Forever And Always

Chapter 120

Callie was now at the FBI base with Charles, Jughead, and Betty. They watched the snuff film, comparing it to the real footage of Jason getting murdered, Callie closed her eyes the minute the gun was raised. 

"Months of static of houses, now this," Charles said. "Why change the pattern?"

"To get us to focus on them more," Callie answered.

"Our Voyeur is trying to recreate himself into an auteur," Jughead added. 

"No longer satisfied with merely documenting our daily lives, it seems," Betty stated. 

"Between this tape, Cal's tape, and the one of Betty killing me, it seems like he's trying to painstakingly recreate our deaths or near-deaths. He's trying to blur the line between fact and fiction."

"Is it a warning?" Charles asked. 

"Could be a rehearsal," Betty suggested. 

"For what?" Callie asked.

"An actual murder," Jughead answered. 

"So our auteur got a copy of Jason Blossom murder video and then...pulls a Gus Van Sant and tries to remake it?" Callie gathered. 

"Where did he get the original video though?" Betty asked. 

"Blue Velvet Video," Charles answered. 

"Is there anything else we can do at this point?" Betty asked. 

"Wait for another tape," Charles answered. "Keep going through the videos that we confiscated from the Scarlet Suite."

"Okay, well, I'm going to have to let you three handle that because I have to finish proofing the yearbook tonight," Betty stated as she grabbed her bag. 

 "That's the most high school thing, you've ever said," Jughead smirked. After watching many videos, Callie went to Sweet Pea's that night. She woke up the next morning to him tracing his fingers over the tattoo on her back, sometimes brushing past the tank top she was wearing. She looked back at him, his eyes immediately met hers.

"You seem fascinated by something," Callie greeted.

"That tattoo," Sweet Pea said as he looked back at it. "It seems like it was always meant to be there." He kissed the spot her tattoo was located. "I have a new favorite to kiss you that isn't your lips." 

"You are going to hold off," Callie stated. "We have school."

"Only a few more months," Sweet Pea smiled.

"By the way how did that tickle video go?" Callie asked. His eyes lit up as he began to tell her all about it, and everything that happened.

******

Later at school, after a few classes, Callie was in the student lounge, she was sitting on the arm chair where Archie sat. She was helping him with his homework. 

"This all sentence is incomplete," Callie said softly. "Maybe you should say out loud what you wrote?"

"Or you can," Archie suggested. "If it sounds funky coming out of your mouth, then I know it's wrong." Callie shook his head.

"What are you going to do when I go off to Harvard?" Callie asked.

"I'll just have to call you and have you read what I emailed you, to me," Archie answered.

"And for that, you are paying the next two times at Pops," Callie stated.

"That's not fair," Archie argued.