Chapter: Big Sister's Rage
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When the front door opened, Scarlett was happening to get out of the shower. She shut off the ceiling fan, cracked open the door and listen to hear who was coming in the house. When the front door did not shut quick, Scarlett knew it was not her mother.
"It's your brother."
Scarlett looked at Pennywise who had transformed into Robert Gray. Robert sat on the toilet with the lid down with a towel around his waist.
"I smell blood." Robert eyes turned from pale blue to a reddish orange color.
With that fact said, Scarlett rushed to put on her pajamas and ran out of the bathroom, almost slipping across the wood floor. Her right hand pressed against the wall and her left hand went to her lower belly. Her hands would automatically go to her belly now, in a motherly protective manner. Her eyes were set on Ben, who was frozen near the front door, staring at her like a deer caught up in headlights.
Scarlett took in a few things about Ben. He was home late, he looked like he had rolled in dirt, he had a look of pain on his face and his hands clenched his stomach. It made her to not say anything, only walked toward Ben with a firm face. She had a feeling that something happen to him on his way home.
"Ben."
"I'm fine." Ben said immediately, his voice high pitch.
There were different signs that Ben showed when he was lying, and one of his main traits when lying was high pitch tone of voice. Scarlett stared at him with the firm facial expression still, her arms crossing over her chest. She continued to stare at Ben, watching him fidget in his spot in an uncomfortable manner. She would not move until he told her what was wrong because she sure as hell knew something was wrong with him.
"Benjamin, you look like you went rolling in a pile of leaves and mud." Scarlett pointed out.
"You have blood on your shirt too."
The two Hanscom turned to see Robert in only sweatpants, walking into the kitchen. Scarlett eyes narrowed, glad that the entity was in 'human' form, but she was getting used to Robert showing himself around the house more than usual. Although, Scarlett also knew that the entity was showing itself around the house to make her mother and Ben to see that the entity was committed to Scarlett.
Scarlett eyes were back on Ben, but her eyes flickered down to where Ben's hands rested against his shirt. Beneath Ben's hands, Scarlett could see spots of red. She stepped closer to Ben, waving at him to lift his hands off his shirt. From there, Scarlett waved for him to lift his shirt up.
With shaky hands, Ben lifted the front of his shirt up to show his stomach. Scarlett saw a poorly down taped gauze on Ben's stomach, where she saw blood spotting through. Her eyes shot up to Ben, who was looking away, not wanting to tell her what had happened.
"Benjamin, what happened?"
"I got, um, caught up in some, um, branches." Ben stuttered out, clearly making it obvious that the reply was not true.
"Gotta lie better than that." Robert voice spoke out from the kitchen doorway.
Once again the Hanscom siblings eyes were on Robert. Robert was leaning against the kitchen doorway, loud crunching coming from him due to the apple that he was taking vicious bite out of. He gave the two a grin, pushing himself off the doorway and walking back down the hallway, disappearing back into Starlet's bedroom.
"Ben, the truth, right now." Scarlett faced Ben.
"Bowers." Ben mumbled that she almost missed what he said.
"What did he do to you to cause this much damage?"
Ben did not say anything to her, only walked to the kitchen where she followed after him. She watched him pull the bandages off his stomach, eyes widening upon the sight of slices in her skin. Slices that formed letters. The skin was a palette of red colors, showing the irritations that formed around each slice that marked Ben's skin.
"Are you kidding me!? He is a fucking psycho! A absolutely mullet prick!" Scarlett screamed causing Ben to take a couple steps back from her and Robert to appear back in the kitchen.
"Whoa, that looks infected." Robert pointed out.
"No shit!" Scarlett faced Robert with a glare.
Robert was before Scarlett within a couple of seconds, grabbing her by the shoulders and leaning his face in close to hers.
"Calm down. Your eyes are beginning to glow." Robert told her lowly, making sure that Ben did not hear.
Thinking about her little brother, thinking how he needed medical attention, Scarlett took in a couple deep inhales and exhales to calm herself down. She gave Robert a nod before he let her go to allow her to turn around to face Ben. Ben was peeling the rest of the bandages off of his body.
"Who helped you?"
"Bill, Richie, Eddie and Beverly."
