Kenny woke the next morning in a cold sweat. His parents were yelling in the living room and their voices had ended up in his nightmare. He turned to find butters facing the wall. Kenny scooted closer to him and tightly wrapped his arms around the small boy who was still fast asleep.

'It's so adorable how he snores…' Kenny thought as boy got more comfortable in his arms. Soon the snoring stopped when Kenny's mother threw something at his door. Butters jumped up.

"Hey it's alright," Butters looked at him, "It was my mom…Fucking bitch…"

"Oh okay…" Butters sat up and rubbed the sleep out of his one good eye.

"Oh look the boyfriend stayed over again…"

Kenny turned around to see his mother in the door way, "Oh look who's been out drinking again all night…you just get home?"

"Fuck you…Get your faggot self out of my house. If I find out you're fucking him in my house…"

Kenny began to get up, "please we're not even dating. Even if we were I wouldn't be fucking him. I've fucked, you can't fuck people you truly care about and be done with them, but then you've done that haven't you?" Kenny Got up and got dressed while Butter did the same.

"Please, you're the town man whore."

Now that the two we're fully dressed, Kenny took Butters arm and lead him out the door, "I haven't had sex with anyone in two years," said as he passed his mother.

Kenny took Butters to get breakfast, and they were eating at Starks pond on the hood of Kenny's car.

"Sorry about that…"

Butter looked over at Kenny who couldn't look at him, "It's alright, but, hey…um…did you mean what you said back there?"

Kenny sipped at his McDonalds' Orange juice, "That whole thing about how I care about you?"

"Mm-hmm…"

"I meant every word of it." Kenny cleared his throat and turned to Butters, "There is so much that I need to tell you, but I don't know how…for the first time in a long time I feel that I'm meant to do something important and it's all because of you. I promise you Butters things are going to change for us. Sooner or later…"

"You know those sudden feelings you get to do something, and you don't know why?"

"Yeah…"

"I need to go home…"

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

When they had gotten to the house there were police cars in the front and they were taking Steven away. Butters got out of the car and ran up to an officer.

"What going on?"

"I'm sorry son you're going to have to step off the property."

"Fucker this is his property," Kenny said flatly

"I'm sorry you must be Butters." Butters nodded, "This your dad's handy work?"

The officer pointed to his face, "Yeah it is…did my mom call him in?"

"Yeah, she's pretty bad…You wanna tell me where you were last night?"

Butters looked at Kenny then back to the officer, "I've been over at his house. He's been a real good friend the past couple of years."

The officer extended a hand to Kenny, "You're a hero kid. That guy was looking for Butters here. He Threaten to kill him when he found him. You may have saved his life."

When Kenny took the officers hand Butters chuckled, "Wouldn't be the first time…" the boy looked as though he was going to break down and cry when Kenny pulled the boy into a tight embrace.

"Let's go see your mom Leopold."

Butters smiled knowing that Kenny always knew when to call him by his name. Sometimes he needed it. They walked into the house and found Mrs. Stoch on the couch sobbing, nearly beaten half to death. She leaped up, "Oh Kenny thank god…I've never been so happy to see you…"

The woman took her son into her arms. Kenny turned to walk out, but before he left he said, "You know you should really leave your husband, and then learn to be a better parent. Let your son be himself for once, then maybe you both could be happy ."

Butters pulled away from his mother, "you're not leaving are you?"

"Oh no Butters, I just really need a cigarette, and I'm not smoking in front of you."

Kenny walked out to his car. When he got in he reached into the clove box and pulled out an old pack of smokes. He lit it with a packet of matches under his seat. He took a drag before heard a knock on his window. Butters got into the car. Kenny rolled down his window to keep the smoke from bothering Butters.

"8 months I've been without a cigarette…"

"I don't mind Kenny…"

"I do I've been trying to quite for you."

"You have?"

"Two years celibate, One year without alcohol, 8 months without a cigarette. I've done this all to become a stronger person that you could come to for protection. Now here I am…you know, " He took another drag, "I've never wanted to cry in my entire life, and I've been through a lot of shit, but now…"

"Why? This is good news…"

"I don't want to break your spirits, but I've been through this a lot..give it a month, he'll be back."

"Is that why your stressed?"

Kenny tossed away his smoke and looked at Butters, " He wanted to kill you…"

Butters saw the sadness in Kenny's eyes, so Butters opened his arms for him, "Come here." Kenny put his head on Butters chest, and wrapped his arms around the boy tightly then began to sob. Butters Ran his hand through Kenny's hair as he hugged Kenny back, "I never want you to ever fell this way, ever."

"Butters?"

"Yes."

"I love you. God, I love you so much."

Butters was shocked at first, but got over it since this was going to be the first time Kenny was going to open up like this for a while, "I love you too."

Kenny soon calmed down, and pulled away from Butters, "Sorry about that, that was very weak of me."

"Fuck you," Kenny looked over shocked, "You are so strong for everyone, especially me, and it's time that I'm strong for you. You've held in lot of crap Kenny…Weak…You are not weak."

Kenny looked at him a little sheepish, "you're right I deserve that."

"You bet I'm right…don't ever call yourself weak again."

Kenny chuckled, "Yes sir. You know I really like this side of you."

"Well sometimes you can be so stubborn. I've been trying to get you to open up to me for three god damn years and you say it's weak. Nothing about you is weak."

"Okay, Okay I get it…I promise I'll open up to you more, if you promise to be yourself from now on. Screw what you parent think of you or anyone else for that matter."

"I Promise."

"Thank you."

A/N: I know it's been awhile, but I wasn't going to finish this then I decided that it would be something to keep me busy. These will be up every Tuesday form now on until it's finished. I hope you enjoy!