Bugheads Baby

I love you

Jugheads pov
We arrive  at 'House of the Devil' bar. It's a lot less nice than ours, but I guess that's what they deserve or less. The rest of the 80 serpents show up, we have never raided the Goohlies just sent a message or a few kidnapping. So not entirely sure how many Ghoolies there are. We walk in the bar and all the Ghoolies are waiting for us, it's a set-up. "I knew blondie would get you coming runing over." "Where's all the man power penny? Did they rather die then work for you?" "They're at the serpent bar, invading and fighting your few men while you have most of them here," She says. " It's not ambush jones...it's a diversion" she laughs with an evil inwards smile. "You think you have one!" I laugh back "Penny, come on, you don't think I've seen your goons watching the bar the past two days."

She clearly starts to loose the entitlement that she wears like a crown. I continue patronising her, "Penny more than half my men are at the bar and some are just here, so who did you think has lost? I'll be taking Betty now." "She whistles and two large me are carrying either side of a wooden chair. Betty has a large cut down her arm , her legs look limp, her face is tear stricken and she is unconscious. "I begin to walk over to her, but penny holds up her hand, gesturing me to stop.  She said "You can have her back, but only if she wants you, she'll walk to you." She pours a bucket of water over her head and she wakes up groggily. "Juggy" she starts to cry. "Go to him bitch."  I see Betty try to stand by she screams in excruciating pain. "Go. Again." Penny says. I interject "Clearly she cant, your just torturing her now." "No Jones, I'm torturing YOU" She laughs a villainous laugh.

I take out my gun and point it at her head. The rest of the serpents do too, thats my cue to lower mine. I run over to Betty and fireman carry her outside. She can't ride on the bike in her condition, one of the serpents hands me the keys to his truck and I give him my bike. I rush Betty back to the Wyrm to see the on-sight doctors and surgeons. The bar is a blood bath, but I can't even think about that right now. I carry her down and take the first right before the basement. Inside the is an operating table and doctors equipment. Two of the doctors come over. "She needs help, please help her" I beg. "We will do everything we can King, but we're going to have to ask you to leave."

I walk upstairs back to the bar. There are serpents that are badly bloodied-up and about 5-8 doctors up here looking after them. What's the damage I ask Fangs, who was one of the few who stayed behind, "10 dead Ghoolies, 2 kidnapped, 20 or more of them ran when they saw us come out. No dead serpents, 6 shot and 1 unconscious." I let out a sigh of relief and tell him he has done good. At this time most of the serpents who went to penny's with me were arriving back. They hadn't look harmed at all. Before I even know what I'm saying, I yell "Great work serpents. Free drinks for the rest of the day." There were cheers all around." I go up stairs to change, then go back down to the operating room.

It's been 28 hours and the doctors have changed shifts 3 times. Just as I was thinking that this can't possibly go any longer, a doctor comes out and invites me in. I look at Betty who is still under anathisia and I hold her cold hand. The doctor starts talking, "She'll be ok. Her kneecaps where both broken in, but we managed to heal them easily. However the cut in her arm was an infection that we missed, so there is a high chance that it will scar. She had some internal bleeding in her leg but we fixed that up and she has some large bruises. She will need complete bed rest for 3 weeks to let the knees heal, but aside from that we expect that she should make a full recovery." Those two words are what I have been preying for. I take her up to my bedroom and lay her on the bed.

I undress her out of the hospital dress she's warring and place her in one of my t-shirts and leave on her panties.

Bettys pov
I wake up in a strange bed with someone's arm draped over me. I get scared that one of the Ghoolies have raped me. I look over and it's jughead, I have never been so relieved in my life. I roll over to face him despite the immense pain that comes with the action and I cry into his chest. He wakes up and strokes my back telling me that everything's going to be ok. After an hour of lying in bed my phone rings, jughead goes over to my jeans and pulls it out of the pocket, then hands it to me. "Elizabeth!" My mother, great "You said you started work 3 days ago and your bank account hasn't changed, are you hiding the money from me young lady." That was the last straw... I break down crying and say to her "I was kidnapped mother, but you wouldn't care would you! From this day forward we're done. I'm nineteen and I can make my own decisions! You are done being a burden in my life! I'm done." I hang up the phone and Jughead holds me close, then, for the 100th time today I cry. After I've calmed down a bit, I turn to jughead and say "I love you." To my complete surprise he gently kisses me and says "I love you too."