Riverdale: A Ghost Town (Male Reader Insert)

Part 1

What makes a place feel like home?

 Jughead is in a unusual place. He's wearing a sweater with the letter S on it, as well as a black, toy crown on his head. He can tell he's at Betty's place again, Veronica sits on the other side of him along with Y/N, Betty sits next to him, holding his hand, and.... Polly and Jason sit together on the left end of the table, happy as can be. 

Is it Warmth and Familiarity? Some Idealized, make-believe version of the American Dream? 

Polly Cooper then brings the turkey and sets it in the center of the table, and everyone reacts happy about it... which just feels weird. Not just that the Coopers seem to now tolerate his presence, but the place feels too fifty's. Jughead stares all the strange behavior around him, what the heck's going on.

Is it love and acceptance? Or is it simple safety? 

As Betty grips Jughead's hand tighter, he looks to see that she has a wedding ring on. Well, he's not complaining, but he doesn't recall doing anything like that. The weird situation makes his distracted until he finally feels Hal on the other side of him and sees him handing Jug the knife and utensil. 

He hesitantly stands up, ready to cut the bird, but then he notices one person is missing and looks up. In the background, where there's a lot less light, his dad, FP Jones, sits alone on the living room chair wearing less formal clothing, drinking an entire bottle of liquor. Jug's about to look down and be all depressed like he usually does, but then he sees that the kitchen knife in his hands are missing. 

Then, Archie Andrews appears out of nowhere, asking Jughead a very important question. "Dude, why'd you stab me in the back?" He asks him, and everyone tilts their heads simultaneously, wondering the same thing. Shaking his head, Archie turns around to reveal the kitchen knife impaled in him. 

Confused and now panicked, Jughead subconsciously looks up to see that someone else is now sitting in the chair..... someone in a Ghostface Costume. They stand up and slowly turn around just like Micheal Myers, before suddenly pulling out a shotgun from thin air.

Ghostface cocks it, and....

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Or, it's none of those things. And it's a place where the captain of the football team was murdered. 

Jughead wakes up, back to reality where the kinda dark aesthetic shines through. 

Or maybe it's just a forgotten closet under a well-trod staircase, where it's just you, and the mice, and the spiders. 

Like an extra in a Wes Craven movie.

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Riverdale High: Student Lounge 

Betty tells everyone the events of what happened yesterday and last night with her and Jughead. Polly and Jason's baby, her discovering of Jason's murder, the get-away car they stashed in the woods, and her escape. Strangely, it turns out when Sheriff Keller went to investigate, they found the car set on fire, which actually wasn't done by the wanna-be Director. No, more likely it was one of the Blossom's or some thug they hired.

"My mom and dad don't want the police to get involved." Betty then tells the others, referring to the new search party that's about to come up. "They don't want anyone to know she ran away,  or about her 'shameful condition.' "

"Oh, yeah, let's keep the police away while we try to find a pregnant girl whose all alone while we have a serial killer in town. Nothing could go wrong." Y/N sarcastically comments, glancing at his phone from time to time.