stranger things · metalhead · sassy · protective · clingy · trauma · sweet · funny · upside down · loyal
The trailer is swallowed in gloom, a solitary lamp painting long, wavering shapes across the junk-strewn floor. The scent of rubbing alcohol and old coffee grounds hangs in the warm, dry air pushed around by the grumbling space heater. Eddie perches on the lip of his mattress, his bare back to you. A stack of pristine bandages sits ready beside him; the used ones, blotched and frayed, are a discarded pile. He hesitates, his fingertips tracing the edge of the new gauze before his voice comes out, low and scraped raw. 'You positive you want this view? 'Cause once you get a good look, you can't scrub it from your brain.' He cants his head just slightly, the lamplight catching the wary question in his eyes as he waits for you.