Note: This fanfiction has really no specific timeline, but it does happen a little bit after season 1 and in some time during season 2. You can use you imaginations and pick a season.
Kevin Keller. A household name in the small town known as Riverdale. High school sophomore. The stereotypical gay best friend. The sheriff's son. The last one being the most memorable of all. Tom Keller's only son, the most precious trophy in his case. Tom would do anything for his son, I mean who wouldn't. Kevin is the nicest person to everyone in Riverdale... but people aren't so nice. People in Riverdale have enemies, have motives. The person with the most is none other than Tom Keller himself. And let's just say, so many people would love to get their grimy hands on Tom's most prized possession.
Kevin's as normal as humanly possible. He woke up, showered, brushed his teeth, combed his hair and threw on his signature baby blue sweater. He walked down the stairs and moved to grab a granola bar off the table when he heard his father. He was talking to someone, someone that was wasting his father's time and energy, as heard by his angry screams. Kevin, being the curious high school student that he was, walked closer to the door and leaned in, listening. " I want every man and woman that we have looking for this guy! He needs to be behind bars, NOW!"
Kevin swallowed his salvia. His father was obviously talking about an escaped convict that is hiding in Riverdale. He rolled his eyes and turned to leave, accidently knocking his heel into the door and pushing it open just a crack. Crap, he thought. Tom looked out of the door and smiled before turning back to the phone. "Yeah, I'll call you back Janice."
Tom hung up the phone and opened the door to his office. Kevin stood there, smiling his innocent smile. Tom smiled and looked at his only son. "You're okay?" he asked
"Yeah... I'm fine dad. I was just..." Kevin pulled out his phone quickly. "Looking for my phone. See. Found it."
Tom shook his head and giggled to himself. "Listen son. There's something going on in town so, I want you home tonight by eight thirty."
"Do I have permission to ask why?" Kevin asked, pulling on the brown leather strap of his bag.
Tom shoved his hands into his pockets. "Some lunatic escaped county prison, some say that he escaped over here to Riverdale, some say he escaped over to Greendale. You can never be too safe. Just... make it home by eight thirty. Promise"
"Yeah. I promise." Kevin said, turning over to the door. Before fully making it outside, Kevin looked back and smiled. "Love you dad."
Tom looked at him and smiled before giving a weak wave. "Same here son."
Kevin closed the door and locked it behind him and walked to school, snow falling down on his shoulders. Tom watched his son until he was out of sight and sighed, turning back to his office and redialing the number on his phone.
"It's just a football injury Ronnie. I promise, it's fine." Archie Andrews said to his worried girlfriend.
"This doesn't look like a football injury. Are you sure?" Veronica Lodge responded, petting the bandage as if it were a small animal.
Betty Cooper, Veronica, Archie and Kevin sat inside of the cafeteria, eating their lunch and chatting, like normal high school students do. Archie and Veronica begin to quietly debate about Archie's most recent injury, while Kevin and Betty have a conversation to themselves. "So Kev..." Betty called to her G.B.F (Gay Best Friend) by his common nickname. "I was thinking about heading out to Pop's later today. Get a milkshake. Work on an article for the Blue and Gold. Do you wanna come? I could use the company."
Though Betty made very convincing points (Mm... milkshakes), Kevin wasn't paying attention to her. He was thinking about the unnamed escaped convict that his father told him about earlier. Chills ran down his spine for a very strange reason. His father deals with criminals all the time. So why did this one leave such a bad taste in his mouth? He remembered the look in his father's eyes while he was on the phone. Red, bloodshot. As if he hadn't been sleeping in days.
Betty snapped her fingers and summoned Kevin back to their high school cafeteria. "Did you hear me?" Betty asked.
Kevin looked at her. Archie and Veronica were done talking about Archie's hand and stared at Kevin just like Betty was. "Um... no sorry. What did you say?"
"Are you okay Kevin? You seem distracted today." Archie said, picking at his fries with a plastic fork.
"Yeah. Was it a one night stand?" Veronica commented. Archie and Betty both shot her a look. "What?" Veronica shrugged confused. She might be rich and pretty, but sometimes her friends wished that she would shut her mouth. Betty cleared her throat loudly, making Veronica bite her lip and look down at her salad.
