Getting ready to watch last nights episode of Riverdale. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you think my entire being will be destroyed?

Veronica: Let’s play 20 questions

Betty: Okay! What’s your favorite color?

Veronica: Circle, do you like girls?

Riverdale Characters Respond To: “Would You Still Date Me If I Was A Worm”

Betty

Veronica

Archie

Cheryl

Toni

Jughead

Fangs

Sweet Pea

Josie

Kevin

Chapter Update

Never Have I Ever -

Chapters12&13 now available!

Or start from the beginning!

Chapter Update

Chapter 11 available now on AO3

Or start from the beginning here.

No, but I’m watching Riverdale, episode 13 from season 5 - and lowkey spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen it - the one where Betty and Tabitha are setting up that “thirst trap” to lure the trucker killer to the white wyrm and CAN YOU JUST - CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE how Sweet Pea would react if he heard you wanted to be a part of that??? All the “You want to what!? Wearing what!? To lure KILLERS? Absolutely fucking not, Y/n, not even up for fucking discussion, you’re not using yourself as bait” but after a lot of begging, and promises and sweet nothings, you’d get him to agree. And just imagine dancing up on that stage while Sweet Pea sits down in the first row, watching you closely, knife in hand, ready to step on however many dead bodies it takes to make sure you’re safe???? THE CLENCHED JAW and the WAY HE’D LOOK AT YOU. ALWAYS ON HIGH ALERT FUCKKKKK

It’s such a shame they stopped writing Sweet Pea into the story not that it was ever that good lmao but if he was still in it, the show would’ve been 10 times better, thank you!

ALRIGHT!! i have compiled a list of requests from my ask box, and I’m planning on starting to get back into writing! I’d like you to choose a prompt for me to do!

Chic showing up at riverdale high to pick up betty and being super anxious about it

3 & 7w/ sweet pea please

“You make me feel like I’m not good enough.”

“Oh my God. You’re in love with her.”

but could you do 20 with varchie?

“You’re paying a small price compared with what she’s going through.”

1,6,20 for reggie x reader

“No! I’m tired of doing what you say.”

“If only I’d just gone over when she called.”

“You’re paying a small price compared with what she’s going through.”

#10 and 20 with sweet pea ???

“I want to be there when you get what’s coming to you.”

“You’re paying a small price compared with what she’s going through.”

Hiya! May I request a bad boy juggie trying to win back his ex, good girl next door betty, before someone comes and snatches her up ❤

Jughead x reader where the reader and him are just cuddling in his bed and they fall asleep together??

16 WITH JUGHEAD PLEEEASE AND THANK YOU

“Darling, it’s beautiful, thank you!”

Could you do one with Toni, Sweet pea and the reader again and everyone always teases them because how cute they are together

Sweet Pea x reader angst fic??

OR I could start writing Dog Tags. 

let me know!! love you guys!!

Toni: hit or miss⁉️i guess they never miss❌, huh❓you got a boyfriend i bet he doesn’t kissya he gon’ find☹️another girl and he won’t miss ya he gon’ skrrtand hit the dab like wiz khalifa

Jughead[sobbing]: what the fuck are you sAyiNg-

Sweet Pea: hey can ya get me some boneless ice?

Jughead: what the fuck-

Fangs: he wants wATER

Riverdale S6B, Ep #101 (“Unbelievable”)

Hello people I am back. Spoilers and gratuitous longing for Sweet Pea follow. 

A bomb blew up the Andrews house to smithereens but the Cooper house is completely unscathed.  I don’t know why that strikes me as less creepy than the fact that Alice Cooper is wearing her hair exactly like her surviving daughter’s.

We open with  Betty, Archie and Jughead sitting in the Cooper home, trying to explain what happened at the end of S5 to Alice and Frank.  Then Alice asks each of them a question, followed by a suggestion that all of them need to go to the hospital.   This is one of the very few instances in SIX SEASONS that Alice Cooper actually had a direct exchange of dialogue with Jughead Jones and it feels a bit momentous.   Archie doesn’t want to go get medical care, Betty doesn’t want to either, but tellingly, Jughead Jones can’t afford  to go.  That he wants to might be inferred, because he doesn’t say he doesn’t want to, or that he doesn’t think he needs to.  And the entire table of people - his childhood best friend, his childhood girlfriend that he hallucinates as a ministering angel when he’s in a literal pit, his dad’s ex girlfriend and mother to his half brother - all just STARE AT HIM and say nothing. Nobody offers help - not even Veronica Lodge’s financial resources (which are considerable, as we shall see later). 

Along with gentrification and small town blight, the insurmountable terror of hospital bills in a for-profit medical system is a theme that Riverdale consistently brings up and I feel very sorry for you all. (I live in a universal healthcare country and actually, people who immigrated to America repatriate when they run into health problems and exploit the health system they didn’t pay into and local politics issues of no interest to anyone reading this sorry).

