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☢️Friends to Lovers☢️

Tissue Warning

Reddie hurt/no comfort (with a secret surprise crossover twist at the end 🤫)

Basically Adult!Richie Tozier grieving after losing his first love Adult!Eddie Kaspbrak in the final battle with Pennywise the Clown.

Richie sat on the couch in his shitty apartment, clutching a half empty bottle of nasty drug store whiskey in his trembling hand. He should have quit drinking hours ago, but he can't bring himself to face this grief sober. He'd drink, snort, pop pills and shoot up till he died if it meant he could be numb to this burning ache in his shattered heart.

He sat up and set down the bottle, picking up the Altoids tin from the coffee table and popping it open.

Inside was the pills. The pills that made him see Eddie. But it wasn't really his Eddie. It never was.

He popped the pill in his mouth and swallowed it down with the cheap whiskey.

A moment later the room spun and he heard footsteps shuffling towards him. He felt the phantom sit on the couch beside him. He could smell the strong stench of hand sanitizer. He looked at the coffee table and saw the familiar inhaler and the old pill caddy.

He looked beside him and saw Eddie, with blood dripping from his mouth and a huge gaping hole in his chest. His skin looked rotted now, like he was slowly decaying right before Richie's eyes.

"I'm sorry." Was all Richie could manage in that moment. It didn't even matter. His Eddie, his first and only love, was gone. And this thing, this drug induced figment of his fucking imagination, couldn't ever replace his Eddie.

"Why do you keep bringing me back? Can't you see I'm dead?" Eddie says harshly, in a voice a zombie might have if zombies could speak.

"I miss you, asshole." Richie grumbles, adjusting his glasses and leaning back in his seat. "I should've done more to protect you. It should be me buried six feet down, not you. I deserve to die, Eddie."

"Sometimes dead is better, Richie." Not-Eddie says quietly, looking at Richie with hollow, zombie-like eyes. "You remember the stories...about the old Pet Cemetery in northern Maine. We used to tell those stories around the campfire on camping trips, Rich."

Richie stands up and grabs his coat, his body on autopilot. He's not sure exactly where he's headed, but...

He finds himself standing in a foggy, wooded area, holding a shovel and standing over a deep hole in the ground.

The hole contains Eddie's dead, partially decayed body, still wearing the suit they buried him in 6 weeks ago.

"Fuck. What am I doing? Oh, fuck!" Richie says quietly in horror.

It only gets worse as he notices the silhouette of a woman in a boater hat watching from the shadows. He decides to quickly just bury the body and go home, hoping the silent watcher won't go running to the police to turn him in for grave robbing.

He finds his way out of the woods, only to come face to face with the most terrifying cat he's ever met. It snarled and hissed at him, attacking his leg. An equally horrifying little girl steps out of the shadows and calls the cat back over. She looks like she just climbed out of the grave.

"Leave." She says ominously. "And take your friend with you."

Richie turned around, only to be met with...

"Eddie?" Richie gasps, seeing his friend before him in his funeral suit, skin dark greyish-green in places, beginning to just completely fall off in others.

"Richie...was I dead?"

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Haha I put "It" "Pet Sematary" "The Shining" and "Doctor Sleep" in the same universe! I'm very sick-minded and love Gory, dark, mind-numbing horror (Except for Human Centipede. Don't even 🤢 mention that to me 😳🤢🤮😭 poor Lindsay oh fuck...I am NOT watching the sequels! You can't make me! BLECH!) But "Bite" and "Contracted" were good quality, feminist body horror films that I can definitely see myself watching again. And anything James Wan is just 🤯🤯🤯 especially "Malignant" and the "Saw" franchise including "Spiral". US "The Ring" franchise is as equally dark and creepy as I am hoping that the US "The Grudge" franchise will be (plus John Cho is super hot🔥) I've yet to see "The Fly" 1 or 2, or "Slither", but they definitely look like some ooey gooey body horror fun (not to mention Jeff Goldblum and Michael Rooker are incredible actors). My aunt always talks about "The Fly" but that's the black N white original she saw. Not... The remake... Where his dick apparently falls off... And he morphs into a giant fly monster... And gets fused with a metal door... And his head gets blown off.