Chapter: There's Something More
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There was more to research, more to uncover.
Even though the history of Derry freaked him out the more and more he continue to dig into the town past, he could not pull his eyes away. There was something more about the horrific incidents that happened in Derry. He knew each of the major events happened twenty-seven years apart from each other. He had told his new friends about it too. His new friends and he concluded it was something abnormal, but what was the main motive for its actions.
Ben sat in the sunniest part of the library, staying away from any dark areas, such as the basement archives.
When his new friends left the house, he told Scarlett he wanted to go to the library and then he left. He sort of wanted to be out of the house more. He felt different now he had new friends. Something woke inside of him to be braver, but also, he wanted to get out of the house because of Robert Gray.
Ben loved his sister dearly, and he would do anything for her as she would do anything for him. Yet since Robert Gray appeared, something was different about Scarlett. There was a change in her that Ben could not figure out. Ben felt something was off about Robert Gray, and Ben sworn he saw Robert's pale blue eyes flicker to a familiar yellowish gold the other day.
Ben shivered in his spot in the wood seat. He did not want to think about why those yellowish gold eyes looked familiar. He did not want to think about what happened to him in the library basement, and what chased him out of the said basement. Many time he tried to reassure himself it was his mind playing tricks on him because of all the creepy historical events he has been reading up on Derry.
Papers were laid out across the dark wood table with a couple of open books. Ben was trying to figure out the well house location since Bill was curious about it. But as Ben gone through more information about Derry, and Ms. Davies was kind enough to dig up more information on Derry from the archives for Ben, Ben found new images.
There was an old book opened up in front of Ben, and it contained a lot of images. The images were dated back in the 1876, around the year of where the lumberjacks disappeared and then pieces of them were found near the Kenduskeag River.
These were sketches more than anything, in black and white, and the sketches creeped Ben out a bit since the sketches of people had a gothic look to them. He flipped through each page, seeing how the sketches took up both pages as one big portrait sketch. As he was going to turn another page, he stopped and his eyebrows scrunch downward between his eyes.
Closer Ben leaned over and eyed the sketch.
The sketch was of lumberjacks perched on top of stumps and they appeared to be on a lunch break. There were piles of fresh cut trees behind them. But what caught Ben's eyes was the woman that stood nearby with a basket in her hands.
The sketch of the woman was detailed, and it appeared whoever the artist was wanted her to be perfection. It showed how the artists saw this woman as some sort of enigma. Her hair was not colored in making Ben to believe she did not have black or brown hair like most of the lumberjacks in the sketch had. There were a few lines through her long wavy hair. There were some lumberjacks who did not have their hairs color in making him to believe they were blonde, grey or maybe red.
The idea of red hair made Ben to picture it on the woman, and it was then he was hit with a spark. It was a sketch, but liked he pointed out before to himself, whoever sketch this made sure to detail the young woman. It was almost as if the artist wanted this woman to be known. Ben mouth dropped into an 'o' shape as he continued to study the sketch more and more.
"Hey! That looks like your hot sister." A hand slapped against Ben's upper back.
Ben let out a startled scream which drew attention onto him and now, Richie Tozier.
"Shit. Sorry, did not know you were that deep into the book."
"Ri-Richie what are you doing here?"
"Saw you through the window, and poked in before I head home. Wondering what the hell are you doing here? Don't you have enough of this shit in your bedroom?" Richie waved his hands over the table where papers and books were laid out.
Ben did not answer, but looked back at the sketch.
"You said this looks like Scarlett?"
"Hell yeah!" Richie nodded, ignoring the scowls he got from people throughout the library.
Ben thoughts were confirmed. The woman in the sketch looked like Scarlett. The more and more he stared, he saw the resemblance. Ben glanced at Richie, seeing Richie fix his glasses while he was eyeing the sketch too. Ben knew how Richie was infatuation with Scarlett, and would always tell everyone how Scarlett was the hottest red head in Derry. So, even though he did not want to think about it, Ben knew how much Richie studied Scarlett, and so he had asked Richie about this sketch to reassure that he was not going crazy. That this sketch looked like Scarlett but back in 1876.
