Decoys!” Dustin and Steve spoke at the same time. “Don’t worry you can be the hero stevie boy!” you smiled.

“Absolutely, I mean look at us. We are not heroes.” you chuckled as Dustin looked between you and eddie. “Speak for yourself! I got cool powers!” You joked. Steve nodded at the trio and went to walk away but was stopped by eddie.

“Hey steve.” he turned around to face him. “Make him pay!” Steve nodded and walked away with Nancy and Robin towards their spot. You held back a groan, knowing Eddie meant it for chrissy. “I’m jealous of a dead chick!” You muttered to yourself as you went over to the deck.

You sighed as you three finished making a border so the bats couldn’t get to you all if you needed to hide. “Not bad.” “not bad at all!” Dustin and Eddie smiled at each other. “Now for the fun part!” you smirked and walked ahead of the two, into the trailer.

“Jesus christ!” You and Dustin looked around Eddie's room in the upside down. “It’s like she was destined for an alternate dimension.” Eddie was in awe of his guitar on the wall. “What do you two say? Are you both ready for the most metal concert in the history of the world!” You both smiled “Is that a rhetorical question?” Eddie smiled and put the guitar onto his back/

“Let’s do it!” You and Dustin chuckled and grabbed the amps Eddie had in his room and followed him to the roof of the trailer to set up.

You all waited to be told to move on to a new phase. “She’s in, move into phase three!” you all jumped up and got ready. “Copy that! Initiating phase three.” you nodded and watched as Dustin pulled in the amp. “Let’s hope they hear this!” you nodded and turned the volume up. “Chrissy, this is for you!” you looked at dustin with an offended look before turning back to eddie.

“What the fuck, I do all this just for him to dedicate this whole thing to a dead chick?!” you quietly ranted to Dustin as you both hid behind the amps.

You watched as eddie played master of puppets by metallica. You and Dustin smiled and head banged as you listened to him play. You looked through the binoculars and saw the bats flying towards you three. “Eddie, Lockdown in T-minus 30 seconds!” he nodded at your words and kept playing.

“T-Minus Twenty!” Dustin yelled, keeping an eye on them. You smiled as you heard Eddie shredding the guitar. “T-Minus ten!” you got up from the roof and stood. “Five. One.” Eddie finished playing and quickly followed you and dustin into the room you all built earlier that night.

“Move!” you rushed Dustin in. Luckily you all got in before they could get to anyone.

“Dude, most metal ever!”

“Oh my god, oh my god!” You laughed as you watched Eddie and Dustin be excited about what had just happened.

You all could hear the bats trying to get through the wire, you Dustin and Eddie stood with your backs together and kept circling around the portal, looking to see if one had popped through. “Hey dipshits! Give up that easy!” “shhh!” Eddie shushed dustin. “Stop egging ‘em on!” you chimed in, you three jumped as you heard one find its way towards the roof.

“Shit!” you cursed and slowly approached the part of the roof they were at. “They can’t go through there, could they?” as Dustin asked, a bat popped through, scaring you three. You all stabbed it and made your way towards the portal. “You go first dustin!” you rushed him in.

Eddie looked at you and knelt down, preparing to help you in the portal. “You go first y/n.” you nodded and hopped onto the rope and climbed through.

You and Dustin waited for Eddie to do the same. “C’mon eddie!” “We’re so close!” you started to panic as he kept looking over towards the door, where the bats were biting through.

“Eddie?!” you yelled as you watched him drop down from the rope, he looked back at you and dustin. You and Dustin started yelling for him as he cut the rope with the spare axe.

You watched as Dustin caught the rope in his hands. You both stared at it, in shock. “Eddie! What are you doing?!” he sighs and looks up at you. “I’m buying more time!” You groaned and moved dustin off the mattress and flipped it on it’s side. You scrambled to find an empty chair.

“Where are you going?!” Dustin asked as you placed down a chair and practiced your jumps.

“I’ve gotta go save the damn hero!” you told him, as you sighed and jumped into the portal using the chair to boost you. “And she sticks the landing!” you muttered to yourself before looking up at dustin.

“Throw that bag in here dustin!” He quickly does so. You jumped as the bag smacked you in the face. “Oww!” You groaned but quickly brushed off the pain. You grabbed the cans of hairspray.

“What are you doing with those! Styling your hair?!” you groaned at dustin. “Leave it all to me, k?” You gave him a smile before running out of the trailer, you looked around trying to find a trial Eddie might’ve left behind.

Your heart dropped as you saw a swarm of bats, you quickly shook up the can of hairspray and pulled out a lighter from your back pocket.

You ran over to the swarm. You felt your heart break as you heard Eddie's screams from the bats biting his flesh. “Son of a bitch!” you cursed as some of the bats started to bite you as well.

“Y/N! EDDIE!” you tried to turn your head to see Dustin, getting a mini swarm of bats. Your mom instinct kicked in, you struggled to push off some of the bats. You sprayed the fire at bats in Dustin's direction. Dustin panted on the grass.

Thankfully he wasn't hurt at all. You quickly turned to face in Eddie's direction and sprayed every bat that you could see.

“Eddie!” You ran over to Eddie's severely bitten body. You kept spraying the fire as you circled around. You had burned most of the bats, the ones that managed to avoid being burnt got killed by Dustin stabbing them. “Y/n..” You were too busy smashing a bat that was being stubborn on your own leg to notice Eddie calling for you.

“Stupid motherfucker!” you yelled as you kept hitting it with the empty can. “Y/n..” you turned towards Eddie, who had a small smile on his face. “Don’t you ever try being a hero!” you warned him as you hugged him tightly.

“You looked pretty badass, hopper!” He chortles. “Thanks!” you smiled as Dustin approached you both. “If we um made it out of here, do you think we could um, go out together?” You smiled at Eddie and nodded at his words. “You got a date munson! Now let’s get you back!” You whispered to Eddie, “Dustin, grab his legs and I'll carry his arms!” you commanded which the teen listened to.

“Wait, wait it hurts!” Eddie groaned as you and Dustin picked him up from the ground.

Dustin panicked and placed his legs back down. “No! Pick ‘em back up, if we let him rest he might bleed out!” you groaned. Dustin, who picked up Eddie's legs and helped you drag Eddie back through the portal.

You went to run towards the trailer’s small bathroom but quickly stopped in your tracks as you noticed the room around you had changed. You looked around, you noticed the slimy vines that slithered up your legs, you looked up and spotted your sister and Max, who were also trapped in the vines.

You searched around the room, trying to find vecna but quickly jumped as you watched him leave el’s side and walked over to where you were being held. “You and the others have already lost. Just give up y/n.” Your eyes flickered all over the place, you could see el had tears streaming down her face, max was struggling in the vines as she watched you and vecna.

“You won’t be second place in my eyes.” You held your breath as you watched him raise his palm towards your face, all the memories flooded your mind.

“We’re playing dnd- WE COULD’VE ASKED YOU!” Mike realized as you pulled into the school’s parking lot where the three of you spotted Erica waiting. “Could’ve asked me what?” you question as the pair collected the snacks they were in charge of bringing from your backseat. “We needed a sub tonight, ugh!” Dustin groaned.

“You see, we normally rely on this girl who has super powers. But those went bye-bye so- OW!” Steve held his arm as you punched him. “Screw you.” you told him with a blank face. “I literally get no credit.” You groaned out and threw yourself back onto the deck floor. “We usually rely on y/n and her sister who have powers-” Steve jerked away from you. “But her sister lost hers and y/n has her powers still but uh there not very helpful.”

“I would say all of the above but we can’t do any of that til we find a way to the upside down.” “We need El to get her powers back.” Max sighed.

“Chrissy, this is for you!” you looked at dustin with an offended look before turning back to eddie. “What the fuck! I do all this just for him to dedicate this whole thing to a dead chick?!” you quietly ranted to Dustin as you both hid behind the amps

You were brought back to his lair where he stood in front of you, waiting for you to go with him. You looked over and saw El watching you, tears running down her face. You looked right at vecna. “I’d rather chew off my foot.” You were sure if your mouth wasn’t dry you would’ve spat on him.

He let out a grumble and had released the vines around your legs for a second before throwing you up against the door, next to el.

You both watched as he walked over to max and lifted his hand to her face. You noticed how el started to slip for the slimy vines. You gave her a small smile before getting the hint that she needed you to give Henry a hallucination. You nodded and conjured up an hallucination of el and you falling, out of the vines, the images showed you both acting like you were dying. You hid eleven and yourself from his actual site and let him focus on the image of you both on the slimy flesh like floor.

You hid a smirk as you watched the plan work, Henry had been too focused on your and el’s bodies he hadn’t noticed he had dropped max and you outside of the hallucination. Eleven walked up behind him and nodded towards you to let him go from your powers. You smiled and did so, he quickly turned as he was slammed into one of the poles, el had pinned him like he had done to his previous victims.

