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Love and War…Mostly War
Chapter 1: Bubbles' Secret
Megaville wasn't exactly a quiet town before the arrival of the three superhero sisters. The kids at Megaville Elementary were still unaware that THE Powerpuff girls were running the halls by day and fighting alien invaders by night, but slowly they were becoming aware of something around them.
The girls were doing their best to fit in; Blossom found a boyfriend, Buttercup was on the soccer team and crushing on a teacher, and Bubbles was just kind of cruising by. Blossom had done her best to find something for Bubbles to become interested in, but she seemed preoccupied most of the time with thoughts Blossom couldn't decipher.
Buttercup told Blossom she was just imagining stuff because Bubbles really couldn't be thinking of too much. It WAS Bubbles. She was probably thinking of butterflies and puppies. Blossom considered that for a moment and then decided Bubbles WAS indeed occupying her thoughts with something other than the obvious. Blossom tried asking once, but was quickly dodged by Bubbles saying she had to go to see Mandy and work on homework. She just couldn't figure out what was on her sister's mind.
When had they all become so distant from each other? Blossom and Dexter were always in the lab. Buttercup was with the girls or in the combat simulations. Bubbles was with Courage or Mandy doing whatever those two did. Blossom missed when they were younger and did everything together. That's when she told Bubbles and Buttercup they were going on a picnic the next weekend, so they had better clear their schedules. They shrugged her off at the invitation with a "Sure, whatever." And ditched her Saturday morning.
The following Friday night, sometime past midnight, as Blossom was coming out of the kitchen with a glass of water, on her way back to bed, she caught sight of the front door closing. She hurried to the window only to see Bubbles flying away towards the outskirts of town.
She, of course, had no option but to follow her sister. Bubbles landed in a remote part of the forest just past city limits, walked up to an oak tree and leaned against it to stare at the moon. Blossom hid behind some distant bushes and tried to make out the carving on the tree. It was a large heart with "B&B" etched into it. If Bubbles was one of the B's who was the other?
The red haired spy didn't have to wait a moment longer for her answer. A blonde young boy flew in with a blue streak behind him and landed next to the waiting girl. She hugged him and kissed him on the lips playfully before going into great detail of what had happened since their last rendezvous. Blossom couldn't help but smile at the sight of Bubbles being so happy.
It was Boomer, an enemy they should not be associating with, much less having secret meetings in the dead of night. Blossom only wished that she would have been let in on the secret. She then concluded it wasn't a secret from her, but from Boomer's brothers, who would be very unlikely to accept the love of a Powerpuff and Rowdyruff. This comforted her a little bit.
Blossom suddenly sunk into her own fantasies of secret meetings with Dexter. It would be completely unnecessary, but still romantic. The sound of her foot snapping a twig was enough to wake her from her dreamworld. Bubbles and Boomer whipped their heads in the direction of the sound and got nothing more than a squirrel staring back at them.
Blossom was breathing heavily as she raced home, feeling the night breeze in her hair. That was a close one. When Blossom heard the bedroom door close and Bubbles crawl into her bed, across the room, she smiled and kissed the picture of Dexter she had been holding against her chest. With that note, she dozed off to her own romantic story.
Boomer wouldn't get the chance to enjoy such sweet dreams. While flying above the highway a bright flash of white light struck him hard, sending him crashing to the ground. When he sat up, holding his throbbing head, he saw a long-haired girl in a white dress as radiant as her ivory hair looking down at him. "You're cute, I can see why she likes you." Those were the last words he would ever hear.