"Dude, I can tell you that is your hot sister but in colonial clothes. Shit, she still looks fine in those clothes too."
"Richie you are not all there in the head, are you?"
"Oh come on it, Ben. Everyone knows your sister is hot."
Ben shook his head, not wanting to think about what others think about his older sister. He flipped through the book some more until one of Richie's hand came down on top of a page.
"Careful, Richie." Ben scowled him, but he looked around to make sure Ms. Davies did not see how disruptive Richie was.
"Look, that is totally her again. I recognize those eyes and lips anywhere." Richie pointed at the young woman in another sketch during the year of 1877.
The sketch was of Derry during the lumberjacks time again. There were some built log cabins, and it appeared everyone gathered in the center for some sort of celebration of log burning. Richie had once again pointed at a woman, who stood with a few other women and a few men, looking on at the fire burning.
"What the heck is going on?" Ben whispered as Richie was right.
"I don't know, but isn't there some sort of scientific shit about us having some sort twin out there in the world." Richie waved his hands about.
"Yeah, but this is weird. This is a century ago…doesn't this look like Robert?" Ben pointed at the man that stood behind the sketched woman, who resembled Scarlett.
"Your sister supposedly boyfriend…" Richie muttered with a glare as he was not happy about the fact Scarlett was taken.
"Just look at it."
"Okay, okay, so demanding. Jeesh!" Richie threw his hands up before he placed them on the table and leaned over to stare at the sketch of a man behind the sketched woman.
There was silence, and Ben looked at Richie to watch Richie pull off his glasses and wipe them on his shirt before he put them back on. Richie leaned closer to the photo, and then slowly he turned his head toward Ben with mouth agape and wide eyes fill with disbelief.
"Holy shit! It does look like him. Benny, this is fucking freaky as shit!"
"Richard Tozier!"
Richie and Ben flinched in this spots. Slowly, the two slowly turned around in this spots and looked up where Mrs. Starrett.
"Um, ah, hi Mrs. Starrett." Richie smiled sheepishly with a small wave.
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"Ow, ow, ow!"
Richie was lead out of the library by his ear while Ben followed. Mrs. Starrett scowled Richie one more time before she shut the door behind Ben. Ben stared at Richie, who turned around on the library steps and flipped the door off.
"Damn that hurt." Richie muttered, rubbing his left ear.
Ben walked down the steps and turned into the direction to head back home. But Richie jumped in front of him and held his hands out in front of him, stopping Ben from walking any further.
"What?"
"Are you going to tell your sister she looks like one of the colonials back then?"
Ben bowed his head as he thought about it. It was weird that the sketch had a woman during that time, who looked exactly like his sister. The fact the artist made sure to detail her well had made Ben to think the artist saw her as an important figure during that time. But Ben wondered why. He wished he could had gotten a copy, but Mrs. Starrett did not give Ben enough time to do so.
"No, no."
"Hmp, well, okay. I'm heading home. See ya later alligator." Richie waved and walked toward the bike rack to get his bike.
Ben watched Richie ride off before he walked down the sidewalk and across the street to get onto the other side. His mind was deep in the clouds, thinking how he did not accomplish with figuring out where the location of the well house was, but he did find sketches where there was a figure that looked like his sister, which was a bit of a freaky discovery.
He could not help but shiver, feeling like he discover something he should not have.
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Next Morning
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The cravings were becoming stronger.
A few days ago, she felt fine and today, she was hit out of nowhere of being ravenous for fresh meat. Eating regular food appeared to become less and less, although eating meat was becoming more and more. The little one moved a lot inside of her, poking against her hands whenever she place her hands upon her protruding belly. Or whatever Pennywise was near or touched her belly the little one moved around a lot.
"Ow!"
"Hmm?" Pennywise looked away from the deer in the woods.
"That felt like a rib." Scarlett muttered as she glared down at her belly.
"Are you glaring at our little one, birdie?"
Scarlett shot Pennywise the glare now making Pennywise to hold his hands up in a mocking surrender gesture. She looked back down at her round pregnant belly and rubbed her hands along the sides, feeling the baby continuously move.
