Richie x Reader IT Chapter Two

Chapter 5

As we all went inside the inn Richie rolled his eyes "let's get our shit and get the fuck out of here." Eddie looked back at Ben and asked "Did you leave your stuff in here?" Ben shook his head and answered " No, my stuff's in the car." "Then why-" I started to ask but then I see him going towards Beverly in the bar and I shake my head "Never mind." I mumbled and followed Eddie and Richie upstairs to our rooms. As I went in mine I felt someone tap my shoulder and I spun around to see Richie holding out a piece of paper "Here's my number, if you know, you ever want to reach the hottest guy in the world." He smirked at me and I decided to mess with him "I can reach Ben?" I asked innocently and his smirk dropped as I chuckled "I'm kidding Tozier, thanks, this night has been, well to put it shortly terrifying." He nodded and sighed "Well i'm glad I got to see you at least, even though I now know what a baby's head on a demon bug looks like." I laughed and his smile grew as Eddie came by and yelled "Come on lovebirds! We don't have all night!" I glared at him before heading into my room.

As I put my stuff into my bag I hear Richie say to Ben and Bev "Whatever you guys are talking about, make it fast cause we got to go." I hear him stomp towards the stairs as he yelled "Eduardo! Señoritas L/N! Andale lets go!" I start walking down the stairs I hear Ben say "There's something you're not telling us, you knew about Stan you knew." My eyes widened as I heard this and me and Richie said in unison "Wait, what?" Beverly had tears in her eyes as she whispered "I can't do this." Before walking past us "She knew how Stanley was going to die is that what she just said" Richie asked shocked as we followed after Beverly. "You can't just walk away from this." Ben said as I nodded "yeah Bev, you can't just say how you knew that Stan was going to die and then leave." "How did you know where he killed himself?" Ben asked as Beverly rang the bell at the counter nonstop. "Bev." Ben said softly as Beverly speed walked around the counter and grabbed her key "Just talk to me like we used to how did you know?" Ben went in front of her as Beverly let out a heavy breath as she answered "Because I saw it. I've seen all of us die." My eyes widened as me and Richie shared a look before we heard bags thumping against the wall while Eddie's voice followed "Okay I just got to grab my toiletry bag, and then we can go." He dropped his bags onto the last step as he noticed our grim expressions "What'd I miss?"

As we brought Eddie up to speed I sat down next to Richie as Eddie paced around in a circle before going up to Bev "Okay. So, what do you mean you've see all of us die?" Richie nodded as he said " Yeah 'cause I gotta be honest. That's a fucked up thing to just drop on somebody." "Well no shit, she's basically saying we're fucked." I snapped as Beverly looked at us "Every night since Derry, I've been having these nightmares. People in pain. People dying. People..." Eddie sighed as he said, "So you have nightmares. I have nightmares people have nightmares they have nightmares! But that doesn't mean that your visions are true." I shook my head as I looked at Eddie " Eds, she had one about Stan dying, and obviously that one came true, what happens if she has one about us soon?" I felt myself start to panic a bit at the thought as Bev kept going "I've watched every single one of us..." She went silent as Bill's voice was heard"You've seen every single one of us what?"

Bev looked at Bill with a tear going down her face as she answered "At the place Stan wound up. That's how we end." Richie tapped his glasses as he said "Okay, how come the rest of us aren't seeing that shit? I mean what makes her so different?" Bill put his hand on Bev's shoulder as Mike thought for a second before looking up at us "The deadlights." Bill paced for a second before nodding "the deadlights." My mind immediately went to the memory of us all running through sewage water as we looked up at our friend as she floated in the air, her eyes a cloudy gray as she stared into nothingness. Bev seemed to be reliving the memory also as her breathing grew ragged as Bill spoke "She was the only one of us to get caught in the deadlights that day." Mike went into the middle of the misshaped circle we formed and said "We were all touched by IT. Changed. Deep down like an infection. Or a virus. A virus, you understand." He begged us as Ben and Eddie got up "That virus, it's been growing for 27 years, this whole time metastasizng! It just got to Stan first because..." His voice drifted off, not wanting to admit what we were all thinking, but Richie was already on it "He was the weakest."

"Well dam Richie" I said as Bill looked at him shocked "Jesus christ Richie." Richie shrugged his shoulders as he defended "Just saying what everyone was thinking man." "He's not wrong though." I said as Bill gave me a glare, I gave him one back "Oh stop it stutter boy, you were thinking it to." Mike went up to Richie hastily as he spoke "Come on Richie, What Beverly sees it will come to pass, it's what'll happen to all of us eventually, unless we stop IT" I felt my whole body freeze of the thought of me laying in a bath and deciding it was better to die than face what was to come. Richie leaned against the bar counter as Eddie started pacing and trying to make sense of the situation "How the hell are we supposed to do that?" Mike looked up at Eddie and spoke with determination clear in his voice "The ritual of Chud."

I furrowed my brows confused as Richie looked at Mike like he just spoke in a different language, he might as well have, what the fuck is a Chud? "The Shokopiwah, the first ones who fought IT, they have a saying. "All living things must abide by the laws of the shape they inhabit " Mike said, I mumbled "What the fuck are the laws for a clown?" as Richie went off "A tribal ritual? Are you fucking kidding me man?" Eddie nodded in agreement as Richie kept going "All right there's gotta be another way. Okay this thing comes back what, every 27 years? Let's just kick the can down the road and do it then." I rolled my eyes as I snapped "We'll be 70 dumbass, you gonna fight a shape shifting clown as a grandpa?" Richie gave me a look like you gotta a better idea as Beverly said "It doesn't work that way. None of us make it another 20 years."

Bill comforted her as she looked like she was about to cry again "And the way it happens..." her voice stopped as Richie downed a shot. Ben shook his head and sighed "So, if we don't beat this cycle then.." "We die just like Stan, maybe even worse." I answered as I looked at my hands, which kept moving as I thought of what to do. Bill nodded as he agreed "We die." "Horribly." Eddie followed after, adding to what I said before. "Yeah, I don't need that "horribly" part, Y/N cleared it up just fine." Richie stated as he gave us a nervous look. Eddie looked at him exasperatedly as he gestured to Bev "I didn't say it, she did not me." Ben shot daggers out of his eyes towards Eddie as Bill spoke up "All right guys look. I've seen w-w-what he's talking about. And it's all true. It's the only way. If we want this ritual to work..." Mike saw what he was trying to say and finished for him "We have to remember." "Remember what?" Richie asked and I sighed, knowing the answer "We have to remember that summer."

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