Mesmerizing Mute ~ Richie Tozier

IX ~ Sorry

"This isn't real enough for you Billy? I'm not real enough for you? It was real enough for Georgie," the clown laughed before running at Richie, Bill and Tate. IT was only stopped by Beverly who stabbed a spear into it's head. It's blood floated in the air.

"Get Eddie!" Bill and Richie shouted while the clown paused in shock. IT's face was completely warped due to the spear. Beverly, Richie, Tate and Bill all ran to the other side of the room with Eddie. Tate held onto the back of Richie's shirt while he and Bill hovered over Eddie, but when the clown turned around towards them she let go. IT's nails grew into claws and you could see his hungry teeth through the hole in IT's mouth. Beverly was the nearest person and the two girls clung onto each other like they were their lives because they may have been.

In was in the moment that the clown got too close to them that Tate started not to hate Beverly, not that she ever had hated her, but Greta Keene's comment had taken a toll on the way she saw the girl. It was then that Tate realized she needed Beverly to be her friend.

IT turned back to Mike, Ben and Stan to rip it's claws threw Ben's stomach, his second wound of this summer, before backing out of the room and into IT's well.

"Don't let it get away," Bill said before following to see where IT went. Everyone made their way over to Eddie, whose arm was clearly cracked.

"Bill we have to help Eddie!" Beverly shouted as he ran back to the group.

"Okay, I'm gonna snap your arm into place," Richie said frantically.

"Do not fucking touch me!" Eddie screamed.

"One! Two! Three!" Richie shouted before cracking Eddie's arm back. Eddie screamed at the worse pain before they all ran out of the house to Eddie's.

They biked as quickly as they could because of Eddie's arm and Ben's cuts.

"You did this!" Mrs. Kaspbrak blamed the children that had been in the Neibolt house with Eddie. "You know how delicate he is."

"We were attacked M- m- Mrs. K," Bill tried to explain to the woman who was now shoving Eddie into the passenger seat of her car.

"Don't try and blame anyone else," she told them before she dropped her keys. Beverly was the first to try to help. "Back! Oh I've heard of you Miss Marsh and I don't want a dirty girl like you touching my son," she sneered.

"Mrs. K I s- s," Bill tried but was interrupted yet again.

"No! You are all monsters, all of you, and Eddie is done with you, do you hear? Done," Mrs. Kaspbrak moves to the drivers side of the car to drive Eddie to the hospital. The Losers followed into the road before Bill spoke up.

"I saw the well. We know where it is an- and next time w- we'll be better prepared," he cheered.

"No! No next time Bill. You're insane!" Stan protested at his overzealousness.

"Why? We all know no one else is going to do anything," Beverly argued. It was true. None of the parents in Derry seemed to care much of their children anymore.

"Eddie was nearly killed! And look at this motherfucker! He's leaking hamburger helper!" Richie responded in side with Stan. Ben did look really bad after

"We can't pretend it's going to go away. Ben, you said it yourself it comes back every twenty-seven years," Beverly continued with her statement.

"Fine. I'll be forty and far away from here. I thought you said you wanted tot get out of this town too," Ben answered. With Ben out as well, Tate had no idea what she would do. She could either fight this thing and risk her and her friends lives, or pretend like it's not happening like everyone else and let it terrorize Derry forever.

"I wanna run towards something, not away," she answered back to the negativity.

"I'm sorry who invited Molly Ringwald into the group?" Richie questioned sarcastically at Beverly before she flipped him off for the comment. "I'm just saying, let's face facts, real world, Georgie is dead. Stop trying to get us killed too," Richie complained as he tried to walk off but was stopped by Bill.

"Georgie's not dead," he claimed sternly.

"You couldn't save him, but you can still save yourself," Richie told the mourning boy in front of him.

"No. T- t- take it back! You're scared, and we all are, but take it back!" Bill threatened before he pushed Richie backwards. Richie wasn't going to take that without shoving Bill himself, so he pushed him back harshly by the chest just before Richie got a clear punch in the face from Bill. He fell to the ground due to the pressure.

"You're just a bunch of losers!" Richie tried to yell as Stan and Mike held him back from charging at Bill. "Fuck off!"

"Richie stop," Stan tried to hold him back as Tate put a hand on his shoulder, but he didn't even acknowledge her. Richie was only trying to get back at Bill.

"You're just a bunch of losers and you'll get yourselves killed trying to-" Richie was stopped yet again by the restraints of Mike and Stan.

"Stop!" Beverly finally screamed at the two who were struggle to cannot each of their fists with the other. Richie shoved Stan off after this. "This is what IT wants. IT wants to divide us," she tried to explain, but nobody would listen. "We were all together when we hurt it, that's why we're still alive," Bev continued.

"Yeah? Well I plan to keep it that way," Richie walked back to his bike with Stan and Ben. "Tate?" he questioned as he looked behind him.

"Sorry," she whispered to Bev and Bill before joining Richie. It was hard on both Richie and Tate, but they didn't hang out with the rest of the losers except on rare occasion for the next month.

Word Count = 1019

A/N - Hope you guys are liking it because chapters will be coming faster. I just bought the IT 2017 film the other day so it will be easier to write. Let me know what you think!