You rushed over to max and helped her up from the floor. “Where’s Lucas and erica?!” You said slightly panicking, Max shrugged at you and held onto you as you both watched el drain Henry of his powers.

You noticed the bottom of his legs started to smoke, you and Max squeezed each other as he screamed in pain. You and Max walked behind eleven and watched as she made sure to kill him.

You three noticed once he was burnt to ashes how the room around you three started to disappear, “Y/n, your leg!” El pointed out as she gave you and max hugs. “I’ll be fine! You need to come back to Hawkins, I don't care what Joyce has to say. I need to see you after all of this mess.” She nods at you, you both watched as Max disappeared into the air, you assumed Lucas had finally used the music.

“I’m glad you're safe.” You smiled at el as you hugged her one last time before you were pulled back to hawkins. You were greeted by Dustin standing in front of you, with a panicked expression. “Y/n?” You blinked and looked around the bathroom before nodding at dustin.

He let out a sigh of relief before turning behind him and yelling “SHE’S ALIVE, EDDIE!” You followed Dustin out of the bathroom and into the living room where Eddie was laid on the couch. “And the V man is dead.” You smiled as the pair looked at you with wide eyes before staring at each other.

“No more fighting anything then?” You smiled and nodded at Eddie's reaction, Dustin just let out a breath of relief as he plopped down onto the chair beside eddie.

You noticed Dustin had ripped some of the rope and tied it around one of Eddie's bigger wounds. “We need to take him to the hospital!” you told Dustin as you both carried eddie outside, and spotted an empty truck, the owner must’ve stepped inside for a split second. “There!” You and Dustin quickly carried Eddie into the truck. Once everyone was emi buckled up you quickly drove away from the trailer park.

“We just stole another car!” Dustin laughed in shock as you quickly drove you three to the closest hospital. “Hey y/n?” You hummed in response.

“Did either you or el happen to use your, uh powers by chance?” Dustin asked you quietly as you drove.

“Me and Max watched el drain his powers if it counts, and I may have used my hallucinations, why?”You asked Dustin, turning your head towards the pair. Dustin was about the talk but the walkie interrupted.

“We did it!” Robin laughed into the walkie, excited about defeating vecna. “Great, y/n and eleven also caused an earthquake, So if you need us, meet us at the hospital!” Dustin told her as you drove into the parking lot.

You all hopped out of the truck and ran into the ER with Eddie being carried in by you and dustin. “Oh, did you kids experience the earthquake too?!” the nurse asked you three. “Sadly yes.” the nurses quickly got eddie onto a gurney

You were about to sit when the nurse noticed how bitten and bloody your legs were. She had you also taken back to get looked at.  

Two Days Later

“Y/n, slow down or you’re gonna rip out your IV!” Steve scolded you as you walked ahead of him and dustin. “You two hurry up! Making the sick one go slow.” You muttered to yourself as you walked towards Eddie's room.

“Jesus.” Steve groaned and pushed the medicine pump behind you.

You smiled as you approached the open door. “Sorry, I'm late.” You told Eddie, who was sitting propped up in the hospital bed with the bed tray over his lap. “Thought you stood me up.” You both smile at his joking tone.

“And miss our hospital date? Never.” You faked a gasp and sat down on the bed near his feet.

“So what are we eating exactly?” You asked, tilting your head as he smirks. “Had henderson buy food from the new diner.” You nodded as dustin and steve walked in panting.

“Here!” Dustin exclaimed, putting the bag on the tray before walking back over to Steve who had stayed in the doorway. “We’ll leave you kids alone, Be good you two!” He jokingly pointed between you and eddie.

“Ok mom!” You smiled as Steve and Dustin left the hospital room. You quickly turned around to see Eddie, who was unpacking the food.

“Have the police tried talking to you yet?” You asked. “They try but I act asleep, so the nurses will kick them out.” He smiles a bit. “Have you gotten ahold of your sister?” You shake your head. “No, Nancy said she’ll try to get ahold of Joyce for me.” You told him as you picked at a soggy fry.

“Eww.” You placed the fry to the side, Eddie looked at you with wide eyes. “You don’t like the soggy ones?” You shook your head. “I’m gonna be honest with you hopper, I don’t know how this is gonna work out if the girl of my dreams doesn’t like the soggy fries.” He jokingly placed his hand over his heart. “Oh yes.” You smiled as you playfully rolled your eyes.

It had been a couple hours since your “hospital date” with eddie. You and Eddie had made your way towards your hospital room, where Robin and Dustin tried to entertain you, Steve and Eddie by dancing to whatever station the nurses had the radio on.

You sat on your hospital bed with a pained expression. “I should’ve let vecna take my sight if I knew I would be seeing these two dancing.” You whispered to Steve who let out a snort, Eddie joining in as well as he watched the pair. “We heard that!” You smiled and gave a thumbs up at the pair.

You sat up straight as you heard knocking on your room door. You watched as robin opened the door for nancy, who carried in two bouquets of flowers. “One of them is from me and the other is from my mom.” She told you as she placed them down on the tray.

“These are from us too!” You turned and smiled as Lucas, Max and Erica walked into the room with balloons. “Aww, thank you guys.” You gave them hugs as they greeted you and eddie. “I love the flowers and balloons so much.” You smiled at the others, who’s sight wasn’t on you but the people in the doorway.

“You haven't seen what we got you yet!” Your eyes widened at the voice, your head slowly turned to look at the door where you saw your dad, Joyce, Mike, Will, El and jonathan. You looked up at the medicine pump and saw your pain med bag was halfway empty, you turned to the others. “Someone tell Annette my pain meds are kicking in now, my powers are trying to use themselves on me.” Steve shook his head at you, “Oh so you guys see my dead dad too?”

The group smiles at your reaction of seeing your dad alive, in your hospital room. “No, he’s really there y/n.” You nodded at Eddie's words and turned back to face him. “Oh...So where were you? You know how much you owe me for your funeral service?” Hopper let out a laugh at your words and walked over and hugged you.

“Sure missed you kiddo.” You smiled and hugged him back. “2,737 dollars plus tax mister.” You joked as he pulled away from the hug, he smiled and ruffled your hair. “Hey Mike, will!” You waved at the pair who smiled and waved back before greeted the others.

“Y/n!” El rushed over and hugged you tightly, she had been given a talk by Jonathan on how she should be gentle hugging you on the way over to the hospital.

“I missed having you here in hawkins.” You whispered in her ear as she held onto you, the others slowly greeted each other while you and el hugged. “Is that the boy?” She asked you quietly as she motioned towards Eddie, you looked and nodded at her. “Oh yeah.” She smiled and greeted Eddie and the others with mike and will.

“Oh how are you doing honey?” You smiled as Joyce's mom's voice came out as she looked at your bandaged legs. “Sore, It’s gotten better, the bleeding has gone down a bit.” She nodded at the news, “Hey y/n.” You smiled as you smelt Jonathan's shirt from the bed, he smelt like a mix of weed and air freshener. “Hi Jonathan, how’s california?” He nodded. “Cali’s ok, definitely not like hawkins.” You gave him a knowing look and smiled “Oh i’m sure their similar somehow.” You smiled at his wide eye look

After everyone had greeted each other, you all sat and talked about what was going to happen after you and Eddie got out of the hospital. “You guys have government connections?!” Eddie asked the party in shock as he listened to your dad and Joyce's plan.

“Yeah.” You nodded at him before turning back to your dad. “So me and eddie are in the clear, like this never happened?” You dad nods at your question. “Yep, then I get back my job and everything goes back to normal.” He explained, You nod at him, before putting your hand up in Eddie's direction. “No, we still have to graduate ourselves.” You heard Eddie sigh behind you, making a grin appear on your face.

“Wait, does this mean we have to fix the cabin?” You groaned and threw your head back at the thought of cleaning up the destroyed cabin in the woods. Jim let out a chuckle and shook his head “No, we’re buying a proper house.” Yours and el’s heads popped up at his news. “Dips on the bigger room!” You told el who just smiled and nodded.

A Couple Months Later

“Shush, my dad might hear you.” You warned Eddie as he crawled through the window in your new bedroom.

“Doll, I got the greatest news ever!” You smiled at his excited expression. “Well, what is it?” You asked as you watched him crawl and plop himself on top of your body on your bed. “Well you remember that weird guy at the hideout a couple weeks ago?” You had to think about it for a minute before nodding at the memory.

“What about him?” Eddie sighed and smiled wider at you. “Well he liked corroded coffins songs and turns out he was a scout for a record company and we got offered a record deal-!” Eddie was cut off by you squealing and tackling him into a tight hug. “Ooh, congratulations eds! That’s my boyfriend.” You cupped his cheeks and kissed him.

You both kept making out, eddie’s hands going underneath your sleeping shirt, you had stolen from him, You smiled as he pushed himself down a bit more and kissed your jaw before moving to your neck, you let out a moan as he left a mark, You both quickly took off your shirt and threw somewhere in your room, eddie smiled as he went back to kissing your neck. After a bit he looked back up at you “You sure you wanna do this? I’m not pressuring you, am I?” You smiled and shook your head at him.