Alice being very insistent about getting medical care for Betty makes me feel very much for the fact that both Archie and Jughead are motherless, with living mothers. Because Uncle Fucking Frank doesn’t do what Fred would’ve wanted and also insist that Archie get a check up after a bomb literally exploded under his actual bed.  He just wants facts.  I hate him so much.  

The Andrews house looks absolutely unsalvageable.

Jughead, upon very clear confirmation that nobody from his pre-time jump life cares about him, directly goes to the Diner, where the only two people who give a shit what happens to him (that would be Tabitha and Pop Tate) are trying to run a business in a similarly bombed out Chock’Lit Shoppe.  Riverdale pulling at my Jughead heartstrings here, because Tabitha has a concerned reaction (“What???”) but Jughead reverts to thinking up the only way (he has been led by his so-called friends to think) he adds value to anyone else’s life: He’s going to write an article about what happened to him in a way that makes it relevant for people who are not him.  What a long winding way to get attention and care.

The shoulder-grab move he does to beg Tabitha for a place to stay (because they haven’t moved in together yet because that happened in Rivervale and this is already too taxing for my brain) was also extremely sad.   He doesn’t seem entirely sure that he’s going to get a yes answer.  And because Jughead summarily says that everyone is fine, Tabitha looks worried but doesn’t come at him with You Have to Go To the Hospital the way Alice, who has seen the actual aftermath of the explosion felt compelled to do.

As he leaves the diner, the actual physical damage the explosion wreaked on Jughead manifests in the form of tinnitus.  Because he has done the most important things: Gotten affirmation that someone cares about him, figured out a place to stay, given himself a project.  The show makes it seem like he gets tinnitus from the bell on the door of the diner but I really think this was needing the basics cared for first.

Toni and Fangs tell Kevin they are now romantic, but very much bisexual and Riverdale is a funny funny show because literally a second after they drop this ‘bombshell,’ Sheriff Keller calls Kevin with news of the explosion at the Andrews House, and he must’ve said, “A bomb went off” since Kevin says exactly those words in the form of a question. Yes Kevin, a bomb did just go off in your life, in more ways than one.

I like the idea of Choni, I really do, but those two have never had any sexual chemistry.  And now we have Fangs and Toni - Tangs? Foni?  - and they have repellent energy and I don’t know what to do anymore. All three people are TV beautiful so why is this such a lacunae, a VOID, of sexual tension?

The phone tag the Riverdale community plays in the aftermath of the explosion is very funny. Betty and Archie have no friends in the community and so tell nobody.  Jughead has a friend, and that’s Tabitha so he goes to tell her himself.  Kevin is told by his dad and his first instinct is to call Veronica.  Somehow Britta hears about this from somewhere else and is the one to tell Cheryl.  

Britta has the same elaborate braids they used to give Jellybean when she lived in the Cooper house. Does this mean something?

I’m just going to leave this note for myself here. I have absolutely no recall of whatever Abigail’s curse was or whatever it was that happened with that.  This must’ve been sometime in s5, pre Rivervale and I’m so sorry but I just don’t recall.  Cheryl is freaking out about the curse being real and Nana Rose claiming she burned the piece of paper with the magic recipe on it or whatever, and I just have no idea what she’s talking about.  I apologize. 

One of the major events of this episode was the absolute demolition of Mary Andrews.  I’ve always thought she was a  total failure as a mother - more so than Alice Cooper (Yes that’s what I said - she of the Giving Yale Money To the Cult) and Penelope Blossom (Son Worshipping Serial Killer Brothel Madam) and Gladys Jones (who definitely beat up Jughead as a small kid and all the rest of it).  Mary Andrews just does not care about her son.  Absolutely indifferent.    Everything she does in the rest of the episode is absolute villainy. Unforgivable.

And Uncle Frank seems to know this.  The stone cold clarity of this exchange had me in stitches. 

Frank: Have you called your Mom? 

Archie: No not yet. I don’t wanna worry her.

Frank: It’s her house, Archie. 

Mary Andrews will want to know that her property in Riverdale has in demolished by a bomb, is what Frank is saying.  Mary Andrews the homeowner will care about the house.  Mary Andrews will want to know the state of her real estate investment in Riverdale. She does not and will not worry about Archie. Frank knows this and says it straight.

Then the second funniest bit of this episode happens. The Vet who is looking after Bingo, who somehow didn’t die after being crushed under a wall or something in the explosion, comes out and asks the Bear and the Redhead  if they are “Bingo’s Dads.” Archie is Gay joke goes here.

Tinnitus is getting bad for Jughead while typing in Tabitha’s apartment (where he doesn’t live).  The interior is exactly the same as it is in Rivervale.  She and Jughead are wearing the same shade of brown in their outerwear - hers is leather, his is suede.   This made me happy. She also brought him food because she thought he would be in the zone.   Jughead is still lying to Tabitha by omission about his hearing problem, and instead says that he’s going to write the article about Hiram Lodge rather than about the ‘cherished’ Andrews home.  

