Mary was having dinner with her children. "Honey, I'm not sure about this." Mary wasn't feeling good about her daughter getting back together with her boyfriend. After seeing her in such a state when they broke up she didn't know how healthy the relationship was.
"Mom, it's like I said I did wrong. Not him." Abby didn't want to go into details.
"She tried to make allies with a psycho fizzle rock maker to try to save her friend from the cult and ended up getting locked in a room. She's lucky the crazies think she's their god." Archie told on her.
"Archie!" She hissed at her brother.
"What?" Mary gasps. Abby sighed and told her the whole story. "Well, good on him for setting boundaries. You are the one that took on the responsibility of a child, which I still don't agree with, so you should be stepping up."
"What would you have done then, mom?" She genuinely wonders.
"About your friend in the cult or the child?" She asked.
"The Child." She was more specific.
"I would have adopted her myself. We can still do that. That way she can be here in the house and no one can threaten to take her away." Mary offered.
"Really? But, you're in Chicago." She didn't see that adding up.
"I think I'm building up enough references and the way things are going, Riverdale is going to need lawyers a lot." She shrugged.
"Are you saying you are moving back?" Archie smiled.
"It's a strong possibility." She smiled at her kids' high-fiving.
The phone rang, making Archie get up to answer it. "Hey, Ronnie…. I'm having dinner right now." He smiled.
"Just get back together already." She huffed. Mary laughed because she agreed. She thought Veronica was a good partner for her son.
"Mom, that was Veronica on the phone with some amazing news. She said she's giving me the El Royal. That I legit own the gym now, free and clear." He leaned against the breakfast counter they were eating on to tell them.
"That's a very generous gift, Archie." Mary felt better knowing that Veronica was giving it to him with no strings attached. "But, I'm interested in where you two are romantic."
Archie smiled but before he could answer a knock came from the door. "Are we expecting anyone?" Mary looks at her children.
"I'm not." Archie looks at his sister who always seems to have someone coming or going.
"No, they're having a bonfire at the camp. Dad pulled an all-nighter at work so I figured we have a rare dinner alone with mom." Abby couldn't think of who it would be at the door.
"Stay here. I'll get it." Archie got up to answer the door. He came back a few minutes later, texting on his phone. "It was no one."
"Someone rang and ditched?" Abby laughed at the childish prank.
"In Riverdale, we should be thankful that's all they did." Mary snorted.
"Yeah." Archie clears his throat before laughing. They helped their mom wash dishes after dinner. "Hey Abby, you want to go to Pops, Jughead said he's making the cereal milkshakes for half price."
"Really?" She smiled.
"Yup, Veronica celebrating getting those properties out from under her dad." He told her. "You want to come, Mom?"
"Oh no, I don't want to have acid relax all night. You guys go." She smiles while going up the stairs.
"Come on, Abby." Archie dragged her out. They climb into the truck. He threw a card into her lap. "This was at the door." He started the car and pulled out of the driveway.
She looks down at the envelope with Abigail Andrew written in gold cursive. She opened it to see an invitation to play the last game of G&G. "You can't be considering this. This would be marching to our deaths. It says "tell no one and not to bring your phone."
"Jughead and Veronica got one too. We have to figure out if it's fake." He told her.
"I can't, Archie. I told Sweet Pea that I wouldn't put myself in danger without telling him." She just got back on track with him.
"If you tell him would he be okay with not coming?" Archie understood the situation she was in.
"No, but I can't go behind his back." She reread the invitation. It was said that if she didn't come there would be consequences for those who did show up. "How's he picking who to invite?" She wonders.
"It's the kids from the midnight club who first played G&G all those years ago." He went on to tell her the story that Mrs. Cooper told Betty. He parks in front of Pops. "What are you going to do?"
"I have to go, you know I do. I have to." She pulled out her phone and put it on speaker.
"Hey Babe, you finished your dinner." Sweet answers.
"Yeah, I got an invitation to a G&G game. It says I have to come or there'll be consequences. No one else can come. No one else is supposed to know." She told him.
"Fuck that, tell me where." He grips his phone.
"I can't do that. I would be putting everyone at risk if you showed up." She knew it was for the better of the town but she was scared of hurting their fragile relationship.
He paused for a second before asking. "Who else is invited?"
