Yes! REC lists are about stories you've read and enjoyed, here I'm mostly asking for fanfictions but you can recommend books if you want too! Thanks for replying so quickly!
Nah, no need to thank me. I’m spending a week in bed, sick and dying, it’s fun to have people interacting with me, even if I don’t know who you are. Most of the fics are IT related because this is all I’ve been reading since 2017.
Stozier (Stanley Uris & Richie Tozier)
Roadtrips and Realizations by bellabee
With the summer winding to a close, it was time for the losers to go their separate ways. They were all going to different colleges (or in Bill’s case, backpacking around Europe), and they’d no longer be the 7 little kids riding their bikes around Derry. As a last ditch attempt to spend some final time with his best friends, Stan organized a road trip to drive Beverly and Richie across the country to drop them off at their respective schools. With multiple days of driving ahead of them, they somehow become closer than before.
distance makes the heart grow fonder by ell (amywaited)
He realises he’s in love with Richie now. After four days and two years and a whole lifetime of missing puzzle pieces, he realises he’s always been in love, in proper love. The kind of love that Bev dreams about and Eddie talks about and Stan couldn’t even picture it.
Now, lying in bed in a shitty motel after driving for ten hours straight because Richie hadn’t wanted to stop and he’d fallen asleep in the passenger seat, with Richie sprawled beside him and the TV playing crackly advertisements, he realises he’s in love. There’s nowhere else he’d rather be, not really. Nowhere except in a car, with his boyfriend who might be his boyfriend, who’s only sort of his boyfriend because they haven’t really talked about it yet, on the way to Los Angeles so he can get his name in lights.
untouched (need you so much) by breathplayed
Stan Uris could’ve gone his entire life without knowing what Richie Tozier’s dick looked like.(Or, Richie has a big dick and Stan the Man has a Big Crisis.)
(This one seems to be abandoned, so if you read it, leave comments so maybe the author gets motivated to write again. Believe me, it works).
Dog Days by littleboxofstars
Richie Tozier is twenty years old, over halfway through a Chemistry degree at the University of Maine, and in love with his best friend and roommate, Stanley Uris. And he figures that it’s fine, with no cause for change, until he finds an injured puppy near his apartment.
do you want fries with that? by gaypasta
Richie spends the best of times annoying the hell out of Stan in work, Stan just wants to do his Goddamn job. Richie starts annoying Stan a lot more frequently, and Stan remains oblivious to all of the not-so-subtle flirting Richie is sending his way.
OR
Stan isn’t gay. Definitely not gay. The feeling he gets in his stomach when he sees Richie is 100% platonic, I swear.
The Body by touch
Going back to Derry stirred something in Richie’s memory he hadn’t known was there.
Or, Stanley Uris reunites with Richie Tozier instead of taking a bath.
Storis (Stanley Uris & Boris Pavlikovsky)
(My new babies, three people that are GENIUSES. If you feel like, leave them some reviews).
Sputnik by porcia_catonis
High school in Vegas and high school in Maine vary only in the coats that replace the tank tops he sees everywhere. The same kinds of burnouts, geniuses, children of important types, and the like run around, all with their groups, none of them of much interest to Boris. What differs, mostly, is what a spectacle a new kid is in a town so small.
Hold your hair in deep devotion (how deep?) by Evanaissante
There’s also this small fire Stan feels at his fingertips, this feeling of power coursing through him as he brings this creature of the night to his knees in front of him. It’s insane, really, but Stan doesn’t care much when Boris’ red lips start kissing his skin.
or
Stanley Uris gets a blowjob from his vampire boyfriend because he deserves it.
Birds of Maine by Ryomou
When he presents his hand, Stan doesn’t know what he’s looking at. Whatever they are, they seem perfectly innocent nestled in Boris’s palm, two tiny little paper squares stamped with a red smiley face.“Will change your life,” Boris swears. “I’ve done it many times.”orBoris and Stan drop acid.