There was no doubt the baby would be due earlier than a normal human baby. Pennywise checked the process of the baby last night, and cooed over her belly and told her how the baby was around the developing stage of seven months. It made Scarlett nervous as she did not know if she was prepared for a baby, especially one that was not a normal baby. She hoped the baby would come out normal and not come out of her in an entity form or some short of shapeshifter like Pennywise.
"No. Shouldn't you be focusing?" Scarlett waved toward the area where the deer ate in a small clearing.
Pennywise made a low growl at her before he looked toward where the deer was.
"Very demanding."
"Try being kicked by a tiny being inside of you that isn't exactly a human." She hissed.
Pennywise glanced at her with eyebrows raised, seeing her eyes were darken then normal. He smiled with fangs, showing how thrill he was when she got into these moods.
She knew her hormones were all over, and at times, she was a bundle of emotions. It would come out at random times, and afterwards she would feel guilty as she did not mean it, such as now.
"Sorry."
Claws gently ran down her jawline, and drew her attention upwards. There was the usual wide fanged smile upon Pennywise's lips.
"You're so cute when you are mad." Pennywise cooed with a small snicker at the end.
Scarlett opened her mouth to come up with whatever smartass comment would come out of her mouth when Pennywise and her attention snapped off toward the side.
The deer had come closer to where they sat, and froze upon their eyes on it. As if sensing how dangerous they were, the deer began to lunge in mid-air to dash off, but an arrow shot through its head.
Pennywise let out a low growl and stood up tall, sniffing the air before he was staring at a bundle of bushes. Pennywise got a wide smile and started to transform.
Scarlett stood up from the fallen tree she sat on and she put herself behind a large pine tree. She poked her head around and watched a hunter appeared with an expensive bow in one hand and another arrow in the other hand. Although her eyes settle on Pennywise, watching the transformation of a clown turn into an abnormally large snake.
"A snake? Oh, wait, taking form of someone's fear." She whispered as she clenched the tree trunk and watched the large snake slithered around the deer.
The hunter walked toward the deer, but let out a yell as the large snake sat up and let out a loud spitting hiss. The hunter loaded the other arrow and fired at the snake, the arrow going through the snake.
A gasp escaped Scarlett, but she clamped her hands over her mouth. Yet the hunter heard her and whirled around, catching sight of her. She sworn at herself in her head as she knew Pennywise would be fine, yet she could not help the natural reaction of Pennywise being hit and blackish grey blood was drawn.
Slowly, Scarlett stepped out from behind the tree with her right hand upon her belly and her left on her side. She calmed herself down as she walked forward, pretending she was curiously eyeing the abnormally large snake. A hand wrapped around her left wrist causing her to snap her attention onto the hunter.
"I don't know why you are out here, young lady, but do not go near that snake. I never saw such a snake, especially that large…argh, I fucking hate snakes." The hunter said with a disgusted look set on his face as he stared at the snake.
"I was watching the deer, and you shot it." Scarlett said emotionlessly.
"Oh, well, shit, sorry. I'm a hunter, and I tracked this bitch for a while, so, yeah." The hunter shrugged.
"You call yourself a hunter now." Scarlett said softly.
The hunter looked at her with an odd look, not quite understanding what she meant. She simply stared at him with a blank expression, and she lowered her head down.
"What are you trying to say lady? I just shot this deer with ease. And—" The hunter stop talking when the snake was hissing again and slowly rising.
"Shit, shit, shit. It's alive still! Come on, we have to go!" The hunter exclaimed.
The hold on her left wrist tighten, and the hunter started to tug her, but Scarlett used her inhuman strength to stay rooted in her spot. She would not be taken away from Pennywise. She would not let this hunter think he was stronger than she was. The well of emotions in her made her feel feistier and mischievous than usual. She had a feeling it was the hormones. The little one was kicking up a storm, and Scarlett felt a wave of energy vibrate through her body that made the hairs on her body to rise.
"What the fuck? Come on." The hunter tried to tug her, but she barely moved a centimeter out of her spot.
