Strange Love • Steve Harrington

War Zone

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"Check this out." Eddie comes out of his room, slamming a yellow page book onto the table. "The War Zone. I've been there once. It's huge. They got everything you need for, uh... well, killing things, basically."

"You think fake Rambo has enough guns there? Is that a grenade? I mean, how is any of this legal?" Robin freaks out.

"Well, lucky for us it is, so... This... This place is just far enough outside of Hawkins. As long as we steer clear of main roads, we oughta be able to avoid cops and, uh, angry hicks." Eddie smiles, trying to comfort everyone from this horrible but yet only great idea.

"If we're trying to avoid angry hicks, maybe we shouldn't go to some store called the War Zone." Erica rolled her eyes. I do miss her, still sassy as always.

"Normally, I'd agree, but we need the weapons. So I think it's worth the risk." Nancy agrees.

"Me too." I sighed. "Its our only hope." Steve snaps his fingers.

"Star Wars." I patted his shoulder.

"But is it worth the time? It'll take all day to bike there and back." Dustin looks at Eddie.

"Who said anything about bikes?"

"You got some car we don't know about?" Steve stands to Eddie.

"It's not exactly a car, Steve. And it's not exactly mine, but, uh... it'll do." He smiles and turns to Max. "Hey, Red, uh, you got a ski mask or a bandanna, something like that?" Max stand there, thinking. She leaves the trailer and we waited. She comes back a few minutes and hands him a Micheal Myers mask from Halloween. Eddie groans.

"Or you want to be caught? Up to you sweetheart." I patted his cheek. Eddie puts on the mask and we headed out. We followed him to another RV, hoping one by one in a small window.

"That was suffocating. Go! Come on." I followed him to the drivers seat. He pulled a bunch of wires. "Uhh i dont remember-" he was going to cut the green one.

"Give me that." I snatched the cutter and cut the red wire instead.

"Since when do you know how to hot wire a car?" He tells me. Steve and Robin came from behind, watching me.

"When your ex boyfriend is a literal felon, on your first date he doesn't have a car and thought hot wiring a mustang to go get hot dogs and make out in the woods was really good thing to impress girls." I shook my head as I tried to light it up.

"You dated a felon?"

"What can I say, im into bad boys, right Stevie? " i smirked up at Steve.

"Eddie, I'm not sure I love the idea of you driving." Robin told him as he sat in the drivers seat.

"Oh, I'm just starting this sucker. Harrington's got her." He looks up at him. "Don't ya, big boy?" Smiling big.

"What the hell? Hey!" We all jumped as the owners of the trailer popped up. "Open this door! Hey! They locked the door!" Eddie and Steve switched, Steve now driving the big trailer. I sat in the passengers seat, holding on.