“I wanna do this eds.” His grin got brighter as he went back to leaving a trail of kisses down your neck and towards the valley of your breasts. A knock on your door startled you both.

“One minute I’m changing!” You yelled out before looking all over your room for your shirt you both had tossed across the room.

“Hide under my bed.” You whispered towards Eddie who nodded and quickly slid under your bed and was thankfully hidden by the bed skirt you, Joyce and eleven had bought when you were shopping for the new house. You quickly put on the shirt and made sure your hair didn’t look all nuts before running to open your door.

“Oh i just wanted to let you know that me and your dad are going out for dinner and probably won’t be back til ten.” You nod at Joyce's words, praying she won’t notice the hickey on your neck. “Kay, you two have a fun night!” You smiled as you leaned against your doorframe as your dad came up from behind joyce.

“We will.” You dad smiled down at Joyce, you held yourself back from gagging.

“Oh hop can you give us a minute, I just need to tell y/n something.” Your dad nodded and walked to the living room. “What did you need to tell me?” You asked Joyce, who had a small smile on her face.

“Did you get burned by the curling iron?” You nodded, not noticing how the shirt had moved a bit too much and Joyce had got a glance at the hickey. “Yeah, I thought it was turned off and I was wrapping up the cord and burnt myself.” Praying Joyce had bought the story.

“Oh ok, I just wanted to say that Max is spending the night here so no fiddling around with the curling iron.” You looked at her confused. She gives you a knowing look. “It’s alright I was a teenager once y/n.” Your eyes widen at her words, she must’ve heard you and Eddie scrambling around your room.

“Alright we’ll be PG tonight.” You told her, she smiled at you before turning to walk out the door. “Oh, goodnight eddie.” You groaned and banged your head against the doorframe.

“Night ms byers.” Eddie told her as he lifted the bed skirt so she could see him. “Smart, I used to hide mine in my closet.” Joyce smiled at both of you before walking towards the living room where our dad was waiting.

You shut your door before turning around to face eddie. “You should go too, before one of the kids bursts in here too.” He nodded and went to climb out your window. You walked over to your window where you leaned out slightly and kissed Eddie once more.

“Sorry, our celebration got cut short.” Eddie smiled at you “Seeing you is the best celebration for me.” You giggled at him, he went to walk away but you quickly called him back.

“Yeah?” He asked, confused, did he leave something in your room?

“Would you settle for a PG-13 celebration?” Eddie looked at you confused. “What is it?” You stared at him for a second before lifting up your shirt and bra.

Eddie’s eyes widened at your boldness, a smile broke out on both your faces. You laugh and put your shirt and bra back down. “That’s one celebration I won’t forget.” He smiled at you.

“Alright, loverboy, goodnight.” You leaned out the window a bit and managed to kiss Eddie's cheek. “Night.” He smiled the whole walk towards his van.

Life was looking up for him, his name was cleared, now his career was just starting and he has a beautiful girlfriend? Yep life was being good to him.

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a/n: I have a thing for the confession-of-feelings trope i guess! Enjoy the gang gossiping to you about your crush on Eddie.

p.s. the song in this story doesn’t exist, or.. it does but like. i wrote it. and i didn’t write any music for it. so it’s just lyrics i made up lol.

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summary: You’re on the Party’s taxi driver today, tasked with picking Dustin up from school, and Steve and Robin up from Family Video. On your way from Hawkins High, Dustin confides a secret about his best friend, and your classmate, Eddie Munson.

warnings: swearing, mutual pining, gossip i guess? but p much pure fluff! may write a dirtier part ii, but this will also work as a stand alone!

pairing: Eddie Munson x Reader, gn!reader, reader is an ‘86 senior with Eddie and Robin, Robin tested out of classes early so she’s at work don’t worry about that.

Disclaimer: I do not give permission to have my work reposted on any other site. Reblogs are welcome, but please inform me if you see my work anywhere except my blog

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“HENDERSON! You have thirty seconds to get in this car or I’m driving away!!” You’re the chauffeur for the Hellfire club boys this week, after hesitantly volunteering your newly gained freedom. Being a senior had its perks, including getting out of classes two weeks earlier than everyone else. Today, though, you were only in charge of one: Dustin Henderson.

Dustin was probably your favorite of the Hellfire freshmen. He was funny, kind, and had no problem roasting the absolute hell out of you if it was called for. Though you loved his friendliness, it put you at the disadvantage of having to wait for him to finish talking to his clan of nerds. Currently, he’s talking to Hellfire’s Dungeon Master, and, fingers crossed, one of your fellow ‘86 graduates: Eddie Munson.

Eddie was probably the furthest thing from your friend as someone in your shared friend group. Besides sitting in front of him in O'Donnell's English class, and getting your ass kicked by his campaigns, the only interactions you've had with him are when you drop the boys at his trailer, or when he picks them up from your house. It feels a lot more like co parenting than it does like being real friends.

Eddie had a reputation in Hawkins, being “the freak” of the high school, and probably the entire town. You didn’t understand why, though, beyond him being a fantasy game player, and a metalhead. Still, though, you played DnD and listened to Black Sabbath every now and then, and you didn’t see nearly as much misplaced hatred as Eddie. Regardless, you didn’t see Eddie as a freak. In fact, you thought he was a pretty decent, nice guy. It didn’t hurt that he was also extremely attractive.

You had sworn never to admit that last part to anyone, though. Eddie was still a guy, and high school guys, even ones held back for two extra years, usually went for more conventionally attractive people. People like Chrissy Cunningham… or Steve Harrington. Though you sometimes fantasized about yourself and Eddie together, you never act on it, too worried about what it would mean for your dynamic.

“My bad! The Dungeon Master was summoning me.”

“You know you don’t have to comply outside DnD, right?” You joke with a breathless Dustin as he flings his backpack into your backseat. “Wipe your feet.”

Dustin claps his shoes together before bringing them into your car, something you appreciate, since he’s ignored you before. It is strange, though, for Dustin not to be joking around.

“Where to?” you turn to him as he fastens his seatbelt.

“Mind if we just drive for a bit, I need to talk to you.”

You pause. Dustin has never confided to you, having both Steve and Eddie on call at all times. This can’t be good, you think. “How about we go park in the lot while we wait for Steve and Robin?” You offer, and Dustin nods.

You peel out of the driveway, cranking one of your favorite tapes: Parallel Lines by Blondie. The two of you jam for a bit, and you can't help feeling proud as Dustin sings the words to One Way Or Another with you. Eddie hasn’t corrupted him beyond recognition just yet.

When you reach the parking lot of Family Video, you turn the volume down to a whisper, unbuckle your belt and turn to Dustin. “What’s up, kid?” you say, leaning your elbow on the center console.

“Right, well,” Dustin mirrors your posture, crossing his legs like he’s about to share the juiciest gossip of the school year. “I have information that might be of use to you.” He states, and doesn’t elaborate.

You raise an eyebrow. “Go on…”

“Well, you know how you haven’t really dated anyone since you and that guy didn’t work out sophomore year?”

Where the hell was he going with this? “Yeah?”

“And you know how you’re pretty easy to read as a human?”

“Can you arrive at the point, please?” His cryptic behavior was irritating you.

“Fine! Fine, fine. I am on a mission to pass on some information to you, receive corresponding information in return, and report back to my original messenger. Do you accept these conditions as I have relayed them to you?” He is completely serious.

“Yes! Jesus, Henderson, you’re gonna bore me to tears!”

“I’m sorry! I’m actually kind of rooting for this to work out, I’m worried about explaining it wrong. Basically…” Dustin pauses, searching for the right words, “Eddie is being an absolute pussy and using me to talk to do the talking. He wants to, well, he was wondering what you think of him, I guess.”

That was probably the last thing on your list of expected information. In fact, it wasn't even on your list! It was pages below your list, in a different notebook, that you lost in a fire. You had been trying to keep Eddie off your mind, for the sake of the party. You knew how these things went, when two people in the same club, or on the same team, went out, ruining the dynamic for everyone. “I guess, I don’t really think about him.” You feign ignorance, hoping Dustin doesn’t see right through you.

Of course he does. “I already know that’s a goddamn lie.” He crosses his arms over his chest and stares you down.

“If you think I’m lying, why even bother asking me?”

“I don’t think you’re lying. I know you’re lying.” Dustin’s face twists into a smug grin, and you close your eyes to remind yourself this is a child, and you cannot beat his ass right now.

“Okay, say I’m not lying. How do you know that?” You wonder if Eddie was able to tell you liked him, too. Although, if he did know, why would he be sending a 14 year old to do his talking for him?

“The way you look at him when we’re playing DnD. The only other time I’ve seen someone look at someone else like that was when Lucas met Max. That shit can't be interpreted as anything else.”

