LC; I was watching Powerpuff girls Z and this just came to me!
Buttercup; Why the hell would you write this?
LC; Cause it wouldn't stop bugging me until I did!
Bubbles; Oh, but your going to show this to everyone!
Blossom; It's so embarrassing!
Buttercup; Who the hell cares? It's not even about you!
LC; YAY! My money's on Buttercup!
Bubbles; What? Why?
LC; Cause she is awesome in carnate! Also she can use awesomer powers!
Blossom; First off, awesomer is not a word. Second, like what?
LC; Hello! She has armpit rays! And has a giant friggin hammer!
Bubbles; So?
LC; HELLO! You use a bubble stick and Blossom uses a yo-yo for pity's sake!
Buttercup; Told you your weapons stunk.
Disclaimer; I don't own the powerpuff girls cause if I did I'd jump into a vat of chemical z!

Chapter 1; Star crossed?

BC's POV

Yo, I'm Buttercup Utonium. I'm wearing green camo pants, and a black tank. My powerpuff belt hanging loosely around my waist. While Bubbles and Blossom had given up wearing them, I'd kept mine. It was a normal day for the puffs, it was the last day of school, and everyone was talking about what they were going to do over the summer.
Kinda lame if you asked me, but no one would, so whatever. Princess was bragging about going to Paris, big whoop, a pointy tower, oh I can't wait. God, she's annoying.
Blossom and Bubbles were talking about some new fashion coming out in the summer, no surprise there. It seemed like everyone but me was having the time of their lives.

"Hey Buttercup?" Oh God, that was not Princess! Please tell me it wasn't Princess! I turned to see who it was with the snobby voice. I told you to tell me it wasn't her!
"What do you want Princess?" I sighed. We'd been friends when we were younger, but had grown apart right before fifth grade.
We are both fifteen, and now are in tenth grade.
"What are your plans for the summer?" She asked. Instantly, all eyes were on me. I would never admit it, but I'm actually shy, and have stage fright.
Give me somebody to hit, I'm good. Make me talk in front of a crowd, and this happens.

"My plans are none of your business." I snapped angrily, even though I was more shy then angry. "If you really wanna know, I'm doing squat diddly this summer! So shut it and back off already!"
I got up and stormed out of the room, even though class hadn't even started yet today. Not like I cared anymore.
Since mom died, I was faced with taking care of my siblings while dad went off and periodically almost got himself killed fight after fight.
It's my opinion he has a death wish, not that he'd admit it.
So now, it's just me, and five younger brothers, and my infant sister. Mother had died giving birth to her.

Before I knew where I was going, I found myself in front of my old hangout, under the old bridge about ten minutes walk from school.
Glaning down at my hands, I found that I had somehow gone to my locker and grabbed my skateboard and school bag, along with all my books. "Maybe I should pay more attention." I muttered.
This kinda thing had been happening more and more recently. I would start thinking and suddenly find myself here.
Not willing to go back to class, I got on my board and messed around on the ramp, pulling a few tricks.
It felt good to just ride my board, I hadn't been able to in a month.

When that got boring, I just sat in the shade to think. "You come here often?" Someone asked out of nowhere. Not bothering to open my eyes, I replied. "Increasingly."
"Well, glad to see your not a nerd like Brick or Blossom at least." Great, it was him, my counterpart Butch. "Leave me alone Butch." I sighed tiredly. "I don't want to fight today of all days."
"What? You sure your Buttercup?" I opened one eye to find he was floating about a foot off the ground right in front of me.
"Fairly certain." I replied again, I really didn't want to pick a fight right then.
"What's with you? You look like your puppy died or something?" He actually sounded concerned, was that possible?
"Not my puppy." I murmured, not sure if he could even hear me.
"What then?" Okay, so he did hear me.
"My mum." I answered, hoping he'd leave me alone now.

