**~~! TRIGGER WARNING: MENTION OF RAPE/DOMESTIC VIOLENCE !~~*

"You let him in here! You let them all in here!" Victoria shouted at her father in a raspy tone. Tears rolled down her cheeks in constant streams as she stood in an opposing stance from the man in the penthouse living room that Saturday evening. Veronica and Hermione stood at east and west positions of the father daughter duo as the scene continued to happen. Hiram, always having a cool exterior and a sense of superiority over everyone, stood with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Robert is my attorney. Why wouldn't I let him in? David is my biggest investor. Of course I will have them both in, personal feelings aside. It was all business today, Victoria." Hiram said.

"What is going on, exactly? Why are you so upset that Jeremy was here, Nena?" Hermione asked, placing her hand lightly on Victoria's shoulder. Hiram shook his head.

"She's still upset about their relationship failing is all. It's okay, Nenita. We will find you someone better suited." Victoria let out a shriek and lunged at her father. He grabbed her forearms to stop her from hitting him, while Veronica was quick to grab hold of her waist.

"Victoria!" Hermione shouted.

"They raped me!" Victoria shouted, trying to free her arms from her father's grasp. She sniffled and tried to regain steady breathing through her sobbing. "And you know it. I came to you!" Tori closed her eyes and shook her head. "You didn't do anything."

"Daddy? What's she talking about? Tori, who raped you?" Veronica asked, tears in her eyes from the overwhelming emotion spilling from her sister and the unfathomable confession. Hermione looked as though someone had just stabbed her in the heart.

"Jeremy!" Victoria was able to take Hiram by surprise and slam her fists into his chest, but he was quick to grab a firmer hold and keep her at an arm's length in recovery. "He drugged me," Victoria said in a quieter tone. She sniffled and stared her father straight in the face. "He raped me. He let Nick rape me." Veronica gasped.

"What?!"

"That's where Nick learned his trick," Victoria said with an anguished chuckle. "I told Daddy what they did." She yanked her arms free from his hold. "He did nothing, because doing something would keep him in jail longer. Doing something would jeopardize him. Doing something would mean too much to me!"

"Victoria, you should have come to me," Hermione started. Victoria turned to her mother, and her look was something of a dejected yet sinister expression.

"Why? What would you have done? Nothing. Neither of you took care of Nick St. Clair when you heard what he tried to do to Veronica! He would have never tried in the first place if you would have done something when I spoke up! A car accident and a slight limp?!" She shoved her mother aside and started toward the hallway. "I had my virginity taken by an entitled asshole who couldn't take no for an answer! Then he let his friend have a go just to lose his virginity!" She paused to turn around and face her family. "And while you're here in Riverdale building a new life, Daddy's telling me he'll fix everything. I can finish school. Everything is fine, but I'm being slut shamed by those boys and they're just boys being boys! You're the worst father ever!"

Veronica sobbed quietly as she listened to her sister rant. Hermione stoically wiped a lone tear from her face and Hiram stepped toward Victoria.

"Victoria, I assure you, they will be dealt with," he said.

"Don't lie to me!" she pointed an accusing finger at him. "I could have wound up pregnant by one of them, and then what would you have had me do? Keep the baby?" Hiram was silent. "I loved Jeremy, and he betrayed me. You're my father. Love is supposed to be unconditional from you, but you only love me when it's convenient for you."

"That's not true."

"I will never forgive you for this. You victimized me all over again, Daddy." She wiped her cheeks and silently left the room.

Victoria sat in her bathtub until the water was cold after her heated blowout with her family. The hot water wasn't enough to relax her. She'd heard her mother and father arguing. She thought she heard Veronica crying and then talking, but not in the vicinity of her parents, which meant she was probably crying to Archie. Would her sister tell her story just like that? It had taken her so long to say it to anyone but her father, but after seeing Jeremy and Nick again, it needed to be told.

A knock at her bathroom door made her turn her head. "Tori?" her sister called softly.

"I can't right now, Veronica." Tori pulled her knees against her torso in the lukewarm water.

"You shouldn't stay here, tonight." That was a confusing statement. Was she being thrown out of the apartment? If that was the case, then her father needed to be the one to come say it to her.

"What?"

"Can I come in?" Victoria sighed.

"Yeah." Veronica came into the bathroom and sat down beside the tub. "What do you mean I shouldn't stay here?"

"I mean it's toxic for you to be here right now. I think you should stay at Betty's. I already talked to her." Victoria opened her mouth to speak, but Veronica stopped her. "I didn't tell her the whole story, but just that you had a fight with Daddy over Jeremy and you're not in a good place here. Mrs. Cooper said it was okay."

"I don't belong here, at all." Victoria shivered slightly and let the water out of the tub. Veronica stood up and got Victoria's robe for her.

"You belong here with me. We've always known our family was different and that we handled things in different ways. I don't agree with what Daddy has done. I want to kill Jeremy and Nick myself." Victoria got out of the tub and pulled her robe on, sobbing softly as she did so.

"I'm so sorry Veronica."

"For what?"

"For what Nick did. I should have told you." Veronica hugged her sister.

"Shh. Stop. It's not your fault. None of this is your fault." The two embraced for a moment before they moved into Tori's room to prepare for her stay at the Cooper house.