Who: Richie Tozier and OPEN
What: Richie's arrival on board
When: Forward dated to Friday evening
Where: On Deck
Warnings: Spoilers for It Chapter Two, blood, brief description of serious bodily injury, vomiting
Notes: Multiples and fuzzy time welcome!

Fuck. That's a lot of stars.

Richie blinks stupidly up at space from the deck of the Barge, feeling very much like this - the Admiral, the offer of a way to bring Eddie back, to fix shit, the deck he's now standing on, all of it - might just turn out to be some Deadlights hallucination, right?

He's in shock. Richie knows he's got to be in shock because everything feels pretty shaky and weird right about now. That's what being in shock means, right? His hands clench uselessly at his sides like he's still trying to hold on as Bill and Ben had tried to pry him off and away.

He forces himself to take a breath. Okay. Time to take stock. Apparently none of the other Losers had made the same (possibly literal?) deal with the devil, so it's just him, standing here on the deck of this ugly stepsister of the Titanic, floating through open space, all damp with sewer water, piss and shit, head fucking pounding, throat all ripped up from screaming at his friends, blood (Eddie's blood) smeared on his hands and staining his shirt, seeped into the cracked lens of his glasses, which must have happened when-

Blood splashing his face, his stomach, Eddie jerking in surprise and pain above him, looking down at the claw jutting out of him, his voice all pained and surprised.

"Richie-"

And that's what cuts through everything and sends Richie staggering to the side of the ship. He holds his glasses to his face with one bloody hand and grips the deck railing with the other as he hunches over and pukes up the last dregs of the little he'd managed to eat in the last twenty four hours. Apparently unsatisfied, his stomach insists on subjecting him to some additional dry heaves as he does his best to both stamp down the complete emotional breakdown that's looming and keep his glasses from tumbling into the dark abyss of space.