All nine of the teenagers sat at the river in a circle. They were enjoying the nice warm breeze of summer after the traumas that had gone on in the sewers just an hour ago.

Winter went around the group and had cleaned all the cuts on each of her friends. It was as if they trusted her with any of her wounds. If someone were to break a bone while they were in the sewers, it seemed possible that they would have asked her to fix it even though she had no medical training to that extent. It was a nice feeling for her to receive from the people she loved so much.

"This is going to need stitches..." Winter said as she cleaned a cut on Mike's forehead.

Mike shook his head, "My grandparents are poor. They won't be able to afford the medical bills. Plus, it would really piss my grandfather off if I mentioned that I needed to go to the hospital anyway."

Winter twisted her mouth in thought as she was thinking of the extra supplies in her medical backpack, "Well, I did bring some stitches and I've watched videos on how to do it."

"Just do it," Mike said quicker than she thought he would. She assumed he would want to think about it before deciding.

"Yikes! That's going to be painful without any pain killer..." Eddie said nervously.

"I have a pain killer," Henry said as he grabbed the bottle of Rum from his bag that Vic and Belch had given him when he was looking for Winter.

"WOW!" Richie, Eddie, Ben, Bev and Stan exclaimed as if they had never been in the presence of alcohol before.

Winter raised an eyebrow at Henry, "Where did you get that?"

Henry passed the bottle to Mike to take a shot so it numbed his pain, "Vic and Belch on one of the nights you were missing. Honestly, one night I couldn't cope while I was looking for you and I had about six shots of it. I haven't touched it since, though."

Winter studied his face. She couldn't help but feel bad for the man she loved, thinking back to what it was like for him when she had gone missing.

Mike took a shot from the bottle and swallowed it quickly. His face twisted from the strong sour taste of it. Maybe it was illegal for him to drink, but at least it was going to take a lot of the pain away from her giving him stitches.

"Let me know when you feel like you're ready, Mike," Winter said to him as she sat back down on the grass.

Henry scooted himself from behind her and let her lay into him like he was the back to a very comfy chair and wrapped his arms around her.

The seven teenagers passed the bottle around, feeling curious as to what it was like to drink. They also felt like they deserved it after the traumatic adventure they all went through. As the bottle was passed over to Henry and Winter, they both declined to drink any. After all, Winter had barely eaten in a month and Henry didn't feel like he was ready to drink again and celebrate until Winter was fully recovered and eating again.

The seven teenagers took about two shots each and that seemed like enough for their alcohol virgin bodies.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Richie said as he felt the effects of the alcohol taking over, "Can we just appreciate Henry for a moment?" he looked at Henry and asked, "What did you say to the clown?"

Henry stared at him with a smile on his face, not knowing which part he was talking about. He barely remembered what he had said to It.

"You said something like, 'Don't even try to touch her, you fucker!'"

Then a buzzed Eddie, Bill, and Stan joined in quoting Henry with the clown, "'I have more than enough reasons to smash your head against the wall and break your skull!'" They all exclaimed really excitedly as they all looked at Henry.

Henry and Winter laughed at the four of them impersonating him excitedly. That afternoon, the boys in the group looked up to Henry like he was a hero out of an action movie.

"If this were a movie, who would have played us, guys?" Stan asked.

"They did make a movie about us..." Bev said; Everyone looked at her to continue on, "It was called The Goonies... Just minus the psychotic clown."

Everyone laughed.

"Y-Yeah, bu-but Henry and Winter w-would have someone el-else playing them," Bill said with a smile.

"Keanu Reeves would have played Henry!" Richie exclaimed.

"Oh, my God!" Henry laughed. He was enjoying watching the seven of them buzzed.

"I actually second that! I can see Keanu playing you!" Winter laughed.

"Winter, you would be that chick from those movies..." Richie began with a name on the tip of his tongue. He looked towards his friends, trying to get them to help him remember the name.

"Oh! Oh!" Ben was trying to think of the name.

Stan, Ben, Bill, Eddie and Richie all exclaimed as they remembered the name, "SARAH CONNOR!"

"The actress' name is Linda Hamilton!" Eddie said excitedly. "She would just need to dye her hair brunette!"

Winter laughed, "You guys are so drunk!"

"Like, like, guys!" Stan began, "When she put the syringe threw the clowns neck and It looked like It became stone!"

"Yeah, it was like..." Richie tried to impersonate the clown's shocked stone-cold face.

"We really needed you guys there!" Mike said. "We all would have died without Henry and Winter."

"W-We would ha-have drowned if w-we didn't have Henry fi-figure out what t-to do!" Bill said.

"Stan and Bill would have been the ones who were going to die if Winter wasn't there," Ben said.

Stan and Bill looked at each other in shock.

"Holy shit! You're right!" Stan said. He quickly looked at Henry, "Could I have one more shot of that Rum? I need it after realizing that!"

"M-Me too!" Bill said.

"I'll take another one, too, before you start stitching me up," Mike said, dreading the moment when Winter was going to put a needle through his skin.

"Jesus, guys! Don't make yourselves sick!" Winter laughed as Henry passed them the bottle.

