Bugheads Baby

Aftermath

Jugheads pov
We arrive home after Reggie's visit and Emily is clueless to all the events that happened earlier. The drama just never leaves our family alone. Betty and I didn't talk the entire car ride home and as soon as we arrived she got out of the car and ran up the stairs to our bedroom. I follow behind her holding Emily and placing her in her closed-in playpen. Then I follow Betty into the bathroom. She is taking off her clothes which have blood on them, she is hyperventilating and crying. As soon as she sees me, she rushes at me and into my arms. She pulls up my top to feel the skin on skin contact and I felt her warm tears fall down my chest. "Hey it's ok baby," I try to console her but she keeps stripping me until I am as bare as her. She runs the shower, while she is still shaking, she turns to me, flicking her hands and says, "Get it off. Get it off!" She is now crying and shaking and I have no clue what she is talking about. I look on her arm and leg and there is is a bit of Reggie's blood. I go over to the shower and she hugs me while I use the soap bar to remove the blood. Once it is all removed, I try to get her to jump up and straddle my waist, but she just steps out of the shower and wraps a towel around herself.

When we go downstairs for dinner, Betty places Emily in her highchair and places my dinner in front of me. "Where's yours?" I ask her. "I'm not hungry," she tells me and begins to feed Emily her baby food. "Betty, you have to eat something." "Jughead, I said I'm not hungry," she said it with more force, and for the rest of dinner we didn't speak. After diner betty and I go into Emily's room and run her a bath. Betty strips her, paying notice to the very small circular scar on Emily's arm and gives it a kiss. Then she puts Emily in the bath and goes to get her some pyjamas out of the closet. About five minutes later, Emily is bathed and I suggest that we all watch a movie. I sit down with Emily on my left and gesture for Betty to sit on my right, but instead, she sits on the farthest end of the lounge. Now I knew something was up. Halfway through the movie, Emily falls asleep and as does Betty. I carry Emily up to her room and then come back down for Betty, but she is gone. I check the kitchen, living room, garage, then the guest bedrooms. I find her asleep in one of those, so I get in the bed and put my arm across her.

Betty and I both wake up to screaming and crying. We run up to Emily's room and she's standing in her cot yelling, 'Mommy', 'Daddy' and screaming herself hoarse. Betty picks her up out of the cot and Emily hugs her. I look at the clock and realise that Betty and I slept in three hours late and Emily has probably been up for about two hours waiting for us. "We are so late for work," Betty says. She brings Emily into our room and sits her on the island in our wardrobe. Betty and I both get changed and I take Emily downstairs. I grab a packaged waffle in the fridge and give it to Emily to-go. Betty's comes downstairs soon after Emily and I, wearing a hot mini black dress, and we get into the car and drive to work. Thankfully when we arrive, everyone acts like it is just a normal day, and that yesterdays events never happened. I place Emily on the bar and give her a kiss, but when I go to give Betty one she dodges it. Some serpents notice, but I don't care. I just want to know whats going on with Betty.

Bettys pov
I feel really bad for avoiding Jughead and completely ignoring him. He has been so good to me and has done nothing wrong. I just feel that I need to be punished for killing someone and having no remorse for it. And a way to punish myself is take away something I love. In this case..someone...Jughead. "Mommy, I have to go to the toilet," Emily tells me. "Ok bear," I pick her up and go upstairs, past Jugs office and into his bedroom where I put Emily on the toilet. Jug walks in and says, "Hey guys." "Hi, daddy. Look I'm going to the toilet. Soon no more nappies." "Yay good job bear." Jug helps her off the toilet and he sits her on the floor, while he and I talk. "Betts, why are you avoiding me. What did I do?" he asks me apologetically. "Nothing. That's the problem, you did nothing but I killed someone Jug. Reggie is dead because of me. And the worst part is... I don't care, I hope he died painfully and I am a bad person for wishing that, and I am a bad person because I was blind to what he did to our daughter." He takes me into a hug and I start to sob. We lie back on the bed and he holds me close. "Betty...you are not a bad person. You got justice for our daughter for something Reggie did... not you. Who knows what worse things could have happened to her if you had stayed here in Riverdale. Right now the Ghoulies think you are missing and they don't know about Emily. You did that, you are the reason our daughter is still safe. Betty, I love you and you are a good person. " "Thanks Juggy, "I tell him and cuddle into his side.

We get off the bed and look around for Emily. I get really worried when she is not in the room because that means she is wondering around a bar with middle age serpents. Who I know would never hurt her, but she is really small and they may not see her. Jug and I run out of the room and down the stairs pushing through all the serpents and looking for Emily. We look under tables, behind the bar and outside. Every serpent in the bar is now looking at us, but I don't even care. "You see her?" I asked with panic in my voice. Sweet pea looks a Jug and asks, "You lose your kid?" Jug scowls at him and I am on the verge of tears. Every serpent begins to help us look and call out her name. Then fangs yells from upstairs, "Jughead, Betty!" We run upstairs and Fangs is down the hall. We find Emily in a private strip room with 5 half-naked men and women frantically trying to cover themselves up. Jug picks her up and covers her eyes. We bring her downstairs and tell everybody we found her. Jug sits her on the bar and says, "Emily, why the hell did you leave the bloody room!" Emily starts crying and Jug slaps his head clearly feeling annoyed with himself. He reaches out for Emily but she slides her self back and nearly falls off the bar if it wasn't for Tony who catches her. "No Daddy!" Jug rolls his eyes and goes upstairs. 

I walk up after him, leaving Emily with Tony. I knock on his door and go in and straddle his lap. "Juggy," he looks up at me and I continue speaking, "you did nothing wrong. We have a dramatic child." He and I both laugh a little. "I just feel like I'm doing this whole parent-thing all wrong," he says. "Jug... parents make mistakes, we are human. But if we get upset every time, then we are never going to be happy around Emily." I give him a kiss and he holds my hand.  I realise that while we do get physically intimate, we never actually do gestures such as this. We get up, not unlocking our hands and walk back down the stairs. Emily runs over to Jug and jumps off the bar into his arms. "Sorry daddy." "It's ok bear." We get into the car to drive home. Emily sleeps in the back peacefully, Jug is driving the car with one hand and using his other to hold mine. "What are you thinking about?" I ask him. He doesn't say anything for a while, but then out of the blue he speaks and says, "Let's go on vacation."

Sorry. I know the chapters I am releasing are getting shorter, but I am struggling to come up with concepts. I've still got some dramatic cliff hangers but I have to space them out a bit. Stay tuned for the next chapter...