Sex is supposed to be a thing you have when you love someone and want to share intimacy with.

I, Emilia Blossom, love Archie Andrews.

But here I am, waking up next to Sweet Pea.

I open my eyes slowly, seeing Victoria on Peas lap, giggling like a maniac. I sit up slowly, rubbing my eye as I use the sheets to cover my body. He turns around, a look I couldn't quite read on his face. "Morning." He says.

"Morning." I reply, taking the sheet with my to my closet. I get dressed and walk back out, Sweet Pea playing with our daughters hands.

"She's so small." He whispers.

I giggle, sitting next to her. "You should have seen her when she was born. Not much bigger than a ruler." I hum.

The Serpent looks up at me, sighing. "Emmy, about last night-"

"Stays between us. You don't want your fling with Josie to be conflicted. I get it." I shrug nonchalantly. I feel a slight sting. It was always Josie with Sweet Pea. Can Josie meet Tori, can Josie come for dinner, I'm going to the Speakeasy to see Josie.

Josie, Josie, Josie.

I didn't really have a problem with it, he wasn't my boyfriend. We weren't anything official. Hell, he wasn't official with Josie, even. But he liked her. A lot.

So, what were we?

I stand up, grabbing my bag. "I have to go meet someone." I say, adjusting my bag strap.

"Who?" He asks me.

I snap my head back, glaring. "A friend. Keep an eye on Tori, will you? Maybe she wants to see Uncle Fangs." I shut my door, cringing at the moaning from the Choni room. I hop down the stairs, pulling out my phone, dialing a phone number.

"Emmy." His sweet voice breathes through the line.

"Hey, Arch." I hum, sliding into my car. "I'm surprised you get connection, where you are." I tease.

His laugh fills the line. "Yeah, well you'd be surprised." I hear Vegas bark on the other end. "How's everything with Sweet Pea? Your weird scandalous sleepytimes together?"

I told Archie about Sweet Pea and I, because you know, honesty is key. He isn't phased, cause he did make out with Laurie Lake the same reason I slept with Sweet Pea.

Heartache.

I roll my eyes, "Yeah, well he's still in whatever fling he's in with Josie, so I'm now becoming a home wrecker."

"Even though she was the one that was the home wrecker in your relationship?"

"Yep." I laugh at the irony. Sighing, "Why can't I come see you now?" I groan.

Archie clicks his tongue. "You're leaving in a few days, right?"

"Yeah." I take a turn down the road, seeing Reggie Mantles big ole truck. I wave at him, and he returns it. He's heading to make a run for Veronica.

"Well, you can see me then. Until then, I need you and T to be safe." He tells me.

I bite my lip, "I love you, you stupid butt."

He laughs. "I know you do, Em. I'll see you soon, okay?"

I sigh. "Okay." I pout.

I hang up, sighing once again before wiping a tear, taking a turn down the street. That's when I get a phone call.

"Veronica?"

"E, Reggie just got jumped, said you're close by?"

I slow to a stop. "Yeah, he passed me 20 minutes ago. Where is he?"

"I'll text you the details, get their fast, please?"

"On it, V." I say. Hanging up, I spin my car in an illegal U-Turn, and speed down the road to find Reggie.

Veronica sits in front of Reggie. "I'm sorry that this happened, Reggie." She says to him. "With my father breathing down our necks, I suppose it was only a matter of time." I lean against the stage, staring between the two. There was this aura I couldn't quite catch, but it was something else. She places the rat on his cheek bone and he lets out a loud hiss. "Sorry." She says sympathetically.

Reggie shakes his head in mere confusion. "Every time I make a beer run across the border, I've been changing it up. Never taking the same road twice."

"There's only so many roads, Reg." I sigh, standing up and walking over to the two. "He got lucky."

The boys scoffs. "Yeah, yeah he did."

"Daddy made it very clear that if La Bonne Nuit was to continue operating in a post-quarantine Riverdale, I'd have to give him 10% of my earnings for the privilege." She says.

Reggie gawks at the Lodge girl. "If you start paying him for protection now, you'll never stop." He tells her.

I point my red nail at Reggie. "But there are ways to minimize that price." I say, looking back at my best friend.

With a smirk, the dark haired girl walks over to the bar counter, where Pop hands her a booklet.  She holds it up to us, a smile on her lips. "5% feels fair." She tells us. "And once Daddy reviews these well-cooked books, he'll
be none the wiser." She smirks at Reggie and I.

I look over Reggie's shoulder as he flips through it. He closes it, looking at her. "Has anyone ever told you you're a badass?"

I hold my finger up. "I probably did."

I come home that night, Fangs and Sweet Pea in the living room, playing with little Tori. "Hey, Boys." I hum, smiling wide.

"Uncle Fangs came by, didnt he, Sweetie." The taller serpent grins, lifting up Tori. She's in a pink onesie saying "Daddy's Little Girl" on the front.

