Feyre was 2 days shy of being a whole year old when she crawls halfway through the living room and stops to push her butt up into the air, finding her balance as she has so carefully taught herself to do before standing up straight. Archie is watching her from one end of the room and Veronica from the other where she just walked in. They've been waiting for her to walk from the time she started standing on her own and every time they think she's going to walk she gets scared and falls back down content to just keep crawling and her parents feel both disappointment that she hasn't taken her first steps yet and relief because they can keep her a baby for just that much longer.
"Fey, look at you, standing so steadily," Archie said dropping to his knees on the floor just a little ahead of her, his arms open wide and the baby looked at him and back down to the floor moving a foot as if testing whether it was possible to go to him. "Come on, you can do it."
"Dada," she said happily holding an arm out to him, showing of her 2 upper and 2 lower teeth proudly and Archie smiled back just as wide waiting for her. He was so patient with her, which was probably why she said dada before she said mama, Veronica would give up after a few minutes of trying to get the baby to say a specific word while Archie could sit with her for hours listening to her baby talk and coaxing her to say dada. "Come."
"No, you come to me," Archie laughed moving his arms to motion for her to walk to him. She frowned at him and looked down at her feet, when she looked back up she had big teary eyes and stuck her bottom lip out like she was going to cry because he wasn't doing what she wanted. "Don't give me that look Fey, you can do it."
Feyre lifted one foot up, just barely and put it down carefully just in front of where it was before, tilting her head to look at her father curiously, dark hair falling out of her clip as she weighed her options before taking another tiny step and then several quick ones, falling straight into Archie's outstretched arms.
"She did it," Veronica gasped from the doorway, her phone in her hand recording it and Archie laughed, throwing his squealing daughter in the air and catching her in a tight hug.
"That was so good Fey, now walk to mommy," Archie said kneeling and placing her on the floor turning her toward Veronica who was now kneeling just a few baby steps away with her arms wide for her baby to walk into.
"No," Feyre exclaimed when Archie let go of her and she gripped onto his arms. Veronica copied her daughters earlier face, giving her big eyes and sticking her bottom lip out like she was going to cry and Feyre reached an arm out to call her mother to her. "Ma, come."
"You go to mama Fey," Archie said and Feyre looked up at him and then back to her mothers encouraging face and wobbled quickly straight into Veronica's waiting arms.
"Oh you're getting so big," Veronica laughed as she stood up with the child wrapped tightly in her arms, pressing a kiss to her cheek and then wiping the lipstick off. "You're walking."
"That wasn't too bad, was it?" Archie asked the baby, taking a step forward to be in Veronica's space so he could pluck his daughter from her arms and blow a raspberry kiss to the toddlers belly, the adults laughing as their child squealed happily at the tickling feeling. "Are you ready to walk into your party on Saturday?"
"No," Feyre said shaking her head and Veronica rolled her eyes, that was her favorite word.
"No? But you're so good at it already," Veronica said and Feyre shook her head again and then tilted her body down for her father to let her onto the floor. Archie carefully placed her on her feet and Feyre took two tentative steps before falling on her butt, she turned quickly to see her parents still watching her. "It's ok, you can try again."
Feyre looked at both of them as if she had enough, rolling up onto her hands and knees and crawled toward her toy box, pulling out whatever caught her eye.
"Ronnie, are you crying?" Archie asked amused as he caught sight of Veronica's wet cheeks, and she waved him away, keeping her eyes glued to their daughter. Archie came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, she wasn't wearing heels so she was the perfect height for him to place his chin on the top of her head.
"She's just growing up so fast Archikins, last week she needed me for everything and now she's so independent already," Veronica said, letting herself be molded to his body and holding onto his arms tightly. "I'm not ready."
"She's always going to need you," Archie said soothingly, pressing a kiss to the side of her head and Veronica nodded, seeing her child grow was supposed to be the amazing part not the most terrifying. "But I'm still her favorite."
"Archie," Veronica gasped, extracting herself from his arms to poke his stomach as he laughed, cupping her cheeks and pulling her in for a proper kiss. "I'm going to send this video to everyone and then call Josie to check if she's still available to perform on Saturday, you better not be teaching her that you're the favorite while I'm gone."
"Nothing to teach Ronnie, she knows it already," Archie said and Veronica showed him her middle finger as she left the room leaving Archie to go and sit next to his daughter and help her with her toys. "Mommy is silly, but we love her anyway."
