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Chapter 2
He fiddled with the red rose that was pinned to his tux. His red ruffled hair was under his trusty red cap and he slumped down onto a chair in the alter. Brick glanced at the clock on the wall once again. The time was 12.10. They were 10 minutes late so far.
Where could they be? He thought, getting up and beginning to pace in the air.
Buttercup came through, phone held in her hand, trying to get hold of either Butch or Blossom. She had on a pair of black trousers and a red silk top. Her hair was down, and straightened, so the layers flicked out. Thoguh her looks were the least of her worries at the minute.
"Trust Butch to be late. You know what? Hes probably stopped for a burger or something." She said angrily, as she too began to pace.
"I know Butch can be...predictable, but its my wedding day! He wouldn't be that bad! Would he?" Brick said slumping back down onto the chair.
"I'll trying ringing him again. You try and ring Blossom." Buttercup said, joining him on the seat.
Buttercup dialled his number, then waited. It rang and rang, till she got the engaged tone.
"Please leave a message after the tone BEEP!" The phone said.
"Come on Butch answer your damn phone!" Buttercup growled then flipped her phone down.
"Got nothing?" Brick asked, as he held his phone to his face.
"Nope."
Brick waited for a reply on his cell phone. Come on Blossom, pick up, pick up! Brick thought.
The phone just went dead.
"Well?" Buttercup asked.
"It, it just went dead. Someone hung it up." Brick said, looking down at his mobile.
"What is she playing at?" Buttercup said becoming increasingly angry. Bubbles flew through to the alter.
"Have you gotten hold of her?" she said hurriedly.
They both shook there heads. Bubbles floated down, beginning to pace. "Something must be wrong. I hope they're ok! What if they had a car crash or something!" Bubbles burbled, beginning to panic.
"Calm down Bubbles they're fine. I think Blossom's taking too long in front of the mirror. You know what shes like. She won't even go to work unless she looks just right. And this is her wedding day for crying out loud." Buttercup said.
"Shes not that vain." Brick said, looking up from his lap.
"Believe me she can be. Ring her again, I'll give Butch a call."
With a sigh Brick dialled her number again. This time it was cut off straight away.
"Come on Blossom! Whats wrong?" He said, almost asking the phone.
"No answer?" Bubbles asked.
"It cut me right off. Why is she doing this? Its our wedding day for crying out loud." Brick said, beginning to get upset.
"Maybe her phones been stolen. When mine got nicked last year Drake said whenever he tried to call it the robbers cut it off." Bubbles suggested.
"Maybe. But, why isn't Butch answering his phone?" Brick said, thinking of his only brother left.
"Maybe something has happened to them..." Buttercup said momentarily, then shook the thoughts outta her head. "No, they're fine. Just, just running late..."
Brick glances at the clock once again. Its now 12.25. 25 minutes late.
"I'll be right back, I'm gonna do some rounds of the city. You can't miss a big long limo." Buttercup said. "Gimme a call if they turn up!" she cried as she flew off.
Brick looked down at his phone, flipping through the photos he had saved on it. Please Blossom, get here safely... he thought, as he gazed at a picture of her, looking suggestive.
Meanwhile, no cars passed down the dusty country road where Butch lies, motionless. Blood was all over his back, and some down his face from the beating he took. He was laying in a pool of blood, and loosing dangerous amounts.
A ringing sound of a bicycle is heard approaching the top of the hill
A small old women, wobbling around on her bike trundled up the hill. She smiled sweetly, admiring Townsville's scenic, yet discreet countryside. Then she glanced beyond the hill, stopping on her bike to take it all in. Once she looked round, she had the shock of her life.
"Good god!" She cried as she threw her bike down. She rushed as fast as her frail body would allow over to Butch.
She took her old mobile phone out of her bag and dialled 999 (Or 911, sorry).
Before she knew it, an ambulance arrived, and they took Butch up on a stretcher.
"Would you like to come?" asked Bex, a paramedic, and also friend of Blossom's.
"If thats ok with you. The poor thing looks like hes been there an awful long time." She said, dabbing her eyes with a tissue.
She hobbled in, and the doors were slammed behind them.
Buttercup flew high over Townsville. Where are they? Maybe they could be near the countryside or sumfin...why they'd be there I don't know... She thought as she turned and flew to the countryside with speed.
