Legends [1] ▻ Sweet Pea

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"You're being dramatic, Honey. It's not like this guy's some total stranger. You've known this man your whole life." Penny reassured her calmly.

  "FP Jones is my father. The man who I've always called my father figure is actually my father." Izzy muttered to herself, "Alice Cooper is my mom. The lady who took me in and I wished was my actual mom is actually my freaking mom. What the hell!" Izzy looked up to see Penny grinning at her. She looked around once more to see no one else was in there thankfully to see the scene unfold.

   "You! You bitch! You're trying to make me lose it, aren't you? You're trying to break me, is that it? Is that why you're giving me all this information? You think you can break me? You have another thing coming, Snake Charmer!" Izzy shouted and Penny looked at her once more.

  She knew the deadly look that Izzy was giving meant that if Penny didn't leave now, Izzy would probably kill her without a thought.

  Izzy watched closely as Penny left before turning her attention towards Chic, who was looking at the papers, "What are you looking at?" She questioned confused.

"Nothing—It just says that you were adopted by your adoptive family at five months old, that means Alice kept you for a couple months after you were born," Chic replied and Izzy looked at closely, "You're lucky, I was given away right after birth."

Izzy shook her head, "No, this makes her position even worse. If I was her and I had to keep the child I was putting up for adoption for almost six months before giving them away, I would have grown attached to them and wouldn't have been able to give them away. Wouldn't you?"

   Chic shrugged, "I don't know. Maybe."

   Just as Chic replied, the duo's attention went towards the door. They watched closely as three people entered Pop's: Sweet Pea, FP, and Alice.

"Izzy–You can't just run away like that and meet Snake Charmer all by yourself. She's dangerous, you know that." FP argued and Izzy glared at him.

Izzy crossed her arms, "I wasn't alone, I was with Chic," She argued confidently, "Right, Chic?"

"Yeah." Chic answered quietly, nodding his head yes.

"Izzy, he's right, you can't just run away like that," Sweet Pea sighed as he walked past FP and Alice and stood next to Izzy, right where he should have been this whole entire night, "Who cares if Alice is your mom, doesn't make a big difference, she's already technically like a mom to you."

"Oh, really, Sweets?" Izzy questioned him before picking up the birth certificate and showed Sweet Pea's. Sweet Pea's eyes scanned the price of paper until his eyes locked with FP's name and signature.

"No way." Sweet Pea muttered as he quickly glanced at both adults.

"What are you looking at? What is that?" Alice asked, but got no answer.

"Izzy! Answer her, damn it!" FP demanded and Izzy quickly looked up at him.

"I was going to tell you my usual comeback, 'You're not my dad', but turns outs, you actually are my father, FP." Izzy retorted and FP's eyes widened.

"Look, Iz, we can explain—" FP started, But was instantly cut off by Izzy.

"Fuck you, FP," She growled, "And especially fuck you," Izzy told Alice sternly, who looked hurt by this, but Izzy didn't care at that moment, she was in her 'bitch' mode and that meant she couldn't care less about how anyone felt, "I was actually starting to like you, Alice. I really was. I was honestly thinking about taking you up on that offer to stay with you permanently. But now, I find out you're a big fat liar. Both of you! FP, you're so glad that you're the leader of the Southside Serpents or I would cut you off from my life altogether, but you, Alice, you're dead to me."

Izzy turned to the booth that she was formerly sitting at and picked up all of the files that Penny gave her, "You can take these files and shove them up your ass!" She shouted at both of her 'biological' parents and threw them at them before fleeing the scene followed by Sweet Pea, of course.

•••••

Once arriving at Sweet Pea's trailer, Izzy suddenly began to burst out crying and Sweet Pea stood there shocked for a moment before pulling her into a comforting hug. Izzy was never like this, but Izzy never found out FP Jones and Alice Cooper were her mother and father before, either, so, that was big news.

  "Shh, it's okay, it's okay," Sweet Pea reassured her quietly. He knew Izzy all to well to know she wasn't crying because she was sad because of the shocking news. She was crying because she was so filled with anger and rage, and instead of breaking things and punching people, she decided to just channel it all into sadness and cry instead.

Izzy had never done this before, but it did make her feel better. But of course, not as much as punching because that was her go-to since the beginning of grade school.

    "This can't be happening," she told him in between cries, "All this time–FP never had the balls to tell me he was my dad. He let me call him my 'father figure', but never had the nerve to tell me he was my real father. And Alice, she never told me either. Why didn't they tell me?"

    Sweet Pea shrugged, "Maybe they didn't want to hurt you."

  "That's Bull Crap and you know it." Izzy argued and Sweet Pea couldn't help but agree with her.

There was a moment of comfortable silence between the two before Izzy spoke up suddenly, "Do you think I hurt her?" Izzy asked Sweet Pea contently, referring to Alice.

  Izzy honestly felt bad for what she had said to the lady that was recently discovered be Izzy's real mother. Was she overreacting when she told her all those insulting things?

"Definitely." Sweet Pea answered with complete honesty and Izzy sighed in response, "You should go talk to her." Sweet Pea encouraged and Izzy nodded in agreement.

"You're right," Izzy answered as she got up from sitting on the couch with Sweet Pea, "I'll be back."

    Sweet Pea let out a chuckle, "Doubt it, that lady is persistent. Once you tell
her sorry, she's not going to want to let you go."

    Izzy cracked a smile at Sweet Pea before kissing him good bye, then leaving.

AN: One last chapter for an Alice/ Izzy scene, then it's the Izzy and Jughead bringing in Pickens' head and questioning Tall Boy. I'm thinking about her going after Penny too, whatcha guys think?