"The party was amazing, I can't believe she's one," Betty said with a sigh as they watched Feyre walk around the room holding tightly onto Archie's hand with both of her little ones. "I thought she could walk on her own now."
"She can, she's just being stubborn," Veronica told her taking the remaining cupcakes off the tray and into the containers to give to her friends, Feyre had managed to walk the length of their room just the night before without anyone's help until she realized her mother was watching her and then she needed hands to help her stay upright. "I'm glad she was in a good enough mood to walk in earlier."
All their friends and family had come back to Riverdale to celebrate Feyre's first birthday, complete with a live performance from Josie and the Pussycats and a jumping castle in the backyard which Feyre was terrified of no matter how much Archie tried to convince her it was fun. Feyre held her parents hands coming into the room and then let go of them so she could walk the short distance by herself to Hermione standing by the main table waiting for her, completely loving all the attention on her.
"She loves being the centre of attention so much," Betty mused watching the one-year old beam at her grandparents peppering her with kisses. She was currently being kissed on her cheeks by both her grandmothers for a picture, smiling widely at her father behind the camera. "She's definitely your daughter."
Veronica laughed and looked up at what Betty was seeing, Hermione had Feyre on her hip and was looking over at Archie's camera to see what he had captured while Feyre was laughing at the funny faces Fred was making behind her, they had already said their goodbye's and now they were taking final pictures with her before they left. "She really is, she's like my mini-me."
"Did you already pack all the cake away?" Jughead asked, coming up behind Betty and placing his hands on her hips, frowning at the now empty snack table.
"You're worse than my daughter," Veronica said with a roll of her eyes handing him one of the extra parcels and Jughead smiled happily at her before digging in.
"She is my god-daughter," he told them like it should be obvious where she gets her ravenous tendencies from, as they walked toward the rest of the remaining guests.
"Sometimes I think I was too high when I made that decision," Veronica teased and Jughead stuck his tongue out at her. "Hey," Veronica said to Archie when she reached him, slipping her arms around his waist and leaning in for a kiss.
"Babe, look at this," Archie said wrapping one arm around her and showing her the pictures he got of Feyre being cute with her grandparents.
"I love this one with your dad," Veronica giggled, looking at the picture of Fred and Feyre both making the same exaggerated surprised face at each other. "Did we get good ones of the party?"
"Oh yeah, Kevin got the best shots, you can see them later," Archie said putting the camera away and looking up to find Cheryl squatting down with Feyre between her legs encouraging her to walk to Toni who held up her keys as a lure for the toddler. "Are you guys trying to get her to walk?"
"Yes but she'll only go as far as she can hold," Cheryl told them with a frown.
"Let me try," Archie said letting go of Veronica and kneeling down. "Feyre, come here baby."
Feyre turned around in her aunts arms looking around her curiously to see her dad kneeling down with his arms open. "No," she said smiling at them.
"That's the word of the day," Josie deadpanned from her spot on Reggie's lap as everyone else laughed, every second word out of Feyre's mouth that day was 'no'.
"Fey look, my Archikins," Veronica said, running her fingers through Archie's hair. Feyre frowned at her mother and moved around Cheryl, still holding onto her for support until she realized that she couldn't walk any further unless she let go.
"No," Feyre complained as Veronica hugged Archie to her side. The toddler let go of Cheryl's hand and ran straight into her fathers arms, holding on tight to him and glaring at her mother when he stood up with her.
"And that is how you get her to walk," Veronica laughed looking up at her daughter who buried her face back into her father's neck and refused to look at her. "Give her a second, she'll be back to normal."
"Yep, she's exactly like you," Betty mused making everyone laugh again. "As soon as someone gets too close to Archie you spring into action."
"I don't like people getting too close to my man," Veronica said pressing herself to the side of Archie's body, slipping her hand into his and he squeezed her finger looking at her with a cheeky grin on his face. She knew she never had to be jealous, Archie would never look anywhere else but there was one girl who got too close and Veronica was forced to step in and knock her down a peg or two. Betty found this hilarious from someone who was always said that they were above reacting out of pure jealousy and never let her live it down.
"Are you done pouting?" Archie asked Feyre, bouncing the toddler in his arms and she pulled her head up from his shoulder, glared at her mother one more time and looked out at the rest of the family. "I think that's a yes."
"Remind me to never get onto her bad side," Toni said still laughing.
