Daughter of Pennywise

A Not-so-simple Mother

*In this chapter I'm gonna change things up a bit and look into Alysse's head for a moment.* 

Alysse's P.O.V

Oh she's so curiously deadly, just like her father. I think, running my fingers through my hair. Jasper and CC had fallen asleep a few minutes ago which gave me plenty of time to think about the usual; why I had chosen here, of all places, to move my daughter and I. While sitting at my window, I gently ran a finger over the ruby on my engagement ring.

Engagement. Even after all these years it didn't sound right. The fact that I'm a mother but only engaged to my husband. I suppose that's one of the reasons why I chose to move here, everyone in Derry's too polite to pry on personal matters. But even so...a mother shouldn't go this long not knowing where her husband is.

You said you'd come back to me. It's been sixteen years and I still haven't seen you. I pressed my finger down on the sharp point of my ring, drawing a pinprick of blood. "Where are you my darling? Where are you?" I whisper, letting a tender teardrop fall from my eye. With a sad sigh, I get up and walk to CC's room, the door's ajar and she's lying on her bed while clutching a creepy doll with a huge fanged smile. Jasper's lying on the floor, wrapped in a blanket with Lucifer curled up beside her, head resting beneath her hand. I smile and shut the door, noticing the way CC's gurgles in her sleep, the sound reminding me of a clogged pipe.

She's shouldn't have to live like this, wondering where her father is when even I don't know. I think, walking to the kitchen. As I step out onto the front porch the cold night air brushes against my ankles and I silently wonder, letting my thoughts drift out into the night.