Barchie One Shots

9: How can I?

Archie POV

I have barley slept trying to protect my dad. Every sense he got shot I have been trying to protect him. I sit on a stool in the hallway of my house so I can see the front and back door. I have a baseball bat in hand. I hear something from the front of the house. Keys jiggling in the door, sniffles loud and clear. The door opens, I hold up the bat. But once a saw a small blonde girl dressed in a gray shirt and pink shorts, bright green eyes, her hair laying around her face, I dropped the bat.

"Betts" I say, 

"Arch" she walks over to me and hugs me tight. The door was still open, I see him the black hood standing right there with a gun pointed right at Betty and I. Everything was in slow motion to me. I grab Betty and pull her away right as the gun shot the wall. I pull her upstairs into my room and lock the door.

"Archie, what the hell is going on? Was the a gun shot?" She panics. I shush her and pull her into my closet.

"Archie?" She whispers.

"The Black Hood" I whisper back. I hear pounding at the door. Betty grabs at my hand, tears filled her eyes.

"Arch" She whispers coming closer to me, the space between us was getting smaller, she gave me a soft kiss.

"I love you and I'm really sorry" She says, She lets go of my hand and stands up.

"Betty what the hell are you doing?" I say grabbing her.

"Don't make this harder than it is" She says tears falling from her beautiful green eyes. With that she opened the closet, she walked out and to the door. She looked back at me before she unlocked the door,

"Betty no!" I yell but before I know it she opened the door and there is no Black Hood waiting.

"Stay here" She tells me, 

"No, I'm not going to let another person I love get hurt" I say holding her wrist. She cups my face with her soft hands.

"I'm doing this because I love you and your family, your going to live Archie Andrews" She says, I nod as hot tears fall. I give her one last kiss. She walked down the steps, I slowly follow. I see the Black Hood waiting for us.

"Hey" Betty shouts, the looks at her and holds up the gun.

"Shoot me but leave the Andrews alone, they don't deserve this" She says,

"But Betty they do, they are sinners just like you" He says, I hear a gun shot go off, I hear metal drop to the ground, and feet running across the room, I run to see Betty bleeding on the ground, and the Black Hood nowhere.

"Archie what-Betty" My Dad limps over. He shot her square in the chest, her breathing is not very good.

"Call the cops" I yell, I press down on her chest trying to get the bleeding to stop, I was having flash backs to when my dad was shot. 

"Ar...c...h" She tries to talk.

"Don't say anything your making it worse" I say, I take off my hoodie and press down on the wound. Soon enough I hear sirens, But Betty wasn't breathing.

"No, no, no, Betty, you have to live, you have to" I cry pushing the hoodie into the wound more. The paramedics rush in and rip me off of her. I follow them as they take her to the ambulance.

"You have to stay here son" The paramedic told me.

"Hell no, shes my best friend" I say trying to get in, they push me back and close the doors. They start driving. I run with all the power in me following that ambulance. I see them bring her in to the hospital. They push me back telling me I can't be back here. They had to drag me to the waiting room. But soon my dad, and her parents arrived. We waited in silence, we waiting 40 minutes before a doctor came out.

"Are you here for Ms.Cooper?" He asks, we all stand up.

"Yes" I gulp.

"We did everything we could, the gun shot was deadly" There was a ringing in my ears, I didn't know what to do. I see Mrs.Cooper hugging Mr.Cooper sobbing. My dad had tears in his eyes and I was emotionless. Rage was inside me, yet sadness was too, but the biggest one was guilt. I was the reason she was dead. She wanted me to live. How can I do that without her?