Chapter 2: Two Weeks In
Alright so I hated writing in first person so I'm going to be writing in third. I don't know why I wrote in first person to begin with but yeah I wanted to let everyone know it would be in third person from now on.
When arriving to the Denbrough house Georgie had started to giggle, handing over his yellow rain jacket for Mika to hang up. He red rubber boots were set aside by the door and he was so giddy right now. "Thanks for coming out to play with me, Mika."
Mika shrugged still thinking it was some sort of dream, though she did feel cold from the rain as soon as they entered the house. Her body started to shiver but Mika just assumed that it was because her blanket fell off her in real life. Even though that didn't make any sense at all.
Mika was soaked. She could fill a bathtub full of the water she had from her clothes and hair. She could feel the cool air create gooseflesh on her skin. Georgie grabbed his older sister's hand and dragged her through the house to the bathroom.
He thought she was acting a little weird but didn't think much of it. She could be playing a game with him! He dragged her to her and Bill's room and knocked on the door. When Bill said it was okay to come in Georgie dragged the girl behind him.
"Whu- whu-what ha-ha-ha-happened tuh-to yu-you guys?" Bill stuttered looking over at his siblings. He saw his older sister drenched to the bone and just knew mom would no like to see that. She was lucky that she made it upstairs without mom noticing.
Georgie grinned and went into fully explaining while Mika looked around the room. There were two twin beds; one Bill was in wrapped up in possibly ten blankets and had snotty tissues all around his bed and trash bin filled to the brim. There were two dressers, one on each side of the room. Mika guessed one was Bill's and the others might be Georgie's. There was a door open showing a blue tiled bathroom with a shower just peeking out the side."When I was playing with my boat it sort of fell down the drain…" Georgie spoke softly, he was nervous what Bill would do. He wouldn't hurt him for loosing his boat would he?
Georgie saw his brother roll his eyes and quickly spoke up again. "But then this clown showed up and we were talking he was going to give it back but Mika said we had to go. I don't know why." Georgie saw his sister shivering and ran to the bathroom running back with a large towel. "Why'd we have to go Mika? I thought you liked clowns?"
Both boys saw the girl shiver and clench her eyes tightly. She shook her head vigorously. "No, no, no they're so creepy. I haven't liked them for a while now." She muttered playing along. But it was true, she hated clowns with a passion. They just creeped her out. Back home whenever her friends took her to the haunted houses they always tried to ditch her in the Clown house. She once got trapped in a corner with them coming near her. She almost had a panic attack. She was thankful for the nice lady and her group to pull her with them and lead her back to fresh air.
"Anyway you shouldn't talk to anyone in storm drains." She spoke up again sitting down on the other bed in the room.
"Wuh-wuh-wuh-wait. Th-th-there r-r-r-really was a kuh-kuh-kuh-clown?" Oh man this was hard to deal with, she knew Bill had a horrible stutter but man that could get really annoying. It's not his fault though, he did his best to speak normally but still had trouble.
Bill stared at his older sister wide eyed, he couldn't believe his younger brother. Georgie was six and had a wild imagination. But if Mika actually said there was a clown in the sewers then he didn't want to know what would have happened if Georgie was by himself. He saw Mika looking over the room like it was her first time in there. She was acting funny but he guessed that it was because she had a run in with a clown. She stopped liking them a few years ago but watched Howdy Doody with Georgie because it made him happy.
Her eyes zero'd in on the pile of books stacked on the bedside table next to her bed. She was looking over the stack, her fingers gliding over the spines till she pulled out four books. Her Lord of The Rings Books. She was staring at them with a relieved look in her eyes. "Can you read to me?" Georgie called climbing up on the bed she was sitting on.
Bill saw her glance at the boy unsure what to say at first. She just kept staring at him, Georgie gave her a cheeky grin crossing his legs as he stared up at her. Bill watched a bead of water drip down her nose, the drop splashed on the bed. "Luh-luh-let her ch-ch-change first, juh-juh-Georgie." Bill called from his side of the room.
Georgie nodded waiting for his older sister to change into some dry clothes. Mika shrugged her shoulder giving Bill a 'thanks' nod and went to her dresser looking through and grabbing what she might need. A fresh band T-shirt and some sleep pants she found in the bottom drawer. Mika grabbed her clothes and walked to the bathroom. Man how lucky was Bill to have a bathroom connected to his room?
