Falice one shoots, Falice AUs, Falice crossover

I want you to come home

authors note:
Edgar is gone.
Gladys is gone.
Falice is rising. Finally.

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It was finally over. Edgar was gone, far away, along with his followers, including Polly, to avoid the looming consequences of the law in and around Riverdale.

Gladys had shown her true face. Her lies and cruel intentions as excuse to return to Riverdale were brutally revealed.

FP watched Alice with great concern. Lonely and lost, she took one last look at the houses of the farm, which were wrapped in a thick layer of snow. The apparent idyll here turned out to be hell on earth just days before.

He was not thrilled when Alice told him that she wanted to return to the place where Edgar had kept her. But in the end, he realized that this was exactly what Alice needed most, to face the truth and her past demons.

„Alice?" After a while FP put a warm blanket around her shoulders.

She looked fragile as she turned to him with her deep blue eyes.
„I'm not cold."

FP gently stroked her cheek with her thumb and nodded.
„Just to be safe."

„I'm just so tired and exhausted. I haven't slept in days. Everything is back there, FP. " Her voice sounded tormented and anxious.
„This unspeakable pain over Charles, that burden on my shoulders, the guilt-paved stones in my stomach, the disgust that comes up in my mind, that I gave away our son to lead a harmonious life with a serial killer." She looked sadly into his eyes and whispered barely audible: „ I don't know if I can handle it."

"We will find out, together. We have all the time in the world. No pressure. You just have to give me the opportunity to be there for you. Let me finally into your life. I'm ready much too late but I'm ready. I want you to come home! "

„I don't have a home anymore. The farm is ... gone. And my house belongs ... "

„ ... to you, Alice." He took her ice-cold hands in his, barely able to stand her steady trembling and as the warmth of his fingers reached her, a moment of calm flowed through her body. Taking a deep breath her eyes wandered to his lips as her forehead frowned uncertainly. „What does this mean?"

„You sold this house for the wrong reasons. Gladys bought this house for the wrong reasons and gave it to me as a birthday present. It's only right that it goes back to its original owner. "

„FP? I'm not sure yet I can live in the house where my serial killer husband tried to kill my daughter and me."

„I will rebuild it with all the trimmings. Nothing will remind you, promised. Let's make a fresh start here. You, the children and me! "

„I think Gladys will have something against it ..."

„That's probably right. But what does she want to do? It's not her house, remember." He smiled hesitantly.

„And your daughter? You were so worried. You may lose her. "

„Perhaps. Gladys manipulated her the way she manipulated Jughead and me. I hope one day Jellybean will forgive me for not being a good father in the past. I want to change that, like with Jughead. With you by my side I can achieve that. I also have rights as a father. And I'm sure JB will eventually realize she's having a family with you, Betty, Jughead, maybe Polly in due course, a family that's not perfect but struggles to learn from mistakes. "

„You really mean that with us?"

„Yes, I do very seriously, Alice. Let us finally live our life as it was intended from the beginning. Provided you want that. "

„I always wanted to ... even back in school when I was pregnant with our son."

„Let's not look back, ok?"

She nodded silently.

FP saw fear spring up in her eyes and came resolutely toward her. His hands covered her face.
„Alice, I know, in the past I gave you every reason to distrust me, at least when it came to both of us. I promise you, I won't let you down. I am here for you, for the children, for us. Give me a chance to finally prove that I love you. "

He heard her frightened, confronted with his statement, sharply inhale and left her no time to think. In the next second his lips gently embraced hers. His tongue greedily entered her mouth and she willingly let him do it without hesitation.
„I love you, Alice.", he repeated after a short time and completely out of breath.
„I was afraid to lose you forever. If something had happened to you, here on the farm, I would never have forgiven myself, I want you, I need you and I ask you for one last chance to finally get it right."

„I'm scared ."

„Me too."

With one hand she caressed his stubble on the chin, with the fingers of the other hand pursued the hard line of his eyebrows.she pressed her lips to his again with a smile before she clasped his hand tightly and spoke shyly: „It's a good idea to go home."