Chughead pairing story
At the police station Sheriff Keller is interrogating FP Jones about the murder of Jason Blossom.
Much to the surprise of the Sheriff FP is very quick to confess his guilt in every crime related to the murder of Jason, including the drug trafficking and the break in at the Sheriff's house.
After Betty, Veronica and Archie told Jughead that his father had been framed the four immediately left Pop's and head over to the police station to inform the sheriff about it.
"Sheriff, we need to talk to you about FP Jones." Veronica says seeing the Sheriff approach the front desk.
"What about him?" Sheriff Keller asks.
"He's innocent. He's being framed." Archie replies.
"Then why did he just confess?" Keller asks doubtful, making Jughead look at him like he grew a second head.
As coincidence would have it, FP is getting transferred into a prison cell right now and walks by behind Keller, led by two officers. Jughead shifts his gaze from Keller to his father and stares at him feeling frustrated and angry.
The next day at school Betty, Archie, Veronica and Kevin are discussing the case and why FP would confess to the murder, when they know he's being framed.
"Oh man." Archie says looking up from his pudding cup only to see Jughead walk through the cafeteria looking practically lifeless and heading straight for Cheryl.
"I thought he wasn't supposed to come in today?" Veronica says confused.
Jughead makes his way over to the table Cheryl is sitting at, making her turn to look at him.
"I'm sorry Cheryl." Jughead says looking at her with glassy eyes, being close to crying for having to face the girl he loves and wait for her reaction to his fathers' latest way to screw up his life.
Cheryl gets up from her seat, tears already forming in her eyes and slaps him across the face yelling at him "I hate you! I trusted you and you and your father murdered my beloved Jason. Did you like hanging around the surviving sister you freak?". She then starts to hit him in his chest repeatedly with him taking the hits, not showing any reaction other than his now freely falling tears, which don't stem from the physical but rather the emotional pain. This goes on until the headmaster appears and breaks up the fight and tells Jughead, whose lip got busted to come with him.
Cheryl, who went into the girls locker room to cry gets approached by Betty after her fight with Jughead and tells her "It's not his fault Cheryl. Even if his dad did do it, which is still uncertain to me…"
"Everybody keeps coming up to me and hugging me and telling me that I must be so relieved that my brothers' killer has finally been caught but then why doesn't it feel that way?" Cheryl asks with her tear stained face.
"We don't think FP did it, the gun they found. He didn't put it there, Archie and Veronica searched his trailer when the Jones' were over at your place. And just so you know, even if FP is involved Jughead really didn't know. I was there when he told Jughead that he had nothing to do with Jason's murder." Betty informs her.
"Still, I don't think I can bring myself to trust him again, not after what his father did." Cheryl says starting to tear up again. Betty stays with her a while, consoling her to her best ability before she leaves to wait for Jughead to leave the principal's office.
"What happened?" Betty asks the moody and broken-hearted teen.
"The second interrogation of the day. Don't know who is more of a dick. Keller or Wetherbee." Jughead tells her offhandedly. Betty tries to convince him of his father's innocence but Jughead after hearing of his fathers' confession lost all faith in him and tells her this, giving words to all of his pent-up disappointment and hurt caused by his father's lack of parenting and reliability.
Later that day Jughead is coming downstairs from Archie's room, when he overhears that he'll be forbidden to further attend the school because Wetherbee is concerned about the student's possible reactions. Added to this Frank basically tells Archie to stay away from Jughead because the Jones' are a magnet for trouble and will only endanger Archie, making Jughead feel even more lost because Frank Andrews has always been like a father to him. Jughead tells them that he'll stay in the garage for that night and then look for something else.
Meanwhile at the Cooper's house Hal Cooper fills in his family about him stealing the Sheriff's files and their past with the Blossoms which is that they are in fact related, making Jason and Polly distant cousins. The three of them immediately drive to Thornhill and take Polly with them in the middle of the night, revealing to her, that Polly is related to the Blossoms.
The next day Archie wakes Jughead and tells him that they have to head to Pop's to meet his mother, who is trying to help FP. She informs the two teens that sadly things are looking bleak for FP with his confession, priors and the murder weapon. But when she inquires as to who Joaquin DeSantos is the two boys ask her why Kevin's boyfriend is important to FP's case and she explains that he's the one phone call FP made after his arrest and suggests that Jughead goes to see his father before he won't get the chance anymore.
At the sheriff station Jughead tells his father how disappointed he is in him and tries to get anything out of him but only sees that his father is lying to him.