You blush with embarrassment. You had no idea anyone was able to clock your crush on Eddie, let alone his closest friend. In fact, you thought you’d gotten away with it, all four years of high school. “Does Eddie know I do that?”

“I don’t think so, he’s usually too into the game. But he does the same thing to you.”

Now you’re sure he’s lying. “What are you talking about?”

“He likes to watch you draw. You’ll be sketching at lunch and I catch him watching your hands. I told him he needs to do something about it before I did on his behalf.” Dustin shakes his head. “And, he talks about you all the time. ‘Did you see them smile at me this morning? Did you see the way they looked at me at lunch?’ Cheesy shit like that. It’s baffling how clueless you both are.”

You sit with this new information for a bit. Eddie watches you draw, something you do only for yourself. He gushes about you to your mutual friends. Your stomach flips at the thought of Eddie being smitten by you. “He‘s never tried anything, though?” You’re poking feeble holes in Dustin’s argument, trying not to get your hopes up.

“Why would he do that? He doesn’t want you to know he's into you, he’s terrified of you.”

You sigh, feeling defeated and still very unsure what to do next. “Did he tell you to talk to me?”

“Kinda, he more implied that he wanted me to. He said he was scared of ruining your friendship or something stupid. This way, if you don’t feel the same way— even though anyone with eyes can see that you do— he doesn’t have to face rejection directly. He’s afraid he’s not good enough for you. He only told me that because he was drunk”

“Sounds kinda cowardly.” You admit. Mostly, you’re hurt Eddie thinks you’d reject him. The two of you have so much in common, and most of the time you spend together is really enjoyable, when he’s not kicking your ass at Dungeons.

“I told him that! Hold on, the babysitters’ club has arrived.”

You turn to face the building, where Robin and Steve have ditched their green vests for the day, and are strolling to your car. “Hey, thanks for the ride, I still have no idea what’s wrong with my car.” Steve climbs into the backseat as Robin is kicking Dustin out of the shotgun.

“Glad you’re all here! We have a debate that needs settling.” Dustin announces, adjusting in the backseat next to Steve, shoving his discarded backpack to the floor.

“I can only imagine what this is about.” Robin flips the sun visor down to rub the excess mascara off her cheeks as she sighs, awaiting yet another ridiculous Dustin Henderson exclamation.

“Does Eddie have feelings for anyone?” Is all Dustin says. Immediately, Robin whips her head to face the boys, prolonging eye contact with Steve to exchange a secret look. Steve looks back with a shrug, his lips pursed like he has no idea what Dustin’s talking about.

“I thought we all knew that.” Steve says, looking from Dustin, then to Robin, before focusing on you. “He’s liked you since freshman year.”

Robin smacks her forehead. “Dingus, that information is confidential! He told us specifically not to share that with anyone, especially with the subject— not object because obviously they’re not an object— of his desire.” Robin turns to you. “He’s joking.” She pats your shoulder, a fake smile plastered on her freckled face.

“Dustin asked!” Steve argues, and Dustin puts his hand out to stop the two from continuing.

“I did ask! Because I know he has feelings. And I know he has them for this specific person,” he gestures to you, “and I know this same person likes him back. I just need more witnesses to support my argument!”

“Oh, yeah, in that case,” Robin turns to look at you, grabbing your hands in hers. “Eddie has big feelings for you, my friend. And believe it or not, you have them for him, too.”

“I do not!” You pull your hands away to cover your face in shame. Into your palms, you mumble, “Maybe a little.”

“A little?! I have caught you staring at his hands. You got it bad.” Steve is poking the top of your head over the car seat, and you respond by banging your head on the steering wheel and releasing a small beep from your car. A honk of defeat. You hear Dustin giggle.

“So what do I do?” You ask the floor of the car, not able to look at your friends.

“Do you people have to be told everything?” Dustin groans, fed up with you. “You tell him! You run into his arms like a lovesick puppy and take off into the sunset! Leave this horrible little town that despises you both and start a new life somewhere fun, like LA or New York!” Dustin is on a roll now, flailing his hands above his head, inches from destroying Steve’s coif of hair.

“Fine. If I’m gonna do any of that, you guys are coming with me!” With this, you peel out of the parking lot, and you’re on your way to Forest Hills.

—-

At Eddie’s trailer, you park behind his beat up van and drag yourself out of the driver’s seat. Dustin has gathered at your side, while Robin and Steve rest on the trunk of your car. “Can we wait out here?” Steve asks, “I don’t think Eddie will take us sharing this information very well.”

“You’re scared of Eddie?” Dustin laughs at Steve, who responds by putting his hands on his hips. “I am not… scared of Eddie. I am intimidated by Eddie. I prefer not to have conflict with Eddie.”

“Sure, totally.” Dustin rolls his eyes, and Robin lets out a snicker. “You’re afraid of Eddie.” She laughs, hiding her head in Steve’s shoulder.

“Anyway,” Dustin turns back to you. “Go in there, and pour your goddamn heart out. If it doesn’t go well, we’ll all be right here.”

You hesitate. “That’s the thing though, will you? You were all friends with Eddie before me, I don’t want to ruin our friendships!” You spill to your friends, and Dustin pulls you into a hug.

“We’re not going anywhere! If it doesn’t work out, we’ll figure that part out after.” It’s almost like you had nothing to worry about in the first place. Stupid.

“In all honesty, I don’t think we’ll have to worry about it.” Steve joins the hug, followed by Robin, and you feel the safest you’ve felt in Hawkins in a long time.

“Okay, guys. Wish me luck. I’m goin’ in.”

—-

Eddie answers the door after the third knock, pulling back when he meets your eyes. “Hey, you.” He smiles, then turns his focus to the guys behind you. “You all just gonna stand there?”

Dustin nods. “We’re here as back up, don’t worry about it!”

Eddie cocks his eyebrow at your friends, standing surrounded by your car waiting for the train wreck to start.

“Can we talk inside?” You ask feebly, wanting to be out of earshot when you inevitably embarrass yourself.

“Of course, yeah, come in.” Eddie moves to let you in, and closes the door behind you. When you enter, you take in your surroundings. You’ve never been to Eddie’s trailer before, and you weren’t sure what to expect. Vintage mugs hang on nails in the wall, there’s clutter everywhere and it’s dark. It feels cozy to you, very lived in. “What’s up?” Eddie breaks your train of thought. You turn to where he stands behind you, leaning against the doorframe of the front room.

You blow the air completely from your lungs, then start. “I have received some intel, and you’re the only one who can tell me if it’s good intel or if I’m being messed with.” You’re being vague on purpose, dreading the idea of coming forward with your feelings. You know, full well, that Dustin could be very wrong.

“And what’s that?” Eddie crosses his arms, sticking a hand under each armpit as if to hide them.

“See, that’s the thing. I’m embarrassed to tell you what I was told, lest it be incorrect.”

“Well, I can’t really tell you if it’s wrong if I don't know what it is.” Eddie smirks, and you lose your breath for half a second. His full attention is on you, something you’ve never actually witnessed before, and every muscle in your body tenses. You haven’t let yourself think about Eddie outside of his role as Dungeon Master, so hanging out with him like this is a completely new feeling. And you could sense this feeling would become addictive.

“There’s the rub.” You shrug, and fling yourself face first onto Eddie’s couch. With your face in the cushion, you gather your strength to mumble, “Dustin said you have feelings for me.” You don’t check to see if he heard you, but you feel him sit on the edge of the couch, right beside your waist.

“Sorry, what? You’re gonna need to be a little louder, sweetheart.” Eddie laughs. The words rush through you. He’s never called you that before.

You groan, pushing yourself into a sitting position beside your friend. “I said,” you pause, taking a deep breath in to get all the words out at once. “Dustin-said-you-have-feelings-for-me.” You finally meet Eddie’s eyes, and he’s looking at you with what can only be described as an annoyed confusion.

“Henderson.” He grumbles to himself, shaking his wispy hair around his face. “When did he tell you that?”

“In the car, like 20 minutes ago.”

Eddie pauses, a smile spreading across his blushing face. “And you had to know so badly that you came right here?” Eddie teases, eating up everything you’re saying.

“Technically, we picked up Robin and Steve first, but yes. Otherwise it was gonna gnaw at me forever.”

“Before I give you an answer, I wanna know why you care so much.”

You huff, annoyed at the circles these boys have thrown you in today. First, Dustin’s vagueness, and now, Eddie’s inability to answer your questions. “Because I am terrified of ruining things.” You admit to Eddie, resting your head in your hands once again.

“And my having feelings for you… would ruin things?”

“No! No, that isn’t what I’m saying at all.”

“Then what, exactly, are you saying?”

“I’m saying we have a good thing, Munson, and if you don’t actually feel that way about me, then I’m gonna be seriously embarrassed feeling that way about you.”

Eddie pauses, replacing his smile with a look of shock. “You have feelings for me?!”

You look up at him then, meeting his big brown eyes, taking in his expression of genuine confusion. “Oops.”