Fangs smiles up at me. "I got something for you two." He says, shooting up from his spot. I furrow my brows in confusion, taking a spot next to Sweet Pea as Fangs shuffles about in the next room. He comes back, holding two large books. "I know you two are in tough places, but if you guys have split families, you might want this.

We open the booklets slowly, revealing pictures of Tori when she was born, copies of her birth certificate, prints of her hands and feet, her ultra sound pictures, her baby pictures every month up until her fourth, and then plenty of empty pages for more. "I have an extra one, for Archie." He adds. "I don't like him very much but he's Tori's legal guardian, though not much of one."

I wipe a hot tear, standing and hugging Fangs tightly. "This is amazing." I whisper. Sweet Pea give a Fangs a bro hug and Tori starts to fuss. I laugh, scooping her up. "Looks like she's hungry, huh?"

Jughead calls me the next day, and I meet him and the other Serpents at the Quarry. I stand by him as Tori sits on my hip, sucking on a pacifier while FP has her diaper bag on his shoulder. "All right, Serpents, its come to my attention that one of us has been dealing Fizzle Rocks." He looks around. "Slinging dope is not what Serpents do. So from this moment on, we're going clean. There'll be no selling or doing drugs. No crime of any kind will be tolerated"

I watch Cheryl and Toni make eye contact. "Anyone that breaks the Serpent code will be exiled. Permanently." Jughead threatens.

"I think it's pretty ridic that you vanish for a month on some vision quest with your bestie, my sister, and her child, only to return and lecture is about responsibility." Cheryl snaps. I glare at her, knowing damn well she's gonna get her ass exiled with the shits she's pulling. FP puts his hand on my shoulder, attempting to sooth my rising anger.

Fangs shoots up. "We got no money coming in, Jug. I mean, how we we supposed to eat, survive?" I stare at Fangs. He was indirectly admitting something. Sweet Pea makes eye contact behind me, shuffling on his feet.

"We'll figure it out and get back to you, Fangs. All of you." FP calls out. "In the meantime, 'In unity, there is strength.'" All of us except Toni and Cheryl say the code, causing me to look away from them.

"Come on," FP pats my back, and I adjust Tori on my hip as I look away from everyone.

We get inside his trailer, Jughead and Betty behind me. "I can't believe this." I groan. "This stupid gang is hardly acting like a gang!" I shout.

"We will figure it out, Em." Jug mumbles.

I turn back at him. "It's always 'We'll figure it out' with you, Jug! I'm trying to balance a custody battle with my ex Im sleeping with, taking care of a baby, trying to maintain a relationship with a guy in another country, and let's not forget this weird Hiram Lodge voodoo Im being dragged into! And this weird Gargoyle King-"

"Wait, Em," Betty pauses. "What do you mean Hiram Lodge voodoo."

Shrugging, I put my hands in my jacket pockets. "He's been really weird since he took me to Archies fights."

"She's being protected by him, for whatever reason." Jughead shrugs, slouching in his chair. FP looks at us all, giving a guilty look.

"FP?" Betty asks softly. "Is there something we should know?"

FP rubs his scruff on his chin, walking back out to us. "Hiram Lodge is a cold man, and he's always been like that. Except for one girl."

"Her name was Kimberly Smith, your mom's sister." He says to Betty. "She was everything everyone wanted. Sure, she was flirtatious with every man in a Riverdale, even had a thing with Thomas Topaz's sister before Tina told her she wasn't into girls." I raise my eyebrows in surprise. Kimmy was bi? "And then she and Hiram has a spark two years after graduation."

Jughead shakes his head. "Weren't Hermione and him already together?"

"They were, but Hiram and Kimmy were just something else. Real love." FP explains. "But, they were slipping, people like Penelope Blossom were beginning to be suspicious. It would ruin the Lodge name if someone found out he was cheating on his wife with a serpent. However, she died in a car accident." He stands up, grabbing a book of a shelf and opening a picture of him with a bunch of Serpents, Kim in the middle by his side. "She was a few weeks pregnant at the time, didn't even know yet." He chuckles. He looks down at me. "It's funny, Em. You're just like her."

Betty shakes her head. "Wait, Kimmy dies like 28 years ago, why does he care about Emmy?"

FP furrows his brow. "She didn't die that young. She only died roughly 17 years ago."

"Wait, Dad, are you saying that Kimmy Smith didn't die when Alice said she did."

FP shakes his head. "No. We agreed to say she did, to keep it a secret."

"Keep what a secret?" I ask.

He sighs, looking up at me. "You're Kimmy and Hiram Lodges daughter, Emilia."

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BITCHHHHH I WASNT SURE IF I WAS GONNA DO THIS BECAUSE SOME OF YOU EVEN SHIPPED HIRAM AND EMMY (i did too) BUT I DONT FEEL COMFORTABLE FOLLOWING THAT STORY LINE SO WERE GOING W THIS ONE SORRY MAYBE NEXT TIME😂💀

anywhore SHES GONNA VISIT ARCHIE IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, HOW DO YOU THINK THATS GONNA TURN OUT !?