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tellshannon815) wrote2018-01-08 12:49 am
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The Return of Joaquin, chapter 3
Title: The Return of Joaquin
Fandom: Riverdale
Characters: Kevin, Joaquin, Moose, Midge, Veronica, Archie, Betty, Toni, FP, Sheriff Tom Keller, Mayor Sierra McCoy.
Pairings: Kevin/Joaquin, Kevin/Moose
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers for all aired episodes
Summary: Kevin decides to go on a date each with Moose and Joaquin to decide between them, however things don't exactly go to plan. Sheriff Keller's not impressed when he catches Kevin with Joaquin...but Kevin's not the only one caught in a compromising position.
“So what should I do?” Veronica asked. “I ordered this for Archie before I broke up with him, and now I don’t know whether I should give it to him or not.”
“I should give it to him anyway,” Kevin suggested. “What else are you gonna do with a watch with an inscription addressed to Archikins? Search Tinder for a guy with the same first name so you can give it to him instead?” On seeing Veronica’s glare, he hastily continued “Kidding. Seriously, I think you should still give it to him.”
Veronica nodded. “Okay, quickly before Betty gets here, while it’s just us, tell me what you decided to do about Joaquin and Moose?”
“Oh, my God, I thought we were never gonna get to that!” Kevin exclaimed. What with the dramas surrounding the respective breakups of Archie and Veronica, and Betty and Jughead, he was beginning to regret having agreed to organise the Secret Santa. Part of him was actually quite tempted to run out of there and call Joaquin, even though he’d promised Betty he wouldn’t.
“I know her heart’s in the right place, but I also understand how you feel about the way she interferes sometimes,” Veronica began. “So, what are you gonna do? You gonna get back with Joaquin, or see Moose again?”
“I really don’t know…What would you do, Veronica?”
“Old me would have probably dated them both,” Veronica winked, and Kevin said “Maybe you’re on to something. Maybe I should go on one date with each of them, see how I feel at the end of it.”
“Glad I could help,” Veronica grinned before immediately changing the subject to The Matchelorette when Archie and Betty walked in.
Kevin had been right. The Secret Santa was awkward, but not just because of Josie’s gift of a couples massage for Veronica, bought before she and Archie broke up, or even Archie picking the perfect gift for Betty and how Veronica and Jughead reacted to it.
It was a relief that Archie had been the one to walk out when Moose and Midge walked in. With him leaving, and Betty running after him, it took the attention away from Kevin’s own reaction. So, Moose may have claimed that he and Midge were over, but the way they had looked when they walked in…Kevin was beginning to wonder if that was really the case.
“It wasn’t how it looked,” Moose had tried to explain. “Midge…she’s having a hard time, with flashbacks and nightmares, and with the fact that we’re no longer together. I’ve tried to tell her that we’re not going to get back together…but she does need me right now.”
“You know, I had been going to suggest that we try and reschedule that date that got interrupted,” Kevin began. “But it sounds like things are a little complicated for you right now, and it also doesn’t sound like there’s really been a clean break with Midge…Maybe that’s not such a good idea.”
“But if we don’t give it a try, then we’ll never know,” Moose pointed out.
Kevin nodded. “Okay. Meet at Pop’s tonight, take it from there.”
The Serpents were a great bunch of guys, they really were, but sometimes they were a pain in the ass to go to the movies with. All this talking, food fighting, people wanting to change seats so often it was like Musical Chairs without the music…Joaquin frequently ended up biting his tongue so as not to tell them to shut the fuck up so he could concentrate on the movie.
Usually, anyone sitting near them was visibly annoyed with it, but didn’t call them out on it. They were the Southside Serpents, people didn’t mess with them. The day Kevin Keller had actually turned around and shushed them, Joaquin had been shocked and impressed that someone had had the balls to do it. His friend Veronica had let them have it a few minutes later, and all that had achieved was to set them off bitching about her, but Joaquin knew he had to know more about that guy.
He hadn’t recognised him as the Sheriff’s son at first. Why would he? Kevin attended Riverdale High and Joaquin Southside, they didn’t look that much alike, there was no reason for Joaquin to make the connection. When he got up and followed Kevin to the refreshments, Joaquin wasn’t even sure what he wanted to happen, whether it would be just a bit of fun (more likely, considering how little the guys from both sides of town actually mixed) or something more serious, or even whether one would eventually turn into the other.
