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the group rushed over to beverly, stephanie jumping up to try and grab the girl's foot, "dammit! mike, give me a boost." the boy complied and him and richie helped the girl up so she could grab beverly's ankles and pull her down to the ground. "bev, wake up! please!" stephanie cried, shaking the girl. richie pulled the girl into his arms and ben moved to try and wake beverly up, shaking her. ben then quickly kissed her, making the others gasp and make noises of disgust. ben stared at her until she gasped and backed away, finally waking up and staring at the boy, "january embers." she said quietly, making ben smile sheepishly, "my heart burns there, too." stephanie shoved richie away and hugged beverly tightly, making beverly laugh and hug the girl back just as tight. "i love you, bev. i missed you, so much." "i love you too, steph." the two girls pulled away, smiling at each other. "jesus fuck!" richie laughed as he pulled the two into another hug, the four other boys quickly joining in as well. there group hug was soon interrupted when beverly moved away, looking at all of them, "where's bill?"
the kids began searching for their leader, coming to a quick stop as they found him, talking to what looked like his younger brother, georgie. "what took you so long?" the six year old asked, limping closer to his sibling. "i-i was looking for you this whole time, georgie." bill said to the younger boy, tears forming in his eyes. "i couldn't find my way outta here. he said i could have my boat back, billy." georgie said, gesturing to the boat in his one hand he had left. bill let out a sad laugh, "was she fast?" he asked the younger boy, "i couldn't keep up with it." georgie replied, frowning. bill took quick notice this, snapping him back to reality. "she, georgie. you call boats 'she.'" he said to the boy, georgie ignored this and continued to whimper quietly, "take me home, billy." the small boy begged as he began crying, "i wanna go home." he continued. the rest of the losers quietly watched the interaction between the denbrough children. "i miss you, i wanna be with mom and dad!" georgie cried out, which caused bill to cry more. "i want more than anything for you to be home, georgie." bill replied, stepped closer to the boy, "with mom and dad, i miss you so much." he continued, starting to cry more. "i love you, billy." georgie cried, "i love you, too." bill replied, gripping the gun tighter in his hand before raising it. "but you're not georgie." he said as he raised the gun to the younger boy's forehead, making him begin to cry. bill pulled the trigger, causing georgie to fall back.
"holy shit." stephanie whispered as the boy started seizing on the ground, beginning to turn into the clown. pennywise pulled himself up to his feet, bill raising the gun to shoot the clown, the other losers cheering him on. mike stood back, shaking his head, "it's not loaded." he attempted to tell them but got no reply, "hey, it's not loaded!" he yelled seconds before bill pulled the trigger, making the clown's head begin to crack. pennywise leaned back, pretending to be hurt, only to let out a screech and lunge towards bill. the boy was quick to block the clown's bite as he shoved his flashlight between his sharp teeth, making the creature snarl at him. "leave him alone!" beverly screamed as she attempted to stab the clown with a piece of rebar, only to be shoved away. mike jumped in to try and stab it as well, resulting in him also being thrown back. bill managed to jump on the clown's back and shove a piece of rebar between it's teeth, richie jumping on bill's back as the creature grabbed stan and eddie, spinning around. it let go of the boys as stan went flying against a wall, eddie being flung opposite of stan and richie being thrown off as well. stephanie rushed to richie's aid, grabbing the boy's hand as pennywise managed to get bill into a headlock, grinning evilly at the children. "let him go!" beverly demanded. "no! i'll take him, i'll take alllll of you and i'll feast on your flesh as i feed on your fear." he said, never wiping the grin off his face, "orrrr, you'll just leave us be. i will take him, only him, and i will have my long rest and you will all live to grow and thrive and lead haaaaappy lives until old age takes you back to the weeds." the clown reasoned with the group as bill struggled to nod, telling them all to go. "go!" "you guys, we can't!" beverly yelled, to which stephanie agreed, "i-i'm sorry.." he said, squeezing his eyes shut as tears filled them. richie was quick to stand up, brushing off his shirt.
"i told you, bill. i fucking told you. i don't wanna die. it's your fault." richie stated, causing pennywise to grin. richie walked back and forth while he continued to talk. "you punched me in the face, you made me walk through shitty water, you brought me to a fucking crackhead house-" he paused, stopping right in front of bill and the clown, who scowled at richie's comment about his home. "and now? i'm gonna have to kill this fucking clown." he finished his speech, grabbing a bat he had seen from the giant pile of toys, the creature quickly dropping bill, who quickly crawled away, stephanie jumping up to grab bill and help him up. "welcome to the loser's club, asshole!" richie yelled, swinging the bat at the clown's head and managing to hit him and make him fall back. mike went next as burnt hands grew out of the clown's throat and reached out to grab his weapon as pained voices called out his name. this was interrupted by stan smacking the hands with a pipe which then made the clown turn into judith and begin to come for him, he screamed and tried to hit it as hard as he could. stephanie tried to go in and attack with another pipe but its hands into large spider legs as he began to crawl after the girl who screamed. ben then stabbed it before she was attacked causing it it then turn into a decaying mummy, it's rotten teeth chopping at him. bill grabbed a nearby set of chains and whipped the thing with it, causing the creature to fall to the ground. the kids continued to circle the clown as they beat it with various objects as it began to cough and shift into a leper and spit goo all over eddie."i'm gonna kill you!" the small boy screamed as he kicked it in the head. it finally turned into beverly's fear, her father. it looked up at her as she stared in horror, "hey, bevvie. are you still my little girl-" the creature was cut off as beverly screamed and shoved her weapon down its throat. it turned back into a clown and was backed into the well by the losers.
"that's why you didn't kill beverly. 'cause s-s-she wasn't afraid. and we aren't either." bill confronted pennywise as he was shaking on the floor. "not anymore. now you're the one who's afraid. 'cause you're gonna starve. we win." bill said as the clown flipped itself over the opening of the well and grasped onto the ledge, only his bright green eyes being shown. "he thrusts his fists against the post, and still insists it sees the ghosts." the clown repeated the phrase that bill used when trying to cure his stutter. stan passed the metal pipe onto bill who took it and went to hit the clown who's head began to crack and his skin starting to peel up and fly away. "fear." was the last thing it said before dropping into the well. "well. i know what i'm gonna do for my summer experience essay." richie tried to joke into the silence, causing stephanie to scoff and roll her eyes before pulling the boy into a hug just as bill pulled beverly into one. eddie started to notice the movement around them and looked up, "guys, guys. the kids are floating down." they all looked up with sad looks on their faces, bill began to walk away as he noticed georgie's jacket, going to pick it up. stephanie pulled away from richie and slowly made her way toward a familiar body on the ground, dropping onto her knees next to it. jack cooper. she let out a quiet cry as she set a shaky hand on the boy's cheek, the others watching as their two friends mourned over their younger siblings. bill hesitantly got up, moving to kneel next to stephanie, carefully setting georgie's jacket on jack's body. "th-they're together now, s-steph." he whispered to the girl who let out another loud cry and was quickly pulled into bill's arms, the two of them sobbing over their deceased brothers. richie was quick to join the two, hugging both of them, beverly followed behind them and eventually, the rest of the kids did as well. the group stayed there for a while, neither stephanie or bill being quite ready to leave. they slowly made their way out of the hug, stephanie letting out a shaky breath as she ran her hand through her younger brother's hair, then standing up. they decided to leave both boy's bodies down there, bill really didn't want to look for his brother's body and that way, jack could be at rest with his best friend's jacket draped across him. they were truly together forever.
