the real fix it is that chapter two never happened. we all know the theory that chapter two was just what bev saw in the deadlights, right? so I really want to see her going out of her way to make sure (most of) what she saw never happens
knowing she’ll forget as soon as she leaves, bev starts making notes about the future on little cards, agnus nutter style. save many a problem that way
as soon as she can, she writes on the postcard ben gave her with the poem - your hair is winter fire, january embers, my heart burns there too - in big letters BEN HANSCOM WROTE THIS
she never gets married, knowing she ends up with someone just like her father
some years later, mike learns that IT has returned and he sets about calling his old friends only the day before he receives an anonymous letter. DO NOT CALL STANLEY URIS. LET HIM BE. YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT HIM, LET HIM REST. IF YOU SO MUCH AS THINK ABOUT CALLING STANLEY URIS I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND CHOP YOUR DICK OFF. mike doesn’t call stan
the day they meet up at the jade comes and before ben can even say his quip about passwords, bev’s in his arms hugging him. he’s like ??? but okay
richie: *watching eddie* / bev, leans over: I know about r+e on the kissing bridge you useless gay bitch / richie: what the fuck?
mike being like ‘okay so we all need to collect tokens from our childhood so we can sacrifice it in a native american ritual’ whilst bev just rolls her eyes ‘the ritual’s bullshit mike. we just have to bully the fucker to death’. at this point everyone is legit scared of bev and just go with it
bev quickly tells ben she knows he was the one who wrote the poem and his little heart soars
eddie’s about to go into his room one night when bev stops him like ‘yeah don’t go in there’ and he’s like ‘?? why not??’ and she just kicks the door open and punches bowers’ in the fucking throat
bev: do you want to save that kid’s life? / bill: w-w-what are you t-t-talking- / bev: little kid, curly hair, really chill. you’re worried he’ll be the next georgie. do you want to save him? / bill: y-y-yeah? / bev, puts her hand on his shoulder: then you have to kidnap him
everyone getting ready to fight IT and eddie being all ‘okay neibolt is not my favourite place but I’ll do anything for you guys’ and bev just spins the fuck around like ‘you’re not going’. eddie is like really hurt because he wants to help and the more of them, the better. she makes him promise not to leave the hotel to come after them
even then she locks every door behind her, making sure eddie is safe and sound in the hotel room. during the drive to neibolt bev turns to richie and said ‘I watched you lose him once, I’m not doing that again’
they beat the shit out of spider-wise pretty easily and start chanting ‘clown’ from the off, and rip IT’s fucking heart out. piece of cake
finally they’d done it and bev could have a well earned rest
when they get back to the hotel and free eddie, he and richie disappear for a bit and the others don’t need to be told where they’ve gone. they return half an hour later holding hands
this is when mike calls stan and says ‘hey buddy it’s mike hanlon from derry. I just want you to know, it’s over. IT’s dead. the others are all here and we would love it if you joined us’
stan arrives, takes one look at richie and eddie holding hands and sighs deeply. he’s missed this. he’s missed them
everything is fine, only the villain died and everyone is happy