Reddie (Richie Tozier & Eddie Kaspbrak)
I’m quite alright hiding today by remusjohn
Richie doesn’t know how to say, You kissed me to wake me up from the deadlights and I don’t know if you did it to save my life or if there’s something else too, but it’s kind of killing me, man.
So Richie doesn’t say anything at all.
My Husband is a Hitman?! by Writer_Markilyn
Eddie Kaspbrak was many things, but a fool was not one of them. He could admit that he was a fool when he had been younger, a fool to believe that he was constantly ill and needed “medication”, a fool to think that chocolate ice-cream was superior to Super-Man ice cream, a fool to think that his friend of many years, who was now his husband, was just a normal person.
Boy, was he wrong about the part regarding his husband, but it turns out, Eddie was ride or die for life.
Stupid Deep by anonymous author
“Rich, what the fuck.”
“What,” Richie says breathlessly, pushing up into Eddie’s grip with a weak sound.
Eddie stares, as he did five months ago, at the dick in his hand. Not that it was in his hand at the time. “I thought maybe I, like. Exaggerated it in my mind. But it’s really that fucking big.”
“Huh?” Richie blinks at him dumbly, jaw slack and abs tensing.
“Rich, I don’t even know what to do with all of this.”
—
or, Richie has a big dick, and Eddie is into it.
You can only go in pieces by anniebibananie
“I think I’m going fucking crazy.”“You’re not crazy,” Eddie said. “I’m a ghost.”
“He just told me he’s a ghost. I’m definitely fucking batshit, right?”When Richie finally arrives back to his apartment after killing the bastard clown once and for all, he finds an unexpected roommate in his recently… passed away (murdered? by a killer clown?) friend (slash love of his life or whatever… the labels don’t really matter. It’s all fucked).
Stucky (Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes)
(not IT related, but it’s REALLY GOOD)
Astronomy in Reverse by pansley
A year after the Winter Soldier failed his mission in DC, Bucky Barnes is doing his best to stay under the radar from both Hydra and Steve Rogers. His hope for a peaceful day-to-day life in limbo goes awry, however, when he meets Queens’ newest hero; a pure-hearted kid with a death wish and a ridiculous pair of red and blue pajamas.
The last thing Steve expects when he finally tracks Bucky down is that, not only has the man been living in Queens all this time, right under his nose, but also that, in the two years since they last saw each other, Bucky somehow acquired a kid.
Alternatively: How Peter Parker effectively fucks over Bucky Barnes, and also totally saves him.
- The Losers come over as soon as Eddie send them a text, with a 'Code WTF?!'
- The Party drive up to Derry to meet Richie after Mike sends them all a text
Just a sappy chapter on Mike, Boris and Richie meeting the Party and Losers Club.
We're now getting some Reddie, Storis and Byler stuff now ❤
Notes:
Because there are two Mikes, I'm calling Mike Wheeler 'Mike' and Mike Hanlon 'Michael', when the two are in the same place. If I get lazy or lose track, I may refer to both by their surnames just to lessen the confusion.
This does jump from boy to boy, so I'm sorry but it should get better. I've never done this sort of thing before.
An hour after Eddie had sent a 'Code WTF' (Unique situation - changes per person), Bev rushes over. She doesn't bother with the front door and jumps in through Richie's bedroom window.
"Uhhh, did you make a clone machine?" Bev asks as soon as she picks herself off the floor. She eyeballs the three Richie's in the room, noting the subtle differences between the 3 and picks out her Richie, the only one with the bad eyesight. The other two look like weird variations of Richie's personalities.
Happy Richie:
Okay, now she's reaching, but that's just the vibe he gives her.
Emo Richie:
Fall Out Boy,
My Chemical Romance, and
Panic! at the Disco.
maybe industrial
maybe a plug
double lobe
Bev's reaching, but she wants to have fun before they come by and trash her judgement.
"Hi I'm Michael, but you can call me Mike," the one dressed in bright colours says, holding out his hand towards the young redhead.