After stripping from her wet clothes and changing into the dry, Mika saw her reflection and jumped. She looked younger. What? She rushed to the mirror staring at herself. She looked like a teenager, there was no way this was possible. It had to be a dream. She was twenty three years old! But here she looked sixteen what was going on?! Her body shook staring at her reflection, her hands went down to explore her body.
Her eyes somehow got larger, the size of dinner plates when she felt her breasts. They were small again. Not her original Double D feel, no they felt like a C cup at the least. What was going on? Her waist felt smaller which she would have felt happy about if she didn't look like a freaking teenager! She already went through puberty and didn't want to go through it again! This dream was getting to be terrifying. Shakily she walked out the bathroom and sat beside Georgie. Both boys looked at her funny but didn't say anything. Thinking that she might have seen a spider, she got weird around bugs.
Two weeks. Mika Wolfram has been in the IT universe for two weeks. She found out the hard way when she dozed off snuggling little Georgie Denbrough after reading the Hobbit to both boys while Bill doodled in one of his little sketch books. When she woke up she expected to be back home with her overly affectionate pitbull(Chunkers) laying across her chest snoring loudly and her younger brother Aaron waking her up before he went to school.
Instead she woke to someone blowing their nose and someone poking her face to wake her up. Bill and Georgie Denbrough. She jolted awake. She jumped so bad that she fell out of the bed hitting the hardwood floor so bad she felt like she was going to start bleeding.
"You oh-oh-okay Mi-mi-mi-Mika?" Bill called nervously walking closer to where Mika laid sprawled on the ground staring at the white ceiling shocked. She thought she'd be home by now!
"Come on Mika mom wants you to get ready for school." School?! She had to go to school?! Bill and Georgie left the room leaving the girl alone to change. Oh god why did she have to go to school?! School was horrible when she actually went to school! The happiest she ever was during high school was when she graduated! Because she got out a week early and she didn't have to deal with that hell hole ever again! College was twenty times better than high school ever was.
That was day one. During the two weeks she was introduced to Henry Bowers and his horrible gang. Victor Criss the Draco Malfoy look alike who barely spoke but listened really well to orders, Belch who really needed a breath mint, Patrick Hocksetter the psychopath, and of course Henry Bowers the fucking maniac leader.
First meeting didn't go so well. It was sometime during the first week that she finally met up with the group. Sharon her 'mom' had asked her to pick up Georgie from school after she got out and on her way to the elementary school she ran into Henry and his gang.
It was easy to notice the group of boys, she wasn't scared of them. Why should she be? He was no Pennywise. She shuddered just thinking about the clown. "Hey Denbrough." Bowers spoke smirking with his friends.
Again Mika was still adjusting that this wasn't a dream and that she was actually here in IT that she barely spoke up when someone called her Denbrough. It also didn't help that she had her headphones on and her walkman blasting ACDC. Oh yeah, walkmans were awesome. Mika wished they had the individual headphones like she was used to but dealt with the over the ear headphones.
Bowers not liking being ignored instructed one of his goons to reach out and grab my backpack. Mika felt her body being lurched backwards. She stumbled backwards glaring at Belch who had a stupid smirk on his face.
Patrick Hocksetter started to laugh when Belch burped in her face. Mika made a face pushing him off her backpack glaring at the group. "What."
"What's the rush? We figured you could hang out for a while." Patrick snickered at Henry while he tried to grope her. Henry was looking up and down at the girl a sadistic smirk on his lips.
She didn't like the look he was give her, or how Patrick thought he could just touch her whenever he wanted. "Fuck off." she grumbled trying to get away but when she realized that wasn't happening she stayed still her hands twitching some, preparing to bash some skulls if need be.
"Rather fuck you." Bowers laughed with his friends.
"Go back to your cousin ya hick." Henry no longer finding any amusement with bothering her glared at the girl.
Mika Denbrough always thought she was tough shit and didn't know how to watch her mouth. Everyone knew not to mess with Henry Bowers and it seemed this girl had a death wish. "Someone ought to teach you how to use that mouth." He warned his anger getting the better of him.
"Im pretty sure I know how, you see you use your lips to form words with sounds so that you can talk to someone." she spoke slowly like trying to speak to a child. She wasn't going to take any of his bullshit. "I know it's hard to comprehend in that tiny brain of yours."
