What: Trauma and such Where: Inside the corn maze When: Sunday Warnings: Psychological Trauma (no gore) Status: Closed
When they'd first gone into the maze, Jughead viewed it as a grand adventure. They went in because they wanted to investigate and explore. It was their choice to step inside, and Jughead wasn't entirely sure they would have made a different choice it they'd known it was a maze of absolute horror. They were investigators, after all, and they had never shied away from a situation, no matter how tense or upsetting it might be. This was no different.
He took the first few incidents in stride. He was determined he wasn't going to let anything rattle him. It was all generic horror stuff, anyway. At least until the projections of Hal Cooper started. They knew Betty's dad was a serial killer. He shot Fred Andrews, he killed Miss Grundy and Midge and so many others. But that wasn't what Jughead saw. He saw Mr Cooper enlisting Betty to help him, he saw the bastard grooming her to be his partner in crime. And he saw Betty's first kill was...Jughead's dad. He saw his dad on the ground, bleeding out from a gun shot to the head.
He wasn't sure he'd ever look at Betty the same again. He knew it wasn't real, but what if there was some thread of truth to it? The Black Hood had gotten under Betty's skin. And finding out it was her father only exasperated that. What if...what if that was her future? Her father was locked up, but he could still get to her, influence her. He could still turn her into the killer Jughead saw in the projections.
"Betty? Betty, we have to get out of here." He shined the flashlight up to her face. The shadows elongated her features and made her look sinister. Like a Disney villain, he thought. The idea of it made him shudder.