"You guys are such losers..." Bev laughed as she watched Bill and Stan take another shot.

"We are losers!" Richie exclaimed excitedly, "We are the losers with guest stars Keanu Reeves and Sarah Connor!"

Winer got up to her knees and went over to Mike to begin stitching his forehead. She grabbed the thread and the needle and sterilized it. She disinfected his wound.

She asked him, "You sure you don't want to see a doctor?"

He blew out some air, "Just do it! I can handle it!"

Winter stitched up Mike successfully as the group watched in horror, wondering how painful it would have been. It must not have been too bad since Mike didn't say much other than make faces and clench onto his knees.

Winter sat back against Henry when she was finished. She looked at her friends who all had three shots of the Rum each, and with their low tolerance, it seemed like they had five or six shots.

"I think that's enough of the Rum for you guys," Henry said as he grabbed the bottle and put it back into his backpack.

"Ah, man! You're such a dad!" Richie exclaimed.

Henry laughed in response.

"You know, guys... I really feel like Winter is the mom of the group," Ben said sweetly.

Winter snorted at the idea of her being all their moms. I guess it made sense since she and Henry were a year older than them, she took care of their wounds, let them cry on her shoulder, and even cut their hair in their club house.

Richie, Eddie, Bill and Stan looked at Ben wide-eyed as all four of them had a flashback of her having sex with Henry on the picnic table with her juices running down her legs, her breasts bouncing, and her moans for more.

"NO!" All four of them exclaimed, "NOPE, NOPE, NOPE! We are never calling her the mom of the group!"

Ben and Bev exchanged looks and shook their heads at their friend's craziness.

Henry, Winter, Mike, Ben and Bev all had no idea what the four of them were going on about. Even though Stan had spilled his secrets to Henry while he was wearing the jacket, he had no idea what they were talking about. He figured it was an inside joke.

"Well, except for Eddie. He can call her mom!" Richie announced.

Eddie smacked his arm, "Shut up, fart breath!" Eddie exclaimed. "I don't have a thing for moms!"

Richie cleared his throat before doing his best Norman Bates impression, "'A son is a poor substitute for a lover! A boy's best friend is his mother!'"

Stan and Bill both laughed loudly.

Eddie looked at Richie very seriously that it came off as comical, "When I'm an adult and I have muscles, I'm going to punch you out, Richie."

Richie laughed, "You know, Edz... You don't simply just grow up and magically have muscles. You need to actually go to the gym and workout."

Eddie rolled his eyes, "One - Only Winter can call me Edz. No one else is allowed to call me fucking Edz! And two - I know all of that smartass!"

Richie grinned, "Oh! So, my ass isn't just sexy, it's smart, too?" He tilted his body to the side and pet his butt, "Good job!"

As they continued to talk, Winter turned her face to look at Henry as he rested his chin on her shoulder; "You know what I want right now?"

He looked at her, "What?"

"An extra-large pizza with double pepperoni," she could feel her mouth salivating at the thought.

Henry smiled happily, "Seriously? You're crazing pizza? You feel hungry?"

"Babe, I'm starving!" she giggled.

Henry kissed her cheek happily hearing that she was finally craving food again. "After we shower and the nurse comes to check on you, I will order an extra-large pizza for us."

"And we can spend the whole night eating pizza, watching movies, and..." she whispered into his ear, "Having sex?"

Winter could even feel the movement in his pants after she whispered in his ear on her back. She giggled, "I'll take that as a yes."

Henry and her laughed.

As they were talking, Eddie was trying hard not to look over at Winter. As if he wanted to so badly but didn't want to stare. The alcohol made him want to talk and look at her, but at the same time, he didn't want to weird her out by all his glances.

"Guys, seriously, though..." Bev started, "What if the clown isn't dead and It comes back one day?"

All nine of them became quiet, thinking about if they could be a possibility.

"Le-lets make a pr-pr-promise!" Bill got up to his feet with a piece of glass in his hand that he found on the ground, "If It isn't de-dead, we will a-all come back."

Bev, Ben, Eddie, Richie, Mike and Stan all got up to their feet and joined Bill in a circle.

Henry and Winter continued to sit on the ground. Henry looked at the side of Winter's face so she could decide if being apart of the promise was something she wanted to do, but he hoped she didn't.

The Lucky seven looked over at Henry and Winter.

"Are you guys joining?" Ben asked.

Winter quickly looked at Henry and gazed into his eyes. He had the same expression in them when he had told her that he didn't want to do this before they went into the sewers earlier that day.

Winter answered, "We were planning to get married and have a family a few years after school ends, so we're going to say no. By all means, though, feel free to call us if It ever did come back, and we'll let you know if we will come or not. We just don't want to make a promise that we might not be able to keep, though."

Henry softly smiled at her and held her closer into him. He was so happy that she wanted the same thing that he did.

"Th-That's fine, gu-guys," Bill nodded understandably and reassuringly smiled. "We wi-wil keep you in m-m-mind if It does c-come back."

Henry and Winter stayed as the group made their promise by all giving their verbal promise as well as a blood promise. Although Winter had made it clear that Henry and her didn't want to make a promise, she had a feeling that if It did come back, the both of them would find themselves apart of it.