Chapter 8

Authors Note: hey everyone sorry for the long wait I just had a lot of homework to do. Any who I hope you guys are still with me.

Blossom looks around surveying everyone around her "is everyone ok?" The 3 men lay unconscious on the ground for a moment.

Brick was the first to open his eyes, he slowly raises his hand to rub his head "ugh what happened?" he looks up at blossom confused "what are you doing in my office?"

Blossom kneels at his side "we're not in your office". She helps him up.

Brick rises up a little to sit up and looks around hugging her, noticing his surroundings and sees his other brothers on the ground starting to stir slowly recovering from their unconscious state. He suddenly holds blossom out in front of him and looks into her eyes "what happened? What did I do?"

Blossom looks at him sadly "you tried to destroy me….again". Brick turns pale and hugs her again.

Butch sits up and looks over at buttercup confused "shit, I feel like I was run over by a steamroller". He rubs the back of his neck "did we just have sex?"

Buttercup gives him a swift boot to the face hard "fucking idiot".

Butch clenches his teeth and rubs his face "WHAT THE FUCK? YOU TRYING TO GIVE ME A HARD ON?" He then snaps out of it and gives buttercup a panicked look "where's Megan?"

Buttercup frowns "she's fine, boomers mom is watching her". She then raises her leg and kicks him again in the head "and that's for not asking how I am".

Butch growls and stands up in front of her "I can see you're fine bitch, I didn't need to ask".

"Just shut up" Buttercup says wrapping her arms around his neck in a hug "I'm glad you're back".

Boomer sits up slowly and looks over at bubbles who was kneeling down to check on him "did something bad happen?"

Bubbles hugs him close "it wasn't your fault, I'm just glad you suck at fighting".

Boomer weakly hugs back "uh thanks, I think". He then notices the crushed necklace at his side; he then notices brick standing with blossom "Brick, where did you get those necklaces from?"

Butch suddenly looks at brick also confused "what necklace? Brick what's he talking about?" The girls also look at Brick wondering the same thing.

Brick looks back at them for a moment, then it dawns on him "the necklaces, they came from….." before he even had a chance to finish something collides with blossom knocking her to the floor "BLOSSOM". Someone was on top of her digging its claws into her neck causing her to bleed; brick grabs the person and lifts her off of blossom then throws her to the ground a few feet away "STOP IT RACHAEL".

"FUCK YOU" Rachael screams at him "I gave you the best years of my life and you dump me for her?" suddenly she screams like a banshee and the sonic waves blow everyone off their feet. The window of every building in the area explodes and shatters as the buildings themselves crumble. "I SHOULD HAVE LEFT YOU ON THAT FUCKING BEACH". She stomps her foot onto the ground causing an earthquake, the already unstable buildings around her falls apart and on top of the supers.

Brick grabs blossom and zooms away with her, Rachael fly's off after them, leaving the other supers to still recover from the shocking attack. Brick keeps flying trying his hardest to find a safe place for her but to no avail. He then lands quickly and moves blossom behind him, when he looks ahead of him at where Rachael was chasing them he sees that she is gone "Rachael?"

"Brick" Blossom says confused and agitated while holding her still aching neck"isn't she your step mother?"

Brick scans the area trying to seek the demon spirited woman out "uh…..yeah".

Blossom instantly spins him around to look at her "WHY IS YOUR STEP MOTHER TRYING TO KILL ME?"

"LOOK" Brick yells at her, he then calms himself a little "I've got this situation under control".

"AH ARE YOU KIDDING?" Rachael appears out of nowhere and separates the two, throwing them both in opposite directions. She then swoops in close to Brick and grabs him by the throat, lifting him off his feet "why don't you tell her why all of this is happening?" Her face started to distort and bend out of shape making her look like a beast with a woman's body, her voice gets deeper and she squeezes his neck even harder cutting off his air supply "TELL HER JUSTIN, TELL HER WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO ME, HOW YOU'VE….AHHHHH". She screams out as blossom pulls on her hair.

