Winter didn't know if she was in the middle of a dream when her eyes popped open and she laid in her bedroom. She could see that there was a light on at her reading desk but she couldn't turn her head to look over. She couldn't move as her eyes stared up at the ceiling. Her muscles locked up and she couldn't move her mouth to talk. She couldn't tell if Henry was beside her in bed, or if he was sitting at her desk, or if he wasn't in the room at all.

She recalled that this had happened before at the hospital when she saw Ace Merrill appear, except that she was dreaming that she was in the sewers. This time she was in the safety of her bedroom, but she felt her anxiety go up as the thought of the unknown came over her as she laid helpless in her sleep paralysis.

"How can I live in a world without her?!" Henry cried.

Henry?! Henry, where are you?!

She moved her eyes frantically as she continued to lay stiff as a board. She didn't know what was going on.

"You took everything away from me!" he cried more, "You fucking clown! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"

Then there was the sound of the ceiling creaking loudly.

Winter couldn't see where the sound was coming from as she stared up at the ceiling, but it continued to creak like an old house falling apart.

Henry was sitting at her desk, reading a book that she had in her bookshelf as she slept. He had looked over at her and noticed she was staring at the ceiling and couldn't move. "Winter, are you okay?" he asked as he climbed into bed beside her.

She couldn't look at him, her muscles wouldn't allow her to speak, and she continued to look up at the ceiling.

One last creak.

Henry's body fell from the ceiling right above her as he wore his pyjamas. He stopped falling midway down as a rope around his neck caught him in the air before he could fall on top of her. His body swung from side-to-side as he hung above her.

Winter popped up with all her force and screamed as loud as she ever did in her life, tears streaming down her face.

"WINTER!" Henry panicked and grabbed her from the side of the bed.

Winter, wide-eyed, looked at Henry with the most fear and fright she had ever expressed in her eyes in her life. She broke down in his arms and cried loudly with her dream still repeating in her head. She continued to look up at the ceiling where Henry had ended his life and back at Henry still beside her, hugging her tight.

"It's okay, baby!" he said into her ear, "You had a nightmare."

Winter continued to break down and hugged Henry with all the strength that she had.

Footsteps came nearer to the bedroom in the hallway and the bedroom door swung open. Winter's mom, Trish, was at the door in her robe.

"What happened? Is everything okay?" she asked as her daughter continued to cry frantically in Henry's arms and he tried to sooth her as best as he could.

Henry looked up to her mom, "She had a nightmare. It looked like one of those sleep paralysis nightmares."

Winter continued to shake and cry, holding Henry even tighter. She kept wondering why she would dream about that. It was the most horrific thing she had ever seen in her life and it didn't even actually happen.

"Winter, are you okay?" Trish asked as she went up to the teenagers holding each other. "Do you want me to make you some tea?"

Winter slowly came to her senses and looked at her mom and nodded as she laid her head against Henry's chest.

She watched her mom leave the bedroom as she continued to cry in Henry's chest. Not even being stuck in the sewers was as scary as seeing the love of her life falling to his death. She would take Ace shoving her against the wall of the sewers and take advantage of her then to ever see Henry's body hanging from the ceiling by his neck.

She looked up into Henry's eyes. He looked back down into her eyes; "What happened, baby? I was reading a book and then I saw you staring at the ceiling." He wiped the tears that were falling from her eyes.

Winter put her hands towards his neck and rubbed his neck lightly, not able to believe what she had seen.

"I love you so much!" she cried more, as she shoved her face into the nuzzle of his neck. "Don't leave me in this world alone, baby. Please don't ever leave without me."

Henry wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed the side of her head; "I could never leave you in this world alone, baby... We keep each other safe... You're my angel, and I'm your protector. I felt that way before we even started dating... It was right when I met you that I knew it. My mom even said that when your family left Derry when we were three, we didn't want to separate. Now that I have all of you, I could never leave you alone in this world."

Winter massaged the back of his neck with her hand, thinking that if she kept rubbing it, the images of him hanging by his neck would go away. She kissed his neck slowly, leaving little little kisses everywhere she could.

Henry tilted his head as he felt her soft lips on his skin. It caused every part of him to tingle and feel warm as she continued to leave small kisses. He had no idea what she had dreamed about, but he was enjoying the little kisses being left on his neck.

"What did you dream about, baby?" he whispered in her ear as he closed his eyes and enjoyed her kisses.

Winter shook her head as she continued to kiss him; "I don't want to talk about it."

Henry sighed in pleasure, "We can spend the whole day together tomorrow and Sunday, and we can just be us before all this stress came into our lives."

Winter blinked away more of her tears and nodded, "That's all I want."