"Hi, Mike," Bev replies.
"I'm Boris," the emo looking Richie says.
"Hi, I'm Beverly, but please call me Bev," she replies. Her strong demeanour falters into shyness. Nothing about this is okay. Why hadn’t Richie told any of them about his family?
”So, uh, I’ll explain when the others get here,” Richie says.
As they all wait for the rest of the Losers to arrive, the 5 of them sit in absolute silence. Bev is confused, watching as the three Toziers interacted with each other just by eye glances. She noted a heap of similarities in their demeanours. "Weird right?" Eddie asks.
"Yeah, and here I thought one Richie was enough," Bev replies.
Richie's bedroom door swings open and in walks the rest of the Losers Club. "SUP FUCKERS?!" Bill screams as he enters, then he sees the 3 Toziers sitting around Richie's desk. "Oh shit!" Stan, Ben and Mike spot the 3 Toziers in the room. Completely disregarding Eddie and Bev who are chilling by the window.
"Richard, did you finally make that cloning machine? The one you've been talking about?" Stan asks.
"Nope," Richie replies. "This is my twin brother, Mike." He gestures to the identical twin in the bright clothing, "and this is our cousin, Boris."
As Boris looks at the rest of the Losers, he locks eyes with a blonde-haired boy. He smiles slightly, at him, and the boy smiles back.
Now was Richie's introduction of the Losers, all groaning in dread
"Guys, this is Big Bill, our ring leader. If he jumped off a cliff, he'd expect us all to follow," Richie says as he hugs the leader.
"This is Haystack, he's a gifted poet. It got him a girl that's way outta his league," Richie points to Bev and tussles Ben's hair.
"This is Mike Meyers, you know, that dude from Austin Powers. Mike's our nerd, he lives in the library."
"Finally, we have Staniel or Stanley Urine, either one works. He likes watching birds, at first I thought he liked watching girls but I found out he meant the actual animals. So I promise, he's not a creepoid."
Mike and Boris laugh simultaneously.
"Ignore him," Stan says. "I'm Stanley Uris, that's Mike Hanlon, Ben Hanscom and Bill Denbrough." Stan throws a quick smile to Boris before looking away, blushing.
Beverly catches it in her peripheral vision. Stan's demeanour changed as soon as he saw Boris. "Eddie, do you know if Stan had a crush on Richie at some point?" Bev asks the hypochondriac. Eddie feels a pinch of jealousy running through his veins but still thinks upon it. He wasn't subtle with his feelings, but if Stan did have a crush on Richie, it would've been subtle. The hypochondriac tries to get into Stan's mind but comes up blank.
"I don't think so, why?" Eddie responds.
"I swear I just saw Stan blush."
Eddie sits upright and looks directly at Stan. He tries to hide his jealousy, and takes his time before saying, "Richie?"
Bev shakes her head, "Boris."
Eddie wants to laugh, that can't be right. Stan is emotionless and often talks about dying or birds. So, it can't be true, that Stan blushed, Bev must've been seeing things. But then he sees it for himself, Stan is laughing with Boris, his cheeks are bright red but he doesn't even care. He elbows Bev and gestures to Stan, she smirks, then turns back to Eddie. "So, what about you and the Trashmouth? Told him yet?"
"No," Eddie lies through gritted teeth. He has to talk to Richie about it first before they tell the Losers.
*
"So, Mike, you seeing anyone?" Ben asks Richie's twin.
"Yeah, my best friend, Will Byers," Mike replies.
"Gee Rich, step up your game and ask out Eddie," Bill says.
"I thought that - " Mike sees Richie shaking his head; he doesn't continue.
Much like Eddie, Richie wants to wait until he has spoken to his hypochondriac boyfriend.
Richie listens in on Mike, learning about his group of friends. Like Richie's group, they have a name for themselves. Instead of the 'Losers Club', Mike's group calls themselves the Party.