"As far as I know, Archie, Veronica, and Jughead. But, Archie says it is probably all the descendants from the first G&G where someone died. All our parents played in high school and a janitor died. Maybe Reggie, Cheryl, Betty, Jughead, Josie." She named the people from the story.
"Sweet Pea, I won't let anything happen to her," Archie promised.
"Okay, but you guys better end this tonight. I don't want to hear about G&G again." He sighed.
"Me neither." She let out a breath of relief.
"Be safe. I love you." He knew he wouldn't be able to sleep all night.
"Aw man, I love you too." Archie chuckled, making everyone laugh.
"I love you. I'll see you tomorrow. Kiss Tessie for me." Abby hangs up the phone.
They went into the diner and sat in the booth that Veronica and Jughead were in. They throw their invitations on the table. "Someone left ours at the front door," Archie told them.
"Mine, too. My dad or Jellybean could have found it." Jughead couldn't believe they would risk it.
"Mine was waiting for me downstairs at the speakeasy." It made Veronica uncomfortable that someone was able to sneak in and out without her knowing.
"Are we sure these aren't fake?" Abby wondered if this was an obsessed G&G fan.
"I don't think so." Jughead shook his head. This was too thought out to be an amateur. "I've been trying to call Betty at the Farm, but she's not answering." He looks over at Veronica. She shook her head to say she didn't get an answer either.
"The invitations say not to tell anyone and not to bring our phones. Abby's invitation says if she doesn't come then there are consequences for everyone who does show up. She didn't have a fancy outfit with it. So I think she is supposed to get ready there." Archie put his sister's card in front of them. Jughead picked it up to read.
"So it's a trap. It might be targeting her." Veronica was trying to figure out if the risk was worth the reward.
"I don't think there is any doubt about that, but we don't have a choice." He glanced at Abby. "How are you feeling?"
"Ready to beat Penelope at her own game." She looks at the address she knew well.
The four pulled up to Thornhill manor. They walk over to a smaller building on the property. The hunting lodge that Abby was shown once when Cheryl gave her a grand tour of the property. When they walked into the building, Penelope was waiting for them. "Hello, Children. Take her to get ready." She nods to Abby. A maid guided her to another room. It was a guest bedroom. She froze when she saw a redheaded man wearing the rope. The Gargoyle King mask was on the bed next to him. His back was to her. She tried to back away but the maid pushed her forward making her stumble. "Chic?" She was shocked when she rounded the bed to see his face.
"It's Jason now." He corrects.
"What the fuck happen to you?" She decided she liked him better as a blonde. He looks deadly pale. She guessed he was only allowed to come out at night.
"You have to get ready for tonight." He nods to the vanity where the maid was waiting for her. She sat down and the lady used a flat iron to make her hair into waves. "Betty gave me to the Black Hood. He noticed my resemblance to Jason, so he took me to Penelope. She dyed my hair and promised me a nice life as Jason."
"Chi… Jason, people are killing themselves playing this game." She corrected when the maid's hand slipped and almost burned her.
"If you burn her. I will use that iron to flatten your fingers." He threatens. "Abigail, I would think you would be more appreciative. I made you a goddess. I took you out of your brother's shadow." He stares at her so intensely. She felt like a butterfly that had its wings pinned down and was about to be taken apart out of curiosity.
"Why did you pick me?" She wonders.
"Because you match the description. You take demons and charm them to be good." He thought of himself, the serpents, and the gargoyles she was able to steal away.
"You think you're good?" She tilts her head.
"I haven't taken anything from this place and run off like I would have when I first came to Riverdale." He points out.
"I think it might be Stockholm syndrome." She watches the maid take out the makeup. Her face was covered in foundation.
"The reason I didn't leave when trouble first landed on Cooper's doormat was you. I wanted to stay for you. I tried to be better for you. I wanted a normal life with you. Now I can give you a life in a mansion. With you, our kids could get red hair and be Blossoms." He grabbed her hands. She was relieved she had to close her eyes so the maid could put gold and black eyeshadow on. She knew her eyes would show fear.
"I don't want to be a Blossom." Her lips quivered when she felt the brush go across her cheeks.
"It'll be fine. We'll be new and improve Blossom." He squeezed her hand. Black lipstick was put on her.