“Good thing there’s nothing for you to worry about, then.” he says it quietly, but you’re sure you've heard him correctly.

You tilt your at Eddie, who’s suddenly very fascinated by his own hands. He fidgets with his rings while bouncing his knee enough to shake the coffee table. “You’re gonna have to be a little louder, sweetheart.” You can't help but tease him, feeling a spark of confidence with his confession.

“I said,” Eddie meets your look, dropping his hands into his lap. “that you have nothing to worry about.” Your face splits into a smile, and he mirrors your expression. “I have had feelings for you since the day you joined Hellfire as a freshman. I don't believe for one second that you were that oblivious for four years.”

You roll your eyes. “I was more wrapped up in shielding myself from my own feelings. Forgive me for not immediately thinking the most charismatic person I hang out with would be into me.” You say bitterly, scooting your body away from his. “I don’t see myself as someone worth being the object of affection.”

He pulls you back to him before you can get away. “You’re forgiven.” He kisses your cheek quickly. “And very, very mistaken about that. I’m sure Henderson had tons to say on my behalf. The way I stare at you, watch you draw at lunch, talk about how pretty you always look, writing songs about you…” He trails off, and you bring your eyes back to his face.

“What was that last part?” You try to hide how good it makes you feel, knowing how unbearable he must have made Dustin’s life, talking about you constantly. No wonder he took it upon himself to spill the beans.

“What, how pretty you are? You’re awfully pretty. Not just in the literal sense, but also definitely in the literal sense-“

“No, dumbass, you write songs about me?” You cut off his admittedly sweet tangent. It’s hard to comprehend someone spending enough time thinking about you to write songs. Plural.

“They’re not… good songs, they’re barely playable, but I needed a way to get the thoughts out that didn’t include sharing them with a literal child.” Eddie’s face is beet read, but he’s still looking into your eyes. You imagine you’re about the same shade he is by now.

“You know I'm gonna make you play for me now, right?”

“If it meant you'd hang around longer, i’d get a whole orchestra in here.”

You smile as the silence grows, neither of you risking to fill it with more confessions right away. “Hold on.” you say, getting off the couch. You open the front door to your friends, still idling by your car, shooting the shit. “You guys can take off, the key’s in the ignition. I’ll catch a ride,” you glance at Eddie, who nods his head in agreement. “Thank you, so much.” Dustin's face lights up as you say this, looking only at him. “Get the kid back home by nine, or I won’t hear the end of it from Claudia!” You send them off with a wave, and you think you can hear Dustin exclaiming, “I knew it! Hallelujah!” You giggle to yourself as you close the door again. “Looks like I got time.” you say, turning around to find Eddie isn’t behind you anymore.

Confused, you walk back towards his room, where he sits on the end of his bed with his guitar in his lap. You take a mental picture, loving how focused he looks now, his fingers pressed lightly against the guitar neck, his other hand dancing on the strings, brow furrowed in concentration.

He looks up at you then, plastering his goofy smile across his face. “Glad you could stay.”

“Yeah, Harrington’s taking over, I'm sure it’ll cost me though.” You hop onto the bed next to him, crossing your legs in your lap. “So, Munson, you gotta song you wanna show me?”

Eddie laughs, shaking his head. “Want to is a stretch, but I guess I brought it up.” He positions his fingers and begins to play. It’s a pretty melody, uncharacteristically soft for Eddie’s usual style. He plays metal, and you’ve seen him in that element, going to his shows without him knowing, standing in the back by the bar. Your train of thought shatters, though, when he starts singing. It’s barely audible, his voice low and gravelly from all the screaming he usually does. Your breathing stops as you listen.

I’ve been told that time heals us,

the same way we say liquor does.

I wanted to believe that,

but that isn’t how this goes.

When I met you I was empty,

like I’d dug myself a hole,

but you were there with shovels,

and protection from the cold.

every day forever,

i’d wondered what i’d done,

to make you drag me out of there,

and convince me not to run.

You call me on the telephone,

and i’d try not to share

all the secrets i’ve kept hidden,

as you’re talkin’ in my ear

The song goes on, and you feel the tears in your eyes start to spill. You’ve never had someone feel strongly enough to write you a love letter, let alone one set to music and performed for you. It was overwhelming, how suddenly you could see the way this boy, your friend, felt about you. It hurt, almost, to know you could have made a move at any point in the last four years, and he would’ve dropped it all for you. In another way, you’re glad you didn’t, you couldn’t imagine how distracted you’d make him, and Eddie deserved to graduate.

Eddie finishes the song with one finalized strum, and you can tell he’s crying too. You hold out your hand to him, and he rests his cheek in your palm. “I don’t know what to say.” He glances up at you, awaiting your response.

“You’ve said enough. You’ve said so much more than enough. Oh my god, Eddie.” You use your free hand to wipe your fallen tears, and Eddie brings up his other hand to help you. “That is the kindest thing anyone’s ever done for me.”

“I couldn’t get you out of my head. I still can’t.” He moves his face closer to yours, your hand still holding his cheek. “I haven’t stopped thinking about you since we met. In fact you’ve definitely driven me insane.”

“Believe it or not, sweet boy, the feeling is mutual.” You’ve tired of the back and forth, despite how much you love making Eddie blush. You take his face in both your hands, finally pulling him into your kiss. Immediately, Eddie abandons the guitar on his bed, one hand against your face, the other flying to your waist. He kisses you desperately, the one thing he’d been wanting to do since the first time you sat at his lunch table.

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Terry Jones obituary

One morning Brian Cohen, completely naked, flung open the shutters at his bedroom window to find a mob below hailing him as the Messiah. Mrs Cohen, played by Terry Jones, who has died aged 77, had something to say about that. “He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy,” she told the disappointed crowd. It became a classic cinema moment.

The 1979 film Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a satire about an ordinary Jewish boy mistaken for the Messiah, which Jones directed and co-wrote with his fellow Pythons Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Michael Palin, was banned by 39 British local authorities, and by Ireland and Norway. Jones and his chums were unrepentant: they even launched a Swedish poster campaign with the slogan: “So funny it was banned in Norway.”

As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism. The latter was evident not just in his work for Monty Python – in which his historian’s sensibility proved essential to the satire of Arthurian England in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), which he co-directed and co-wrote – but also in several documentaries and books in which he stood up for what he took to be the misrepresented Middle Ages.

“We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition,” he said. “We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.”

Arguably, without Jones, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-74) would not have revolutionised British TV comedy. He was key in developing the show’s distinctively trippy, stream-of-consciousness format, where each surreal set-up (the Lumberjack Song, the upper-class twit of the year show, the dead parrot, or the fish-slapping dance) flowed into the next, unpunctuated by punchlines.

For all his directorial flair, though, Jones may well be best remembered for creating such characters as Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson, Cardinal Biggles of the Spanish Inquisition, the Scottish poet Ewan McTeagle and the monstrous musician rodent beater in the mouse organ sketch who hits specially tuned mice with mallets.

Thanks to the show’s success, Jones was able to diversify into working as a writer, poet, librettist, film director, comedian, actor and historian. “I’ve been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing,” he said.

Jones was a second world war baby, born in Colwyn Bay, north Wales, and brought up by his mother, Dilys (nee Newnes), and grandmother, while his father, Alick Jones, was stationed with the RAF in India. He recalled meeting his father for the first time when he returned from war service: “Through plumes of steam at the end of the platform, he appeared – this lone figure in a forage cap and holding a kit bag. He ran over and kissed my mum, then my brother, then bent down and picked me up and planted one right on me. I’d only ever been kissed by the smooth lips of a lady up until that point, so his bristly moustache was quite disturbing.”

When he was four, the family moved to Surrey so his father could take up an appointment as a bank clerk. Terry attended primary school in Esher and the Royal Grammar school in Guildford. He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and developed a lifelong interest in medieval history as a result of reading Chaucer.

At Oxford, he started the Experimental Theatre Company with his friend and contemporary Michael Rudman, performing everything from Brecht to cabaret. He also met Palin and the historian Robert Hewson, and collaborated with them on a satire on the death penalty called Hang Down Your Head and Die. It was set in a circus ring, with Jones playing the condemned man. He and Palin then worked together on the Oxford Revue, a satirical sketch show they performed at the 1964 Edinburgh festival, where he met David Frost as well as Chapman, Idle and Cleese.

After graduation, he was hired as a copywriter for Anglia Television and then taken on as a script editor at the BBC, where he worked as joke writer for BBC2’s Late Night Line-Up (1964-72). Jones and Palin became fixtures on the booming TV satire scene, writing for, among other BBC shows, The Frost Report (1966-67) and The Kathy Kirby Show (1964), as well as the ITV comedy sketch series Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967-69).

In 1967, he and Palin were invited to write and perform for Twice a Fortnight, a BBC sketch show that provided a training ground not only for a third of the Pythons (Jones and Palin), but two-thirds of the Goodies (Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie) and the co-creator of the 1980s political sitcom Yes Minister, Jonathan Lynn.