She rolls it around in her fist so she could get a good hold on the brunette "ENOUGH BITCH", she uses her other hand and repeatedly punches Rachael in the face while holding her hair. Rachael lets go of Brick who then upper cuts her in the ribcage. Rachael screams out even more send a sonic wave towards him blowing him away. Suddenly buttercup zooms up to her and straight jabs her in the face knocking most of her teeth out, bubble takes a turn kicking the side of her head. Rachael's head bends unnaturally and her hair is ripped out of her scalp leaving blossom with a huge chunk of it in her hand.

"Well, well, well" Butch says flying towards the scene followed by boomer "looks like we have ourselves a good old fashioned girl fight".

Boomer helps Brick up "you alright?"

Brick nods "yeah", as he walks back towards her, all the other super close in on her also.

Rachael backs up a little, her initial plan was to kill blossom and kidnap brick, but she hadn't counted on all 6 of them getting ready to brawl. She smirks "you people really don't know who you're messing with". She opens her mouth wide to scream but nothing comes out, she holds her throat confused "what's going on here?"

"Silly girl, you're obviously done here"

"HIM, NO" Rachael launches at Blossom again but the red head back hands her in the face flinging her almost through the wall.

"I'm putting an end to this poorly thought out plan of yours"

"I…. I'm…." she could barely talk with all of her teeth rolling around in her mouth like tic tac's, she spits some out and glares at them all "I'm not done…this isn't over…" she points to brick angrily "IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU JUSTIN, I WILL HAUNT YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, THIS WILL NEVER BE OVER AND IT'S ALL YOU FAULT".

"But for now it is over". Suddenly a huge black portal opens up behind her and she gets yanked into it. Everyone stands there stunned for the third time that night.

"What a weird night" Boomer was the first to say.

Butch looks over at the others "who the hell was that?"

"It was Rachael" Blossom says glaring at brick, who stares back at her guiltily, the others look back at them curiously "bricks stepmother".

Everyone looks at brick, he ignores them and holds eye contact with blossom, buttercup glares at him "wait so let me get this straight, the one whose been trying to kill blossom all this time was your stepmom".

Blossom keeps her gaze on brick "more like his ex lover, question is why?"

Brick sighs a little "HIM wants us back; he's conspiring with Rachael to take down the girls and force us back into working for him".

Both Butch and Boomer turn pale at the revelation, the girls also looked shocked, Bubbles looks down at the broken pieces of the necklaces "that explains these".

Blossom also looks over at the pieces and nods "they made you boys revert back to your old selves, that's why it was so easy to defeat you". She looks back at him "so HIM made the necklaces, now tell me why Rachael is trying to kill me?"

"I…its complicated" Brick stutters a little

"Complicated?" Blossom steps closer to brick while still looking at him with a mixture of anger and betrayal " I've been punched, choked, thrown across a room, taunted, nearly lost my job and worst of all I could have lost our baby all because of your fucking ex-girlfriend". Her eyes began to tear up as her anger became too much for her "I need to know…..no….I demand to know why this is happening to us".

"Blossom" Brick reaches out to hold her but she slaps his hand away and backs up a little.

"What did you do Brick?" Blossom says as tears begin to fall down her cheeks "WHAT…..DID YOU…..DO?"

Brick's eyes also begin to tear up a little but they don't fall "it's…its bad".

Blossom smiles bitterly as more tears fall down her cheek "of course it is… it's you. Nothing about you surprises me anymore and that is the sad part".

The others around them look on at the scene, neither knowing just what to do or say to make the situation any better. Bubbles finally looks at everyone and looks at boomer for a bit "um….guys I think they need a moment alone".

Buttercup tugs on Butch a little "come on".

Butch looks back at her as Bubbles and boomer fly away "what this was just getting good?"

"Shut up and come on" Buttercup fly's up and yanks Butch up into the air with her as they also fly away.

The two redheads stood opposite each other for a while before Brick started to speak "Rachael is in love with me, I didn't realize it though until after she died".

"And you killed her" Blossom says "did you?"

Brick looks off to the side "I just wanted to give you the happy life you deserve".

"Through lies, murder and deceit" Blossom says looking at him with disgust "only you would think that would make me happy".

