21

A Happy Ending

"He's there! He called me!"

Bill and Stan had been unconvinced. They thought maybe he was experiencing some sort of grief-stricken hallucination. The shower had been running nearly all day. There was no hot water left. And now he was claiming that he had gotten a phone call from Eddie, things were becoming difficult.

"Richie, no one has seen him or heard from him in a month. The police have no leads. I think it's time you accept he might not be coming back." Stanley lectured.

"He is coming back. And he is going to come back perfectly fine, if you won't help me I'll do it alone."

"Stan, if we don't help him he'll just get himself killed trying to do it on his own."

"We don't know where Myra lives, and even if we did, we are hardly the S.W.A.T. team."

"We don't have to be! We just need someone to distract her, while we find a way to get him out!" Richie explained, "look I even drew up some plans on how to--"

"Richie. You need to slow down. There isn't anything we can do right this moment." Bill explained

"Sure there is! We can start looking for Myra's address!"

Bill and Stan gave eachother a knowing look.

"Bill, can you hand me the yellow pages?"

~~~

There was a knock on the door. Maybe the police finally put two and two together, and figured it out. Or maybe it was the neighbor asking if Myra had seen her cat, who had run away.

Either way, Eddie knew he'd be stuck here, maybe forever.

He didn't know if Richie had recognized his voice when he had called. Richie hadn't heard his voice in over a month, would he know where he was?

"I will be right back Eddie Bear, don't make a single little sound." Myra tapped Eddie's nose before leaving the room and closing the door behind her. She was heading to answer the door.

Eddie listened closely. The voice was muffled but it sounded familiar.

"Hi, I was wondering if you had a moment to talk about some of the issues your experiencing as a renter in this apartment building."

Stanley?

~~~

Bill climbed the fire escape, and tapped on two other windows, before realizing Myra's apartment was two floors up.

He continued to climb, and peaked through the window to see one Eddie Kaspbrak.

Bill tapped on the window getting Eddie's attention.

There were tears in his eyes, he had never been so happy to see Bill in his entire life. There was just one problem, Eddie was still healing from two broken ankles.

Eddie managed to unlock the window, letting Bill open it.

"Come on Kaspbrak, let's get out of here."

"I can't, I won't be able to get down the fire escape."

A loud scream could be heard from the other side of Eddie's door.

"Get out! You have no right to enter my home!"

Something had gone awry.

The sound of furniture being knocked over could he heard. As well as screams coming from Myra.

Then, a clang. The sound of a pan hitting a skull.

Then nothing but silence.

The door opened, revealing Stanley with a frying pan in his right hand.

"She was going to shut the door on me. I had to do something." Stanley explained.

"We don't have time to worry about that right now, Stan you call 911 and Bill you need to come inside and help me out, we don't have to go down the fire escape, let's walk out the front door."

Bill climbed through the window and lifted Eddie, holding him bridal style as they made there escape. Stanley followed after them shortly after calling the authorities.

They descended inside the elevator to the ground floor where Richie would be waiting.

Richie couldn't risk Myra recognizing him, so he waited downstairs.

The moment the elevator doors opened he locked eyes with Eddie. He felt like he could start sobbing, but he didn't, right now he needed to just be here. Just be with Eddie.

Bill set Eddie down on the ground, unable to carry him any longer. Richie fell down in front of him and grabbed him tightly.

Richie had gone from not having thought about Eddie at all, to thinking about him every waking moment. Even now, he was there beside him, but  couldn't stop thinking about every little detail surrounding who he was.

He had spent the last month going insane, and now everything felt right. It was the way it should be. Richie and Eddie were together again.

~~~

An ambulance arrived as well as 4 police cars. With the narrative from Eddie explaining Myra having shot and kidnapped him, as well as Bill, Stan, and Richie there to back his story up, they had no choice but to arrest Myra.

Stanley admitted to hitting Myra over the head with a frying pan, he explained that he knew Eddie was in danger, and that if he didn't do what he had done, Eddie still might be upstairs trapped.

Myra was arrested, and Eddje was taken to the hospital to be taken care of properly. Things weren't ever going to be the same again, for either of them.

They didn't know it yet, but Eddie would be diagnosed with PTSD later that year. And Richie would sell a massive painting depicting his worst fear, losing Eddie. It would sell for $5,000 in an art gallery. And they would put a deposit down on a house, just outside the city. A house that just so happened to be across the street from the Uris-Dengbrough home.

Eddie would learn to calm Richie down when he woke up worried he was alone, and Richie would learn how to talk Eddie down from a panic attack.

Bill and Stan's daughter would develope a sweet crush on Richie and Eddie's son, which would eventually turn into a teenage summer of love, leading to an unplanned pregnancy.

All of this was in store for them, but they had no idea.

Richie watched Myra get arrested and thought to himself, where will out love take us next?

The answer of course, was that there love had no limits, and would take them as far as they wished to go. There love would bring them many years together, where they could grow old together, and watch there grandchildren play on the front lawn.

It was so strange to know that all of this had started with a paper cut.

A/N: wow ok. That is the end. I feel like the ending is written lazily so I may edit this tomorrow when I am not sleepy or in pain.

Next story will be called "Just Breath"

An au where Eddie is trans FTM
Goodnight lovelies ❤