Back In Black (Richie Tozier X Fem!Reader) 3

•Sixteen/Epilogue•

Word Count: 662

Warnings: Guilt, insecurities.

Song for chapter sixteen/epilogue - "Photograph" by Ed Sheeran.

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"...AND THAT WAS TRASHMOUTH TOZIER, EVERYBODY! Thank you for coming to the show!" The voice from the speakers announced. Everyone clapped for a moment and then the mutters began as everyone made their way to the exit. I, however, made my way backstage.

"Ready to go?" I smiled and asked the dark haired male with the glasses.

"Yeah, did you like the show?" Richie asked me.

"Of course I did, I told you making your own scripts was going to be a good idea! The other scripts were too organized, so I liked your more chaotic one." I reassured him.

"Alright, well uh...let's go then?" He nervously fidgeted with the bottom of his shirt.

"Richie, are you really that unconfident in your work?" I asked him.

"What? I never said that." He stopped fidgeting with his shirt, probably realizing what he was doing.

"Yeah, but you changed the topic and you look really nervous," I told him.

"Well, yeah, of course I'm not confident in my work. That was the first time I presented my script to the crowd." He avoided straight (gay) eye contact with me.

"Dude, people laughed! And I liked it! It was good and you can't change my mind."

"Yeah, but they're supposed to laugh. My shows are on TV and it would be really awkward if there was nobody laughing. I mean, it would be something new, but I don't think I could live it down."

"Alright, you're talking nonsense now. I'm not going to let you bring yourself down. Come on, let's go." I put a hand on his shoulder and led him to our car outside.

"Are we going to have the usual?" Richie asked.

"Yeah," I shortly replied as we drove to the restaurant.

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"Have you gotten any news from the others?" I asked Richie after we had ordered from the menu.

"Yeah, apparently Bev and Ben are getting married in March. They invited everyone. Do you want to go?" He asked me.

"I would say yes immediately, but since it's a bit far away, I can't say for sure. Maybe it'll turn out that we won't be able to make it." I contemplated.

"That's fair, I guess. When was your next filming shoot, again?"

"In a month," Was all I managed to say before the mouth watering food was placed in front of us.

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I wondered how Alyssa was doing. I didn't see her in Derry. Maybe my altered reality made her move out. The domino effect, probably.

I still felt horrible about the fact that I was the one responsible for Eddie's death. It made me even contemplate my own death sometimes, but Richie usually heard me out and talked me out of it. I was really grateful to have someone like him as my husband.

One of the many things I agreed on with Richie was to never have kids. There were just too many cons, plus we weren't fit to be parents. I was actually neutral about this originally, but I just didn't think I would be able to take care of kids if I wasn't able to take care of myself in the first place.

I remember the clown had said something about becoming succesful and then coming back to Derry. After the defeat of Pennywise, we had become more average in the success area, which was logical if the one who gave us success was no longer existing.

However, turtle the creator was dead, so things were ought to get worse at some point. Pennywise had killed it, which meant that chaos should be released upon this world. Even after many years I couldn't believe or comprehend that these creatures existed, it almost seemed like a hallucination. Eddie's and Stanley's deaths convinced me that, indeed, the creatures were real.

I shuffled closer to Richie as it was night and we were supposed to be asleep.

I just hope I wouldn't live long enough to see the chaos.

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I think this is probably not how an epilogue is written and the shortest chapter in the whole 3 books, but I hope you enjoyed. This is the last "canon" chapter. The next chapter is up to you whether it will be real or not. I'm not sure if there was enough romance in this book, but I hope at least someone enjoyed the story this far.

I'm not really happy with the way this book was written and I might edit it in the future, but for now I'll see you in the last chapter for Halloween. I'll miss writing this book series :')

Alright, bye! No random question for today.