Alice made her way to the front of the other six and she moved her eyes across the entire open section of the forest. Her gaze began on the left side, slowly making its way to the right side, where she would see Betty last. Once her eye met her youngest daughter's, whom she hadn't seen in weeks, she froze for a moment, realizing what her weakness was. It was Betty. She swallowed her pain when FP spoke behind her. "What's the verdict, Ace?" He asked as he leaned back against the front vehicle.

Forcing herself to look away from Betty, Alice looked back at the other 30 or so teens and she responded. "Everybody go home. Punishments will be dealt with in the morning." She turned and headed back to FP's truck without a word.

"Well?" FP started. "You heard the woman. Out!" He demanded and every teen scrambled for their vehicles.

"Wait, wait." Betty said to the friends she arrived with. They obeyed and she went over to Chic and Polly. "What the hell, you guys?! You're Serpents now?! And what?! Mom is now the Serpent Queen or something?!" Neither of them answered. "When were you gonna tell me this?"

"We, um…." Chic began.

"Betty, we weren't sure what your reaction would be or if you'd consider-"

"Consider what, Polly? Joining the gang with you?" She waited for a ridiculous 'no' to follow, but it never did and she scoffed. "Are you serious?" She glared at them before turning to look at Archie and Veronica. "Let's go, guys."

Just when Betty, Archie, Kevin, Veronica, Moose, and Midge started for Moose's car, the sound of a police siren approached. "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my DAD! Oh my God!" Kevin said, hysterically hoping to quickly find a hiding spot. He failed and mentally prepared himself for his father's legal AND paternal wrath.

Betty panicked inside as well, for a plethora of reasons, but she watched in awe as her mother looked to the Sheriff's car before being able to get in the truck. She had one foot on the step to get in and she dropped it immediately upon Sheriff Keller's arrival. Shutting the door to FP's truck, Alice confidently made her way toward the chaos she expected to ensue. Mayor McCoy quickly stepped out of the passenger side, instantly yelling out orders at all of the teens and threatening to take names and dial parents' numbers.

"Hello, Sierra." Alice said with a smug smile, folding her hands in front of her when she came face to face with the agitated mayor.

"That's Mayor McCoy to you, Alice Cooper….or should I say...Alice Smith now?" Sierra folded her arms over her chest when she approached Alice with conviction.

"Actually…" Alice smiled even harder. "...it'll soon be Alice Jones." Almost as if it were his cue, FP made his way over to the two women and Sheriff Keller joined them as well.

"Well, congratulations." Mayor McCoy said insincerely. She glared at FP for half a second before returning her gaze to Alice.

"And I guess I should say congrats to you two as well." Betty's mom smirked when they had no clue what she meant. "Soon it will be Mayor Keller, no?" Both Kevin's dad and Josie's mom let their jaws drop. "Oh yeah. I know about you two." Alice straightened her posture, realizing her guess was right based on their reactions.

"What does she mean by that?" Veronica whispered to Betty, who panic-strickenly searched for Kevin. Thankfully, he had run and hid in the back seat of Moose's car, so he was missing this hard-to-hear news. Betty did not want Kevin to go through what she did with FP, her mom, and her dad.

"Shhh." Betty said to V, hoping the drugs would make her forget in the morning.

"What the hell has been going on here tonight, Alice?" Sheriff Tom Keller finally broke the silence between the four of them. "We got some calls with noise complaints and concerns that there was underage illegal activity going down here."

"'Underage illegal act-?'" Alice laughed at him. "Who talks like that?" FP laughed with her and she spoke again. "No, Tom."

"Sheriff Keller." Tom interrupted.

"'Sheriff Keller.'" The future Mrs. Jones corrected with an attitude. "No, there was no underage activity going on here. This was just a bunch of kids, trying to have some fun. They were playing some games and it got too loud, that's all."

"We were here the whole time, Sheriff." FP lied as well. "We kept a close eye on them. Nobody got hurt, no one did anything illegal."

"You wouldn't happen to know if my son were here, would you? He said he was out with Moose and Archie tonight. But even Diane and Fred have no clue where Moose or Archie are." He rested his hands on his hips, looking around at the nervous teens standing by their cars.

Betty turned to whisper something to Veronica, but V, Archie, and Moose had already ducked behind a car so Kevin's dad wouldn't spot them.

"Nope. I'm sorry." FP lied again. "Haven't seen any of 'em."

"Alright, well...no more bonfires this late at night, Morticia and Gomez Addams." Sierra said, receiving a death stare from Alice before she and Sheriff Keller turned to get back into the cop car, driving off.

