•protect her•

• Chapter twenty two •

A/N- Y'all are gonna hate me...

Robin's POV

That morning when I woke up, I noticed a pair of pale arms wrapped around me.

I got used to my surroundings and realized that the arms belonged to Nancy.

I turned around and kissed her cheek "Good morning, Nance"

She slowly opened her eyes as a smile crept on her face.

"Good morning" She gave me a peck on the lips.

"Ugh, morning breath" I whispered.

"Sorry, I couldn't help it" She giggled.

We got out of bed and headed down the stairs. We saw everyone seated at the table and sat down, grabbing some fruit.

"Hey girls, what are your plans for today?" Joyce asked us.

"Well, it's a Thursday, and I typically visit Tommy on Thursdays. I've been calling him, telling him that I've been working, but since I'm not sick anymore, could I go see him?" I replied.

"Of course honey!" Joyce said "I hope you have a good time"

"It's kinda hard to do that in jail, but thanks" I laughed.

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After breakfast, Steve, Eddie, Nancy and I hopped into Steve's car.

"Wait, we need to get Max. I told her that I would take her to visit Tommy" I told the group.

We pulled into the Mayfield residence to see Max taking the trash out.

"Hop in" Eddie yelled at her.

"What? Why?" She yelled back.

"We're going to the jail... to see Tommy" Steve yelled, unlocking the doors.

She hopped in and we were on our way.

About halfway through the drive, Nancy asked a question.

"Hey Rob. I was just thinking about everything and I wanted to know if you ever figured out how you knew what Vecna looked like?"

"Oh shit. I forgot about that. God that feels like ages ago. And uhh no. I really have no idea how I knew. I'm sure you described him or something and just didn't remember telling me" I smiled and squeezed her hand.

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When we got to the prison, the guards did their usual safety checks before letting us in.

We walked into a room with tables and prisoners sat at each one. I walked over to the one with Tommy at it.

"Hey Tom. I missed you" I gave him a hug.

"I missed you too, Rob. I'm glad you could get the time off to come visit... you also brought more people" Tommy said, hugging me back.

"Oh yeah, that's Eddie, Max, Nancy and you already know Steve. They wanted to come and meet you" I explained.

"Oh, cool! How do you know them?" He said as he sat down.

I explained how I knew everyone- leaving out the monster stuff- and he got to know them all.

After a while, we got around to the topic of things I used to do when I was a kid.

"Wait- she really used to be afraid trees?" Max giggled.

"Yup... she also used to have this imaginary friend that she would talk to" Tommy added on.

"I don't remember this!" I laughed.

"Oh well, you were like 3 or 4 at the time. You used to make drawings of him" Tommy smiled.

"Was he hot?" Eddie asked, earning a slap from Steve.

"No... he was really ugly" Tommy laughed "I don't know if Robin sucked at drawing and was colour blind or if she had an insanely vivid imagination"

"What did he look like?" Nancy asked.

"He had these viney tentacle things and he was a red brown colour... he looked like a living blood clot" Tommy joked.

We all laughed uncomfortably and our fake laughing was cut off by the guard yelling.

"FREE TIME OVER!!"

We said our goodbye's to Tommy and walked out to the car in complete silence.

Once we got in, Eddie started the panic.

"Okay, was it just me or did he just describe Vecna?"

"Yup. That was Vecna's exact description alright" Nancy looked terrified.

"It could be a coincidence. Let's not look too much into it. We killed the Bastard and that's the end of it" Steve reassured everyone.

"Yeah, but what if he's always been with me. Like he's been there all my life and he was in hiding" I thought out loud.

"There's no way that that's possible. He wouldn't have waited that long to strike" Max added.

"Maybe he resting up and recognized El when I met her" I was definitely psyching myself out here.

"There's no way. This all has to be a coincidence" Eddie said.

"Yeah... I'm sure it's nothing" I noted, more to reassure myself then everyone else.

I had finally convinced myself that it was just a big mistake when I heard it... it heard the clock.

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Yeah... I'm sorry... not really. I don't write well when my characters are happy and I enjoyed writing the Vecna storyline at the beginning and I wanted to bring it back! I hope you enjoy :)