When she got there, a few feet in the air, she saw the limo, the bouquet, and an ambulance speeding away. Her heart stopped in her chest.
She slowly hovered down to the scene. She saw all the blood on the floor, then saw Blossom's bouquet, picking it up.
"What the hell has happened!" she cried.
She followed the ambulance and once it had arrived she burst through the doors to A&E (or ER).
"Where did they take him!" She cried.
the reception looked up from her pad.
"Where is he?" Buttercup cried again.
"Please, calm down! This is a hospital, thats no way to act! Now come to the desk and quietly tell me who you're looking for and how you're a relation." The receptionist commanded.
"Sorry." Buttercup mumbled, floating over to the desk.
"Now, who are you loooking for?" she asked more calmly.
"Butch Jojo. A tall guy, in his twenties. Black hair, green eyes?" Buttercup said, beginning to describe in case he hadn't been identified.
"Yes, I know him, hes come in with a bullet wound -"
"A bullet wound! Hes been shot!" Buttercup cried.
"Yes. How are you related?"
"Urr," Buttercup said. She remebered that Blossom had said that if theres no relation, they usually don't let you see them. "I'm his, urr, wife. I'm his wife. The names Buttercup Jojo." She got a warm feeling inside her when she put her first name with his last.
"Ok...Collette will guide you to him." The receptionist said, directing her to a nurse.
Buttercup nodded and Collette led her to him. "He's being seen to now in resusitation unit -" she said as she lead the way.
"Resusitation unit!" Buttercup cried.
"Yes, he got shot in the back. He was left for at least half an hour before an old lady found him."
Buttercups hand went to her mouth and she screwed her eyes up. "Ohmygod. Is he out?"
"He's being resusitated as we speak. I'll come out when I have some more info." she then went through the doors to the resus unit, and Buttercup sat down outside, lookinf scared and sad.
"I can't belive this. Some one shot him! You wouldn't think a rowdy ruff owuld go down so easily from a bullet! If Butch got shot out there, and the limo's still there," she looked at the bouquet of blood red roses in her hand. "then wheres Blossom?"
Just then Collette and a few other nurses and doctors burst through the doors and Buttercup shot up.
"We managed to get him resusitated. But he isnt concsious." she told her.
Buttercup nodded. It was better then nothing.
"Can I see him?"
Collette nodded, allowing her to go through.
Buttercup sat at the bed side, watching him breathing slowly. Tears began to drizzle down her cheeks.
"Don't cry hunny. I'll be ok."
Buttercup looked up, and grinned widely, allowing more tears to flow as she shot up and hugged Butch best she could without hurting him.
"You don't know how glad I am to hear your voice again Butch." Buttercup said as she cried into his chest.
"You don't know how glad i am to wake up to you." he replied.
"Are you ok? God I was soo worried." Buttercup said, caressing his face with her hand. She didn't even realise what she was doing she was so caught up in the moment.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Its justa shoot. Hey, how'd you get in?" Butch said, sitting up in his bed.
"Heh, I sorta pretended I was your wife..." Buttercup said, turning red.
Butch smiled warmly.
"I better let Brick know I've found you." Buttercup said flipping her phone up.
"Yeah...ohmygod! BLOSSOM!" butch yelled, just remembering.
"What, what about her? You know where she is? Oh, hello Brick, its Buttercup, I got Butch, hes been shot in the back. Yeah hes fine. You think thats wise? What if Blossom gets there and you ain't there?" Buttercup said as she talked to Brick on the phone.
"I can guarantee that won't happen." Butch said, rubbing his forehead and hiding his face.
Buttercup looked at him concernedly. "Ok, see you in a minute. Wheres Blossom?" Buttercup said, half to Brick, the rest to Butch.
"I'm such a screw up. I can;t belive I let a bullet put me in hospital. I, I thought I was stronger." Butch said.
"Butch, where is she?" Buttercup said.
"I don't know. She could be anywhere now. When we were on the way, these, these men come, hijacked the limo basically. They took her, shot me before I could help her. Its all my fault." Butch said.
The last thing he saw as he lost conscooisness was Blossom reaching out for him as Snake shoved her into the trunk of the car. It hurt him to think he could have stopped that from happening.