Butch's POV

God, she looked like someone had snapped her favorite board! Was losing a mom that bad? I didn't have a mom, I was made by Mojo-jojo, so I had no idea how that felt.
Hesitantly, I sat down next to her. I had discovered this place last week, it was a skater's paradise. And now I knew who had made all those ramps and brought all that stuff here, it was Buttercup.
"Why are you here?" She asked me, she sounded so bored, like she didn't care at all. She was totally different from the girl I had fought against.
"Found this place last week and decided to come here to blow some steam." I told her. I wasn't really in the mood to fight either.

"Butch, there's something I've always wondered about you." Buttercup said, hesitantly. "Do you, I mean, do you consider Brick and Boomer your family?"
"Yeah, we're all we got." I told her truthfully. "What about you, Blossom, and Bubbles?"
"Not so much." She sighed. "Back when we were kids, I thought we had a connection. More than friends, more like sisters. But, as time wore on, and we fought less, we drifted apart. Bubbles and Blossom are closer than ever though, I'm the third wheel."
God, she must miss them a lot. I know I would if Brick and Boomer dumped me like that. I mean, they were my blood brothers! We'd cut ourselves and mixed our blood together as kids!
And for someone to lose those they had a bond with, that must be horrible. "When did that happen?"
"Around eigth grade, when we almost completely stopped transforming." She sighed, pulling her knees to her chest.

While my brothers would kill me for seeing her and not fighting her at the least, I didn't want to fight just then. "Don't you have anyone else?" I asked. I'm pretty sure she had a brother too, didn't she?
"Five little brothers and a baby sister who's almost five weeks old." She sighed, leaning back against the stone pillar.
I wonder if I touched on a senstive subject?
"How old are your brothers?" I asked curiously.
"Dave, Chris, and Jim, are five and are starting kindergarten, their the oldest, triplets. Brian is three. And Joshua is two. The three youngest are with a sitter right now." Usually she wouldn't tell anyone this kind fo stuff. I mean, I could use that info to kidnap them or something!

After a while, she got up and started skating around. That girl was one thing, and that was good! She was pulling tricks without thinking about it!
Seriously, looking at her eyes, I saw they were filmed over, like she was somewhere else entirely.
I was bored, and I had my board with me, so I joined her on the ramp. Before long we were competing to see who could pull off the most flips without flying.
We both got to five before Buttercup and I found we were tied. "Gotta say, your cooler than I gave you credit for!" This was the Buttercup I knew!
"Not half bad yourself!" I praised her grudgingly. "How long you been boarding?"
"Dude, I've been doing this for eleven years." She taunted me. "Your a newb compared to me!"

Sometime later, we realized it was fifteen after three. "Crap, I gotta run out and buy something for dinner!" BC cursed. When had I given her a nickname? "Need any help with that?" I asked her. I didn't really know where my brothers were at the moment, or what they were doing, but hey I was having some major fun!
"Sure, we'll board to the market!" She challnged me. Without my noticing it, I had begun to see her, as maybe a friend?

BC's POV

Butch turned out to be a pretty cool guy. We had a lot in common, but also had differences, keeping it all interesting. For instance, he hates oranges, while I love them. We both hate being bored, and we both have lots of problems.
Me, well other than the obvious, I have a sort of double life. Now, take a moment to think logically, can a teenage girl care for a family of seven by herself? Answer; Hell no!
I've been working three jobs for the past month, which was hard to do with school and all. I'd thought about dropping out, but I knew I'd get a better job with a high school and college degree.
I was going to take college courses online year after next.

"So how do you manage to keep everyone fed?" Butch asked, laden down with about ten bags. I'd been able to buy twice as much of food with him along to help.
"I got one of my gang buddies keeping an eye on them during school." I explained. "Around four I fly by and pick up the triplets."
Butch glanced at his watch and told me it was three thirty. "Plenty of time to drop off this crap and pick them up!" I said, determinned. "Besides, at four thirty I gotta go to my after school job!"
He seemed mildly impressed at how many jobs I took on.

