"Fuck, my ass is numb" Richie says to himself, he looks at Eddie and realised that he's already up.
"How long have you been up?" Richie asks Eddie while rubbing his tired eyes.
"I don't know, maybe like ten minutes, not too long though" Eddie replies.
"Fuck, what time is it?" Richie asks still extremely tired.
"Do you start every sentence with the word fuck?" Eddie asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Fuck, yes" Richie replied with a smile, making Eddie chuckle a bit, it's nice to hear that after what happened to him.
"You need to add more words to your vocabulary then" Eddie responds, "also I don't know, I don't have my phone, and I don't think there's a clock in this room".
"I'll check the time" Richie says pulling his phone out of his pocket and turning it on, "it says six at night, so we got like what?, eight hours of sleep?, I don't know, times been fucked up since I've gotten into Derry".
"Exactly, I feel like we've been in Derry for so long but also it feels like it's only been a couple of hours" Eddie replies.
"Yeah I understand, do you want me to text the other losers to bring you anything?" Richie asks just waiting to make sure that eddies alright.
"yeah can I get my phone please, and just my entire toiletry bag, and I don't think I'll be allowed to wear my own clothes for a couple of days so I think that's fine, oh could you also ask them to bring us up some food?" Eddie replies to Richie.
"Sure, what do you want?" Richie asks texting the losers the stuff that Eddie wants.
"I don't care, just food" Eddie replies giving Richie a small smile.
"Is burgers alright?" Richie asks just making sure even though he already knows Eddie loves burgers.
"Yeah, it's fine" Eddie replies, so Richie asks the losers to pick him and Eddie up a couple of burgers and fries from a local diner that they used to go to as kids.
Twenty minutes later, bill and Mike show up with eddies things and food.
"Do you guys know that the diner hasn't changed one bit since we were kids?" Bill says handing Richie the bag of food.
"Really" Richie says taken out eddies meal from the bag and handing it over to him.
"Thank you" Eddie replies reaching out for some fries to eat.
"So, Richie, you still not wanting to talk to us?" Bill asks, hoping that he wants too, he misses his and Richie's relationship.
"Not really" Richie says not looking at bill and Mike, just taken a bite of his burger.
"Come on Richie, you can't hold a grudge on us forever" Mike says looking at Richie, practically burning holes through his skull.
"I bet you I can" Richie says shoving fries into his mouth.
"Well Eddie, we all want to apologise to you, for wanting to leave you down there, it was a really stupid thing for us to say, and we're all glad that you're safe" Mike says giving Eddie a small and sincere smile.
Before Eddie could even reply to Mike, Richie speaks up, "if you think that that a half ass apology is going to change anything then you're wrong".
"Richie, it's fine, I forgive them" Eddie says.
"Why do you forgive them?" Richie asks genuinely wondering.
"Cause I'm a man in my forties, who just had a near death experience, and the losers club is my best and longest friends I've ever had, so I want to keep them" Eddie says explaining himself, and yeah Richie knows that Eddie is right.
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say you'll remember me
RomanceRichie gets a phone call at 2am straight after he just got his daughter to bed it was from Derry Maine asking him to come back home but what will happen when he's back in that god forsaken town? (also on my ao3)