"Enough alright" Brick says trying to hold back his own tears "I'm not proud of any of this".

"YET YOU DO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN" Blossom yells at him and turns her back to him "I can't even look at you right now", She floats up a little and away from him.

Bricks eyes widen "where are you going?"

Blossom floats there for a bit before speaking again "I need to be alone for a while". She then gives him a side glance "and thinks about why I married such a monster"; she zooms away and disappears into the sky, leaving brick behind to stare helplessly at her retreating figure. Even as the police arrive at the scene, he hadn't moved from his spot, looking up at the sky as if he had lost everything.

9Months Later

Things had basically returned back to normal for everyone, except for blossom and brick who had been separated for 9 months. The entire time blossom wouldn't let brick near her, he would be there for her sonograms, but that was all she would let him do. Since neither of them truly wanted divorce everyone figured that their relationship was on hiatus. They discovered that blossom was going to have twins but there was a possibility that one of them will not have powers. This problem will finally come into light because today blossom was having her babies.

Brick fly's over to Townsville hospital and busts through the double doors, he storms through to the nurses desk and looks at the head nurse "Marge, where's Blossom?" the head nurse looks up at him. He was a mess, his hair looked disheveled and uncombed, and he was wearing a dirty white unbuttoned shirt and raggedy stained blue jeans.

Marge immediately gets up "follow me", they speed walk down the long corridors "thank goodness you're here; Dr Maguire isn't here to deliver the babies".

"WHAT?" Brick freaks out "where is he?"

"No one knows" they enter straight past the waiting room where everyone else waited and straight to the supply closet "we've been paging him all morning". She goes in first and tosses him a blue hospital garment "I hope you don't mind me saying but you look like shit Dr Tyme".

"Yeah well" Brick ignores her stare and puts the garment on "it's been a rough Year for me". Marge leads him to the room where Blossom is. When Brick enters the room, the hospital staff there breathes a sigh of relief.

Brick looks over at blossom who was sweating and breathing heavily "how're you doing over there bloss?"

Blossom looks over at him and panics "w…..what are you doing here?"

"Your doctor bailed on you" Brick goes over to the sink to sanitize his hands while a nurse puts a mask on him "I'm here to deliver our babies".

"No" blossom panics even more "please don't…I don't want you here". She gasps as a wave of pain hits her.

"Too bad" Brick wipes his hands dry and allows another nurse to put on his gloves "I'm here and he's not". He then heads towards her.

Blossom flips out as another wave of pain bombards her "GET AWAY FROM ME". She bends her head back and cries out.

Brick walks up to her and caresses the side of her face with his hand softly "shhh…. Everything's going to be ok blossom".

Blossom starts to cry while breathing harshly "Liar". Brick looks down at her sadly; he didn't blame her at all for saying that. He bends over and kisses her on the forehead before walking over to where her open legs were. Blossom calms a little dealing with her contractions and focusing on her breathing "this isn't joke Brick".

Brick grins at her a little "I've done this before blossom; you've got nothing to worry about. I promise I'll treat this with the seriousness and professionalism it deserves". He sits on a chair in front of her and smiles at her over her big belly "now open up those sexy legs and let daddy see his handy work". The staff around him chuckle a little as he locks eyes with blossom. They stare at each other as she opens her legs wide for him. He looks in between and sees that the first baby's head is crowning, he then looks back up at her and looks into her eyes "ready?"

Blossom instantly blushes "y…yes".

Brick nods "ok, on the count of three, 1….2….3….Push".

Meanwhile in the waiting room

Butch holds Megan in his lap; she turned one last month and was now teething on a plastic ring unmindful of everything going on around her. Butch looks up at Buttercup who is now pacing back and forth "woman will you sit down, you're making me sick".

Buttercup glares at him "I can't help it ok. I can't believe the doctor hasn't even shown up yet".

Bubbles is resting on another couch against boomer and the professor is sitting opposite the two, with his head in his hands. Suddenly Marge walks in to give them the good news "good afternoon everyone, I have great news".

Everyone in the room look at her instantly but Buttercup approaches her first "well what's the verdict, is the doctor finally here?"