The maid gently took her hands from Chic to do a manicure. She put on acrylics and turned them into claws. She made three of the fingers black and the other two white with blood splatter on them. He filled the silence with talk of their future together.
She was asked to strip down. She looks at Chic. "Fine," He turned around. She did as asked. She had to take off her bra to slip into a black and nude ball gown. The top was a corset and the bottom was tulle. The maid bent down to help her slip into black and gold heels. Chic helped her put on a large set of wings, long horns, and a golden crown. "This is too heavy." Her shoulders and neck will be sore tomorrow.
He put on the mask to complete his costume. "I got you." He grabbed her arm to lead her down the stairs to the living room. She grabs his arm tightly when she sees the Black Hood. "Don't worry, he won't hurt you." He pats her arm. They were standing in an entranceway that was covered by a black curtain.
"What's going on?" She hides behind Chic to get away from his eyes.
"We are waiting for our cue?" He told her. Before she could ask what that was, a bell rang. The Black Hood stepped out first. She stepped out with Chic when he threw the curtains open to walk through them.
"What have I told you? No masks at the dinner table. Take them off." Penelope scolds them. The Black Hood took off his mask to reveal Hal Cooper. He sat down next to his daughter.
Chic bent his head down towards Abby. She went to take it off but was stopped by Penelope. "Wait, before we make the grand reveal… Hellcaster, care to take a stab." She taps her knife on the table while looking at Jughead.
"Arther Conan Doyle famously said, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth. In which case, whoever is under the mask must've had a connection to Hal and you, Penelope. But it's not Jason because he's dead. Even though his corpse is missing." Jugs was surprised by Penelope's shocked face at that information but he went on. "This person also has to have a fondness for Abby. The would-be the one corpse that hasn't been accounted for and who was last seen by the Black Hood, Chic." Betty said the name with him.
Abby took off the mask to reveal that he was right. "What the hell?" Archie was confused.
"Since when does Chic have red hair?" Veronica wondered if that was his real hair color.
"I'm guessing since he started working with Penelope. Doing her bidding." Jughead watches him grab Abby's hand to take her to their seats at the table. He pushed out Abby's chair that was next to Veronica. He sat at the head of the table. "But this was after he got the Gargoyle symbols tattooed on his back. It's why Ethel said the Gargoyle King was Jason. Because you called him Jason. Cause you dressed him up like Jason." He was disgusted with the women. It seems like the Blossom women couldn't let Jason rest in peace.
"You didn't murder Chic. After you chased him through the woods, you…" Betty didn't understand why he wouldn't. He hated Chic.
"I recognized a kinship in him and I spared him," Hal told her. Chic grabs Abby's hand to rest them on top of the table. Archie glares at their entwined hands. He looks up at his sister's scared face. He had to hold back the urge to beat the crap out of him. "He begged for mercy and pleaded his life to me in service of my mission."
"But it wasn't your mission, was it, Mr. Cooper? Maybe not at first but eventually you started working for someone else who also had a grudge against Riverdale." Jughead wasn't going to let him take the mastermind spot.
"In the middle of all that stuff with the Black Hood last year, my dad was having an affair with Penelope," Betty told the table.
"Yes, I did cultivate your father's murderous impulses, it's true, to take my revenge on this town that allowed me to be sold as a child bride to the Blossoms. Your parents knew I told them and they did nothing but mock me and years later my Jason was murdered in cold blood, do you think one of them reached out to me… No, they were too busy ignoring the rotting fetid truth that Riverdale is a hideous and cruel place, twisted and cursed. And the Black Hood and I were doing quite well exterminating the sinners." She told her sob story. While Abby felt bad for what she went through, a sob story didn't give a pass for murder.
"Until my dad got arrested." Betty had ruined their plans.
"Yes, but that was fine because Hal's disciple came to me, lost and I gave him a purpose to continue our great work." She smiled at Chic.
"But not as the Black Hood. Instead, you made him dress up as the boogieman. The Gargoyle King." Jughead scoffs.
"I don't understand why I'm the goddess?" Abby couldn't make sense of it.
"Jason went rogue with that." She looks over at the replacement for her son. He squeezed Abby's hand.
"You introduced G&G to our parents 25 years ago and then reintroduced it to Chic this year." She thought back to him bringing Ben Button over.