Bowers snarled backhanding the girl in front of him. She felt her head whip to the right a burning sensation spread through her cheek she could taste a little copper or was it iron? It was Iron. She could taste some Iron in her mouth from where she bit her tongue.
"You think you can talk to me like that you fucking whore?!" Henry snarled. Mika felt two pairs of hands grip onto her arms throwing her against the brick wall. She hissed in pain feeling her head collide with the hard substance. To her left was Patrick and her right was Belch. Victor stood watch while Henry put his hands on her throat. Her walkman had collided on the ground with the headphones just dangling around her neck.
Okay, now she was getting scared. She remembered how he acted around the guys in the movie and the old Henry from the original IT. Heck even a little from what she read in the book but she never thought he was actually try something.
"What makes you think you can speak to me that way, huh?" His grip tightened around her throat. She could say what most of her old guy friends used to do when she fake choked them. But figured it would be best to keep quiet. She didn't want him getting the wrong idea. "Well?!"
Her eyes avoided his, she didn't want to see what he might be thinking. This was horrible. She couldn't breath, her head hurt when he slammed her head back against the wall again, and she just wanted to pick up Georgie.
Thats when she noticed it, or rather him. Crouched down in the woods just outside the school grounds was the clown. Pennywise. He sat with a bloodied face smiling wickedly over at her, his orange red hair was sprawled out all around his big head.
"Fuck!" she cried backing further into the wall. That thing was just staring at her and gave her the creeps. She didn't want to know who he had just snacked on and she didn't care. She wanted to get out of there. The boys beside her snickered thinking it was because of Bowers. His grip loosened some around her throat letting her have fresh air.
Her body shaking as she thrashed to get away. "Get off me!" She screamed thrashing against the boys. Body parts jiggled making the two boys snicker enjoying the show. "Look if you wanna beat me up do it already if not let me go!"
"Okay," Henry agreed thinking something over, he met the eyes with all his friends and nodded. She felt his fist collide with her stomach, flares of pain shot through her as her body started to crumple in a ball. Henry didn't discriminate he bullied both genders and didn't care.
He landed a few more blows till he was satisfied He told Belch and Patrick to let her go and watched as Mika fell to her knees hugging her gut. "Heck of a hit." she moaned hating the silent tears falling down her face at showing her weakness.
"Don't act smart." he spat. Bowers legit spat at her, his DNA landing in her hair but she didn't care. Bowers eventually moved away and rode off with his friends. Mika's eyes went to the forest and didn't see the clown and felt relieved. Not only did Bowers leave her alone but the clown was gone. Few.
Mika didn't move, everything hurt right now, she was sure there'd be bruises sometime tomorrow. God she felt like she was going to puke. "Doing okay there?" A man asked walking over and crouching down next to her. His hand came into her view. Long pale fingers was what she first saw. Next was a black elegant coat jacket, the strange man wore Levi dark blue jeans and some sort of nice shoes.
"I'm okay…" she muttered cringing as she felt him help her to her feet. She clutched her stomach glancing over at the fancy dressed male. He looked nice that is until she saw his face. He looked like Bill Skarsgård.
Her eyes widen in fear as she backed up against the wall again trying to keep as much distance between them as she could. "Are you sure? You don't look to hot." He grinned. Wow he was tall. Did he say she didn't look too hot? He was. 'No Mika! He's a clown and wants to eat all the kids of Derry! He'd probably eat you too!'
"F-Fine."she muttered backing away from the man. "I'm fine." She honestly preferred him in this form but knew what he really was.
Pennywise grinned his eyes going dead as he inhaled her scent. She was drenched in fear and after another sniff found something else. Something he couldn't place his finger on. The familiar scent sent him in a frenzy. She smelled so...innocent.
She crouched down never taking her eyes off the man. Pennywise. Her hands trembled as she grabbed her things, she needed to get out of here now. Like right now! She knew that if she forgot something then Sharon would be pissed. Also it had her schedule in the backpack so she could figure out what her classes were!
The clown seemed to be stuck in his own thoughts. Now would be the chance to escape. She ran. She ran back inside the school and down the halls towards the back entrance. She heard cackling behind her and pushed herself to move faster than before. Her lungs burned with how hard she ran. Her legs ached begging her to stop. She couldn't.