Butch hadn't fully told the truth, if he did, if he said he knew the guy, he'd have to unravel the truth to Boomers death. The only ones who knew where himself, Brick, Weasel and Snake.
"Ohmygod. So, she could be anywhere?"
Butch nodded.
Meanwhile, in a shady hut by the docks, Snake and Weasel sit. Snake holds a phone in his hand. On the front the wallpaper is Brick. Its Blossom's phone. It rings, and Snake automatically cuts it off. He goes through the numbers, and finds Bricks, taking down the number and putting it into his phone.
"Come on, lets go, I found it." Snake says, and the two get up and exit the hut. They come out to the pier and walk to the red barge sitting on the water. They enter it, locking the hatch behind them, and in front of them is Blossom, tied and gagged to a chair in front of them, tears dribbling down her face, her make up smeared. She looks up at them in fear and her eyes are begging them to leave her alone and let her go.
With his cell phone, Snake takes a photo of Blossom, and sends it to Brick, along with a message.
"I think the groom will be most pleased at the state of his wife on his wedding day." Snake said, smiling evilly.
Blossom glared at him as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"I think shes the prettiest thing we've abducted." Weasel said, laughing.
"Yeah, if she weren't our hostage, I might break off a piece of that ass for me." Snake said, raising his eyebrows at her as he drew on his cigarette. Blossom glowered at them, feeling sick. This couldn't be happening. Not on her wedding day...
Back at the hospital, Buttercup sits with Butch at his bed, head in her hands.
"I'm sorry." Butch said.
"Its not your fault. You didn't know this would happen. So, Boomer was shot?" Buttercup asked, trying to take her mind off the images of her sister being held hostage.
"Yeah. We owed Snake and Weasel some money. Not much. And when we couldn't pay it back, they somehow managed to get Boomer. Brick wanted to get the money somehow, so we could get Boomer safely. I wanted him safely too, but we didn;t have the money. We decided to try the sneaky approach. It didn't work. They shot Boomer in the head right in front of us. Its an image that will never leave my head." Butch said sadly.
Buttercup wiped some tears from her eyes. "I'm sorry for bringing it up, but why didn't you tell us the truth. We wouldn't have judged you."
"Well, we were gonna tell you I guess. Someday. But really, today wasn't best." Butch mumbled.
"What? Why?" Buttercup asked suspicously.
"Erm, if it weren't for us getting involved in that sort of thing, they never would have took your sister."
Buttercup was thinking. Ohmygod. He's right!
"You just better hope she is returned to us without not so much as a scratch, or you and your red headed brother are going to regret!" Buttercup growled.
Butch nodded uneasily. "Urr, you bet."
The door then burst open.
"Butch!" cried Brick as he came in, the receptionist and a nurse following.
"We're sorry, we tried to keep him out, so sorry!" The receptionist bit.
"I already told you I'm his brother! Can't you see the resemblence?" Brick said furiously.
"Is he?" The nurse asked.
Butch nodded.
"Oh, sorry." They said, and left.
"They really hate me here." Brick added as he sorted his suit that had been ruffled out.
"Can you blame them? You barfed down the bar at Blossom's work do here." Buttercup said, smiling.
"Oh yeah, heh... Butch, what happened?" Brick asked.
"Your never gonna guess who shot me." Butch said.
"Who!" Brick demanded.
"Weasel did. Snake was with him too. They burst out of a car on the way to the church, and they attacked me, and shot me, and they, they..." Butch stuttered, about to tell his short tempered brother that his fiance was being held hostage with their brothers killer.
"What! What did they do? Wheres Blossom!" Brick asked hysterically.
Just then he recieved a text message. He jumped at it in case it was Blossom.
"Who is it?" Buttercup asked.
Bricks eyes were scanning the cell phone, his faces looks totally surprised, shocked and upset. His heart stops beating.
"What? What is it?" Butch asked.
"If you ever want to see your fiance again, send us $4000. Thats double the money you STILL owe us. Signed, Snake. Ps:You have two hours, if you're late, or you don't give us that exact amount, say goodbye to your little wifey." Brick read out from the text message.
Buttercup gasped.
"And, and theres a picture too. Of her. I can't believe it!" Brick said, beginning to get angry. "I gotta go find em, I gotta go save her!" he growled, hovering and going to exit the room.
"Wait! Brick, just going and getting them is how we lost Boomer, remember. What are you going to do? We don't have that money." Butch warned.
