✔️ Blood Rose [2] (Riverdale) ✔️

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"Either I Die, Or Die Protecting You."

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Sweet Pea sat down with Rosalie, his hand running through her hair as Melanie handed her a hot chocolate.

"How are you feeling, Princess?" Sweet Pea asked his girlfriend. The girl's eyes became glossy as she recalled recent events. "They could've killed me, Sweets. I could've died."

"What were their names again?" Jesse asked. "We need to focus on Fangs, we can't get distracted, he needs us. Revenge can wait" Rosalie replied.

Jesse scoffed as he shook his head. "You don't have to worry about getting revenge, I will. You and your friends can focus on Fangs, I'll make them suffer. Any man who lays a hand on a woman deserves one thing, a bullet through their skull."

Melanie put her hand on Jesse's shoulder in an attempt to calm him down. He was shaking in anger and whenever Jesse was angry in the past, nothing good happened.

"What? It's true!" Jesse snapped at his friend. "You really believe that?" Melanie asked with raised eyebrows. He looked at her and shook his head again. "That's different. That's character building." Melanie hummed. "Character building? Interesting."

"We're talking about a group of boys attacking a single, unarmed girl!" Jesse snapped. "The you I know would kill them!"

"You don't think I want to!" Melanie yelled as she stood up. She threw the bottle of beer into the wall, causing Rosalie to jump. Melanie continued to rant as Sweet Pea's hand went through Rosalie's hair. "I want them to suffer. I want all of them to suffer. But Rosalie's right, we need to focus on Fangs. They think he's a murderer and we need to protect him. No Serpent stands alone."

"No Serpent stands alone" Sweet Pea repeated, causing Melanie to smile.

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Leon and Jughead were walking towards the Sheriff station, both desperate to see Fangs. All Leon wanted to do was comfort the boy, he even thought about getting arrested so he could be in a cell, that way Fangs wouldn't be alone.

"Have you contacted Andrews yet? Telling him how he's a dead man?" Leon asked. "He's more than dead if they get him" Jughead mumbled as he got out his phone.

"Hey Jug, what's up?" Archie's voice said.

"What's up?" Leon chuckled darkly. 

"You and your Dark Circle went wilding on the Southside last night, that's what's up!" Jughead hissed.

"Wait, hold on. That's impossible."

"Unless it was some other vigilante group in Leatherman jackets, who set a dumpster on fire and slashed our tires. Archie, Hog Eye saw you guys" Jughead told him.

"Jug, I swear, I don't know anything about this. I wasn't there."

"Yeah, well it's worse than just vandalism. They cut Rosalie, they drew a circle on her with a knife."

"I would-"

"And then, they had her tied to a bin, a bin they set on fire" Jughead told him.

"What?! Jughead, I swear I didn't know. I would never do that to her."

While Jughead and Leon were listening to Archie, who was clearly shocked with the information, they didn't notice Abigail approach them.