The atmosphere in the area changed almost immediately. Everyone let out a breath they had been holding in together and they all hopped in their cars to leave, but not before they all nervously looked back at FP and Alice who sent them looks of warning and they cleared the area.

Only Sweet Pea's, FP's, and Moose's vehicles were left as FP, Chic, and Jughead tried their best to put out the fire. Alice was heading back to the truck when Betty nervously approached her. "Umm...that was...that was really good of you...to cover for everyone like that."

Hearing her daughter's voice almost brought tears to Alice's eyes, but she hid it well, crossing her arms over her chest and raising an eyebrow at her recently absent daughter. "Hello, Elizabeth." She said with a pragmatic tone. "What are you doing here?"

"I was just….I didn't know there'd be drugs here, Mom." She instantly did her best to flip the matter around onto her Serpent Queen mother. "I certainly didn't know there'd be so many gang members here...Let alone so many gang members by the name of Cooper…..What are you doing, Mom? You're a Serpent now? You've got them being Serpents now? Chic, fine...I can kind of understand that. But Polly? Polly would never wanna be a Serpent. How did you manipulate her into-"

"MANIPULATE her?" Alice interrupted. "I didn't make her do ANYTHING! She CHOSE to be a Serpent to protect her children."

"What? You said it yourself that the Serpents are dangerous criminals and leaving them was the best thing that ever happened to you!" Betty raised her voice.

"Again! I NEVER said that it was the best thing that ever happened to me. And that's beside the point, because that was back then. The Serpents are different now, because FP-"

"Oh, FP...FP...FP. Is EVERYTHING about FP, Mom?" Finally, her voice grew so loud that the others turned to watch and listen.

"Well, he's my family and everything is about my family. So yes! Everything is about FP, Betty. Just like everything is about you...and Chic….and Polly. And even the Serpents are my family now."

Betty sarcastically nodded. "Great...Great. I grew up with you telling me all these horrible things about the Serpents and the Southside and how I should never stoop so low as to join a gang and you literally tried with all your might to break me and Jughead up, because you were afraid I'd join the Serpents and now I'm the ONLY one in the family who's NOT a Serpent? And all because of FP? Wow, Mom. Wow." She turned to leave, but Alice quickly grabbed her arm.

"No, no. Baby, wait. I'm sorry. Okay...You're right. You're right. But believe me when I say that things will be different. Things will be better now. You'll see. Just...come be with us. We're making things better on the Southside. We're making a change. You can be a part of that change." She said, sending her youngest a hopeful smile as she awaited an answer.

"I love you, Mom...but I don't wanna be a part of it." She turned to look at Archie and Veronica near Moose's car. "Come on, guys."

"Betty, wait!" Polly ran up to her little sister. "Don't go."

"No, Polly...She's brainwashed you."

"What about everything I said earlier today, Betty? Did you not get any of it?" Polly asked with anger. "You said you wanted to be able to control the things happening in your own life….Join the Serpents, Betty. You'll have control and you-" She stopped, wanting to say more, but she realized Betty's stubbornness would tire her and she could see in her little sister's eyes that she had no interest in hearing more about it, so she quickly gave up and she softened her tone. "Just, remember what I said. Alright?"

With that, Betty left with her friends, but without a word.

The End.

A/N: Man! Wow! Okay, I'm expecting hate from this ending, but first let me explain. I had been planning this ending out for months. Everyone kind of expected Betty to join the Serpents with Jughead on the show, so I loved the plot twist that she ends up being the only one who DOESN'T join. I know it may not resonate with everyone, but I'm sorry. When I have a creative idea come to me...I just have to write it the way I envisioned it. I also really loved the idea that Polly joined the Serpents, because she's kind of one of the last people you'd expect to become one. Haha And her joining to become a tough Mama and to follow more after Alice's footsteps really made me proud. Especially since in the show we haven't seen much of Alice and Polly. I hate it, because you can tell Alice just adores Poll and Polly kinda seems like she doesn't care too much for her mom which saddens me. So in this, I just love the idea of Alice suddenly becoming a role model for Polly and for Polly to admit that young motherhood is not exactly going to be easy, which in the show, she's a bit naive in thinking she's gonna be perfectly fine...which, let's face it, without Alice's help with the twins….she will NOT be. Anyway….I really hope you love the last few chapters. I know I said it was gonna be one last chapter, but it ended up being super long. Hahaha Once I started writing I just couldn't stop and I really appreciated all of your comments about my depression last week. It really meant a lot and as you can see, it inspired me to keep going. You're all the best. I love you all and I'll try my best to think up a new Falice fic soon. MWAH!