I have a scene idea to put forth to replace Angel of The Mornings usage in IT Chapter 2 as kinda randomly playing it while Eddie got puked on felt kinda weird to me especially in a scene that was him facing his fear for the first time in 27 years...
Let me set the scene *cough cough*
(Fuck the token retrieval bit BTW cause I said so, they're going round Derry in pairs to gain back their memories and maybe find some stuff they used back in the first fight like the slingshot and silver slugs and all that stuff)
Bill and Mike are a pair and they wandering around trying to regain Bill's memories of what happened. Bill remembers Georgie but not a whole lot of the summer after it, so he remembers all of the pitying looks from people in school and around town when he'd walk past and how suffocated it made him, till he sees silver in that bike shop window, beginning to remember more of the light hearted times after the summer that he'd forgotten also and, expressing a part of his inner thatd been shoved down and laid dormant while he grieved as a kid and as an adult, insists that he'll be back in a sec to go bother the guy inside to get his bike.
This leaves Mike outside for a bit, still reeling from the negative reactions and almost refusal to fulfill the promise from some of the losers, particularly Richie who is terrified beyond belief and is just itching to get away and leave, remembering that Stan, the last loser to leave Derry and the only one to fully recognise that he was going to lose his memories and that this likely meant Pennywise wasn't dead, outright told Mike that he couldn't guarantee if Mike called up 27 years after they fought it, that he'd come back.
And now as far as Mike knows, Stanley is dead, with a wife left behind to pick up the pieces, because hoped even knowing what Stanley had said, that he might change his mind, that he might come back.
And if the others leave and some still go down there, they gonna die, and thats gonna be his fault.
And Mike's now struggling to breathe and tears are beginning to form and the weight of Derry and everything is beginning to crush him.
Bill comes out of the store with a grumble and notably bikeless when he sees Mike struggling not to sob and rushes over to help him calm down, harking back to a time during the summer, the week when everyone had fallen out and the weight and guilt of having gotten his friends almost killed, and having visited his mother only for her to accidentally imply that Georgie's death was his fault, he similarly broke down in the barrens, found by Mike who helped him calm down, told him to breathe and reminded him that he was there and things would be okay even if they weren't now.
And after a while, Mike can breathe too, references that he remembers this too, and that it'd been a little scary watching bill almost scream in frustration that he couldn't talk or get a sentence out when he was freaking out.
Bill reminds him that this is not his fault, that he couldn't control what Stan would do and hoping that maybe Stan would've been okay wasn't something to blame himself over.
They talk about Mike's time in Derry, Bill reminding him that he's allowed to be upset even angry that the others are refusing to help, even if they both know it'd be wrong to make them, it's okay to be frustrated that he stuck around that long because he believed it was the right thing to do.
Mike and Bill begin to chill out with Bill telling Mike that's he's a good friend and that even if he had fully remembered Pennywise, he still believes he would've walked back into Derry and that while the others are reluctant, that they likely would've too.
"Now, Mike, as my good friend, I'm gonna need your help sweet talking thay curmudgeonly old bastard in that shop to give me my bike back"
They head in and with Mike's sweet talking and Bills polite silence so that he doesn't threaten the shop keep, they go about and ride around Derry on the bike, having some good fun times and having a bit of 90s miniseries Bill and Mike vibes, until they get to that big fuck off steep road in the middle of Derry town that's massively down hill.
And Bill looks back at Mike with the same determination that he has with anything while Mike stares him down hoping that Bill isn't about to do what he's about to do.
Bill nods and off they go down the hill at a ridiculous speed, Mike holding onto him for dear life, yelling the whole way down.
Bill looks back at Mike briefly in a "isn't this fun?!" Kinda way only to see Mike's face turn to abject terror as he yells "STROLLER!"
Sure enough he turns back to see someone's stroller as they crossing the road and Bill swerves to avoid it putting them in middle of the traffic as the song kicks in while a series of more unfortunate events impedes their journey, ending with them crashing over a fence on a path and crash landing in the Barrens.
Mike lifts up his head to lecture Bill about how dangerous this was before seeing how carefree his laughter is as he hysterically cackles, a level of carefree he hadn't seen him with since he met the guy while he was fending Bowers and his stupid friends off with rocks and screamed for the losers help him.
And Mike begins laughing too as the music begins to ease off
(Yes I'm very sorry a lot of this doesn't line up with events in the movie I'm still making this up as headcanons in my own IT au but I hope anyone who reads this enjoys it anyway 😊)
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