You'll Float With Us

Take my body back Rich

Richie Tozier felt weird in the back of a cop car, still 20 minutes from his home. The whole ride was silent. What could Hopper say, What could Richie say. Hopper broke the silence with a question. "So kid, what exactly happened to her". Richie looked behind the cop car to see the ambulance that his sister was in.  

"Where do you want me to start?" Richie asked.

"The very beginning" Hopper replied.

"It all started Last summer years ago, the first attack. Bill was sick, but his brother wanted to go outside in the rain. So he got the boat Bill had made for him, and put it in the street, and followed it in the water's path. It went down a sewer, and then he met IT. IT is a shape-shifting being that takes the form of your worst fears, but mostly a clown. They killed Georgie. The next year, he started terrorizing my friends. So we went to this house and tried to fight him. He broke Eddies' arm and would have Killed Bill and me, but Bev ran in and shoved a pole through its head. It then scratched Ben and left. It made us all right and drift apart. We didn't talk much that summer until IT took Beverly, and that's when you guys came. We pushed it down the well, but It switched spots with your friend. He pretended to be her until we caught her. Then he kidnapped all of us and your family saved us. And then he took Max and Lucas and we went to save them, and then there's today" Richie explained.

"Oh ok, I'm sorry Richie" Hopper replied.

"Your a cop right?" Richie asked.

"I think so" Hopper laughed.

"Can you help me find my real parents, I promised my sister I would find them" Richie asked.

"Sure kid," Hopper said, picking up his com from his jacket. "I have a kid here, he was adopted, name Richie Tozier, find his parent's real names".

"Thanks," Richie said, looking down at his sister's neckless. As they pulled up to his house, they saw his mom and dad outside.

"RICHIE!" His mother cried, holding him. "I'm so sorry for what we said" His father apologized. Thoughts flew through Richie's mind, wondering why they would be apologizing, had they saw the cop, had they heard about Aiden. 

"Thank you, Officer, for bringing them home, Richie? Where is your sister?" His mother asked.

"Mom," Richie said, looking up at her. Just then the ambulance pulled up. Richie saw something in his mother's eyes that he had never seen, heartbreak.

"We thought you might want to say goodbye," Hopper said.

"Goodbye... what?" His mother asked.

"Mom...Aiden's gone"Richie said, holding back his tears.

Hallie (The twin's mother) stood frozen. She didn't know what to say. What could she say?  Hallie Tozier bent down to Richie's height.  She looked Richie in the eyes, then started crying. 

Like Ugly crying.

Richie froze and stared at his mom. He was confused, his mother never cried before, he always thought she hated both of them. 

But here she was, 

                                    crying her eyes out

"Mom?" Richie asked. 

"I'm so sorry Rich. I'm so sorry! I should never have called you freaks. It's fine to like who you want. I drove you away. I drove you away and look what happened. I should never have said I would throw you back into the system. The last thing I ever said to her, was calling you guys dykes. I'm so sorry" His mother said between sobs.