tag, you're it again. r.tozier. act ll.

eight | i know your secret!

TAG, YOU'RE IT AGAIN!

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"YOU SAW IT before, didn't you." Sydney said as she looked at Kaitlyn, who was driving the two to find Richie. Arianna sat in the backseat, also waiting for an answer.

During the car ride, the twins had been explaining everything that happened with the clown, all the way from when they were kids to why they need to be back now and defeat it.

Kaitlyn's terrified eyes were stuck on the road, not knowing what to say. How did Sydney even know that she had seen it before. She glanced at her, looking up at the rear view mirror to see Arianna as well. "How do you know what happened to me?"

"Because, Kaitlyn," Arianna started to explain as she fiddled with the old rose, "she can see things that we can't. When It is about to... you know, make somebody float, she sees it happen."

"I see everything." Sydney muttered, hating that she had to talk about the sensitive topic once again because if Kaitlyn didn't understand everything that was going on, she wouldn't be able to help fight it. "I see from when Pennywise is about to make it's attack, to when the feeding is over." She muttered, rubbing her palms on her knees as Kaitlyn listened in horror.

"Oh..." The green - eyed woman trailed off, not knowing what else to say.

"How'd you get away in time?" Sydney asked her.

Kaitlyn's heart beat a little faster at the thought of the clown chasing her as she ran as fast as she could. "I don't know." She muttered. "I just threw anything I could at it's face and ran towards the town."

The twins made eye contact with each other, and they both just nodded as they listened to her.

Arianna rubbed her hands together, her heart still pounding in her chest from the earlier events, and her blue eyes glided over to the outside of the car window, where she saw a familiar looking place. The heart of Derry. She looked around as they drove closer to it,  examining how there were lots of people there. She almost looked away when she spotted the familiar man standing in the middle of all the people.

"Richie!" Arianna blurted out, and Kaitlyn confusingly stopped the car, and Arianna quickly opened the door and jumped out. The woman was eager to be in her husband's safe arms again, especially after what had happened. The woman started to speed walk, keeping her eyes on the man with glasses.

"Richie!" Arianna called, and Richie's head snapped towards the sound of his wife's voice, and he looked to see her running towards him.

"Gorgeous!" He spoke, quickly growing concerned as she looked traumatized, and as if she had been crying. The woman ran into his arms, and she tightened her arms around his torso. "Ari, what happened?"

Richie placed his fingers under Arianna's chin and gently lifted her face up, and he was alarmed, as tears were forming in her eyes. "Fuck, Ari, what's wrong?!" He asked, his voice full of concern.

Arianna placed her hands on his arms, not knowing how to talk about it. "We - me and Syd went to our old house, a - and there was the, the thing, the clown, the-"

"Woah, hot stuff, slow down." Richie gently spoke, looking at Kaitlyn's car.

"No, Rich, i- it, Pennywise. It was there, and-" her voice cracked a bit, and Richie pulled her into another hug. "It's okay, Ari, I'm here." The man cooed as he wrapped his arms securely around the smaller woman, and she nuzzled her face into his chest.

As she did so, Richie's eyes traveled up to the huge Paul Bunyan statue. Something about it seemed to oddly intrigue him, causing the man to continue to look at it.