"Remember. Don't follow too close behind." Betty put a hand on Jughead's forearm as he took a left behind Alice's car.

Instead of responding with some smartass remark, Jughead took his foot off the pedal a bit, suddenly feeling paranoid that Alice would catch them. Both he and Betty looked around at the street signs and surrounding buildings to try and decipher her mother's destination.

For a while, neither could wrap their heads around the journey, as Alice had taken a route they had never been down before. Soon, they found themselves about a football field or more behind her on an open road where nothing surrounded them but fields and trees. Jug looked to Betty in the passenger seat and she sent him the same odd expression. They now knew exactly where they were headed. The Blossoms' Thistle House.

When they watched Alice's car reach the Blossom driveway about a hundred yards ahead, Jughead pulled the truck over in between a large patch of trees to hide it. "What are you doing?" Betty wondered when he unbuckled his seat belt.

"Come on." He said, opening the door and getting out. He walked around to the other side of the truck as Betty undid her belt as well and he opened the passenger side door for her. "We're walking the rest of the way so she or the infamous Penelope Blossom don't find an oddly familiar pickup truck nearby."

"Right." Betty gladly took his hand and he helped her out before they made their way through the large field that ran up to Thistle House.

When they arrived, they quietly climbed the black fence that only slightly towered over Jughead. Jug went first, of course, helping Betty down on the other side. Once her feet hit the cobblestone path below them, they ducked down behind a few pine trees, seeing Alice on the doorstep to the temporary Blossom residence.

Rushing to a line of bushes, Juggy and Betty ducked lower before seeing Alice knock on the front door. The two sneaking teens crouched behind the bushes, looking through their branches to watch as the door eventually opened. They could barely see Penelope inside from their angle, though they heard her pretty well.

"Alice Cooper." They just barely saw her arms cross over her chest.

"Penelope. How's life without the mister?" Alice's smug grin caused Betty's eyes to roll.

"Are you here to gloat about all of my losses, Alice or have you come for a more pressing matter?" Cheryl's mom responded with a harsh tone. "Because otherwise...I know some things that I could gloat about when it comes to your supposedly perfect little family of angels. Or should I say snakes?"

Betty looked to Jug with confusion and he furrowed his brows with mystery before they both looked back to the two rival parents.

"No. Actually, Penelope. I came with a question." Alice paused. "Well, not so much of a question as it is a request."

Mrs. Blossom hesitated. "Alright."

"May I come in?"

"I'm not so sure that's a good idea." The recovering burn victim replied.

"Oh, come on, Penelope. I don't bite." There was a pause and Alice's expression slightly changed. "Alright. Well maybe I bite a little, but I'm not poisonous."

"Mmm..." They saw Penelope step aside as Alice walked in. "I'll pretend that's true for now."

Betty and Jughead heard the door close and they quietly made their way out from behind the bushes. "Come on." Betty whispered, grabbing Jug's hand and pulling him with her. They snuck over to one of the well-detailed windows and sat on the gravel below it. It was luckily opened just a crack and they could hear the conversation inside.

"So..." Came from Penelope's voice. "What can I do for a Southside Serpent-turned Stepford Wife on this fine afternoon?"

Betty sent wide-eyes to Jughead, who sent them right back. The blonde teen mouthed the words 'Southside Serpent' to her just-as-clueless boyfriend below the window.

"I was wondering..." Alice began. "Were you able to save anything in the 'apparently accidental' fire?"

"What are you insinuating?" Penelope asked about Alice's assumption that the fire was not an accident.

"Let me just get right to the point." Mrs. Cooper could tell that her lack of a filter was already about to cause trouble with her 'apparent' relative by marriage, so she continued with the significance of her visit. "I was hoping that you could maybe let me have something of Jason's? Something to give to Polly for the babies? It would really mean a lot to her and well, the twins do deserve something of their father's, don't they?"

"You're really asking me to give up something of my late son's, possibly one of the last things I have left of him, just to give it to your oh-so-precious pregnant teenage daughter?" No surprise, they heard bitter hostility in Penelope's tone.

"It's not for Polly. It's for the babies. HIS babies." Alice slightly paused. "YOUR grandchildren, might I add...I'm just asking if you have anything that you think would be nice to give to them once they're born? You don't even have to give it to me right away. I'm just wondering." It was silent for another moment. "Can't you, for once, put this stupid feud between our HUSBANDS aside and do something selfless for the sake of what's right?"

"And how do YOU know what's right?" The redhead asked with disdain.

"Because I know that these babies are really the only thing valuable enough to count as a real gift your son left behind." The passion in Alice's tone was shocking to Betty. It was just now that she had noticed her mother was not lying to Hal this morning about wanting to get something for the babies. She saved her thoughts for later so she could concentrate and hear more of the conversation inside. "You're gonna wanna see them, Penelope? Then I suggest you start pretending even a little bit that you care about the mother of Jason's children and get over the repugnant ego that your twisted husband left behind."

The silence that followed was agonizingly long before the sound of footsteps sounded in the house behind Betty and Jug. They waited a while before those footsteps slowly waned away and eventually returned. They heard a sniffle followed by a sigh and soon, Penelope's voice sounded with a hint of pain. "Here's one of the last photos we got of Jason before..." Betty turned and quietly lifted her head to peak into the window. She watched as a saddened Mrs. Blossom handed the framed picture to her mother before continuing to speak about two other items in her hands. "This was Jason's favorite stuffed animal. He wouldn't go anywhere without it, until Clifford told him we had thrown it away to get him to stop taking it everywhere." A small hint of regret seemed to be plastered on the cruel mother's face. "I took it out of the trash and kept it hidden in our attic here without Cliff's knowledge. I planned to give it back to Jason on his 18th birthday." She fought back a light smile before handing it to a, suddenly, softer Alice. "And here's his baby rattle." Jughead poked his head up as well, seeing Penelope hand over the small plastic toy with hesitation.

"Betty, come on." Jughead whispered, taking hold of her hand.

"No, wait." She protested, pulling back against his grip.

"Betty, we can't be here when your mom leaves. We need to be back at the truck before she drives away. Let's go." He pulled again and she finally gave in, running back to the truck with him.

Once they got back in, Jug started it and they waited again, both wishing they could've heard the rest of the conversation. "My mom was telling the truth." Betty said, more to herself than to the other one present.

"What?"

"This morning she told my dad that she was gonna try and get something for Polly and the babies. I thought she lied...She was telling the truth." She leaned her elbow against the truck window while leaning her head against her hand.

"This still doesn't explain where she's been going the past few weeks." Jughead pointed out.

"I know." She bit the fingernails on her free hand. "I can't believe she pulled that off."

"Pulled what off?" Jones responded. "You mean actually being able to convince Cheryl's mom to give away something of Jason's for Polly?"

Betty slowly nodded as she looked out her window. "Jug. There she is." She pointed to the driveway down the road, seeing Alice's car backing out of Thistle House. "Where's she going now? Town's back that way." Betty pointed in the opposite direction of where her mother was headed.

"Well..." Jughead couldn't help but smile. He was enjoying playing spy kids. "Time to find out more about the Adventures of Alice Cooper." He winked and put the truck in reverse, pulling out of the woods and following Alice to her next destination.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I hope that soon we get more interactions between the Coopers, Blossoms, and Lodges on the show. All of the parent drama gives me life! Haha Please leave me lots and lots of comments. I love the feedback! MWAH!