We are Monsters

Pennywise had expected many things after taking young Eona down to his lair at the heart of Derry. Yet she had blown away all the expectations, no complaints, looking up at the victims that floated with not so much as a look of horror or revulsion. Reaching up she in fact let an object join the sort of current watching it slide from her fingers. There was a sort of haunting grace to that simple action. Eona promised to stay there while he went on a hunt, and he returned to find her not in the spot he left her but in the shadows working on something, fixing it, but in his stride to let his victim float he saw her clothing had been thrown to join the pile.

Turning feeling her step out he stopped. She was in boots that stopped mid shin, form fit black pants, with a belt, a simple red dress shirt but she had fashioned leather together to create a corset like vest. Her red hair was down at the sides but braided back tied with leather and clipped with metal, bangs streaked. Paler then she had been wearing leather arm guards fashioned from leather and sports equipment, hands gloved. A single tie of silver tucked into the vest and she had a cuff in her left ear. Ears pierced twice messing with a Fedora in her hand. Looking up the light caught her eyes the blue was almost gone, a sort of pale lifeless silver tone.

His witty remark died on his lips before it even passed, she didn't look like a child anymore; this look suited her far better than her previous outfit. Eona smiled at Pennywise to hold up her hand and then turn it suddenly holding cards. Moving her hand again they were gone but one card and it suddenly went bladed and the facing of it warped to look from innocent to sinister somehow. Suddenly turning throwing it out a rat squeaked and jumped she twisted more went out sending the creature into a fit of fear as it bolted. She slipped on the hat and grinned a bit whistling she stepped out heading for the surface.

"Where are you going Eona?" He asked after a shiver of enjoyment from the brief fear caused in the creature, admiring the cards still stuck in the wall.

"I promised someone he would float." She answered sing song like back.

Pennywise followed at a distance and saw her come to the area where Henry and his gang often waited for the losers club. They were about to pick on Ben again when Patrick turned and cried out to find her there behind him. She looked up and the light caught her eyes in the right way they seemed blue yet gold in their own way. She suddenly smiled so animated.

"Hiya Patrick, Time to float." She giggled in an unsettling way.

He moved his can but she flicked out her wrist the card showed. "Ah ha you see I have an Ace up my sleeve."

She suddenly flicked her fingers it went silver and at him he caught it but cried out looking at his hand to find it sticking through it. Looking at her pissed off she wasn't there but her giggle could be heard from the tree areas.

"You'll float down here, they all float down here," her voice said sing song yet lowly like a whisper it echoed in the clearing eerily.

They looked around; Henry turned yelling she was up in the tree upside down. Eona balanced and scaled down to bark like she had been taught to in rock climbing lessons, to those who hadn't had them it looked like gravity didn't work. Releasing her feet she let them fall forward over her head to hit the ground. Pushing with her hands to stand back up, cracks resounding as her double jointed joints popped into place. Tilting her head it cracked and they screamed.

Henry and the others booked it; Patrick stared horrified as she held up his lighter. Balancing it on her fingers, it was lit. In her push up she had taken a swig of the mini flask in her breast pocket hidden on the inside. Looking up at him using the same trick she had her brother; able to roll her eyes back, all Patrick saw was white. Keeping the brandy held under her tongue, grinning at him. She suddenly blew out; he got hit by the fire.

Screaming as his clothes caught he made for the water, rolling down the hill. Hitting himself, she followed and he saw that. Then lost sight of her. Eona had spent her time in Pennywise's lair to collect his fear. Moving down the path she cut him off, he nearly smacked into her. "Don't you want your friends Pat?" He looked at her hand and saw…leeches! Patrick screamed falling back on his hands and feet scooting as she secretly used her feet to trip the hidden jars more leeches slipped into the shallow water around him as he backed into it.

Pennywise watched it all, she was so limited but she made it work, she drew out their fear, she sought their fear and made it reality. He breathed in the fear Patrick gave off and drooled more, she kept moving, making Patrick back up for the sewer system of the Barrens. He took off for it and she stopped waving her fingers at him with a smile. He looked behind him then back but Eona had moved behind the trees out of sight. Glancing up the hill she looked at Pennywise and smiled slowly with a wink. Tipping her hat he realized she was hunting for him this time. He moved after Patrick but before he passed her he let fingers trail her throat with a simple growl.

Eona had scared his prey because it had entertained her, she didn't hunger for it like he did but she knew what to do. She was a monster; she was just a different kind of monster.

She went back to his lair and saw Patrick's body with the others that were floating. Not seeing the glowing yellow eyes watching her in the dark behind her where it sat. Pennywise watched her, Patrick had tasted far better so afraid, he was satisfied for now on hunger but he had a different hunger. He was a monster, an eater of worlds, alone, but after today he didn't want to be just a monster, just an eater of worlds, and he didn't want to be alone. For now Eona was in his world but what if what brought her here took her back?

The thought made him snarl.

"Eona," he said finally.

Eona turned hearing him to blink and smiled, she moved to him as he sat up and forward, sitting down he was level with her. He kept her gaze and still felt no fear, instead he felt a sense of comfort and longing from her she didn't know she was projecting. He let his fingers play down her slender arms she shivered and not from fear. Pennywise breathed her in, beyond that was her, startled by how much he was pleased by it in a way. After all these centuries he had not once craved another but he found himself starting to.

"Do you still want to stay here Eona?" He asked looking to her.

"Yes, why?" She tilted her head as she asked he pulled her closer.

"There is a way but if you take it, you belong to me, you will have to stay with me, until you are killed or time ceases to exist." He said softly but seriously.

He was rewarded by that smile and she reached up, hands holding his pale white face.

"I already belong to you Pennywise, I did the moment I said your name when we met. We are the only real monsters here. Forever. Until I cease to be. I took that choice when my fingers slid into your hand." She believed that.

Pennywise watched her and growled at her admissions. Feeling her hold and thumbs trace but what he hadn't expected was her lean and lips leave a tender trace against his bright red nose. Pennywise pulled her into him and growled putting her under and deep asleep without the deadlights. Picking her up and taking her to his personal area. He would keep this strange woman and take her humanity. He would make her a monster.