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I forced my brain to ignore the cries of the child no matter how much I wanted to back. I had questions and he had answers. But the further I got, the more pain I suddenly felt in my stomach. I ignored it so I could get out and stay alive. I fell to my knees in exhaustion once I was out of the forest. I let out a hard scream and cried hard curling my fists into the grass. The pain in my stomach eventually vanished and that I was thankful for, but I couldn't stay here. I had to get home. I got to my feet and forced my legs to take me to Mike's. I pulled my keys out and drove home.

He escaped… he got out of my body and somehow other demons did too. Henry got me pregnant with both the clown's spirit and the voodoo spirit inside me creating lord knows what. Now I stopped the car in my driveway. My body continued to shake.

"WHERE ARE YOU!" I screamed suddenly to the spirit and still got no answer. Why didn't she answer? Could this be because of my grandmother? She blessed us with the magic and now that she's suddenly ill, could this effect the spirit inside me? I had so many questions and I needed answers. I needed answers now… I needed Henry. I closed my eyes and just let my forehead press into the steering wheel. Already I felt defeated. It's back… and it has friends. Babies, my babies. How many times have I been pregnant? I just… peed them out? Maybe this last miscarriage that put me in the hospital was the clown finally exiting my body.

A tap on my window made me jump and I looked over to see it was my Mom looking at me worried.

"Honey are you okay?" she asked and I nodded wiping my eyes and getting out of the car.

"Just cramps, my period is finally starting. I need to get inside." I said and hurried past her. But I knew I had to tell the others. For two years they've been free to be afraid and by now everyone's guards are down and that meant the entire town. It was only a matter of time before more kids went missing. After a few hours, I helped my mom put everything in her car.

"I'll call you when I'm at grandma's." she said and I nodded.

"Please do." I replied and we hugged each other tight.

"Love you." she said and I nodded.

"Love you, too." I replied and watched as she got in the car and backed out. Now it was just me in this house by myself. Immediately, I called the others and got them over here quick. Stan was the first to shake his head.

"No… no! No!" he chanted. Everyone was around him in seconds patting him down and trying to keep him calm. I know he had some real bad run in with the clown back in the sewers. Bill told me about it a few weeks after we got rid of the clown.

"Faline… are you sure?" Bill asked and I nodded slowly.

"Yes and there are more." I said and now everyone's eyes closed in utter disbelief and pain. "Somehow, they managed to get out of my body… and I think my grandma has something to do with it, but I can't be sure."

"Your grandma, what do you mean?" Eddie asked fear in his tone. I looked at him.

"Well I am blessed with voodoo magic. My grandma blessed my mom and me and who knows how many others, but now she's sick. Maybe her being sick has weakened whatever magic used on me. Maybe that's why the spirit in me has gone quiet maybe she has weakened. As far as I know I am no longer protected from the creature." I said. Bill looked at his friends, the same fear laced in his eyes before his face stiffened and he looked up some.

"Okay… so it's back. Nothing has changed except there are more of them. We know how to stop them." he said and Richie whipped his head at him.

"Them? Do you hear yourself? There are more now. How many, we don't even know!" he snapped and I shook my head.

"They are a part of It… they will most likely feed on fear and if they don't get fear they too can weaken." I said and while I said this Stan just kept shaking his head violently.

"No! No! No! No! I can't do this again, I won't!" he snapped.

"They're also a part of you, Faline." Ben said slowly and I looked at him stiffly.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked and he tilted his head.

"Henry is the dad of those things… you're the mom. That clown is a part of you too. So who knows what they could be immune too." he said. I winced knowing he was right and this meant things could get very bad very quickly. I looked away wondering what it is I should do.

"We have to warn Henry and the others. They are in as much danger as we are." I said.

"How? Patrick's dad is sure to drop the hammer down on you if you go near him." Mike said and I nodded.

"That's a risk I am willing to take. But for now there's nothing we can do… maybe Axel can-"

"Axel?" Richie asked cutting me off and I looked at him and nodded.

"Yes. He's the youngest one before Pennywise came out of me." I said and Bill shook his head.

"How did he even escape?" he finally asked. Beverly looked at me now with soft eyes and I looked back at her and then the rest of them.

"I had a miscarriage, a bad one the day before school. I bled everywhere and had to go to the hospital." I said. Mike winced.

"Oh Fay why didn't you tell us?" he asked and I looked at him.

"It's not something I wanted everyone to know." I said and looked at everyone else. "I think the clown escaped then. Apparently I have been getting pregnant when I was… with Henry. The spirit had told me after the very last one, that all my babies will die. It's the price for keeping Pennywise inside me. Only this time my powers are weakened and he used this fact to form a way of escape." I said. Now everyone ran their hands over their hair and faces in stress.

"Faline, do you think you can kill them somehow?" Stan asked, voice shaking just as much as his body and I moved over to him and took his shaky hands.

