The Years After (IT Chapter Two fanfic)(Sequel to Summer of '89)

5.

Mike, Charlie, and Bill drove to the library. They went inside and walked all the way upstairs. Did Mike live here?

They entered a room filled with books and papers on walls, a small bed and a refrigerator. Mike did live there.

"Make yourselves at home" he said rummaging through the fridge.

"You want some water?"

"Sure" Bill said.

Mike gave him a glass of the water and gave it to Bill. Bill gave a disgusted face when he drank it and put the glass down. Mike didn't offer any water to Charlie which she found weird, but she wasn't thirsty anyway.

"See memory is the key to everything. And I read every book, talked to everyone in this god forsaken town who would talk to me and I know how to kill IT. But to know that, I had to know how he started" he picked up an old cone like antique from the table and looked at it.

"It started here" he showed Bill and Charlie a side of it.

"Woah" Bill said.

"What are we looking at Mikey?" Charlie asked him.

"It's an artifact, from the early 18th century from the Shakapewah"

"How'd you get it?"

"I found it. No they gave it to me ... I stole it" he said.

"You stole it?" Bill asked. Charlie could tell something was up with Bill but she wasn't sure, he seemed uneasy.

"This showed me things, a vision" Mike explained. He moved to the window and Bill almost fell but Charlie grabbed his arm to make sure he was okay.

"I feel kinda funky, it's hot" he said.

"Mike what's wrong with him?" she asked but he didn't reply. 

Mike started to talk about a tribe and how they showed him the past of IT. He mentioned how they gave him a special root to see their visions and Charlie understood.

"Mike, did you drug him?!" she smelled the water that he drank from and there was definitely something in that.

As Bill watched the visions, he was starting to sweat and he was freaking out. Charlie held on to his hand to let him know she was there, she wondered why Mike didn't give her the root. Mike kept talking about a ritual they had to do, to bring the dead lights in the box so they can kill IT once and for all.

When Bill finally got out from the visions and came back to reality, he was laying on the floor and heavily panting. His lip was bleeding and he was sweating. Charlie was gripping his hand so he would calm down.

"You saw it right?" Mike asked him. Bill grabbed his shirt collar and leaned into him.

"I saw the whole f-fucking thing"