Slowly, Scarlett lifted her head back up and stared at the hunter with glowing blue eyes. A smirk came onto her lips, and she did not blink as she felt the snake began to slither up her body and wrap around her. The hunter mouth open and close like a fish out of water, and he was about to let go of her wrist, but she reacted.
Scarlett's nails turn into claws and she ripped her hand out of the hunter's hold. This time, she clamped her hand onto his forearm and sunk her claws into his arm. A yell escaped from the hunter, and he tried to tug away, but her claws dug deeper.
"You call yourself a hunter…but now, you have become the hunted." Scarlett purred.
Scarlett felt the little one move energetically inside of her as if feeling the energy being use by her and also, Pennywise, who was slithering all over her body.
"You—what the fuck are you!"
"We are the hunters now." The snake hissed before lunging off of Scarlett's shoulder with mouth wide open and mouth wrapping around the hunter's head.
Scarlett felt the large scaly body of the snake come off her body and constrict around the hunter body. She turned away as Pennywise, now the large snake with glowing red eyes was consuming the hunter. She walked toward the deer and knelt down.
Feeling the energy still pulsing through her, and the cravings to eat was beginning to take over, Scarlett used her claws and sharpen teeth to rip into the deer. While Pennywise feasted on the hunter, Scarlett torn into the deer and let out a small hum as she felt the little one calm down, the cravings becoming satisfy.
A tongue ran up the side of her throat where blood dribble down in streaks. Scarlett pulled her attention off of the deer meat in her claws to glance to her right and saw not a snake, but Pennywise again. She finished up her fill and stood up, feeling a hand rub her belly.
"Satisfy, little birdie?"
"Are you asking me or the baby?"
"The little one of course." Pennywise purred as he bent at the waist and stared at her belly.
Scarlett felt the baby give a good kick against the side of her belly where Pennywise face hovered. She saw Pennywise smiled widely and then stood up tall.
"Come, let us go home. I sense fear coming from your home."
"Ben." Scarlett whispered with concern.
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Minutes Later
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When Scarlett swung open the front door, she was met with a startled gasp and Ben's wide eyes.
"What is wrong with you?" Scarlett walked in.
Pennywise transformed into Robert before he walked in behind her, staring at Ben with curious eyes too.
When Pennywise informed Scarlett of fear coming from her home, it made Pennywise just as curious as she. Both were not home, and they knew Ben had gone to the library yesterday evening for a bit. Pennywise was with Scarlett the whole time, so Scarlett knew it was not Pennywise's doing. She did not sense Pennywise do anything to create fear. All Pennywise focus had been on her for most of the morning.
Scarlett gave Robert a simple look, and he made a small scoff sound and walked down the hallway to her bedroom. She took the time to walk toward the couch, eyebrows rising as she notice the more she was getting closer to Ben, the wider his eyes got.
"What is your problem? Why are you staring at me as if you saw a ghost?"
That comment earned her another startled gasp and Ben turned away from her, looking down at a robot he has been trying to build out of random metal pieces.
"Ben, what is wrong?"
"Do—do you—nevermind." Ben shook his head and stood up from the couch.
"Ben."
"It's nothing, Scarlett, it's nothing. Don't worry about it."
"How can I not worry about it when you won't even look me in the eyes without fear? Have I done something wrong?"
"No!" Ben shouted and looked up at her with wide eyes.
"Then what?" Scarlett rested her hands on her hips.
"I was, um, well." Ben looked everywhere but her, which made her to narrow her eyes on him.
Scarlett had a feeling he was about to lie to her. She knew there was something bugging him. Her eyes flicker toward the table where he had small tools laid out to help him build his personal robot, but her eyes landed on a checked out library book on the history of Derry. It made her eyes to settle back on Ben, seeing him staring off to the side.
"Just wondering um, what's to happen after you had the um, the—the baby? Yeah, the baby? Are Robert and you going to stay here? That's what I wanted to ask, um, yeah."
Scarlett eyes narrowed on Ben causing him to gulp. She knew he was lying, and she knew that was not what he wanted to ask her. Ben could even tell she knew he was lying to her. Scarlett dropped her hands on her sides and walked toward the coffee table, and picked up the checked out book from the library. She held it up and stared at Ben.
