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Youâre right. Weâre doing this together.
Okay, Bughead, they go and get Toffee. I need that cat to be okay. On the way back, Jughead pulls out a cat toy from nowhere and says, "We need to stop for food and drink for the cat and I" Betty looks at him funny, and he says, "Well, Toffee and I know you will just have a milkshake and fries Betts" she's all of a sudden taken aback because he called her Betts playfully. She hasn't heard that in so long. Or something like that???
 A plaintive yowl sounds from the backseat, and Bettyâs heart clenches.
âHalfway there, Toffee-toff,â she coos in the high-pitched voice she uses to talk to her cat. She deliberately avoids Jugheadâs gaze in the rearview mirror. Itâs the same voice she used with Hot Dog back in high school, so itâs not like heâs never heard it before; more importantly, he has no right to judge her. ButâŠstill. She feels silly. âThree more hours, you can do it.â
âDo you think she wants this?â Jughead pulls something out of his jacket pocket â one of Toffeeâs toys, a shiny orange fish made of fabric that crinkles when touched. Betty hasnât seen it in months.
She looks at him askance. âWhereâd you get that?â
âFound it under the bed.â He crunches the toy between his fingers. âSorry, I know you wanted them all in the duffel bag. I just figured she might want one to play with on the drive up.â
Betty keeps her eyes on the road as a strange sensation swells in her chest. Itâs a sweet thought, albeit one thatâs very far off-base for a cat like Toffee.
âI think sheâs too freaked out by all this to want to play.â
This meaning, well, this: the fact that Toffeeâs long-lost guardian had finally swooped back into town with a strange man in tow, packed up her apartment, shoved Toffee into the much-hated cat carrier, and then piled it all into her car before starting the six-hour drive back up to Riverdale.
When sheâd mentioned she was making the trip down to Virginia at happy hour the other night, she hadnât expected Jughead to offer to accompany her. Even when he had offered, she hadnât expected him to actually follow through. But there he was, standing in her driveway at eight oâclock the next morning with his hands tucked into his pockets, just as sheâd asked.
Now that theyâre back on the road, sheâs grateful that he came â packing her things would have taken her twice as long as a solo activity. She just doesnât really understand why heâd volunteered to do so in the first place.
Jughead twists around in his seat to look at the cat, smushed up into a little ball in the back of the carrier. âYeah, I guess youâre right.â
When he tucks the toy fish back into his jacket, she says, âI thought you hated cats.â
âHate is a strong word.â
âI remember the phrase beasts from hell being used more than once.â
âThat was just my grandparentsâ cat,â Jughead says dismissively. âThat cat was an asshole. I had a roommate back in Iowa who had a cat, and he was great.â
Betty is glad her ears arenât mobile like Toffeeâs are, because otherwise theyâd perk up at the sound of the word Iowa. Heâs mentioned his college years only a handful of times in the few weeks theyâve been talking again, and never in any detail. Sheâs curious to fill in those blank spaces.
âWe should stop soon,â he continues, before she can tug on the Iowa thread any further. âGet some food. Give olâ Toffee a chance to stretch her legs in the fresh air.â At Bettyâs look, he laughs. âIâm joking, Betts.â
Her heart leaps into her throat. It took several weeks of carefully avoiding one another in Riverdale before heâd even addressed her directly as Betty. She hasnât heard him speak with this sort of affection sinceâŠwell, itâs been years.
âNot about the food part, I bet.â
âNope.â She doesnât look, but she can hear the smile in his voice. âNever about the food part.â
(send me a prompt. literally any prompt!)
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from part ii of quo vadis:
âItâs a nice gesture, Betty. Really is. But I canât take this.â
âLike Iâd give it to you. Youâre a catastrophe. Iâm only letting you stand near it now because it wonât go anywhere.â He looked hurt. That didnât bother her. He could go elsewhere if he wanted to wallow in kind indulgences. He walked over to the car, then lay out on the hood with an arm behind his head so she couldnât see his face. He took out his flask. âI like this work. I feel useful doing it. You fix something. Then it works again.â
âThatâs nice.â
âWell, thanks.â
âI meant it. Look, whatâs your point?â
She went to the car and lay out beside him. He smelled like alcohol so she figured he was already pretty drunk, possibly wouldnât even remember any of this. âI donât know. Iâm just talking really,â she said. âMaybe Iâm being wasteful of privileges Iâve been given, being here. Neglectful of a certain pedigree. What do you think?â
He passed her the flask. It was warmer now, which made the whiskey taste worse. âI think you have no obligation to spend your life chasing bad men just because your father was one.â
She looked at him. He was still staring up at the ceiling blankly. After a while, she stood and stretched the tarp back over the bike. âI hope I can give this to you one day,â she said. He continued laying there, so she turned off the lights and left him to drink.
A few days later, he came by the shop room. Clapton was playing softly from an old Candle transistor radio. It was small and painted a bright cherry red. Sheâd found it behind a cabinet and spent some time fixing it up. He knocked on her desk and said, âHey there, Layla.â He looked tired, worn like heâd lived an entire terrible life, but his face was freshly shaven. She smiled.
âWell. Look at you.âÂ
He rubbed his hand over his jaw with a shy expression. He was smiling a bit, too. âCan I ask a favor?â
Snakes and Harleys
Chapter 2: Nowhere to Run