Control Over Me
Chapter 3
More Confusion
Disclaimer: I do not own The Powerpuff Girls. But I do own the plot/storyline because I made that up with my brain. No copyright intended. Enjoy :D
It's a serene fall Friday night, the stars are out and everything seems at peace. Except for my racing mind, I try to distract myself with looking at the stars outside of the car window as my family and I drive home in silence from the hospital. I sigh as thoughts race through my mind, I don't even have a clue to what happened. I shake my head and reach in the bag for a fry, Buttercup went to the nearest diner and got me fries, a burger and chocolate shake.
"Hey, you okay?" Buttercup asks me, holding my hand.
I look over to her and offer a small smile, "Yeah. I'll be fine. I'm home now."
She smiled back and squeezed my hand. Professor is driving, Blossom is in the passenger seat leaving Buttercup and I in the back seat. The hospital discharged me shortly after the doctor told me what happened. Traumatized Amnesia is what I have, the doctor told me to stay home for awhile and rest. I am to get weekly check-ups until some of my memories resurface but honestly I don't know if I even want to remember what happened to me. If it's so bad that my mind literally blocked me out from remembering anything then obviously it can't be any good. But at the same time, I want to understand and know what happened during that time. All that lost time is crazy, I just want to understand it all, I can't be afraid of my own memories forever. We pull up the familiar driveway to our house, the car is parked and then everyone gets out. I sigh and pull back the door handle, it feels strange being home again, given I haven't been in the comforts of home in months, apparently. It feels like I was just home, not 3 months worth of not being here. Professor unlocks the door and we all enter the house, I sit down on the couch to relax as Blossom turns on the living room lamps. Buttercup lounges next to me, turning on the TV to watch whatever is on.
"Do you need anything?" she asks me.
I smile and shake my head, "No, just need my head to stop thinking. Hurts too much." I laughed lightly.
"I'll get you some aspirin." She said rushing off to the bathroom.
Professor comes back in the living room from being in the basement, holding a syringe that has a light blue liquid in it. He said that he has the antidote to my temporary powers loss as well as battered body, I just need to keep taking this medicine until I fully recover. Conveniently he calls it, Medicine X, he made it as soon as it was discovered that our powers could be taken away temporarily, which is called Antidote X. Mojo Jojo figured out a way to debilitate my sisters and my powers temporarily, he stole some chemicals from Professors lab downtown where he works a couple years ago, which then brought Professor to create Medicine X, which reconstructs our genetic make up and well fixes us like brand new. But given how long I have been gone, who's to say that whatever or whomever was pumping me with that chemical, it didn't do permanent damage? Which is why for the next few days Professor will be running all kinds of tests on me, to see if he can fix the damage done to me.
"Alright Bubbles, give me your arm honey." Professor said ready to prep my arm for a shot intake.
I sighed and held my arm out as he got to work. The needle going in was a pinch, I squinted my eyes at that but relaxed after he started to inject me with the medicine, instantly feeling relieved of my headache and bodily aches and pains. He smiles noticing the tension leave my body.
"I can see that Medicine X is doing it's job." he chuckled a bit. I smiled back at him.
Professor took out the needle when he was done and put a band-aid on me, as he left to go clean it up and go down to the basement to work away with figuring out how to fully help me recover. Blossom came back with a glass of water and two aspirin pills ready for me. I smile at her and take it. I get the urge to need to empty my bladder so I leave and go to the bathroom, the one downstairs offside from the kitchen. After going to the bathroom, I wash my hands in the sink then look at my reflection in the mirror and almost burst into tears right then and there. This girl looking back at me is just as sad imitation of who I once was. My hair is dull and stringy, the bright golden color is gone and replaced with a dirt brown. It looks like I haven't showered in forever, my skin is deprived of all nutrition, I look like a ghost. Like a hollowed out version of a once full and lively girl. This girl in the mirror isn't me. I don't know who she is. I hear the front door open and close but pay no mind to it, I'm just trying so hard to keep it together. If my reflection looks this bad, I'm scared to see what the rest of me looks like. Seriously, just how much damage did I endure?
I sigh and clear my throat, then splash water on my face. Wiping my hands on my tattered shirt, in the light I see just how much damage there is to me, might as well this these clothes out. I walk out of the bathroom, through the kitchen and back into the living room where my sisters are.
"Hey Bloss can you help me-" my words trail off as I become dead in my tracks.
Standing there in the middle of the living room, talking with my sisters is a ruff. Since when did my sisters become friends with a RowdyRuff?! Worst of all he is the most brutal one, the destroyer, Butch Jojo. Well he isn't staying here much longer, I grab the nearest thing next to me to defend myself, which is a couch throw pillow but it's something, I guess.
