Wow! I'm so glad you guys are looking forward to this story! Please just keep in mind that it is quite AU, a lot of the characters are going to be acting/talking in different ways than they would in the show or the comics. There's going to be swearing, recreational drug use, probably a bit of violence and, of course, sex scenes. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up!

Archie Andrews tipped his head to the side as he watched with barely a flicker of interest on his face as Tina Patel went down on the girl who was laid out on the table in front of her. She was dressed in an extremely tacky maids uniform which was only there to tease the viewers and would be gone soon enough, and the girl who was on the table was completely in the nude. The blonde on the table was letting out loud, exaggerated moans, pulling at Tina's hairs. When he was a teenager, this would have been an absolute wet dream, to have a girlfriend who ran a porn studio, but now it was all been there, done that.

In Tina's case, it was literally been there, done that.

Not all the Serpents felt the same, though, and even though Veronica Lodge usually ran a tight ship, which meant absolutely no viewers in the building while they were filming, she was making an exception this afternoon.

Namely because the brothers had been dealt with a couple of hard blows in the past week, and they needed a bit of a pick-me-up. Besides, it wasn't that the girls cared when the Serpent brothers were in the studio, lounging on the couches that lined the walls, it was more that they actually got distracted, forgetting their floozy one-liners or angling their bodies toward the brothers rather than the camera.

"Come on, Tina," Veronica snapped with a roll of her dark coloured eyes. "Actually look as though you want to be here."

"Yeah, well, it's kind of difficult when her fingernails are like fucking talons!" Tina snapped, the mood completely shattering in the room as Tina straightened up from where she had been crouched in front of the other girl, swiping the back of her hand across her mouth. "She's fucking digging for my brain or something!"

"As if you actually have a brain underneath all that fucking hair," the blonde on the table snapped back, rolling her big green eyes. Archie lost interest as the two girls began sniping at each other, although two of the brothers who were sitting on the couch leaned forward, eyes gleaming with intent. Veronica started shouting at the girls, but Archie let it all fade out as he pulled his phone out of his pocket, stopping it's vibrating by swiping his finger across the screen.

"Juggie," he greeted his friend, and the vice-president of the Serpents.

"Archie," Jughead Jones responded, letting out a heavy breath that made Archie frown, concerned. Not much got to Jughead, not much at all. He didn't show emotion, on his face or in his voice, and he managed to stay detached from most things. But Archie could tell that there was something wrong in just one word.

"What do you need?" Archie asked, already walking out of the big warehouse where the porn studio was situated. "Where are you?"

"I'm at the drive in," Jughead replied shortly.

"Okay, I'll be there in ten minutes," Archie told him as he pushed open the door, walking out into the sunlight. "What is it?"

"It's Betty," Jughead answered. "She's back." Archie's eyebrows lifted, arching high near his hairline as he stopped beside his motorbike.

"Betty? Betty Cooper?" Archie double-checked, although who was he kidding, there was only one Betty in the whole wide world that Jughead actually cared about. And apparently the blonde was back in Riverdale, after being MIA since they finished high school. Obviously Jughead thought it was a stupid question as well, because he didn't even bother replying before ending the call. "Right," Archie pursed his lips together as he pulled his phone away from his ear and stared at blank screen for a moment, before tucking it into the back pocket of his jeans.

The Twilight Drive In used to be a spot where families would gather on Friday nights for a PG-rated, usually cartoon movie. And then on Saturdays, it would be something a little riskier, and it would be teenagers in their cars, making out in the front seat or drinking in the back of pick up trucks. It closed just after their senior year, but Jughead had always loved the place and still used it as an escape sometimes. It didn't take long for Archie to get there, taking the back roads rather than the main street of the town, and he drove across the grass in the paddock, which was growing long given how long it had been since it had been trimmed, almost knee height. He could see Jughead's bike on the other side, an expensive 2003 Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide Sport, that had been his first bike when he was fifteen, and that he had lovingly looked after since then.

"Juggie," Archie greeted him as he turned off his bike, resting one foot on the ground as it tipped to the side. Jughead's bike had it's stand kicked out, securely standing, and Jughead was sitting on one of the old rusted metal benches from when the drive in had still be running and operating, and had a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth. His eyebrows were set, drawn together and pointed down, and from the butts that were already gathered on the ground beside the dark haired mans feet, he had almost smoked his way through a whole pack already. "So..." Archie began as he braced his leg against the bench and tipped his head to the side, looking down at his oldest friend. "Betty's back."

"Betty's back," Jughead confirmed, his voice flat.

Betty.

Elizabeth Cooper.

In high school, she had been the beautiful, blonde daughter of Hal and Alice Cooper, younger sister of Polly and Chic Cooper. She had always had good grades, she had been on the cheerleading squad, and she had been crowned prom queen as a junior, which was practically unheard of. There had even been talk at the beginning of senior year as well, although that had been right at the start, before her and Jughead had gotten involved and it had all come to life, and then the couple hadn't even ended up making it to their senior prom. Not as though Jughead would ever be seen at the prom, but Betty had been planning on going until her father had passed away and things had gotten a bit messy in her life.