After the nurse visited to check up on Winter that morning, Henry and Winter went out to Main Street. They held hands and had fun as if all the stuff that had happened within the past month had never happened. They had visited their favourite bookstore and Henry bought the both of them a copy of 'Dracula the Undead' by Freda Warrington. They had sat in the bookstore and began reading it together, trying their best to read at the same pace as they use to do.

Not once did Henry think about the task that the clown had told him he had to do - to kill the losers. He didn't even think of any of Winter's friends, and if she brought up one of them, he didn't feel anything like how he did when he was wearing the jacket that was hanging in his locker. Having Winter around brought him peace and there was no bad thoughts towards the group of her friends.

As they walked back to Winter's house that afternoon, they walked in the Barrens, hand in hand. Winter looked around the ravine and remembered that the last time she remembered being in there was when she was following Tiff, who was actually the clown, into the sewers.

"Hey..." Winter stopped at a pond and Henry turned around to face her. She thought about the nightmare she had the night before and looked into Henry's eyes, "I've been thinking about something..."

"What is it?" Henry asked, wrapping her in his arms and smiling into her eyes.

"D'you remember when you asked me how I felt about getting married right after high school?" she wrapped her arms around his neck, "I didn't actually give you an answer."

Henry kissed her forehead and smiled. "You've been thinking about it?"

Winter smiled peacefully, "Yeah, I have been... My answer is yes. I would love to marry you after high school ends."

Henry grinned ear-to-ear, "You're sure?"

Winter nodded.

"Wait, wait! I have to do it right, though..." Henry smiled as he got onto one knee and looked into her eyes, "I don't have a ring for you, but I will one day soon... Winter Callaghan, will you marry me?"

Winter giggled as she looked down at Henry purposing to her. She smiled and nodded, "I would love to marry you, Henry."

Henry laughed lovingly as he got back up onto his feet. He embraced her and picked her up off of her feet. Winter laughed as he twirled her once.

When he let her down, he kissed her passionately. They would part quickly to smile at each other before they started kissing again.

She smiled at him, "Does this mean that we're engaged?"

Henry laughed lightly, "I think so! A year ago I wouldn't have ever thought that I would be engaged right before senior year to the most beautiful, sweetest, perfect woman in the world."

She smiled before kissing him again, "You make me so happy. I wouldn't be able to love anyone like how I love you. I just want to spend my life with you beside me every morning, and beside me every night."

Henry took her hands in his and kissed her knuckles a couple of times as he stared into her eyes.

As they embraced, they could hear footsteps and chatter coming from the lake, and it continued to become louder as Bill, Bev, Eddie, Richie, Stan and Ben appeared and stopped in their tracks and became very quiet when they saw Winter and Henry.

Winter and Henry turned to look at them.

They stared at Henry, nervous of what was going to happen. Henry looked at them and looked at Winter, but he was so intertwined with the world that Winter and him created, that he didn't feel anything when he saw them. Just being in Winter's aura made him feel safe from his own insanity. The jacket was far away in his locker, and he was safe with her next to him.

"Hey, guys!" Winter smiled at them.

The six of them looked scared as they stared from Winter and Henry, but Henry looked happy and he didn't look like how he did at school. He even had his hair all messy like he use to, leaving the greaser look in his locker. As they stared at the couple, they all wondered, 'What the fuck is going on with Henry?'

"Hi, Winter..." they all said nervously. "Hi, Henry..." they said confused as he looked at them.

"Stan, what happened to your eye?" Winter asked as she approached him to see if he was okay.

Stan backed away a bit, nervous of Henry near close. "Nothing..." he stared at Henry as he spoke, "I tripped and hit my eye on a table."

Henry stared back at him. Henry knew he did it, but he couldn't remember why or how. He couldn't remember that he was taunting Bill, Eddie, Stan and Richie because they saw Henry and her having sex in the Barrens. He remembered what the clown had told him, but Winter was with him, so none of it mattered at that time.

The Losers didn't know what was happening with Henry. This interaction was making them realize that there was something really controlling Henry when he was wearing the jacket and when those two guys, Victor and Belch, were with him. This was not the Henry that they had been dealing with everyday at school for the past two weeks.

Just a day ago, he carved his name into Ben's stomach, and Ben stared at him petrified. This was not the same guy. Richie went from looking at Henry to looking at the ground - he was traumatized. Eddie continued to stare at Henry and was ready for him to come over to him and try to start a fight, but he too, realized that this was not the same Henry. It scared them and also confused them.

Henry continued to smile at Winter as he held her hand. She looked from her boyfriend to her petrified friends.