"No. I was just up pretty late last night. I'm just tired." Kevin lied, knowing his friends had too much on their plates to do but worry about him and his father's most recent criminal activity.
Archie and Betty exchanged worried looks, but nodded. Deciding that it would be better if they didn't press on it. "I was asking if you wanted to hang out at Pop's later. Milkshakes on me?"
"Thanks Betty, but I'm going to head home early today. I need some sleep." Kevin lied again.
"No problem." Betty replied.
Kevin nodded as his friends started a new topic. Kevin smiled along, leaning his head onto his palm as his mind wandered off again.
Tom Keller had been in his office all day, looking through different maps of the town. Hoping to find that secret hidden gem to finding his criminal. He yawned. It was getting late, and the only thing that he had to keep him awake was his abnormally large thermos full of coffee. Keller looked over the map again, in between Sweetwater River. There he saw it. The hidden gem that he was searching for. The woods. Tom had found it, his escapee would probably be hiding in the woods. Tom smiled and patted himself on the back as he reached for his radio, ready to send back up to the woods. Until he phone rang.
RING-RING
It was so ironic how someone had decided to call him right when he was grabbing his radio. Keller put his radio down and slowly approached the landline phone sitting on his wooden desk. He grabbed the phone and answered as he normally would. "This is Sheriff Keller of the RPD, how may I be of assistance?"
"Hello there Tom. Nice to hear from you again." said the dark, booming voice. Keller's blood ran cold. He knew the voice. All too well. "What's the matter?" the voice spoke again. "Are you surprised to hear from such an old friend?"
Keller slowly moved his hand to the location tracker right next to the phone. Just one push of the button and he would have the man's location. "Oh, I highly suggest that you don't press that button." Keller stopped. How the hell did he know that was what he was going to do? Keller took in a deep breath before turning back to the phone and answering to the familiar voice. "What do you want?" he said.
"Oh Tommy. After all this time, you still don't know what I want?" Keller bite his lip. "I want freedom. Complete freedom. I'm tired of being trapped in a box, even after getting out of prison, I'm still condemned. I want out. And you're gonna help me."
"You must be on jingle-jangle if you honestly think that I'm going to help you after what you've done to me in the past! I will find out where you are one way or another, and you're going back to prison where you belong."
"Aw. Tommy. How so very brave of you. Threatening me like that. I wonder if you'd make the same threats with your son around."
All of a sudden, Keller forgot how to breathe. His chest tightened and his ears blocked out every sound except for the voice coming through the receiver. "Oh yes Tommy. I know all about your precious son. What's his name again?...Kevin?"
"Stay the hell away from my son." Keller said through gritted teeth. His son was the only thing that gave his life meaning, and there was no way in hell he was going to let one mad man take that away from him.
"I hear that Riverdale High lets out their students at 5 PM. I wonder if he'll still there."
"NO!" Keller screamed, but the phone line went dead. He had hung up. Keller threw the phone across the room in a fit of rage. He needed to get his son to safety. Keller grabbed his jacket and ran out of the station.
The day ended at Riverdale High for Kevin. All the after school club members started to leave the building, chatting among themselves, including Betty and her lone wolf boyfriend, Jughead. Even though Jughead went to Southside High, he still managed to visit his girlfriend and help her with any kinds of articles, if they didn't get distracted by making out. Soon, the sun started to set and the snow stopped falling. Kevin had stayed with Jughead and Betty in the student lounge for the rest of the night, just awkwardly staring as the two made out in between paragraphs. Kevin exited the building with the two lovebirds, hoodie wrapped around his body and headphones hanging off his chest. Jughead had taken Betty up on her dinner at Pop's and was heading there with her. "Are you sure you don't want to come Kev?" Betty asked again through her light pink scarf around her neck.
Kevin just nodded at her and smiled. "No thanks Betty. Maybe next time."
"Then what are you doing tonight?" Jughead asked, curious since Kevin was always around.
