IMAGINES ▹ ROSS BUTLER

↳ the undercover serpent

( THE UNDERCOVER SERPENT ) 
by mantleismagnificent

Unlike the Riverdale everyone cherished to you it was just a place. A place with fake people as they wore their masks pretending to be high and mighty. They lurked in the shadows and in the sunlight they shined as they wore their masks proudly. You had seen enough growing up in the Southside of town. There was nothing nice about it, there was no hypocrites everyone showed their true selves. They were all corrupt but unlike the other side of town they didn't care to hide their deeds.

You and your brother lived in a trailer park where Jughead's dad FP lived like many in the Southside. He took a keen interest in you and Joaquin after your parents died. His own family had just left him, and Jughead went to live with Archie because he didn't want to leave Riverdale.

You grew up with plenty of the kids on the Southside all mostly becoming serpents as you and Joaquin joined too, you needed a family after all and they took you in with arms wide open. Although unlike many of them you wanted an education, they all mostly dropped out of Riverdale High. They were so close to making you drop out until FP helped you out by saying you were undercover to stay updated on anything in the high school that may be of use to the serpents.

Nobody but the Southside and Jughead knew your identity of being a Serpent as he was sworn to secrecy because he knew you only did it because you wanted a family and they offered you just that, also because he was very much ashamed of his father.

You wore your leather jacket with pride outside of school feeling a bit out place while you roamed the halls of Riverdale high with just a plain sweater. You kept to yourself, quiet and observing when your head wasn't stuffed in a book or doing homework just trying your best to stay unnoticed.

Every now then you did talk to Jughead's friends just to make sure they didn't know anything about the recent current events that took place in Riverdale. You liked them even though they would never measure up to your friendship with your brother Joaquin who was now dating Kevin. You all had a part to play in the serpents now. You being in Riverdale High only added to the pressure, you stayed in contact with Jughead's friends and Joaquin made sure of what the Sherriff knew. You hated being the one on the inside being two-faced, but you couldn't let down your family.

They talked about anything and everything in their lives sometimes you wished you could be as open as they were, but you couldn't because one slip up and maybe this fantasy about leaving Riverdale after graduating would fade away.

Topics ranging from Cheryl and Veronica's steamy dates and their double dates with Betty and Archie who had been sweethearts since they were small. Sometimes they would try to get Jughead to go out with them and it wasn't until Jughead revealed he was asexual that they stopped trying to set him up. Jughead's only love was burgers and writing. Sometimes they would ask you out with them especially if Joaquin would go, but you'd deny. No one knew you were a serpent and if they found out Joaquin was your brother they would figure you out. All they knew was your cover story, you were an only child that lived with your grandparents and you helped take care of them. You always made sure to contribute to the conversation just so they wouldn't think you were onto them. Though keeping to yourself might just be what may reveal your true identity.

As you caught someone's eyes. He saw you as the mysterious girl no one knew anything about not even her favorite color. As you sat alone in the students lounge as the rest were in the courtyard or cafeteria he approached you.

"Hey, (Y/N) right?" the tall caramel skin football player spoke as you looked up shocked that he was talking to you.

"The one and only" you added with a small smile trying to be polite even though you really wanted to finish that chapter of your textbook for your next quiz.