Marge smiles at her "even better, Dr Tyme is delivering the babies".

At first everyone was in quiet shock, then buttercup explodes "HOW THE FUCK IS THAT GOOD NEWS?" Marge takes a step back from the other woman fearing that she was on the tail end of an ass kicking.

Butch comes over to them and touches buttercup on the shoulder "easy buttercup, she didn't know".

"Not to worry" Marge says hesitantly "he the best doctor in Townsville". She looks around as the occupants of the room look up at her "besides what better person to deliver the babies then their father right?" everyone ignores her optimism and gaze at the floor "well….ok then….guess I'll leave you all alone", she then makes her hasty retreat.

Bubbles looks over at the Professor "well, what do you think?"

The professor sighs and runs a hand through his graying hair "I don't want him here either, but he is the father and should be here for his family".

Back in the delivery room

Blossom gave birth to a healthy baby boy, but she wasn't done yet, her second child was soon to come. Brick holds his tiny son in his hands and gives him up to a nearby nurse holding a blanket. Blossom tries to calm herself looking over at Brick "is he ok?"

Brick smiles back at her "he's fine, now lets get our daughter". He looks between her legs again but notices something is wrong; he looks at the nurse behind him "Quick get me a scalpel and some tongs". The nurse nods and gets them.

Blossom gets worried "w…what's wrong? Somebody talk to me".

"It's our daughter" Brick says while working between her legs "stop pushing; the umbilical cord is wrapped around her neck".

"OH MY GOD" Blossom screams out, the nurses hover around her trying to calm her down. Brick gets nervous as he tries to cut the cord, he can see that the baby is slightly smaller then his son indicating she is slightly premature. Brick prays that he can still save her.

[Back at the waiting room]

Boomer separates from Bubbles "I'm going for some coffee, anyone else want some?" he got a few nods from Buttercup, Butch and the Professor. He smiles at Bubbles "you don't want anything?" Bubbles shakes her head and boomer silently walks out of the waiting room. He heads toward the cafeteria but sees 2 nurses running past him and toward the delivery room. After a second, a few more run past and he follows them with his eyes. He jets back to the waiting room "guys I think something's wrong".

[Back in the delivery room]

Brick was able to get the baby out but he couldn't get her to breath. The nurses pump air in her while he performed CPR on her "get the suction tube NOW". They give it to him and he sticks it down the baby's throat. He is able to suck some of the mucus out but continues to perform CPR, while everyone watches and hustles around for things to assist him. After a moment nothing is heard, brick vigorously continues to try and bring his daughter to life. He gently does mouth to mouth resuscitation getting desperate, still no sound is heard, his eyes begin to water and tears fall down his face as he tries to revive her "come on". Bricks voice begins to crack in despair "please, please breath". There was still no response, brick rolls up his sleeves and puts his finger over the baby's heart hope to jump start it with a little electricity "you just got here, please don't go". He pumps her heart a little, a nurse walks over to him and tries to pull him gently away from the presumed dead infant but he shrugs her off. He turns the baby over in his hand, so that he is holding its front while he taps her back a little "please Bella BREATH". Suddenly the baby coughs up and throws up mucus; she then begins to cry loudly. A nurse rushes over and quickly takes the baby from him covering it with a blanket.

Blossom who had been crying hysterically, cried tears of joy and total relief "oh my god, she's alive, oh thank god".

The nurse carries the baby off "Dr Tyme you did it", she cradles the still crying baby "you saved her".

Brick slowly backs up against a wall and numbly watches as they tend to his daughter. His eyes connect with blossoms as they take the small infant away. Someone says something to Brick but he doesn't register it "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you".

A male nurse looks over at him "I said she's a little weak, would you like to take a look at her before we move her?"

"Yes" Brick says not really looking at him, blossom looks over at him again, she could see how visibly shaken he was.

Blossom silently mouths to him "are you ok?"

Brick leans against the wall and mouths back to her "no I'm not". The situation literally took ten years from his lifespan. The world around him didn't matter; all that mattered was the safety of his daughter. He joins the other hospital staff members and walks over to check on the baby.