for @imreallyloveleee Happy Halloween and happy (super) early @riverdalepromptathon submission for loveleee’s wonderful and hilarious story like spirits in the night. Get excited for some adorable Bughead and excellent Archie, Veronica and Kevin trying to communicate with Jason’s spirit!

ok so you and @iconic-ponytail asked the same thing so a) thank you for loving this fic as much as me bc I’m hype for myself to get around to writing this thing truly. I will answer you with a snippet and Liv with a plot point from the outline 👀

This isn’t the first time she’s caught him looking at her like that. Hungrily, greedily. Memorizing her face as if tucking it away for a later time, a time when she would no longer be by his side. It made her heart ache, the possibility that Jughead thought anything about what they were currently doing was temporary. She had every intention of ensuring they never spent time apart again.

oh god, this one appears so much because, well, bughead.  I’m gonna give you two, both from the same untitled fic:

“We, uh, might have hacked your phone. Just a little,” Fangs says, bashfully holding two fingers a hair’s breadth apart, and Jughead can’t help his slight smile. 

and

Accidental Eavesdropping + Innocent Physical Contact

Jughead hated being out in public. There were too many people, moving too quickly. It was inevitable that he would end up touching someone. Clipping him in the arm, rushing in front of him at the subway card station, shoulders bumping against his as the subway moved to the next station.

Each brief contact flooded Jughead’s brain with foreign, unwelcome knowledge. A simple touch was all it took for Jughead to read someone’s mind.

Ugh big YES to vmars. I have zero interest in watching any future iterations after that. I think s4 is also when I stopped watching TVD (is that when they went to college?). Quite a bummer bc that show was shockingly good for a CW vampire show its first few seasons.

Yep. Veronica Mars was literally blown up in about 60 seconds. I am also disappointed by the perspective that somehow Veronica’s character is diminished or she becomes less interesting if she has love in her life. I thought it would have been super interesting to explore balancing a PI life on the road with being a good spouse! But nobody ever consults me before making these kinds of decisions.

oh man, it’s definitely a combo of the two saddest scenes. but of course it is! so, the scene where Jughead leaves Riverdale, on Memorial Day. Originally I was going to write it from Betty’s perspective, but something changed over the course of the story and it made more sense to understand where Jughead was coming from.

AND, this one, which really came out exactly as planned, in the projection booth, before Gladys drives Jughead to Toledo with her:

She closes her eyes, like she’s trying to break a spell. “I’m afraid if we go down this road, we will do things we can never take back.”

He wants to lean in and pull her down that road with him, kiss her to the point of no return. He had never believed there was any road for him but this one.

But he would never do that if she said she was unsure. If she wasn’t certain she wanted it.

“I want whatever you want, Betty.”

“Trust me, Jug. I want… us. But I’m afraid that if we fight too hard, we’ll break this before we can ever have it.”

He tries to honor her words with full weight, to believe them, but they don’t hurt any less.

Gladys honks, a brief beep. He takes a deep breath, memorizing as much as he can.

“I guess our hourglass is empty,” Betty whispers, wrapping her arms around his torso again, burying her face near his collarbone. He hugs her back, but breaks quickly, knowing the longer he waits the harder it will be to leave.

“Bye, Betty.”

Once in the car, Gladys looks at him sidelong before reaching to shift into first gear. “So who’s the girl?”