It’s about a week after their trip down to the sewer that Eddie tells him about the placebos, and Richie sees fucking red.
“She made it all up?!” he nearly shrieks, and Eddie hushes him, looking, of all things, embarrassed.
“It’s fucked up, right?” Eddie asks, and it pisses of Richie even more, knowing Eddie can’t even trust his own feelings of betrayal because the manipulation has gone so far. “I dug around, right? And I found a whole folder of all my health records. No sign of chronic illnesses, no allergies, no asthma. I wasn’t even born premature; I was late, even! I did have a small bout of pneumonia not long after my dad died, so maybe that freaked her out and started all this shit but—” He sighs and turns his big doe eyes to Richie. “I’m…normal. All these years worrying…and I’m actually healthy.”
Richie’s heart aches, and for once he lets his face do whatever it needs to do to let Eddie see it. “Dude. Fuck that. Fuck your mom. And not in the good way.”
“Beep beep,” Eddie sighs, and it lacks its usual bite. “It’s just… What now, ya know? What do you do when everything you know about yourself is a lie?”
Richie thinks about it for a second, then reaches into his backpack and pulls out an open bag of Reese’s Pieces, wiggling it temptingly. “You eat some goddamn peanut butter, Eds,” he tells him.
Slowly, Eddie grins and grabs the bag.
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"Protect me? By lying to me? By keeping me locked inside this hellhole? I'm sorry, but the only people who were actually trying to protect me were my friends. And you made me turn my back on them when I really needed them. So I'm going."
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You’ll abstract too, Pomni 🎈
I originally drew only the first poster but I wanted to draw the other circus members and then I remembered there’s the 1990 poster. Quite happy with how these turned out! Justice for Kaufmo, free my boi!
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palate cleanser with a snippet from my baby script, because if I'm always too busy to draw it I might as well at least get to draw one of the cuter scenes
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