Author's Notes: Hello friends and welcome to a brand new fanfiction! This fanfiction takes place in Season 3, and Betty is pregnant, except she isn't sent to the Sisters of Quiet Mercy because she's pregnant. Alice sends her to the Sisters for the same reason she sends her there in the show, but over time it becomes clear that she's pregnant. I'm going to try and follow the mystery of Season 3 as closely as possible, but just know that since Betty is pregnant there are going to have to be a lot of changes made to the story to make sure that it doesn't get confusing and stuff like that. Basically, I just got bored even though school is starting right now, but I'm starting a new school and things are pretty slow right now. Besides, I've been rewatching the series, and I'm on Season 3 now, and I got the idea for this fanfiction while watching the episode that Alice sent Betty away to The Sisters of Quiet Mercy. She's going to be spending a lot of time with the Sisters during the course of this fanfiction, but she will get out eventually. So yeah! I hope you all enjoy this fanfiction, and without further ado, onto Chapter One of In the Midst of Everything!
P.S. Jughead and Archie are out on the road, so yeah, we might check in on them a few times, you can count on that. Alright, seriously, onto the first chapter now….
BETTY'S POV
I don't know how she didn't see it when we ran into my room. Although to be fair, the Gargoyle King had just broken into our house, and we were fleeing for our lives.
When we rushed in, I remembered that I'd set it down on my bedside table. Before she could realize that it was there, what it was, and what it meant, I rushed towards my bedside table and grabbed it, stuffing it in my pocket before Mom could see it.
After FP climbed through my window, we got everything cleaned up, and I thought that was the end of it. Little did I know, my own mother planned on sending me to the exact same place that she sent Polly when her and my serial killer father found out that Polly was pregnant with Jason Blossom's baby, and the same place she was sent when she was pregnant at my age as well.
I have been in this hell-hole for a total of one day, and it's already awful. Today, the Sisters were literally giving out Fizzle Rocks (aka drugs) to the patients here, including me!
Mainly because I'm pregnant, but also because I'm not taking drugs, I took the Fizzle Rocks back to my room and dumped them out in the trash can. I can't imagine what taking drugs would do to my unborn baby. I'm not very far along… based on just what I remember from the last time Jughead and I… I can assume I'm around six or seven weeks along.
Just as I was making sure there weren't any Fizzle Rocks left on me, Ethel entered the room.
"How're you settling in, roomie?" Ethel asked, coming in with what looked like a vision board but… just from what I saw, there were like a thousand pictures of the Gargoyle King on it….
"Ethel…" I started confusedly. "What are you doing here?"
Ethel turned around and smiled at me. "Sister Woodhouse thought you might benefit from having a roommate who's familiar with the system around here," she said as she kneeled on her bed and hung the vision board/Gargoyle King shrine on her wall.
What a nightmare… I thought
"Fun," I lied. "Uh… did you just come from art class or something?"
"No, that's my warrior board," Ethel smiled at me. "It helps me sort of establish my goals and how to achieve them. It's also sort of dedicated to the Gargoyle King. We have amazing conversations,"
I narrowed my eyes at her, slightly taken aback. "Wait… you've met him?"
Ethel nodded. "Mhm. The other girls are afraid of him, but I'm not. We're actually really close,"
"Do you… think you could introduce us?" I asked, a smile on my face.
"No… that's Sister Woodhouse's job," Ethel replied with an identical smile on her own face.
Thinking quickly, I quickly shot back in a question, "Could you show me where his chambers are?"
"No, that's Sister Woodhouse's job," Ethel replied, this time with a bit of a more stern tone.
I closed my eyes, deciding to play a card that I hadn't anticipated I'd have to use. It was definitely a card that I wasn't going to be fond of playing. It had something to do with Ethel's apparent fondness for my boyfriend.
"Hmm… you'd tell Jughead,"
Ethel looked up to me, a slightly guilty look on her face. "About Jughead… I wasn't going to mention it, but since you brought it up," she looked at me with a smile on her face. "Betty… I don't think Jughead's that into you anymore. We really… connected, when we played the game together, and things got pretty hot and heavy in the bunker," she giggled lightly.
I glared at her. "Yeah, he told me about how you blackmailed him into kissing you,"
"I knew you would do this!" she said as she stood up. "You've always thought you were better than me. You and all your shallow friends,"
"What are you talking about?" I looked at her in disbelief.
Ethel smirked. "Well, you know what? This isn't Riverdale High anymore. The rules are different. I'm the queen bee, not you, Betty Cooper," she put her hands on her hips. "You're gonna need to change your attitude. You have to be honest with yourself, and others,"
I looked down and closed my eyes, hiding my eye-roll from her.
"You can start…" she went over to the trash can, causing me to stand up in alarm, "with what you threw in the trash."