There's a shit ton of similarities between the two groups that Richie realises as Mike explains. The Party sit in Mike's basement playing Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) and the Losers Club sit in an underground bunker (clubhouse) doing god knows what, mostly drinking and playing 'truth or dare' or 'never have I ever'.
Then as Mike starts explaining his friends, Richie quickly learns that Mike's their ring leader like Bill's the Losers Club's leader.
Will sounds a bit like Eddie;
Dustin = Richie;
Lucas = Stan;
Jane = Ben;
Maxine 'Max' = Bev; and
Steve = Mike.
Richie got all of that just by Mike's descriptions of his friends. It amazes Richie, sometimes, how fast his mind works. Maybe it also has something to do with his undiagnosed ADHD.
"Anyone want anything to drink?" Richie asks, they all said 'yes'. "Eds, can you help me?"
"How many times, Richard? Don't call me 'Eds'!" Eddie responds and gets up, following his tall boyfriend down the stairs.
*
"Hey, Boris, can I talk to you for a second?" Beverly asks the 'emo-looking' Richie.
"Yeah, okay," Boris replies, he gets up from his seat on the desk and sits on the window sill, beside Bev.
"Do you like Stan?" It catches Boris off guard, it stammers a little. "It's just, he's been blushing like mad and he never really does that." Boris looks towards the blonde-haired boy for the umpteenth time today.
There are several things that Boris notices about the bird expert. The way he stands when talking to people; perfect posture. His hand gestures as he speaks. Boris is not one to believe in 'love at first sight' but he thinks that he can let this one slide. There's just something different about Stanley compared to Theo. He started to like Theo a few months after they started to hang out, maybe it was the drugs or the alcohol but he's been sober for 48 hours now. He hasn't had a craving for weed, coke or alcohol since he laid his eyes on the blonde-haired boy.
Beverly nudges Boris, "you're staring," she states. "I can hook you two up if you want?"
"No thank you, Beverly. I need to get to know Kolibri first," Boris says.
"'Kolibri'?"
"It means Hummingbird in Russian." Boris removes himself and goes back to join Mike and the others.
Bev just lets it sink in, 'Hummingbird'. Why did he call Stan a Hummingbird?
He did make Stan laugh before; it makes sense. Maybe.
Stan looks over to Bev, she quickly signals over. He mutters a quick 'sorry' to Mike, and pads over to Bev. "You called?" Stan says.
"Do you like Boris?" Bev asks, cutting to the chase, she's not in the mood for that airy-fairy bullshit.
"No, maybe, yes? I don't know," Stan sighs.
He too isn't one to believe in 'love at first sight', he finds it bullshit. But he couldn't explain his feelings about Boris any other way.
"He called you a hummingbird, in Russian."
"It's the way I laugh, it sounds like I'm humming." Stan smiles and blushes. Beverly had only ever seen one person do that, and that was Eddie whenever he spoke about Richie. With Eddie, it was a sign of embarrassment and shame because of the bullshit lies Sonia fed him. But Stan? Stan's is because he's shy, he's opening up to Beverly about something that he would normally go to Richie for. Richie would make a joke, to break the tension, but would 100% support him.
"Is it weird? He looks so much like Richie, I need to talk to him." Stan gets up and goes downstairs to where Richie and Eddie are pouring everyone a drink.
*
"Richie, Eddie, can I talk to you both ab - " Stan cuts himself off as he walks in on Richie and Eddie kissing. "Never mind." He does a 180 and heads back to the stairs.
"Wait!" Richie calls, "We'll explain just tell us what you wanted, please."
"Okay, I'll go first," Stan says, he sighs, "I may have developed some sort of crush on your cousin." Eddie's jaw drops; he didn't misread Stan. Richie smiles, which freaks Stanley out. "Why are you smiling?"
"Because it's cute!" Richie exclaims.
"But he looks like you! I just don't think - "
"You worried you'd get feelings for me or something?"
