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Jughead tears filled hotdog's satin fur, slicking it like grease.

"Jug, it's time to go." Betty placed a hand on her lovers shoulder.

"Not yet." Jughead snuffed.

Betty looked back at Toni, who was standing in the doorway, with pleading eyes.

"Jughead, she's right. It's time." Toni says, stepping forward.

"It's not right." Jughead spits. "If I hadn't left the door open-"

"It's not your fault." Betty assured him.

"Yes it is!" He snapped. "I left the door open, I let him wander into the road, and I let him die. It's my fault." He looks down at his four legged friend one last time, his hands lingering on his fur, before standing up.

But no one knew what this small loss meant for Riverdale. No one knew the storm that was about to arrive. No one, except Toni.

A week later, the serpents and ghoulies were at it again, staring each other down and talking about some conflict or another. That's when she arrived. She strutted through the crowd of serpents like she was parting the Red Sea.

"Who are you?" Jughead asks, glaring. Something was familiar about her messy blonde hair.

"Doesn't matter. What matters is that I come back to my hometown to a god damn gang war!" She glared at the ghoulies new queen, Penny, before speaking again. "This is quite the welcome party. What, could you not commit to this family either?" The girl said, motioning to the serpents.

"Look we don't need an outsiders help." Jughead said. The girl turned to face him, revealing a serpent tattoo on her left eyebrow.

"I'm not an outsider." She said. But something was odd about her tattoo, it was old. Three generations old, with a circle of scars around it as if it had been stitched on long ago.

"Whatever. Enough talk." A ghoulie says as he raises his fist to crack his knuckles.

"Wait." Penny stops him, staring at the girl for a moment before continuing. "It's not worth it. We're clearly outnumbered. Let's just go."

"What?! We've beat more than this many before!"

"I said let's go." She snaps. Begrudgingly, the ghoulies leave, Penny looking back one last time.

Silence fills the air as all the serpents look at the new girl with the tattoo. "Who are you?" Jughead finally asks. "How did you know where we were?"

The girl looks him up and down. "FP sent me. He thought you might get yourselves killed. I'm guessing you're Jughead?"

"My dad sent you?"

"Yeah. The second I got into town I was rushed straight down here. What's going on? Why's Penny hanging with the Ghoulies?"

"Who are you?" He repeats.

But before the girl can answer, Toni does for her. "Eleanor fucking Patel." She smiles. "I thought it was you." The girl smiles at her.

"Little Toni Topaz?" She laughs. "You haven't grown an inch."

"Toni, you know her?" Jughead asks, still confused.

"This is the beast tamer's daughter. I should have known she would come back after Hotdog passed." Toni responds.

"Beast tamer?" Jughead raises an eyebrow.

"The dog trainer for the Serpents."

The girl turns to Jughead and puts a hand out to shake.

"Nice to meet you. Now where's the new dog?" Jughead stares at her outstretched hand.

"We don't need a new dog." He finally says. She keeps her hand out.

"Yes you do. The serpents have always had a beast and my family has always trained it."

"Oh please, what, is the entire gang going to get kicked out of the south side because we don't have some mutt?" Eleanor's face scrunches up in thought.

"You know I've answered all your questions but you still haven't answered mine." She crosses her arms and cocks her hip. "Why is Penny hanging around with the Ghoulies?"

"Who the fuck knows, she's Penny, she's crazy."

"Wrong answer. My family has been with the serpents since day one." She steps towards him. "My father was a serpent, my grandfather was a serpent, and so on and so forth. When they passed one by one their serpent skin was shed from their body and given to the next generation to continue living. On me now is their skin. Six generations of their skin." She points to her eyebrow tattoo. "Making me a part of them and them a part of me. So, that makes me six generations superior to you. That makes me the closest thing you will have to a leader. Don't. Fucking. Lie. To your leader." Jughead and Eleanor were nose to nose, eyes locked in a stare off.

"If your family is so important, then why haven't I heard anything about you?" Jughead finally asks. He's answered by a man's voice behind him.

"They moved away when you were a kid. But they always promised to come back when we needed a new beast." FP steps closer to his son. "Son, you may be leading us now, but there is still a lot about our history that you don't know. Her father is my best friend, so don't be a jerk."

Jughead looks at his dad in betrayal.

"Don't worry. I saved them from getting the shit beat out of them." Eleanor tells FP.

"Come on, you really think we couldn't handle a few Ghoulies?"

"Not the ones that were hiding a few yards back behind your group." Eleanor cocks an eyebrow.

Jughead glares at her and Toni smiles.

"...Thanks for the help." He says, begrudgingly.

"That's what I'm here to do." Eleanor responds before looking up at FP "so, why is Penny hanging with the Ghoulies?"

FP looks hesitantly between her and the other serpents. "Look kid, we did her wrong but she did us wrong too. She chose her path and let's leave it at that." Jughead could tell there was a reason his dad wasn't going into detail, but he couldn't tell what. Eleanor nods and FP'S eyes widen.

"Oh no." He mumbles. "Shit. I was wondering why you came alone. Is that…" he trails off and points at a serpent tattoo on Eleanor's neck that had a fresh circular scar around it.

Her hand reaches for the tat. "Yeah." She looks away. "It's my dads." Her eyes re-meet FP's "motorcycle accident. Two months ago."

FP thinks silently for a moment, his eyes showing sorrow and regret. "You got a place to stay?" He asks her.

"She can stay with me if she wants." Toni offers instantly and Cheryl's jaw drops open.

"Nah, I'm staying with my uncle, it's fine," Eleanor says. "It'll be nice to see Amanda." She smiles slightly.

"Who's that?" Jughead asks.

"Her cousin." FP answers, looking disgusted. "Tell Steve hi for me. And tell Amanda that if she ever wants a real family, hers is waiting for her right here."

Eleanor nods and they all go their separate ways; Toni and Cheryl to Cheryl's house for what no doubt will be a fight, Jughead, and FP back to their trailer, The other serpents to their respective homes, and Eleanor to a tiny trailer in the only unprotected sliver of the south side.