She picked up the trash can and scooped out the Fizzle Rocks that I'd thrown out prior to my conversation with Ethel. Ethel looked at me, and I scrambled to explain myself. Do I tell her I'm pregnant, and that's why I didn't take the candy? No, that wouldn't work. She would probably just run off and tell Sister Woodhouse, and then Sister Woodhouse would tell my mom, which is a whole other problem.
I sighed and looked at Ethel hopefully. "Ethel, please don't tell anyone about this. I'm sorry. I really do want to be your friend if you'll have me…. Just please don't tell anyone about the candy,"
Ethel pointed her nose upwards and said, "Okay Betty, this will be our little secret," and I immediately mouthed a thank you! to her. "But you really should take the candy. It's super delicious." and then she left.
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After Ethel left, I rushed over to the bedside table that we apparently now shared and pulled open the bottom drawer. I had closed the door previously. I grabbed the positive pregnancy test out of the drawer and looked at it, feeling my stomach do somersaults as I looked at it.
The only thing I could think about as I stared down at that pregnancy test was Jughead. Not only had Ethel and I just had a conversation about how he was in love with Ethel and didn't care about me anymore, but the morning before I got attacked by the Gargoyle King and my mother sent me away to the Sisters, I found out that I'm pregnant with his baby. What will I tell him? When will I tell him?
As I'm sure you can already guess, I've already made the decision to keep the baby. I know I'm young, and I know there are a lot of things I'm going to miss out on as a teen mother, but at the same time, I know I can do it.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I knew from the second I even thought I was pregnant, I'd already made my decision. Yes, it sounds fairly cliche, but at the same I don't care. I'm ready to be a mother, even if it isn't a popular opinion in this case.
Before anyone could walk in and see me, I slammed the drawer door shut, and laid down on my very uncomfortable bed, my hand laid gently on my stomach.
When was I going to be able to tell Jughead? Or even see him anytime soon?
I think the only time I've missed Jughead more was when we broke up because the Black Hood threatened his life if I didn't. Honestly, I still feel guilty about that.
But at the moment, the thing I feel most guilty about is the fact that I'm pregnant with his baby and he has no idea. I mean, my mom did haul me off to The Sisters of Quiet Mercy, but maybe I should have confided in him my suspicions? Maybe then he would have been there for the Gargoyle King attack. Then maybe he could have stopped the Sisters coming to take me away.
If only I had been brave enough to say it to him.
I think I'm pregnant.
Those words would have changed everything if I'd had the guts to say them instead of just think them. Even if I'd said them in front of my mother, maybe they wouldn't have had such terrible consequences.
Even though The Sisters of Quiet Mercy Home for Troubled Youths is awful, it's better than living at the Farm like my mom is. Polly and the Twins are there too with Edgar Evernever and his daughter Evelyn. I wish I could save my mom, too, but at the moment it seems like she's been pulled in too deep.
Oh, what am I going to do? About everything?
It seems like the universe decided that of all times, I'm going to get pregnant right when the evil board game Gryphons and Gargoyles is terrorizing Riverdale, and the cult the Farm arrived here as well. Naturally, I get pregnant.
Right in the midst of everything.
Author's Notes: Okay, yes, I did say the fanfiction's name at the very end there. Also, sorry this was a super short chapter… I just sort of wanted to establish the fact that Betty's pregnant, but no one knows, and she's at The Sisters of Quiet Mercy…. Also, that scene where Betty and Ethel are talking about Jughead and everything like that… that took me WAY too long. Honestly though. I watched a video on YouTube that was a clip from Season 3 episode seven I believe. It was SO HARD to get right. After a while you can tell that I just sort of… give up. I've decided that I'm not even going to have Betty take the Fizzle Rocks and then throw them up because I think that even if she puked them up, they would still affect the baby, and I'm not having that.
Yes, I am fully aware that this is my second teen pregnancy fanfiction for Riverdale. My other one is The Bump in the Road which was my original and first ever fanfiction on this website! That fanfiction will always have a special place in my heart (and yes, is still being updated regularly), and I will always work very hard on. I did plan on writing a new fanfiction for my account, but I didn't plan on it being another pregnancy fanfiction. There is a warning on my account that if you don't like pregnancy fanfictions, then you've come to the wrong account. I originally anticipated it to be a college AU, but that didn't end up working out. Not only was the planning process postponed because I didn't have ANY inspiration for it, but also, I was watching Season 3 and just got the idea! It popped into my head, and I was like, "Okay, I could write a fanfiction out of this idea!" and I did! I'm sure this has been done many times before in many different fashions, but I'm doing this. My friend, GlitterMakesMeHappy2102 has gotten three hate reviews on her story The Secret She Kept which all basically told her that her writing's awful and that she should delete her story. Personally, I really like it, and it's really sad that she's been getting hate for that story. If any of you would like, go check it out. She's really proud of it. Originally, she deleted it after the second chapter, but in the last chapter of her story Surprise!, she said that she's starting it back up again, and that the third chapter is in the works. Again, sorry the chapter was short, I hope you all have an amazing day/night, and goodbye!