Title: Bathtub Decisions
Author: AmandaB9@aol.com
Fandome: IT
Summary: Stan does not kill himself in the bathtub.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Stephan King came up with the amazing story of It and its characters.
Warning: I am assuming that you read the book, must be the book and not just having seen the movie, so I am not going to review more than what fits into my story.
Stanley Uris sat in his bath, allowing the few drops to still spill rhythmically from the facet. It didn't matter. Nothing did at the moment. Nothing but Derry, fear, screams, death, and the terrible feeling of being dirty and offended.
And of course, the neat razor blade Stan held in his hand above his vein.
Memories he never before remembered past nightmares were suddenly too clear. The screams – their screams, voices of children who were always frightened and in pain – became as definite as the endless amount of blood and tears the seven of them had shed that summer.
The razor blade descended closer to his flesh.
It wouldn't be the first time he had purposefully cut himself. Oh, no! It had been his idea to cut their skin and share the blood. Hadn't he known what Stuttering Bill would make them promise? Could he break that promise, when the others would surely put their lives aside because of his own action twenty-five years ago?
The blade was set down again on the side of the bathtub.
No. He couldn't leave it all up to his old friends. Not because he was afraid of dying now – Stan had an unshakable feeling that if he went back to his home town he might die anyway – but because he was sure they needed seven. Seven had been the magical number they needed to get anything to work. Whether it was the Apocalyptic Rockfight or the "clown" with a million faces that killed kids. He could not leave his old friends to die like that.
Stanley took a deep sigh and made up his mind. He would return to Derry, Maine. Derry, where the fear was real and lasted longer than just in your dreams. He would return and help Mikey, Bevvie, Trashmouth, Haystack, Big Bill, and Eddie finally kill whatever was residing under the town. And maybe, if their luck didn't completely run out too soon, they wouldn't all get killed in the process.
=(Amanda(=
Author: AmandaB9@aol.com
Fandome: IT
Summary: Stan does not kill himself in the bathtub.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Stephan King came up with the amazing story of It and its characters.
Warning: I am assuming that you read the book, must be the book and not just having seen the movie, so I am not going to review more than what fits into my story.
Stanley Uris sat in his bath, allowing the few drops to still spill rhythmically from the facet. It didn't matter. Nothing did at the moment. Nothing but Derry, fear, screams, death, and the terrible feeling of being dirty and offended.
And of course, the neat razor blade Stan held in his hand above his vein.
Memories he never before remembered past nightmares were suddenly too clear. The screams – their screams, voices of children who were always frightened and in pain – became as definite as the endless amount of blood and tears the seven of them had shed that summer.
The razor blade descended closer to his flesh.
It wouldn't be the first time he had purposefully cut himself. Oh, no! It had been his idea to cut their skin and share the blood. Hadn't he known what Stuttering Bill would make them promise? Could he break that promise, when the others would surely put their lives aside because of his own action twenty-five years ago?
The blade was set down again on the side of the bathtub.
No. He couldn't leave it all up to his old friends. Not because he was afraid of dying now – Stan had an unshakable feeling that if he went back to his home town he might die anyway – but because he was sure they needed seven. Seven had been the magical number they needed to get anything to work. Whether it was the Apocalyptic Rockfight or the "clown" with a million faces that killed kids. He could not leave his old friends to die like that.
Stanley took a deep sigh and made up his mind. He would return to Derry, Maine. Derry, where the fear was real and lasted longer than just in your dreams. He would return and help Mikey, Bevvie, Trashmouth, Haystack, Big Bill, and Eddie finally kill whatever was residing under the town. And maybe, if their luck didn't completely run out too soon, they wouldn't all get killed in the process.
=(Amanda(=