𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕄𝕪 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥 (ℝ𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕝𝕖)

15. || 𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕞𝕦𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣

"Someone planted the gun....Jason's murder weapon, in FP's trailer." Archie told Betty, worry for both Bryce and Jughead running through his body. "It wasn't there when we searched for it. He's being framed, Betty."

"Well, maybe you looked in the wrong one."

"We're not talking about the Vogue closet here, Bee...." Veronica said.

"Well, maybe you looked in the wrong one." 

"It's a trailer with literally one closet." Veronica said, "There was no lockbox. No gun. Whatever Sheriff Keller is saying her found, it wasn't there."

"Look, we need to tell Jughead his dad's innocent." Archie told them, "Where is Jughead?"

"I don't know." Betty shook her head, "I tried calling him. I left him messages. He's not answering his phone."

"In the mean time..."

"Should we talk to Sheriff Keller?" Betty asked them.

"No." Archie said quickly, "Not until we tell our parents. And Beau and Bryce."

"That we broke into FP's trailer?" Veronica questioned in disbelief.

"My dad will know what to do."

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"You did what?" Fred questioned his son as Bryce starred at her cousin, Veronica and Betty as their parents sat around the living room.

"We had to make sure FP wasn't involved in Jason's murder." Archie told them.

"And now we know the truth." Alice said. "He was."

"What? Mom, no. We just told you." Betty says.

"The gun was planted." Archie said.

"By whoever killed Jason."

"Couldn't you have missed it?" Hermione asked her daughter.

"Yeah, excuse me if I trust the detection skills of an officer of the law over three amateur sleuths." Alice told them.

Beau let out a dry laugh as he kept his girlfriend tucked into his chest, "Mom, you're the one who asked Veronica to break it."

"Excuse me?" Hermione exclaimed.

"What?"

"Alice?" Fred questioned.

"Actually...." Veronica spoke, making everyone look back at her again. "I approached Mrs. Cooper. I had to know if FP was involved, and if he was connected to my dad."

"A gun was found." Hermione exclaimed, standing up. "FP is the killer. Cased closed. We're leaving."

"There was no gun."

"You can believe what you want to believe about Uncle FP." Bryce spoke and everyone turned to her. "But you haven't been here since you got married into money and left for your perfect little life, with the perfect stuck up daughter, to New York-,"

"Anastasia!" Fred exclaimed, looking at his niece.

"And Alice can also believe what she want's, because her perfect little apple pie family is falling apart, but Uncle FP wouldn't kill a teenage boy, especially so close to his niece. And I'm going to stand by him. So all of you can sit here and blame him, but I'm gonna be by his side the whole way through it. Because I'm sick and I'm tired of wonder who in the fuck killed my best friend." Bryce said, everyone looking at each other as she turned to Veronica. "And you lost any shot at trying to be friends with me the second you went to Alice. So for the rest of your time in Riverdale, how ever long that may be, I'm going to make your life a living hell. And you can sit there and act tough, act like I'm not going to do anything to you, but in case you forgot, I have Chuck, and I have Reggie, and I have Moose, and I have Beau, that's just waiting to tear into that rich bitch attitude that you think is actually going to get you somewhere around here.