Arrival (Pennywise x OC)

Chapter 10

"I am not going to kill her!" he seethed, and he stomped from the room, Ana following closely behind him.

"She's deceiving you," Ana persisted. "I don't know how, but I know she killed those kids for a reason - "

"To wake me up!" he interjected.

"Maybe that was part of it. But Pennywise, you said yourself that to use dark forces to open portals between dimensions, you would need the blood of innocents! I know she has some plan to get me out of the picture!"

"You know, you know nothing!" he argued, turning on her suddenly and grasping her shoulders. "All you have, little girl, are suspicions and envy, and the ability to annoy me endlessly!"

"I don't understand you!" she responded, trying to pull out of his grip. "You have me! I know you care for me, that you want me around! So what's the deal with letting her stay in Derry and go about her business, even though she threatened and hurt me?"

"You can't understand me, naive little fairy," he replied savagely, his voice low as he spoke. "You could never fully grasp what I am, what I am capable of, what I desire. Don't kid yourself."

Ana pushed back the raw emotion that was threatening to cut off her air supply as she processed his sickening statement, willing herself to keep her words coherent as she stared back at him. "And she does?" she spat, wondering how angry he could get if she kicked him in his costumed crotch. "Maybe it would be better for both of us if she sends me back somehow."

The look of astonishment that crossed the entity's features was not something Ana saw often, and she was left wondering if she had managed to hurt his feelings. He let go of her, his hands hanging limply at his sides. "That's not what you want," he said quietly, his eyes still locked on hers as he searched her mind.

"No, but I'm not sure that's not what you want," Ana replied. "And there's only so much of this I'm willing to put up with."

"Pennywise doesn't want you to go away," he said defiantly. "He wants you here, at his side."

"Then get rid of her!" she replied quickly, stepping towards him to grip his gloved hand. "Pennywise, she's dangerous, and she's got some sort of hold on you. Maybe you don't realize it because of whatever ability she has. But she's going to try to kill me or send me away, and somehow she's keeping you from seeing her true intentions - "'

"I'm not killing her," he repeated, and Ana's heart sunk, knowing this was a losing battle. "And no one has the power to deceive me."

"You won't kill her, but what if her game all along has been to try to kill you?"

"She doesn't want to destroy me. She wants to serve me, to please me."

Ana groaned, mentally cursing the entity's childlike inability to listen to reason when he didn't want to. She wanted to keep arguing, keep throwing logic at him to persuade him of Lamia's deceptions, but she was exhausted both mentally and physically from their hunt. "Fine. Don't trust my instincts, Pennywise. But I still believe that she's planning something. And if she didn't have you under some sort of trance, then you'd have killed her the second you knew she existed." He stared at her, his golden eyes unblinking and his expression blank as he stood there. Ana wished she could have the entity's ability to delve into thoughts, even if just for a minute, so she could see what was going through his mind, or if he had no control over it when it came to Lamia.

The argument was left unresolved, as Ana felt there was no use at trying to continue at this point. They made their way to bed soon after, Ana having had taken a quick shower to rid herself of the dead child abuser's blood. She tried to shut off her mind as she laid there with Pennywise's arm draped across her torso, his hand tangled in her wet hair and combing through it lazily as they laid together. As she drifted closer and closer to sleep, her mind began to wander, thinking about all the nights they had been wrapped up in each other's bodies like this, their quiet moments usually being tender and pensive. She was almost asleep when she heard the clown mumble something in her ear.