Jones and Palin wrote and starred in The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) for LWT. Its conceit was to relate historical incidents as if TV had existed at the time. In one sketch, Samuel Pepys was a chat show host; in another, a young couple of ancient Britons looking for their first home were shown around the brand-new Stonehenge. “It’s got character, charm – and a slab in the middle,” said the estate agent.

In the same year, he became one of the six founders of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. They expected the show to be quickly decommissioned by BBC bosses. “Every episode we’d be there biting our nails hoping someone might find it funny. Right up until the middle of the second series John Cleese’s mum was still sending him job adverts for supermarket managers cut out from her local newspaper,” Jones recalled. “It was only when they started receiving sackfuls of correspondence from school kids saying they loved it that we knew we were saved.”

After Python finished its run on TV, Jones went on to direct several films with the troupe. The first, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, was, he recalled, “a disaster when we first showed it. The audiences would laugh for the first five minutes and then silence, nothing. So we re-cut it. Then we’d show it in different cities, saying, ‘We’re worried about our film, would you come and look at it?’ And as a result people would come and they’d all be terribly worried about it too, so it was a nightmare.”

He had more fun co-writing and directing two series for the BBC called Ripping Yarns (1976-79) in which Palin starred as a series of heroic characters in mock-adventure stories, among them Across the Andes by Frog, and Roger of the Raj, sending up interwar literature aimed at schoolboys.

Jones directed and starred in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, which some religious groups denounced for supposedly mocking Christianity. Jones defended the film: “It wasn’t about what Christ was saying, but about the people who followed him – the ones who for the next 2,000 years would torture and kill each other because they couldn’t agree on what he was saying about peace and love.”

In 1983 he directed Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, in which he made, perhaps, his most disgusting appearance, as Mr Creosote, a ludicrously obese diner, who is served dishes while vomiting repeatedly.

During this decade Jones diversified, proving there was life after Python. In 1980, he published Chaucer’s Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary, arguing that the supposed paragon of Christian virtue could be demonstrated to be, if one studied the battles Chaucer claimed he was involved in, a typical, perhaps even vicious, mercenary. He also set out to overturn the idea of Richard II presented in the work of Shakespeare “who paints him more like sort of a weak … unmanly character”. Jones portrayed the king as a victim of spin: “There’s a possibility that Richard was actually a popular king,” he said.

He wrote children’s books, starting with The Saga of Erik the Viking (1983), which he composed originally for his son, Bill. A book of rhymes, The Curse of the Vampire’s Socks (1989), featured such characters as the Sewer Kangaroo and Moby Duck.

In 1987, he directed Personal Services, a film about the madam of a suburban brothel catering for older men, starring Julie Walters. The story was inspired by the experiences of the Streatham brothel-keeper Cynthia Payne. Jones proudly related that three of four films banned in Ireland were directed by him – The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life and Personal Services.

Two years later, he directed Erik the Viking, a film adaptation of his book, with Tim Robbins in the title role of a young Norseman who declines to go into the family line of raping and pillaging. In 1996, he adapted Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows for the big screen, giving himself the role of Mr Toad, with Ratty and Mole played by Idle and Steve Coogan. But it was rarely screened in cinemas. “It was ruined by studio politicking between Disney and Columbia Tristar,” he said. “We made a really nice film but no one saw it. It didn’t make any money, even though it was well reviewed.”

Jones was also unfortunate with his next film project. Absolutely Anything, based on a script he wrote with the screenwriter Gavin Scott, concerned aliens coming to Earth and giving one person absolute power. Plans were scuppered when a movie with a similar premise, Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey, was released in 2003. Only in 2015 did Jones manage to film Absolutely Anything, in which Simon Pegg, playing a mild-mannered schoolteacher, is given miraculous powers by a council of CGI aliens voiced by Jones and his former Monty Python colleagues. Robin Williams, in one of his last roles, voiced Pegg’s dog.

Jones made well-received history documentaries, including in 2002 The Hidden History of Egypt, The Hidden History of Rome and The Hidden History of Sex & Love, in which he examined the diets, hygiene, careers, sex lives and domestic arrangements of the ancient world, often appearing in the films as an ancient character, sometimes dressed as a woman.

In his book Who Murdered Chaucer? (2003), he wondered if the poet had been killed on behalf of King Henry IV for being politically troublesome.

He wrote for the Guardian, about the poll tax, nuclear power and the ozone layer. He became a vocal opponent of the Iraq war, and his articles on the subject were collected under the title Terry Jones’s War on the War on Terror (2004).

In his 2006 BBC series Barbarians, Jones sought to show that supposedly primitive Celts and savage Goths were nothing of the kind and that the ancient Greeks and Persians were neither as ineffectual nor as effete as the ancient Romans supposed. Best of all, he sought to demonstrate that it was not the Vandals and other north European tribes who destroyed Rome but Rome itself, thanks to the loss of its African tax base.

When Jones was asked what he would like on his tombstone, he did not want to be remembered as a Python, perhaps surprisingly, but for his writing and historical work. “Maybe a description of me as a writer of children’s books or maybe as the man who restored Richard II’s reputation. I think those are my best bits.”

In 2016, it was announced that Jones had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that impairs the ability to communicate. He and his family and friends spoke about his experiences to help others living with the condition.

Jones is survived by his second wife, Anna (nee Söderström), whom he married in 2012, and their daughter, Siri; and by Bill and Sally, the children of his first marriage, to Alison Telfer, which ended in divorce.

• Terence Graham Parry Jones, writer, actor and director, born 1 February 1942; died 21 January 2020

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(via What the League did next: The last 15 years of Mark Gatiss)

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With The League of Gentlemen back on our screens this month, we’re taking a look at what the group’s four members have been up to since the original TV series ended in 2002. Now that Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been covered, Sophie turns her attention to Mark Gatiss…

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During the two years after The League of Gentlemen‘s third and final series aired, Mark popped up in TV shows including Catterick, Marple and Little Britain, plus films such as Bright Young Things and Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures.  After meeting Julia Davis while filming Sex Lives of the Potato Men, Mark was then cast in her BBC Three dark comedy Nighty Night which ran for two series in 2004-2005. Mark recently mentioned on the Museum of Comedy Podcast that his character, Glenn Bulb, was originally supposed to appear in just one scene – the blind date in episode 1 – but he and Julia got on so well that his part was increased.

In 2005, Mark played Paterson in a remake of The Quatermass Experiment, reunited with Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton to voice some Vogons in the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and had a role in Funland, a comedy thriller series created/written by The League’s Jeremy Dyson. The same year year also saw the release of The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse – the group’s first and only outing on the big screen – and the film’s release was followed by their second major UK tour, The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You.

Nighty Night and Fear of Fanny (© BBC)

A lifelong Doctor Who fan, in 2005 Mark got the opportunity to write an episode (‘The Unquiet Dead’)  for the newly relaunched show with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Russell T Davies at the helm. The following year he wrote another episode (‘The Idiot’s Lantern’) for David Tennant’s first series as the Doctor. Also in 2006, he worked with Julia Davis again in Fear of Fanny, a BBC Four drama about the chef Fanny Craddock, played Ratty in Wind in the Willows alongside Matt Lucas and Bob Hoskins and appeared in James McAvoy film Starter for 10 as Bamber Gascoigne.

During 2007, he wrote and starred in The Worst Journey in the World on BBC Four, based on polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s memoirs. He also took to the stage in All About My Mother, guest starred in Doctor Who episode ‘The Lazarus Experiment’ and appeared in other TV shows such as Jekyll.

Doctor Who and Crooked House (© BBC)

In 2008, Mark wrote and starred in three-part supernatural series Crooked House on BBC Four and had roles in BBC Three comedy Clone, an episode of Poirot and a BBC adaptation of Sense & Sensibility. The next year saw him make an appearance in Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Psychoville, showing up in series 1’s three-hander (four-hander if you count the dead body!) episode that was filmed in just two long takes, in addition to having roles in Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen, Purves & Pekkala and Midsomer Murders.

Mark co-created, co-wrote and played Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock, which has so far had four series and a special since 2010. In the same year as Sherlock‘s first series, Mark took to the stage in Seasons Greetings with Catherine Tate, wrote another episode of Doctor Who (‘Victory of the Daleks’), turned HG Wells’ The First Men in the Moon into a TV drama – in which he also starred with Rory Kinnear – and wrote/presented documentary A History of Horror.  Over the next two years, he would also write/present follow-up documentary Horror Europa, write Doctor Who episode ‘Night Terrors’ and appear as Gantok in ‘The Wedding of River Song’, return to the stage in a production of The Recruiting Officer and have TV roles in The Crimson Petal and the White, Being Human and Inspector George Gently.