"What's going on, guys? You look like you've seen a ghost..." Winter questioned. "Which, I would totally believe, because there's a lot of messed up stuff going on right now."

"What the fuck isgoing on?" Eddie asked his friends.

Henry looked over at Eddie who had just spoken up. He frowned at him, and gave a pleading look not to say anything, as all he had been doing to the losers would put Winter's life in danger if she knew.

All six of them saw the pleading look that Henry gave them, and they felt empathy for him. Empathy for the man who was trying to kill them. They felt like Henry was telling them that he was a prisoner to the clown's Will. It was a sad look that they read in his eyes. Thiswas Henry. This was a man confessing through his eyes because he couldn't confess with his voice in fear the clown would hear him. This was the look of a man who felt trapped. This was a man who couldn't hurt a fly. This was the look of a man who was sorry for what he couldn't control. This was him telling them that he was in shackles and Winter's life was in danger if he didn't do what the clown wanted him to do. Thiswas a man who would jump in front of a train to save the woman he loves.

"N-Nothing's go-going on..." Bill said as he continued to stare into Henry's eyes.

Bev broke her eye contact with Henry and looked at Winter, "How are you doing? Are you feeling better?"

Winter smiled softly, "Yeah, I am. Still trying to figure out how to eat without puking, but Henry's been taking really good care of me since I got out of the sewers." As Winter spoke, she pulled Henry closer to her, causing him to smile at her.

They all continued to stare from Winter to Henry as he smiled lovingly at her.

Bill was the only one to talk to Henry, speaking as if he were an investigator, "W-Where's your ja-ja-jacket, Henry?"

Winter's shivered at the mention of the jacket, "D'you mean Ace Merrill's jacket?" she asked.

"It's in my locker..." Henry said seriously, his intense look piercing threw Bill's eyes, still pleading, and still telling him with his eyes that it's not him in the jacket.

"Ace Merrill?" Ben said, saying it more to himself to remember the story of Ace. "How is it Ace Merrill's jacket?"

"I saw it in the sewers. Ace's ghost is with it. I don't know how it got out of the sewers..." Winter told her friends.

Ben, who had studied all of the history of Derry, was the first one to connect the dots at Henry's behaviour while he wore the jacket and how he acted towards them in it, "Oh, my God..."

"What?" Winter questioned.

Henry cleared his throat.

Winter was the only one who didn't look up towards him after he made the sound. They saw the plea in his eyes again. This man was a prisoner to the clown. They didn't understand why the clown was making him wear the jacket, but Ben was going to explain to the rest of his friends later that day that it was not Henry when he wears the jacket, it was Ace Merrill wearing Henry's skin as he was wearing the jacket.

"Nothing, Winter... Don't worry about it..." Ben said as he continued to look at Henry.

Henry pursed his lips as he looked into Ben's eyes, and Ben knew that Henry was thanking him.

"We should go, guys..." Richie said to the ground.

Winter smiled softly at them, "I miss you guys a lot."

They all looked at Winter and softly smiled at her.

"We m-miss you t-t-too, Winter," Bill smiled sadly at her.

"You're still my best friend," Eddie said sadly to her.

Winter smiled softly at him, "You too, Johnny Castle."

Eddie laughed at the Dirty Dancing reference.

"Nobody puts Winter in a corner..." he replied back.

As the group heard what Eddie said back to Winter, they didn't think of the famous line in Dirty Dancing, but they thought of the clown sticking Winter in a corner, which was making Henry do the things that he was doing to save her from the dark corner she didn't know she was trapped in.

"Th-that's right..." Bill said as he looked at Winter and Henry, "No-nobody pu-pu-puts Winter in a cor-corner."

The interaction between all of them started with them scared as they saw Henry, but they left scared for him and Winter. They needed to do something, and they needed to do it soon to save their lives.

Henry watched them walk away, and he felt sorry for them. Sorry for what he was doing to them and what he had to do to them before the end of the month to keep Winter alive. He hoped they caught on, as they were a smart group of kids, and he hoped they had a solution that would make it so Winter would stay alive and she wouldn't have to lose her friends because of the clown. He knew he had to continue on with the task, but it gave him relief knowing that they figured out that it wasn't him in the jacket.

"Baby?" Henry looked into her eyes, "You know how you and your friends think that my turtle has some sort of powers?"

Winter nodded, "Yeah, why?"

"I'm thinking we should bring him over to your place, he can stay in your room, until Derry is normal again. If he kept Robert safe when he was a baby, maybe he can keep you safe..." Henry kissed her forehead as he hugged her into him. "I just want to make sure I'm doing all I can to keep you safe."

Winter smiled at him. She thought about the nightmare she had that night and said, "He can keep you safe too."