Chapter 2.9:
"That's Not Fucking Stan!"
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"Holy fucking shit what the ever loving fuck did I miss?" Maya squeezed her artifact, the picture of him and Richie. "Woah, woah, woah, woah, is that a motherfucking dead bo-"

"Yup. Killed a guy." Richie muttered, helping Mike up after he pulled the dead body off of him.

"Uh.. yeah, I can.. uh, I can see that." Maya mumbled, stepping over the broken furniture.

"Are you okay?" She gently raised his hand to his shoulder, "That's pretty brutal.."

Richie shrugged, "He is, I mean, he was an asshole anyway. That was long overdue."

Maya chuckled, "Is it because we're in a-"

"It's because we're in a library. Oh, shit-" He shoved Maya to the side as he threw up.

"Oh, gross!" Maya gagged, looking away from the scene. "Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew-"

Maya groaned, first she saw Beverly kissing Bill, which made her wonder if the previous night meant anything to her at all, then she got lost on the way to the library, then when she got there she walked in on her best friend fucking killing someone. And then he almost threw up on her.

Over all, she's had a pretty shit day. Not as shit as Eddie though, he got stabbed in the face.

Still. She had a shit day. And now, she had to go kill a fucking clown.

Great.

"So-Sorry.." Richie gagged, wiping his mouth

"Mike!" Beverly's voice interrupted her gagging. Upon seeing Henry Bowers' dead body, Beverly let out a scream.

"I-I, are you alright?" Ben questioned, tilting his head to the side.

"No! I'm not all right! I just.. fucking killed a guy!" Richie pointed at the dead body.

"I was.. talking to Mike.." Ben said slowly.

"Maybe you should be talking to Richie! He just killed a guy!" Maya spoke, standing in front of the dark haired man. "That's fucked up! Like seriously, seriously fucked up!"

"Where's Bill?" Mike interrupted, holding his wrist close to his chest.

Maya shrugged before speaking with sarcasm, "Don't know. Why don't you ask Beverly?"

"Wait, why would I know?" The redhead asked, pointing to herself.

"I saw you kissing him. He's married, you know." Maya couldn't hide the hurt in her tone.

"Wait, wait, what?" Ben turned from Maya to Beverly, shock written across his features. "You kissed Bill?"

Beverly furrowed her eyebrows as she tried to formulate what to say. "I-I-"

She couldn't.

Mike pulled out his phone and dialled Bill's number, "Bill, we're at the library where are you at?"

The man suddenly stood up, Maya went to listen but Beverly didn't allow that.

"What's wrong?" She asked gently, seating Maya beside her.

"You must be joking." Maya deadpanned. "Seriously?"

Beverly gave her a look, indicating that she wasn't. "I'm not."

"Well, let's see.. hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, oh, oh, I know! I saw you kiss Bill. How do you think that felt? What about last night? Did that mean anything to you? Anything at all?"

"Of-Of course it did!" Beverly reasoned. "How could you even ask him?"

"Then why'd you kiss him?" Maya asked, her tone still laced with hurt. "Isn't obvious that I still love you?"

Beverly stayed silent, unable to find a good response.

The one Maya wanted, the one she needed.

"I..I don't, I don't know what to say.." Beverly muttered, her eyes red and watery.

Maya scoffed, laughing bitterly to herself as she stood up and walked over to Richie.

"Sheesh.. that didn't look like it went too well.." Richie muttered, "You okay?"

"Peachy!" Maya said over enthusiastically before dropping her smile completely and wiping her eyes.  "It did not, no."

Richie comfortingly pulled her into a hug, "You know, I can't help but think, if you weren't a lesbian, we'd so be fucking."

Maya let out a loud laugh as she pulled away and looked up at him, "I'm sure we would."

"He's going to fight It alone."

"What?" Richie looked up from Maya.

"Are you shitting me?"

"Alone! It's about the group! The ritual doesn't work without the group."

Richie picked up the wooden vase, tilting it over so that Maya could see the side that was scratched out.

Maya was about to question it, but Mike roughly grabbed it from Richie's hands.

"Mike, did he tell you where he was going?" Ben spoke from his spot next to Beverly.

