Safe for Now (Beverly Marsh x Reader)

Into Neibolt

Y/N's POV
The door creaked open to the house as the three walked in. I heard Richie mutter something then they walked further in.

"Hopefully they'll be fine. That clown is freaky," I said to break the silence.

"Yeah. I hope so too," Stan chimed in, "but we don't know what that thing is capable of."

"Yeah that's somewhat of a problem considering we don't know what we're up against," Beverly said as she picked up part of the fence post.

"Why'd you pick that up," Ben asked her.

"Honestly I don't know why. Just seems like it's important to have right now."

"That's a goofy gut feeling," I told her, "but technically they call the gut the second brain because of instincts so whatever works y'know."

"Why do you know that," Mike asked confused.

"I read psychology and neuroscience books for fun."

"Well that's-," Ben was about to finish his sentence as we heard Richie scream something.

"That's not good," I said.

"There's goes our hope," Stan joked.

We all stood there for a second a little phased before we heard a roar come from the house. Beverly ran up with the fence post and stabbed it into the clown's forehead. The rest of us followed her as we watched blood slowly float. Richie and I both ran to Eddie's aid as he looked horrible. I heard it growling as I was focusing more on Eddie than that clown.

Richie was able to snap Eddie's arm back to somewhat normal as I heard a couple slices. I felt something warm on the back of my neck and touched it and looked. It was blood. I looked over at the group and saw Ben was also bloody. It ran away after it hurt the group a bit and we were all still scared. I was laughing over anxiety and the lightheadedness of blood loss.

We all ran out of the house as we saw a car and a woman. Apparently being Eddie's crazy mother.

"You! You did this" Mrs. K pointed at us as she grabbed Eddie. "You know how delicate he is"

"W-we were attacked, M-M-Mrs. K" Bill stuttered.

"No. Don't" she stopped him from explaining and continued, "Don't try and blame anyone else."

She ended up slamming the passenger side door after she got Eddie in. In the process, she dropped her car keys and Beverly decided to help pick them up for her.

"Let me help-" Beverly bended down to pick them up but got interrupted by Ms. K.

"Get back," she snapped, "Oh, I've heard of you, Miss Marsh. And I don't want a dirty girl like you touching my son"

"You know those are lies, right? Like you being skinny," I smirked.

"No," she screamed at us, "You are all monsters. All of you. and Eddie is done with you. Do you hear? Done!"

She then got inside her car and sped off angrily.

"I saw the well. W-w-we know where it is, and next time we'll be better prepared-" Bill told us.

"You saw it even with all that chaos," I asked under my breath as Stan yelled at Bill.

"No! No next time, Bill! You're insane," Stan screamed as he was riding on an adrenaline rush.

"Why," Beverly asked him, "we know no one else is going to do anything."

"Eddie was nearly killed! Y/N is bleeding from her neck! And look at this motherfucker! He's leaking hamburger helper," Richie screamed.

"We can't pretend like it's gonna go away," Beverly told us, "Ben, you said it yourself, it comes back every 27 years."

"Fine! I'll be 40 and far away from here. I thought you said you wanted to get out of this town, too," Ben said angrily.

"Because I wanna run towards something. Not away," she exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, who invited Molly Ringwald into the group," Richie said and Beverly immediately flipped him off.

"Hey Richie, get a life."

"I'm just saying, let's face the facts. Real world. Georgie is dead! Stop trying to get us killed too!"

"Georgie's not dead."

"You couldn't save him, but you can still save yourself," Richie said clearly towards Bill.

"Richie. Georgie was on his own during a rainstorm and got taken by some stupid clown. It's not Bill's fault he got taken," I told him.

"No, t-t-take it back! you're scared and we all are, but take it back!"

"You're all just a bunch of losers and you'll get yourself killed trying to catch a fucking stupid clown" Richie yelled angrily.

"Stop," Beverly shouted, "This is what it wants. It wants to divide us. We were all together when we hurt it. That's why we're still alive!"

"Yeah? Well, I plan to keep it that way," Richie said annoyed as he picked up his bike. He left quickly and not long after, all but Bill, Beverly, and I left.

"Listen Bill," I said and look towards him, "I want to find Georgie just as much as you do but it's looking extremely grim. He might actually be dead and it's looking like what we're doing is close to almost killing ourselves. I got cut on my neck and I know that bleeds a lot and loss of blood means becoming lightheaded. I need to leave but I still believe we could probably find him."

I left after I made that comment and went immediately home so that I could get my neck bandaged. I needed help so my mom had to help and I lied to her saying a bully did it to me. I just wanted to relax this summer but try and find closure too.