Henry walked to his locker at the beginning of the school day. He was running off of no sleep as the night with the clown in the moon and Its commands ran through his conscious.
'How do I do this?' he thought.
He knew he had to though, to keep the love of his life safe.
Henry turned his head down the hall and saw Mike. He was his only real friend other than Winter. Henry lived such an introverted existence his whole life. No close friends, spent most of his time reading, playing basketball, and spending time with his family. There was always that loss and anger over his older brother being ripped from his family which made him lock up most of his feelings in a vault.
But then he met Winter... He felt those feelings of wanting more, lust and true friendship that developed inside him right away, and he knew he met the love of his life. He could open up to her about any of his emotions or thoughts, even cry in her arms and she wouldn't judge him for it. She would listen and she cared so much. When the feelings turned into love, he felt like the luckiest guy in the world. He use to wish his life was different and he could live a socially active life like the other kids. After meeting Winter, he wouldn't have taken anything back in his past.
When they began having sex, it was a whole new release of emotions. She even once told him in the heat of the moment one day when he was mad about Robert coming back into his family:
"Henry, take whatever anger you have and pound it in my pussy... I can take your anger and turn it into love. I can release it for you."
That really turned him on when she said that. She was so caring. How she made his anger and sadness turn into ecstasy and release it from him was her magical power. She's all he ever wanted when he didn't even know what he wanted. He had to make sure she was going to be safe and protected, and he would treat her like the angel she deserved to be treated like.
When Mike waved to Henry from the other side of the hall, Henry shot him a death stare. Mike noticed the look in Henry's eyes and walked into his classroom confused and baffled.
Henry opened his locker.
There was a brown leather jacket with a note attached to it. Henry took the note off and read it...
'This will help. FYI: You won't remember much, if anything, at the end of the day when you take it off.' - Victor & Belch'
Henry took the jacket off the hanger and looked at it. It was vintage and was not cheap either. It was old, though, and used.
Henry took off his black hoodie and stood in his white t-shirt.
He put the jacket on.
For a moment, he didn't feel any different. Then it all changed. His head hurt bad suddenly and he placed his hand to his forehead to apply pressure.
"Argh!" he punched the locker door in pain.
But then he felt fine.
He ran his hands down the jacket and realized he felt okay, but he felt in charge, in control, and his anger felt amplified. He felt like he was on an angry power trip.
"We got to fix this shag you got going on..." Victor came from behind and ruffled Henry's hair.
"Don't touch my hair, faggot!" Henry snapped at him.
Victor and Belch laughed in response; "That's more like it..." Victor said. "Don't forget your knife."
Henry looked on the top shelf of his locker and saw a switchblade. He grabbed it without thought and stuck it in the back of his jean pocket.
Henry, Victor and Belch went into the washroom and looked at their hair in the mirrors. For some reason, Henry felt like he had known these two guys for years.
Victor pulled out a hair jell from his bag and started putting some through his hair.
"You want some?" he asked Henry.
"Yeah, give me some..." Henry took some jell into his hands and began patting the sides of his hair down and to the back, leaving his bangs out and applying more jell to twist the bang in the front.
Victor and Belch laughed lightly at the new look; "You look like a new man, Henry," Belch said.
Even though he felt like a different person, he still wondered how Winter was doing that morning without him in the hospital, and the thought of her made him come back to reality a little bit. He hoped she was okay without him. He also thought back to Pennywise talking to him the night before. He hoped she was safe with him in school.
'Kill them all, Henry...' repeated in his head.
Henry blew out some air as he smoothed out his hair with a comb.
"Everything good, boss?" Vic asked as he continued with his own hair.
Henry thought for a second on how he was going to ask his question without giving out too much information on the task-at-hand that he was suppose to do; "Say if you had a girlfriend, or a wife or even a family, and you had to do something major, like it's MAJOR, to keep her safe or your family safe, you would totally do it, right?"
Vic shrugged in response, "Of course! A man goes to work to provide and protect his family, and then he goes home and he becomes the family man again, leaving work at work. A family man would do anything to keep his family safe."
