What if Kyle and Jason wanted to help but were to scared/ frozen still to do anything. Both of them scared of making it worse before making it better. Eventually Max just dragged both of them off and they don’t have time to fully process what had happened until they’re dragged into Max’s truck. Then they start panicking, yelling at Max that they half to go back for him, only for Max to continue driving away without saying anything. After enough panicking from Kyle and Jason, Max threatens them and makes them swear that they won’t say a word to anyone.
To Richie it just looked like Kyle and Jason stumbled away by themselves, unaware that Max dragged them off.
Kyle returning home to Officer Bailey and giving his uncle a (I did something bad look) but not saying anything, scared of what Max would do if he did say something, especially to a cop. Kyle was unusually quiet but Bailey didn’t push on it. Assuming that Kyle didn’t want to talk about it. But only after 3 day of not hearing from Richie, it took for Kyle to completely break down about it to Bailey. Then Officer Bailey opened up case about it as quickly as he could before going out to find Richie, asking Kyle where he was. Kyle leads him to the spot before freezing at the top of the small dip again, seeing that Richie’s body was still there, just staring to compose. Bailey tells Kyle to go wait in the car as he assesses the body. Kyle refused, saying that he couldn’t do that to Richie again before mumbling on about Richie being fine and that he’s ok to himself.
Jason was in his bed crying to himself about not doing anything. He doesn’t even feel the room getting colder through out the minutes before the lights cut out. It startled him, causing Jason to sit up. After a second Kason checked his phone only to see multiple missed calls from Kyle and a few texts saying that he gave in and confessed what happened to his uncle. While Jason is about to reply, his signal gets cut off and his room gets even colder. Jason then notices that a corner of his room was darker than it should be, a familiar silhouette standing there, not moving and just watching as Jason slowly freezes to death. Giveing Jason the same treatment as him and Kyle did. Just watching as he begged for help.
Jason was found in the morning by his parents.
Kyle tells Bailey that he’s scared to go back to school but Bailey tells him that if anything happens, then he calls him. Kyle just agreed and went to school, not wanting to upset his uncle Bailey. The school day goes over fine besides Kyle intentionally ignoring Max, quickly noticing that Jason wasn’t here but just assumed he was skipping school today. Before football practice, Kyle lingered behind so he wouldn’t be in the same room as Max. So Kyle just got ready by himself. Midway through changing, Kyle gets up to go splash water on his face to try and calm himself. But when he looks up, he sees Richie’s broken body in the reflection instead of his own, scaring Kyle so bad that he almost fell back on the floor. After Richie standing there and not doing anything, Kyle slow reached out to the reflection telling himself in his head that he’d gone insane. But then Kyle feels a sudden tugging towards his locker which slammed open by its self. If it couldn’t get worse, his body started breaking on itself as he was dragged into his locker by an invisible force that Kyle couldn’t interact with, Richie watched through the mirror and not doing anything as Kyle screamed for help.
By the time football practice ended, max was storming into the locker room, pissed at Kyle for skipping and hiding out in here…. But Kyle wasn’t in here. Max storms over to his locker which is right next to Kyle’s. Max’s locker having an arrow drawn in something red, pointing to Kyle’s locker. There were multiple of these arrows pointing to Kyle’s locker. Kyle’s locker however just said nerd. Max now even more pissed at Kyle wonders what on earth Kyle thought he was doing before pushing the thought out of his head and opening Kyle’s locker, only for Kyle’s broken body to fall out.
It caused a massive panic throughout the locker room. And the police were called, Officer Bailey being the first to see his nephew broken and lifeless on the floor.
I really like this AU! :]
I’m stopping here for now though because I need to get out of bed.