"His name is Jason!" She slammed her hand down on the table.
"He gave it to Ben Button, who introduced it to Dilton," Jughead followed the trail.
"Who brought Ethel into it and then G&G spread like a virus." Betty realized how it spread right under her nose.
"Did you give it to Ben because he was friends with Dilton and Ethel?" Abby knew she complained about them to him.
"Yes, because Dilton hated you and you dislike Ethel. Also because I knew Ben would be an easy target with how he looked at you." He confirmed that he picked them because they were an annoyance in her life.
"I never met Ben until this summer." She was confused.
"You met him, but you didn't notice him." Chic corrects. Abby realized she must have seen him many times at the theater and in school but had never taken notice of him before. Maybe Penelope was right. They were going around pretending not to see the disgusting underbelly of Riverdale.
"And the mastermind behind it all, the true Gargoyle King was you, Penelope." He looks at her.
"Well done… Well done." She raises her goblet before taking a sip. "But now, it's time to play one final round with you, midnight children."
"To what end?" Jughead asked what Abby was wondering.
"Say it to reveal your true nature, to prove that you are as dark-hearted as the town that gave birth to you." She smiled.
"Why are we here? From everything you said your problem is with our parents, so why aren't they here?" Abby ripped her hand away from Chic. "All this is fucking pathetic, see a therapist."
"Your mother thought she was above all this, too." She glares at the young redhead.
"If we win, we escape?" Archie stops his sister from getting herself killed before the game starts.
"We win, we escape, and you stop all this bullshit," Abby spoke of it as a fact.
"You won't win." She laughed like they were foolish children.
"What happens if we lose?" Veronica asks.
"Then your parents will feel the pain that I felt, the death of a child. Could there be anything more dreadful?" She questioned the table.
"Hoping that children die so others can feel your pain seems next-level dreadful to me." Abby scoffs, getting the answer to her earlier question.
The grandfather's clock chimes letting them know it was midnight. "It is time." She stood up. "Come to the lawn for the gathering."
The teen shared a look wanting to refuse, but knowing they had no choice being the Black Hood would be happy to shoot them. They stood up to go to the lawn. "Don't fucking touch me." She smacks Chic's arm away from her waist.
"Don't talk to the king like that." Penelope snaps.
"If the game has started then I'm the goddess. You don't get to give me orders. I bring luck to whatever side I want, so how do you plan to kill me?" Abby didn't see the point in her being there other than Chic, the new Jason, wanting her there.
"You will have to wait and see, won't you." She looks at the clock. "You're lucky I'm on a schedule." She gave each of them a flashlight and led them out. When she was at the center of the lawn she turned to them. "The task before you is simple, make it through the woods and survive the night. You will be tested. Refuse my task, try to escape and my gargoyle minions will kill you." She nods at the last of the gang members. "Begin!" The teens didn't move, not sure what they were supposed to do. "I would start running if I were you, all of you." She looks at Abby. Archie grabbed her hand as they took off into the woods.
"The good news is, if Penelope wanted us dead we would be. She wants us alive." Jughead led the way.
She held onto her brother's arms. "I don't know, I think she's trying to kill me by making me run in the woods in these stilettos."
"I feel that." Betty cursed her heels that got stuck on a root. "She only wants us alive long enough to complete her bizarre social experiments."
"Yeah, or die trying," Archie thought there was no good news.
"She sees us as lab rats. We're running her maze." Abby hated that they had to do as the mad woman said.
"We're worse than lab rats because we don't know where to go." Veronica held her dress skirt up so she could navigate the woods.
"Actually, Enchantress, we might." Jughead held up his flashlight to show a sign that was carved into the tree. It was a flower with a swirl in the middle and a red arrow pointing to the right. They followed the arrows until they got to a tree with a card on it. "It's a red paladin card. This quest is for you." He grabbed the paper to hand to him.
"The Red Paladin must conquer the grizzled beast. He must battle alone in the pit to save his home." He read while his sister shone a light on it.
"What is a grizzled beast?" Veronica wonders if Penelope had wild animals.
They heard a roar in the distance. "No fucking way!" Abby gasps.
"Oh crap… not again." Archie sighs.