"Get away from my sisters, you snake!" I yell throwing the pillow at him.
He deflects the pillow and holds both hands up in surrender, "Bubbles it's okay. I'm not here to hurt your family or you. I promise."
"Yeah okay, like I'd really believe that!" I yelled grabbing something more sturdy, a baseball bat.
Buttercup leaves her sports gear behind the couch, good thing too. So much better than a throw pillow. I yell and go to hit him with it but miss, hitting furniture instead as Butch dodges my attacks. My sisters shout their protests at my outburst which confuses me so much I lower the bat.
"What is wrong with you two? Why aren't you attacking him too? He's a Ruff, he shouldn't be here." I yell at them.
Blossom sighs. Buttercup rolls her eyes and takes the bat from me, she and Blossom share a look. Butch puts his hands in his jeans pockets. I look around at the three of them.
"Can somebody please tell me what the hell is going on? Since when did you two become besties with the most vicious villains in New Townsville?!" I demanded from my sisters.
"Not all of them, Bubbs. Just Butch." Buttercup corrected.
I groaned in irritation, and put my arms across my chest, hip out. They are keeping something from me but I don't know what. Just say it, I want answers, it can't be that difficult.
Blossom clears her throat and rests a hand on my arm, "Bubbles, Butch is on our side. A lot has happened in your absence. HIM is involved, he is planning something horrible, something that involved getting you. You see honey, HIM was the one that held you captive all this time."
It's like all the strength left my body, I sunk back onto the couch as I processed what Blossom is saying. So it was HIM behind it all, makes sense, he always did have some creepy fascination with me. Hearing that he was the one that took me, scares me to no end. He was always the main focus of my nightmares as a small child, 18 years old now and he still strikes that fear into me. But it doesn't make sense, why would he take me?
"What?" I ask, my voice barely above a whisper.
She nodded and kneeled down to me, resting her hands on my knees. "Butch was the one that saw HIM take you. Believe me, we never stopped looking for you, trying to get you home but he kept you secluded somewhere under radar. It was impossible to find his base of operations. Butch even stopped at nothing to find you, he even went to HIM to confront and try to get you home. HIM had another agenda, like he always does. We never stopped looking, not once. I promise you that." She said to reassure me as she put some stray hairs behind my ear.
I sat back and took in all that she was saying to me, I understood it all except for Butch's role in all this. He is the only thing that doesn't make sense to me.
"I get what your saying Bloss, but what does Butch have to do with anything? Why would he go against HIM for me? It doesn't make sense." I said aloud, asking all three of them.
Blossom blushed a bit looking away from me and looked to Butch a little troubled in how to form the words, Buttercup sighed.
"Because you and him have a thing." Buttercup blurted.
My eyes widen. What? Me and Butch? We were together? Like together-together. What? When? How? How did this happen? What the hell. I look at all of them confused, wanting someone to explain all this to me.
"It was more than just a 'thing', Butterbutt." Butch grumbled to her to which she rolled her eyes to.
Butch came around and knelt down to me, leveling me with his gaze. "Bubbles, we fell in love. And trust me when I say that the love I have for you has never faded nor will it, ever. I know you don't remember me now but you will in time, I hope."
I just stared at him, not knowing what to say. How did we fall in love? How did I fall in love with a Ruff? I have so many questions.
He sighed, "There is a lot the both of us need to talk about, Bubbles. I know this is a lot to take in and process at once. I will answer any questions you have."
I just nodded at him, Blossom cleared her throat. "Bubbles, you should go up to your room and talk to Butch, give you guys some privacy. I will be in my room if you need me."
I gave her a desperate look, don't leave me here with him alone. "Wait, Bloss. Can you help me with a bath first? I don't want to look at the damage done to me alone."
"I'll go with you too Bubbles. If I see anything that bad, I will get payback." Buttercup vowed. I smiled at her.
Blossom sighed and nodded. "Butch just hang out here if you want until Bubbles is ready to talk."
He smirked, "I do know my way around here Blossom."
She just pursed her lips at him as she helped me up to go upstairs and start a bath. The whole time walking to the upstairs bathroom thoughts of Butch run around in my mind. Just how does he fit into this whole thing? I have a lot of questions and I expect answers.
*Flashback*
"Great. I get stuck with Blondie as my partner."
I humph, "Well, excuse me. I didn't ask to be your partner, we got assigned. So suck it up, Jojo."
He chuckled and leaned into me, I could feel the warm trickle of his breath down my neck. I shivered in fear and...pleasure.
"Maybe some other time, Baby Blue." he said darkly seductive.
I gave him a shocked and appalled look though I'm sure my face is bright red because he keeps smirking at me. Damn you, Butch.
* End of Flashback*