Henry nodded, appreciating the advice, "And that's exactly what I am - a family man. Winter and I might not have a family yet, but she is my family."
Victor smiled at him, "Then I guess you know what you gotta do."
The bell rang to go to class.
Henry went to his English class with Victor and Belch right behind him. He never remembered the two of them being in his class, but they occupied the seats right behind him.
Henry looked over to Bill, Bev, Ben, Eddie and Richie who were in the class. They looked back at him and whispered words to each other about his new look.
"What the fuck? Did John Travolta's Grease wardrobe throw up on him?" Richie whispered to Stan as they stared at him.
Henry was looking at them with evil in his eyes and a condescending sneer. His eyes looked like he was about to attack them, just like how his eyes looked at them in the hospital, but there was more to his look this time. His face was Henry, but it was an alternate universe Henry, that showed a psychopathic natural expression. In the hospital when he was glaring at him, he still looked like a man with compassion and a heart, but this was a man with animal-like eyes, and he looked like a psychopath ready to kill.
"G-g-guys, I t-think there's something w-wrong with h-h-him..." Bill whispered to the guys as they all stared.
"You got that right..." Eddie whispered.
"That's not Henry..." Bev whispered, adding to what Bill said.
"And who the fuck are those two guys that are dressed the same as him?" Stan whispered. "Have you seen them before?"
"I have..." Ben said, "But I can't remember where..."
"T-They don't go h-here..." Bill whispered, and looked quickly at the teacher, Mr. Munroe who was glancing at Henry's new look periodically, "Mr. Mu-Munroe doesn't no-notice them... I-I don't t-t-think they're ac-actually here..."
"It's the clown..." Eddie whispered before grabbing his puffer from his bag.
As they all whispered to each other, Belch made a paper airplane and threw it at them before making a face at them. Both Victor and Henry laughed.
Sitting at the other side of the room was Mike Hanlon, Henry's basketball friend. He was staring at Henry as Henry was staring at the others in the room. He could feel the force coming from Henry as he sat in the classroom, and he knew that wasn't his friend. Mike had some unexplainable events happen to him during the past month with the clown taunting him, so he knew right away that the clown had somehow attached himself to Henry, because this guy in the classroom was not Henry Bower's, and those guys sitting behind him didn't go to this school.
At the end of the school day, Henry and his two friends stood in one of the hallways of the school as they talked about different things. As they casually chatted, Stan, who was on his way to meet his friends outside, appeared at the other end of the hall. He was walking towards them but didn't notice they were there as they stood in the corner.
"Perfect..." Belch began, "It's the pussy of the group... He will be the easiest to torment."
"Gotta start somewhere... Might as well start at the weakest link," Victor laughed.
Henry leaned against the wall, grimacing in anger as he felt the presence of Stan coming nearer to him as he walked down the hall. He could feel the hate he had for the kid as he walked closer.
"Hey there, sissy!" Victor waved to Stan.
Stan's eyes went wide and he felt fear punch him in the gut. He turned around to walk the other direction.
Henry, Victor and Belch walked up behind him. Henry grabbed his shoulder and threw him against the wall before turning him around to face him.
"It's the Jew boy!" Henry laughed at him.
Stan looked into Henry's eyes and he knew it wasn't the guy he knew since he was five years old. This was somebody else wearing Henry's face.
"W-What do you want, Henry?" Stan asked afraid.
"You know why I want to hurt you, asshole!" Henry said into his face.
Stan's anxiety made him think of the time that him, Bill, Eddie and Richie saw Henry and Winter having sex on the picnic table. He thought that's why Henry was so mad at them, and he knew what happened after they saw them doing it on the table. Stan didn't know if this was exactly why Henry was so angry, but his panic over being stuck in the corner with Henry and these two guys made him start talking.
"I'm sorry, Henry! I didn't know you guys were there! I didn't want to look but I couldn't stop!" Stan said quickly from anxiety.
Henry squinted his eyes and twisted his head in thought as he kept Stan pinned to the wall.
