▌Chapter 19 ─ Stanley Spider ▌

      ━━━━━ HOLLY WALKED INTO the house following behind Bill, who looked around pointing the flashlight to different parts of the house. The rest of the group walked into the house and all of them looked around. Richie and Holly walked up towards the steps even though that had been where she had come from not long ago.

Black goo started to move down the steps, it had been like the goo that was at the restaurant. It was moving down the steps indicating that it was not the way for them to go.

"Hmm. Well, I love what he's done with the place." Richie said.

"Beep-beep, Richie." Beverly said, shortly after.

"All right."

Bill moved down the hallway and Holly of course followed behind him. Bill pushed open the door slightly, but it wasn't really the room they were supposed to go in. The two then moved down the hallway coming to a stop at another door. Bill looked back at Holly who nodded her head. He then pushed the door opening looking in to see the kitchen.

Holly walked forward and briefly looked back as Richie and Eddie followed them into the kitchen. Bill turned slightly looking towards another door.

"Hey, hey. That's the basement, right?" Bill asked, looking back at the three. He then walked over it briefly stepping over a chair that had been in the way.

"Ben?" Beverly asked, causing Bill, Holly, Richie and Eddie to look back at the door. It then proceeded to shut, locking them in the kitchen.

"No, no! Hey, hey! Ben!" Eddie shouted. Bill and Holly ran over to the door bagingng on it.

"Ben!" Bill shouted.

"Ben!" Bill continued to shout.

"Okay. All right." Eddie said. A noise from the refrigerator caused Holly to pull back from the door and look at it as Richie shined his light on it.

"Ben!"

The rattling continued, and this time Eddie stopped to look at the refrigerator as well. Then Bill finally brought his attention away from the door, turning to look at the fridge. The rattling stopped, Holly had become slightly freaked as to what might appear behind the door.

"Okay, that can't be good, right?" Richie asked the three.

"Help! Hey!"

Then pounding began to occur on the door, and this time it opened to reveal someone inside. When the door opened all the way, they looked to see a decaying body, it's head lowered so they couldn't see who it was.

"Ugh." Richie and Eddie breathed out.

"It's Stan." Richie said, after the decaying body had lifted it's head up to look at them. Stan proceeded to start yelling. "Oh!" His head then fell off rolling towards them. The four moved back and Holly grabbed a hold of her friend's hand.

"Oh, God."

"Shit."

Stanley's head, rolled closer to Richie and Holly, Richie pulled Holly out of the way as the head was stopped by a drawer. Eddie was hyperventilating while Bill, Richie, and Holly had moved over towards the fridge. Bill shined his light on the head, the four of them looking at it.

"I'd still be alive if it wasn't for you, Bill." Stanley said, Holly looked over at Bill seeing the sadden look on his face.

"No."

It seemed like the bones in his body started to crack, but he wasn't attached to a body so it made no sense. Stanley looked to Richie.

"Richie, what's happening to me?" He asked him. Richie shook his head, not entirely sure what to say. Shortly after, spider legs started to push through his skin causing him to groan. Some even pushed out of his eyes.

"Oh this can't be happening." Holly breathed out, a disgusted and sad look resting on her face. He then picked his head up from the ground.

"You gotta be fucking kidding." Richie said, as Stanley started laughing. His eyes then turned to Richie and Holly, as his teeth turned to sharp spikes. "Fuck!"

He went towards Richie first who jumped back from him, then he turned his attention to Holly who also moved back from him, the panic was running through her body. She then watched Stanley avert his attention to Eddie, who kicked him out of the way.

"Oh, God damn it, get it away from me. Oh, God!" Eddie breathed out.

Richie moved in front of Eddie who ran away from the door, he then ran towards Bill who knocked him to the other side of the room with his flashlight. Holly moved from her spot and ran over to Bill looking into the room searching for Stanley.

Pennywise could be heard laughing as the Stanley Spider disappeared. Richie turned away from the frame that he had walked up to and proceeded to look at Eddie who was now in a corner, and still terrified.

"Eddie." He called out walking towards him. "Hey. Are you okay?"

"I'm..." Eddie however couldn't finish his words as drool fell down in between the two. Bill and Holly exchanged a look with each other upon seeing it. The three then looked up, lifting their flashlights to see Stanly smiling at Richie.

"Oh, there he is."

Stanley jumped onto Richie causing him to fall back into Holly and Bill pushing them to the ground. Holly threw her head around, as Bill stood up to help Richie. She gained her movement back and stood up grabbing a hold of Stanley's head, trying to help Bill pull him off of Richie.

"Get it off of me!" The two really struggled to pull it off of him. "Get it off of me!"

Bill looked over as Holly tried to pull Stanley off of him. He then looked back at Eddie. "Get the k-knife! God damn it, Eddie, get the knife!"

"Bill! Holly! Get it off of me, Bill! Quick!"

"Eddie, get the knife!"

"Eddie, come on, we need your help!" Holly shouted looking back at her friend. She could tell he was still frozen in place which is why he hadn't moved.

"Ahh! Fuck!"

Ben brought the knife down on Stanley's head, blood started to ooze out of the head and float upwards. He then pulled the knife out and continued to stab him a few more times. Ben left the knife in the head.

"What?" Beverly questioned, as she and the others arrived into the kitchen from the window. Bill and Holly pulled it off and threw the head elsewhere. The group then watched the head pick itself up and move towards the stairs, laughing it eventually rolled down the steps disappearing. "Is everybody okay?" Beverly asked, as she walked over to Richie.

Richie was coughing, Holly moved to the floor to check on Richie while Bill turned back to look at Eddie. He then left them and walked over to Eddie pushing him against the wall.

"He could have f-fucking died, man. You k-know that, right?" Bill asked him.

"I can't see." Richie told the two women.

"Georgie's dead. The kid's dead. Stanley's dead. Y-You want Richie, too? You want Richie, too?"

"I don't want Richie, too. I don't. I don't." They all looked up at the two. "Please don't be mad, Bill. I was just scared." Eddie said, crying shortly after.

"That's what he wants, right? Don't give it to him."