Eddie (Since You've Been Gone)

"Look, Beverly. I don't need you to check in on me-" he started, looking out towards the dead canal.

"Richie," she said breathily, voice sounding shaky, like how it was when she told everyone Stan was dead.

Richie sat up straighter, curiosity piquing as his heart thudded wildly in his chest.

"Richie, I-" she started, and made a faint sniffling, choked-off sob sound over the receiver. He heard her take a deep breath.

"Richie," she said shakily, "I think Eddie's alive."

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Three weeks after the Losers' final battle of IT, Richie has been struggling to come to grips with Eddie's death, ruminating over the one that got away and the truth he'd never been able to confront.

Then Beverly has a vision that Eddie is still alive and trapped in the sewers, and his past resurfaces.

Conflicted by joy over seeing Eddie again and wrestling with his own repressed feelings for him, Richie realizes that he must confront his own secrets, no matter the cost.

That is, if Eddie even makes it out alive

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(You can also find this completed story on AO3 by the same name)