"If he really wanted to kill Pennywise.. there's only one place he'd go." Beverly whispered, her eyes trailing from Mike to Maya behind him.

"The same place the ritual needs to be performed."

"Oh, we're not gonna like this, are we?" Eddie sighed.

"Fuck. I should be watching the Bachelor right now." Maya grumbled. "This is bullshit."

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"Bill!" Beverly got the man's attention.

"No! No." Bill walked down the steps to the group of people, "You guys! No. I-I s-s-started this. This is.. my fault that you-you're all here. This curse? This fucking thing that's inside you all. It started growing the day I m-m-made you go down to the barrens because all I cared about was finding G-Ge-Georgie. Now I-I'm gonna go in there and I-I'm.. I don't know what's gonna happen but I can't ask you to do this-"

"We're in this together, Bill. We started this together, and we're going to end it.. Together." Maya comforted, getting a nod from Beverly as she leaned down and picked up a broken fence post.

"And we're not asking you either."

"Bev-"

"We didn't do it alone then, Bill. So we're not gonna do this alone now." Mike interrupted.

"Loser's stick together." Ben confirmed.

"So does somebody wanna.. say something?" Eddie asked, speaking slowly.

"Richie said it b-b-be-best when we were here last."

"I did?"

"Hell yeah you did." Maya nodded, "I woulda died without the confidence it gave me."

"I don't wanna die?"

Maya sighed.

"Not that." Bill shook his head.

"You're lucky we're not measuring dicks?"

"No, Richie-" Maya sighed louder.

"Let's kill this fucking clown?"

"There it is!"

"Let's kill this fuckin' clown." The group smiled at each other before walking up the steps and into the rickety old house.

"Ah, fuck, the house looks like complete shit." Maya muttered, her hands on her hips as she stared up at it before following Eddie in.

"Ew, ew- Why is there black goop?" Maya grunted, shining her flashlight around the room. "I better not see any spiders or I will kill myself."

"Seriously? Out of this whole situation.. that's what'd do it for you?" Ben's eyebrows rose.

"Yes."

"Okay, then.."

"Well, I love what he's done with the place!" Richie clapped sarcastically.

"He should be on HGTV." Maya nodded in agreement.

"Beep beep, Richie .." Beverly mumbled.

Maya's heart rate increased as she turned the corner, "Oh, no-"

She hated it. She hated it so much. Everyhing about it.

"Hey, hey, that's the basement, right?" Ben pointed down a set of stairs.

Bill stepped forward in front of the group, but stopped when Ben let out a scream.

Maya jumped and turned to him as he sunk to the ground. She walked forward to go to him but the door slammed in her face.

"Ben? Ben!" She, Bill, and Richie began banging on the door.

That's when the fridge started shaking. "Oh.. come on."

"Kay.. that can't be good, right?"

"Uh.. no. That's definitely not good."

The yelling from outside continued, and Maya could make out Beverly yelling out random letters.

The metal racket continued for a solid ten seconds until the door popped open, revealing a decomposed body conformed to fit in the fridge.

Stan's decomposed body.

"Oh, shit!" Maya gasped.

"It's Stan." Richie said, his mouth open in shock.

"That's not fucking Stan!" Maya hissed out, smacking Richie repeatedly on the shoulder.

Stan, or the fake Stan, began screaming. Causing the four to scream louder.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck-" Maya screamed as the head rolled off of the body. Maya jumped back, her body hitting the door as the head rolled and rolled until it hit a chest.

Eddie began breathing heavly as he tried desperately to grip onto something.

"I would still be if it wasn't for you, Bill." The head spoke.

Tears welled up in Maya's eyes as she stared down at it. "St-Stanley..."

"And you, too, Maya. You convinced me to go down there! You told me it would be okay!" The head spoke, it's tone increasing in anger.

"I'm so sorry!" Maya cried. "I-I didn't know!"

"N-N-No.." Bill stepped forward towards him.

Suddenly, something in the face began moving under the skin.

"Richie? Richie, what's happening to me?" The head cried as the things began poking out of it's skin.

