Fate~ (Reddie Fan Fic)

Who are you?

(A/N: This is going to be partly different story line from the movies/book.)

⚠HOMOPHOBIC SLURS⚠
It's another day in my horrible life. Today is the first day of year 10 at my school, Derry High. I'm still the same old depressed & friendless fag, Richie Tozier. I get up out of bed, take a shower, and find some clothes. I walk down the stairs from by bedroom to find my Mum and Dad passed out on the couch, their breath smelling like tequila and cigarettes.

"At least there's one less thing I have to worry about." I mutter under my breath walking past them towards the kitchen. I get some breakfast for myself, grab my bag and head out of the door.
I get my bike and start heading towards school like usual but when I'm halfway there I see this group of kids, five guys and one girl also biking to school. When I pass them I hear something I haven't heard in a long time. Laughter.

When I get to a new pit of hell I walk to the back of the school for a quick smoke, but I already face the worst part of the day, Henry and his goons. He already knows that I'm bi because I used to date one of his friends in year 8 before he cheated on me and turned to Henry.

"Hey look everyone! It's the fag of the school!" Henry calls out while pushing me to the ground.

"What do you want Bowers? I really don't have the time for you right now." I say annoyed and tired of his shit.

"I'm gonna teach you a lesson on why fairies like you shouldn't exist in this world!" He yells while kicking me in the stomach repeatedly making me cough up blood. The next thing I see terrifies me, more than what I'm used to... He takes out his switch knife and holds it up to my face. One of his friends actually get a look of distress on their face.

"Whoa dude, don't you think your taking this-"

"SHUT UP! Leave me, and this little fucking fairy alone..." Henry yells at one of his friends looking insane as all hell.

Just as Henry presses the blade down on my upper cheek and starts cutting nearing up to my eye, the blood running down my face along with some tears, I hear a voice I've never heard before.

"Hey! L-Leave him a-alone j-j-jackass!" The voice comes from behind me and I just see a figure of some sort go to tackle Bowers before passing out.

I can't see anything but I can sort-of hear some voices and make out part of what they're saying.

"We should take him..... hospital." (A/N: The "...." means that's what Richie can't hear)

"He's fine, the wounds....... bad."

I start to move my limbs a little touching the bandage on my face before hearing the familiar voice I heard before.

"G-Guys! I t-think he's w-w-w-waking up!"

My eyes slowly open and a small boy wearing a yellow shirt and red shorts put on my glasses. Too weary to even comprehend what was happening I just blurt out a raspy-

"Who the fuck are you guys?"

"R-Right, you don't k-k-know any of u-us." He says letting out a small chuckle. W-Well I'm B-B-Bill." Bill seems to have a stuttering problem; he wore a blue and white shirt with some lighter blue shorts. I noticed that Bill was the kid that had saved me from whatever hell Bowers was going to put me through.

"I'm Eddie " He said smiling at Richie and I couldn't help but think his little smile was cute along with how short he was. He was the one that wore a yellow shirt and red shorts with a fanny pack.

"I'm Ben, that's Mike and Stanley" He said pointing to a black kid and to a kid with brown curly hair. Ben was "larger" than the other boys but seemed nice, he wore a dark blue shirt and green shorts. Stanley or more known as Stan had brown curly hair and he was wearing a white shirt and some khaki shorts. Mike was the only Black kid in the group, he wore a cream shirt and blue jeans.

"I'm Beverley but my friends call me Bev." Beverley was the only girl in the group, I think that most the boys thought she was attractive especially Ben. She had short red hair and was wearing a white top, blue shorts and a key around her neck.

"Well, I'm Richie and- hey I think I saw you guys on my way to school?" I say wearily slowly sitting up off the ground looking at the kids that surrounded me.

"What? Oh wait yeah I think I saw you" Eddie says somewhat surprised that they "saw" each other once again even if only for a brief moment.

There were a couple seconds of silence before Richie broke it.

"Well I should get going to class then, thanks for-"

"Class? It's 3:40, school ended 20 minutes ago" Mike says interrupting me.

"WHAT?!" I yell knowing that if my parents found out about this I'm dead. "I-I gotta go, thanks guys! See you later!" I say quickly getting up and running off to get my bike.

"W-W-Wait R-Richie!" Bill stutters out while yelling but I don't pay attention to him, I can't pay attention to him. All I can focus on is what will happen when I get home.

Eddie's POV: (A/N: Yes I'm swapping POV's for this bit)
After Richie was leaving for some reason an image of his face with his glasses and big brown eyes stayed in my head, I can't stop thinking about him and why he was so worried about not being home or at any classes today... 'M-Maybe he's just a good student!' He thought, 'Who am I kidding, he's almost always late and he smokes...' Eddie thinks to himself looking at a pack of cigarettes Richie dropped.