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Georgie?

(this story was COMPLETELY inspired by eddie_stenbrough)

Richie, Bev, Bill, Ben, Mike, and Stan were all at Bev's house, like they always are on fridays, they feel it's a new routine, they're always there, since her dad always has plans on friday-sunday they go to her house and spend the night, they always leave on saturday so her dad dosen't know anyone was there when he comes home on sunday.
"okay, okay, Bill truth or dare?" Mike asked, his eyes shifting over to bill, bill thought for a second "t-truth"

Richie was laying on the floor "pussy!" he yelled and Bill turned his attention to him "b-beep be-ep, Richie" he responded and Mike hushed them both "is it true that you like the new girl in school?" Bill's face became burning hot "w-w-what n-no" all of the losers laughed and moved on, playing for about an hour or two, they were having so much fun that they lost track of time.

Bill's phone suddenly started ringing "it's my mum, i'll be back in a second"
"tell her i said i'll see her tonight!" Richie called out before Bill left

"Bill! Georgie's missing! have you seen him lately?" his mum said "n-n-n-no i-i h-h-hav-ven't s-s-seen h-him." he stammered out, tears forming in his eyes.
he walked back to the losers "g-guys Ge-georgie, he's m-missing" he said and left, Ben looked around, not really knowing what to say
Richie, Stan, and Bev quickly followed behind him "stay here" Stan said to Mike and Ben before leaving the two panicked boys in the room, to keep him safe "do you want our help to find him?" Bev asked and Bill nodded.

"G-GEORGIE?" Bill called out loudly repeatedly, for about thirty minutes "Bill, we should try tomorrow, it's already late" Stan said in a soft voice, and Bill nodded "i j-just want to ch-check the w-woods firs-st" Bill said "fine, but if anything happens i blame Richie." Stan says and crosses his arms "me? what the fuck did i do?" Richie says defensively "i just dislike you, you know this."
Richie nods "yeah"

the four all heard a noise sobbing, maybe? "Georgie? hey, it's me, Richie, it's okay, you can come out here." Richie said in a soft, quiet voice.

Richie was always Georgie's favourite, after Bill of course.

"G-Georgie?" Bill said, worried

a boy slowly walked out from behind a tree, he was their age, had freckles spread across his face, and wavy brown hair, he was wearing a long yellow t-shirt with (mostly red) stains all over it, there were tears streaming down his face, and blood dripping from his nose

They had brought the boy to Richie's house

"this freak dosen't even talk! he's a stranger! he shouldn't be here!" Richie grew angrier hearing the harsh words from Stan "hey! he has feelings y'know. he needs a home." Richie sat next to the strange boy sitting on his couch "hi." the boy looked at him with wide eyes "i'm Richie. what's your name?"
The boy showed him his arm revealing a tattoo showing the numbers '011' and Richie's eyes widened "woah, is that real?" Richie asked
"he has a tattoo?" Bill nudged Stan slightly "what? he's a freak!"
"f..reak?" the boy looked at Richie "look, it actually talks." Stan paced back and forth "Stan, leave him alone." Richie said, and instantly turned his attention to the smaller boy "you're not a freak." he told him "do you have a name we can call you, besides eleven?" Richie smiled at the boy "yes.. name.. Eddie" Richie nodded "okay, Eddie, can i call you Eds for short?" Eddie scrunched his nose and shook his head, Stan moved closer to him and examined him, Eddie began to back up until he couldn't go any further, his back on the back of the couch "stop! you're scaring him!" Richie shouted at Stan "he's scaring me! look at him! he had a bloody nose when we first saw him!" Stan snapped back
"maybe he got hurt! he was lost!"

Bill and Bev had already left at this point

"n-no, wasn't hurt... at time."
the boys both turned to him "this is scary! we need to tell your mum!"
Eddie shook his head "no. mum b-bad?" he asked, considering from his experiences that all mum's were bad "no, his mum isn't bad, she's nice" Stan said
"no tell mum,, can't go,,, bad.." he said trying his best to form a proper sentence
"what do you mean 'bad'?" Richie asked confused
"hurt" Eddie responded
"he's not going back there Stan."
"he can't stay here forever"
"i'll figure something out!"
"fine Richie, but he's your problem, not mine."
and with that Stan left

Richie looked at Eddie, who was staring up at him innocently "p..rob..lem" Eddie said
Richie shook his head "no, you're nice." Eddie nodded and whispered "ni..ce"

Richie handed him one of his hoodies "you can change in there" he pointed to his bathroom and Eddie walked there, he looked at Richie confused, Richie nodded at him and he slowly started to lift his shirt up "no, no, no, no!" Richie yelled, startling the confused boy, he quickly closed the door and Eddie opened it "n-no." he said "no? uhm, okay, how about this?" Richie left the door opened a little bit, but not too much "is this okay..?" Eddie nodded "yes."

Richie walked away as Eddie began to change.

after Eddie changed he walked out

"you can sleep here" Richie showed him to a bunk bed, and pointed at the top bunk "just climb up the latter to get there, and i'll be right here.." Richie pointed to the bottom bunk "if you need anything just climb back down and ask me."

Eddie nodded

Eddie climbed to the top bunk with a pillow and blanket, and went to sleep, Richie laying on the bottom bunk and falling asleep soon after.