Then Kevin had given him his number, and Joaquin had realised who he was. And he’d realised that there was no way it could ever work between them.
Joaquin was beginning to wonder whether this had been a good idea. It was beginning to feel like every time he thought he could try and get some time with Kevin, to speak to him, to convince him that this time he really was legit, there would be Moose. Even now, even as he had come to Pop’s in the hope of seeing Kevin there, there Moose was too. It would have been easier to have just stayed in San Junipero, laid low. He was safe there, no one coming after him, and maybe one day there he’d have met someone who he could have a completely fresh start with, no lies or dead bodies or Serpents ever going to come between them. But even though he’d tried, he hadn’t been able to shut the door on Kevin ever since leaving Riverdale, kept wondering how he was doing, whether Kevin ever thought about him.
By rights he should give up, realise it was time to walk away. That certainly seemed to be what Kevin’s friend Betty thought he should do, judging by her reaction when she saw him. But he’d come this far, he wasn’t going to give up.
If all it had ever been going to be was a bit of fun, like Kevin had thought the night they found Jason Blossom’s body, that could have worked. But after having listened to Moose telling yet another story of some “hilarious” thing Reggie Mantle had done in the locker room, Kevin wasn’t sure they had enough in common to make it work as a relationship.
Maybe it didn’t have to be anything serious. Maybe a bit of fun, something lighthearted to take his mind off Joaquin completely, maybe that was what was good for Kevin right now. He’d put his doubts aside, join in and laugh at the stories, and try not to think about how with Joaquin, Kevin never ran out of things to say.
Kevin laughed, tried to follow up with a story of his own, then the next thing he knew, he heard this voice saying “I do not believe this.” As Kevin glanced up, he saw Midge stood there, crying and glaring at them, before turning around and running out.
“Maybe I should go after her,” Moose said before turning round and running in the same direction.
“Yeah,” Kevin said to his empty chair. “Maybe you should.”
“You okay?” Toni asked as Joaquin stormed into the Whyte Wyrm. “Because you don’t look like someone who just spent all last night with some hot guy at the drive-in. Yeah, Sweet Pea told me all about it.”
“Yeah, well what Sweet Pea didn’t tell you is that the hot guy is Sheriff Keller’s son,” Joaquin snapped, instantly regretting it when he saw FP Jones glancing in his direction before turning away again. Toni didn’t know what had happened with Jason Blossom’s body. But she did know how the preppy Northsiders and the Serpents didn’t mix, so a relationship was never going to work anyway, so he could just let her think that was the problem and leave it at that.
“But what does it matter?” Toni asked instead. “You’d be dating him, not his father. And you’d be dating him, not his preppy stuck-up friends. If he had a problem with dating a Serpent, he wouldn’t have given you his number in the first place. And even if it only ends up being a bit of fun, what’s the big deal?”
“You wouldn’t understand,” Joaquin replied. In other circumstances, he’d have agreed with Toni, would have accepted her arguments as a basis to try and make something work with Kevin, but not now. “I’m gonna get a drink.”
“I heard all that,” FP said when Joaquin headed for the bar. “Talk about fate, huh?”
“The fact that I’m the one who helped dispose of the Blossom kid’s body, and then manage to hook up with the kid who found it? Sounds like one of the plots in one of those bad romance novels Toni used to read when she was eleven,” Joaquin snorted.
“While that may be true, it could also be our way out of this,” FP replied. “Maybe you should take Toni’s advice. You should date him. Gain his trust. His father’s bound to share stuff about the investigation, find out what that is, let me know, so we can stay one step ahead.”
Joaquin nodded. He wasn’t sure he liked it, but he knew it was his best way of keeping himself and FP out of jail. “I’ll do it.”
“Is everything okay?” Joaquin asked, watching Moose run out after Midge.
“I get the impression there’s still some more unfinished business there than Moose was letting on,” Kevin shrugged. “But honestly…I’m not sure we have that much in common. Sure, we could have fun together, but beyond that, I don’t think it would ever have worked.”
“Sure it’s not because you were also thinking about me?” Joaquin joked.
