perfect | it 2017

xxi. INTO THE SEWERS

"I'll take that," Bowers gritted his teeth at Elena and snatched the bolt gun off her. She screeched as Henry pushed her on to the well's edge, her back scraping off the bricks.

Elena watched in shock as Henry tackled poor Mike and raised the gun to the area between his eyes. She looked around the room, desperate for a solution. She spotted a large, splintered slab of wood. She ran over to it and picked it up, quietly.

Henry cackled loudly, taunting the boy under his grip. Elena stumbled over and swung the slab across Bowers' head. Henry fell to the side, the bolt gun dropping. His head was bleeding and he slowly picked himself up. 

The blonde girl panted heavily as she glared at Bowers who was staring at her in shock. Mike scrambled to his feet and grabbed the bolt gun. Bowers laughed like a maniac. Elena couldn't resist. She plunged herself at him and pushed him down the well, grunting. 

Bowers stopped laughing and screamed as his body fell limply, hitting the sides of the well as he plummeted down. 

"HOLY SHIT!" Richie hollered. Elena stared down into the well, in shock of what she had just done. She turned around to see a wide eyed Mike. He stumbled over to her looked down the well, still panting. 

"Shoot!" Mike gasped. The bullets for the bolt gun had fallen down the well. He tried to shrug it off and threw the rope back down the well.

"I-I.." Elena stuttered, unable to get her words out. Mike shook his head.

"You don't have to explain yourself," He breathed deeply. "Bowers isn't our biggest problem right now, let's go," He cocked his head towards the rope. 

She gulped and nodded. "Yeah, okay..Let's go,".

★ ★ ★

Mike and Elena both made it down into the sewers two minutes later.

"Thank God you're okay!" Richie exhaled once Elena reached the sewers. He hugged her and she hesitantly hugged back, realising that no one else but Stanley knew they were a couple.

Once Richie released her, she smiled at him. "Where's Stan..?" She looked around the small tunnel they were in. Eddie flashed his torch around the tunnel.

"Stanley!?" He yelled. They all started calling his name, crawling along in the tunnels. The group reached the end of the cramped tunnel and jumped out into the proper sewers. 

"Shit, it's grey water," Eddie mumbled, reluctantly stepping into the water.

"Not our biggest worry right now, Eddie," Elena stated and splashed through the water. "STAN?!".

"STANLEY!?" Bill yelled, his voice echoing off the walls. They ran through the sewers, desperately screaming their friends name, praying he was okay.

Elena scanned the area and spotted a large metal door at the end of the tunnel. A loud screech was heard from inside. "There!" She pointed. They ran towards it and began pushing on the door, shrieking and grunting.

The door finally pushed open and they all clambered inside the room. Bill shone his flashlight all around, looking for even a sign that Stanley was there.

"STANLEY?!" Eddie screamed, shining his flashlight all over the place. "STAN!" They all sprinted around a corner and there they saw Stan.

Except there was a woman holding him down, her mouth over his face. 

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?" Richie stumbled backwards and grabbed on to Elena's arm. The woman looked up at the children. Her face was all jumbled and twisted up. Completely messed up, really. When she lifted her head to look at them all, she didn't release her teeth from Stan's face, her mouth expanded almost, revealing a set of many teeth. 

The blonde girl whimpered as the woman pulled herself off Stan and backed up away from them and into the sewers. But then, It's face appeared again. The clown smiled at them before sliding back into the sewers. They screamed and ran to a shaken up Stan.

Stan sat up, screaming and panicking. Elena put her hand on his shoulder to calm him down, but it didn't seem it be working.

"You left me! You left me!" He repeated, crying. "You're not my friends! You made me go into Neibolt!" He sobbed, screaming at them. 

"We're sorry!" Eddie wrapped his arms around the panicked boy. Elena went to lift her free hand, but it was then she realized Richie was firmly gripping it. She furrowed her eyebrows at him.

"I'm not losing you," He mumbled to her. She couldn't help but smile at him. He really cared about her. How did it take her so long to realize that?

She rested her head on Richie's shoulder, her other hand still placed on Stan's shoulder. "What?" She caught Eddie smirking at her, still hugging Stanley. 

"Did he finally do it?" He smirked wider. Richie sighed and Elena flushed red, lifting her head from his shoulder. Mike and Ben sniggered and even Stan stifled a smile at them. But Eddie's smirk vanished when he started looking around.

"Where's Bill?!" He panicked. "BILL!" He picked himself up from Stan. Elena stood up and followed Eddie down the tunnel, the rest close behind them.

"BILL!" Richie hollered. They splashed their way through the water, shouting for their friend.

"Where is he.." Elena muttered, looking in every direction. She gasped quietly when Eddie tripped over something in the water and fell in. She gagged.

"Come on, get out of there dude," Richie told him. "It's grey water,".

Eddie ignored him and started splashing around, looking for something. "Where's my fucking flashlight?!".

Elena screamed loudly when Eddie managed to find a skull in the water. There was loads of them. Eddie yelled too and picked himself up, stumbling a bit. 

Richie grabbed the blonde girls hand and they all continued running down the tunnel, grey water splashing everywhere. 

★ ★ ★

After a few more moments, the losers finally found another tunnel exit. They ran towards it and reluctantly walked into the strangest area Elena had ever set her eyes on.

There was a huge pile of broken toys and shit all stacked up until it reached the ceiling. There was a scrappy looking stage in the centre of it and Elena couldn't help but wonder if this was It's lair?

But then she saw Beverly, who was floating in the air. She looked..dead. 

"How..How is she in the air?" Richie asked, his hand gripping the blonde girls hand tighter. 

"Guys.." Eddie breathed, looking up into the large open ceiling. "Are those.."

"The missing kids. Floating," Stanley finished Eddie's sentence. Elena stared upwards. All of the missing kids were floating in the air, limply. They surrounded the big pile of ashes and toys, floating around it. 

Ben, however, had other worries. He was staring up at his long time crush with a worried glint in his eyes. He swallowed a lump in his throat. "Let me grab her,".