"Beverly? Beverly Marsh, the girl that you have a cru—"
"Yes!" Ben shouted before she could finish the sentence, his face turning red with blush.
Scarlett tried not to laugh, especially in this situation where Ben was injured. She knew that Ben had a crush on the Beverly Marsh girl since she caught him writing her name many times on a page in his notebook with hearts all over it. Of course, being the older sister, she had to tease him about it.
"Go to the bathroom. I'll help you with that. You do know that we have to explain this to mom."
"Can we wait until she notices?" Ben said quickly, not wanting their mother to freak out over him.
Scarlett stared at Ben for a couple of seconds, seeing the pleading look on his face. A sigh escaped her, giving Ben a small nod, which had him to get a thankful look upon his face. Ben left the kitchen, leaving Scarlett and Robert alone in the kitchen.
"That Bowers kid appears to be an interesting fellow." Robert snorted, tossing the core of the apple into the trash can.
Even though Robert told her to calm down, she felt the anger well right back in her once Ben was not presence in the same room as her. Scarlett hands turned into fists on her sides, angry for the fact that Bowers picked on Ben. Angry that Bowers thought that he could get away with anything. She was tired of Bowers bullying.
"What do you want to do about the one that done this?" Robert appeared beside her with a twinkle in the pale blue eyes, wanting to do something malicious.
"For now, nothing because I have to take care of Ben." Scarlett told Robert, walking toward the doorway to go to the bathroom where Ben was waiting for her.
"But later on?" Robert asked, following after her.
"Nothing is my answer for now." Scarlett replied, glancing at Robert over her shoulder.
There was a huff from Robert with a pout, wanting to do something malice, especially since she was angry and would want to get payback on the one that hurt her little brother. Robert stood near the bathroom, seeing Scarlett digging through the first aid kit to begin to help Ben. Robert turned away, walking back to the bedroom to wait for her.
"I can't believe that he would go this far." Scarlett whispered, using antiseptic onto a cotton ball to begin cleaning the cuts on Ben's stomach.
"He jumped me with Vic, Belch and Patrick, but it looked like they wanted him to stop once they saw the pocket knife, especially Vic and Belch. I could see how uncomfortable they were, their hands had loosen enough on my arms to allow me to get away into the Barrens. That's where I came across Bill and his friends." Ben explained to her, wincing as she swiped down one of the deeper cuts with the rubbing antiseptic liquid.
"It doesn't mean that he cuts you." Scarlett muttered, tossing the pink color cotton balls away in the trashcan near the toilet.
Scarlett grabbed ointment to pour onto a bandage before she placed it on Ben's stomach. She mumbled for him to hold it as she picked up the medical tape to tape the bandage to him.
"Thanks, Scarlett." Ben whispered, head bowed a little.
"You're welcome." She said, cleaning up the mess before grabbing painkillers to give him one.
"Go rest. Later on, I'll have to change the bandages again." Scarlett told him.
Ben gave her a quick hug and then he walked out of the bathroom, leaving her behind. Scarlett gripped the sink countertop, bowing her head as she tried to keep herself calm. The images in her head kept popping up of what the marks on Ben's belly that were trying to spell Henry's name. She was getting ideas on how to confront Bowers and get revenge, but she shook her head, knowing that Bowers would continue to be a bully even after somebody confronted him. He was crazy, plain and simple.
Scarlett cleaned up the bathroom and threw everything away in the trash. She pulled out the small trash bag from the trashcan and tied it off. If Ben wanted to keep it a secret from their mother then there had to be no evidence left behind. Therefore, Scarlett brought the small trash bag outside where she thrown it straight into the trash can that was dragged to the end of their driveway every morning for the trash men to pick it up.
When Scarlett got back in the house, she went to her bedroom where Robert had transformed back into Pennywise. She eyed Pennywise, seeing Pennywise right hand fingers wiggling toward the air making her to look up. For a brief moment, her eyebrows shot up and then relax. There were different trinkets floating close to the ceiling, moving in various directions, but no once hitting one another. It was smooth control that Scarlett needed to work on with her telekinesis.
"I could sense your anger from here, birdie."
"I don't know who Bowers get away with half of the things he does." Scarlett said, sitting herself at the end of the bed with her clasp hands between her legs.