Victor and Belch held onto Stan's arms from both side of him as Henry stood in front. "What's this loser talking about?" Victor laughed.
Stan, still panicking, went on; "You gotta understand, Henry! I just hit puberty, like, 2 years ago, and I have never seen any adult movies or anything, so when I saw you and Winter having sex on the picnic table..."
Henry, Victor, and Belch's eyes went wide with surprise. Victor and Belch continued to laugh as Henry stared at him as he continued on with his confession.
"...I couldn't look away. Like, I'm not gay, I wasn't looking at you or anything, so please don't kick my ass because you think that. I just didn't know that's what sex looked like so I couldn't stop watching... And kudos to you because the way Winter looked and was moving around and making those sounds, it looked like you were doing a good job..."
Victor laughed more, "You're digging your own grave, kid."
He still didn't stop as he looked into Henry's eyes, like he was an investigator trying to get a confession out of a criminal, "I felt really guilty, Henry. I'm not a pervert. You guys were in public, and it's not a super hidden picnic table. Like, I know it's kind of secluded, but it's not invisible. I didn't mean to watch and then jack off in the woods. But like I said, I'm not gay, so it's not like I was jacking off because of you."
Belch and Victor's mouths dropped open in shock and they laughed more, "Maybe you should stop there, kid."
"I'm sorry... I thought that's what you were mad about and when I get scared, I can't stop talking, like now... I'll stop now..." Stan shook with fear. "Isn't that why you're pinning me against the wall right now?" His voice asked as the pitches went high and low, realizing that this whole thing had nothing to do with the confession he had just said. "Oh, fuck... That's not what this is about, is it? Oh, fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
Henry's blood was boiling as he watched Stan confess all his guilt onto him. Henry's hands rolled up into fists and he punch Stan in the eye, making him hit the side of his head against the wall.
Stan yelped in pain.
"So..." Henry backed away for a moment and put his thumbs to his temples and rubbed them as he processed Stan's confession while Victor and Belch laughed, "This is what I'm hearing, kid..." Henry went back up to him and pushed him harder into the wall, "You saw Winter and I having our moment together on the picnic table as you watched from a distance..." Before he continued on, he asked, "Were you with your loser friends, too? You guys all watching like a bunch of perverted fags?"
Stan lied to cover for his friends, "No. It was just me..." He winced, scared that Henry was going to hit him again.
Henry pointed his index finger up to Stan's face, "See, I don't believe that bullshit! You guys travel in packs like a bunch of fucking pussy-ass wolves."
Stan had a tear fall from his eye as he stood there scared, "No..." he lied, "Just me."
"Fine! Stick with that! Back to what I'm hearing with this perverted confession that you just told me..." Henry continued you on, closer to his face, "You were watching us... No! Let me re-phase, you were watching MY girl as we were having sex! If you stopped talking there, I would have just settled with cutting out your eyeballs..." he pulled his knife from his back pocket and flicked out the blade.
Stan began to shake more at the sight of the knife. Victor and Belch held him against the wall tighter so he wouldn't run.
"But then... the idiot that you are... went on to say that you went to the woods to jack off. And since you're 'not gay', that means you were jacking off to MYgirl! You're telling me that you went to the woods to imagine that you were the one having sex with MY girl on the picnic table!" Henry waved the knife in front of his face, "Now you went from having your eyes cut out to having your eyes and your dick being cut off!"
Stan cried as Henry lower the knife towards his crotch. Victor and Belch laughed. Henry looked up to Stan's eyes.
"Very good, Henry... You made him afraid..."said the voice of Pennywise in Henry's head. "I'll take care of the rest."
The part of Henry that was still inside of him, as he wore that jacket, couldn't help but feel like he was going too far with a kid who was only just curious about sex and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But still, what a fucking little perv!
"Run!" Henry said to Stan. He was only suppose to taunt the kids to be afraid so the clown could get them. At the end, the remaining kids still alive was Henry's job. For now, it was to promote fear.
Victor and Belch let go of Stan as they continued to laugh.
Stan ran towards the exit of the school.
