Riverdale: The Lost Soul

CJ's teddy bear

Down the bunker, Ivy was packing a small bag of supplies.
Her pocketknife, her research map about her sister, and CJ's teddy bear.
In her hand she carried her baseball batt.
Once she came up from the bunker, she found her friends in front of her.
"What are you guys doing here?"
"Liz called us, said you needed help." Rebel announced.
"No, I don't, I'm just..."
"You're not going anywhere without us." Sebastian walked up to her.
Ivy was speechless, still not wanting any help.
"I told you, I'm just going on my own..."
Aurelia came walking towards her as well.
"You heard him. You are not going alone. CJ is family to us all, so we're all going to save him."
"It's my fault he's gone, I'm the one who should.."
Once again they didn't let her finish.
"There's no excuse, we're going with you." Florian said as he grabbed Sebastian's hand, looking up at him.
"Guys.."
Florian took her batt from her hand and placed it in his neck, tryumfantly.
"If you choose to go down, we're all going down."
Liz walked up to her girlfriend, Ivy meanwhile almost in tears, smiled at her friends.
"We're going together." she said.
Ivy just nodded, wiped away her tears, and looked at all of them.
"Let's go save CJ."

The 6 of them walked down the road, looking for Theo.
He had to be somewhere.
After about an hour of searching, they finally found him in an ally, kicking around a can.
"What do you want?" he had shouted at them.
Florian and Sebastian just walked up to him and gave him one punch in the face each, causing Theo to fall down.
He wiped away the blood near his lip.
"I asked you what you want, I didn't mean hit me!"
Sebastian crouched down next to him on the ground and looked at him.
"You need to tell us where CJ and Mika are, or you'll get another one of those punches."
Theo laughed at them.
It was like he couldn't stop, and it annoyed Ivy very much.
She walked up to him, pushed him to the ground, and yelled at him.
"Where is she, goddammit!?"
Theo chuckled once again and said: "You of all people should know. It's a place where bad things have happened, real bad. There's blood on the walls, blood of young, innocent, people."
Ivy released him as she had a realisation.
"The cellar."

Of all places, she had to chose this one.

"Ivy, are you sure about this?" Aurelia asked her as they walked up to the store, which had chains around the doors and pieces of newspaper in front of the windows.
"Positive."
They walked down the back and found the cellar, which made a shiver go down Florian's back.
Sebastian took his hand and it somehow reassured him.
They opened the steel door, which made a lot of noise, and walked on into the halls.
"I don't like this place." Rebel said.
She clutched her pocketknife in her pocket tightly.
They all heard noise coming from one of the rooms and they were stuck with the same dilemma as two years before.
Which door.
"Split up, we'll each take a door." Ivy said.
Sebastian and Florian took one door, Rebel and Aurelia another, and Ivy and Liz were left to look into the corridors of the cellar.
Sebastian and Florian walked into the room, real careful, as there were pieces of glass and nails on the floor.
"What happened here?" Sebastian asked himself out loud.
Florian didn't answer, even though he did know what has happened. He recognised the room.
Theo had spoken about the room Thomas killed himself in.
And he had been right.
There was blood on the walls.

Aurelia and Rebel entered the other room, where Florian and Liz had been tortured, although they didn't know, as they weren't there when it happened.
"What's with the ropes and chairs?" Rebel asked Aurelia, who lifted her shoulders to indicate she didn't know.
"Well, only thing I know is that CJ's not here." She added to her shoulder move.
Rebel nodded and they both exited the room, looking for their friends.
As they closed the door behind them, they saw her in front of them.
"Going somewhere?"

Liz and Ivy walked on past the corridors and entered a big room, probably the biggest one in the entire cellar.
"I haven't been here before." Ivy muttered to Liz, who was looking around the room in amazement.
Suddenly they both heard a tiny laugh, causing them both to perk up.
In a crib, in one of the corners of the room, was CJ, rolling around in his crib.
Ivy picked him up and smiled at him, so, so glad he was alive and unharmed.
"Hi, CJ, did you miss us?" she said to him, knowing how ridiculous it must've sounded.
Then they heard another sound on the other side of the room.
Liz grabbed Ivy's baseball batt and slowly walked up to the dark corner the noise came from.
"Who are you?"
The soft voice said: "I'm... My name is Alice..."
Ivy was struck by a realisation once again and walked up to Liz, lowering the weapon.
"It can't be.."
Ivy, who handed CJ to Liz, kneeled down in front of the small figure.
"Alice? Alice Sub?"