A/N: Last chapters folks. I don't know what am going to do next, but I'd like to thank you guys for coming on this journey. I can't see this story having a sequel, but I might revisit this concept with another fandom one day. Now, let's get on with the chapter. One last time(Alexa, play 'One Last Time' from "Hamilton").
9:10 pm
Betty spent the next nine hours laying in a hospital bed in the room. Her parents joined her. They berated her at first for leaving and not telling them she was a decker in person, but they were, in the end, relieved. Polly joined them with the twins a few hours after the arrival.
"You only have to live for the next three hours, baby," Alice told her youngest daughter. "Then you'll be free. You can be the exception. If you live past twelve tonight, you will have proven Death-Cast is a bunch of lies."
"Death-Cast has never been wrong before," Betty said. "Why should I fear death? Jughead didn't fear death, so why should I? I know that I'm going to die at eighteen. This is the one part of my life you can't control."
"Elizabeth, don't talk to your mother like that," Hal scolded. "She just wants you to stay around for as long as possible. She knows that she'll never get to see you graduate college, get married, have children, or any other big events in your life. You were supposed to die after us."
"Now, you'll be dead years before all of us," Polly said sadly. "Like Jason."
There was an awkward silence for a few moments. Betty knew she had to get out of that hospital. She ripped the IV out of her arm and stood up. Hal was about to protest, but before he could grab her arm, she was already out the door. The doctors couldn't keep her because deckers were allowed to refuse medical care.
She exited the hospital. She remembered the park that she and Polly went to as children, and she started to walk in that direction. Betty put her hands into her pockets, minding her own business.
Betty didn't bother to look both ways. She stepped into the road and began walking, not noticing the semi-truck that was meters away from her. Before she could react, her world was dark.