Queen of the Serpents- [Sweet Pea] // Riverdale

12

*Natalie's POV

"I mean what the hell Jug," I exclaimed. "Did you read what she wrote?"

"Yes I did Nat," he snapped pushing the doors open. As we walked down the steps of Southside High I saw the serpents.

"Nice article your girlfriend's mom wrote." Sweet Pea spoke up. Looks like Archie did hit him pretty hard.

"Yeah, I saw that." Jughead said not really caring. "Dilton Doiley said he was stabbed when a bunch of you guys jumped him."

"Yeah, idiot stabbed himself. With his own knife." Fangs looked up from his paper.

"And we didn't jump him, there was a fight, bulldogs versus serpents. You see this?" Sweet Pea pointed to his messed up eye. "Your boy, Andrews gave it to me."

"It's true Jug." I looked at Jughead. "I was there." He turned and glared at me.

"And you let it happen?" He got closer to me.

"What the hell was I supposed to do Jughead?"

"You could have stopped them!" He argued. "Wait, is that when you broke Veronica's necklace?"

"How do you know about that?" I looked up at him.

"Because she said some serpent, with black and blue hair tried to steal it." He yelled in my face. "And you're the only one that fits that description."

"Yeah, well that was way before she shot a gun in the air." His demeanor completely changed.

"Wait what happened?"

"But of course, Northsiders get off scot free. It's payback time." Sweet Pea announced.

"What the hell are you going on about, Sweet Pea?" I sighed getting irritated by this whole ordeal.

"This." Fangs placed the papers down on the table.

"What is that?" Jughead stepped closer and I did the same.

"Give me that," I snatched the papers away from Fangs, and looked at it.

"Is that a pipebomb?" Jughead asked as he was looking over my shoulder.

"What the hell do you guys think your doing?" I yelled at them.

"Fogarty's cousin is gonna build it, he served in the Army," Sweet Pea sounded rather calmly about it.

"We'll do it after hours, but it'll shutdown the Riverdale Register for good." Fangs jumped in. These little shits have it all planned out.

"Do you even hear yourself Fangs," I yelled staring at him. "You really think this is gonna solve anything," I yelled looking at the serpents, but they were all avoiding my stare. "You guys can't even look me in the face, how the hell do you expect to blow up a building!" They all stayed quiet.

"This is not gonna make things better." Jughead yelled.

"Can't get any worse," Sweet Pea fired back.

"Yeah Sweet Pea, it can." I argued staring him down.

"Let me talk to Archie." Jughead interjected. "Let me figure this out."

"Man, that's your answer to everything. Talk and more talk." Sweet Pea yelled getting irritated at Jughead's response. "And we don't even know who you stand with anymore. Us? Or them?" He yelled at Jughead but his stare was on me the whole time. As if his little message was for me. Sweet Pea leaned against the table and glared at Jughead. "You can't be half a serpent," he warned Jughead. He stood up straight, patted Fangs' back, and walked away with the others following.

Jughead plopped down on the bench next to Toni. "I'll catch you later Jug" I told him. He nodded and waved me off.

This asshole really thinks he could just yell at me and leave? I ran towards the serpents as they continued walking. I shoved them all out of the way and pulled Sweet Pea from his jacket.

"What the?" he turned around.

"Where the fuck do you think you're going," I could feel my blood begin to boil. "You think you could try and yell at me in front of everyone, and just get away with it," I yelled at him.

"What would FP want," He yelled back.

"Not this," I exclaimed. "FP was trying to keep the peace."

"Bullshit." Sweet Pea rolled his eyes.

"Oh yeah, and how would you know," I taunted him. "I'm FP's right hand." I never liked throwing my relationship with FP around, but sometimes these younger ones needed a reality check.

"Just because we're screwing around, doesn't mean shit." His jaw clenched. "That doesn't give you the right to call the shots. Because I'm the one who does that." He remained silent. I turned towards the other serpents. "Do I make myself clear?" I clenched my fists in anger.

"Yes." They answered in unison.

"And you," I looked at Sweet Pea. "You will not go behind my back ever again, understood?"

"Crystal." He spat.

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A/N: This one is very short. I know. But the last one was pretty long, and I just wanted to get something up today, since classes are starting back up again tomorrow. Oh, and I don't own the picture, I just got it off of google for the hair.