Finding Her Future

~Chapter 8~

Authors Notes:
Chapter 8 is here
warning violence!
Hope you enjoy...

The couple had set up the ultrasound video to play as soon as the Tv was turned on so they waited for everyone to get there.
"Hey guys." Cheryl said as she walked in with everyone else.
"Hey, ready for a movie marathon." Betty squealed practically jumping.
"Someone's excited" Kevin laughed. "Just in a great mood Kev." Betty held the control in her shaking hands and waited for everyone to sit down and get comfy.
"What are we watching first?" Toni asked.
"I don't know let's look on Netflix." Betty said not controlling her excitement. She looked at everyone and smiled at Jughead and switched the Tv on.
The scan popped up on the screen and everyone's eyes widened. Their heads bolted to Betty and Jughead .
"You liar Betty Cooper, you said it was negative." Cheryl said and hugged her.
"Oh my god you guys!! This is so great." Kevin exclaimed.
"Congratulations You Guys!" Fangs and Sweet Pea said.
Toni joined in on the hug too and wrapped her arms around Cheryl and Betty .
"Congrats." Archie clapped Jughead on the back.
"Can we see the bump." Toni urged.
"It's not that big yet but you can just about see it." Betty said as she lifted the shirt up.
"Oh it's beautiful Betty!" Cheryl cried.
"And you all get to be aunts and uncles." Jughead said as he stroked the little baby.
"Oh and I know this is soon but Cheryl, Toni- Would you like to be the godmothers." Betty asked and felt tears spring to her eyes.
"Of course!" They both squealed.
"How much are you?" Kevin chimed in.
"12 weeks today." She smiled.
"Are you going to do a gender reveal?"
"Well we were thinking if it's ok with the student body and the teachers we were thinking about doing it at prom, because prom is like a few days after the pregnancy milestone where the gender can be detected." Betty said sitting down.
"OMG. You should so do that. You could  ask the pussycats to do a special performance and when they sing a certain line smoke machines will go off and the colour of the smoke is what  gender the baby is." Cheryl said clapping her hands.
"Aww that would be so cute, right Jug." Betty looked at him and he was sat with tears in his eyes.
"Sounds great babe." He said and smiled. She walked over to him and brushed her fingers through his hair.
"You ok?" Betty said, he stroked her stomach with his thumb.
"I'm great. I'm amazing actually ." He said and kissed the tiny bump.
"Have you told anyone, besides us?" Toni asked.
"Only my dad,mom and sister."
"Betty, what about your parents?"
"I told them I'm going over later because I need to tell them something."
"Can we take a selfie! Please." Kevin asked and whipped out his phone.

They all stood gathered up, Betty was in the middle with Jughead stood behind her with his hands on her stomach. Everyone else was stood around smiling and making gasping faces pointing at Betty and Jughead.

"Don't post it yet,  I'll text you once I've told my mom." Betty said.
"Ok but let me save a caption so it's ready to go." He said staring at the screen.
"Oh baby! Best Saturday with my best friends... can't wait to meet our 9th member of the gang in 6 months time
#The8Now9gang #12weeks #OhBaby"

"Great caption Kevin." Jughead laughed.
"We are going to my mom's now... wish us luck." Betty laughed.
"Good luck." Toni laughed. They all followed them out and headed to Pops. 
"We'll meet you there in a bit." Betty said as she walked to the truck.

