It II

Ch. 2: Corina's Shower

It is April 2nd, 2050… in the town of Derry, in Maine of America…

Zoë, Tammy, and Mark are trying to make sure of things by finding out everything they can about Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and on the internet they found the info, under the files of one named Mike Hanlon; which was convinced as nothing more than a horror story written by a former librarian––

Tammy gulped, "After what happened to us, it ain't a story anymore." Zoë felt her blood boil, "It was never a fictional story in the first place. It's real. So is IT!"

Then Zoë saw something, it was too much to be a dream. It looked like a bright white inhaler warping and changing shape, and it turned into… a teacup? Zoë snapped back into reality asking herself, "An in-in-in-in-inhaler t-t-t-t-turning into… a t-t-t-t-teacup?" Tamera said, "No offense, big sis; but nobody mentioned that. What got into your head?"

Mark typed in 'inhaler', but something along that story came into the same internet-set story they were reading… "Apparently the 'inhaler' in the sudden vision you had, must have been a vision referring to Eddie Kaspbrak, one of the legendary Lucky 7 with psychosomatic asthma, is also reborn like Pennywise must've said to you two."

Zoë noticed, "Maybe… even if-if-if-if Tamera and I are-rah-rah-rah… Bill and Georgie Denbrough reborn, wouldn't that also mean Eddie Kaspbrak, Ben Hanscom, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, Bevy Marsh, and Stan Uris… come back as well?" Tamera looked at her twin sister with an expression filled with many questions, "Would it hurt if you'd calm down first, sis?"

Mark nods, "Z, you're possibly right; they may not even know they were even them. So I guess we'll just go out and look for them." Tamera groans, "But that means––" Mark shrugs, "What other choice do we have?"

They travel into town… being wary of their surroundings, hopefully It won't show up.

Never being so far apart from her sister before, Zoë was scared out of her wits. She bumps into a person, screams in fear thinking it's Pennywise, she then braced herself for the impending death awaiting her…

"What's with you? Are you trying to scare the living daylights out of me or make me go deaf?"

Zoë opens her eyes… it's just a raven-haired girl about as old as her, her name is Corina Elliot. Zoë looked at her with confusion and relief, then she sighed! Then her vision became blurred with the silhouette of a young boy with the same inhaler she saw in her vision, surrounding Corina!

Corina rhetorically asked, "Why are you looking at me like that, you commoner?" Zoë asks, "Do you have something to do with teacups, Corina?" Corina scoffs, "I drink tea from them, that's what everyone does." Zoë shouts, "There's something wrong in Derry and I think you're going to get involved with this somehow, Corina Elliot!" Corina scoffs, "Why should I care?"

Zoë explains, "A real monster came from the sewers and nearly killed my twin sister Tamera!" Corina blows a raspberry at Z, "The only monsters the exist are all in your head, girly-girl." Zoë was about to give up, until she thought of Eddie Kaspbrak…

"Hydroxyl…" Corina stops in her tracks… turns in Zoë's direction and asks (not like a snob, but like as if she heard it from a past life), "What?" Zoë followed her thoughts again, "H2O; water. ' It's all in your head, sonny.'" Corina gulps and runs away!

She stops at the drug store, screaming silently to herself; somehow what Zoë did back there has opened up something in Corina's recollection. Then she looked at the old place; seeing it change, having a vision of a young boy getting his medicine, then to the '90s where the man who the boy grew up into is having an attack from some wet demon possessing an old acquaintance of his from the past.

She tried to convince herself, "It's all in my head."

Zoë said, "That's what I thought, now I'm positive." Corina gasped and jumped back in surprise, "DON'T DO THAT!" Zoë asked, "Don't do what?" Corina let loose a few tears, "I'm going home!"

Later that night… Corina is taking a shower to wash away her troubles. Then thoughts of water demons came into her mind… suddenly out from the water, a slimy reptilian hand as big as a full-grown man rose out of the water in her shower reaching out to grab her! She saw this and leaped away from the shower, wrapping herself in her favorite blue bathrobe!

She saw the hand disappear back into the water, but as she turned… (A/N: 'Psycho' scene folks) she screamed at the top of her lungs and dodged the knife of a cross-dressing attacker that appeared out of nowhere!

Feeling trapped, she had no idea what to do!

A mysterious voice from somewhere said to her, "It's okay, Corina child." She opened her eyes to see that the killer's gone, but the voice came from the shower! "Hi, I just wanted to say 'hello'!"

She crept closer and saw no one but the drain opening… and a white-gloved hand rising out of it!

"This is a little inconvenient," said the same voice (from the drain) "Just sit back while I make a few adjustments." Then another hand came along, the hands stretched the drain like it was Play-Dough! Out came Pennywise the Dancing Clown, "Say, hello there, you rich little brat! Still pretending to be a spoiled brat because your father says you are?" then he laughed!

A tidal wave of memories flowed into her, "Pennywise." It laughed, "I see that the former Eddie Kaspbrak remembers, I'll finally show you how they all float down here! Bring your friends! Hold on, who're your friends?" then he chuckled some more!

Corina screamed out, "SOMEBODY! PLEASE HELP ME!"

Her cry for help was answered by a crash through the bathroom window; Mark came crashing in kneeing Pennywise in the back of the head in the process! Zoë and Tamera came charging in, right in front of Corina, ready for anything the monster was rearing back for!

Mark shouts, "Listen you ancient monster; touch Corina Elliot, and we'll kick your butt back to the sewers!" It growled and bared its fangs at them, before returning things to the way they were!

Zoë held Corina tenderly in her arms, "Now do you believe me?" Corina looked at Zoë and saw a silhouette of Bill around her, "I fell like I need you three more right now!" and then she went on to crying into her chest.