They follow the noise to see a bunch of animal bones in a dug-out pit. A huge man wearing a fur cape and pants with a skull on his head was standing in the middle of it. He let out a growl when he lifted his eyes to them. Abby could see how blistered out they were. "He's high on fizzle rock."
"Archie, don't do this. That guy is eight feet tall and jacked." Veronica advises.
"It's just a fight. I've been fighting all year. I survived a real bear attack, remember." He took off his suit jacket and vest to hand them to his sister. Abby held it tightly to her chest. "If I don't make it, tell mom and dad I love them. I love you guys too." He took off his tie and threw it to the side before jumping into the pit. Archie charged at him. The guy knocks him off his feet and kicks him around. Archie was able to get up and get a hit in but the beast fling him to the ground again.
"We have to do something. Archie can't beat this guy. He's so high he probably doesn't feel his hits." Abby went to the edge when Jughead stopped her.
He nods to the other side of the pit where a gargoyle is. "If we interfere we'll get shot."
"I can't. I can't." Abby cried into her hands making the thick black mascara running down her face. The growls of the large man filled her ears.
"It's okay, Abby. Archie got him. Archie got him." Jughead pulled her hands down. She saw Archie beating the man with a large bone.
When Archie climbed out of the pit, Abby ran to put the jacket on him and hug him. "Archie, you have to see a doctor."
"We can't, we have to finish this." Archie hissed in pain.
"What do we do now?" Betty wonders.
"We do have more quests. We have to complete them before the night ends." Abby points out.
"We keep moving. Penelope left us enough clues." Jughead points his light at another sign. Knowing they were in a time crunch they moved as fast as they could through the woods. They found a tree trunk with chalices around it with a bottle in the middle. The enchantress card was by it with a scroll. "Faith and fortune challenge. Before you are six chalices each filled with Gargoyle Blood. The enchantress must choose her closest companion. They will each take turns spinning the bottle and drinking from the chosen chalice, but beware that one of the chalices contains a lethal rapid-acting venom." He read.
"Seriously spin the bottle." Veronica looks down unimpressed.
"It's more like Russian Roulette." Archie corrected.
"That's suicide. I refuse." She shook her head.
"We'll be fine," Abby told them. "I know it."
"If the goddess says so and remembers if we don't play we get killed." Jughead reminds them.
"Vee, the scroll says to choose your closet companion. I volunteer." She stepped forward.
"Betty, no." Veronica shook her head.
"It's okay. I have faith and the goddess's approval. We don't have an alternative." She passes her flashlight to Jughead.
"I'm having a diabolical sense of deja vu." Veronica brought up homecoming night when Cheryl made them play spin the bottle. That felt like a lifetime ago. Abby remembers her date with Reggie. Veronica spun the bottle and drank from the chalice.
"How do you feel?" Betty asked.
"I feel fine." She dumps the cup in the grass. She should have been relieved by that but she was more anxious for Betty to drink since her chance of getting the venom was higher now.
She spins the bottle and sips it before spilling out the rest. "I'm okay, Vee." She looks at Veronica's anxious eyes.
They took turns until they were two chalices. "50/50 chance." Veronica took the cup that was closest to her and drank. When she felt fine, she stared at Betty in horror.
Betty reaches for it but Veronica grabs it and drinks it. "Vee, why would you do that?" She cried knowing her best friend was going to die for her.
"Because I love you, Bee." She wouldn't let her die.
"I love you too." She grabbed her hand.
"Remarkable Enchantress." Penelope came out from the woods. "You completed your challenge and proved your loyalty." She looks between the two girls. She thought that given Veronica's raising, she would let her friend die for her.
"What?" Everyone asked but Jughead.
"Of course. It was a character challenge. The game was testing if you had honor and loyalty. None of the chalices was poisonous." He glares at the woman.
"On the contrary, all of the chalices were poisonous. It's slow acting. The only way to get the antidote is to finish the game and even then you might not make it." Penelope smirks.
"As I said, we're fine. Venom is not deadly when swallowed as long as you don't have a stomach ulcer or other internal injuries you're fine." Abby shot that down. Penelope frowned. "You may know plants but I know animals… Now let's go." She led the group away.
They found the next quest nailed to a tree for the Hellcaster. "You're up, Jugs." Betty took the scroll down. "The battle of kings. Only one shall leave the kingdom of Eldervair." They walk down a hill to see an open area with small fire pits all over it. In the middle was a tree trunk with an ax in it.
