His Domain

Chapter 7

The next morning when she came down for breakfast, Pennywise was still there. He was just kind of standing in the corner of her living room glaring at the kitchen table like he had nothing better to do. To be fair, maybe he didn't, she really didn't know, but he'd been hanging around like this since before she went to sleep and she wondered why he wasn't bored or hadn't fucked off back to the sewers. He just watched her, and she tried to behave as she normally would but it wasn't easy when some guy who constantly looked like a demonic clown was glaring at her or standing right behind her. As time passed, she assumed she'd get more and more used to it and at least he didn't follow her around when she went out. At least not to an extent she could see him (or others could) but she was sure he was always watching. She didn't say anything to him she just went into the kitchen and made herself a bowl of cereal as he stood there completely still like he was some kind of freaky statue in her corner.

As she was eating, the doors to the private elevator that led up to her penthouse opened. She looked up, because she wasn't expecting anyone but that didn't mean no one would drop by. Rika came and went from her penthouse as she pleased when she was in town, which wasn't often but it was an unspoken thing they had because Rika used to live there when she was still in the states for school. They had been roommates because they were best friends. Leila was an heiress to a company that was based out of Japan and Rika had gone to business school specifically to get a job at the company. A place called DTI. After she'd completed her nursing and business degrees she'd moved back to apply for a job there. She didn't want to be handed the job because she knew Leila she wanted to earn it. For years, she'd worked for the company getting promoted legitimately and making a name for herself. When Leila's parents had died, Leila appointed her as head CEO because she was qualified as well as a board of trustees, she hadn't wanted to run the place herself. She wanted to be an FBI agent which she currently was. This left Rika in Japan most of the time but she traveled to the states on business a lot, especially New York where their American business headquarters were.

"Brought a whole bunch of food so you can cook for me," Rika said happily as she walked to the counter and set the bags down. This was something she usually did and wasn't that uncommon in Japan but usually, when someone did that in Japan, they were also going to be the one cooking. Rika didn't know how to cook, which wasn't surprising given her busy lifestyle as a CEO but Leila was good at it so this was what they usually did.

"Uh, Rika..." Leila said and stood up quickly. Rika looked over in her direction which also happened to be the same direction where Pennywise was standing and immediately screamed and backed up.

She can see me.

Leila blinked a few times. He sounded surprised by the fact that Rika could see him and she didn't know why he was surprised because she saw him just fine herself, so of course, she just believed Rika would see him.

"What the fuck is that? Why would you buy anything like that?" Rika asked pointing right at Pennywise. Leila wanted to answer him, of course, but she couldn't do that without also sounding insane considering that Rika apparently just thought it was a statue.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," She replied, "You should go."

"Why? So that thing can come to life and eat you fuck that." Rika said and took a deep breath starting to approach him. "That thing looks downright possessed, did you get it out of an evidence locker, what the fuck is that?"

"Rika..." Leila said and grabbed her before she could get too close.

Why can she see me?

Luckily for the both of them, he still wasn't moving and he was perfect at pretending to be a statue with this so for now, the illusion was not broken but she didn't know how long Pennywise was going to tolerate this. Rika had been the only person to come into this penthouse besides her in the past three days. He hadn't had to deal with another human and with how he was questioning her now it seemed that other humans typically couldn't see him, or maybe only adults, which kind of made sense. As she processed it, quickly, she realized there might be a huge chance that believing in him also meant being able to see him and the vast majority of adults walking around New York city would not believe in a demonic clown. Children would, though. They definitely would. This didn't mean that it would be every adult, though, because some adults did believe in things like this and one of those adults was definitely Rika, and so that explained a lot.