“You’re actually right,” Kevin admitted. “I was thinking how we’d never run out of things to say, how we always had so much fun together, how you knew what I was going to say before I’d say it. But I also know how you were only with me to find out more about my dad’s investigation and pass it on to FP.”
“But it wasn’t all about that,” Joaquin began. “I really didn’t know who you were when I first met you. And it is true that FP did ask me to carry on dating you once he found out, but it wasn’t always like that. We had so many other things to talk about that it stopped mattering to me that we didn’t even talk about the investigation. I got to the point of not even wanting to ask. I came back for you, Kevin. And I understand why you don’t trust me, but this time I’m legit. I really don’t know anything about this Black Hood person –“ Joaquin was interrupted by the sound of a text on Kevin’s phone.
“Wait a second…He’s dead?” Kevin asked.
“Who’s dead?”
“Funnily enough, the Black Hood. That was my dad. He just shot him. He’s gonna be tied up at the station for a while tonight sorting it all out. But I can’t believe it. It was Mr. Svenson.”
“Who the hell’s Mr. Svenson?” Joaquin asked.
“He’s, or I guess I should say he was, our school janitor.” Kevin shook his head. “It’s a really long story. Look…Even before I knew that, I should have said I’m sorry for accusing you of trying to get information from me about him too. I never really thought the Black Hood was anything to do with the Serpents. He knew too many things that the Serpents weren’t likely to know. I was just shocked at seeing you again, and it brought it all back, and I was lashing out.”
“I understand the reason why you said it,” Joaquin admitted. “Maybe we should have a proper talk about everything, try and work it all out.”
“Well, since Dad’s gonna be tied up at the station for a while, it looks like I’m going to have the house to myself…” Kevin suggested.
Kevin awoke to the sound of his father’s voice, and the light in the lounge being snapped on. With a shock, he realised he had fallen asleep on the couch, Joaquin lying next to him in a similar state of undress.
“Kevin?” his father asked, glaring as he took in the sight of Joaquin. “You’ve got some explaining to do.”
“Really, Dad?” Kevin asked as he took in the sight of Mayor McCoy standing behind his father, frantically doing up her blouse. “Because it kind of looks to me like I should be saying the same thing to you….”
Fandom: Riverdale
Characters: Kevin, Joaquin, Moose, Midge, Veronica, Archie, Betty, Toni, FP, Sheriff Tom Keller, Mayor Sierra McCoy.
Pairings: Kevin/Joaquin, Kevin/Moose
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers for all aired episodes
Summary: Kevin decides to go on a date each with Moose and Joaquin to decide between them, however things don't exactly go to plan. Sheriff Keller's not impressed when he catches Kevin with Joaquin...but Kevin's not the only one caught in a compromising position.
“So what should I do?” Veronica asked. “I ordered this for Archie before I broke up with him, and now I don’t know whether I should give it to him or not.”
“I should give it to him anyway,” Kevin suggested. “What else are you gonna do with a watch with an inscription addressed to Archikins? Search Tinder for a guy with the same first name so you can give it to him instead?” On seeing Veronica’s glare, he hastily continued “Kidding. Seriously, I think you should still give it to him.”
Veronica nodded. “Okay, quickly before Betty gets here, while it’s just us, tell me what you decided to do about Joaquin and Moose?”
“Oh, my God, I thought we were never gonna get to that!” Kevin exclaimed. What with the dramas surrounding the respective breakups of Archie and Veronica, and Betty and Jughead, he was beginning to regret having agreed to organise the Secret Santa. Part of him was actually quite tempted to run out of there and call Joaquin, even though he’d promised Betty he wouldn’t.
“I know her heart’s in the right place, but I also understand how you feel about the way she interferes sometimes,” Veronica began. “So, what are you gonna do? You gonna get back with Joaquin, or see Moose again?”
“I really don’t know…What would you do, Veronica?”
“Old me would have probably dated them both,” Veronica winked, and Kevin said “Maybe you’re on to something. Maybe I should go on one date with each of them, see how I feel at the end of it.”
“Glad I could help,” Veronica grinned before immediately changing the subject to The Matchelorette when Archie and Betty walked in.