Her eyes flicker away from her clasped hands to watch the items that Pennywise floated, go around her and then spread apart to be put back to the places that they once were. There was a brush up along her back until the bed sunk down beside him.
"Do you want to do something about it, Birdie?"
"Not right now. I'm feeling off."
A large hand pressed against her forehead, pushing her back a bit in her stomach. Her eyes stared at Pennywise as a loud hum erupted from the clown. She resisted from pulling away or rolling her eyes as Pennywise kept humming and rubbing its chin with the other hand, having a calculating look.
"You are looking peaky." Pennywise said, hand dropping off her forehead.
"Thanks, doc." Scarlett mumbled, standing up from the bed.
"You are very welcome. Now, I think that—"
Scarlett was sliding off her shoes when Pennywise had been speaking. To hear Pennywise stop speaking, her eyes went to the bedroom door first, wondering if someone stood in the doorway, but there was no one there. Slowly, she turned in her spot to see that Pennywise stood rigid and eyes were glowing brightly, similar to the lights that the tower had in Pennywise's main lair. It was lights that Pennywise told her to not stare into for long, but Pennywise did not give her that warning that much anymore, making her to think it was because she had pieces of Pennywise abilities in her.
To her, it was as if someone stuck a flashing in the back of Pennywise held and turned it on. The eyes were glowing, but now turn into beams. She found herself move toward Pennywise, wondering if something was wrong as she never witnessed Pennywise in this type of state. A little closer, Scarlett saw that Pennywise was also levitating off the group, but only a little bit. Without knowing, Scarlett was reaching out toward Pennywise, wanting to see what was happening as curiosity was seeking for an answer.
A hand shot up, grasping her own causing her to let out a gasp. Her eyes snapped up to see the familiar yellowish gold eyes staring down at her. Pennywise lowered their hands down and let go of hers.
"What was that?"
"There had been a trespasser in the sewer, I capture him and now I have to handle him." Pennywise explained.
"Who is it?" Scarlett asked, getting this odd feeling that she would know who it was.
"One of Bowers friend, that was chasing after your little brother."
"Which one?" Her eyebrow raised.
"The one that you called Patty boy."
"Patrick Hockstetter." Scarlett whispered in a bit of shock.
"Yep, that is the one." Pennywise pointed at her.
Scarlett finished pulling the last shoe off until she sat down on the bed again, thinking that Pennywise had captured Patrick, who had been chasing after Ben. Her eyes looked up at Pennywise, knowing that the entity was going to teleporting off to go finish Patrick.
"Only him?"
"Yep. He was the only one to enter the sewers. Anyway, gotta' go birdie." Pennywise rested a hand on top of her head and then began to fade away in the spot.
With Pennywise gone, Scarlett moved her body to lay down in bed. She grabbed her throw blanket, pulling it over her instead of getting underneath the bedcovers. The blanket was thick and heavy, wrapped around her curled up body. Her eyes shut as she felt comfortable in her position, warm and compacted.
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She did not know how long she had been curled up, unknowingly falling asleep, but her eyes snap open when she felt this tingling, warming sensation in her body. It was then she felt the presence of a hand pressed against her lower belly. Her hand came on top of the hand, her head turned enough to allow her to see over her shoulder to see it was Pennywise.
"You are back?"
"Yes."
"Is Patrick…" Scarlet did not finish the question.
"Yes." Pennywise said with a low hiss and a smirk.
Scarlett gave a small nod, turning her head back around to stare across her bedroom at the wall that had her artwork all over. The area around her belly was becoming warmer.
"What are you doing?"
"Making sure everything is healthy." Pennywise purred, pressing the hand against her stomach a little harder.
"And?"
"The baby is growing at a quicker rate than human baby."
"Is the baby developing though?"
"Yes." Pennywise answered with a bit of excitement leaking in the tone of voice.
Scarlett pushed away the blanket from her belly, staring down at the hand that pressed against her lower belly, seeing her belly glowing with Pennywise hand. She stared in awe, always amazed by what Pennywise could do. Her hand that rested on top of Pennywise hand began to get consumed by the glowing light too.
A sudden gasp escaped her as she felt a rapid thudding against the palm of her hand.
"Is that…"
"The feel of the baby's heartbeat, yes, it is little birdie." Pennywise cooed into her ear, body curling around her body to be press close.
