{1} Tempest {Sweet Pea}

XIV

Storm was half asleep as she sat with the Serpents at the table, she looked at them like she wasn't really there.

"Sweet Pea. You've got to take care of this." Fogarty says and as he stood up, it was Sweet Pea, who knocked her in the arm.

Storm shakes her head as she looked up slightly to see why he had knocked her arm.

"Nice article your girlfriend's mom wrote." Sweet Pea snapped at Jughead as the very much honorary Serpent approached the group.

"Yeah I saw that. Dilton Doiley said that he was stabbed when a bunch of you guys jumped him? Including you, of all people?" Jughead accused, as he looked directly at Storm, who stands up at the tone in his voice.

"Watch your tone, Jones. We didn't jump him, nor did we stab him." She said coldly.

"The idiot stabbed himself with his own knife." Fangs shot his words at Jughead and Storm nods slightly.

"We didn't jump. There was a fight, a big one. Bulldogs versus Serpents. You see this?" Sweet Pea pointed at the eye he was sporting and Storm lowers her head. "Your boy Andrews gave it to me, right before his girlfriend shot a gun into the air. He also beat up his sister." He said and Storm looked up at Jughead, her shiner still bright as he looked at her.

"Archie did that?" Jughead asked and she nods slightly. "What happened? It has to be exact." Jughead snaps.

"And, of course, Northsiders get off scot-free, while the rest of us are the ones hauled in by the police. Even, our resident Storm, the Tempest was all but hauled in by her jacket." Sweet Pea says coldly.

"It's payback time." Fogarty states as Sweet Pea went back to looking at the plans, and so did Storm, who was now actually awake and looking carefully.

"What the hell are you guys talking about?" Jughead asks, looking around quickly as he spoke. "What is--? What is that?" He asks, looking at the plans, on the table. "Is that a pipe bomb?" He accused sharply.

"Lower your voice, Jughead." Storm mumbled coldly, but neither denied or claimed that it was.

"Fogarty's cousin served in the Army, he's gonna build us something." Sweet Pea says.

"We'll do it after hours. It'll shut the Riverdale Register down once and for all. We won't have to worry about it comin' after us anymore." Fogarty says.

"You thinking blowing up a building will make things better?" Jug looks to Storm now, knowing that she could be the one to stop this madness if needed and it was now. "You're going along? I know this isn't you. You don't go along with this." Jughead says.

"Can't get any worse." Sweet Pea's voice was deliberately provoking and fury filled.

"Yeah, Sweet Pea, it can. Tell him Tempest." Jughead says, imploring for Storm to do something, anything to be the one to calm them down. "I'll talk to Archie alright?..." Jughead began and Sweet Pea hit the table and Storm flinches at the noise.

"Man, that's your answer for everything. Talk and more talk. We don't even know who you stand with, us? Or them? You can't be half a Serpent." Sweet Pea's voice was ice and Jughead looked at him.

"Then why are you not doubting Storm's loyalties? She's a fighter and she's Northside. You don't doubt her. I don't get it." Jughead says and he looks at Storm, who lowered her head in a solemn silence.

"She picks us every time Jones, no matter how hard of a decision it is. I have confidence, that she'll pick us. I was right about the rumble. She picks us Jones, but what do you do? You just run your mouth." Sweet Pea says and they all walked away, with Storm in the center of the pack.

"Don't you have law school to attend kid? I am surprised, that you are here in the White Wyrm." Tall Boy said as she watched them playing pool.

"I needed to clear my head. Besides, knowing my dad's view on me being a Serpent I may only have a week left in the garage anyways." She muttered, as Sweet Pea raised a eyebrow and took his shot, sending the ball flying into the pocket. "Nice." She said.

"I think this Northsider's lost." Sweet Pea muttered loudly and Storm looks over to where he was speaking to and Jughead had walked in with a Serpent jacket on.

"I'm over being half a Serpent." Jug snaps at Sweet Pea, after the guy had shoved into him and then Storm hops down from where she was sitting.

"Wow. You'll do anything to protect your Northside buddies." Sweet Pea shoves into him again, and Storm let out a low grunt.

"My father was a Serpent. He led you, all of you. I wanna stand with you all, you guys." Jughead calls out loudly, so that everyone could hear him and she smirked.

"Not that easy, Jones. We had to pass the initiation. So do you." Storm says with a smirk at the rest, as they laugh along with her words.

"Let's see now, if you survive the initiation first." Tall Boy said to him coldly, as the rest of the bar smirked.

Storm was one of the people who wore a Serpent Mask to scare Jughead as he woke up.

"What the hell?" Jughead shouted, instantly awake, and Storm stifled a few laughs.

"Your initiation begins now. With you assuming guardianship of the Beast."

Sweet Pea says as Hot Dog leapt onto Jughead's bed, and Storm chuckled as she pulled off the snake mask and she looks back at the trailer with a laugh.