Sherlock and The First Men in the Moon (© BBC)

In 2013, Mark wrote An Adventure in Space and Time for BBC One, about the origins of Doctor Who starring David Bradley as William Hartnell, and also wrote Doctor Who episodes ‘Cold War’ and ‘The Crimson Horror’. During the same year, he guest starred as Joan Crawford in an episode of Psychobitches, directed by The League of Gentlemen‘s Jeremy Dyson.

2014 saw Mark star in a production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus alongside Tom Hiddleston and appear in Steve Pemberton’s BBC adaptation of Mapp & Lucia. He also made his first appearance in Game of Thrones representing the Iron Bank and wrote Doctor Who episode ‘Robot of Sherwood’. Over the next year, he was in big BBC dramas Wolf Hall and London Spy, wrote Doctor Who episode ‘Sleep No More’, which guest starred Reece Shearsmith, and played Peter Mandelson in Channel 4’sCoalition. He also had theatre roles in The Vote and Three Days in the Country, for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Wolf Hall (© BBC) and Coalition (© Channel 4)

Following a Sherlock special at the beginning of 2016, Mark was in BBC drama Against the Law as well as four films – Denial, Our Kind of Traitor, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie and the big screen reboot of Dad’s Army. He returned to the stage once again in The Boys in the Band, starring alongside his husband Ian Hallard. Most recently, he played the Prince Regent in Tom Hardy’s Taboo and Robert Cecil in Gunpowder, plus he wrote ‘Empress of Mars’ in the latest series of Doctor Who. He also curated the Queers series of monologues that aired on BBC Four this year as part of Gay Britannia season.

Mark has upcoming roles in the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas special and two films – Christopher Robin and The Favourite – which are due for release next year. Knowing him, he probably has plenty more in the pipeline as well!

The League of Gentlemen returns to the BBC on December 18th, 19th and 20th. Stay tuned for our look at Jeremy Dyson’s post-The League of Gentlemen career coming soon…

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LUCY, THE AMERICAN MOTHER

S3;E7 ~ October 26, 1970

Directed by Jack Donohue ~ Written by Lou Derman and Larry Rhine

Synopsis

For a class project, Craig is doing a documentary film about Lucy. When Kim's boyfriend wins a $100 cash prize at school, Lucy frantically tracks it down to the local library where Craig and Harry are filming her every move.

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harrison Otis Carter), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Craig Carter), Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter)

Guest Cast

Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane) makes her fifth series appearance as Mary Jane. Croft played Betty Ramsey during season six of “I Love Lucy. ” She also played Cynthia Harcourt in “Lucy is Envious” (ILL S3;E23) and Evelyn Bigsby in “Return Home from Europe” (ILL S5;E26). She played Audrey Simmons on “The Lucy Show” but when Lucy Carmichael moved to California, she played Mary Jane Lewis, the actor’s married name and the same one she uses on all 31 of her episodes of “Here’s Lucy. Her final acting credit was playing Midge Bowser on “Lucy Calls the President” (1977). She died in 1999 at the age of 83.

Don Crichton (Steve Bailey) makes his third and final appearances on “Here’s Lucy.”  He was an Emmy nominated choreographer who worked on “The Carol Burnett Show” and “The Love Boat,” among others.

Olive Dunbar (Librarian) played a high school biology teacher in “Lucy Gets Her Diploma” (TLS S6;E5).  This is her last appearances on a “Lucy” sitcom. Dunbar passed away in February 2017 at age 91.  

Richard Collier (Library Assistant) was a character actor who played small roles in the musical films Bells Are Ringing (1960) and Hello, Dolly (1970).  He did two episodes of “Dennis the Menace” (1963) with Gale Gordon.  This is his only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Sid Gould (Man in Library #1) made more than 45 appearances on “The Lucy Show,” and nearly as many on “Here’s Lucy.” Gould (born Sydney Greenfader) was Lucille Ball’s cousin by marriage to Gary Morton.

Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Man in Library #2) is an actor and stunt man who was seen in “Lucy and John Wayne” (TLS S5;E10), with whom he did eleven films. This is the second of his four episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Morgan, a veteran stunt performer, was cast because the character takes a fall off of his chair.

Alma Platt (Old Lady) was born in 1891, so was 79 years old at the time of this episode. Two weeks before this episode originally aired she was seen on “Marcus Welby M.D.” on ABC and four days after this episode originally aired she was seen on NBC's “Adam 12” - meaning Platt appeared on all three major networks in October 1970.  She died in 1976.

The character is only caught on screen for a moment when the camera pans to the right during the final chase scene in the library. She has no lines or business – she just sits and reads.

The woman who loses her wig in the library scene is the only actor not credited in the show.

After directing all of season one, Jack Donohue returns to “Here's Lucy” and will direct four more season three installments before leaving again only to reappear for the last six episodes of the series in season six.

In his DVD introduction to this episode, Desi Arnaz Jr. says that his parents took hundreds of hours of home movies. In 1993 Lucie Arnaz collected some of them in “Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie.”  

The title of Craig's movie will be “A Day in the Life of My Mother.”

When Kim hears Craig is making a documentary about Lucy, she 'auditions' to get into the act:

She first imitates Katharine Hepburn in the 1937 film Stage Door: “The calla lilies are in bloom again, such a strange flower.” Coincidentally, Lucille Ball was also in Stage Door. The now-iconic line was actually taken from the play The Lake, one of Hepburn's rare failures.

She next imitates Maurice Chevalier singing “Louise,” a song by Leo Robin and Richard H. Whiting from the 1929 film Innocents of Paris. The song became Chevalier's signature song.

Lastly, she mimics Bette Davis saying “Peetah! Peetah! You read the letter, didn't you?” Although attributed to Davis and often spoken by Bette Davis impersonators, this exact line is not found in any of her films. In 1941's The Great Lie she does say the line “I wish to leave Pete a letter marked personal” which may be the source for the oft-imitated quote.

Lucy tells Craig she doesn't want to be filmed first thing in the morning, when she looks like the Bride of Frankenstein. The Bride of Frankenstein  was a 1935 sequel film to Universal's Frankenstein that starred Elsa Lanchester as the monster's bride.  Lanchester made guest starring appearances on all three “Lucy” sitcoms and it was common to use the name “bride of Frankenstein” as a punchline for jokes in all three series.

Lucie talks about having breakfast with Steve Bailey (Don Crichton). They've been out together five times. Don Crichton also played Kim's boyfriend Don in “Lucy, the Conclusion Jumper” (S1;E5).  

When Craig calls “cut” on a real argument between Kim and Lucy, he takes on an exaggerated German accent, feeding into the TV trope that all directors were temperamental Germans in the style of Erich Von Stroheim (1885-1957), who was actually Austrian.  

When Lucy can't seem to act natural in front of Craig's camera, she suggests he get someone else to play his mother; someone like Raquel Welch, Carol Burnett, or Don Knotts. Movie star Raquel Welch seems to be the show's go-to name to drop when wanting to reference a young female sex symbol. Carol Burnett was a great friend of Lucille Ball and the two made numerous guest appearances on each other's television programs. Don Knotts, the nervous Deputy Fife from “The Andy Griffith Show” (which filmed on the Desilu back lot) will make a guest star appearances in a 1973 episode of “Here's Lucy.”  

Instead of Gale Gordon ending the episode wet, he starts it that way when he walks through the front door splattered with water from Lucy's front lawn sprinkler system.

Harry says that Lucy's daily misadventures make “Laurel and Hardy look like Sears and Roebuck.”  Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were a vaudeville and film comedy team.  Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon briefly imitated them when under a hypnotic suggestion in “Lucy and Pat Collins” (TLS S5;E11). Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck founded one of the world's largest retailers (now simply known as Sears) in 1886.

Steve says that Spooky Brown and His Electric Goose Pimples is playing at the Rock and Roll Palace.

The book that Lucie puts the mended $100 bill into is titled Kiss Me Stranger. Daphne Du Maurier wrote a book titled Kiss Me Again, Stranger in 1951. This title was chosen to be provocative when spoken to the unsuspecting patrons of the library.

After the birth of Little Ricky, the Ricardos were also avid home movie enthusiasts.  Things came to a boil in “Home Movies” (ILL S3;E20).  

Kim imitates Katharine Hepburn saying “The calla lilies are in bloom again.”  In “Lucy's Italian Movie” (ILL S5;E23) Lucy Ricardo also imitated Hepburn saying the line to impress movie director Vittorio Philippi.  

Kim also imitates Maurice Chevalier singing “Louise,” something Lucy Ricardo (and the rest of the gang did) in “The French Revue” (ILL S3;E7).  Chevalier eventually appeared as himself in “Lucy Goes to Mexico” a 1958 episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.”  In that episode Lucy once again does her Chevalier impersonation singing “Louise.”

Lucy is suspicious of Steve Bailey's motives and wants to meet her “future son-in-law.”  Coincidentally, that is exactly what she thought of Kim's boyfriend Don (also played by Don Crichton) in “Lucy the Conclusion Jumper” (S1;E5).

