Something Wicked This Way Comes | r. tozier {ON HOLD}

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It all starts with Bill Denbrough folding a paper boat for his six year old brother. 'S.S. Georgie' it's deemed after its namesake: young Georgie Denbrough. It's small, waxed; Georgie places it in the stream of water at the edge of the street to watch it sail.

Georgie is now running down Jackson Street in his vibrant yellow rain coat as rain pours down on him from above and thunder claps in the background. His boat takes a turn suddenly and stops at the opening of a sewer drain. Distraught, he cried out, "NO!"

It cuts to Georgie looking down into the sewer drain where he is met with the sight of two bright, glowing yellow orbs staring back at him. "Hiya Georgie!" It's a clown's voice, and following the voice is a clown's face.

FROM STEPHEN KING'S TERRIFYING NOVEL

A voiceover of Ben Hanscom sounds: "Derry's not like any town I've ever been in before."

A police sign pans the center of the screen and reminds the children of their curfew. 'Remember the curfew, 7 P.M.' it reads in reference to the strange disappearances that have been occurring throughout the small town as of late. The losers (i.e. Bill, Eddie, Stanley, and Richie) are standing beside their bikes outside the front of the school. They watch as Luella Mae passes by them in a flurry of jangling bracelets and flowy fabric. Richie holds her eye out of the corner of his own. The scene ends and suddenly Henry Bowers has Luella Mae by the cheeks, grip painful against her jaw, and she stares at a bleeding Ben Hanscom to her left.

"People die and disappear more than the national average."

Missing signs are covered and replaced as more are hung; pages flutter as hands flicker through files of reported missing children.

"That's just the adults. The children are worse."

Suddenly, the screen turns black. Just as abruptly it switches to a scene of Luella Mae with eyes opened, but gaze unseeing. Her green orbs roll into the back of her head only to show the white of her sceleras as her lips part around a silent scream and the many candles surrounding her blow out simultaneously. Her hands raise to her throat and she claws at the skin as if she's been deprived of breath. Ben is then shown in the Town Library. He turns to see a freely floating cherry red balloon and hears a demonic laugh not far behind.

"Way, way worse."

Georgie's voice whispers faintly, "Do you want to float?" as the Losers Club trample through the Barrens, their flashlights dimly leading them as they go.

Bill looks down at the ground before admitting softly, "I saw something..." Eddie trembles. "A clown," he says, hand reaching for the fanny pack clipped around his waist. "I saw it too," Luella Mae tells them quietly, the intensity of the music escalating slowly in the background. "In the Tides," she whispers, tears welling up in her wide green eyes. "In my dreams..."

It switches to Eddie standing across the street from Neibolt house, staring at the boarded windows and the dilapidated exterior walls. "I don't know what it is..." he says from beside Luella Mae as the losers take refuge at the town fair.

The clip changes once again to show the losers club in Bill's basement with a projector set up highlighting Derry's sewer system. "It's all connected by the sewers... that's where it lives." Eddie starts to hyperventilate and frantically pulls his inhaler to his mouth while Richie rests his arm against his back. The projector abruptly begins to switch frames, zooming in closer and closer to little Georgie Denbrough standing between his parents with every audible click!

"What's going on?" Mike questions while looking at the projector. It starts to speed in pace, slides clicking and clicking faster and faster as the Losers all back away from it in dread. Mike pulls Bill to the wall as he stares in disbelief. "That's my mom..." Bill's mother's face slowly transforms into the face they each earlier claimed to see, the creature's eyes staring each and every one of them down with evident malice.

"TURN IT OFF!" Beverly screams as she holds Ben behind her protectively while Richie makes a desperate grab for Eddie and Luella Mae.

THIS SEPTEMBER

Eddie sprints toward a fence surrounded by brush and slams his hands against the chain-link at his front. He looks behind him, expression contorting into one of horror. Henry Bowers sees a cherry red balloon tied to the stem of his mailbox and walks toward it as if in a trance.

WHAT

Claws extend toward Eddie, Richie, and Beverly as they huddle trapped in front of a cupboard. Richie glances around, frantically searching for the rest of the losers as Beverly clings to him with all the rapture of a lifeline. Eddie looks up at Richie, chest heaving and breathing irregular.

ARE

A multitude of burnt hands reach around a metal door, writhing and pleading for help with blackened fingertips as voices scream in agony while Mike slowly backs away toward his discarded bike.

YOU

Beverly peers down into the sink with horror in her eyes and hands digging into the porcelain harshly. Blood erupts from the drain, exploding in a mass of crimson as Beverly chokes and clings to the sides of the sink.

Richie screams, backing away from the door at his rear. His glasses reflect an image of the root of his terror: Pennywise the dancing clown. It smiles. "Beep beep, Richie!"

AFRAID OF?

A balloon floats upwards slowly, revealing Pennywise smiling manically before the clip rolls into a montage of Derry's past as displayed in news articles and paper clippings. The screen fades to black to show Bill in his basement with Georgie standing before him until Pennywise takes his place with a demonic scream escaping his wide mouth.

The IT logo flashes across the screen before it goes black. All is quiet for a moment; still. Then, Luella Mae's scream echoes in the background.

"HELP ME!" She cries.

And then it's all over.

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