Collateral Damage ▻ Riverdale [1]

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THE BEGINNING
CHAPTER EIGHT
May 19, 2017

"Come on, Dad, it's one deal." Queenie encouraged her father as they both stood in their trailer.

  FP sat on one of the couches in the living with his head in his hands as he listened to Queenie's rant of why he should take up Jason Blossom's offer on the drug deal. FP sighed as he finally looked up at his eldest daughter to see her taking the metal caps off of two glass bottles of beer before she walked over to him. She handed him one of them which he took without hesitation. Queenie sighed dramatically as she took a seat on the couch across from him. She took a large sip of her own beer and FP didn't say one word to her about it, he only took a sip of his own beer.

  "Yeah, a deal that could land me in jail if he's just entering this deal to help the cops get me arrested. Why else would a clean cut kid want to sell drugs for money? His family's probably loaded." FP explained and Queenie nodded in understanding.

   "Or maybe he wants to leave this Godforsaken town and never look back. Kinda like you did for a brief time when you were my age, am I right?" Queenie remarked.

   "I didn't tell you stories about my past so you can use them against me," FP laughed at his daughter, "What is it with you and this Northside kid anyway? You like him or something?"

   Queenie groaned in frustration after hearing her father's comment, "I don't like him, okay? Why does everyone keep asking me that?" She complained and FP quietly laughed at her.

   "You did bring him into the Serpent's den," FP replied, causing Queenie to roll her eyes and avoid any eye contact with her father.

  FP sighed deeply as he thought over the pros and cons of the deal with the Blossom boy in his head. He looked up at his daughter to see that she looked like she was doing the same exact thing, "You know what, screw it; Tell the boy the deal's back on. You're to thank for that."

  Queenie's eyes widened as she looked up at her father who was giving her an unreadable face, "Really?" She asked him shocked.

"Yes," He smiled at her as he nodded his head, "But if we all get busted because of this damn deal, it's going to be on you, Queenie, understand?"

   Just then, FP's phone rang and he ended up getting a call from Mustang, an elder Serpent, to meet him at the Whyte Wyrm.

"I have to meet Mustang at the Wyrm to deal with some stuff," FP told his daughter as he put on his jacket and picked up his keys from the kitchen counter, "I'll be back later on. If you see Jughead, tell him he and I need to talk about how his plan to avoid me for the rest of his life isn't going to work." FP explained to her and Queenie quickly covered her mouth with her right hand to stop from laughing.