"I am going to do everything I can to protect you, all of you." I said. I was not going to let anyone or thing hurt my friends, not again. I looked at Ben. "You and I are going to have to go to the library and search for anything we can find on any voodoo or blood magic." Ben nodded.

"Most definitely." he agreed and I looked at Bill who nodded.

"We gotta keep an eye on the town, maybe scare the kids to make them not want to go off with strangers or somehow get caught by the clown's tricks." he advised and Eddie looked at him as if he was insane.

"What about the other baby clown demons out there. Obviously they're going to start hunting too." he said and Bill nodded.

"We just gotta be ready. Keep a weapon you and show no fear. We won't let it get us again." he said. Once that meeting of us freaking out was over, I had asked Bev to stay a few nights. I managed to convince her gross father to let her stay.

"I trust you, Faline. You'll keep my little girl out of trouble from those nasty boys." he said over the phone.

"Yes sir. Thank you." I said and hung up and looked at her. "It seems you could also use a break from your home." She only nodded.

"You have no idea… but sadly if I'm going to stay a few days I'll have to run by the apartment when he's not home and pack a few clothes." she advised. I nodded.

"I got you covered until tomorrow." I said and she nodded. Later on that night, I lied in the bath tub just staring at my feet as they poked out of the water. I needed to think of a plan something I could do to help fight whenever the clown came. I also had to realize that people, mainly kids, would start to disappear again. We couldn't protect the naïve town of Derry and ourselves. Hell no one even really did much when the last bunch of kids went missing. Maybe the good ol' Officer Bowers could be of use to us. But all I knew was I was too angry to even be afraid of this thing. I slowly slid from the water, my hair longer, down to my bottom. I had formed curves in places I was not used to and once I stepped out the tub, I just moved over to the mirror and looked at myself.

As I observed my face and my cheeks, I felt my heart beginning to race. I started to shake and I looked down at my breasts watching them tremble and my chest began moving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Something was wrong. I gasped loudly and looked back up at my reflection. Something flashes and my skin looks deathly place, my hair bone straight, and my eyes as dark as the abyss. The lights around me flickered and flashed.

"Do not fear my absence, chile! You are still blessed by the magic of the voodoo gods, that can never be taken from you! The creature is out there with his offspring and only you can stop it!" she says lowly.

'How did get out?' I ask myself for my voice will not find itself.

"Your elder grew weak with sickness! So anything magic of binding automatically weakens. She is the priestess who blessed you so your power comes from her!"

'If she dies… will you die?'

"HA! No. My spirit was born into your body, even if da link between us breaks with her death, your power will still be your own!"

'How do I stop him?'

"Think! I may not be able to fight for you, but you still have power! Children still need 'dere mother."

Now everything stopped and my vision suddenly cleared up.

"Faline, Faline are you okay?" Beverly asked in distress. She leaned over me and I blink a few times before noticing I was on the ground and my head was in her lap.

"What happened?" I asked and she shook her head, tears in her eyes.

"I don't know. You were shaking and it looked like you were having a seizure. I didn't know what to do." she said. I nodded and raised my hand to graze her cheek.

"I'm okay." I said softly and I leaned up and she just hugged me tight.

"I know I'm legal and all and I'm supposed to be all mature… but Faline, I'm so scared. I thought we had killed it." she cried and I just hugged her, my eyes staring out into space.

"It's okay. I am too." I said.

The weekend past and I was just waiting, waiting to see a missing poster, waiting to hear rumors and whispers about something coming back to this horrible town. School was back in and everything just seemed very tense. Even with Sally Weathers inviting everyone to her house party tonight. Even I got an invite. I stuffed it in my folder not caring about that at the moment as I closed my locker.

"Looking good, Faline." I heard the familiar flirtatious tone of Lance coming up behind me. I closed my eyes and groaned in annoyance.

"Go away." I demanded and he pouted.

"Oh come on. I've been nice and haven't bothered you or the hillbilly for a few days and you should be honored because I plan to take you to Sally Weathers party tonight." he said and I frowned feeling a familiar shiver up my spine and I looked around for a moment knowing a little clown was somewhere around.

"And what makes you think I am going to be there?" I asked and he shrugged.

"Because all of the popular people are going to be there. Why do you think Sally gave you an invitation? Obviously your beauty has paved the way of good things for you." he said grazing my cheek lightly. "You have some very smooth and soft skin."

My body immediately tensed at the touch and I was going to speak.

"Lance if you don't get your hand off my girls face I'm going to rip your heart out and eat it raw." Lance turned as I smiled wide to see Henry standing there in a black sleeves shirt and blue jeans, fists clenched. His eyes were dark as he just glared and the two were immediately face to face and I had never been so turned on at his threat.

Author's Notes

Hey all sorry for the late update, bad storm came and killed my tv my internet everything! Anyways I am back and will see you next time!