Stan pauses for a bit and looks at the ground. "I don't know, maybe. You both look alike, he's basically like you. So's Mike."
"Stan, look at me." Stan moves his head up and meets Richie's eyes. "Look me dead in the eyes and tell me that you only see me as a friend."
Stan looks to Eddie, who's still got his lips parted. The blonde boy smiles momentarily at Eddie, then looks back to Richie. He searches Richie's face, looking at the similarities between Boris and him; physically. Okay, so Richie's kinda hot, Stan thinks, but as he gets to the personality, Boris is more chill and conventional. He isn't spontaneous like Richie is.
Richie is bothersome, his jokes are appalling and not to mention his flirting with Eddie. Considering what Stan just saw in the kitchen, he's hoping that Richie will be less vexatious. But then again, even before Eddie, Richie was annoying. Who knew a 5-year-old could be that irritating? Also, he's astonishingly intelligent, barely has to study for anything and will still pass with flying colours (it'll be interesting to see what he'll be like at college). Stan's spent too much time with the trashmouth that he's not fully attracted to him, besides his looks. But that's because Boris, who looks a lot like Richie, opened a floodgate.
"I like you as a friend," Stan says, staring at Richie.
"Also, Stan, please don't say anything to the others about Rich and me, please," Eddie says.
"Wouldn't dream of it, Kaspbrak," Stan replies and grabs a tray off the bench.
*
The three boys carry up a tray each of the drinks, for the Losers, Mike and Boris. Richie gives Stan a wink and shoves him lightly into Boris, causing him to fall directly into Boris' lap. Stan gives a tight embarrassed smile at Boris before giving Richie the middle finger, to which, Richie responds with his own.
Mike watches from the sidelines, looking between both Richie, Stan & Boris. He nudges Michael, "Does that normally happen?" Mike asks.
"Hmm, no, Stan and Richie say one or two words to each other. Then just stare," Michael replies. "Richie smiling at Stan? That's not normal."
"When Richie tried to set Stan up with Greg, he smiled exactly ... " Bill trails off and looks directly to Stan, who, by the way. hasn't bothered to remove himself from Boris' lap. "Oh."
Even Ben and Bev notice the smile that Richie is giving Stan, whenever their eyes lock. Everyone in that damn room can see that Richie and Stan are best friends. Mike Wheeler thought that maybe Richie and Stan hated each other but that smile; that god damn smile ... It's living proof that Stan likes Richie's opinion. Because Richie and Stan are best friends.
Bev walks over to the three boys, leaving her boyfriend with Richie and Eddie. "You know, Stan told me that he needed to speak to Richie," Bev says.
"That makes no sense," Michael says. "Stan has never once asked for Richie's advice."
"Whenever Richie and I have our smoke sessions on Fridays, he tells me if Stan had spoken to him," Bev explains. "Not to mention, Richie goes to him before he comes to me."
"Wait, wait. Does that mean that Stan found out that Richie was gay before you did?" Bill asks. Bev nodded. "If you knew for a whole 5 months, Stan knew for what? 5, 6? Months?"
"8, actually." The boys' jaws drop; Stan had kept a secret for 8 months and said nothing?
It puzzles the Losers as to why the two-act like they hate each other when, in reality, they're the best of friends.
Mike is just listening in by this point when he starts to get a little bored - he's not going to lie. He decides to talk with the others on the opposite side of the room.
"How's it going, Mike?" Eddie asks.
"Good, good. This is the chaos that I miss," The Party's leader says. "It was before we met Jane and Maxine, it was just us boys."
"Chaotic as fuck?" Richie chimes in, Mike laughs and nods his head. "Say, Mikey, invite your friends up. We've got the room and I'm sure mom won't care. If not, we can chill at Mike's farm."
Mike shrugs and pulls his phone out from his pocket. He opens the Party's group chat inviting the Party up to Derry.