Lucy Ricardo also tore a bill in half and went to great lengths to retrieve it in “Bonus Bucks” (ILL S3;E21). The second half of this “Here’s Lucy” episode is based on “Bonus Bucks.”  

Lucy Carmichael went to great lengths to retrieve five $500 dollar bills she lost at a carnival in “Lucy Misplaces $2,000” (TLS S1;E4).  

The red “SILENCE” sign on the librarian's desk is the same one seen in the dorm room in the previous episode “Lucy, the Co-Ed” (S3;E5).  Because the prop is used as part of a joke here, and only serves as set decoration in the dorm room, this episode may have been filmed first and aired out of sequence.

Make-up!  Although Lucy comes downstairs after rolling out of bed calling herself 'the bride of Frankenstein,' she is wearing full eye make-up!  

Shut the door!  Harry leaves the front door open when he comes in for the second time.

Fact Check!  There is no need to have a cello-taped bill “set” by placing it in a book.  

Sitcom Logic Alert!  Why is there a laundry cart in a library?  It is clear that “Bonus Bucks” (ILL S3;E21), which was set in a laundry and featured comic business with a laundry cart, was very much on Lucille Ball's mind when filming this episode.

“Lucy, the American Mother” rates 3 Paper Hearts out of 5

This is an odd episode that doesn't quite come together cohesively. Although a bit of an homage to “Bonus Bucks” on “I Love Lucy”, the home scenes seem disconnected to the library scene, which never pays off as big as it should.  Also, Craig is written to act in a very uncharacteristic way in this episode.  

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Page 2     SOUNDS     April 10, 1976

CONTENTS

FEATURES David Bowie 12-14 Bill Bruford 16 War 17 PFM 18-19 Kate and Anna McGarrigle 19 Led Zeppelin 20 Bachman Turner Overdrive 27 Clive Davis 30 Guitar Special 32-39 Miracles 45

REGULARS News 2-4 Charts 6 Wax Fax 7 High Society 8-10 Jaws 11 Albums 20-24 Singles 40-41 Reggae 41 Fair Deal 42 Letters 44 Steppin’ Out 46-48 On The Road 49-51 New Sounds 54

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DEPUTY EDITOR Alf Martin

FEATURES EDITOR Barbara Charone

SPECIAL PROJECTS Phil Sutcliffe

NEWS EDITOR Hugh Fielder

EDITORIAL Geoff Barton Dave Fudger Susanne Garrett Vivien Goldman Jonh Ingham Tony Mitchell

CONTRIBUTORS Mick Brown Giovanni Dadomo Flip Fraser Jerry Gilbert Dan Hedges Robin Katz Dave Laing John Peel

PHOTOGRAPHER Mike Putland

IN AMERICA Toby Goldstein 212 672 3166 Al Rudis Steve Rosen Ted Joseph Peter Crescenti

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NEWSDESK

KISS MAYHEM Three attacks by the US destroyers

KISS, US kings of heavy rock in heavy make-up, are at last to play three gigs in Britain next month.

Despite the transatlantic publicity they have so far made little impact on record here but their fourth UK album ‘Destroyer’ will be released on Casablanca to coincide.

The label also plan to back up the full frontal assault on the British market with giveaways at the concerts including arm bands and Kiss masks and a TV advertising campaign.

The dates are: Manchester Free Trade Hall May 13, Birmingham Odeon 14, Hammersmith Odeon 15. The band may use their own jet-liner on the tour.

‘UNOFFICIAL’ FLOYD A PINK FLOYD single taken from ‘Wish You Were Here’ is being released in this country in a special limited edition of 10,000.

It will be ‘Have A Cigar’ b/w ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and comes through an exclusive distribution deal arranged by Lightning Records with the Dutch company who originally released it.

The last of the official Floyd singles released in the UK was ‘Point Me At The Sky’ and they have recently again vetoed any further single releases here, though they put them out in every other record buying country, because of what they regard as the lightweight pop image of the charts here.

ALVIN, FAIRPORT IN FOOTBALL FEST BANK HOLIDAY Monday is now set to be the biggest day ever in live rock in the UK – another huge football ground festival probably starring Alvin Lee has been announced, coinciding with the Who and Co. putting the boot in at Charlton (see opposite page).

The Southend Charity Festival Committee say that contracts are expected to be signed this week for a line-up starring Alvin and Friends, Budgie, and the debut of the new Fairport Convention.

Support acts planned are The Dave Bromberg Band, Magna Carta, the Mickey Jupp Band and Crossbreed with our very own John Peel compering.

Confirmation came from the business end Alvin and the Fairports that they were likely to do the gig though it was still being negotiated – neither band’s line-up has yet been announced.

The Festival is run for the benefit of Christian Aid relief and development projects in the third world.

It starts at 11 am and runs through to 9pm at Southend United Football Ground. Tickets are now on sale from the ground in Victoria Avenue at £2 though they will be £2.50 on the day. Postal applicants should send an SAE with cheques and postal orders made out to ‘Southend Sounds ’76.’

SOME OF THESE KNIGHTS GLADYS KNIGHT And The Pips will tour Britain later this month doing two shows a night in five venues, her last visit for some time as she is pregnant.

The dates are: Bournemouth Winter Gardens April 23, Manchester Palace 24, Southport New Theatre 25, London New Victoria 27, Birmingham Odeon 30.

They will be bringing their own rhythm section and the tour coincides with the UK release of their States hit ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’.

Gladys is also starring in a movie titled ‘Pipedreams’ due for release in Britain in the autumn.

STILL NO TUBES Tubes’ record company A&M say that they cannot tour the UK in May as their new album ‘Young and Rich’ (produced by Ken Scott who worked on the Supertramp albums) will be released then and they will be touring the States to promote it.

But they have been trying to arrange a London venue to do a possible week of shows later in the year as well as provincial dates and A&M said they were “virtually certain” to come to Britain in ’76.

RECORD NEWS

JON DOES THE LOT Jon Anderson, who plays just occasional acoustic and percussion with Yes, has been a one-man band on his solo album ‘Olias Of Sunhillow’ released by Atlantic on May 7. He wrote the words and music and plays all instruments including keyboards and harp.

He will perform excerpts from it on OGWT on May 11 and get a spot in the Daily Telegraph colour supplement on the release date. Yes start a three-month tour of the States in late May.

REAL THING release a single in mid-May to tie in with their guest appearance with David Essex at Earl’s Court on May 15.

BARNEY JAMES, ex-drummer with Rick Wakeman’s English Rock Ensemble, has his first solo single out on April 9 on the Solddon label. Titled ‘All The Prizes Taken’ it’s from his album ‘Koneg – The Second Coming’ scheduled for May release.

JOHNNY TAYLOR’S US number one hit ‘ Disco Lady’ has been rush released in the UK by Columbia. Taylor is a soul black veteran who first recorded in the 50s and had a string of hits on Stax during the past decade, including the classic ‘Who’s Making Love’. He joined Epic after the recent Stax collapse.

FREDDIE MACK, who played ‘Mr ‘Superbad’ in the K-Tel TV ads for the album of the same name last year, has a single of the same name out on Contempo on April 23. It’s called ‘Mr Superbad’.

LINDA LEWIS, whose current single on Bell is a Van McCoy song ‘Baby I’m Yours’, is heading for New Orleans to record with Allen Toussaint. Later in the summer she will co-star with John Miles in a Mike Mansfield TV special.

GRAND FUNK have signed to EMI International for the world outside North America.

NANARETH’s single ‘Love Hurts’ and album ‘Hair Of The Dog’ have both gone gold in the States.

ANNE-KARINE THINGNAES, Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest entry ‘Mata Hari’ is being released by DJM in the UK.

MOON WILLAIMS new single on DJM ‘Every Time I Take The Time’ will be ‘endorsed’ in radio ads by admirers including Deep Purple, The Rubettes, Angie Bowie and Biddu.

SHIRLEY BASSEY has a single called ‘Natali’ released on April 9 by United Artists. It’s taken from an Album ‘Love Life And Feeling’ out on April 23.

BONNIE DOBSON is recording a new album for Polydor and tracks so far completed include ‘Morning Dew’ (which she originally wrote) ‘A Taste Of Honey’, ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ and ‘Here Comes The Sun’. The album is scheduled for July release.

URIAH HEEP have finished work on their new album, ‘High And Mighty’, which is the first that the band have produced themselves. It will be released in May.

ARISTA RECORDS have taken over Haven Records in America which gives them such artists as the Righteous Brothers, Gene Redding, Willie Harry Nelson, Eve Sands, and Rob Grill and the Grassroots. The Righteous Brothers and Willie Harry Nelson have albums due for release shortly.

‘THE HAPLESS Child And Other Inscrutable Stories’ is the title of an album released by Virgin next weekend. The music is by Mike Mantler and lyrics by Edward Gorey and among those taking part are Robert Wyatt, Carla Bley, Terge Rypdal, Steve Swallow and Jack De Johnette.

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