"Hey Butch, where are your brothers?" I asked. We were now putting the grocerys into the cabinets, Jaden, my buddy, was entertaining the kids.
"I don't know." He said thoughtfully. "Brick is probably at the library, he likes to read. Boomer, he likes flying around the port to look at the water and stuff."
"Really?" I asked suspiciously. "Cause if I didn't know better, I'd say you were talking about Blossom and Bubbles!"
"I thought you didn't talk to them anymore?" He said, putting away the milk.
"I don't, doesn't mean I don't hear them talking to their friends." I informed him. "It's amazing what you can learn when people think your listening to music."
I revealed my eavesdropping trick. It was to put headphones into my ears, even though I didn't even own an Ipod.

"Man I gotta try that!" He laughed. "Come on, we gotta pick up your bros!" I found myself forgetting about my mom's death, about my run away dad, or even about my old friends. With him around, everything was just so much brighter.
"Race ya!" I called, jumping into the air and flying off. In case those reading these entries are confused, the powerpuff power kind of soaked into our DNA. Or really, just me as far as I can tell. Use them long enough and they really do become a part of you.
Sure, transforming makes the powers, more powerful, but it was such a hassle. On another note, the entire city found out we were the powerpuffs when we transformed in front of everyone at a city meeting.

When we got back, I was carrying Dave and Chris, while Butch was holding Jim. "Come on! I'm carrying two of them and you still can't beat me?" While I said this my brothers all stuck their toungues out at him.
"Ah whatever!" He snapped angrily, probably because I beat him twice.
Sadly, all good things come to an end. "I gotta go, if I'm gone any longer they'll wonder where I am." He said forlorningly.
"Yeah, guess you got your own family to go home to." He gave Bets, my sister, back to me and left.
Before he left the door, I ran up to him.
"Butch, maybe, you could stop by again sometime?" I asked him nervously. I don't know why, I just don't want him to leave.
"No prob!" He assured me. "I'll come by at around three tommorrow, that cool?"
"That'll be great!" I replied happily. I hadn't felt this happy in so long.

He must have been happy too. When we're happy, we tend to float a few inches off the ground, he was practically soaring before he even got to the door!
"See ya tommorrow!" He called from the night sky.
"Right!" I called back. It was seven, time for little girls to be put to bed and for little boys to eat dinner. "Come on, soups on!" I called through the house.
Not ten minutes later, someone knocked on my door. At first, I thought maybe Butch had forgotten something. When I opened it, I definetly did not expect to see both Blossom and Bubbles standing on my doorstep.

Oh God, why were they here? "What do you want?" I asked curtly, adopting my cold school persona. "What, we can't visit out friend anymore?" Blossom asked jokingly, almost as if these past few years hadn't happened.
They both barged in wihout even acknowledging the fact I was holding Bets in my arms. When they pushed past me, I lost my balance, I quickly turned so I wouldn't hurt Bets and landed on the porch steps, hard.
Bets started crying, and my back was now in a lot of pain. "Some friends." I muttered darkly.

Inside, they were both cooing at my little brothers. "AW! I didn't know you had so many brothers!" Bubbles cooed. "But where's your mother and father? Shouldn't you be having dinner with them?"
I think that's when they noticed the crying baby in my hands. "Oh my gosh! Did we hurt her?" She cried, still the sweet kind of and caring person I used to know.
"Again, why are you two here?" I demanded, frankly pissed they'd almost killed my sister.
Blossom tried to take Bets away from me, but I backed away. "Geez I just wanna hold her!" She cried sourly. "What's with you? First you ditch on the last day of school, now your totally uncaring with us! You didn't even tell us you had two new brothers and a sister!"

Come on girl, calm down! Bets just stopped crying, if you yell at them like you want to she'll start crying again and she'll never go to sleep.
"Please leave." I whispered politely.
Jim was looking at both of them angrily. He was five, but he was protective over us, and he had seen them knock me down with little Bets in my hands. "Buttercup, calm down." Blossom scolded me. God she sounded like mom! "We did come here for a reason you know!"
"My mom asked you to leave!" Jim shouted at her, good old boy that he was. "So get out!" He hardly remembered mom at all any more, and called me mom more often than not.
"What are you talking about?" Bubbles asked innocently, or stupidly, hard to tell sometimes. "She's your sister not your mom! She's too young to be a mama!"

