[THISAVROU] ACE Messages & Mail

[tearmeanewone]

"You've reached Elizabeth DeWitt. Leave a message, and I'll return it as soon as I can."

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[shipsandsealingwax]

Just wanted you to know my friends and I are okay.

[He feels like he at least owes her that.]

[tearmeanewone]

Well well, if it isn't the station's very own Huck Finn.

I'm glad you're alright. And your friends.

[shipsandsealingwax]

[Bill can't help feeling a little guilty, but he's a headstrong kid. He doesn't mention the broken wrist, or everything that happens after, but he's trying to make up for his impulsive and stubborn decisions at least a little.]

I hope you are, too.

She's gone, at least I think she is? I haven't seen any more signs of her.

[tearmeanewone]

[Oh child, you'd better hope she doesn't see that wrist anytime before it's healed-- there will be accusatory stares.]

I've had worse. If anything, this sling is the most aggravating part of it. It's digging into my shoulder something fierce.

I haven't either, but knock on wood as they say. I still can't believe something like her even exists outside of myth.

[shipsandsealingwax]

There's worse than her where I come from. We fought a thing this summer. It could make itself into your worst fears.

It fed on fear and children.

[One of them being his little brother, the spark that lit the fire under his search for revenge and his need to stop It from taking other kids like his brother and the missing kids of that summer.

[tearmeanewone]

[Alright, where does she even start with that. Elizabeth stares at her ACE for a while, trying to figure out what she's more repulsed by: the fact that such a thing exists, or the fact that she's hardly surprised.]

And you killed it, I'm guessing?

[shipsandsealingwax]

I hope so.

[He at least knows he put a stop to it for now. Whether or not It was truly dead though, he wouldn't know for sure for 27 years.]

[tearmeanewone]

Well, if it comes back, you'll just have to kill it again. I hear it's easier the second time-- you know a little bit about what to expect.

[shipsandsealingwax]

[He doesn't mention the voice that had urged him to chase it down, the same voice that had warned him that, in fact, it would be harder to defeat It a second time. He appreciates her words even as he doubts them.]

You're probably right. Thank you.

[tearmeanewone]

...you're allowed to disagree, you know. I've been wrong about a lot of things before, I can take it.