Riverdale writing room really coming for the Jughead stans in this episode.  Who exactly cherished this home? It isn’t really Archie, per se.  It’s Jughead, for sure.  But anyway, he’s still trying to ‘buy’ standing and legitimacy through writing, and in the short term he achieves this goal because Tabitha has a bone to pick with Lodge as well.  The searching look Jughead gives her retreating back is him trying to figure out if he can admit to having an actual problem and not get rejected out of hand or treated with cruelty. He’s  not sure.

Tangs/Foni doesn’t really work as a couple for me but what they really truly don’t work as is gang leaders.  Fangs was the also ran sidekick to Sweet Pea who used to be the main muscle.  Toni was kind of a mafia princess type, who was given a certain amount of standing by dint of birth.  Neither have any sort of  the air of recklessness or danger about them.  I don’t believe you,  at all.  Physically small, pretty people CAN be scary, but these two are not it.

“We can’t be as reckless as we once were” is what Toni says, which ignores the fact that the Serpents under Jughead were a daycare center that things happened to, and when she and Fangs took off for college, it was entirely dormant and existed physically only in the form of Sweet Pea.  Now there are about 11 Serpents hanging around in what seems to be the Whyte Wyrm, though the basement space under the diner is magic and can expand or shrink depending on the story’s needs, and right this moment it looks very tiny. 

Pandemic regulations are starting to ease up, and the way the group shots are presented in this episode made me wonder if they are going to do discussions about 2020-2022 television tropes thirty or fifty years from now.  This is how it apparently works in Canada:  Only two people can sit in any close proximity to each other, others can stand in groups but must face in the same direction AND NOT TALK. 

There’s nothing about this ragtag cluster of people staring silently at Fangs and Toni that would scare even me, a super-femme-y,  short, soft-bellied, bespectacled desk jockey. (If we meet in the wilds of the real world this is how you can recognize me.) This looks like a gang run by Mickey and Minnie Mouse.  When Minnie Mouse (um, Toni Serpent Queen) mentions Twyla Twist, the new Ghoulie leader, they play a rattlesnake sound effect over her name. Even though she’s a Ghoulie. Is this Toni’s inner Serpent coiling at her?

Since the show stupidly wrote off Sweet Pea (#justiceforsweetpea) can we at least get Peaches back? The only reason the Ghoulie leader has to be this new Twyla lady is because there is no way that Toni would in any way be a force to reckon with for a criminally minded male villain. Everyone loses. I hate it here.

Cheryl is doing candle magic.  Riverdale the show tells us through Britta’s worried eyes and scared line delivery that we “now believe in magic and curses.”   This is a statement of purposes stated in the form of a question.   Cheryl answers by saying “a new age of wonderment is upon us.”  This completes the statement of where the show is going to go now. Strap in everybody.

Chicago is the source of all badness this episode (Mary Andrews lives there, Twyla Twist comes from there).   

Archie has visited Betty at the hospital.   “Everyone keeps texting and calling to check in” says Betty. Me too, says Archie.  But Jughead (without Tabitha) is all alone.  (Tabitha is real right? She’s exchanged dialogue with Veronica, so she’s absolutely real. I’m suddenly worried Tabitha may be a Jughead hallucination and he’s really as alone as I fear.)  This ‘peek’ into their being close and intimate together is beautiful looking, the hospital lights glowing yellow, haloing Betty.  Archie saved Betty but neither of them understand what’s happened. Both are disturbed.

Someone has blown out Cheryl’s magic candles so she’s very annoyed, but the important part of the exchange she has with Nana Rose is that Cheryl calls her an old maid. Is this not her grandmother? (Even if not biological?) Didn’t Nana Rose mention being married to a husband who stepped out on her and um, fathered those feral Blossoms who lived in the woods??  Does old maid mean something different to Cheryl?

When Betty checks out of the hospital is when Alice mentions INTERNAL BLEEDING. So there’s still no ambulance or law enforcement in Riverdale, and once again, everything Alice says is quite sensible as well as applicable to Jughead and Archie. Why does Frank never suggest this basic check up to Archie??

I am four pages into this word document but the show just showed me the Producer’s name. 

So Jughead and Tabitha are having breakfast.  Jughead is suffering from the disorienting effects of his steadily worsening ear problem while Tabitha is exulting over his article.   So we never hear it. The Show’s commitment to never showing us Jug’s writing after Bughead ended is absolute.   I am curious as to why Jughead feels like he has to entirely give up fiction altogether when people he’s not really friends with (the Serpents) didn’t like it, and, yeah, his agent fired him for attempted plagiarism but to become an untrained gonzo journalist seems like a drastic turn.

Veronica and Betty have a short discussion - the FBI is going to go after Hiram, and the Lodge sisters will do the same.   Archie is getting very heavy in his gym.  The orderly that Betty saw glow red killed someone.  Hermosa is a disembodied voice on the phone. I want more Hermosa. 