The feel of the heartbeat amazed Scarlett and made her happy. To feel the heartbeat, to sense that the baby was perfectly fine, a small smile began to erupt on her face. Scarlett could not believe that she could have the opportunity to feel all of this. She shut her eyes, feeling the heartbeat and that particular warm sensation that began to spread throughout the rest of her body.
"The baby will be strong."
Scarlett could feel the wide smile against her ear when Pennywise made this comment. She wonder who the baby would take after the most. There was no doubt that the baby would show traits similar to the ancient evil entity, due to her previous cravings at the sight of blood. Scarlett hoped that the baby would look human and pass as a human more than anything. She could raise the baby as a normal human being, but she wonder how she would be able to control the child when the evil entity traits began to show.
"You are thinking too much, birdie."
"I am concern for the future of this baby."
"With you as the mother, you will teach the baby to be human." Pennywise muttered with a huff.
"What about the baby having traits like you?"
"Then I will handle that, but do not worry, the baby would still pass as a human."
The way that Pennywise was replying almost said like it was dreading the fact that the baby would have to be human more than itself. Every day, Scarlett felt the motherly sense of wanting to raise this baby to be as human as possible. When the day comes that the baby might show supernatural traits, that was when the ancient entity would step in, but she would make sure that she was present when that happen.
"Now, stop thinking, birdie, you are giving me a headache."
This time, she rolled her eyes, but her eyes did come to settle down on her belly where the glow began to fade away. She sighed with a little displeasure as the warm sensation went away, and the ability to scan the process of the little one.
"Go back to sleep."
"I will when I want to." Scarlett mumbled childishly, eyes shutting.
There was a knock not eh bedroom door that had Scarlett's eyes to snap back open. She opened her mouth to say, 'wait one-second' but the door already opened up. She went to scream, to stop whoever was entering, but it was too late.
Arlene stepped into the room with a gentle smile, but it disappeared for a brief moment.
"Oh, for a second I thought I saw something else in your place, Robert."
Scarlett head snapped to the left where Pennywise had once laid. She almost let out a loud sigh of relief to see that Pennywise managed to transform into Robert before her mother could comprehend who it was. The darkness in the bedroom most likely helped too.
"Sorry, if I frighten you." Robert apologized with a fake concern voice.
"Oh, you are good, Robert. I think my mind is playing tricks on me. For a second I thought I saw a—never mind. Anyway, Scarlett, how are you feeling today?"
"A bit tired than usual."
"Do you want me to bring dinner in here?"
Scarlett was thankful with how caring and kind her mother was. She could not help but smile at her mother, seeing how much her mother wanted to help throughout the pregnancy process.
"It's all right, mom, I can get up."
"Well, if you say so." Arlene smiled and turned to leave the bedroom, but paused to turn halfway around with a questionable expression.
"Is something wrong with Ben?"
"I don't know, is something wrong with him?"
"He said he wanted to eat dinner in his bedroom and he did not appear to be himself."
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe he is sadden that it was the last day of school or something."
"Maybe, but anyway, I'll put leftovers in the oven." Arlene smiled and then left the bedroom, shutting the door behind her.
Scarlett turned on the entity, letting out a loud relief groan and dropped herself back onto the pillows. Her eyes stayed on the entity, who stayed in the Robert Gray disguise.
"That was a close one."
"Indeed."
"How did she even see the Pennywise form?"
"I was in the middle of transformation, making myself presentable to her eyes. She caught some of the transformation."
Scarlett rubbed her hands over her face and shook her head as she did so. She peeked through her fingers, staring at Robert.
"Imagine what her reaction would be if she did see the fact that you were transforming."
There was a small snicker that came from the entity.
"Oh, I wish to see that reaction." Robert threw his hands up and dropped them onto his sides.
"Let's say we did, and not do it." Scarlett dropped her hands from her face, giving the entity a sharp glare.
A pout came onto Robert's lips, but then a smile broke out as he continued to snicker, finding the whole thing amusing, but also, thinking about the 'what if' Arlene caught the entity transforming from a clown to Robert.
Scarlett shook her head, pushing herself out of bed and left the bedroom, not waiting for the snickering ancient evil entity still laid about in her bed.
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