That's it! I don't care if Bets cries till the end of the world! "Shut the fuck up and get your asses out of my house!" I shouted, loud enough for our neighbors to wonder what was going on.
Surprisingly enough, Bets didn't cry, instead she giggled. Anger makes her giggle! "We came to see how you were doing but it's clear you've changed since we used to fight side by side!" Blossom snapped, going to Bubbles' aid.
"Yeah, I have changed." I replied, deathly calm. "You've changed too. At one time, when my mother died, you would've been at her funeral by my side. When my dad left us, you would've been offering support. When I took three jobs and worked my ass off to get good enough grades for a good college, you would've helped me study." Crap, I was choking up. "Blossom, I have changed, but at least I still remember my friends!"

Blossom's POV

"You've changed too." She pointed out, she sounded so sad. "At one time, when my mother died, you would've been at her funeral by my side. When my dad left us, you would've been offering support. When I took three jobs and worked my ass off to get good enough grades for a good college, you would've helped me study." Had all that, really happened? I could see she was on the bring of tears now. "Blossom, I have changed, but at least I remember my friends!"
I think that one hurt the most. When we first got out powers, Bubbles and I wokred hard to gain Buttercup's trust, and after we stopped, when we didn't need her anymore, we'd just abandoned her.

"But, we didn't mean to!" Bubbles sobbed, not because she was hurt, but because a friend had been hurting and we hadn't bothered trying to help. Could we even be called friends?
I'd never seen Buttercup like this. She was always the strong one, when we needed strength to carry on, Buttercup lent it to us.
"Buttercup, how can we ever make it up to you?" Tears streamed down my face as I realized I'd caused one of my best friends to fall into the darkness. The white aura that once surrounded her, was turning darker.
How had I missed that? How!

Bubble's POV

I felt horrible! I was trash! No, worse, at least trash couldn't hurt anyone! I was scum! I was the lowest possible life form on the planet!
Here Buttercup stood, so strong and independent, and now she was raising her siblings all by herself, and I hadn't even tried helping! "Please, don't say your sorry." Her eyes, they were so dead, so far away. "Because if you do, I'll believe you! I'll trust you again, and when you don't need me anymore, you'll ignore me again!"
"No, we won't." I pleaded. "Please, let us make it up to you! I know we might never regain your trust and friendship, but at least let us try!"

She was hurting so much, but she wasn't crying, not a tear. Both me and Blossom were pleading now. Just before Buttercup began to really cry, I felt something small and hard hit the small of my back.
I gasped in pain and turned to see her little brothers, all of them ready to throw things at us. "Why are you doing this?" Blossom asked them. "You little brats! You shouldn't throw things!"
I think her outburst only brought Buttercup's anger back, and then made it climb to it's peak.
Without warning, one of the boys had taken the baby from her and she punched Blossom on the jaw. Blossom was thrown to the floor. "Blossom!" I cried in surprise.

BC's POV

"Don't you ever call them brats again!" I warned the red head on the floor at my feet. "They had every right to throw that cup at you! GET OUT!"
Bubbles gather Blossom and both of them left, slamming the door behind them, though I think that was an accident.
"Mama, are you okway now?" Joshua asked me in that adorable baby language of his.
"Yeah, I'm fine Kiddo." I said affectionately, drawing them all into a big group hug. "Thanks guys."

After dinner, I read the boys a bedtime story, and put Bets to sleep. After all the excitement, she slept like a rock on the side of the bed.
I lay next to her on my side, thinking about what to do over the summer. I needed a real job, not just a part time one like I had at the time. At the same time, I had to watch my siblings.
If one of the inspectors came, and saw them without a sitter, then they would be taken away from me. Especially Bets, she would be the first to go.
It had taken three months to convince the court to let me care for them as best I could, and if I didn't meet the requirments, then they would be taken away.

I worked into the night cleaning up and doing my chores. Funny how you never appreciate them, until your the one doing them all.
I fed Bets periodically through the night, and when I could, I slept. The next morning, I left them with Jaden and went to hunt for a good job for a fifteen year old girl.
I finally found one at a bike shop called Motorbucks, owned by Princess' daddy, but hey, beggers can't be choosers.
I would start work Monday, as a mechanic, repairing the bikes people brought in for repairs. All those auto shop courses had come in handy I guess.