The FBI office in Riverdale is hopping (there are at least 8 other agents in addition to Glen and Betty).  The shot set up is the same as with the Wyrm - Glen and Betty in one shot, or Betty and another agent in another shot, but group shots are held far away from people who have dialogue and are silent. 

You know how the evil orderly glowed red?  Veronica is now sitting in a very red lit room as she looks over Hiram’s evil doings, apparently dug up by Hermosa, when Reggie bounces in to say that he told his dad he needed time off from the car dealership.  

Veronica treats the documentation she has on Hiram as confidential to Reggie but not her plans to kill Hiram, which is an interesting choice.  Veronica also will not give any of this information to Betty, nor does Betty FBI agent ask her for any.   Veronica also says that her father will never “stop gunning for us” so I have to ask - Who is US? Does blowing up Archie’s house count as US?  What is the significance of this house to Veronica? Her attempt to live in that house and be wifey in it is what blew up her relationship with Archie.  

Meanwhile Betty is working late, so she’s super annoyed when Glenn comes in and tries to hit on her while drunk. The way Betty says the name “Archie” when asked who she’s seeing, and then says he satisfied her more than Glenn. This is an exact echo of Veronica telling the husband she eventually shoots dead that all she needed was Archie.  The thing is, even though Betty sees the red glow, what Glenn does is just look annoyed.  Betty punches him straight in the face, breaking his nose, because he takes a single step towards her.  Um. Yay? I guess?   

Archie never fights other men for women (he didn’t have to fight Sweet Pea for Josie, for example) but the women around him do violence.

Mary is such a problem. “How did you not die?” she cries, while weeping, but then she says a crazy thing (”It was your dad”) but doubles down to say this is the only thing that makes sense. 

Ownership of this house is an interesting issue.  Jughead ‘cherished’ this house.  Frank says the house is Mary’s (This is legally correct).   Mary says the house is Fred’s (“It’s his house”) and that’s probably emotionally correct.  Archie wants to live there for the rest of his life.  Veronica could not find a berth there. Hiram blew it up. 

Veronica calls in a dude who is coded Russian (He answers the phone with “Da”)  for the assassination job on Hiram.  There are Italian gangsters, Quebecois gangsters, the Lodges speak Spanish and were Catholic and seemed to be coded Cuban.  But the assassin is  Anatol and speaks with a Eastern European accent.   This seems unnecessary. 

Hiram’s death costs $2M. How much money does Veronica have? 

Reggie’s dad had a heart attack the day after Reggie says he doesn’t want to focus on the business anymore.  Marty Mantle’s shittiness as a father knows no bounds, because he absolutely refuses to release Reggie to live his own life, follow his own path. (Yes I am yelling at a man for having the wrong kind of heart attack.  Abuse your children -> I hope you die.)

Twyla Twyst is surprisingly maternal-seeming and is closer to the Fred/Mary generation.  She has the same assessment of the current era Serpents as I do.  And really, Toni’s absolute inability to be scary is what limits how bad Twyla can be. This is a huge pity.  Twyla doesn’t have the unpredictable grit of Gladys Jones nor the smart-person-stuck-with-idiots irritability of Penny Peabody.  She looks a lot like Ashley Judd, so I keep expecting her to sing a rockabilly song. I’m so annoyed. 

Hiram had time to make a deal with the Ghoulies before leaving town. OK - so the Ghoulies had Malachai, then Malachai and Penny, and then just Penny, then there’s this weird dormant period (Sweet Pea did say it was a long time since they rumbled with the Ghoulies and he was excited about it).  They had to bring in someone from Chicago, so she must’ve been some sort of Regional HQ. The geography is weird- the Serpents have an  Ohio branch and the Ghoulies have a big branch with this serious minded woman in Illinois.  Hiram had all this time to keep up contact with the straggler Ghoulies in Riverdale who managed to get a message to others in Chicago? Is there where Malachai is?

Serpent Mickey and Minnie Mouse are just not scary.  They just aren’t.  Sweet Pea is sorely missed.   

Archie meanwhile is doing a second, even larger clean up of his/ his dad’s/ his mom’s  house since moving back to Riverdale and having it destroyed in some way.  The way Archie tests his power, which he thinks he has now, is to punch an entire doorframe to pieces in the middle of clean up. This is the guy that is better than Glenn and better than Chad.  The only thing he does better is that he’s not a rapist and not a woman killer.  The standard is below the floor and I’m so depressed.

Mickey and Minnie not being scary is part of a giant problem (oh is this intentional?).  When Fangs says Twyla is stone cold crazy, it doesn’t land. Not with me because I saw Twyla and she doesn’t seem even a little bit crazy (Betty is much crazier) and not with Archie.  Instead of saying she’s crazy, Fangs may have been better off saying something like -  Twyla knows how to be an actual criminal and she’s twice our age and is professional about this including having direct contact information with Hiram and knowing how to get direct deposit links from offshore bank accounts… may have worked better.  But Fangs says someone’s crazy and Archie just looks at him.  They are waiting to hear back from FP.  

