✓ | RIBS, bill denbrough

xiv. swear, and promise

"I CAN ONLY remember parts, but, i thought i was dead. that's what it felt like. i saw us, all of us together back in the cistern, but we were older, like, our parents' ages."

"what were we all doing there?" bill asks at y/n, all of them were now together in a circle, on a sunny september day.

"i just remember how we felt. how scared we were. i don't think i can ever forget that." she shrugs, looking down. bill then looks at a shard of glass, he stands up and bends down to pick it up.

"swear it. swear if it isn't dead, if it ever comes back, we'll come back, too." all the loser's attention were now on him.

y/n, mike, ben, stanley, richie, eddie, and beverly ponder this, and they stand up one by one as bill holds out his left hand and makes an incision in it using the piece of glass. he then approaches richie and cuts into his left hand. he cringes from the pain and shakes his hand as bill does the same thing with eddie, who looks away. 

he then goes over to mike, who groans as bill cuts into his skin. stanley closes his eyes and grits his teeth in pain as bill makes an incision in his hand. ben lets out a quick grunt in pain as bill does a quick incision with his hand. 

then, he goes over to beverly, as the other boys clutch their bleeding hands, and makes a deep incision in her hand. beverly winces slightly, but other than that, she acts as if she didn't feel a thing. 

finally, he turns to y/n, he makes a deep incision in her hand. she winces and closed her eyes. bill steps away, in between richie and y/n, and holds out his right hand.

y/n places her left hand in it. beverly takes y/n's right hand, and all of them follows to do the same. the eight of them hold hands for a few seconds, then let go simultaneously.

"i gotta go. i hate you." stan looks at bill with a blank expression, bill feels a little bit stung by these words, then stan smiles to indicate that he was just joking. "i'll see you later." he walks away.

all of them left one by one, saying their bye's to bill and it was just him and y/n left. she was sitting on one the logs, staring at the view in front of them.

"i need to tell you something." bill then turns to y/n, after watching beverly leave. "tomorrow morning, i'm moving away." he knows that this means he may not see y/n again.

"and just so you know.. i never felt like a loser when i was with all of you." she finally confessed, looking bill in the eye. "see you around." she stands up and begins to walk away.

bill looks at her, then looks away, thinking for a few seconds, before leaving it thinking it was a stupid idea. he looks at her for one more time before leaving as well.