Meanwhile Archie and Veronica ask Kevin to set up a meeting with Joaquin who agrees and the four of them meet in Archie's garage.
Veronica asks Joaquin if he knows something and if his father is the one who ordered Jason's death and with some reluctance Joaquin tells them that he thinks that FP killed Jason because he had to help FP get rid of the body. As for Mr. Lodge he only knows that one of the Serpents talked to FP about some job from a rich guy. Veronica and Kevin then pressure Joaquin into taking them to the Serpent's house so they can finally get some answers from him.
Once they are at the Serpents house, they find the dead body of the serpent member lying in his tub. So, they do the only thing left for now which is inform Sheriff Keller about the Serpent.
The Sheriff tells the group, Mr. Andrews and Mrs. Lodge that it's most likely an accidental overdose, but they found a bag full of money with the initials H.L. on it and confront Mrs. Lodge about it but Veronica cuts in and tells the Sheriff that her father was doing business with the Serpents.
Meanwhile Kevin is taking Joaquin to the bus station, so he can leave town and lay low once he's a safe distance away. At the bus station however, Joaquin confesses the last thing he knows about the Jason murder which is the location of where he hid Jason's jacket, which FP took from the car and gave him for safekeeping.
While all this is going on at Thornhill Cheryl confronts her mother about why Jason wanted to leave the family, hoping that by keeping herself busy with the details of her brother's passing she can subdue the feeling of sadness and betrayal swimming inside her after her encounter with Jughead at school. Her mother however snaps and drags her daughter to one of the barren's keeping barrels of Syrup and tells her that this is all there is to their family.
At school Jughead and Betty met up to discuss all things murder of Jason Blossom when Kevin calls them and tells them to meet him where they found the car, because Joaquin hid something there.
"So why did Joaquin wait so long to tell us?" Betty asks Kevin while they are walking through the woods almost at the site where they found the car.
"FP called him from jail, said that the contingency plan is too dangerous." Kevin replies.
"Deja-vous." Jughead says seeing the sign saying, 'Blossom Maple Farm' and starts to look all around the sign since this is the spot where the Jacket should be and under some branches, they find a duffle bag with the Jacket inside.
They take it over to Archie's garage where they told the others to meet them. While everyone thinks that this is only more incriminating evidence against Jughead's dad Betty doesn't think that it adds up and makes Archie put on the Jacket. Once he is wearing it, she starts to pat it down for anything hidden in the Jacket and finds a hole in one of the pockets. Betty then tells the others that whenever she has a hole in her pocket, she loses stuff in her lining and that maybe it's the case here too and she starts to dig around it the pocket until she finds a usb stick and shows it to the others. They sit down on the couch standing in the garage and put in the usb stick, playing whatever is on it. As it turns out the usb stick contains a security footage showing Clifford Blossom shoot his son in the head in the cellar of the White Whyrm. Everyone watches the video intently and gets shocked when they see Clifford kill his son. Betty then reacts by closing the laptop quickly and Jughead pulls out his phone, calling the only one he can think about right now.
"Jughead, hey who are you calling?" Archie asks him as Jughead gets up from the couch, walking a few steps only to curse "Dammn! Betty give me your phone."
Betty hands him her phone confused and Jughead practically rips it our of her hand in a hurry. Jughead dials Cheryl's number again and this time she accepts the call.
"Cheryl, babe listen to me you have to get out of that house right now." Jughead tells her urgently
"What are you talking about are you trying to torture me further? Isn't it enough your father killed my JJ?" Cheryl asks angrily.
"Listen, we just found a video recording of your father Clifford shoot Jason in the head after he takes Polly's ring back from Jason." Jughead says ignoring his own hurt at Cheryl thinking he would hurt her intentionally.
"I understand, thank you." Cheryl replies almost emotionlessly and hangs up.
"Cheryl? Damn she hung up." Jughead says annoyed and hands Betty her phone back.
Once this was done Betty takes the usb stick, after making a copy of the video and gives it to her mother so that she can show it to Sheriff Keller, who upon seeing it takes his men and drive to Thornhill to arrest Clifford.
While this is going on Cheryl confronted her parents about what Jughead told her and while her mother is shocked her father tells them to deny any knowledge of anything, leaves them alone in the house with Nana Rose and goes into the barren with the Syrup and hangs himself throwing over two barrels filled with Drugs which are hidden in the Syrup in the process. Once the Sheriff arrives at Thornhill both Cheryl and her mother are waiting for them in front of the house and point towards the shed Clifford went to.
AN: Hope you like it :) also possibly a lemon coming up (in between Cheryl's almost drowning and her burning down Thornhill)