They had actually all been really close at one point—Veronica, Archie, Jughead and Betty. Betty's parents, especially her mother, were overprotective to the point of micro-managing her life, and they had absolutely never approved of Betty's friendships with Archie and Jughead, given their families ties to the South Side Serpents. There had also been some history between Betty's parents and Veronica's parents, mainly her mother, that was a point on contention as well.

But despite how sweet and kind Betty was, and how much she had always wanted people to be happy, when she made a decision about something, she dug in her heels and couldn't be moved.

So her friendship with Veronica, Archie and Jughead had persisted.

"Have you spoken to her yet?" Archie asked carefully, reaching down to pick up the pack of cigarettes on the bench next to his friend, pulling one out and propping it between his lips. There was always a cigarette lighter in one of the pockets of his leather Serpent jacket—and his leather Serpent vest that he wore if he wasn't wearing the jacket—and he pulled it up to light the end.

"I'm pretty sure if I went anywhere near her and there was an escape route, she'd be hightailing it out of there," Jughead muttered with a roll of his eyes.

"Yeah, I mean the last time you tried to talk to her, you kind of chased her out of town," Archie snorted, and Jughead turned his glare toward the red head, and the smirk quickly dropped off his face. "Sorry," he muttered, looking away from Jughead and staring at where their bikes were parked in the long grass. Quiet fell between the pair of them for a long moment, letting out long streams of smoke into the evening that was falling around them, the sun dipping into the horizon and the blue sky turning shades of orange and red.

"Apparently she's got a job at the bar," Jughead spoke up after a few moments. "The bar that Nance runs."

"Chuck's ex?" Archie raised an eyebrow. It was one of the more popular bars in town, although the Serpents usually spent the nights that they were drinking at their own club house, where they didn't have security guards to cut them off when they were too drunk. The other place where they would go was the Whyte Wyrm, but that was on the south side, and a bit of a dive bar, so it didn't attract too much attention from the rest of the town, usually only getting new blood when the rich kids of the town wanted to score.

"Yup," Jughead finished the cigarette, dropping it to the ground and stretching out one leg to grind it down into the dirt. Archie pulled his own cigarette out of his mouth, holding it between two fingers.

"How long has she been back? And also, how do you know where she has a job, if you haven't talked to her yet?" Archie questioned, although they were pretty pointless. The Serpents had connections all over town, and despite Jugheads reputation of not really wanting to be one who liked to talk, he didn't have any difficulty getting information when he wanted or needed it.

"She came back into town the night before last," Jughead replied sullenly. "And she organized the job before she came down, apparently."

"Make sense," Archie murmured. "She was always organized," he thought for a moment and frowned. "I thought that she was a fully qualified mechanic? Why is she going to work at a bar?"

"Think about it," Jughead rolled his eyes. "There are three garages in town. One is owned by old man Danvers, who is so stuck in his backwards ways that he still doesn't even have a credit card machine, he definitely would never hire a female mechanic. And the other two—"

"Are owned and run by the Serpents," Archie finished with realization in his voice. Jughead nodded and breathed in deeply through his nose, standing up from where he had been sitting, his heavy, black motorcycle boots trampling down the grass around him. "You're not planning on trapping her at her job, are you?" Archie frowned. "Making her talk to you by going to the bar?" Jughead didn't answer, but that told the red head all he needed to know. "That's not exactly the best way to go about talking her after, what, seven years?"

"Almost seven," Jughead muttered. "Six years and eight months."

"But who's counting?" Archie joked lightly. Jughead didn't even bother to glance at him as he stepped up to his bike, swinging one leg over the seat and settling down on it. Clearly the conversation was over, but that was normal. Jughead never said more than he needed to, the fact that he had wanted to talk at all about something that was bothering him was practically unheard of, so Archie was just glad that he wasn't keeping everything bottled up. "Look, maybe give her a few weeks to settle in. Being back in Riverdale for her is a big thing, and she's been away for so long, she needs some time to adjust. I could always ask Veronica to talk to her, if there's something specific that you wanted to know?" Jughead frowned at Archie.

"Right," he scoffed. "There's nothing that I want Veronica to ask her," he kicked up the stand of his bike and turned on the engine with a roar. "I just want to talk to her, and I'm pretty sure she's gonna do everything she can to avoid me."

Right! So the movie I definitely recommend this time around is Gifted with Chris Evans. It's amazing, both me and my hubby got a little teary in it. And Hacksaw Ridge, which honestly deserved every award and nomination it received, I got pretty teary in that one as well. Also on the movie related topic, I should have mentioned it earlier, but I've been watching the American Assassin trailer on repeat pretty much since it came out! Dylan O'Brien is just...Ashffnjpff. Beautiful. Lol.

Shifting onto music, we got tickets to go to Ed Sheeran! It's, like, a year away, but I'm soooo psyched. He was absolutely incredible last time I saw him live, and I can't wait to go again. And a song I would recommend would be Glitter and Gold by Barns Courtney and both Hold On and Homeland by Chord Overstreet. Heard it on Lea Michele's snapchat and I had to look it up as soon as I got home, and I can't believe he's still singing! I absolutely loved Sam in Glee, and he's still got such a beautiful voice.

Anyway! Let me know what you thought of the chapter! Loved it, hated it, your favourite part...Leave a review, and let me know xx