"Ready." Jughead said and rubbed Betty's back. She was wearing an oversized sweater so you couldn't tell that she had a bump.
"No. But it's now or never, they have the right to know." She sighed.
"Hello, Elizabeth, Jughead." Alice smiled a fake smile and let us in.
"I need to talk to you mom. Please sit down and get dad and Charles." Betty said and sat herself on the couch.
"What do you want to tell us Betty?" Alice said irritably. She waited for her father and brother to sit down. She took an envelope out of her pocket.
"This.." She handed it to them.
"What is it." My mom said as she took the envelope.
"Just open it." Betty smiled weakly. They opened it and discovered the ultrasound picture. Her mothers face flushed red and her father snorted.
"Oh my word." Charles said "she got knocked up because that's the only love she could get. I can bet right now they were drunk. She's such a slut." He sneered. Betty felt Jughead's anger rise, he clenched his fists and flared his nostrils.
"That's not what happened." Betty trembled. Alice stood up and started to dial a number on her phone.
"She's calling the sisters, Jug." Betty leapt into Jughead's arms and began crying.
"What else should we do? We are not endorsing this Elizabeth. You are 17! You just slept with a snake because he made you." Alice scoffed dropping her phone striding towards Betty.
"I told you it wasn't like that. Yes we were drunk, Yes we are 17, Yes he is a serpent but he did not force me to do anything. I chose to be with him, I made the choice. I love him so much and I can't wait to be a mother, we are keeping this baby."
"The hell you are. You can't even look after yourself Betty, let alone a child. We should take it into our care." Hal suggested. Betty scoffed and looked at Jughead making him laugh.
"Yeah, let's give our baby to a bunch of psychopaths, shall we?" Betty snorted, Jughead smiled secretively, proud of his girlfriend for finally standing up to her parents.
"No offence Coopers, but if any adults were to have our baby it would-"
"It wouldn't be you! It would be Cheryl and Toni or Mr and Mrs Jones, hell we would probably give the baby to Pop Tate before you ." Betty barked. Jughead laughed under his breath at the end of her sentence.
"Right That is it. Come with me. I'm calling the sisters and you're coming with me." Alice grabbed Betty's face harshly and shook her. Betty howled in pain.
"Get off of her." Jughead snapped pulling Betty from Alice's touch. He stroked her face and held her tight. He steered her to the door as she cried but he was pushed by Charles.
"You're not going anywhere." Charles sneered.
"Yes we are." He tried to open the door but Charles grabbed his shirt. "No you're not."
"Betty go to the car." Jughead whispered.  "I'll be fine, please." Betty watched Charles hold Jughead's shirt and whimpered at the scene, "Betty! Please, go!"
Betty ran out the door and waited outside to see if she could hear anything.
Charles glared at Jughead and smashed him in the stomach making him cry out in pain, and fall to the floor.
Betty heard the hit, the cry and the thud and she fumbled for her phone.
"Sheriff, can you come to my house. now!"
Charles dragged Jughead into a chair and tied his ankles on to the legs of the chair and his arms around the back.
"What are you going to do to me?" Jughead jolted, trying to break free. With that Charles punched Jughead across the face and started cackling, his nose started to bleed from the punch .Alice came from the kitchen with a knife.
"Where's your tattoo?"
"What?!" Jughead exclaimed, he started sweating nervously. Charles glared at him. He looked at his mother who raised an eyebrow, Charles punched Jughead again causing his mouth to start bleeding.
"I don't want my daughter even near a serpent, and I'm making sure that product of alcohol and a wild night will not have a serpent as a father. I'm cutting that tattoo off." Alice searched for his tattoo until she found the ink carved on his shoulder. Charles pulled out a gun, he cocked it and  held it to Jughead's face.
"I'm not afraid to shoot, if you move I will."
"Why are you dong this?"
"Becomes Betty's going to pay."
"What did she do?"
"She made them forget about me."
Hal came face to face with Jughead and held his neck as Alice held the knife on his arm and began cutting. Jughead cried out in pain, when the door was knocked down by Sheriff Keller. He walked over followed by two other cops.
"Alice Cooper, Hal Cooper and Charles Cooper you are under arrest for child abuse and use of guns and violence You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law." They were all hand cuffed and taken into the three cop cars.
Betty walked through the mass of cops and ran over to Jughead, who looked unconscious, Hal had held his neck too tight, leaving him unconscious with his head bent over his chest.
"Jug? Jug? Please baby wake up."
"Betty do you want us to call an ambulance." Kevin said as he rushed in. Betty nodded her head, sobbing.
She kept calling his name but he didn't answer. She lifted his head up and saw his beautiful broken face. His neck had nail scratches  and was red with bruises forming around it. His mouth and nose had blood falling from them. His eye was bruised around it, swollen and throbbing and he had scratches on his forehead. His tattoo was cut but not cut off and his arm was bleeding.
She lifted his shirt up and his whole stomach was red with bruises. She untied the rope around his ankles and wrists and both his ankles and both his wrists had burns and blisters around them, and were bloody.

The ambulance arrived and took Jughead on a stretcher. Betty climbed into the ambulance and sat so his head was practically in her lap. She stroked his hair and did the one thing she knew he would love. Tell him one of their beautiful love stories.
"Jug, do you remember our first date, nearly two years ago. I do, it was so romantic. You were so romantic, we went to the drive-in and had a movie marathon, you took me there for our 1 year anniversary too, do you remember, it was incredible. And now look at us, we're going to ha-have a baby." Betty sniffled and carried on stroking his hair, "I need you Jug, you're the best thing that's ever happened to me and I don't know what I'd do without you. I love you. So please don't leave me, please come back to me. Come back to me and in 6 months we'll have our beautiful baby ok." Betty began sobbing as she stroked his face. "The truth is the time we've spent together, is the only time in my life where I've known that what I'm with, who I'm with is all I need. Does that even make sense, I don't know but I do know that I need you Jug, you and this baby are the only things I need. I love you Jug." She placed a kiss on his forehead and caressed his hair.
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