Riverdale One-Shots

Cuts and Bruises-Barchie

A/N: Credit to @Barchie_99 for this idea for a one-shot. I would also like to thank them for their support.

The gang were sat on one of the couches in the Student lounge. Reggie began to accuse Jughead of killing Jason Blossom but Archie soon gets involved telling Reggie to leave Jughead alone. Reggie grabbed hold of Archie and threw him against the vending machine. When Archie began screaming in pain the gang rushed over to him.

Betty could see shards of glass stuck in her boyfriend's rib-cage and lower back. "Someone get me a first aid kit stat!" Kevin ran to the table near the door and grabbed the first aid kit and rushed back to Archie and Betty. Betty quickly grabbed the kit out of Kevin's grasp. Jughead and Moose picked up Archie and laid him on his stomach as Betty grabbed a pair of tweezers and carefully pulled the shards of glass out of Archie's rib cage. Archie began to cry and Betty did her best to try to calm her boyfriend down. 

Once she had gotten all of the shards of glass out of his rib-cage she lifted his shirt up and started pulling shards out of his lower back. Once all of the glass was out of Archie, Betty grabbed some bandages and wrapped them around his stomach and his rib-cage. Archie was still crying and Betty held him rocking him back and forth like a small child. Betty had never seen her boyfriend as vulnerable as he was in that moment. She felt if she tried to move it would upset him even more.

After making sure every piece of glass was removed from him, Betty walked Archie home and explained to his dad about what had happened. Fred felt proud of Archie for sticking up for Jughead and thanked Betty for looking after his son. Fred offered Betty to stay over and Alice agreed when Betty asked her if she could. Later that night, Fred and Betty helped Archie into his bed and Betty laid on the mattress on the floor of Archie's bedroom.

During the night, Archie awoke from a nightmare and felt more vulnerable than ever before. He climbed in beside Betty and snuggled up to his girlfriend. Betty turned over and Archie buried his head in the crook of Betty's neck. The couple slept peacefully until 11 am the next day (It was a Saturday so no school). When Fred walked into Archie's room he looked at the young couple and smiled, remembering how he and Mary used to be like them in high school. He just wished that Archie never lets go of Betty and treats her like a princess.