#dark!bughead

It’s loosely based on a scene in a bathroom. Mirror shards aren’t my strong suit so I ended up substituting a knife instead. 

Also, the source of the blood isn’t shown, so it’s probably more like some imagined or missing scene where they’re cleaning up evidence as foreplay or something.

Summary: When an old enemy captures Jughead, Betty will do anything to get him back. A future dark!bughead fic inspired by 4x19. Canon-adjacent.

Betty’s footsteps are almost silent as she makes her way down the alleyway behind what remains of Archie’s former boxing club. Puddles fill the cracks and valleys in the pavement, remnants of heavy rains from the night before. She creeps forward with her right hand clutched around her favourite revolver.

The alleyway is crammed with dumpsters and trash cans. She weaves carefully between the puddles, gaze sliding from one dumpster to the next. Each is the perfect hiding place for another person – or for an ambush.

She hears the splash of a puddle behind her she spins around, bringing her revolver up and pointing it in front of her with both hands.

A woman steps out from behind one of the dumpsters. She claps her hands in exaggerated amusement as her one eye settles on the gun in Betty’s hands.

“Look at you, blondie,” Penny Peabody murmurs, “all grown up. How long has it been? Nine, ten years?”

Betty clicks off the safety on her gun. “Not long enough,” she says. “The last we heard of you was that you were setting up shop permanently in Greendale. You should have stayed there, Penny.”

Read on A03

Bughead AU

After Jughead falls in with the Serpents, he also catches the attention of female member Toni Topaz. Betty notices a change in her boyfriend and frantically makes an effort to alter her good girl persona to fit into Jug’s new life but it doesn’t quite go as planned...