"Oh, fuck! A spid-spider!" Maya exclaimed, smacking the door.

"You gotta be fucking kidding!" Richie hissed, backing up and into Maya.

Stan's head began laughing maniacally before it suddenly lunged towards Richie.

"Oh, shit!" Richie shouted, moving out of the way.

Maya let out an ear piercing scream as she ducked. This attracted Beverly as she rushed toward the door and began banging on it and pulling on the handle,  trying to get in.

The head changed directions and rushed towards Maya, who was on the ground.

She let out another scream, causing the doorknob's shaking to intensity.

Before it could hit Maya, Bill kicked it out of the way and pulled her up.

The head changed directions again, and raced towards Eddie. He also kicked it away.

It jumped up towards Bill, who hit it with his flashlight, knocking it over the counter.

"I-I can't- I can't.. air?" Maya mumbled, wiping sweat from her forehead. "Richie-"

"Are you guys okay?" He walked up to Maya and Eddie.

"Yea-" Eddie looked up as a string of drool fell from the cieling.

Slowly, Richie lifted his flashlight towards the cieling before speaking, "Oh.. there he is."

She watched in horror as Stan's head fell onto Richie's face from the cieling.

"Richie!" She shrieked, reaching out to grab him. Richie fell down and tried to pull it off of him.

Maya screamed and fell to her knees as she reached for Stan's head.

"Let him go!" She screamed, pulling on the head."Let him go."

Bill did the same from the other side of her. "Le-Let go!"

"Get it off of me!" Richie screamed in horror. Maya felt adrenaline rush through her veins at the sound of his pure panic.

"Let him go!" Maya screamed, trying harder to pull the head off of Richie.

Eddie stood in the corner, frozen as panic taking over him.

"Eddie! Get the k-kn-knife!" Bill spoke, turning his head towards him. "M-Ma-Maya and I can't ho-hold it much l-l-lo-lon-longer!"

"Don't let it get me!" Richie shouted, his chest rapidly rising and falling as panic continued to surge though his body.

"I won't! I promise." Maya spoke loudly, her knees digging into the wood as she tightened her grip.

Eddie didn't move.

"Eddie, please!" Maya pleaded, looking back at him.

"Damnit, Eddie. Get the knife!"

"Maya! Bill, I-I- Get it off of me!"

"Eddie, get the knife!"

Suddenly, Ben appeared out of nowhere and began stabbing the creature.

After each stab he let out a small scream.

With the help of Bill, Maya was finally able to pull the creature off of him.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's okay." Maya mumbled, gently taking Richie's face into her hands.

"Wh-Wha- I-" Richie muttered, his eyes frantically searching Maya's face.

"It's okay, sh, sh. You're okay. We got it off, you're okay now." Maya whispered soothingly as Richie began coughing violently.

Maya took the jacket from Beverly's hands and began cleaning Richie's face as Bill shouted at Eddie in the background.

"I can't see.." Richie mumbled weakly. "I can't see."

Maya continued to wipe away the goop from his face, completely aware of the redheaded woman's gaze on her.

"Hey, Richie, sh, sh, sh, sh, I got you. I got you." Maya mumbled comfortingly, stroking the man's hair softly as she cradled his head in her lap.

Bill continued to scream at Eddie, and Maya tried her best to block it out.

"Bill! Can, can you stop? Please!" Maya said, turning her gaze from Richie's still fidgety eyes to Bill.

"Pl-Please don't be mad, Bill.. I was just scared." Eddie whispered weakly.

"We aren't mad, Eddie." Maya spoke softly before turning her attention back to Richie.

Maya slowly stood up, helping Richie up with her.

"Are you okay?" Maya asked softly, unaware of the redheaded woman's jealous stare.

The others watched their exchange in silence, none of them prepared for the horrors they would soon face.

Richie nodded shakily, "Mhm, yeah, yes. I'm perfecto."

Maya cracked a small smile, pushing hair out of his face as she handed him his glasses that Mike had found.

"Are you ready to do this?"

"Hell no."

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{ A/n: brought to you by the fact that im.soft for maya and Richie }

{ Edited: No but i changed the entire concept three times }