So FP talks to Fangs but not Jughead. 

Archie being the prize boy is kind of a problem.  He goes to where the Ghoulies are - doesn’t tell his FBI agent girlfriend, his sheriff’s son childhood friend, nothing to no one - and just goes to inflict violence. 

Reggie’s dad sickened and died in Rivervale, and he sickened and collapsed in Riverdale . Rivervale’s Reggie didn’t get to really reconcile but Riverdale Reggie says it “kills him the most” that his dad and he had reached peace at last.  The hospital room of reconciliation is orange but Veronica when she has to hear from the hyper-efficient Anatole that Hiram is dead is in a red-lit space.  She weeps. 

Archie has beaten up so many people so badly he is COVERED with blood. It’s kind of gruesome.  Betty has no reaction to people being so wounded as to bleed on him as long as Archie is not hurt. Is this a commentary on the FBI or on Betty? 

Jughead the neglected child who comes up with something self incriminating to say because everyone was willing to believe him this whole time - “I was in my head” when he’s directly asked, “Couldn’t you hear him?” and then Tabitha refusing to take that first defensive answer because she’s observed him (closely and lovingly!) and knows what his tells are. OH THIS IS SO GOOD. 

Betty goes to interrogate (off books?) of the killer Trevor, hospital orderly.   They have the Virgin Mary behind Betty’s left, fully visible and lit in the orange light of reconciliation in her alcove, as she’s confronting the woman killing hospital orderly.  The Virgin Mary looking over Betty Cooper’s shoulder might be the only time in my life when I do not feel positive about the Virgin Mary.  The Virgin is still visible when Betty smiles so pretty at her boyfriend threatening the orderly with broken arms (“He’ll do it too”).

Betty and Archie tell each other their weird secret superpowers in the red glow of a different alcove at the Whyte Wyrm.  There’s an interesting array of posters right behind Archie but I don’t know how to get screen grabs.  One of them just says Southside Serpents with the snake design that’s all their tattoos (oh is Archie still a Serpent?) (But Jughead isn’t?)  Is this leftover or is this a recruitment poster?

In any case Archie, after doing whatever it is he’s done to the however-many Ghoulies he wounded (we haven’t seen yet), is now worried about his potential for ‘hurting people.’  But he doesn’t think Ghoulies are people.   Betty doesn’t think Ghoulies are people either.  Still bathed in the red glow of danger and death, Betty tells Archie about Glen getting ‘handsy’ and tells him not to do anything. She is very confident that Archie can’t mean ill, because she can see the red aura, except they’re both sitting in THE REDDEST place on earth and it’s not clear to me how she would see Archie’s aura if it’s red, given HOW RED the booth is.

Britta is possessed by Abigail.  When did this curse invocation happen? Was that Rivervale? I just don’t remember.

The clean up of the Andrews house continues.   And now comes Percival.  When asked by Percival, Mary says she’s the owner.  She doesn’t feel the need to consult with Archie at all whatsoever about what to do about this house.  Mary Andrews treats her son with the exact indifference that her son treated Jughead when it was clear Jughead wasn’t doing OK.   This is something he gets from Mary then?  In any case, she never asks, Do you have to find a new place to live?

When Glen comes to work, Betty is seated (didn’t she JUST MAKE FBI agent?) and the three women are standing around her denoting status plus she’s the one running the meeting.   And she reassigned ALL the men inclusive of Glen.   Subject of a sexual harassment investigation (?). Um. OK.   I don’t think Betty knows how sexual harassment investigations work, because Glenn could totally fight this and win. 

Going with someone to the blighted hospital in Riverdale is an act of love.  Betty is the only person on the planet that Alice says she loves, so she went with her. Then we have Tabitha who went with Jughead.  Jughead can now just be very honest about not being able to hear. Oh Jughead is so defeated when he says the percentages for the hearing damage he’s sustained, but he does get to hear, “We’re going to get through this together” 

Mary Andrew’s villain arc is complete with the revelation that she insists on Archie BUYING the cursed house from her.  She judges him for his decision, but she makes sure she doesn’t lose any money, because seriously, Archie acquires a mortgage, to buy a completely busted up house, from his mother, the lawyer who lives in Chicago.    I think she’s actually really pleased that the money she’d been ‘forced’ to put into a college fund for Archie (probably at Fred’s urging) can now come right back into her pocket.  I hate her so much.  (Is  the availability and unaffordability of real estate a huge problem where I live?  Why yes! How could you tell?)

Veronica lies to Reggie about killing her dad. There was an unexpected echo between Veronica and Tabitha - Tabitha has her sad reaction over Jughead’s hearing problems over his shoulder, and Veronica has her guilty one over Reggie’s.