Chic came out of the dark woods. Jug ran to get to the ax first but Chic got to it and started swinging it around. "Chic! Chic! Stop it, Chic!" Abby screamed. "Jason!" He stopped but kept his eyes on Jughead. "You said you wanted to be good for me. You can still do that. We can have a normal life together."
"Why would we go back to normal when we are king and a goddess? When we have blood sacrifice made in our names?" He swung his ax down on Jughead but he was able to dodge, making the ax gets embedded into the tree. Jug tackled him to the ground before he could get it out, knocking over a Gargoyle King wooden replica. Jughead straddles his waist to punch him in the face. Chic flipped them over and choked him. Jughead was able to reach the skull head of the replica they knocked over and slam it into his head, knocking him out. Betty ran to hug him.
"I still don't get it. Chic has red hair because she pretends he's Jason." Archie spoke.
"Yes, Archie. I don't see what's not to get." Abby had been trying to get her brother up to speed while they walked to their next task.
"But, he doesn't act anything like Jason. Jason wouldn't go along with all this." He shook his head.
"Can we explore the craziness that is Oedipus Riverdale after we get out of these damn woods?" Veronica was growing tired of the sibling bickering.
"Maybe figuring out how all this is connected is exactly what we should be doing. Hal, Penelope, and Chic created this unholy trinity with direct links to everything bad that has happened in the last three years. It's like Jason Blossom's death begat the Black Hood, which begat the Gargoyle King." Jughead argued.
"But the Gargoyle King existed before Jason was killed." Veronica despite being the one that wanted to stop talking about it pointed out the flaw in his theory.
"Then it's the case of the serpent eating its tail. It's a vicious cycle of never-ending madness that turns back on itself over and over again until someone breaks the chain." Jughead shrugged.
Cheryl had successfully escaped the cult after Betty showed her where they were storing the organs. She ran as fast as she could to her house with her niece in her hands. "Toni!" She smiled when she saw her lover. The Pretty Poison and the Serpents were getting ready for battle. Peach ran over to get the baby and give her to Nana Rose.
"Baby?" They ran to each other. "We were coming to save you from the farm. How'd you get out?"
"An angel in disguise." She smiled. "Where's Betty?" She looked around for the blonde.
"She's being hunted at Thornhill with all the others." Nana rocks the baby.
"The others? Like Abby?" Sweet Pea came over when he heard that.
"Yes, she's there. The boy wanted her there." She nods.
"What are you talking about?" Cheryl wondered if this was another wild story.
"Your mother has been planning this for weeks, if not months. It's a grand hunt." Nana whispers the last part.
"We have to go there. We have to save them." Cheryl nods.
"Poisons. We ride." She got into the truck while the Poison jumped in.
"Come on, Serpents. We got a leader and Abby to save." Sweets got into the black van while the Serpents piled in.
"It looks like it's my turn." Betty looks at the candles on a boulder along with a neatly wrapped gift. Jughead and she kissed before she went to open the gift to see a gun. It said one bullet on the top of the cover. She grabbed the gun when the Black Hood came out.
He took off his mask. "You know how this ends. You have to kill me, Betty. That is your heart. That's your truth. You can't deny your destiny." He pulled his gun out to point it at her.
Betty already had hers pointed at him. "Don't make me do this."
"You kill me or I kill you and your friends." He told her. "You have to the count of three. One…. two…" Betty shot him in the hand before he could get to three. He was forced to drop his gun and fell to his knees holding his hand.
"I will never be you." She threw down the gun.
"Enough, good god Hal, You can't be trusted to do anything." Penelope was angry at him for not killing all of them. "You're a terrible serial killer." She took out a gun and shot him in the head. Betty fell to the ground in sobs. Veronica and Jughead ran to comfort her.
"Let's get her out of here." Abby saw Betty staring at her father's dead body.
"You're not going anywhere." Penelope shook her head.
"Why not? We won, didn't we? We survive the night." Jughead helped Betty stand up. The sun was starting to rise. "We prove we are better than this town."
"That may or may not be true. But kill them. Kill them all!" She yelled. Everyone but Abby took off running.
"Abby!" Archie looks back when he realizes his sister wasn't with them. Everyone stopped to see what she was doing.
