A Snake Doesn't Shed its Skin so Easily
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“Then leave him.”
They both hesitated, at the words and his tone. It was a little too familiar – a little too close to home. A remnant of years long gone, and decisions hard made. Decisions that had changed the course of both their lives.
FP blinked, all the fight leaving his body before finishing his sentence in a softer tone. “At home.”AKA: The first time that FP asked Alice to leave Hal.
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- Part 1 of A Snake Doesn't Shed its Skin so Easily
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“Thank you, FP,” she said, doing her best to contain her tears and failing. “I’m sorry for involving Betty, and that she pulled Jughead into this –“
She stopped short as he grabbed her hand, resting his thumb in between her fingers as he landed on her wedding ring. Her heart skipped as she instinctively went to close her fingers around his thumb, and she had to remind herself how to breathe. His hand was a little big bigger, a little bit rougher than it used to be, but it was still so familiar. She knew that it was probably the heightened emotions of everything that had happened that night – that had happened the past few days – but as a wave of nostalgia hit her, she wanted nothing more than to curl up into his side and cry, even though she didn’t deserve that.
“We take care of our own.”
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- Part 2 of A Snake Doesn't Shed its Skin so Easily