Is anyone else really, really excited for season 3 with all the Moose and Kevin we can bare. And maybe even some Joaquin? He was in Riverdale for Fangs and we do want to see him with Kevin? Right? Right?! Anyways, enjoy.

Sheriff Keller was a very private man. He knew that with his job as the sheriff of a small town that he couldn't let his emotions show for one moment. But with his son being stripped away from him, he started to look more and more like his emotions were showing. Dark circles grew under his eyes and his usually fair skin had become as pale as a vampire. The sheriff had honestly never looked worse than in that moment. That moment of weakness and that moment of terrible unruly emotion.

The sheriff sat at his desk in his home, fingers shaking over the keys on his laptop. He was exhausted and the slowly pain of no sleep was getting to him. He needed to rest, but the desperate father just couldn't. Not when the man that attacked his son and put him in a coma. He needed to find him. To kill him. For Kevin. For his boy. Tom shuddered, trying to not his exhaustion take a hold of him and focus back on his leads. He had gotten so many leads from Betty and Archie, mostly because Betty still felt bad for saying something so homophobic to his gay son. The leads seemed to be going somewhere and nowhere at the same time, but it was something.

Tom stood up and walked over to the murder board, that Kevin so graciously loved to make fun of and compliment at the same time. Of course, there was a picture of his son on the board, which made him a bit upset. But the leads that he had gotten solely based on his son wasn't exactly going anywhere. It kind of made him want to cry. Tom went to sit back down by his laptop when he heard his doorbell ring. Tom smiled weakly. It didn't matter if the guest was for him, Kevin or just the delivery man, Kevin would always yell that he would get the door and he would let whoever inside or take the package. Tom stood up and he walked over to door.

He opened it and he frowned. "Sierra, I-"

"No." she responded, holding up a finger. "No if's and's or but's Tom. You're coming with me."

Tom gave her a weak chuckle. "Sierra, you do realized that telling the sheriff of town that you're about to kidnap him will make things worse for you."

Sierra rolled her eyes and she took Tom's hand. Tom nodded and grabbed his jacket and keys before closing the door. Sierra walked him to her car and sat him in the front seat. Sierra slowly drove him away from his house and towards her apartment building. "Isn't Josie home?" Tom asked as she parked the car.

"No." Sierra said. "She went to go visit Kevin? Speaking of which, have you visited him at all today?"

"I did." Tom responded, fixing his graying hair. "I visited him for a few hours before work. He was silent, per usual... I miss him so much."

"Don't worry Tom. He'll wake soon. The doctors have been telling me that he's been doing very well for his coma. It might be raised to a moderate coma instead of critical one." Sierra opened for door and she smiled at Kevin's father. "Now come on in."

Tom followed Sierra out of her car and towards his apartment. Sierra led him to her floor and inside. "Some of the deputies have been telling me your being a workaholic right now." she said, pulling him towards the bedroom.

"Yeah." Tom said, nodding while wiping his red eyes. "I just know that I am... it's just that-"

"You don't have to explain yourself Tommy." Sierra said, moving to face him. She cupped his cheeks and kissed his forehead. "But you need rest. Like everybody else does."

"I don't need rest Sierra. I need to find the man that put my son in a hospital bed." Tom sighed and pulled his hand away from her's. He sat on the bed with his arms folded in front of him. Sierra slowly strolled toward him and she knelt down in front of him.

"That's not the only problem though is it?" she said, putting her hand on his lips and feeling him kiss her palm. "Tom, what else happened?"

"I just got an email from the hospital. What they're charging me for Kevin's treatment... it's triple the cost of how much I paid for the house." Keller sighed. "And if I don't pay it... I'm scared that they'll pull the plug on taking care of Kevin and-and and he'll die in the coma and I won't see him ever again."

"Don't worry Tom. We'll find a way. We'll fix this." Sierra tilted his chin upward so that he was looking up at her. "Together."

Tom nodded and allowed Sierra to pull him into a comforting hug. Slowly, Sierra kissed his cheek and laid him down on the bed. Tom finally felt comfortable after what felt like days of being emotional and depressed. Sierra took of his beige collared shirt and pants and laid him down on the pillow. "Take a nap." she whispered to him. "You need sleep."

"Sierra I-"

"What did I say when I came to your house?" she asked.

Tom sighed and he leaned down on the pillows. "No if's, and's or but's. Okay, okay."

Sierra pulled the blanket over the distraught father and shut off the light in the room. Tom instantly fell asleep, exhausted from working hard to locate that bastard that attacked his son. Sierra smiled, happy that he was finally taking care of himself for once. She closed the door and sat down on her couch, pulling out her Bible and beginning to read the verses for those in danger.

Josie walked inside the hospital, holding a bouquet of Kevin's favorite flowers. Gerbera daisies. She thought that it would be nice to finally visit Kevin. Awake or not. She approached the hall where Kevin was inside and she smile at her old bodyguards. "Hey Ben. Hey Carlton." she said with a smile. "Is uh... is Kevin in there?"

"He sure is Miss Josie." Carlton replied with a smile. "Also, a few of your classmates are in there visiting him."

"Really, who?"

"Moose Mason, Reggie Mantle and Chuck Clayton."

Josie smiled and nodded. She opened the door and walked inside. The room smelled of Kevin. Probably from the candle that was burning near his bedside table. Reggie sat up from his chair and smiled at her. Chuck did to, but he knew nit to get too comfortable, since people still didn't trust him. Moose didn't even bother to look up at Josie. His eyes were on Kevin, hand locked in his.