Nana Rose stood up for this one and she’s weirdly following like, Catholic rules - Latin works better than English for magic and prayer.  

The call from Twyla  declaring war on the serpents happens when Toni and Fangs are in red light at the Wyrm. 

Archie assaults Glen. I’m now sure that Archie DID glow red when he was telling Betty that he’s invulnerable and she in her hubris did not imagine that the red neon that they were sitting in drowned out the light of his aura. 

Kevin takes custody of Baby Anthony.  So that baby definitely isn’t Kevin’s then?  I know Cheryl said that the question as to paternity of this infant was “gauche” and therefore none of us is supposed to ask, but I am gauche and common and vulgar and I want to know whose sperm created that child, all right?

The real estate agent that Mary hired (and probably forced Archie to pay for) to close on the sale, wherein Mary forced Archie to hand over his meager life savings to her, cannot in good conscience bring herself to call the building A HOUSE. She calls it a structure.  And like the abused, not very bright man he is, Archie thanks his mom for ‘trusting’ him.  Oh god dude you are so dumb.

Hermosa calls Veronica to say  blood will have blood.  I’m not sure what Hermosa’s end game was, actually.  Can she only come to town when Hiram is in custody, and is that what she was hoping for?

Betty and Archie  are in Betty’s childhood and current bedroom.  She now wears the Betty pink and she says ‘we should face it together’- meaning their strange powers-  and the camera angles back and forth are very like the  Ep. 4.17 confession of the Barchie kiss to Jughead.  And there’s some sort of musical theme  that plays over them while they’re being nice to each other.  

The dog has superpowers (healing?)  - so literally…. literally… the DOG made out better than Jughead.  Did you need to be IN THIS HOUSE for this superpower manifestation?  Does the garage not get St Fred’s protection?  Oh but that used to be Archie’s music room - is that why he’s deaf? Is this some sort of cosmic joke?

TBK is in the back of Glen’s car and does something to him in the red light. How does TBK know what Glenn did? Does TBK work for the FBI?  Plus, Glenn must really suck as a law enforcement person if he doesn’t check the back of his car before getting in. His reaction time is also extremely slow.  Good bye Glenn??

(A/N): This is an emotional imagine, based on a recent experience where I wished I had a Sweet Pea or someone to comfort me. 

Warnings: mentions of abuse, physical threats, depression, cursing, angst all the way. 

I don’t recommend to read if you are triggered or affected by any mentions of these topics.

MASTERLIST

He walked into the darkened room to find her sitting on her bed with her head buried in her knees. If it wasn’t for the singular window that occupied the wall and the luminous moonlight blaring through it, he might have never seen anything, as nobody ever did.

Slowly, the tall Serpent made his way over to his girlfriend, trying not to distress her anymore then she was. However, the eerie creaking of the floor gave him away. Hearing the noise, she snapped her head up, revealing her bloodshot, puffy eyes.

Immediately, almost instantly, he rushed over trying to stop the waterfall of tears coming from her eyes, but his efforts were to no avail as they came flowing one after another. The saddened girl was falling apart at the seams, barely seeing anything through her glossy, blurry eyes. Her voice was laced with cracks and broken whimpers and cries, making her outcries for help inaudible for her boyfriend.

After futile attempts to even stop the crying and sorrow, the gang member drew this fragile girl into his arms as a last resort, he remembered how she described his hugs as “magical” and “soothing.” He buried his head into her soft hair, taking in the scent of apples as he whispered sweet sentiments, one after another.

The embrace did dull her small whimpers, however, she was still broken on the inside. The sweet nothings that filled the empty space of her room were just like band-aids that only held on for a second.

“She threatened meagain.”

His head snapped up to try and even comprehend what the hell she just said. Just discovering that someone had threatened his girl, the fucking love of his life, was enough. Hearing the word, “again”, come out of her mouth sent this Serpent over the edge.

She never told anyone, however, no one ever noticed either. She may not have bruises, yet the words pierced through her skin, sinking into her bones and into her mind, circling throughout her subconscious, causing her to doubt and reject everything about herself. Instead of a person, she saw herself as a mistake. Her mother had always yelled empty threats, some holding the potential of being real, and this was, for the girl knew what could happen.

Meeting her Sweet Pea of a boyfriend had been like a small beacon of light. He didn’t exactly improve the situation, he leveled the playing field by being himself. She loved him for this and didn’t need to subject her boyfriend to her home life. Her mother already cracked down on her more when she started dating him, exposing the truth to him would be horrific.

To think, the threat was said after a room wasn’t cleaned and a few water bottles were left. Physical violence wasn’t necessary, yet hell would rain down on (Y/N) if another one was caught in the room of nightmares.

The questions that tumbled out of his mouth made him regret asking them in the first place. The answers didn’t help a bit with the overwhelming guilt. Instead of focusing on any of that, he kept rocking her back and forth, trying to make his girlfriend feel safe again.