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A few hours later, the Losers, Boris and Mike all head down to the clubhouse. Showing the two newcomers the ropes. As per usual, Eddie and Richie sit in the hammock, just not head to toe like normal. More like sitting side-by-side, cuddling. "Say, Koromyslo, you and Edward? Yeah?" Boris pipes up. Richie ignores the question, only focusing on the unknown word that sounds a Russian translation of sorts.
"What's a 'koromyslo'?" Richie asks.
"Rocker," Boris says monotonously. "So you and Edward? Yes?" Stan giggles.
"You fucking snitch, Stan!" Richie yelps.
"I said nothing, you two are so obvious!" Stan laughs. "You always sit head to toe. Now you're cuddling?"
"You're insufferable," Richie mutters.
"He isn't denying it," Beverly says. "Did you two finally admit your feelings?"
Richie rolls his eyes and looks at Eddie, the boy beside him nods head slowly with caution. The Trashmouth cups Eddie's face in his hands and kisses him. He goes to lean down a little more, trying his best to get in a comfortable position but accidentally leans too much into Eddie. The hammock rocks dangerously and tips the two boys out.
Richie's glasses are just millimetres from falling off his face and are held up by Eddie's shoulder. Quickly fixing them, he looks up to see Eddie straddling him. "Well, I like this view," Richie says. Eddie groans in disgust.
Why? Goddammit, Richie! Eddie thinks to himself
"Come on guys! Leave this place for our innocent childhoods!" Ben groans.
Eddie pushes himself off Richie, dusting himself down before holding out his hand for Richie. "Damn, then I can't tell you ... eh, who am I kidding? I've jerked off to the thought of Eddie's mom down here," Richie says.
"BEEP BEEP RICHIE!" All 6 Losers groan and Eddie punches him in the arm.
"Why do I like you?" Eddie mutters.
Richie looks somewhat offended but knows that Eddie is 100% joking. The two reposition on the hammock and Richie leans over to grab a comic book. His backpack sits by the wooden post that's barely within arms reach. Bev watches on, silently hoping that the hammock tips over again; that would be priceless.
*
Mike and Boris watch the Losers Club sit around minding their own business. Richie and Eddie are reading a comic together, while Stan is bird watching, from a hole in the ceiling. Bev, Ben, Mike (Hanlon) and Bill are playing cards quietly by the swing.
The only sounds that can be heard are the rustling of pages turning; rope squeaking, as the hammock rocks gently; leaves rustling above them, and birds chirping.
Suddenly a buzzing noise interrupts the silence, every head in the underground bunker turns to Mike. He pulls his phone from his pocket.
"Hey, babe?" Mike answers.
"We'll be there in like a day. We're catching a flight now," Will says on the other side of the call.
"Okay, see you tomorrow, Will. Love you."
"Love you too."
Mike hangs up the phone. "What?" Everyone goes back to what they were doing, leaving Mike to his thoughts.
"It's 6 pm, guys," Bill says.
"Crap! Mom's not going to be happy! I'll be grounded for sure!" Eddie says.
"You're staying at mine, remember?" Richie says as he helps Eddie out of the hammock.
"Shoot, sorry, Rich."
"All good, Eds."
Mike follows but looks back to Boris, who's waiting patiently for Stan. The Wheeler boy sees something in his cousin's eye; a look that he's seen today and every day, for the past year. It's the look of love, no doubt about it. He climbs up the corroded aluminium ladder where Richie and Eddie are waiting. Mike feels a slight wind change and sees Eddie shiver. As if on intuition, his brother wraps his arms, tightly, around the hypochondriac. "Hurry, you two. Eddie will get hypothermia!" Mike calls.
"It's not that - " Stan emerges from the bunker and immediately gets hit with the wind change. "Never mind, it's a wee bit chilly."
Boris quickly hoists himself up and shrugs off his leather jacket, enveloping it around Stan's shoulders. The boy blushes ferociously, as he tugs the jacket's opening together, he leans into Boris for extra warmth.
