A red balloon| IT/ST Crossover (slow updates!)

"Will...?" 🎈

Saturday, September 13, 1989

(this is set just before season three and the events of season two did happen but he's still got some of it inside him. I'm sorry if this is confusing.)

•Mikes POV•

I set up the basement with blankets and snacks for us to eat and I set up D&D for us to play when they all get here. "Mike, " my mom calls from upstairs, "Wills here!"

*time skip*

"How bout we watch a horror movie at midnight?" Max suggests while grabbing a bag of chips. "Oh! We can watch Nightmare on Elm Street!" Lucas suggests. I nod my head in agreement while sitting down with El. While we continued our conversations about horror movies, I notice Will glancing at me and El. I wonder what's the matter with him.

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"Maybe we shouldn't have watched that right before we were going to bed." Dustin says. "Yeah... I hated the bedroom scene where he just jumped through the mirror." I say, agreeing with Dustin."
"i don't like mirrors anymore.." El quietly whispers which makes me sympathise with her since she's never really watched a movie before. "Don't worry El, " I say to her as we all begin to lay out our sleeping bags, " It's not real." She nods her head and crawls into the sleeping bag next to mine. I see Will get into his as he yawns. cute. Gah! What am I thinking? I lay down and go to sleep.

•Wills POV•

It's around 1 in the morning and I wake up feeling nauseous. Ugh... Not again. I quickly get up and head to the bathroom. I lean over the sink and puke but, what leaves my mouth is a slug. I feel grossed out by it and It slips down the drain with ease but before I can wash up I hear a voice. "Will?" my head instantly whirls to where the noise is and standing in the doorway is the one person I didn't want to find out. Mike.

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"Don't worry, I promise to keep it a secret but why didn't you tell someone?" he asks as I fidget with my hands. "Everyone seemed happy that there were no more bad things happening so I didn't want to ruin that." I finish and then I feel two warm arms around me. "I'll be here for you okay?" Mike says which makes me start to cry into his chest as I hug him back. We stay like that. After a while, we both head back to the others and he tells me to move my sleeping bag next to his. I smile and blush.

•El's POV•

It's pitch black. Why is it pitch black? I look around and it's just darkness. Except for a single red balloon which is floating towards me. It stops. Spins around. It has writing on it that says 'I ❤️ Derry.' Wait. Derry? The new kids that Dustin was talking about? All of a sudden the balloon pops which makes me scream and a creepy clown was standing there. Although I'm right in front of it, it doesn't seem to notice me. As if I'm invisible. There's a black mist forming beside it. It's starting to create a face. I'm getting shivers up and down my spine just from their presence. That black mist... It can't be?! It's the mind flayer! The clown looks at me with his piercing eyes. Can it see me? It's mouth opens. Its face becomes disjointed which I look at in disgust. The mind flayer tells it something, in a voice that I can not understand. The clown lunges at me. It goes to bite me. I scream and cry for help. But I can't open my mouth. It grabs me. I struggle in its grip but I won't let me go. "El." it knows my name? I try to get away but I can't. "El!" it's tormenting me, isn't it. "ELEVEN!"

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"AH!!" "Hey, calm down, it's us, it's me, Mike." I look around at my surroundings and see all my friends with worried looks on their faces. My head hurts and my palms are sweaty. My breathing comes to a normal pace as I wrap my arms around the boy who I used to love. I cry in his embrace as all the others try to comfort me as best they can.

•••

After I calm down I decide that since it was still nighttime ( around 4 am) I would tell them in the morning which Mike doesn't agree to at all but he let me be and didn't push further. As I was about to settle back down I notice Will is now next to Mike when he wasn't before. I wonder what that's about. I try my best to fall asleep but all that I can think about is the mind flayer and that clown.

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An idea just popped into my head so I had to get this down and it didn't take me that long which was surprising. This only took me about 1 hour and a half.

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