~~Chapter Seven: Phone calls and revelations~~

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Sorry this took so long! I doubt anyone is even reading this on Wattpad anyways haha but yeah
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Robin watches as Steve paces in front of her, starting to go over everything she's said in the past couple minutes of frantic rambling.

Steve starts talking slowly. "Okay, so everything was going alright, and none of those other details matter, but then when you were back at her house she recognized your eyes and made you catch a silver necklace?" The time it takes him to talk just makes Robin anxious about the need to act fast.

"Yes, Steve," Robin fiddles with the bottom of her shirt, "and I don't know what to do! What if she knows to come here? What if she goes to the Byers' place and doesn't believe that I said they don't know about me and suspects them too? Shit, Steve, Eddie's there! If she sees him—"

"Hey, hey, it'll be okay, Rob, let's just work this out, okay?" Steve puts his hands on her shoulders, looking at the burn on her neck from the knife. She turns her head, not wanting him to worry about her right now and he must understand as he continues. "How about you call the Byers' place, yeah? Explain everything that happened and while you can do that I can drive there and be ready to pick him up and take him back with no explanation needed. After that we can figure everything out and decide if you two should stay here or if we should find somewhere else for you to go. Is that good?"

Robin nods, letting out a shaky breath. "Y-yeah that's good. I'll make sure Joyce knows that you're coming to get Eddie. Why isn't he here anyways? I thought he'd be here with you?"

Steve laughs, shaking his head slightly. "Uh, it's hard to explain but I freaked out when he suggested staying over and just drove him there instead? Anyways," he continues, ignoring Robin's brief confused look. "I'm gonna go now to make sure we're quicker than Nancy. You call the Byers' as soon as I leave, okay? If Nancy shows up before I'm back, just hide and wait or leave if it's too dangerous to stay."

"Yeah, I'll be careful! Be... be quick!" She responds, watching Steve move to go grab his car keys and go towards the door. Before he can leave, however, she says, "

As soon as Steve is out the door, Robin rushes to the closest phone, stumbling and hitting a corner on her way. Frantically dialing the number, getting it wrong twice before she gets it right, she anxiously waits for someone to pick up. Every second is time that Nancy could be on her way somewhere. Robin only hopes that Mrs. Wheeler has been able to keep Nancy distracted just long enough that they'll have time to sort everything out. Even an extra few moments could mean everything.

The phone rings for a couple seconds that feel more like minutes, before someone picks up with a faint, 'hello?"

"Hey, Joyce! This is really important but, uh, Steve is on the way over right now to pick up Eddie and bring him back here to his."

Robin faintly hears background talking when Joyce responds. "Wait, why? Did something happen? Are you okay?"

Fiddling with the phone cord as she talks, she answers with, "Yeah. Something happened with Nancy. Short story short, she knows I'm a werewolf now!" she dryly chuckles. "Steve said to bring Eddie here for now and we'll either stay here and hide if she comes around and hope Steve can lie well enough, or find somewhere else. My parents are oblivious anyways so should be fine. Will all of you be able to pretend you don't know about me if you're questioned?"

There's a short pause as someone — likely Jonathan from the voice — asks about the call and Joyce relays the information to him and whoever else is there. "Yeah we can do that. Make sure you stay safe, okay? If things go wrong, all of you just come over here and we will figure something out. I'll explain everything to the others more now. Just stay safe!"

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"Thank you! We'll try," Robin answers. "I promise I'll fully explain everything eventually when it's safe and there's time. You guys stay safe too!"

After both saying goodbye, Robin hangs up the call. She realizes she's been shaking slightly and takes a moment to try to calm down a bit. Leaning her head against the wall she takes a few deep breaths, trying to calm her racing thoughts too. It's a lost cause trying to slow down her thoughts too much, but she stops shaking and moves back from the wall to start pacing instead.

There should only be a few minutes until Steve comes back if he's as quick as he said he would be. Any second now he should be arriving to pick up Eddie and then should be back on his way here. But every second he's gone and Robin is alone is more time for Robin to worry that Nancy is going to appear and she's not going to know what to do without Steve or even Eddie there too.

Realistically, Robin isn't even worried as much about herself as everyone else. Yeah, she's terrified about the threat of dying and the fact that this woman she's slowly starting to like more and more is actively hunting her. But what really scares her is that if Nancy kills her then she isn't there to help the others. To protect them. She trusts that they can defend themselves well, but still has a need to protect them. It doesn't help that Robin is swarmed with guilt because this is all her fault. If she'd just listened to everyone, especially Steve, and stayed the hell away from Nancy, none of this would have happened.

Nancy being in Hawkins' was a risk already, but this entire time Robin has just been making it worse. Testing fate. Getting close and making it more and more likely that she'd be figured out eventually. If nothing had happened, maybe Nancy would have concluded that her and Eddie had left and she would have left too. Maybe they could have figured out how to lead Nancy away with tracks somewhere else. Maybe they'd just still be safer than the second Robin let her curiosity and— and her attraction, get the better of her.

She starts spiraling more and more, delving too much into all the little things she should have not done to avoid all of this. If she hadn't been in the woods that night to even see Nancy or be seen as a werewolf. If she hadn't introduced herself to Nancy— started talking to Nancy. If she hadn't agreed to go out into the woods with Nancy. If she hadn't even looked or listened to Nancy or done literally anything that has caused all the curiosity around Nancy. She never should have been listening to all the interesting things Nancy was saying — and not saying- everything Robin doesn't know about Nancy is something she wants to learn — and instead should have been listening to Steve. To Max. To Eddie, even. God, Robin was actively betraying Eddie too, every time she acted friendly with Nancy. It wasn't just Robin that was attacked, but Eddie too. Nancy even killed Eddie's friend and had been tracking him. He's at least a friend right now and that's unfair to him. What's happened to her?

She knows what's happened to her. She's aware that half of her normal abilities to think rationally disappear the second she starts liking a girl. The fact that something about Nancy and her personality and — as much as it pains Robin to admit — stunning looks, has had much more of an effect than any other crush Robin has had, is even worse. Robin rarely ever wishes she weren't attracted to women, weren't lesbian, but god that would be good not to be and she does. Honestly, sometimes she wishes she didn't have any attraction but she does, and that's why everything is a mess now.

A few minutes pass and Robin feels like she's about to spontaneously combust from the amount of pressure she feels from spiraling when she suddenly hears the sound of a car pulling up in the driveway outside. She freezes, unable to tell right away if it's Nancy's car or Steve's.

Rushing to the window, she very careful opens the curtain just enough to look outside, and breathes a sigh of relief when she sees Steve and Eddie getting out of the car. Eddie makes it to the door first because of his speed, and Steve isn't far behind. When they're both inside, there's a weird silence of no one speaking and just looking at each other.

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