pretty much dead already â [losers club x reader]
title: pretty much dead already
pairing: the losers club x reader [ platonic ]
summary: you get âtakenâ by It instead of Beverly, and your friends do all they can you bring you back. In the end, of course it would be something so simple.
warnings: one curse maybe? angst sorta. but mainly fluffy!
The Losers found you hovering several feet above the rocky floor in a dark underground cavern, mouth parted in a silent scream and ghosts clouding the colour of your eyes.
At first, they froze, pausing somewhere between cold, flooring shock like theyâd just had ice water tipped over them, and a total, paralysing horror, because God, none of the illusions or monsters It had stitched together for their own personal anxiety could compare to this.
You looked pretty much dead already.
After that beat of paralysis, that one second that flashed like the muzzle of a shotgun, they clamoured to rush over, footfalls going a mile a minute as they stampeded over to your floating frame with a desperation so scarcely seen in kids so young.
Eddie was the first to yell. âY/n! Can you hear us?â His squeaky, terrified, throaty little voice couldnât break through to you.
The other followed, jolted into action, shouting your name like a mantra with growing desperation as Stan and Mike, the tallest of the lot, reached up to grab onto your calves and attempt to pull you down.
You werenât yanked, as they were probably all expecting - you drifted, like you weighed nothing, a helium balloon covered in a childâs sticky fingers held down fast by a weight at the end of the string.
As they successfully pinned you down so your feet were flat on the ground, they almost wished they hadnât. Your face was perfectly expressionless - not one line in the skin, not one muscle holding tension - lips gently parted, eyes wide and unblinking, hair seemingly weightless as it ghosted over the cage of your head, brushing your skin like feathers. But worst of all were your eyes - pallid and clouded, staring straight ahead, your usually bright irises packed with cold ghosts and cold tears as you stared straight through them all, like they were just seven more wailing kids to the ones already in your head.
âY/n!â Mike tried this time, his strong voice ricocheting off the cavern walls, but to no avail - Beverly, on the brink of tears, reached out, grabbed you by the shoulders and shook you roughly, hysterically, until Bill murmured for her to stop.
Richie blinked at you, eyes wide because Christ, he hadnât planned for this. Heâd just assumed - well. That everything would work out. Because it did, didnât it? Things worked out in these types of stories. Only it wasnât a story. You were here, looking like a goddamn corpse in this freakish cavern with dead children floating in a frenzied spiral, up and up and up until the mysterious white light swallowed their little figures. Just another in the graveyard.
Their pleading voices rose into a cacophony of choking, hoarse, broken pleas and sobs, hand grabbing your arms, face, trying to wring some feeling back into your light puppet body.
Eddie was the first one to cry.
âY/n!â he cried, hoarse and squeaky, tears cutting tracks down the grime and dust on his face. âWake up!â
This seemed to set off a chain reaction - in a few seconds, Richie had turned and stumbled a couple feet away from the commotion to scrub at his eyes with the edge of his flannel, Billâs and Mikeâs eyes grew brighter in the dim light, Stanâs closed his eyes and pressed his mouth into a stoic line, Benâs lower lip began to tremble in earnest and Beverly began sobbing into her hands, staggering backward and crashing to the floor.
âY-Y-Y/n,â Bill called desperately over the din, too panicky to be embarrassed that his voice was breaking. âC-c-come on, you - you canât l-l-leave us now, we n-need you! We canât - we canât - we canât do this w-without you, Y/n.â
Nothing. Your pale, stoic gaze kiltered on straight through him, and finally, the noise ceased save for Bev, Richie and Eddieâs stifled cries, and Bill dropped his head onto your shoulder in despair, drawing comfort from the crook of your neck like he did when Georgie - when Georgie...
A moment later, Eddie dropped to his knees and grabbed your wrist, pressing his face to your hand deliriously, reminding himself of the times youâd gently stroked his cheek to coax him to sleep, fingers running through his hair till he shivered.
Mike sniffed, and his arm draped itself round your left shoulder, reminiscent of the time youâd half-dragged him to the emergency room after Bowers had aimed a baseball at his left knee and effectively crushed it under the wood.
Riche drew in a stammering breath as he wrapped his skinny arms round your stomach from behind and pressed his damp face into your shoulder, feeling the warm comfort of you like he did on cold, lonely sleepover nights when his brain wouldnât shut off for long enough for him to drift off.
Now surrounded by trembling bodies, Stan made do with draping an arm round Richieâs shaking shoulders and grabbing your hand through the gap between the trashmouth and Mike.
Beverly and Ben followed suit, the former clinging to Billâs hand with one arm and the other skating through your hair that she so loved to ruffle, and the latter content to put a supportive hand on Eddieâs shoulder and, with shaking fingers, reach out to touch your arm - the only part of your body visible to him through the gasping, shaking coffin of people packed around you.
As soon as all seven of your friends were touching you, however, something changed.
Beverly, hovering over Billâs shoulder, saw it first, albeit through a vision blurred with tears. You blinked.
She inhaled a stuttering gasp, mouth parting to explain, bit she didnât have to - next second, you seem to jolt like someone had plugged you into a live electric current, your body spasming in a second, head thrown back as you inhaled a rush of warm, damp hair for what felt like the first time in years. You blinked the cold out of your eyes as you panted, filling your empty, aching lungs, and as soon as the cloudy white fled your vision, you were met with the sight of your best friends peering at you in a dark, cavernous room with wet eyes and faces simultaneously startled and so, so sad.
âGuys?â you manage to dredge up, and your voice is quiet and throaty but there, and thereâs a moment before all seven of them let out joyously disbelieving exhales and barrel into you, arms squeezing you in a hug so tight you canât breathe. You have a face full of Richieâs curls that smell of passion fruit shampoo and Ben has inadvertently punched you in the jaw in his haste to embrace you. Beverly is crying into your shoulder and Bill is rubbing soothing circles onto her shoulder with one arm and grabbing you tight with the other, looking dazed and deliriously happy all at once. Mike coughs and ruffles your hair, Stan lets out an oddly hysterical, breathy laugh and buries his face in the crook of your neck.
You are a pile of limbs and laughs and tears, and even if you donât know exactly what had happened, you could get a pretty clear picture from the way your friends looked at you - like they were assuring themselves you were really there.
Eventually, your huge group hug cracks and drifts apart, Eddie hanging back to give you one last hug so fierce it squeezes the air from your lungs, and you look round all your friends with a smile that you hope doesnât look too overwhelmed.
âHope you guys didnât kill the clown already,â is what you manage to choke up, and a collective laughs bubbles from the group even though it wasnât that funny.
âWe waited for you,â Mike offers weakly.
âFigured youâd want the honours,â Beverly reiterates, cheeks flushed with joy and tears.
âWell, then.â You force the tremble out of your hands and look around your assembled best friends.
âLetâs go kill this fucking clown.â
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