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The heart of home is a kitchen. by Lifeandothercomplexities for MistressOfMalplaquet, AdamantEve, Geekspen, EarthLaughsInFlowers, goodnightdodger
Fandoms: Riverdale (TV 2017)
21 Jul 2019
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Summary
The first time she meets Archie’s best friend, Betty doesn’t like Jughead. He’s broody and intense and stares at her the whole time. He answers her in monosyllables and Betty feels uncomfortable under his icy blue gaze. He’s handsome in a completely different way from Archie: beautiful bone structure, sharp angular jaw line, the hint of lithe sinewy muscle over a wiry framework. Long elegant fingers that seem to want to grasp on to something tightly, the way he holds the fork, puts it down, picks it up again. Betty looks at him and thanks her lucky stars she has Archie.
Later while doing the dishes she shares this with Archie who just laughs at her misgivings and says, “ Jughead’s just really weird with women.”
Much much later, many years since that day Jughead whispers “ I love you” against her skin as he thrusts in to her and later when she’s trembling from how good he’s loved her, tells her that it was like being struck by lightning.
“ I looked at you and couldn’t string two words together,” he says sweat slicked skin splayed across hers, limbs tangled in a puzzle of their pieces, all jumbled up in a way he says he’s wanted since that very first moment...