As the 5 of them walk up to the streets of Derry, Mike feels like he's 5th wheeling, slowing down his pace to walk behind the couples - one couple; Richie breaks his awkwardness.
"I was thinking since your friends and boyfriend are coming tomorrow, what if we go on a camping trip? The 6 of us? The week before we're set to go to college?" Richie says.
"Hang on Rich, 6 of us?" Stan asks.
"Well, wouldn't want Boris to be 5th wheeling now, would we?" Richie replies, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.
"Yeah, but why me?" Stan states.
Richie simply points to the leather jacket that's enveloped around the blonde's shoulders. Stan reddens again, leaning into Boris to conceal his embarrassment, but that only makes it worse.
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The following day, Mike awaits the arrival of his friends. All but Dustin and Lucas were coming, due to last-minute college plans and family vacations, the two couldn't make it; but Max, Will and El are coming. The three of them are catching a taxi into town. "When were you friends supposed to get here?" Maggie asks Mike.
"9 am," Mike replies, still pacing impatiently. The clock on the wall reads '11 am', the Party is 2 hours late and Mike's starting to worry. "Maybe their flight's delayed."
Maggie nods, hugging her second son briefly before heading off to work, leaving Mike and Richie alone, in the kitchen. The Wheeler boy checks his phone again for the 10th time within the past 20 minutes, still no messages from his friends. Richie makes another cup of coffee for himself, putting himself in the way of Mike's pacing line.
"Check the Snapmap," Richie says, getting annoyed with his brother's pacing.
"I don't have snap chat, and neither do my friends," Mike replies.
Abruptly, a boy comes down the stairs in nothing but boxers, huffing out in annoyance. Boris could hear the two of them, all the way upstairs. He's usually a heavy sleeper so how the fuck is Eddie still asleep?
"What even is social media?" Boris replies groggily.
"Did you seriously just get up?" Mike ripostes.
"Yes, now quiet. I need my normal 4 cups of coffee before anyone talks to me," Boris says and grabs the pot of coffee, pouring it into a mug that he pulls from the cabinet above. Richie and Boris leave the kitchen to wake up elsewhere, allowing Mike to deal with his chaotic crisis.
*
Finally, 3 hours later, the Party shows up, "What the hell?" Mike says as he stands on the bottom-most stair. "Where have you guys been?!"
"Our taxi broke down, we had to walk all the way here. No reception." Will puffs out.
"Mike, who's at the - oh, hello," Richie says as he goes down the stairs. "I take it, you're Will." Will just about faints when he sees Richie and it doesn't help that Boris exits from the kitchen, causing poor Will to faint.
Richie yells for Eddie with his 2 fanny packs (that he no longer uses) but still has first aid supplies.
The feisty young lad comes bounding down the stairs with a cold and wet cloth. "Well, lay him down," Eddie says. "And Boris, Richie, mind if you leave the room? I don't want him to faint again." The trashmouth and the emo leave the room, while Eddie tends to Will.
"Richie wasn't kidding," Mike says.
"Yeah well, you pick up a few things when your mom makes you think you're sick when you not," Eddie retorts; he turns his head to look at the girls. "Hey, I'm Eddie, Mike's told us all about you."
"I'm El, and this is Max," the brunette says. "Who were those boys?"
"The one with the glasses is Richie, my boyfriend and Mike's brother. They had no idea that the other existed until yesterday." Eddie explains. "The other, dressed in black, is Boris, their cousin. He was adopted by a Russian family when his parents died. His story is super morbid."
Will stirs on the couch and Mike rushes to take Eddie's place beside Will, keeping the cool cloth on his head. "What happened?" Will asks.
"You fainted, guess my brother and cousin are a bit too much," Mike says. "You okay?"
Will nods and Mike leans down to peck his lips.
"Don't worry, I'll bring them out, just don't faint on me again," Mike says.
"Wouldn't dream of it," Will replies, the boy spots Eddie in his peripheral vision. "I'm Will Byers."
"Eddie Kaspbrak," Eddie replies and takes the cloth off Will's forehead.