"RUN!" Henry yelled at him.
"What a fucking little perv..." Victor said as he watched Stan continue to run.
Henry turned to walk to his locker, "I've got to collect Winter's homework and see her at the hospital."
"Leave the jacket in your locker, Henry," Belch directed him.
"Yeah, yeah!" Henry waved them off as he went to his locker.
When he opened up the locker door, he took off the jacket and put it on the hook. Right away, Henry stood looking into his locker. He knew it was the end of the day, but he felt like he lost time and couldn't think of anything that happened that day. He knew for a fact that he did his school work, but he slightly remembered taunting the kids in his class and he remembered pinning Stan to the wall. Although he was mad, he couldn't recall why.
As Stan ran outside towards his friends, he could feel his face throbbing. He saw Eddie, Bev, Richie, Bill and Ben sitting on the grass in the sun.
"Holy shit, Stan!" Eddie exclaimed as he saw Stan coming closer with his black and blue eye. "What the fuck happened to you?!"
"Henry! Henry and those guys! They pinned me against the wall, and I got so scared that I couldn't stop talking!" he inhaled deeply as he caught his breath.
"W-What ha-happened?" Bill asked, worried about his friend.
"They just pinned me to the wall for no reason, and I thought that Henry was mad because maybe he saw us..." He stopped when he looked over at Bev and Ben. "That time in The Barrens..."
Bill, Eddie and Richie blinked confused.
"The day we take to our graves..." Stan hinted.
"Oh my, God! No! Don't say you told Henry!" Richie's eyes went wide.
"I covered for you guys and told him it was only me, but I don't know if he believes me!" Stan said.
"Oh my, God! Oh my, God! Oh my, God!" Eddie paced back and forth and inhaled deeply from his puffer.
"N-No! No! S-Stan! W-W-Why did y-you..."
"What are you guys freaking out about?" Bev asked as her and Ben stared at them confused.
Eddie, Richie, Stan and Bill stared at them wide eyed.
"This is a band thing, guys. We need to go have a band meeting!" Eddie said, urging Bill, Stan and Eddie to follow him into the Barrens so they could talk.
All four of them left Bev and Ben standing there confused at the school.
"Okay... Bye..." Bev said flabbergasted. "Weirdos."
When they were far enough away, the three turned to Stan.
"How could you tell Henry what we did? We are never to talk about that day!" Eddie exclaimed.
Stan was panicking, "I couldn't stop talking! It was all like word vomit!"
"What if Henry tells Winter?" Richie asked nervously. "She's one of our best friends, guys! We didn't mean for what happened to happen!"
"I-I don't th-think he will..." Bill said calmly, "Th-that guy - w-whoever is taking over H-Henry's b-b-body - is probably not th-there when he-he's with Winter."
"This is all so fucking strange! First your brother, then Winter goes missing, then the clown, and now Henry is dressing like a fucking greaser and looks at us like we're his next meal!" Eddie said.
"It's the clown. Everything has to do with the clown!" Richie said.
"I'm sorry I said everything, but I mean it when I say that I just threw myself under the bus. I didn't say you guys were there," Stan said with his head down.
"W-we never t-t-talk about that d-day again!" Bill said, "P-pinky swear it!" He stuck out his pinky. The three of them hooped their pinkies together.
Friday May 16, 1997
Bill, Eddie, Richie and Stan were walking through the Barrens to cross over to the Main Street. Chapters had released a new section of comic books and they wanted to check out the selection.
As they chatted on their walk through the woods, they heard moaning.
They stopped in their tracks.
"Crap! Winter and Henry are at it again..." Richie said quietly to the group.
"What do they do over there when they're making those sounds?" Stan asked, not too sure what they were doing at the picnic table that was not in view yet.
"They're having sex, stupid! Those are sex sounds. Remember we passed them that one time when Henry was eating Winter out and we glanced for a second?" Eddie said, as he took a puff of his puffer form the sex noises.
Stan let out a tiny laugh, "Oh yeah! That was pretty hot."