After what seemed like hours of silence and no progress on her condition, Sweet Pea had enough.

“You’re coming with me.”

(Y/N) shot up like a bottle rocket, protesting any effort made her boyfriend. For she was too frightened, scared, feared for her life. She feared that if she left, the only one that she loved would be taken away by her mother then she would have nothing. Sweet Pea was the only good thing in her life. Her father and mother split up, leaving (Y/N) with her mother winning full custody. Her father never contacted her and if he did, it would be for a death or major event. (Y/N) always called him, granted that he did answer, she had to call him. He never called her or came to see her out of the blue. The contact stopped when she eventually got fed up with her father’s lack of effort.

“I can’t go. She’ll kill me. I have to stay, she told me to stay in here until she got back. Sweet Pea, I want to, I just can’t. I can’t lose you, if I go with you, she will make sure that you end up in jail and that the police understand that she just “disciplined” me. I can’t let you take that risk for me. You’re all I fucking have, Sweet Pea.”

“I’m not going to let you die. I’m sorry, but I have to do this.”

She broke down once more, knowing well that she wouldn’t be able to stop a 6 foot tall Serpent who is loyal and protective as anything in the goddamn world.

In the middle of her breakdown, he picked her up and carried her to his truck. Despite her protects, he knew that this was the best thing for her. He couldn’t physically stand the fact of letting her stay in that house of horrors one more night.

The ride to the trailer park was agonizing and silent. Glancing at the girl across from him, you would expect that he could see the pain and sorrow in her eyes. However, he saw nothing. Her eyes were still the same shade of red from earlier, yet her eyes were lifeless. They held no sadness, regret, fear, or even emotion. Clicking in his mind, he realized that she’d been scared straight. She didn’t care about herself anymore, she cared about protecting the one thing she only had in her life.

Him.

The moment the trailer came into view, the fatigue hit (Y/N) like a semi. The exhausting from crying and fear finally caught up with her. Sweet Pea noticed her in her comatose like state after he stopped the truck.

He came around and carried her into the trailer, lying her down in his bed, leaving her to be for a minute. She didn’t want to come here in the first place, he thought that leaving her alone to sleep would be okay.

Eventually calming down after everything came into view, Sweet Pea crashed on the couch, only dreaming about his girlfriend’s safety to come. He was going to make that dream come true.

The storm outside scared (Y/N) awake, finding herself alone, she panicked. She didn’t realize that she was not her room, she thought something happened, and the crying started up again. Her mind was sent into a state of fear and panic, she thought he’d been hurt or suffered her mother, these thoughts only made things worse.

“Hey. She’s not here. You’re in my room, please, look at me, (Y/N). You’re safe. I’m here.”

The words comforted her mind, put herself at ease. She slowly looked up to see her lovable boyfriend in front of her, holding her shoulders, trying to stop this episode as calmly and quickly as possible.

Hearing her cries for the second time that night was something he never wanted to hear again. She sounded like someone was about to kill her. He didn’t know what to do, this was new territory, Sweet Pea had dealt with this before.

“Stay. Stay with me. Please, tomorrow, I’ll explain or whatever you want, but please, don’t leave me alone. I’m just scared, I’m scared to live in that house.”

Sweet Pea heard every crack in her voice as she even struggled to say it.

“All I want is for you to be safe and to feel safe. You don’t have to wear a mask anymore, I’m going to help you. I won’t leave either, I love you way too much for me to do that.”

“I love you too.”

Staying with (Y/N), he held her as close as possible, for fear that she’d pull away and leave and run back, thinking it was a mistake to stay.

The exhaustion found (Y/N) once more as she felt a blanket being pulled over her and a gentle kiss to her head.

“Thank you for saving me.”

(A/N): Hey guys! Here’s another imagine!

Requested by: @madamzeyl (Hope you like it! ❤️)

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MASTERLIST 

(Y/N) was just casually at her locker, just rethinking everything that has happened in the past few days. The Black Hood was back, Midge was murdered in front of everyone, this Dark Circle nonsense was roaming the halls again, and on top of it, the entire student body of Riverdale High still wasn’t exactly accepting of their new Southside students.

Being one herself, (Y/N), along with every other Serpent in the school, was walking around with a target on her back.

“Hey. You okay?” someone said. 

“I’m fine, Toni. Just thinking about how Riverdale has turned into a complete mirror image of itself. It doesn’t matter. Shall we?” she answered, closing her locker. 

“We shall,” Toni stated, linking her arm with (Y/N)’s, as the two walked off to the Swords and Serpents club.

~Time Skip~

“War Baby called my father and I from Shankshaw. Her old adversaries, the Ghoulies, have been released. Word on the street is that they want Serpent blood. They’re gunning for a re-match. They want war.” Jughead announced, making everyone else in that room irritated as fuck.

The door slammed open, making everyone’s head turn. The football team waltzed in, with Reggie leading the pack. 