Mike walks back out with Richie and Boris; the two boys behind him, scratch the backs of their heads nervously as they are introduced to each of the Party members. So as it turned out, Mike and El dated before Mike got with Will. It had taken El moving away with the Byers for Mike to realise that he wasn't in love with El, he was in love with Will. "I had spoken to El, about it," Mike says, "thankfully she was understanding."
"We were better off as friends anyway," El states.
It's awkward for a moment, and Richie thinks of a good icebreaker. "Shall we head down to the quarry?" Richie asks.
"Where Koromyslo?" Boris asks.
"You know where we were yesterday?" Boris and Mike nod, "It's a few yards further, it's where we like to go swimming."
"Ahem!" Eddie fake coughs.
"Sorry, most of us, like to go swimming. Eddie hates it because there are germs," Richie fixes. "But, babe, let me just say that there are germs everywhere you go, including a hospital."
Eddie rolls his eyes. "If we're going, we need swimwear," Eddie says. El and Max look at each other, "Shit, Richie maybe we should go and get Bev."
Richie whips his phone out and immediately starts texting the redhead and not even 2 minutes later, she's bursting into the Tozier residence.
"I heard two gals needed swimmers," Bev says. "Hello, I'm Beverly Marsh, the only girl in the group of 7 dirty annoying, chaotic boys."
"Piss off Marsh, I just wanted the swimmers. You're not coming," Richie spits, then starts laughing and as does Bev. "Sorry, she can be a bit of a handful sometimes. Ignore her, she's just happy that she has other females to talk to."
The redhead sticks her tongue out at the trashmouth, only to get a middle finger in return. "Well Bev, I'm Maxine, Max for short. And this is El," the other redhead says. "I think we're going to get along just fine." Bev leads them up the stairs, letting the 4 boys wonder what the fuck just happened.
"Girls." They all said simultaneously.
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As the lot of them finally made it to the quarry, they are aced with the massive cliff. "Is it safe to jump?" Max asks.
"We do it all the time," Richie says.
"Yeah, after Bev constantly shows us up," Eddie replies and on cue the redhead pushes past everyone, jumping straight into the murky green water below. Boris goes next, somersaulting into the water.
"Oh come on!" Richie cries and goes to do a run up.
"No! Don't you dare, that's dangerous"' Eddie says sternly, Richie gestures to Boris. "You're clumsy and idiotic; he's probably done a heap of practice. Do. Not. Do. It."
Taking his boyfriend's advice he just does a basic run and jump, landing feet first in the disgusting water below.
Since Eddie is left with the newcomers he links them up, standing in between El and Will, taking both their hands in his and guiding them forward. Mike spits out the shitty water that got into his mouth and as does Eddie.
Boris, Bev and Mike immediately start to splash each other and wrestle, in the water; while Richie sits on the sandbank to get to know the others a bit.
Max starts off, talking about how she beat Mike's highest score on an arcade game. It was the initial reason as to why she thought Mike hated her. ' 'MadMax' beat my high score '. Richie and her, got talking about skateboarding, he had always wanted to try it but never got around to it. "I'll show you, I taught El not too long ago and now she's a pro," Max says.
"Well, in that case, sign me up," Richie replies.
El's next. She had fled the orphanage when she was 12/13, she met Mike, Dustin and Lucas in the woods one rainy night while they were looking for Will. Richie starts to laugh as El said that Mike hid her in his basement for a solid few months without no one knowing besides Dustin and Lucas.
Before Will can say a word, Richie feels cold water on his now partially dry hair. "You're dead Marsh!" Richie bellows.
"It wasn't Marsh this time," Eddie teases.
"I don't care that I love you, you're going down Kaspbrak!"
Will, Max and El watch on as Richie and Eddie tackle each other, laughing.
i am so incredibly perplexed by the parts of the trifecta that ship boris and stan and how that even became a thing i see in main tags but like go off i respect y’all
