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(Y/N) walked into her house and knew things would be tense. Her brother having a broken arm was not going to bode well for anyone. Her already controlling mother was bound to have flown off the handle and she for one was glad she hadn’t been there to see it unfold in real-time.
“(Y/N)! Is that you?!” Mrs. Kaspbrak screamed across the house.
“Yeah!” (Y/N) yelled back.
“Come up to your brother's room!”
(Y/N) knew that this was not the place she wanted to be right now, but there was no leaving at this point. It’s not like she planned on living here for much longer. She marched up the stairs, each step feeling heavier than the last. She made it to the top of the stairs and stood there. Was she really considering running away with a cosmic clown? Yes, she was. Was that a normal thing to consider doing? No. Not at all. This clown caused her brother to fall and break his arm and she was still planning on giving up the rest of her life. Those were issues she decided she would dive into later if she ever dove into them. She walked into her brother’s room and her stomach dropped. His arm was definitely broken. There was no denying that.
“What happened to your arm Eds?” (Y/N) asked, knowing that if she revealed she had already been informed of this addition Eddie would know all about her clown boyfriend.
“We went into the old Neibolt house and I fell through the floor.”
Okay, falling through the floor was definitely new information. I mean Penny had said that he fell, but he didn’t mention how far.
“Oh my Eds! I’m so sorry!”
Mrs. Kaspbrak turned from looking at Eddie to looking straight at (Y/N).
“The world out there isn’t safe (Y/N) and I don’t know how I feel about you going out anymore.”
“Mom! You can’t just keep me trapped here!”
“It’s not like you have anywhere to go anyways, honey! You can stay here with me and your brother. You both should only be going out when you need to run to the pharmacy or when you need to run other important errands.”
“I have places to go, mom! Just because you don’t know them all, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I’m sorry you broke your arm Eddie, but I am not putting my life on hold because of this.”
(Y/N) stormed out of the room and marched into her own room. If there had been any doubts in her before, they had all dissipated. She was getting out of this house. There was no way she was going to remain here like a bird in a cage any longer. She started to run around her room and throw anything she thought she’d need into a bag. She was getting out of here tomorrow. Eddie would have to learn to take care of herself. Her mom would be fine, but there was no way she could stay here. She finished throwing her stuff together and she knew her mother had gone to bed at this point. She snuck out of her room into Eddie’s.
“What’s up, (Y/N)?”
Eddie was sitting on his bed reading a book. His arm was sitting in his lap in its cast and her stomach turned at the sight. She pushed down her feeling of guilt and sat down next to her brother.
“I just thought I’d check on you before I went to bed. Is that so wrong?”
“You just don’t usually check on me, but I guess because I am now crippled you feel like you need to take care of me.”
“Now I wouldn’t go as far as calling you a cripple. You can move both of your elbows. You’ll be fine.” (Y/N) said, smiling at her brother. She would miss Eddie when she left, but she reminded herself that if she stayed here she wouldn’t be able to see the clown of her dreams.
Eddie smiled back at her and laid his head on her shoulder. (Y/N) put her arm around him and the two of them sat there, just absorbing the moment.
She woke up the next morning sure of her decision. She didn’t want to stay here anymore. She couldn’t just go back to be a recluse. She needed to actually be in the world. If the world was the sewers. Which it wasn’t really, but she was committing to this. She knew she was fairly desperate if she was willing to live in the sewers with a clown that eats children, but (Y/N) has never been one to deal with her problems.
She ran downstairs and found her mother in the living room.
“Mom, can I sit out on the front porch? I won’t go anywhere, but fresh air is good for the lungs.”
Her mother didn’t even give her a verbal response, but she waved her away and that’s all that (Y/N) needed. She sat down on the top step of her porch and waited. She had brought a book out with her, so she was content waiting however much time as needed. She began to lose herself in the book she was reading before she noticed the shadow in front of her. She looked up and there was the clown she was in love with. He was in his human Bill form, and while she missed the “true” face of her lover, Pennybill was better than nothing. The clown sat down next to her and kissed her lightly.
“I’ve missed you,” he said, as they pulled away.
(Y/N) giggled and kissed him again.
“I’ve missed you too!”
They smiled at each other for a moment before Billwise grabbed her hand.
“So when am I taking you away from all this?”
“Today. I can’t stay here any longer. I’m worried that if I stay for longer that I won’t be able to get away.”
She knew that part of her reasoning was because if she waited longer, she would have time to talk herself out of things. She was going to do something crazy and more time would allow her to realize how insane this all was.
Pennywise was slightly shocked at her response but grinned his sickening grin.
“Well then. That sounds wonderful to me.”
“I’ve thought through everything. I will go back inside and throw my stuff down to you. Then I’ll just climb out the window and try to climb the tree by my window.”
“I have an even better plan,” Pennywise said. “I can just appear in your room and I can get the two of us out and straight to where we are going.”
Teleportation was not something (Y/N) had thought of for some odd reason. She should’ve just assumed that her cosmic clown lover could teleport.
“That sounds like a plan!”
(Y/N) pulled Pennywise into a kiss before jumping up and running inside. She ran to Eddie’s room first and glanced in. He was sitting there reading and he looked fine. She knew this might be the last time she ever saw her brother, but as much as that broke her heart, she was ready to go. She ran into her own room and there was Pennywise in all his Pennywise glory. He grinned at her and she tackled him into a kiss, causing them both to fall back onto her bed.
“You miss me that much in the minute we’ve been apart?”
“I did indeed. Anytime away from you is painful.”
“Well lucky for you, we are going to be together 24/7.”
(Y/N) smiled down to him and kissed him again. She got up and grabbed her bag and looked around the room. This would be her last time in this bedroom. That scared her some, but as long as she was with her tall, handsome lover, she’d be a-okay. She turned back to Pennywise, who was now sitting on the edge of her bed and smiled down at him. He pulled her towards him by her waist. She stepped forward and straddled his lap, bag in hand.
“You ready?” Pennywise asked her.
“I am.”
And in the blink of an eye, the two of them were in the sewers.