Kevin had been right. The Secret Santa was awkward, but not just because of Josie’s gift of a couples massage for Veronica, bought before she and Archie broke up, or even Archie picking the perfect gift for Betty and how Veronica and Jughead reacted to it.
It was a relief that Archie had been the one to walk out when Moose and Midge walked in. With him leaving, and Betty running after him, it took the attention away from Kevin’s own reaction. So, Moose may have claimed that he and Midge were over, but the way they had looked when they walked in…Kevin was beginning to wonder if that was really the case.
“It wasn’t how it looked,” Moose had tried to explain. “Midge…she’s having a hard time, with flashbacks and nightmares, and with the fact that we’re no longer together. I’ve tried to tell her that we’re not going to get back together…but she does need me right now.”
“You know, I had been going to suggest that we try and reschedule that date that got interrupted,” Kevin began. “But it sounds like things are a little complicated for you right now, and it also doesn’t sound like there’s really been a clean break with Midge…Maybe that’s not such a good idea.”
“But if we don’t give it a try, then we’ll never know,” Moose pointed out.
Kevin nodded. “Okay. Meet at Pop’s tonight, take it from there.”
The Serpents were a great bunch of guys, they really were, but sometimes they were a pain in the ass to go to the movies with. All this talking, food fighting, people wanting to change seats so often it was like Musical Chairs without the music…Joaquin frequently ended up biting his tongue so as not to tell them to shut the fuck up so he could concentrate on the movie.
Usually, anyone sitting near them was visibly annoyed with it, but didn’t call them out on it. They were the Southside Serpents, people didn’t mess with them. The day Kevin Keller had actually turned around and shushed them, Joaquin had been shocked and impressed that someone had had the balls to do it. His friend Veronica had let them have it a few minutes later, and all that had achieved was to set them off bitching about her, but Joaquin knew he had to know more about that guy.
He hadn’t recognised him as the Sheriff’s son at first. Why would he? Kevin attended Riverdale High and Joaquin Southside, they didn’t look that much alike, there was no reason for Joaquin to make the connection. When he got up and followed Kevin to the refreshments, Joaquin wasn’t even sure what he wanted to happen, whether it would be just a bit of fun (more likely, considering how little the guys from both sides of town actually mixed) or something more serious, or even whether one would eventually turn into the other.
Then Kevin had given him his number, and Joaquin had realised who he was. And he’d realised that there was no way it could ever work between them.
Joaquin was beginning to wonder whether this had been a good idea. It was beginning to feel like every time he thought he could try and get some time with Kevin, to speak to him, to convince him that this time he really was legit, there would be Moose. Even now, even as he had come to Pop’s in the hope of seeing Kevin there, there Moose was too. It would have been easier to have just stayed in San Junipero, laid low. He was safe there, no one coming after him, and maybe one day there he’d have met someone who he could have a completely fresh start with, no lies or dead bodies or Serpents ever going to come between them. But even though he’d tried, he hadn’t been able to shut the door on Kevin ever since leaving Riverdale, kept wondering how he was doing, whether Kevin ever thought about him.
By rights he should give up, realise it was time to walk away. That certainly seemed to be what Kevin’s friend Betty thought he should do, judging by her reaction when she saw him. But he’d come this far, he wasn’t going to give up.
If all it had ever been going to be was a bit of fun, like Kevin had thought the night they found Jason Blossom’s body, that could have worked. But after having listened to Moose telling yet another story of some “hilarious” thing Reggie Mantle had done in the locker room, Kevin wasn’t sure they had enough in common to make it work as a relationship.
Maybe it didn’t have to be anything serious. Maybe a bit of fun, something lighthearted to take his mind off Joaquin completely, maybe that was what was good for Kevin right now. He’d put his doubts aside, join in and laugh at the stories, and try not to think about how with Joaquin, Kevin never ran out of things to say.
Kevin laughed, tried to follow up with a story of his own, then the next thing he knew, he heard this voice saying “I do not believe this.” As Kevin glanced up, he saw Midge stood there, crying and glaring at them, before turning around and running out.
“Maybe I should go after her,” Moose said before turning round and running in the same direction.
“Yeah,” Kevin said to his empty chair. “Maybe you should.”
“You okay?” Toni asked as Joaquin stormed into the Whyte Wyrm. “Because you don’t look like someone who just spent all last night with some hot guy at the drive-in. Yeah, Sweet Pea told me all about it.”