Swinging around corner she dashed down the next hall. The back exit was chained shut! Shit! Pennywise giggled behind her, he was so close. She ran through the empty halls, why is this school empty?! Shouldn't there be teachers?!
Mika felt herself slowing down. "Fuck!" She gasped urging herself to keep moving. She needed to get out of here. She didn't want to get eaten by a fucking clown! The front doors.
She slammed her body into them feeling herself fall face first down the stairs. Cuts and scrapes appeared over her arms and face while rolling down the concrete steps. She gasped for breath looking around. There were other students looking at her like she was crazy. Her legs burned, her stomach ached, and she could feel the blood falling down her face.
The clown was gone. She was safe...for now. Mika ignored everyone and made her way back to her feet cringing as she shifted her somehow not broken walkman. Seriously this thing was almost as strong as a nokia!
Mika picked up little Georgie from elementary school. He asked her what happened to her face but she didn't answer. She just got him home and went to her room locking herself inside. Sharon had come to check in on her a few hours later noticing her cuts and bruises asking worriedly what happened but she didn't answer. Mika wanted to tell the woman what was going on. She wanted to tell the woman that there was a crazy alien clown that was trying to kill her, and all the kids of Derry. But something happened. She couldn't. It was like her lips were glued shut. She couldn't tell the adult anything. Maybe having all this knowledge about IT was a bad thing and she couldn't tell anyone anything she knew.
That was her first week and her first real experience with the deadly clown. The second week she heard of more kids disappearing. Sharon and Zack had said to the three that they should be careful and always stick together. Bill was no longer allowed to go to the Barrens without Mika keeping an eye on him.
Bill didn't think that was really necessary but couldn't argue with his parents. Mika's job was to pick up both kids from school and take them home. She didn't have to watch after Georgie because Georgie would be at home with their mom.
Georgie didn't like being left out and made it known that he wanted to be able to hang out with Bill and Mika too. Sharon said that he was too young to be down in the Barrens. Georgie grumbled not liking being left out and being left home alone.
During her two weeks in the IT universe she grew closer to both Bill and Georgie. They were practically her brothers even though they actually believed she was their sister. She missed her old life. Sure she enjoyed sleeping in a little bit and not having to worry about being at the hospital at five in the morning, she still missed her real home. Her younger brother being a dork and calling her at random times while she was at work asking when she'd be home and what she'd bring home for dinner, her puppy Chunkers who got super excited whenever he saw her enter a room and get into a spurt of zoomies, she missed her real mom and family.
At home she didn't have to worry about some crazy clown trying to eat her or any bullies attacking her because she walked by him. The only thing she had to worry about was the random prisoners that got sent to the hospital she had to care for sometimes or some crazy junkie wanting more drugs. She missed internet! She missed being able to scroll through facebook on her downtime watching animal videos or cooking videos. She missed a lot of stuff from the twenty first century.
But these boys, Bill and Georgie had somehow wormed their way into her heart and she just knew she'd take a bullet for either of them. How she didn't know. Maybe because Bill was adorable and would talk to her about story ideas, Georgie had always asked for her to play with him and his legos. Sharon and Zack while they may not be her real parents seemed to care for her. At night they checked on both Bill and Mika. Sharon would come in and place a kiss on Bills head saying how much she loved him then moved over to Mika's bed to repeat.
Zack would stay at the door waiting for Sharon to finish to go say goodnight to Georgie again. Bill would tell Zack some things about stories some nights or ask about vacation for summer. Zack would chuckle saying they'd talk about it later that we needed to sleep. They really did love their kids.
Two weeks of a loving family. Two weeks of everyone messing around and trying to be happy in a stressful time. Plus it was almost summer vacation! They had big plans. Maybe with her being here she would save the other kids from Pennywise.
Maybe she could make a difference. Maybe only then would she be able to go home. If only she knew that things would go from good to bad in her happy little home. She probably would have convinced Bill to stay home, that they could go to the Barrens the next day. Maybe then Georgie would be okay.
So thats it for this chapter. Basically wasn't sure what to do with this one honestly. All last night as I was going to bed I had ideas on what to do. I'm trying to keep it in line with IT part 1 but if I mess up I'm sorry, let me know how I did ! Also thank you for reading my story!