“Which one of your reptiles was screwing Midge Klump?” Reggie questioned them. The atmosphere of that entire room changed from irritated to hostile with those words.

“Hey! This is a private meeting!” Jughead told them.

“Yeah, you can’t just walk in here pointing fingers at any of us!” Toni exclaimed, upset. 

“Well, someone in here was screwing Midge in secret! I’m guessing it was you, Sweet Pea.” Reggie accused. Rage consumed (Y/N)’s face. 

“What the actual fuck, Reggie? You do know that he’s my boyfriend, right? Or could you not get that through your fucking thick as lead head?!” she yelled, clenching her fists. 

“Well, maybe you don’t know your boyfriend as well you thought.” he shot back. (Y/N) balled a piece of Reggie’s shirt in her hand and decked in straight in the face.

Immediately, (Y/N) was pulled back by Toni as all hell broke loose. Reggie, Sweet Pea, and everyone else started throwing hands. The rest of the Serpents fought the Bulldogs and, despite your pleads, Toni held you back, considering you just punched their “leader” straight in the face. The classroom was filled with overlapping screams and shouts and punches being thrown and landed.

“STOP FIGHTING NOW!” Jughead screamed, overtaking everyone’s voice. The dust settled in the room and everyone filed out. 

“Looks like the war isn’t just with the Ghoulies.” (Y/N) whispered to Toni.

(Y/N) ran out to find Sweet Pea, but only to find the hallways deserted. 

“Fuck my classes.” the girl muttered to herself before running off to find her boyfriend.

~Time Skip~

After searching the entire school, the trailer park, and the Wyrm, (Y/N) found herself at Pop’s, she wasn’t giving up, she just needed to recollect herself. She needed to find him. Sweet Pea wasn’t exactly the emotion type, but around her he was. Walking in, the first thing to catch her eye was Sweet Pea sitting in the far-back booth, drinking a strawberry milkshake.

“Have you been here the whole time?” (Y/N) said. He just nodded from across the table. “You know I didn’t believe anything he said, right? I mean, why do you think I clocked him?” she said, stifling a laugh. 

“I know. Kinda wish you would’ve knocked him out. That would’ve been funny as hell.” Sweet Pea finally spoke up. 

“Yeah, but I feel that he was humiliated enough.”

After a moment of awkward silence and tension, Sweet Pea let out a defeated sigh.

“Listen, I know I’m not exactly the boyfriend you would bring home to your parents, but listen, I want you to know I would never even think about hurting you in any way, let alone fucking cheating on you. I just ran off because I couldn’t stand the fact that just because I’m a Serpent, I’ll automatically screw up everything good in my life. I can’t and I won’t screw us up, if I’m being honest, you’re the only good thing in my life right now. You’re kinda the only thing keeping me from ripping the entire football team limb from limb. Hell, I can’t even think about what would happen if you left because I’ll be damned if I let that happen. I fucking love you, (Y/N).” 

His voice was practically dripping with emotion and (Y/N) could have sworn that she heard his voice crack at least once during that speech. It was very obvious that Sweet Pea did love his girlfriend and the fact that his love for her was questioned set him over the edge, resulting in the fight a couple hours ago. 

Upon hearing the finale of his speech, she froze. Neither of you had said the L word to each other. Of course, she loved him too. (Y/N) just never knew when or how to tell Sweet Pea.

“I understand, Sweets. There’s nothing in me that’ll make me think otherwise. I’m serious. I don’t think you have or will screw us up, nor do I think you’ll cheat or hurt me. You’re too pure for any of that, besides, I love you too much to think like that anyway.” 

“I’m not pure! I’m a cold-hearted gang member!” Sweet Pea said, jokingly. (Y/N) joined him on the other side of the booth.

“Sure you are, tough guy,” she spoke while kissing him on the lips.

fangs:if i run and jump at sweet pea, he’ll certainly catch me in his arms

fangs running towards him: COMING IN !!!

sweet pea: NO! IM HOLDING HOT COFFEE-

sweet pea: *drops coffee to catch him* fuck you, fangs.

black hood: *points gun at sweet pea and toni*

black hood: give me all of your money if you want to live!

sweet pea: bold of you to assume i want to live

toni: bold of you to assume i have money

fangs, getting shot: guys, now is not the time

Fangs: Hey what time is it?

Sweet Pea: I don’t know, pass me the trombone and I’ll find out.

Sweet Pea: [blasts the trombone]

Toni:Who the FUCK is playing the trombone at TWO IN THE FUCKING MORNING?

Sweet Pea: It’s two A.M.

Fangs:… Figured

Fangs:What country has the most birds?

Sweet Pea: Portu-geese.

Fangs:Wait, that’s a language.

Sweet Pea:Portu-gull.

Fangs: Nice recovery. Or should I say re-dove-ry

[later]

Fangs:Turkey. How did we miss Turkey?