𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙, richie tozier

xv. ( neibolt pt. 2 )

.⃗ . ༉‧₊˚✧ MURDERED!

THE THREE FRIENDS quickly ran away from the terrifying occurrence. they could hear eddie's piercing screams for help downstairs. stella hurriedly grabbed richie's hand to assure herself that he wouldn't go anywhere and to steady herself. her grip was tight so even if he tried to let go, which he didn't even consider, he wouldn't be able to.

bill, richie and stella all reached the bottom of the stairs to be met with the clown hovering over eddie. his arm was in the wrong place, the misplacement very visible. the demonic clown turned to look at bill, purposely smiling tauntingly at the boy.

"am i not real enough for you, billy?" the clown asked. "i was real enough for georgie!" stell immediately felt bad for bill. the clown was constantly reminding him how he killed georgie. if she was in his position she would've already slapped the clown or had done something that was at least remotely violent towards it.

the clown tried to come closer to the three, but they were prompt enough to make their way over to eddie's side without being hurt. it opened its mouth, revealing its many teeth to them. the clown's mouth was open unusually wide and it only added to the effect it had on them.

luckily, before they could be eaten, beverly came running in with a pipe. stella wasn't able to see what it was that she had in her hand because she quickly stabbed it through the clown's head, causing it to stumble backward.

the clown's face began to contort weirdly and jerked itself around, scratching ben's stomach. It created a large cut on the boy, reopening his old wounds from before when henry carved his initial into him.

stella converted her attention to eddie, not wanting to see the disgusting and horrifying clown anymore. richie grabbed eddie's dislocated arm. "i'm gonna put this back into place, okay?" richie says as eddie began to panic even more than he was before.

"don't touch me— don't you fucking touch me!" eddie started shouting at richie with disagreements and protests to what he was about to do. richie didn't listen to the boy and instead did the exact opposite to what eddie was saying.

richie snapped the germaphobe's arm back into its rightful place, causing eddie to shriek in pain. his scream was loud and sounded nothing like anything stella had ever heard before in the time she had been living. it was an earsplitting scream, and stella had to let go of richie's hand to cover her ears.

stella felt terrible for not being there to help eddie when he needed it the most. she felt more guilt than she has ever felt in her entire life, even when she supposedly "murdered" her mother. this situation they were in had caused her way more pain than it should've, and she knew it.

THE GROUP OF eight stood in front of mrs. kaspbrak's car, preparing themselves for what was to come. she was probably going to scold them for their misbehavior. even though eddie  had repeatedly protested against going into neibolt or even trying to track the clown down at all, they ignored him and did it anyway.

a rather large woman stepped out of the car. she slammed the door shut, storming up to the children. "what have you done? you hurt him! you know how delicate he is." the woman shrieked, rushing over towards eddie and grabbing him. she pulled him away from the group.

"w-we were a-a-attacked mrs. k." bill tried to reason with the overprotective woman. "no! you should all be ashamed of yourselves." she says before dropping her keys in front of beverly. she bent down to pick it up, saying, "let me get that for you."