"Yeah, if you take out Henry, then it's hot," Eddie said.
"Why would Winter be making those sounds on the picnic table if Henry weren't there?" Richie asked Eddie.
"I'm just saying I'm not gay. Winter is sexy and Henry's cool, but I don't need to see his junk or his ass!" Eddie rolled his eyes.
"C-Come on, g-guys! T-They might s-see us..." Bill said, curious himself to know what they were doing.
They quietly walked by the group of trees Winter and Henry were hidden behind. They were silent as they listened to Winter moaning in pleasure.
It wasn't until they walked by a spot in between the trees where they could see their naked bodies, but they were still hidden enough that even if Winter and Henry glanced over, they most likely wouldn't see them.
All four pairs of eyes turned to the gap in between the trees as if a magnet forced their eyes to the two having sex.
Unlike the first time when they only saw them and watched for a moment, this time Winter was fully naked. She wasn't wearing her bra, and they were having intercourse. Henry was standing at the end of the table, his back towards them, and they had a good view of Winter's whole naked body.
Their mouths fell open and they stared as Winter's perky breasts bounced up and down and she had her arms extended above her head. Her legs were sprawled open as Henry's cock was inside of her, going in and out. He had complete control over her body and she loved it, and she wanted more.
Winter's moans were so feminine and her face was different - she looked so vulnerable and so pleasured and pleased as he continued to go in and out of her. Her pussy juices were covering her upper thighs and they saw her pussy squirt out juices when Henry went faster. Her hips were moving with his as she was clenching her pussy every time he was in fully. He would sometimes slam his cock as deep in as it could go, and she would scream in pleasure.
Not able to look away, Bill whispered, "W-We s-s-s-should g-g-g-g-g-g-go..." it was hard for him to control his stutter as he felt his cock go hard at the sight of Winter's body so submissive on the table.
"Wow... Her pussy is juicing so much... It's like sticking your dick in a warm orange..." Richie whispered, hypnotized by her body and her perky breasts bouncing. He quickly rubbed his crotch as his boner was becoming noticeable.
Eddie, staring at Winter on the table, whispered, "Don't say that... I don't want to get boners in the fruit section of the grocery store."
Stan stared at his friend's body, "So, that's what sex is like? In Sex Ed, it sounded so gross..." He gulped as he felt his dick getting hard.
"Yeah... But she makes it look so... so..." Richie was lost for words.
"Fucking amazing and unbelievable .." Eddie added in as he had wood in his pants. He took a puff f his inhaler. "Seeing this side of her... So vulnerable to him, submissive, so pleasured as he has his way with her... She loves it. She likes being the submissive one..."
Eddie thought about the dance class him and Winter have together and how she always wants him to take the lead. It made him really turned on knowing that she wanted to be the submissive one in the dance routines, because now he realized that she liked to be the submissive one during sex.
They watched as Henry climbed on top of her on the table and used his forearms to support himself as he laid on top of her. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and clawed at his back as her legs remained wide open, wanting him to go in as deep as he could. She also would periodically wrap her legs around his waist as she pushed him in deeper as he pounded her. At one point, Henry grabbed one of her legs and put it over his shoulder, going in her faster and deeper as she screamed in pleasure.
"She likes it so rough and dirty..." Richie said as he stared.
"I didn't know dirty could be so attractive..." Eddie said.
As Bill continued to watched, he kept trying to hide the bulge in his pants. He felt like he couldn't control it anymore; "F-Fuck..." he whispered to himself, "We-We s-s-shouldn't have st-st-stoped to wa-wa-watch..." He said more to himself than to his friends. He turned around to find a secluded place in the forest so he could take care of his boner.
"Me too... I need to tend to this... Fuck, I feel like a perv!" Richie said as he went in a different direction than Bill did into the forest and hid behind a tree.
"Fuck, Winter, you're gorgeous..." Eddie whispered to himself as he went into another direction too, to find a place he could take care of his wood.
Since the other guys left, without thinking about where he was standing, Stan began to slowly unbuckle his belt to take care of his boner.