Abby took a deep breath and put on a stone face. She stepped in front of the army. "You would take the order to kill your goddess from nobody. She's not even the king. She's nothing just like she's been from birth." She glanced at Penelope.
"You rotten fucking child." She pointed the gun at her.
"She kills me and no one ascends ever again!" Abby shouted. Penelope watches the army turn on her. "Put the safety on, put it on the ground, and kick it over to me."
"Jason always picks the wrong girl." She did as she was told.
Abby picked up the gun. "Take her somewhere and do your wicked fantasies on her. Consider it a reward from your goddess." She nods to the older woman.
She turns to walk to the group, listening to Penelope's screams while the Gargoyles drag her off. "Abby!" Archie was unsure about what she just did.
"Let's go." She marched on.
The sun was up when they made it to the end of the forest. A truck and van were waiting at them making them stop in their tracks. "Babe!" Sweet Pea got out of the driver's seat.
"Sweets." She ran to hug him. He picked her up and spun her around.
"What the fuck?" He looks at the crown and the wings.
"It's the goddess costume." She pants. The adrenaline was coming down making her feel tired.
"Abby?" She looks to the side to see Cheryl.
"Oh, my Cheryl!" She cried out of guilt. If Betty could sob over her dad after all he's done then Cheryl would feel pain from this. "I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I was so mad at her. I wasn't thinking. We can still get to her and make sure she's okay." She throws herself at Cheryl.
"Whatever is happening to that horrible creature is well deserved. Come on, the cult is ascending. We can save Fangs." She grabbed her hand.
"Fangs?" She perks up.
"Let's go. Come on." Betty jumped into the back of the truck.
They ran through the halls of the cult compound with Cheryl leading them to the room where they would ascend. "Kevin?" They were surprised that he was the only one in the room. White clothes and shoes in neat piles were surrounding him.
"Where is Fangs?" Abby demands.
"They left me. I wanted to go but they said someone had to stay behind to explain what happened." Kevin cradles his knees to his chest.
"Why was it you and not Fangs?" She went to charge him but Sweet pulled her back knowing her mind was only on one track.
"What happened?" Archie asked.
"The worthy ascended, of course." He cried.
"Who did? Where's my mom and Polly?" Betty took a step closer.
"Gone. Everyone is. We'll never see them again." He sobs into his knees.
"Bullshit. I watch enough cult documentaries to know when they ascend they do it in big gatherings like this to make a statement. So they can do one last shock of horror. They hid somewhere and left you behind to try and convince us they're dead so we don't try to find them." She refused to believe they would die in private.
"You are the worst. I'm happy Fangs is away from you." He glared through his tears.
"I'm happy Fangs is away from you." She shot back.
"Chic was arrested. Hal Cooper is officially dead. Penelope Blossom is on the run." Abby was reading the newspaper. She had invited her friends over to have breakfast at her house.
"Hermoine was arrested." Sweets points at the other headline.
"I know that means that her husband is making moves in prison." She sighs.
"Not surprising when he owns it." Dracula snorted.
"Nothing on the cult, yet?" She looks around the table.
"No." Kraken shook his head. "FP did get Kevin to crack and you are right they didn't ascend. They went into hiding and Kevin was supposed to make everyone believe they were dead."
"Hey, we got happy news and a new beginning." Sweet nudge her.
"Penelope was right about one thing in Riverdale: we focus on our problem and not the people around us. But, we can change that. Archie decides that he's going to turn the boxing gym into a community center to help kids get off the street. He asked me to tutor the kids there. I figure the Serpents could help with that too." She thought it would be a good opportunity for Serpents to do something better for the community. They cheered at that news.
"I'll be happy to tutor too." Tomoko nods.
"I can teach them other sports." Trev could take them to the park to play football. They began to shout out ideas that they could do to help the kids. Abby smiled because she knew at that moment that the future of Riverdale would be bright. After all, her generation was going to make it so.
I have only watched up to season four, with work and everything else I got going on I'm going to try and watch at least one episode a day. So, it will be about three months to watch seasons four, five, and six. I'm crossing my fingers that it won't be hard to weave Abby and Sweet Pea in. Something tells me that it might be hard since they don't like to give Sweet Pea the plot that he deserves, or any at all.