"I'm just going to take a jog around town and head home. Nothing to exciting. I promise, you won't miss out on anything." Kevin joked
"Okay then." Betty smiled, waving as she and Jughead approached his motorcycle. Jughead looked over at Kevin and smiled, saluting him a goodbye. "After all, tomorrow is another day!" he said, quoting Gone With The Wind, much to Kevin's liking. Kevin waved goodbye as Jughead pulled a bright pink helmet over Betty's head. Kevin pushed the two earbuds into his ears and started to jog away from the school. Kevin always enjoyed taking jogs, no matter what the weather. He loved the feeling of the wind in his face as he rushed past passersby and sometimes the trees of the woods. The moon lit his way as Kevin made his way into the woods without even realizing it.
He was lost into the beat of his music with humming along to the lyrics. He didn't realize that he was deep into the woods until his phone started to vibrate very frequently. Kevin stopped and looked around to see that he was right across from Sweetwater river. Damn, Kevin though, You need to pay more attention when you run. Kevin shook his head and pulled out his phone. He had missed a call from his dad. Kevin checked the time on the top of his screen. 6:03 PM. Nowhere near his curfew. Kevin opened his phone with his fingerprint and redialed his father's number. He heard the dial tone for a few seconds and started to hear his father's voice. "Kevin?! Are you okay?!"
"Uh... yeah dad. I'm fine." Kevin replied. He could hear the concern through the piece of plastic and metal in his hand.
"Where-Where are you?!"
What the hell is going on?, Kevin thought. "I'm by Sweetwater River. I was just taking a jog-"
"Stay where you are! I'm coming to get you!"
"What? No. Dad, I'll just meet you at the house." Kevin answered, not knowing the danger of his idea.
"Kevin, no! Just stay-" the phone stopped receiving Tom's voice. Kevin looked at his phone confused. Why does he want to meet me here? Did something happen?, he asked himself. But Kevin was never very obedient. He shoved his phone back into his pocket and started to jog back up the trail, which lead to Pop's, which would lead home. I'll just meet him there. I don't see the huge deal. He kept jogging up the path, until he heard the crack of a twig. Kevin stopped jogging and looked around. Was that me?, he asked himself. He looked down to make sure. His sneaker was stuck in nothing but dirt. He gulped. He wasn't alone. Kevin stayed put and looked around. It could've been a wild rabbit, or a fallen twig. But Kevin had a huge lump in his stomach that told him that it was a person. And not a very nice one. He had seen many horror movies with Betty. He knows not be stupid enough to investigate or call out to the person.
So instead, Kevin started to run, and run fast. He kept going and going, not looking back, even when his headphones fell out of his pockets. He thought that he had outrun whoever the person was, until he was tackled by a man covered by the shadows of the night. Kevin tumbled to the ground, his head hitting a rock, blood slowly dripping down the side of his face. The man tightly held onto Kevin's waist and legs, trying to stop him from running and kicking. The man didn't know that Kevin has been wrestling since he was 9. Kevin grabbed the man by the neck and turned to his side with all his strength, the man getting slammed into the dirt, hard. With his legs free, Kevin started to run back up the hill. He saw the bright fluorescent red illuminating lights of Pop's. He was a few steps closer to home. To safety. Kevin stood on the left side of the parking lot, he looked around making sure that no one was following him. Kevin's eye sight started to shift, the cut on his head was pouring out too much blood. He took a step and shifted to the right, having to lean onto someone's car for support. There was no way he was going to make it to his house without passing out.
Kevin looked over and saw a very blurry Betty and Jughead. Sitting in the booth, talking and laughing as the Betty sipped on her milkshake and Jughead drunk his hot coffee like it was a shot. Kevin smiled. They can help me, he thought, They'll call dad. He'll come and get some help. Kevin started to limp over to the diner, when he felt a prick in his neck. It hurt like hell and it was his first instinct was to scream. He tried, but a gloved hand covered his mouth, turning his screams into muffled yawns. Kevin's eyesight became spotty instead of blurry. He could hear screams in the background, but it didn't last very long. Kevin leaned back into the arms of his kidnapper willingly and his world turned to black.
Archie and Reggie had finished football practice later than everyone else and started heading to Pop's for a pick me up later than pretty much everyone in town. The boys chuckled about how one of their teammates tried to impress a girl, but failed by falling on his ass. Reggie parked his car and the two started to exit. Archie looked over to the left side of the parking lot and saw Kevin. "Hey look, it's Kevin." he said.
Reggie looked over and saw him too, automatically noticing the bad shape that he was in. "The hell happened to him?"
