Riverdale High is still under quarantine but the gang is determined to get the hell out. How will they fight their way out?
Part XI. Last Chapter!
Jughead POV.
I will be writing other side stories from Season 4 soon!
Happy new year everyone!
Please answer this: what is your favorite season of Riverdale so far?
My answer: Season One.
"I have strict orders not to allow you to leave these parts," the school police officer states. Betty rushes up next to me. I grab her around her waist and hold tightly onto her, the fear of my previous visions still haunts my memory coming out in tremors at the edges of my fingertips. I try to appear brave but the truth is that I do not feel brave at all. I sort of feel like crawling into a ball and sleeping for a week.
"Look, we figured out what this is. If we don't get out of here, whatever the farm is planning to do is going to succeed. We have to get out of here right now!" Betty shouts.
"I'm sorry. I cannot let any of you out of this school until the quarantine has been cleared," the guard explains. I lean back on my heels, looking around at the people surrounding me. My friends who look afraid, tattered and beaten. They look like they have been to hell and back and this is all just a hoax. This is all just some scheme that Edgar has cooked up, just like the way that he manages to hypnotize people.
"Is Evelyn here?" Betty asks.
"I have no way of knowing," the guard says, looking indifferent. Betty looks from him to me and then back again. I can see that anger boiling in the back of her throat. Her hands start to shake at her sides as they form into fists. She parts her lips, her eyes squinting at him as the anger bubbles to the surface, ready to explode.
"Of course not. And you're not effected either. I'm sure wherever Principal Weatherbee is, he's not effected either," Betty says, shaking her head.
"Edgar is somehow doing all of this from afar, probably so that he can get move more of his people into Riverdale," Archie says.
"I'm tired of this," I tell them both. "I'm done being here. I can't handle this feeling anymore."
"Cool it, Jones," Sweet Pea warns, but I ignore him. I grab the police officer, some useless officer that they sent here to break up school fights. I push him against the doors, holding him down as he attempts to fight. Just when I think he might have the upper hand, Sweet Pea catches on and puts his forearm across his entire chest, keeping him entirely still against the double doors. I reach into my back pocket and grab my switch blade, flipping it open right under the man's chin.
"The Farm is responsible for this and if we do not get out right now, they are going to get away with whatever it is that they are doing on the other side!" I say to him in a dark, foreboding tone. I let every part of my anger and Serpent Kingliness come through my words. "You let us through those doors and I will let you live."
"How would you get away with that?" he asks, his voice shaking and giving him away. He knows that while I might not be the one to kill him, it's clear that Sweet Pea would do it if I ordered it. On one hand, that's terrifying and on the other, it gives me more power than I have ever had my entire life and I love it.
"I'm the sheriff's son. I can do whatever I want. I could tell them I saw you stab your own throat when you went into one of those trances," I say with a small smirk. "It doesn't really matter. You'd be dead and everyone here would be unreliable witness, considering the drugs that we are all probably on."
His fear grows clearly as he shakes in his skin.
"Let's get out of here, Jughead," Archie says. I ignore him.
"You're going to let us out and I am going to open the doors for the rest of the high schoolers,"
"Jug! Veronica's losing it again!" Archie shouts. "Hurry this up!"
When I turn around I find that Veronica is passed out in Archie's arms, moaning so low that I can barely hear her. Her eyes are rolled back but it is more than clear that she is in yet another hallucination. We need to get out of here before we find out what happens after this next round.
"Do it now or your dead!" I shout.
He shakes his head.
"Do it," Sweet Pea adds, his dark eyes glaring at the man. The overweight cop looks from me to Sweet Pea and back again. Before I know it, I am pushed out of the way. The knife is taken from my hand and Betty is holding it against his throat, a small trickle of blood dripping down his neck to his chest, ruining his uniform.
"They might not kill you," Betty whispers. "Do you see that crazy look in my eyes?"
He does not respond but there is a moment where I am pretty sure he is pissing his pants.
"I don't want to murder you," Betty says, a strange smile spreading across her face. It scares even me. I back away from her, watching the evil come over her body in a way that I have never seen before. "But I do want your fingers."
The man starts nodding dramatically, his hands slowly going up in a defensive position. Betty grins at him, holding the knife slightly away and taking her weight off of him. Sweet Pea backs up, almost as if on her command, which would make me hot for her if we weren't in this current situation. The officer goes to the door, fumbling with his keys and unlocks the door, reaching above him to release the final lock before the double doors are pushed open.
I grab the knife from Betty's hand and for a moment I see the look in her eyes that she was talking about, that the others have said before. That look of hate and anger and need for power. Maybe she is capable of things that I do not understand. I grab the knife from her quickly. She releases it when her eyes go from lion to doe.
"Let's get out of here," I beg of her.
"Guys! Veronica's waking up!" Archie says.
"I'm not feeling great," Sweet Pea admits.
When I look to him, I find that he is wavering on his feet, his chest rising and falling rapidly. I am about to reach over to catch him when Archie pushes past me, knocking me toward the door and running out of it. I grab Sweet Pea on my way out and in a horrible rush, we all make out way out onto the concrete. I pull Sweet Pea along even as he wavers. Betty is rushing after us, calling after Cheryl who is no longer listening to the troubles that the rest of us are having.
"Veronica, it's okay. You're okay. We're out," Archie is saying, holding Veronica's body as she wails and kicks to get away from him. He attempts to hold her down but her arms go flailing and she attempts to push him away, kicking with everything that she has. I rush over to him and help hold down her arms, pulling them away from his face where a long claw mark has been left bloody against the side of his face.
"It's okay, Ronnie!" Archie shouts.
"Come on, V," Betty says above us both. "We're fine. We're out. It's all over now."
Veronica finally stops fighting us, her raven hair draping across the back of Archie's arm, her eyes opening to the bright blue sky above us. I look up at the sky, following her gaze and find a beautiful white puffy cloud.
"You're okay," Archie mumbles. I turn to Sweet Pea and find him giving me a thumbs up, standing above us. I nod toward him. I check on Betty who gives me a relieved smile that reaches her eyes.
"We're out. It's over," I say. "It's finally over."
Question: What is your favorite season of Riverdale?
My Answer: Season 1