💕 Bughead Smut & One-shots 💕

A Girl, A Boy, A Serial Killer

A/N: The title is a bit weird but anyway, here's yet another way the Bughead breakup could have gone.

The tension in the garage was unbearable. It was the first time Betty and Jughead were really alone together since their breakup, orchestrated by Riverdale’s one and only Black Hood. 

    Betty tried to focus on the task at hand, making sure Reggie’s old car ran as smoothly as possible, so that Jughead, Archie, and the Serpents, could win against the Ghoulies. However, with Jughead watching her so closely, this was proving difficult.

    “Could you please pass me the crescent wrench?” She said gingerly, meeting his eyes for the first time since they had gotten there, but then glancing away quickly again.

    He said nothing but gave her what she asked for and went back to his position leaning against the car, arms folded across his chest.

    The next time Betty looked up, he was glaring straight at her. She knew he had every right to hate her, but it didn’t stop her feeling very sad and very mad towards the Black Hood.

    “Stop looking at me like that,” she whispered. He just scoffed at her,

“Just go ahead and say it, Betty, say what I know you’re dying to say right now. Let’s not beat around the bush.”

“You said you weren’t going to join them, Jug,” she said in a small voice.

“And you said you loved me,” he retorted, his voice breaking a little, “before dumping me the next day, via Archie!” 

She flinched at his tone. She knew Jughead would never hurt her, but the anger in his eyes scared her a little bit.

“This won’t make any sense right now, but I did this to protect you-”

“Bullshit,” he cut her off, “You did the one thing that could actually hurt me.”

Tears pricked at her eyes, she tried to hold them back, knowing that once the waterworks started, it would be hard to keep anything from him. She tried reminding herself that his life was on the line.

“Jughead, I know you’re upset-”

“Damn right I’m upset. I think I at least deserve to know the reason. I don’t buy for one second Archie’s story that you dumped me because I crossed over to ‘the dark side’ and that you’re scared of me.”

“That’s what he told you?” Betty asked surprised. They had never discussed what he had told Jug, but she didn’t want Jughead to think that.

“So it isn’t true?” He had acted sure, but if he was being honest with himself, he needed to know, needed to know that Betty wasn’t scared of him, that the one good thing in his life hadn’t left because of a decision he had made. If Betty was scared of him, maybe he really was the monster people feared he’d become.

“I could never be scared of you, Jug.”

Even though he was upset, he visibly relaxed a released a breath he didn’t know he had been holding.

“Then, why, Betty? Why did you do it?” He could barely keep the tears out of his voice.

He looked so sad right now, Betty was ready to tell him anything he asked her. She tried one last time to listen to her own voice of reason.

“Did you just stop loving me?” He knew he sounded pathetic, but he needed to know, right now, how she felt. Betty’s heart broke.

“No! Jughead, please, just believe that I love you. I never stopped loving you, Jug, I don’t think that I can!”