The Town of Derry

Comfort

*gore warning?*
𝑨𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒕, 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑩𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚

"𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒊 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝑩-𝑩-𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒐!" 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒖𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕.

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓.
"𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑷 𝑰𝑻 𝑳𝑬𝑻 𝑯𝑰𝑴 𝑮𝑶!" 𝑰 𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆, "𝒐𝒉𝒉 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂" 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒌.

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒘.

"Oh God" I said sitting up, panting from the dream I just had. I felt dry tears on my cheeks and proceeded to quietly stand up, I walked to the kitchen and got myself a glass of water.

"Hey, you okay?" I heard a voice say. It was Stanley, I didn't say anything for a few minutes, as he sat at the table with me I tried to convince myself the dream wasn't real, that the Stanley in-front of me gazing into my eyes was the real Stanley.

"Somethings wrong, I can see it in your eyes" he said, he moved his chair beside mine, I still didn't say a word. I was too scared it would come true, i felt his body move closer to mine, in a way to tell me everything would be okay.
"I had a dream.." I managed to come to the conclusion I should tell him. "Do you wanna tell me about it doll?" He said as he stood up, gesturing we can move to the couch, I shook my head yes and followed him to the living room.
"What was it about" he sat beside me with the blanket putting it onto my lap, and my water beside me on the coffee table. "You" I said looking down and wiping my face,
"Explain" he said, moving himself closer to me again, to comfort. "It.. it was a dream about IT again.. but this time" I said before choking up,
"This time he, got us" I stopped for a moment "he got me, Bev, bill and you, he took Bev and I in his hands, showed us a white light... which revealed you, being.." I stopped again and looked up at Stans face, "it's not real right" I said, "I hope not" he said, then rubbed his hand through his hair, "I can't lose you" I said hugging him as he hugged back I started feeling a wave of emotions, all of this IT stuff all too real for me.

~ 9am ~
I woke up on the couch, being bear hugged by Stanley, with all the other guys staring down at us. "Morning love birds" Ben teased as I sat up, which caused Stanley to wake up. I didn't bother engaging in conversation with anyone, I walked into the kitchen and say myself onto the counter.

I heard Stanley in the other room telling everyone what happened last night, then heard everyone's foot steps coming my way.
"Holy shit" Richie said, "a dream?" Beverly added, then looked down. "Bev, you have to tell me if you saw anything to do with Bill" I said as she hugged me while I was on the counter.
"I- I did a few nights ago" she said taking my hand "its n-not real" Billy said putting his hand on both of our shoulders.

"If you and Stanley go missing, I will kill that damn clown with my bare hands" Eddie said trying to act tough. "They won't go missing" I said, "and how do you know that?" Mike asked sitting beside me on the counter. "Because I'm not leaving them, bill and Stanley will stick with one of us at ALL TIMES" I stated as I grabbed eddies shoulder to lift myself down,
"24/7 must be with one of us" I said again making it clear. "That goes for all of us" Ben said, "well There's eight of us; so we can stick in 4 groups of 2, or 2 groups of 4" Eddie said looking around the room.

"4 of 2" we all agreed, to begin it was going to be me and Richie, hopefully we can finally get to talk without a mass IT situation interrupting.

~ Lunch time ~

Richie and I biked down to the pharmacy so I can pick up a new prescription of my allergy medication.

As I stood in line I played with the zipper of my fanny pack while Richie stood in the candy isle "gummy worms, or sour patches" he called out to me, I turned around and looked at him with a smile "both?" I questioned, he smiled back and grabbed both, then walked over to meet me in line. "How are you feeling?" He asked as I kept playing with my zipper "alright, better than last night that's for sure" I walked up to the counter as the man in-front of us left.

"Hey it's two of the losers" Greta said as she took my pharmacy card, Richie stayed quiet, as did I. "Well it was all just a dream" Richie said breaking the silence as we waited. I shook my head to agree, although I didn't think it was a dream, it was all too real. "I hate being away from Bill and Stanley" I said as the older man at the pharmacy handed me the paper bag with my medication.

"Well Bills with Ben and Stanley's with Mike" Richie stated, we sat at the bench along the street side. "Yeah, I know" I said as I stuffed my new medication into my fanny pack.
"It's weird that Bev has the same dream" he said, I nudged him trying to give him a hint I no longer wanna talk about the subject.
"Well how about we go for a swim?" He suggests, I nod and smile in agreement.

As we got to the top of the quarry edge I placed my fanny pack on the log we always sit on, i stripped down to my bra and underwear, and stood at the edge with Richie. "On 3?" I said looking over the edge. "3" Richie said as he pushes me and jumps soon behind me.

I popped up to the surface and wiped the water out of my eyes "jerk face" I said grabbing his shoulders pushing him under playfully.
"See how much fun we have without being interrupted" I said smiling and hanging onto his arm to keep myself up.

"You're gonna burn if you don't put a shirt on" Richie said standing over me, which I clearly was trying to get some colour on my skin. I look my shirt off my face, which I was using to keep the sun out of my eyes, grinned at him then rolled onto my stomach to let the sun get on my back. "Well don't come wining to me when you burn!" He said laying down beside me. "And what about you Mr, your laying there with no shirt on" I said patting his bare stomach,
He just chuckled and turned onto his stomach aswell.