"Wanna go to Juggy," Archie asked the baby, setting her down on her feet and letting her hands wrap around his fingers when she didn't want to stand alone. Feyre looked toward her Godfather and leaned forward still holding her father's fingers as if she were going to walk forward but then thought better of it and just smiled at Jughead, reaching out a hand, causing him to run to her and pick her up. "You just can't say no, can you?"
"Who can say no to this cute face?" Jughead said pressing a loud kiss to Feyre's face, making her giggle.
"As much as I want to stay in this precious baby's company, it's late and we have an early flight tomorrow," Josie said stretching when she stood up, prompting Cheryl and Toni to call it a night as well, Josie said a quick bye to everyone and then going straight to Feyre and pinching her cheeks. "And you my darling girl, you just keep getting cuter and cuter and I will see you soon."
"Oh guys wait, watch this," Archie said as they were leaving and they turned back to him. "Feyre say bye and blow them a kiss," he encouraged.
"Bye," she said loudly, taking her open hand to her mouth and then throwing it out toward them.
"Oh she is too much, I just want to take her home with me," Toni exclaimed coming back to pluck the baby from Jugheads arms and squeeze her in a big hug.
"Whenever you want to take her off our hands you are more than welcome," Veronica laughed and Toni hugged Feyre one last time before handing her over to Betty and leaving.
"So V, how does it feel to have a one-year old?" Betty said rocking Feyre in her arms, watching her yawn as the excitement of the day faded with her energy, Veronica was surprised she stayed awake till everyone had left, she had been rubbing her eyes irritably since they took down the jumping castle.
"Surreal," Veronica said watching her baby's eyes droop as Betty started to hum. "It feels like just yesterday they were placing her wrinkly little body onto my chest and look at her now."
"She's still so little," Betty said following Veronica into the other room where Archie and Jughead were already relaxing on the couches with beers in their hands. "What do you think Jug?"
"Hmm?" Jughead asked when she sat down next to him. "Think of what?" he asked tickling Feyre's tummy but she was too fast asleep to react to him.
"Of having a baby," she said and Jughead's eyes went wide, pausing his movements and looking up at Archie and Veronica who were cuddled up on the other couch pretending to ignore them completely. "Jug, not now, but in the future? The near future."
"It wouldn't be the worst thing," he told her, picking his eyes up from the sleeping toddler to look at her. "Maybe after the book is published we can start trying."
"Oh by then we'll be ready for our second baby and we can have our kids together," Veronica exclaimed clapping her hands together and this time is was Archie who paled, glancing hesitantly at his wife, having Feyre was terrifying enough, he doesn't even know how he managed to get through the year without somehow breaking her or losing his mind with worry when she was out of his sight, the thought of a second baby gave him anxiety. Veronica's hand came to the inside of his thigh gently squeezing his leg to tell him that they will talk about it later and clearing his mind of anything except for her.
"They'll be best friends of course," Betty said as she and Veronica continued to plan their future children.
"And we can dress them up in the same outfits," Veronica said giggling at the disturbed look on Jughead's face at the mention of that. "Like twins."
"You just lost Godmother rights," Jughead frowned and Veronica gasped launching into a new argument.
Archie just shook his head at them and reached over to take Feyre from Betty when she started to fuss, settling her on his shoulder and pressing a kiss to her head as she fell back asleep with Veronica running a hand up and down the baby's back to sooth her.
"Are you ok?" Veronica asked pausing her argument to look up at him with concerned eyes and Archie smiled at her and nodded, leaning down to kiss her quickly, whatever fear rose up in him when she mentioned a second baby dissipated the moment he looked at her, because for as long as she was by his side, he could probably do anything.
"Perfect."
A/N: I might be on the unpopular side of the Varchie fandom when I saw that I loved episode 6, almost as much as I loved episode 5 and what it showed us about Veronica and Archie's love, I thought I could only write or read in fanfiction the things he said to her and everything she did for him in the last 2 episodes but that actually happened, I am terrified for the coming episodes and especially after seeing the trailer for episode 7 but Veronica is right they are endgame and I trust that they will fight everything to make sure that they are endgame
So in light of Archie's declaration I have decided to continue this series, I had a part of this one-shot written down when I posted the first chapter and in the last 2 days I finished it and polished it up just in time for this episode, I am making this a connected one-shot series focusing on a Varchie future of their marriage and Feyre and any other little babies that they have, the one-shots won't necessarily be in chronological order but we'll see
If you have any requests at all please let me know and I will try my hardest to deliver
Please review and let me know what you think, or if you need to vent about this episode I am more than willing to vent with you
Until Next Time (^^,)