Before either of the boy's could find their own answer to Kevin's bleeding forehead, they saw a man dressed in all black grab Kevin from behind and place a needle into his neck. Kevin's cry for help was muffled by the man's gloved hand.
"KEVIN!" Archie and Reggie screamed in unison. The man looked over at the two and quickly pulled Kevin over his shoulder. Both Betty and Jughead heard the scream of their friend's name and looked out the window of their booth. They saw the situation and scrambled to come outside and help. The man ran back into the woods, Archie and Reggie started to sprint after the man, Jughead and Betty following quickly behind. Kevin swung from left to right as the man ran away with him.
"KEVIN! KEVIN!" Jughead screamed as they made their way deeper and deeper into the woods. Suddenly the man stopped near Sweetwater River, where a car waited for him. Archie's heart started to beat faster, it was the getaway vehicle. If he took Kevin to a second location, he might not ever find his friend again. Betty looked at the car for any specific detail. It was dark blue with no license plate. Just my damn luck, Betty thought. The man stopped running and pulled a gun out on the four. Jughead immediately pulled himself in front of Betty to protect her if the man decided to shoot. Archie and Reggie pulled out their fists. If a few punches had to be laid to save their friend then so be it.
"Let him go!" Archie screamed.
The man laughed. Reggie looked over to try and see his face behind the hood of his sweater. His luck was like Betty's with the license plate, his face was covered with a yellow domino mask, but his long blonde beard was very much memberable. "Back up children." he said to them. "This doesn't concern you. Step aside if you don't want to go back to the diner with a bullet in your thigh."
"Let Kevin go, please!" Betty begged, shivering in her short sleeve blouse. She hadn't brought her jacket once she saw her best friend in danger. She just started running.
"No thanks Karen Smith. We're just going to take a little trip. Won't be gone long if he cooperates."
"What do you want with him? He's normal. Like everyone of us." Archie yelled, trying to distract the man.
"The son of the sheriff of Riverdale is anything but normal. Neither is this." The man pulled the trigger and the bullet hit Betty right in the hamstring. She screamed and fell to the floor clutching the bullet wound.
"BETTY!" Jughead screamed. He, Archie and Reggie started to kneel down to his girlfriend's side. He and Archie applied as much pressure to the wound as possible as Reggie scrambled to dial 9-1-1. The man pushed the unconscious Kevin into the passenger seat of his car and jumped into the driver's seat. Betty weakly pointed at the car as it started to hum to life. "Kev-" she whispered.
Archie jumped up and ran after the car as fast as he could as it drove away. The car drove up to the woods and Archie followed as fast as he could. His lungs begged Archie to slow down and take a break, but he didn't.
"KEVIN!" he screamed, trying harder and harder to get closer to the car. Archie's body couldn't take anymore. Everyone had a breaking point, so Archie stopped running and fell to the ground out of breath. He looked as the car drove off into the distance. The sirens of the ambulance could be heard behind him. Reggie's 9-1-1 attempt had been successful. He heard the sound of tires approach him. Archie turned around and stared as Sheriff Keller practically ran out of his patrol car. He knelt down to Archie's side as he started to break out to a fit of coughs. "Archie. Archie! Can you hear me?"
Archie nodded.
"What happened?!" Keller was so desperate to hear that the shooting had nothing to do with his son. Lucky for him, Kevin wasn't shot. But what came out of Archie's mouth next was even more scary.
"He-He took him. He took Kevin."
Keller's blood ran cold as he looked out to the car as it drove off. In that car was his son. In that car was his kidnapped son. Keller dropped Archie to the ground and stood up, pulling out his pistol and shooting at the car driving off in the distance. Nothing. The car's windows must of been bulletproof. Keller screamed. "I-I'm sorry." Archie sputtered from the floor.
Keller looked over at the football player laying on the road. "No, no, no, no." This isn't your fault Archie. You did everything that you could. Just catch your breath. You're going to be okay."
Archie nodded and started to take in several gulps of air. Keller pulled out the radio hanging from his pant pocket and practically screamed into it. "I'm reporting a 246 and 207. Young girl shot in the hamstring and is being sent to the hospital..." he had to spit out the next few words. "Someone has my son."
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