"I got $1000 in my account I think. Something like that. Its gonna have to do for now. I can use that to sorta tempt em, then I can go and just, just save her like, maybe." Brick suggested.
"I got at least $500 you can have." Buttercup said.
"Really?"
Buttercup nods.
"Thanks!" Brick says.
"Come on, we'll go use the machine to get it. Butch, we'll be right back." Buttercup said,
Butch nodded. They left, then Butch recieved a text message. It was the same picture. and it had a message: Just a little teaser. A strip tease maybe. Hows your gun wound? Signed Snake.
Butch growled. Buttercup comes back, and looks at Butchs angry face.
"What?" She asks.
"I, I just got a - look." He hands her his phone.
Buttercup looks at the picture, and her heart rips in two.
"Blossom..." She whispers.
Brick zoomed towards the hut, the one by the docks. He knew he would most probably be there. Why he knew that pained him. It was the loaction Boomer had been shot. He shuddered, shaking the image out of his head as he enters slowly and cautiously.
He can hear no voices, and there are no lights on. Maybe they have left Blossom in here. Fools... He creeps out, into the centre, roll like a secret agent towards the other side. No one was in there,
Dang...Where is she? he thought as he exitted.
He took his phone out and dialled Snakes number.
"Yes?" Snakes rough voice answers.
"Where is she?" Brick growled.
"Aaah, Brick. So nice to talk to you. Its been what, 2 years?" Snake replied.
"Cut the crap where is she!"
"Where is she you ask?" Snake said, turning to face Blossom with a toying grin on his face. "Shes right here. Having a little party, with us. Though she doesn't look as if shes having a good time."
Blossom looked up at him half hopefully. Brick was talking to him, he must be trying to rescue her.
"Whoa, watch your language. What was that? If I lay one finger on her, you beat my insides out, and fuck me up so bad I'll wish I was dead? Steady on now Brick, both your brothers know the damage a bullet can do..."
"You bastard!" Brick yelled.
"Hey, keep that up and I'll kill her right here right now. You got the money?"
"Yeah, meet us at the bridge in 5 minutes. And bring Blossom with you." Then they both hung up.
"If you bring the money, I'll bring then girl."
Brick hung up and sighed. He didn't have all the money. What would happen now?
He discreetly flies over to the Pier Bridge, and waits for Snake to get there.
He sees him, and hides hovering beneath the bridge. Snake is alone. No Blossom. This angers and worries Brick.
He hasn't got her with him! I knew I couldn't trust him! Brick thought.
His phone rang in his pocket. "Yeah?"
"Where are you?" Snake growled down the phone.
"I'm, er, stuck in traffic. I'll take a good 5 minutes." Brick said, hatching a plan in his head.
"Traffic? Thats your excuse! Well, won't you be happy to tell friends and family that the reason for your fiances death is traffic! Then they'll be two deaths to keep hidden up won't there." Snake said, about to hang up.
"No! Wait! Please, don't kill her. Just give me five to ten more minutes, please. Then you can call me, and tell me where to meet." Brick said, bargaining for his bride to be's life.
"You've got 10 minutes Jojo." He then hung up.
Brick sighed as he flipped his phone down.
He saw Snake walking over the bridge, and followed him, to see where he goes. He saw him enter the barge boat, and he then knew that that was where Blossom must be.
Brick takes his phone from his pocket. He dialls Snakes number.
"Meet me at the Townsville Border Bridge NOW. And no funny stuff or acts of bravery. And if I smell the law, I'll blow her head right off her shoulders!" Snake threatens as he answers the phone.
Snake pulls the gag away from Blossom's mouth inside the barge, and holds the phone to it.
"Please Brick just do as they say! Please!" Blossom cries frightenedly.
"Blossom baby I swear I i get you out of this I promise!" Brick said down the phone.
Snake snatches the phone from her face and Weasel gags her up again. "Be there, or you'll never see her again." Then Snake hung up.
Brick backed up towards the hut as he watched Snake leaving the barge.
Now was his chance. If he could enter it now, he could get Blossom. He knew Weasel was in there, but he was no threat to him. Was he? He had shot his brother with no remorse.
Maybe he should be careful...well, he would do that anyway.
He gave it a couple of minutes, before he attempted to get in...
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