Blood Rose (Completed)

Chapter 16

Robert's POV

It was different this time. For both of them. The first time it happened, it occured out of pure lust, and a hunger that Robert ever had before.

When he had left Katherine's house, Pennywise had made his way to the Barrens first. Invincible for the people walking around him and a wicked grin on his face. Long legs carried him swiftly through the streets of Derry and his sharplike teeth sometimes showed when Pennywise smiled widely.

It would be a matter of days that all the Loser's Club would be in Derry again. IT could feel it in the air and it made ITs mouth water. IT would taste their flesh and kill them for what those nasty, little children did to him 27 years ago. Maybe, he would let Big Bill float just like his tiny brother.

The Barrens were as they always been ; it stunk and was nothing more than a nest for rats. IT made its way towards the sewers, finding the entrance without a problem and strode through the filthy waters. Filth and dirt. All of the residents of this ratched little town.

Pennywise loved it and had missed this feeling.

It took merely ten minutes with his long legs to enter the wide chamber that he knew so well. Pennywise knew the sewers by heart and even giggled childishly when IT saw the room was still the same. IT could still smell the children floating in the air just above the pile of dirt that IT had gathered over the years.

The floating children were gone, the pile of dirt and garbage still there.

IT could see the vision before him ; in just a matter of days there would be children floating once more and Pennywise would feed from their fears. It almost made the clown dance with anticipation.

Almost.

Pennywise's thoughts were suddenly overtaken by something else. Not something, but someone else.

Katherine. The wench that ran around in his mind all the fucking time.

IT gritted it's sharp teeth together, let itself fall down to sit in the sewer water, pulled its legs up and closed its eyes. It was just a matter of thinking about her and the clown could see her standing in the library.

'Time to play' IT sung in itself.

The balloon accident was hilarious and the dread that came of her when the balloon exploded, made IT hungry again. Pennywise had jumped up, spattered the water around IT and started to move towards the tunnel that would lead him outside to the library.

Something made IT hold back. The clown stopped in its tracks, shook his head and growled angrily when IT suddenly doubted. IT never doubted about murder. Pennywise could feel something tugging deep inside IT. Something that pained Pennywise but, nonetheless, it seemed the clown was doubtful about killing Katherine.

And IT loathed that feeling.

With big steps the dancing clown made its way to the water hole in the middle of the chamber. Swiftly ran through it to end up in the house on Neibolt street. IT's home for the last 27 years in human form.

The illusion was gone. The one that was used when IT was Robert Gray. Now, the house was old and dirty. And IT's playground. Yet also where Katherine Miller had left her scent everywhere. The green of her eyes haunted IT. The laughter around her lips when IT had told her a dark joke.

The pain in Pennywise's chest grew and a growl escaped its lips.

"NO," IT screamed in agony when the clown saw how the white of its arms was replaced by the soft, pinkish skin of a man.

The transformation was painful but needed. Robert Gray was back again, although only or a little while. He could sense she was coming. Or he hoped that Katherine would find his way to him again. Robert needed her. Craved her in a way that was impossible for him to have.