“Yeah, well what Sweet Pea didn’t tell you is that the hot guy is Sheriff Keller’s son,” Joaquin snapped, instantly regretting it when he saw FP Jones glancing in his direction before turning away again. Toni didn’t know what had happened with Jason Blossom’s body. But she did know how the preppy Northsiders and the Serpents didn’t mix, so a relationship was never going to work anyway, so he could just let her think that was the problem and leave it at that.
“But what does it matter?” Toni asked instead. “You’d be dating him, not his father. And you’d be dating him, not his preppy stuck-up friends. If he had a problem with dating a Serpent, he wouldn’t have given you his number in the first place. And even if it only ends up being a bit of fun, what’s the big deal?”
“You wouldn’t understand,” Joaquin replied. In other circumstances, he’d have agreed with Toni, would have accepted her arguments as a basis to try and make something work with Kevin, but not now. “I’m gonna get a drink.”
“I heard all that,” FP said when Joaquin headed for the bar. “Talk about fate, huh?”
“The fact that I’m the one who helped dispose of the Blossom kid’s body, and then manage to hook up with the kid who found it? Sounds like one of the plots in one of those bad romance novels Toni used to read when she was eleven,” Joaquin snorted.
“While that may be true, it could also be our way out of this,” FP replied. “Maybe you should take Toni’s advice. You should date him. Gain his trust. His father’s bound to share stuff about the investigation, find out what that is, let me know, so we can stay one step ahead.”
Joaquin nodded. He wasn’t sure he liked it, but he knew it was his best way of keeping himself and FP out of jail. “I’ll do it.”
“Is everything okay?” Joaquin asked, watching Moose run out after Midge.
“I get the impression there’s still some more unfinished business there than Moose was letting on,” Kevin shrugged. “But honestly…I’m not sure we have that much in common. Sure, we could have fun together, but beyond that, I don’t think it would ever have worked.”
“Sure it’s not because you were also thinking about me?” Joaquin joked.
“You’re actually right,” Kevin admitted. “I was thinking how we’d never run out of things to say, how we always had so much fun together, how you knew what I was going to say before I’d say it. But I also know how you were only with me to find out more about my dad’s investigation and pass it on to FP.”
“But it wasn’t all about that,” Joaquin began. “I really didn’t know who you were when I first met you. And it is true that FP did ask me to carry on dating you once he found out, but it wasn’t always like that. We had so many other things to talk about that it stopped mattering to me that we didn’t even talk about the investigation. I got to the point of not even wanting to ask. I came back for you, Kevin. And I understand why you don’t trust me, but this time I’m legit. I really don’t know anything about this Black Hood person –“ Joaquin was interrupted by the sound of a text on Kevin’s phone.
“Wait a second…He’s dead?” Kevin asked.
“Who’s dead?”
“Funnily enough, the Black Hood. That was my dad. He just shot him. He’s gonna be tied up at the station for a while tonight sorting it all out. But I can’t believe it. It was Mr. Svenson.”
“Who the hell’s Mr. Svenson?” Joaquin asked.
“He’s, or I guess I should say he was, our school janitor.” Kevin shook his head. “It’s a really long story. Look…Even before I knew that, I should have said I’m sorry for accusing you of trying to get information from me about him too. I never really thought the Black Hood was anything to do with the Serpents. He knew too many things that the Serpents weren’t likely to know. I was just shocked at seeing you again, and it brought it all back, and I was lashing out.”
“I understand the reason why you said it,” Joaquin admitted. “Maybe we should have a proper talk about everything, try and work it all out.”
“Well, since Dad’s gonna be tied up at the station for a while, it looks like I’m going to have the house to myself…” Kevin suggested.
Kevin awoke to the sound of his father’s voice, and the light in the lounge being snapped on. With a shock, he realised he had fallen asleep on the couch, Joaquin lying next to him in a similar state of undress.
“Kevin?” his father asked, glaring as he took in the sight of Joaquin. “You’ve got some explaining to do.”
“Really, Dad?” Kevin asked as he took in the sight of Mayor McCoy standing behind his father, frantically doing up her blouse. “Because it kind of looks to me like I should be saying the same thing to you….”