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It sounds a little like you're spoiling for a fight.

Oh no, honey, you'd know if I was
So if I can't say you get it, how do you feel about my story?

[There's a long, long period of three-dot thinking.]

I know you and Ben to be honest people, to the best of my ability to prove such. None of you has any purported reason to capitalize on this being supernatural, per se, with the obvious exception of Denbrough.

Conversely, a number of the things that you propose go directly against the laws of reality, with little evidence to suggest they actually occurred. Derry, ME, is a hotspot for crime, as you say. You and all of your friends share a matching recollection of events. There are reports that line up with the things you talk about. There are reports that oppose them. My best guess, not having conducted a full investigation, remains exactly as it was the first time I heard these stories: something certainly happened to you all, and trauma has warped your memory of events.

But I've been wrong before.

[ And this is why she found it better to speak to him about the 27 year nightmare rather than, say, her therapist. She can handle this level of skepticism from someone at least open to the possibility of it being true. ]

Hey, I'll take it
And I get it. There's a lot of nights I wake up and think this was all some fucked up dream

[ The nightmares that were actually visions could just be deja vu. Sure. She doesn't think so, because she still has them and maybe Richie does now too, but — ]

Or maybe I just wish it was because it'd make anyone sick knowing it was real
I'm glad all the proof it even happened to us is buried under the well house. Sometimes I think I want to forget it all over again
But that would mean losing Ben and the others again too
I couldn't stand that

What does it mean to you to assume it's real? Would you want to know what happened if what you think turned out to be imagined?

I guess
It sounds dramatic but I basically lived half a life for 30 years
Didn't think about my childhood, didn't think it was weird how much it didn't matter to me
The scar on my hand, my dad... All of it
Don't you think I deserve to know who the fuck I actually am? And why? Wouldn't anyone?

Of course, you should know. All the more reason to involve unbiased minds in looking at the situation. If what you've remembered isn't reality, it can only be assumed that reality is equally traumatic.

The only way it changes your situation is that--if what you've remembered isn't reality--other people are still at risk.

I told you, the clown had this obsession with the seven of us because we fought back as kids
We wouldn't have survived if It wasn't really dead
You can't get any more final than crushing a heart in your bare hands

I'm going to play with the starting assumption that this really happened. You fought back as kids. You survived twenty-seven more years. You fought back as adults. Now you're surviving again.

You said this thing operates in cycles, correct? So who's to say the cycle isn't simply in an incubatory period now?

Because we remembered this time
We forgot everything before. Not like how normal people forget stuff as they get older either
It was everything. About the town, that summer, our childhoods, each other
I was the first to move away, I forgot the most
But it's been months and it's all still there

And there's my dreams too

And what's your guarantee that this isn't just how it works? After a second exposure, you recall it. Or after being exposed as a result, your memory stays with you? How certain are you that the memories aren't affected by hormonal shifting, leading to a loss of prepubescent memory but permanence for memories formed in your adulthood?

Can hormones make a 27 year old scar disappear
You can see it in an interview I did like two weeks before I left for Derry, now it's like it was never there

I'm not saying your scar didn't disappear. I'm not even contending to explain. I'm simply asking how you can be so sure that means everything is over.

The scar was a promise and we kept it
It’s gone so it has to be over
None of us will make it another 20 years if it isn’t
It’s just a feeling. I just believe it down to my bones
Haven’t you ever just believed in something, Richard?

No, I never have.

I've never seen faith alone do anything but harm, Beverly. You asked what I thought.

I know I did
I’m still not upset
And it’s okay if you don’t believe me
But you believe enough to check in on me while I’m up here
And belief is what killed It in the end

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i'm canonblind but wow is this delightful

OMG I DIDNT REALIZE thanks for playing with me!!

right back at you!! i was so intrigued by the info i just had to go for it

WELL IM GLAD I'm a big time IT fan so it wORKS FOR ME

YELLS delightful

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