Josie smiled and waved at Chuck. "Hey Chuck."

"Hey Josie." Chuck said, taking the flowers from her. "Her, let me take this from you."

"Thank you." she looked over at Reggie, who was holding out his hand for her. Josie took it and kissed his forehead. The two had started dating a few weeks ago. Chuck wasn't jealous of it. He didn't really expect for anyone to really be nice to him after he came back to school, so he was still warming up for everyone. And everyone was warming up to him. He couldn't blame them. But at least people were kind.

"How is he?" Josie asked, looking down at Kevin.

"The doctors say that he's going better. They say that if he keeps on healing this way, he's coma will change from a critical coma to a moderate one." Chuck answered, replacing the dying gerbera daisies with the ones that she had brought. Josie looked over to Moose. He hadn't acknowledged the young singer or even looked up at her. Josie knew how much Moose cared about Kevin. How much he really wanted Kevin to wake up. "Moose?" Josie called to him.

Moose looked up, still holding Kevin's hand and rubbing the back of his palm. He gave the young girl a weak smile. "Hi Josie." he said. "I'm sorry. I'm not tryng t seem rude."

"No. No. It's okay." she said. "Has he responded in any way?"

"I wish." Moose responded. "His breathing seems to be better."

Josie smiled and she looked over to Kevin's body. She reached out to him, but she looked at Reggie and Chuck first. She noticed specks of blood on their shirts. "Do I want to ask why there's blood on your shirts?"

"Moose just wanted to get some justice for Kev." Reggie said, shrugging his shoulders up a bit.

"You know that Kitt Bassinger kid?" Chuck asked, crossing his arms in anger from the sound of his name.

"Yeah." Josie said. "Used to slap Melody's ass in the halls until I locked him in the cafeteria's freezer for the weekend."

"Ah, I remember that." Reggie said with a chuckling snort.

"He put Kevin's name in that god forsaken book." Moose said, wiping Kevin's growing bangs out of his eyes. "Even gave him bonus points for being gay."

"The bastard." Josie said, shaking her head in anger. "I'm guessing that you all beat him down?"

Reggie shook his head and said: "Not us. Moose."

Moose gave a smile and he looked back down at Kevin's unmoving hand. "He deserved it. That son of bitch hurt Kevin and he didn't even know."

Josie stood up and walked up to Kevin's bedside. She reached out to touch him. "Moose can I... can I-"

Moose smiled and he nodded. "You don't have to ask me. You can touch him."

Josie smiled and looked down at Kevin. She cupped his cheek in his hand. "His hair grew." she said. "Do you guys remember the last time Kevin's hair was this long?"

Chuck smiled and nodded. "Seventh grade. The same year he came out."

"After that he cut it short." Reggie said.

Josie went inside her purse and she pulled out a small pair of scissors. "Do you mind setting his bed up?" she asked Moose. "I know how much he'll hate it if we just let him have his hair as long as Joaquin's when he wakes up."

"Oh yeah." Reggie said, adjusting the bed so that Kevin's hair was falling off the bed. Ready for cutting. "Kevin would kill us."

"Joaquin?" Moose repeated, standing up and letting Josie sit as she began to cut the hair that was long enough for a man bun. "Who... who's Joaquin?"

Chuck raised his eyebrows. "You don't know who Joaquin is?"

"No." Moose said, becoming scared. "Who is he? And what does he have to do with Kevin?"

"Moose..." Reggie said, starting to sound sympathetic. "Moose, Joaquin is Kevin's ex-boyfriend."

"I didn't know that Kevin was dating anyone." Moose said, feeling bad for not asking Kevin out properly and trying to let him know that he wanted to be with the Keller boy.

"Yeah, but don't get your hopes up. Keep in mind that he's Kevin ex for a reason." Reggie said. "Archie told me that he, Betty, Jughead and Veronica were looking around for who might have killed Jason and Joaquin said he knew something. Because he was a Serpent."

"You're telling me that a Serpent scum dated Kevin and was a part of Jason's murder?" Moose asked, becoming angry.

"But that's not all." Chuck said. "He skipped town afterwards. Broken Kevin's heart."

"Kevin was inconsolable after he left." Josie said, putting away the scissors after cutting his hair to the length he always wore. "He didn't come out for three whole weeks."

"So... this... is Serpent scum broke Kevin's heart and just left town?" Moose asked, walking back over to Kevin and taking his cheek in his hands. "Why didn't you tell me Kev? I would have been here for you."

Josie smiled and she patted Moose's shoulder. "Visiting time is almost over. We should go. I'll give you guys a ride home."

Moose nodded. "Can you guys give me a moment?"

Josie nodded and she took Reggie's hand. The three left the room and left Kevin alone with Moose. Moose leaned forward and he kissed Kevin's forehead, since his lips were stripped away from him from the breathing tube. "Come back to me Kev. Come back to me. And I... I promise that I'll treat you like you deserve. I promise... just please come back. Come back to your dad. To Betty. Archie. Veronica. Jughead. Josie. Reggie... Me. Come back to me. Please."

Moose sighed and shook his head. He kissed Kevin's forehead again and walked out of the room. Little did he know that Kevin heard him. He heard him. Kevin's slow and steady heart beat rose a bit at the sound of Moose's pleading.