"This is making you not yourself, Ben."
"I'm just learning the history of the town, Scar."
"Your room is cover in all the history! To top it off the map of Derry and the copies of the missing people! Ben, you are scaring yourself and those friends of yours. Mom has even been questioning what you are thinking lately. We thought you were doing simple look ups on the town, not full out detective work."
"No, no, I am doing research. Something isn't right about this place, Scarlett."
She placed the book back on the coffee table and shook her head.
"Scarlett, there is something out there."
Scarlett stood with her back to Ben. Her hands flexed on her sides. She did not want Ben to dig this far into Derry. For him to meet the Losers Club, and they were showing their interest in what Ben discover, it only made Ben to dig deeper for more information. She did not want her brother or his friends to step across a line where there was no turning back, but it appears they already have.
Her eyes caught eyes with Robert, who poked his head out enough to only show from his eyes up to his forehead. Those pale blue eyes flashed a glowing yellowish orange gold before they returned back to normal.
Slowly, Scarlett turned halfway around and stared at Ben.
"Ben, if there is something out there, should you really be doing this?" Scarlett asked.
Scarlett watched Ben eyebrows raise then fall. He looked off to the side with a thinking look, showing he was thinking over her comment. Slowly, Ben lifted his head up and stared at her.
"I'm with my friends."
Scarlett threw her hands up in the air and turned away, walking down the hallway.
"Scar, I'll be careful!" Ben called after her.
"I'm sure you will Ben…" Scarlett waved her hand over her head before she entered her bedroom, shutting the door behind her.
Scarlett leaned herself against the bedroom door and shut her eyes, not paying attention to Robert sitting at the end of her bed and staring at her.
"…but I'm not too sure it will be enough." Scarlett opened her eyes and stared directly at a smirking Robert.
Scarlett pushed off the door and grabbed Robert by the shoulders.
"You can't harm them. You can't bring harm to my little brother or his friends."
"That is asking quite a lot, my birdie." Robert growled lowly through clenched teeth.
She hated to beg, but for the life of her little brother, she would beg on her knees if she has to.
"Please." Scarlett whispered.
There was a snarl forming on Robert's face.
"I'll think about it."
"But—"
"It's not a no." Robert pointed out.
Scarlett let out a small huff and she stomped around Robert and the bed. He watched with amusement as she dropped herself on the bed and hugged a pillow to her. She curled up against the pillow and shut her eyes, trying to keep a blank face even when Robert appeared behind her.
"Scarlett." Robert sung her name softly into her ear.
Ignoring him was her move to show she was not happy with his answer. She knew it was not wise to ignore the entity, but she wanted what she requested. She wanted her little brother and his new friends to be safe.
"Birdie, I do not like being ignored, and you know that."
Scarlett opened her eyes as it was Pennywise voice instead of Robert. Arms and legs wrapped around her body. One of Pennywise hands rested on top of her belly, feeling the small movements of the baby.
"Listen, I will try for your sake. Try is the key word in this sentence, understand me, birdie?" Pennywise growled into her ear, not happy she was ignoring him.
Scarlett wiggled around until Pennywise loosen up enough for her to turn around. She faced Pennywise and she gave a firm nod. She shut her eyes and bowed her head, finding herself becoming tire after the filling meal.
Pennywise stared down at Scarlett for a good while until Pennywise shut its own eyes. Its teeth slightly grind against each other due to the sort of promise it had made with Scarlett. Pennywise had to try to do what Scarlett requested. Pennywise had a feeling that one wrong move on its part, and it would meet the wrath of a very livid crimson birdie.
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Hi Everyone!
I have to admit, I keep hitting those writer's blocks left and right, but I am pushing myself through the blocks and figuring out how to go in each chapter.
So, the plot in the movie of taking down IT happens all in a couple of days, but I want to spread out the days of planning and such because I want Scarlett to continue to develop with the baby. Also, sort of a spoiler alert of what is to come…I am going to switch up the end results instead of basing off straight off what happened in the 2017 remake.
Anyway, enjoy the story!
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