Eddie went up to him quickly, "No! If you do it there, it's a whole other level of pervertedness. If they see you, you're dead."
Stan and Eddie went off into opposite directions.
All the guys didn't know where each other went, but they all hid behind trees and stroked themselves at the thought of Winter laying on the picnic table, covered in her juices as they listened to her continue to moan and scream in pleasure as Henry fucked her. They wondered what it would have felt like to be the ones inside of her.
From that day on, they swore that they would never talk about it again. They also promised that they would never stop to watch them again, and if they heard Henry and Winter moaning that they would wait by the river for them to be finished so they wouldn't be tempted to look at their friend's naked body again. Although it didn't change how they viewed her as their friend, it did open them up to a whole new world into Winter Callaghan that they wished they could experience but knew they would never have the opportunity to. They learned what sex really was, what it looked like, and how pleasurable it was. They only wished they knew what it felt like.
Henry walked into the hospital building with his clothes he had on before he put on the jacket that morning. He was in his jeans and wearing his black hoodie. His hair was still jelled back, but he thought the look was pretty cool.
He noticed his Uncle Jim there in his police uniform. When he saw Henry, they both walked up to each other.
Henry was nervous to see him, scared something happened to Winter; "Why are you here, Uncle Jim? Is Winter okay?"
"Yeah, she's fine. I just need to talk to her and I thought it would be better if I waited for you so you could support her..." Jim touched Henry's hair quickly, "Is 'The Outsiders' your new school play?"
Henry raised his eyebrow at him with a small smile, "Sure. Why not?"
Henry walked into Winter's hospital room and felt relieved the moment he saw her up and reading one of the books they were reading together.
He smiled at her, "Hey! You said you weren't going to jump ahead!" He walked over to her side and sat beside her on the bed.
She smiled at him lovingly and kissed his lips, "I'm just looking through it."
Henry laughed lightly, "Uh-huh. Unlikely story. Is that what you call jumping ahead without me?"
Winter giggled at him, "I swear I wasn't!" She put her fingers through his hair, "I like this! You look really good with it jelled back."
"Yeah?" he smiled wide, "I'll wear my hair like this when you're better enough to have sex again," He kissed her cheek as she giggled at his response. He kissed her on the lips as he held her close.
"You know I'm standing at the door, right? You literally led me here and I have to listen about underage sex," Jim Hopper rolled his eyes. "I was seventeen once too, so I'm gonna let it slide."
Both Henry and Winter laughed as the annoyed officer/uncle walked into the room.
"Hi, Jim," Winter said with a small smile, her voice still raspy.
"I'm glad to see you looking better, Winter," he closed the door and sat in the chair across from the bed.
"Thanks for saving my life," she said sincerely.
He half smiled at her, "You know, Winter, I became a cop to try and help my sister find her son. I wanted to bring him home safely. I'm glad he got home safely seventeen years later on his own, but I'm especially proud that I was able to save my nephew's girlfriend and bring her back to him. Seeing you guys right now makes me know for sure that it was my purpose to wear this uniform."
Henry smiled in response, never really thinking of it life that. He scootched behind Winter as she sat up in her bed and wrapped his arms around her as she leaned back into him.
Winter was touched by Jim's words and smiled as Henry placed a kiss on her cheek as he held her tight.
Jim changed the subject, "But Winter, I need to ask you some questions about what happened. I need to know."
Henry took Winter's hand as he felt her tense up. "It's okay, baby. I'm here," he whispered into her ear and lightly kissed her ear lobe.
"I don't know what to tell you, Jim. I don't think you'll believe me after I tell you what happened..." she said sadly.
Jim leaned his arms onto his legs as he hunched over and looked her in the eyes, "You know what, Winter? I've lived in Derry since I was a kid, and I've heard some crazy stories from a lot of sane people who seem to have the same crazy stories. After a while, it doesn't sound crazy anymore. If you tell me that you saw something that was unexplainable, supernatural, this is completely off the record. I'm just curious to know what happened in the sewers. I know I can't put smoke and mirrors in a prison cell, but I want to know what Derry is dealing with even if it's unstoppable."
