The Damaged -RIVERDALE-DISCONTINUED

NINETEEN

Jughead Jones stood outside the door to his sister's hospital room. Leant up against the wall and looking through the panel of glass that served as a window into the room, he watched silently.
FP Jones was currently seated in a chair, pulled up to the edge of the hospital bed, asleep. His hand clutched his daughters unbroken one, and his head rested on the side of the bed next to her. Jughead was surprised, to say the least.
The teenage boy had visited his comatose sister everyday for the past two weeks, and not once had he seen, nor heard, his father visiting.
Madelyn Jones was in the ICU, and her only visitors, according to what Jughead had been told, had been her twin brother, and Cheryl Blossom.
The hospital had tried to keep the other redheaded girl out, but no one could deny a Blossom. Jughead had often caught the girl leaving in tears, but neither of them had even acknowledged one another.
"He's been here for hours," a nurse said, startling the boy. He jumped slightly, turning to face her.
"He came in here around two, a few minutes after that other girl left, hasn't left since," she muttered, looking at the older man with sympathy, "poor guy, almost broke down when he saw her."
After Jughead didn't answer she left, going off to tend to other patients. When he looked through the glass again, he was surprised to see his father was now awake, and watching him.
Jughead sighed, before turning around and walking away. He would visit his sister tomorrow, once his father was gone.

Sitting on the floor, her back pressed up against the side of her bed and her knees hugged to her chest, Cheryl Blossom sobbed.
Something had gone wrong with the plan, that much she knew. But just what had happened?
Madelyn had been found in an all white outfit, but it wasn't the same one she wore on the Fourth of July. Which meant that whatever had happened, happened after the couple made it across the river.
She had also been found with a wound on the back of her head, which the doctors claimed was the reason for her coma.
Cheryl couldn't help but wonder, wonder what happened to Madelyn, and wonder what had happened to her brother.
The possibility that Madelyn had somehow managed to hurt herself and be left for dead were slim to none, as Jason wouldn't have left her. But what else could have happened? What could of happened that led to Madelyn Jones being found half dead in Sweetwater River?

Archie Andrews sat numbly on his bed, music playing to sound out the sound of nothingness.
He hadn't met Manic until this summer, but that didn't mean he never heard about her.
All Jughead ever talked about when they were younger was his twin sister, who he loved more than anything else in the world. Manic may have not known him growing up, but he knew her through the stories and memories Jughead would share. He knew enough about her from those tales, that he knew that something terrible had happened.
Manic Jones was one of the best swimmers that High school in the Southside had ever seen, and even with a divide in Riverdale everyone knew this. Everyone also knew that Jason was the captain of Riverdale High's swim team as well.
The assumption that they had drowned was far fetched, everyone had known that, and now that Madelyn had been found they realized just how much of a stretch the theory was.
But even with questions being thrown around about the truth to this case, the doctors were quick to claim that the girl had probably hit her head against a rock on the bottom of the river, and knocked herself out.
They also said the same probably happened to Jason. But when questions about how Madelyn had survived and not the Blossom boy arose, they came to another dead end. And with dead end cases come probability based conclusions.
And the probability in this case was that the current must have dragged Jason out further, bringing him in to the lake and drowning him, while Madelyn must have been lucky. She must have been semiconscious still. She must have swam to shallow waters and fell unconscious there.
A bunch of 'must haves' were spewed by confused doctors and confused police officers. But one 'must have' they didn't have, was how no one noticed the limp body of Manic as they dragged the river.

Until I get into the actual start of the show, everything is going to be in third person POV since (spoiler) Manic will be in a coma till then, and depending on what I'm feeling, the entire story might just stay in third POV since it allows for more of the story to be told.