My hours were from eight to five, and I got thirty bucks an hour, and got paid every other week on Tuesdays. Talk about a pretty sweet gig.
With that done, I skated back home to spend some much needed time with my real family. "Bets, silly girl!" I crooned as she giggled and tugged at my shoulder length hair. "I know you want some too but it'll grow sooner or later." I assured her.
Hey, I know I'm the tomboy, but I do have my sweet side. It just happens to stay at home.
Before I knew it, three had finally rolled to town and Butch had been brought for the ride. He was wearing his usual black and green jacket and black jeans.
I slipped into a green top, green yankees cap, and some tan shorts.

I left the kids with Jayden and Butch and I went out, riding his awesome green motorcycle. "This is awesome!" I yelled as we pushed the bike for all it was worth.
"If you think this is cool, watch this and hang on tight!" Butch countered, heading straight for the bridge. It was raising up, meaning a boat was passing under it. Most girls would be begging him to stop, but what was there for me to worry about?
If we didn't make it I could let go of him and fly.
As I was thinking about this, we reached the ramp, and started doing awesome flips in midair before landing on the other side. "Let's do it again!" I cried happily. I couldn't remember the last time I'd had so much fun, and we'd only been at it for like, ten minutes!

After riding the bike got boring, we started flying around and just plain messing around. I was doing outrageous flips and tricks while he did the exact same thing next to me.
At one point, we grabbed each other by the forearms and began twirling round and round until both of us were dizzy. After we recovered, I pointed out a passing plane. "Come on!" I called to him, flying up to it.
We tormented the passengers and decided to sit on the top of the plane for a bit. "Geez, whenever I did this with the girls they said it was impolite!" I was cracking up, the looks on some of their faces was priceless! "Oh man, I forgot how much fun this was!"

Butch's POV

Man, now that she wasn't all mopey she was so much fun! I liked hanging with my brothers just fine, but other people are good too, and this girl was great!
"Yo BC, wanna grab a bite to eat?" After all this flying and plane jacking I was hungry.
"You read my mind!" She exclaimed, still in a good mood. "What do ya say to pizza?"
"I say, why are we still here!" I jumped off the plane and we flew off to the nearest pizza place for a nice large supreme!
After dinner, we just sorta flew around, not all over the place like before, more in a lazy well fed way, not really caring where we were going.

How could I have been so stupid? When we fly, green lights come from our feet! Of course my brothers and those girls would see them and assume the worst!
"What are you doing Butch?" I jumped and saw Brick and Boomer were both right behind me. "And you Buttercup?" This time we both jumped and saw Bubbles and Blossom flying our way.
BC and I were now back to back as our friends and family surrounded us in midair. "What are you doing with that creep?" Blossom demanded. "Butch why are you messing with that bitch?" Brick countered angrily.

"BC?" I asked, wondering what she thought we should do. "See ya tommorrow Butch?" She asked tentatively. I nodded and we both lowered ourselves to the ground before going our seperate ways.
Before flying off and leaving her though, I had to do something. "BC, three days from now, at the bridge." I whispered in her ear. She pretended to giggle like a high school girl and I flew off, feeling better than I had yesterday.
That good mood lasted until me and my bros got home. Home, was an old abandoned gas station by the way.

"What were you thinking Butch?" Boomer looked ready to pull out all his golden locks. "She's one of them! A Powerpuff girl! Of all girls why her?"
"I don't know!" I defended myself nervously. "I mean, we met up yesterday and got to talking and then..." Oh crap, did I really sound like that? I sounded like a pansy!
"Well you can bet on one thing." Brick announced seriously. "Your not going anywhere until you've gotten over this infatuation of yours!"
"What are you, my mom?" I snapped at him. I'm not even sure why, but the thought of not seeing her, it hurt, somehow.
"No, we're your bothers!" Boomer answered for him. "You'll thank us later!" Suddenly everything went pitch black. I remember thinking about BC's beautiful, endless green eyes, before I fell into unconciousness.

