Grass Dyed Red | IT 2017

vii.

A bright white light, illuminates the Sewer Map taped to the back wall of Denbrough house. The light is from the old slide that Bill snagged from Bens the other day in the projector. Bill has positioned it on a couple of stacked boxes, and the Losers huddle around it like a campfire. "Did you bring the map?" Bill asks Del, and she pulls a slide out of her pocket and hands it over. Bill inserts the slide into the tray of the Projector, and clicks the advance button and click! The Carousel Tray rotates. The old map of Derry is overlayed with the Sewer Map.

"Look. Th-there's the Ironworks. There's the Black Spot. Everywhere It happened is all connected by the sewers and they all meet up at." "The wellhouse." Ben says. "It's in the house on Neibolt street, i saw the well remember?" Del says pointing to the map. Eddie takes a puff off his inhaler. "You mean that creepy ass house where all the junkies and hobos like to sleep?" Bev looks a little away, triggered by the house image in her head. "I hate that place. It always feels like it's watching you."

"That's where It lives." Bill says, and start to stare mor into it before Eddie goes over to the Sewer Map and rips it off the wall. "Can we stop talking about this? This is summer, we're kids, we're supposed to be-." "I agree with Eds." Richie says cutting him off. "No put the map back!" Bill says frustrated. Suddenly, the Projector Tray rotates. So it's back to being a white square of light shining on Eddie. No more Map of Derry. "What happened?" Bill asks. Click! Rotates again. Click! And again. Click! Click! Mike tries to stop it. Suddenly, old vacation slides from The Denbrough Family in Happier Times at the Acadia National Park.
When Georgie was still alive.

There they are hiking. There they are swimming. There Georgie is on the edge of the lake. There he is again. And again. Same photo. Again. Click! Click! The Carousel continues to spin. That same slide. But now it looks as if Georgie is moving. Bit by bit. And the entire scene is becoming animated. Ripples in the lake. Georgie turning to camera. An expression of pure fear on his face. "Georgie.?" Bill says in a whisper, and Del puts her hand on his arm.
"Okay, what the fuck?" Richie says as everyone stays still besides Eddie who's already moved over to Ben and Bev. Click! Click! Click! The photo changes to a photo of the Trintsons and Denbroughs, only zoomed in on Mrs. Denbroughs hair in the wind.

"Turn it off." Bev says. No one moves. They are all still fixed on this event. "Turn it off!" Her hair starts to move in the wind and the projector only speeds up. Stanley goes over and pulls out the cord. Click! That doesn't do shit. Click! Her hair starts to move and a big forehead appears Click! once it becomes more visible, everyone freezes, including Del. It's Pennywise. Staring into the camera smiling.

"Holy shit..." Richie gets out. "That's It. That's him." Delvina says, and Mikes mouth drops noticing the clown from earlier. Carousel spins faster and faster, which makes Pennywise's smile smoother and smoother until -- in the span of a click -- Pennywise appears right up against camera. Losers SCREAM. Mike kicks the boxes and the Carousel crashes to the ground. No more Pennywise on the wall. "Phew...How'd that even happen?" Stand asks.
"No fuck this. It saw us. It knows who we are now." "It always did..." Bill says looking at Delvina. "Guys!" Bev screams. They look over at Beverly. She's staring at something above them. They follow her gaze up to the
ceiling, where the Carousel is now projecting. With more space between it and the ceiling, the square frame is bigger now. And so is Pennywise. Staring down at them with a freeze-frame snarl. Until... He pops out of frame.

Fast at first -- but then almost in slow-motion -- as if he's diving into the frigid waters of our reality. He reaches out toward Beverly and she falls to the floor to try and distance herself but it isn't going to help. He's just about to grab her when the garage door opens, flooding the room with light which in turn makes Pennywise disappear. The Losers look over at Ben, by the Garage Door Opener. "Thanks, Ben. Good thinking." Bev says. He walks over to her. Helps Beverly get back on her feet. Stanley looks over at Richie. His face pale, his mouth open, his mind blown, his fear palpable.