Thanatophobia || Richie Tozier

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~MAZE TUNNEL

angie's p.o.v

Bill carefully helped me down then helped the boy with glasses after. I sighed heavily, getting ready to leave until we all heard a small scream. My eyes widened and we all went to check what was going on, only to see Henry up at the top with blood covering his face. "Mike!"

"Bowers," Richie scolded.

Henry began pulling the rope up that we used to get down and into the actual sewer. "The rope!" I yelled, "grab the rope!". We called out to Mike yet again only to hear no response. Eddie began panicking yet again while Bill began trying to find some way to climb up and... well, help.

"Are you insane? Eddie asked as he pulled the male back. The sound of a gun being cocked. Richie, who stood beside me, cursed. We all expected Mike to fall from the top but when we noticed Henry falling, a small gasp left my lips along with Stanleys. We immediately looked up and noticed that Mike was in fact, okay.

When I turned around again, shaking my head as I glanced at everyone who was already around. As Bill helped MIke, I noticed that someone was missing. "Wait..." did I just hear him gasp? I gulped and slowly crawled out, "guys where is Stanley?" I questioned, beginning to move around.

The others followed behind, looking around and moving the flashlight as we tried spotting Stan. "Agh shit, greywater," Eddie mumbled as he scrunched his nose in disgust.

I ignored him. "Stan!"

Of course just as I called out we all heard a yell causing us all to turn our heads towards the sound. Everyone ran over quickly but I was a bit slow seeing as I had my moonboot on and it wasn't that easy to run.

We turned a corner and opened a large door only to see Stanleys flashlight was just laying on the ground. I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down from the anxiety that was rising my chest. We walked a little further until we finally found him.

A woman was on top of Stan, her razor-sharp teeth glaring as it just waited to bite into the boy. As the women heard us though, she seemed to back away and into a tunnel. "You left me!" We heard from the Jew, "you're not my real friends!" He cried out.

"We're sorry..." Eddie said for us, pulling Stanly close and hugging him.

Bill, who was beside me, stepped away and began walking around from the small group hug that was going on. I frowned and called out to him only to have no response in the end. I rolled my eyes, turning my head just a little to see that Eddie was looking for something in the water. "Come on, get out of there dude. It's greywater," Richie murmured.

Eddie seemed to ignore him too as he kept trying to find something. "Where is my flashlight?" He screamed, "where's my fucken flash-" he was cut off as a head popped up from the dirty water causing us to scream. Eddie jumped back, bumping into me and I ended up stumbling back a bit but Richie seemed to catch me.

We started to walk along through all sorts of different tunnels which Ben seemed to know pretty well. Eventually, we came out into a large cave and that's where we noticed Beverly was. "Bev!" I gasped.

It frightened me as I watched how she was just up in the air, staring up into some random space. But it was like she couldn't even look away. We walked up towards the ginger slowly, looking at her with shock.

"H-How is she... in the air?" Richie wondered out loud.
Eddie seemed to have been looking at something else as he called us out. "Guys..."

We looked at him before following his gaze, another gasp leaving my chapped lips as I noticed a large (and I mean humongous) pile of kids laying deadly on each other, moving around slowly in a circle. "Are those?-" I couldn't even finish my sentence as tears whelmed in my eyes. Goosebumps formed on my arms and legs.

"The missing kids..." Stanley finished for me.

I really wished that he didn't. I don't know why but for some reason I wished that it wasn't the missing kids.
The poor parents who have suffered through days, months and years with their kid who was missing...

But all this time they were just here.

"Let's just get Beverly down and let's find Bill... please," I said as I shivered. Mike picked Ben up as the boy reached his arms out and grabbed Beverly's ankles, pulling her down. When she was down, we noticed how her eyes seemed so, so different. Like as if there was no soul in her body. Ben had cupped her cheeks, trying to get her attention. Trying to awake her.

"Why isn't she waking up?" He yelled, turning his head towards us for a second before looking back at her. He started shaking her shoulders, asking what was wrong with her. He pulled her into a hug and I couldn't help but sigh. 'Poor boy' I thought.

He pulled away from the hug, cupping her cheeks again when suddenly he took a deep breath. My eyes widened and I squeaked as I noticed him lean over, kissing her. We all seemed to have different reactions as some cringed and some just said 'Woah'. Of course, I didn't think it would work because hell, this wasn't some magical movie but all of a sudden when she gasped and her eyes seemed to go back to her normal green ones, I couldn't help but curse.

Tears started forming down my cheeks as my best friend was in fact okay. I didn't hear anything the two said as we all pulled them into a large hug. We all cheered quietly before Beverly pulled away, frowning as she noticed a certain someone wasn't here. "Where's Bill?"

I shrugged as she looked at me when no one answered, starting to look around. We noticed that Bill was standing out, staring at something we couldn't quite see. When we walked closer, Richie grabbed a hold of my hand and I gave it a small squeeze.

"Georgie?" Bill called out and I almost gasped yet again.
"What took you so long?" The little boy asked as he slowly walked towards him, "I was waiting for you this whole time." I looked over at Bill, glancing at him only to look away quickly when I noticed tears started forming in his eyes. "I couldn't find my way out of here..."

We all noticed how he held his paper boat with his one arm - the other what seemed like it was bitten off.

"He said I could have my boat back, Billy," he said. His brother seemed to smile at the nickname.
"Was she fast?" Bill asked.
"I couldn't keep up with it," Georgie said back.
The male frowned. "She, Georgie. You call boats 'she'".
The little boy furrowed his eyebrows, whining a small 'take me home Billy' as he let tears sting in his eyes. I squeezed Richie's hand this time, gulping and looking down at my feet that were covered in disgusting greywater. "I wanna go home!" He said and Bill only seemed to cry harder. I did too actually but silently. "I miss you! I wanna be with mom and dad!"

"I want more than anything for you to be home... with mom and dad. I miss you so much."
I slowly lifted my head as I heard footsteps, noticing Bill walk closer to his brother. My eyes widened as I noticed how Bill had something in his hand.
"I love you, Billy," Georgie whimpered.
"I love you too," he said back. Richie gently pulled me back and I was confused as to why, seeing him block my view but hell, I was glad he did. "But you're not Georgie," was all I heard before there was a small gunshot.

I flinched, stepping back and removing my hand from Richies. I wiped my tears away quickly, knowing I probably looked like shit. The dead little boy laid still for a few seconds before slowly it started twitching, starting to form into something else.

'Georgies' short legs suddenly popped out and became long legs and his arms did the same as it grew out. Suddenly everyone seemed to clutch onto their weapons as they knew 'it' was here. I gulped and looked around, grabbing whatever was close to me and getting ready.

Let's kill this son of a bitch.