If Only

Prologue

It all seemed to happen so fast, after Pennywise had shown up in Bill's garage.

Bev was taken.

The Losers were thrown into a panic, and rushed to rescue her, so into the sewers they went.

They knew their way into It's lair was through the well in the creepy old house on Neibolt Street.

Henry Bowers had nearly killed Mike.

In retaliation, Mike killed Henry. On accident, of course.

If questions were raised, they'd have said that Henry simply fell. Or that he jumped. After all, he did kill his own father.

It would have been assumed to be a suicide.

Henry would have murdered each and every member of the Losers Club.

They found their way into Pennywise's home, if one could call it that.

It was a disgusting hell hole.

And everyone floated down there.

Quite literally.

The bodies of hundreds of children were floating in the air surrounding a massive pile of junk and broken toys.

Bev's body was floating too.

The Losers managed to drag her down.

Ben kissed her back to life somehow.

Then there was Georgie.

It wasn't really Georgie, of course.

Even Bill knew that. Bill, who had agonized for months over the death of the poor kid. And then it was Bill who shot the Georgie lookalike- It- right in between the eyes.

Then Pennywise morphed back into his creepily morbid self. He'd snatched Bill and locked him in a chokehold, warding off the rest of the Losers.

Threatened to eat them all and feast on their fear.

Or they could leave and he'd just take Bill and go back into hibernation.

Everyone wavered in their bravado, that much was clear.

No one knew if Pennywise was telling the truth, but it was their best bet.

It was Richie who had really saved the day. Richie Tozier.

"And now... I'm going to have to kill this fucking clown." He'd said after counting off the horrors that Bill had dragged them through.

Richie didn't like clowns.

He really didn't like clowns.

He had grabbed a metal bat and bashed Pennywise's face in.

The clown didn't talk too kindly to that.

Unfortunately, he was out numbered and beginning to fear for his life for the first time.

After that the battle didn't take long.

Pennywise fell into the abyss of the sewers, and the Losers had won.

But as they made their way out of the sewers, they knew they'd never be the same again.