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three decades and then some by thewayaround
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
14 Jul 2020
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Summary
There are two boys tucked away behind a locked door and a shuttered window; they’re sat across from each other on top of tartan sheets and a wrinkled duvet. Their heads are bent over yellowing comics with folded corners and cracked spines. On the tan, stained carpet beneath the bed, a black fanny pack rests where it was thrown haphazardly between two worn, scuffed pairs of Chuck Taylor All-Stars; the zipper is halfway open, a pill organizer slipping out, but when the brown haired boy’s watch starts beeping, he makes no move to pick it up. Instead, he presses the button that silences the alarm and looks up to the boy sitting across from him, hair falling onto his forehead as he shrugs and says, “They’re not real, anyways.”
It was easy for Richie to imagine the scene. He isn’t dumb; he knows it never could have happened that way in Derry. There was too much fear resting within the confinements of that town for two boys to be in love, even kept behind closed doors. But he can imagine it as he stares at the Eddie of three decades later sitting across from him on the floor of their apartment.
Richie Tozier and the way his life changes over the two years following Derry.