Choni one shots

24: The One Where Toni Hides

TONI POV:

I look at Jughead. "What the hell are we doing here?" I ask above a whisper. Cheryl is going to kill me. "Your small get Hotdog." He orders, I walk slowly over to him. "Hey buddy." I Whisper unchaining him. A bunch of lights come on and penny walks out. "Oh shit." I whisper. "Toni Topaz, serpent queen. What are you and Jones doing here?" She ask. "Getting Hotdog." I start to walk away. "Cheryl Blossom." I stop and turn around at the sound of her name. "What about her?" I ask horrified of where this might go. "She would hate it if something happened to you." She pulls out a gun and shoots me. I look back at Jughead and everything goes black.

CHERYL POV:

I take her hand. She hasn't woken up. I kiss her hand. "I love you." I whisper. "Cheryl." I jump at the sound of Betty's voice. I wipe tears. "Betty." She walks in. "Cheryl you have been here for 3 weeks. You should get some rest." I shake my head. "No, I'm not leaving her side." Betty gives up and walks out. "Toni I love you more than anything. And if you need to go, it's ok. Just know I love you and will never stop." I move some hair back from her face. The heart stops beeping.

JUGHEAD POV:

I walk into the cafeteria and see Cheryl. I walk over. "Cheryl." She stands up. "I'm sorry." I say. She slaps me. "You could have saved her!" She hits my chest. "You could have stopped all of this from happening! You could have jumped in!" She slaps me. "I loved her! And you ruined it!" Betty walks over and grabs her.

CHERYL POV:

"Cheryl." She sits on bench in front of me. "I barely touched him." She hold my shoulders. "I know your grieving, but, you shouldn't blame Juggie for this." I look up at her. "Than who I blame?" I ask. "Penny."

"Cheryl, I'm sorry." Jughead sits in front of me at the table. "Why? You could have saved her. She could be here and I would pretend to like you." I say about to cry. "I know, meet me at my trailer tonight. Toni left you something." He gets up and leaves. I put my head on the table and cry. I feel a arm on my hand on my back. "Leave me alone." I yell. "Cheryl it's me." I look up and it's Betty. "What do you want?" I ask. "Your ok." I cry into her shoulder. "I miss her so much." She rubs my back. "I know."

I knock on the door. Jughead opens the door. "What do you want?" I ask. "Come in?" He lets me in. "Cheryl." I hear a familiar voice. I turn about and see Toni. "Toni." I run up and hug her. She flinches. "Ow." I pull away. "Why did you do this to me?" I ask. "I'm hiding from penny. You can't tell anyone I'm alive we are the only people who know I'm ok. Besides a nurse." I kiss her slowly She kisses me back smiling into the kiss. Jughead walks in come on we need to get you to the bunker.

We've been in the bunker talking about going to Toledo. "Where you actually shot?" I ask quietly. "Yeah." She says. "Do you want to see the scar?" She ask pulling up Her shirt, I stop her. "You were gone for a month." I say. "I was here and the hospital. I'm sorry Cher. I needed to make it convincing, trust me I tried to get ahold of you but Jug wouldn't let me. Not in a captive way obviously." She plays with her ring. The hatchet starts to open and Jughead jumps down. "You ready?" He ask fixing his stupid hat.

"Gladys said something about your mom. What happened?" She looks down and plays with her fingers. "If you're not comfortable-." She stops me. "No, I should have told you sooner. My dad left when I was young, it's been just me and my mom until she found Jingle Jangle and really started to drink. One day I come home from school..." she trails off. "I was 8 when she died." She bites her lip trying not to cry. Jughead looks back at us. "Can you stop telling your sob story and continue walking? We're almost there." Toni rolls her eyes. I think she hates this more than me. I take her hand and kiss it. "I'm sorry all that happened to you." We continue walking. "My uncle is great though, he has his moments because he's bipolar. But he treats me like a normal person. My parents were to. They just never really worked well together and after they left each other my mom went down a dark road and I haven't seen my dad in 10 years. None of this is as bad as what you went through and I'm sorry you had to live through all of that." She says as we start walking. "My father was the pastor for this town and thought that I could pray the gay away and when I couldn't he sent me to The Sisters. Yeah I know my life is hell." I say laughing slightly. "Cheryl..." She trails off. "Jughead! Where the hell are we going?" I ask changing the subject. "My mom." He looks at back us. "What do you guys have anywhere better? if so tell me."

"Thank you for letting us stay here mom." Jughead says as we all start to go upstairs. "It's fine. Cheryl and Toni can share a room. Juggie sleep in Jellybeans." Jughead nods. We walk up and go into our room. "Toni." I pull her into a kiss. "I'm so happy your ok." She kisses me. "I'm sorry about that. I wish I could have told you that I was ok, but I needed to make everyone forget me." We put our stuff down and sit on the beds. We would sleep I one bed but it's to small. "Do you regret this? Leaving Riverdale, leaving a scholarship for football, the serpents." She shrugs. "I wasn't going to take the scholarship, that needs to go to someone who wants to play. I just want to get out of high school and join the military. I tried out for football as a joke, four years later coach makes me play even after I told him I never wanted to see that field again. And for the serpents, they're my family I'm not leaving them." She says quietly. "What about you? Your mom, nana rose. Jason..." she trails off. "My mom can die in a hole and Nana Rose is a million years old she's not dying anytime soon." We both laugh. "I don't know, your my world. I talked to Nana Rose and told that I love her and everything I have wanted to say to her just incase."  I say quietly. "Cheryl, if you need to go back home. Go. Especially if it's has to do with Nana Rose." I take a deep breath. "I never want to go back to Riverdale, I hate that place it was where Jason died, where I was abused by my parents, where I almost raped, I was thrown into conversion therapy, I almost died. Toni, your the only good thing to come out of that hell hole. You are the love of my life." She gets up and sits next to me. I kiss her slowly. "I'm so sorry I brought you into this." I cup her cheek  "And again, I hate Riverdale, and spending time with you is more important." I kiss her again. There is a knock at the door. "Hey, it's time for dinner." Jughead comes in. "Ok, we'll be down in a minute." We get up and go down stairs.

"So you finally have a girlfriend?" Gladys says making me laugh. "Yeah, I do." She takes my hand. "Cheryl, I'm sorry about your brother." I look down and nod. "It must have been hard for you." I bite my lip. "Yeah, it still is."

TONI POV:

"Cheryl you barely eat." I says as I close the door. After the conversation she left and came up here. "I can't go anywhere without being reminded of Jason." She says quietly looking out the window. I sit next to her. "I get it. Trust me she asked me about my mom. She just needs to get to know you. It's called small talk." She looks up at me. "I know." She puts her head on my shoulder. She points out to the window. "The sky matches your hair. Not including the brown, I'm talking about the pink." I take her hand. "Cheryl I tell you something. And it's not a big deal and not surprising I just need to say it out loud before I self implode." She sits up and faces me. "Ok. What?" I take deep breath. It's really not a big deal. "I'm gay. Again not I big deal I just needed to say it out loud." She smiles and cups my cheeks. "Ok. It doesn't matter. I still care about you. Toni, I love you." She says and I know it's not the first time. But it's the first time I wasn't wake. "I love you, Cheryl." I kiss her. She puts her head on my shoulder. "I don't care if your gay or anything. Your my girlfriend and treat me like I'm normal." I smile. "Your not normal and I'm not but that's why I asked you out."