It took Winter a few moments before she started talking, "I was walking home and I saw Tiff Anderson..."
Jim's ears perked up, "Tiffany Anderson? The girl who went missing the day before you did?"
"Yeah... but it wasn't her... I thought it was... She told me there was a circus in the Barrens..." Winter took a moment, "She went running away and I followed her 'cause I knew she was missing and I wanted to know if she was okay. She led me to the sewage building and she said the circus was in the sewers. I thought it was weird, but I was worried about her, so I followed her in the sewers. By the time I realized that she wasn't around anymore and I probably shouldn't have followed her, I was already lost."
Henry listened intently to her as he held onto her tightly.
"There was a clown, but It was more like a monster wearing a clown outfit..."
"Don't you dare say anything, Henry. I will crush her lungs within seconds if you open your mouth," said the clown's voice inside Henry's head. The voice caused his heart to pound and he swallowed hard as he fiddled with her hand in his with anxiety.
Winter kept looking down to her lap and back up at Jim as she continued on, "I don't remember much more that happened, but there were other things there. It might have been the clown playing tricks on me, but there were dead children that chased me around the sewers to stay in Derry. There was one night, too, when I saw Ace Merrill..."
"The kid that died on the train tracks in the '50s?" Jim looked at her intently.
Winter nodded, "That's what he told me... He wanted to have sex with me, but I put a knife threw his head before he could..."
Henry's grip tightened and he pursed his lips angrily. He remained quiet as he listened.
Winter began to cry, "I spent a lot of the first day or two with this little girl named Lily. She told me the clown took her into the sewers right after It ate her baby brother... I tried to save her, but the clown took her out of my grip and ate her in front of me. It's her fingernail scratches that are on my arm."
Henry rested his chin on her shoulder and looked at the side of her face as she cried. He couldn't believe what he was hearing, but he did believe it.
"Her name was Lillian Landry. She was taken half hour after George Denbrough was," Jim said as his eyes expressed sadness.
Winter didn't say anything to the mention of Georgie's name. She just continued to cry.
"It's okay, baby," Henry whispered into her ear before he kissed her cheek and held onto her hand tighter.
"The claw mark on my stomach was from the clown. It told me I couldn't walk through the sewers into the next town. I had to stay in Derry. It all of a sudden had huge animal claws and clawed my stomach..." Winter took in a deep breath, as deep as she could as she still had problems breathing.
Jim looked down and collected himself before he said, "Winter, your clothes were covered in George Denbrough's blood. What happened to him?"
Henry blinked confused, "You told Bill yesterday that you didn't see his little brother..."
Winter cried more, "I lied. I couldn't tell him what happened."
"What happened to him, Winter?" Jim asked.
"He only had one arm..." she cried with guilt, "I grabbed him from off the ground. He was still alive. I wanted to find away out and take him home. He died soon after I found him. I tried giving him CPR, but he lost too much blood. I really wanted to save him."
Jim held back his own tears as he watched her breakdown and thought about the poor little kid.
"I can't tell Bill what happened! I just can't!" Winter sobbed.
Henry felt terrible as he held her close. If only he walked her home, she wouldn't have gone through what she went through.
"We went into the sewers, Winter. There was nothing. No trace of anything, but I believe you, and I'm not going to share your story, because I've heard these stories enough to believe them, but a lot of others would think it's impossible," Jim reassured her. "Did the clown talk to you?"
Winter nodded, "It tried playing a lot of mind tricks. It told me that It was a cosmic force from the universe. It wasn't from this planet. It's been living in Derry before Derry was even a town. It changes forms to match peoples fears, and then It feeds on their bodies."
Jim stroked the stubbles on his face. The story scared him but he believed her, and he didn't think there was anything he could do to stop It. It was unfortunately a force that Derry had to continue to live with.
"All these children who have gone missing and have never been found, I wonder why only you and Robert were the only ones who have ever been saved..." Jim thought out loud.
Henry wondered as well, and he had a feeling that it had to do with him.