Brick's POV

Those anatomy lessons came in handy. After I hit the pressure point on his neck, I caught my brother as he fell. "Help me put him in his room." I told Boomer.
Together we put our snoozing brother in bed and went to the main room to talk about what to do. "Knowing him he'll see her just to annoy us." Boomer complained. "I don't know about you but I don't wanna spend all my time babysitting my older brother."
"True, but imagine if they started dating." I countered logically. "She'll change him, make him forget about us! Before we know it, he's enrolling in a school and helping to fight crime!"

Funny thing is, I expected something like this with Boomer, not Butch. I mean, Butch never even looked at any girls! Boomer was a sweet, and somewhat innocent boy who all girls liked to mess around with. I'd expect something like this with him! But Butch of all people!
Hell, I'm a more likely choice than him!

Come to think of it, Butch had been acting weird since yesterday, and he refused to tell us where he'd been. That must have been when they met and got together.
That damned bitch was trying to tear him away from us! Before long, Butch would be a goody-goody! I was starting to worry about how we were going to rid him of these feelings, when a light just flicked on in my brain.
What if, instead of Butch going good, Buttercup went bad? It would be hard to do, but without their powerhouse, the powerpuffs were nothing.
"Boomer, we may be able to work this to our advantage." I sneered.

Boomer's POV

When Brick told me his plan, I had had my doubts. I mean, wouldn't she always be with those girls now? And wouldn't they be trying to get rid of her crush too?
But if it worked, not only would we get our revenge, but a new teammate, and Butch would be happy too! It was a win-win! Guess that's why Brick's the leader!
"Great plan!" I praised him. "Now all we gotta do is make Butch make her into a bad girl!"

We talked a little while about how to get Butch to do his part to corrupt her. "The problem, I think, is that we don't know if this is a crush or not." Brick pointed out. "It may be hard to believe, but Butch may have falled head over heels for this girl."
That was a problem. What if Butch didn't want to use her like that? Then what would they do?

BC's POV

Sometimes, Blossom amazes me with how long she can yell at me. It's already been an hour and I don't think she's stopped for breath once.
Glancing at Bubbles, I saw she was reading another of those damned magazines. At the moment, we were at Blossom's house because her family was on vacation and they had literally dragged me here against my will.
Oh wait, did Blossom just ask me something. "What?" I asked, noticing her angry stare.
"I said, your going to stay here until your over that stupid bad boy!" She repeated pateintly. Didn't she remember anything from yesterday?
"And who's going to take care of my little brothers and sister?" I asked her, bored out of my mind plainly written all over my face. It couldn't be clearer if I'd written it in permanent marker!

Blossom, was apparently lost for words. Guess she didn't think about that little aspect. "Bets needs feeding every four hours and doesn't sleep through the night." I began to list certain aspects of them. "Joshua has nightmares, a lot, and wets the bed. Brian will throw a tantrum if no one's there to read his favorite bedtime story. Dave, Chris, and Jim have swimming lessons starting tommorrow morning."
Bubbles was looking at me funny now, was that emotion that I hated being directed at me, pity?
"Well, I guess you could get over him at your own house." Blossom suggested thoughtfully. "Or maybe a sitter?"
"Jayden is the only one they'll let watch them and he's going on vacation in the morning." I informed her. I was beginning to enjoy this, it wasn't often Blossom lost an arguement.

Somehow, Bubbles and Blossom began fighting over the best way to rid me of 'my crush', giving me the oppurtunity needed for escape.
Before they knew what was going on, I'd snuck out the door and flown down the stairs and out an open window. Freedom was sweet! I flew home right away, I was already late and Jay had to go home and pack for his trip to Europe or whatever.
"Sorry I'm late!" I called as I burst through the door.
"About time!" Jayden sighed thankfully. He handed me my cooing sister and a bottle and almost ran out the door. "Were they that bad?" I asked Bets.
As answer, she just cooed some more.

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LC; I wrote more than I meant to!
Butch; Kinda cool I guess.
BC; I like it!
LC; I'll update after many reviews!