She'll Float Towards Us

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A/N : remember, this is an au. I will change some of the plot to fit my ideas. This means that some of the dialogue  and events aren't the exact same as the movie.

..........A few months later.

10 months, 1 week and 5 days.

That's how long it's been since Eddie, Richie, Stan, and Bill have seen their best friend's room brightening smile, and heard her musical laughter. The town of Derry gave up their search for her 3 months ago, after 7 months of looking for even the slightest of clues as to what happened to Lorie Ann the Derry Police Department had still not found a single shred of evidence to prove what happened to her.

It was like one minute, she was there, playing on the street, and the next she vanished out of the air.

It devastated the town to mark her disappearance as a cold case. But with the rising number of missing children now at 14, they had to shift their focus and work to find the new missing kids. As much as it hurt them to say it, just because they couldn't find Lorie, didn't mean they wouldn't find the others.

But unfortunately, they were still having difficulty keeping children from disappearing, nothing was working. They thought that pushing the state wide curfew to 7pm due to Georgie Denbrough's disappearing, that it would lower the risk.

If anything, it was getting worse.

The days became gloomier and darker as they went by for the members of the soon to be formed Loser's Club.

Richie was hopeful at first, expecting this to be over soon and would find Lorie safe and found in her room blasting her favorite Van Halen cassette. But it was soon determined that his other half wasn't coming home anytime soon. By now, the vision impaired brunette was unable to fully accept and process Lorie's fate, and became more sarcastic. It was getting almost to the point of his words being offensive to everyone. But he couldn't help it, his brightly shining happiness had been taken from him, leaving him in nothing but a constant state of anger and darkness.

Stan, already decently mature enough to realize how serious this was automatically going into panic mode. He was already playing the worst-case scenarios over and over in his head. He just knew if she wasn't dead by now, she was hurting, suffering. Stan thought that out of all the kids in Derry, Lorie should have been one of the last to have a fate as horrible as this. He believed she was a gift from angels and didn't deserve this. He became distant and detached. He would go to school, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat. People who knew him would say that he was just a shell of a once happy boy. It was like the sparkle of life had been ripped from him.

Eddie, being the soft emotional person, he was in constant tears. It was a miracle his body hadn't just shut down from the amount of water leaving his body in such a short time. His mom has to get a new inhaler for him every other day because his constant crying is making his breathing continuous labored and shaky, which is definitely not good for the asthmatic teen. But he can't help it. Lorie is-was his anchor. She kept him grounded. She was there to calm him down after his asthma attacks and forgot his inhaler. She was there to make him laugh, to keep that smile on his young face. But with her gone, he doesn't know how to cope besides crying himself to a restless sleep. He can't even get decent sleep at night because his dreams are plagued with nightmares filled with horrible visions of Lorie. It was if Eddie's peace was gone and it was never coming back.

Bill was experiencing the worst of it. He was devastated and broken when Lorie left. But Georgie was there at the beginning to help alleviate some of his pain. His little brother was just what he needed to help him through this. But then Georgie was taken from him too, completely destroying the stuttering boy. This left him no solace from his guilt and depression. He still plays that horrific day over and over in his, never able to get it out of his head.