goldie locks ; richie tozier

vii . fear

as the silence began to set, it was interrupted by the shaking and grunting of georgies body as it lay on the floor, beginning to scream and roar. its body began to shift and extend as its limbs grew to adult size before sitting up and standing to reveal the clown.

"kill it, bill! kill it!" eddie screamed before it could make a move. everyone began to scream for bill to kill it and i remember mike dropped the ammo.

"wait" i say, not loud enough as i stare at mike

"its not loaded" he realizes and everyone is too busy yelling to hear us

"hey! its not loaded!" mike yells again as bill holds the gun up and shoots it to the clown who is now shaking as his head begins to crumble

"what?" i ask breathlessly, knowing the gun was not loaded. it began to crack backwards and his body shook as he roared and leaned forward again to face us and jumped at bill biting on the gun he held up to stop it from biting into him. beverly than attempted to stab it in the head once again but was unsuccessful when it grabbed her hand and threw the spike back into the air

"mike no!" eddie yelled as he tried to attack it before being thrown across the sewer. bill took this as his chance to stick the spike between its mouth as he jumped on its back

"help him!" bev shouted and richie jumped onto bills back

"fuck!" he yelled and i began to frantically look around before grabbing its hands so he couldn't thrash them. ben grabbed his other one as stanley helped him and mike waited for a chance to hit him but before he could it threw stanley to the side and lifted me up in his hands choking me before throwing me to the ground.

"abbie!" richie shouted once again before he was thrown into the ground beside me over its back

"fuck" i grunt trying to catch my breath as i roll over

"you okay?" i ask quickly as i place my hand on richies chest

"me? you just got choked by that thing!" he yelled sitting up and i shook my head

"not for that long really" i stated loudly and he rolled his eyes before we all look up to see bill being thrown over its shoulders and onto the ground, than being held in a headlock as we stood watching it

"let him go!" bev yelled and it shook his head

"no. i'll take him. i'll take all of you. and i'll feast on your flesh as i feed on your fear. or, you'll just leave us be. i will take him, only him. and then i will have my long rest, and you will all live to grow and thrive, and lead happy lives, until old age takes you back to the weeds." it growled trying to negotiate like a bitch

"leave. i'm the one that dragged you all into this. i'm s-s-s-so sorry. go!" bill yelled and i look to everyone before talking

"no! we can't leave him here!" i argue and bev agrees as richie stands up beside me and i follow

"i told you bill. i fucking told you. i don't want to die. its your fault" richie said angrily as he stepped forward and i watched him in shock not wanting to believe anything that came out of his mouth

"richie" i whisper and he ignores me

"you punched me in the face. you made me walk through shitty water. you brought me to a fucking crackhead house. and now... i'm gonna have to kill this fucking clown" richie said as he pulled a baseball bat from the giant pile of things in the middle of the sewer, and i felt a smile creep on my face as it pushed bill aside

"welcome to the losers club, asshole!" richie yelled before swinging the bat causing it to turn around where mike than swung his spike but was caught by hands reaching from its mouth, being cut by stanley. i look around and see another spike laying on the ground beside bills bag and i quickly grab it and stand my ground as it changes forms. before it attacks stanley, mike jumps in than is attacked and begins rolling away as it tries to pierce him with his claws

"mike!" i yell as i lift up the spike and run towards its back and stab him right in the spine. he lifts himself us and begins roaring again while blood floats from his mouth as it turns around to face me shifting i to my mothers decaying corpse once again and i fall back a little bit and it pushes me to the ground trying to crawl after me again

"don't fucking touch her!" richie yells before hitting it upside the head with the bat, rot from its body splatting onto me. the rest of the losers begin beating it and i stand up again grabbing my spike as i join in, while we all begin beating it before it turns into a leper and spits that black goo in eddies face.

"i'm gonna kill you!" eddie yells before kicking it in the jaw making it fly back. he spun around to show us his face, that is now morphed into beverlys father.

"hey bevie. are you still my little-" it begins but bev screams and stabs it straight in the mouth and as he shifts back to his clown form we all back up again, getting ready to fight. but it just stumbles backwards groaning and shaking maniacally before he reaches another well, beginning to chuckle in fear.

"that's why you didn't kill beverly. cause s-s-s-s-she wasn't afraid. and we aren't either. not anymore. now you're the one who's afraid. because you're gonna starve." bill states angrily and it just gurgles in response before flipping backwards into the well barely holding on

"he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. he thrusts his fists against the p-p-post" it stammered as bill lifted his spike up threatening to hit it, he dropped lower into the well. its head began to crack and the pieces begin to float away as he looks bill dead in the eyes.

"fear" he whispers eerily before he fully drops into the well and we all peek over to see nothing but darkness

"i know what i'm doing for my summer experience essay." richie joked and sighed earning a bump from me as bill hugged beverly

"guys. guys. the kids are floating down" eddie pointed out and we all looked up to see the bodies of the kids lowering. i notice bill walking away and richie and i make our way over to him, to see him kneeling beside a yellow raincoat. with georgies name written inside it. bill begins to cry and i wrap my arm around him holding him into a hug, as everyone else consoles him as well.

we did it. we defeated it.

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