Dare Me (Henry Bowers x Reader)

This Projetor Haunted! YEET!

I open my door to an annoyed looking Richie. "What took you so long?" "You'll understand when you're older." I stray down to the kitchen and get an apple. "Did you have someone in your room last night (Y/n)?" I turn on my heels look at my younger brother. "Why would you say that?" "So you did! Who was it? I made a bet that it was Danny Chavas!"

shit.

"No Richie it was not Danny and it is none of your business. Come on now, didn't Bill need us?" "You need to bite a sock or something. These walls are thin." I push his head while he laughs. "Shut up!"

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Once we arrive at Bill's house we see the kids huddled up in the garage. "Whoa," I say as I see the projector and the map of Derry. "(Y/n)!" Beverly waves me over happily. "I saw someone swing out of your bedroom this morning." I look at her with wide eyes, "Oh? That. It's not what-" "It's okay. I'm not one to judge. I won't say anything either." I smile and nudge her shoulder. "You can count on me girlfriend."

"Okay. Look. Storm drain. That's were Georgie disappeared, there's the Ironworks, and the Black Spot. Everywhere IT happens it's-it's all connected by the sewers and they all meet up at the

well-house." Bill goes on ahead explaining the terrifying theory.

"You mean the house on Neibolt Street?" I ask remembering the times I've walked past it with a shiver running up my spine.

Richie smirks and opens his mouth "You mean the creepy-ass house where all the junkies and hobos like to sleep? Oh, shit, (y/n) is that where your drug dealer is?" I glare at him pushing him out of his chair.

"I hate that place. Always feels like it's watching me."

"That's where I saw IT. There I saw a clown." Eddie rushed his words in fear. I place my hand on his shoulder in comfort.

"Tha-tha-tha-that's where IT lives." Bill stares at the marked location intensely.

"I can't imagine anything ever wanting to live there."

Eddie begins to breathe heavily. "Eds, hey calm down." I place both hands on his shoulders but he shrugs them off quickly. "Can we stop talking about this?" He says moving to the front of everyone in the light of the projector. "I can barely breathe. It's summer.

We're kids, I can barely breathe having a fucking asthma attack

and fuck doing this." Eddie rips the map off the wall in a panic.

"What the hell! Put the map back!" Bill agues, but suddenly the pictures start to switch between the family's photos.

"What happened?"

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, look!"

Chaos starts to overflow as a picture of Bills other soon morphs into the evil clown Pennywise.

"WHAT THE FUCK!"

"It's IT." I breath gulping air and staring paralyzed in fear.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?"

"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW!"

"Turn it off!"

Mike kicks the projector over ending the moving slides of Pennywise. Stanly stands by the white screen on the wall.

"Are you okay?" I ask hugging my brother. The projector comes alive once more and in the flash of the light, Pennywise was there 4 times his size.

"Run, Stanley!" I scream at him. I gather all the kids in one corner as Pennywise crawls us to. I hug onto them ready to be eaten.

Light rips through the garage and the demon is gone. I look to see Ben at the open door.

"IT saw us. IT saw us and It knows where we are. IT always knew.

Alright, so let's go." Bill speaks to everyone. I step up towards him.

"Go? Go where?" "Neibolt." I stare at him like he is crazy.

"Bill. You're not going there. I'm the one looking after you little shitheads and I'm not going to willingly let you go to the death house!"

"That's where G-g-g-Georgie is." "After that? Do you want to go into Neibolt after seeing THAT? No. It's not happening!" He huffs and runs to his bike getting on and wheeling away. "Bill?"

"Bill, come on!"

I run after him as he rides down the road. the certain road heading for the house. "BILL!"

fuck. I huff and whip my keys out. "Don't just stand there. Get in!" I yell at the kids. Speeding down the road I caught up with Bill to see him getting off his bike and about to enter the house.

I race to through the unkempt yard to him. "Bill, you can't go in there. This is crazy." The other kids gathered behind me.

"Look, you don't have to come in with me, but what happens when

another Georgie goes missing, or another Betty or another

Ed Corcoran or one of us? Are you just going to pretend it didn't

happen like everyone else in this town? Because I can't.

I go home and all I see is that Georgie isn't there, his clothes, his toys, his stupid stuffed animals but he isn't. So walking into this house for me... it's easier than walking into my own." Bill turns to go to the house.

"Wow," Richie says looking at his friend. "What?"

"He didn't stutter once."