sane | betty & jughead

The Necklace

The human mind is truly the scariest of all.  It's a deep, dark web of wrong decisions and crazy fears.

It can tear you apart as much as it can bring you up. And most of the time, it's the first.

And Elizabeth Cooper experienced that, in her own reality.

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She held the gun in her quivering hands, the top pointed at him. She sucked in a deep breath when she suddenly heard a voice in her ear.

"Do it Betty. Shoot him." Betty focused her attention back on him, watching his desperate eyes gazing into hers.

"Betty please, stop this. You don't need to do this, we both know that. I know you." He begged, his hands clutching together as he sat on his knees.

Betty felt tears coming down her cheeks. She gripped the gun so tight her knuckles started to become white. "I love you." The boy whispered to her. "You're sane."

And suddenly, a gun fired, and he was gone.

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"I'm beating your ass so hard, Pea." Jughead grinned while they played a game of pool in the Whyte Wyrm.

"This game sucks." Sweet Pea just grumbled and slammed his stick on the table.

"You're just saying that because you can't win." Jughead mocked back, taking a hand through his dark locks. He handed Pea the stick, who took a deep breath before aiming it. He tried to hit one last shot, but missed again and threw his hands in the air from anger.

When Jughead started laughing, Sweet Pea narrowed his eyes at him and made his way to the bar.

Jughead laughed after him, watching as he took a swig of a bottle of beer.

Jughead's eyes slowly scanned over the clock on the wall. "Shit." He muttered, grabbing his jacket. "Guys I need to head out, gotta pick up my sister from school."

"Always soft for his sister."

"Shut it, Pea. Toni, lock up when you're done alright? I won't be back tonight." Toni nodded from behind the bar, throwing him his car keys.

"By the way, the toilets clogged again today, had to call the plummet. Money's running out Jug!" Jughead sighed, knowing that. He may have already found a solution, but didn't want that particular solution to be the only one.

"Good luck with your sister!" She added in a yell as Jughead walked out the door.

Once outside, he pulled his jacket over his shoulders. He stepped onto the hard ground, shivering from the cold.

A few metres ahead, he saw something small on the ground glimmer in the moonlight. He stepped over to it, picking it up with ease.

In his hand he held a small silver necklace, a key attached to the string. The key was beautifully engraved with two initials; MC.

Jughead shrugged and stuffed the necklace in his pocket. He didn't pay more of his attention to it. A necklace, how pathetic.

When he got to his sister's school, he watched as she ran out of the doors, right into his arms. "Juggie!!" She squealed, letting Jughead pick her up.

"Hey sweetheart, how was your day at school?" He asked her, kissing her forehead gently.

"It was great! look, I drew us." Jughead settled Jellybean back on the ground while he took the drawing from her petite hands.

On the right side of the drawing stood Jughead himself, and Jellybean just beside him, holding his hand. They were both covered with huge grins.

"It's beautiful JB, I feel honoured that you made that." The girl blushed softly, and threaded her fingers through his big ones.

"Thanks Juggie." She giggled as they started to head towards the car.

It was a short ride home, and Jellybean babbled all through the way. The two braids dangling through the air as she moved along with her speaking.

Jellybean was a small, bright eyed, brunette girl. She had the sweetest smile and she could put up the cutest puppy eyes.

Jughead loved her like a big brother should, sometimes even like his own daughter. He was the only one left to tale care of her, to give her the childhood she so desperately deserves.

Their mother left them when Jellybean was born, and Jughead had been furious at her ever since. Luckily Jellybean had never known her, and couldn't miss her in the slightest.

Their father was home with them, and provided a ceiling above their heads, but that's all he really did. He was always working and had no idea what was going on in either of his children's lives. He was barely home, and when he was, he gave them not a second of his attention.

Jughead had accepted both of their decisions after millions of therapeutic sessions and years of being furious at the both of them.

"Is dad home?" Jellybean then asked after she finished telling her story, her voice becoming more soft than usual.

"Don't think so JB." Jughead answered, already feeling his heart sink for his sister.

She missed him, he knew she did. She was young and needed her father to lead her the way.

"Want to get some Pop's?" The girl's face lit up again as she nodded brightly.

"Yes!" She squeaked, happily gleaming up at her brother. Jughead grinned and drove the two of them toward the diner.

"Pop! We'd like two strawberry milkshakes and two burgers please." He stated once the two of them were inside.

Jellybean smiled sweetly at Pop, and tugged Jughead's arm to lead him to their favourite booth. "Coming right up Jug!" Pop said, heading to the kitchen.

As Jughead walked to the booth, Jellybean clutching to his arm, he saw the glimpse of a blonde ponytail turn the corner of Pop's, but it was gone before he knew it.

He didn't pay more of his attention to it.

Instead his look of interest went to the plate of food that Pop brought to them, the sweet smell of a burger filling his nose.

Jellybean had started babbling again already, her voice filled with cheerfulness.

In the middle of her story, Jughead's phone rang. As he picked it up, his gut told him something was wrong.

"Jug! Jug!" It was Toni's voice, she sounded frantic and disordered.

"Woah, calm down Topaz, what's up?" He got up from the booth, gesturing to Jellybean he was taking this outside. The girl's eyes turned a shade of sadness, but she nodded anyhow.

"Some blonde chick came in the bar, all seemed normal, but then Pea simply touched her and now she's holding a knife by his neck and pushing it further inwards as we speak."

"What the fuck!?" He scolded, his brows turning into a frown.

"You need to come, right now."

"But Jelly.." He stumbled over his thoughts.

"Just get her home and then get your ass here, this girl is freaking everybody out."

Jughead let a long sigh out of his lips before hanging up the phone. He hurried himself back to Jellybean, sitting in the booth beside her.

"You have to go, don't you?" She whispered, her voice quivering.

"I'm so sorry JB, I'll be back as soon as I can."

"It's alright," she mumbled sadly, "let's get me home." The girl grasped her brother's hand and led him outside.

first chapter! god I hope you guys like it, although i don't know if i'll be posting the second chapter soon, I just really want to see what you guys think of this storyline!
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