So sorry about the hold up. I updated my other story before this one and now it has been a long ass time since I updated this story I know. I am also sorry about the length. If I kept going it would have messed up with the next chapter and I would prefer short chapters to messed up ones.

Through the chapter I couldn't for the life of me remember the names of Buttercup's brothers. If anyone knows what they are if you could message me it would be helpful.

I won't hold you any longer. I didn't own ppgz.

BRICK'S POINT OF VIEW

The moment I ran out of the room and towards the exit I was ambushed. Blossom and Bubbles were yelling at me demanding to know what I did. The Professor was trying to locate some type of ray with Ken and my brothers were no where in sight. They probably went to capture Buttercup.

"I leave you two alone and not too long after she starts crying like crazy! Explain your self!" Blossom yelled, pinning me to the wall.

"You know she is in a very fragile state right now because of you! How dare you make her cry!" Bubbles scolded.

"He wasn't the one who made her cry. I was." Poochie said from the doorway to the room I just vacated.

Everyone turned to look at him. He sat on the floor looking ashamed. I looked at Blossom and where she had me pinned.

"Mind letting me go now?" I asked, my voice deathly calm.

She did slowly and the minute I was free I ran to try and find Buttercup, who I found a few moments later being held in place by my two brothers. Boomer waved me over and I jogged to them. The moment I was there I grabbed Buttercup making my brothers release their hold on her. I wrapped her in my arms and not even a second after she was burrowing her head into my chest to cry her heart out.

I waved my hand to indicate to my brothers that they could leave and they headed inside at lightning speed to get away from the crying girl in my arms. Once they were gone I started to rub her back to sooth her. Slowly she calmed down.

"Are you okay now?" I asked after a bit.

Even though she nodded I still hugged her close to me.

"I am sorry about my brothers grabbing you." I told her.

"Don't worry about it. Boomer made sure they didn't hurt me."

"Still."

"If they hadn't stopped me I wouldn't be in your arms right now. So, there is nothing to be sorry about." She paused. "Though it is nice to see that 'sorry' is in your vocabulary."

"Just because I am not very apologetic, doesn't mean I don't know the word. It comes up often in my reading."

She smiled at me. I used the pads of my thumbs to wipe her wet face. I then returned her smile.

I was acutely aware of the others all walking over to us as I leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips. Buttercup kissed me back and I rested my forehead on hers.

That is when all hell broke loose.

BUBBLES'S POINT OF VIEW

The moment Brick left Poochie told us that the Professor had wanted him to keep an eye and ear on Brick with Buttercup so that if something happened he could intervene. We all looked at the Professor then. I glared while Blossom and Ken applauded. Blossom had left and Brick and Buttercup were saying some stuff when Poochie accidentally yelled out. Then the three talked a bit and Poochie insulted Buttercup and made her cry. She ran out and Brick went after her.

While Poochie was talking Butch and Boomer walked back in the lab. They said that Brick and Buttercup needed a few minutes alone.

"Oh no they don't! Buttercup! Your leader is coming!" Blossom yelled before making a break for the door. I stopped her though.

"Blossom give them the time that they need. Brick won't hurt her. And even if he was going to she can handle herself." I told her.

"How do you know he won't hurt her?" Blossom demanded.

"He won't." Butch and Boomer said at the same time I did.

The others looked between the three of us and we looked at each other. So Brick's brothers knew about the baby. They probably came to talk to us about it.

"You three know?" Poochie said.

Everyone looked at him. The two Rowdy Ruffs nodded along with me.

"Know what? Know what?" Blossom demanded.

"Sorry Blossom. It isn't our place to tell you."

"I think we have given those two enough time. Let's go get them." The Professor said.

And so we headed out side where we saw Brick leaning down and giving Buttercup a sweet, romantic kiss on the lips. She kissed him back just as sweetly and Blossom, Ken, and the Professor flipped out.

"What do you think you are doing Buttercup? He is the enemy! The enemy!" Blossom exclaimed.

"Since when did this happen?" Ken demanded.

"Ken! Cover your eyes. Just what is going on here." The Professor shouted.

"Relax. They are just doing what people who are in love do." I told them.

"Love?" They yelled.

"Buttercup and Brick have been going out. It's pretty serious too." Boomer explained.

"How serious?" The Professor asked. There was something in his tone that I didn't quite like.

Buttercup and Brick walked over to us hand in hand. My heart swooned at the sight. He looked at he and she looked at him. There was a question in his eyes. Buttercup nodded and Brick said three little words.

"Buttercup is pregnant."

BLOSSOM'S POINT OF VIEW

Pregnant? Pregnant! Buttercup is going to have a baby? And with Brick of all people?

"How... How the heck did this happen?" I demanded.

Brick looked at me as if I was stupid or something.

"First we got alone in a bedroom. Then we started making out. Next we took our cloths off. After that we-" he told me. He was speaking so slowly that it aggravated me even more.

"Not that! I mean how did you two happen?"

I could tell he was about to give me another obvious answer. Buttercup could too so she answered for him.

"It started out as screwing in motel rooms and leaving but then it turned into holding each other after."

"We also started talking a lot. Before and after." Brick added.

She nodded.

I was about to open my mouth when the Professor spoke.

"It isn't safe for you or the baby to be fighting crime. Especially with the way things have been going. You need to take it easy. No more you doing most of the work. The girls need to start picking up the slack."

Bubbles and I looked at him shocked. What did he mean that she does most of the work?

"What? She doesn't do most of the work!" I yelled.

"Actually Blossom, she does. We were going to wait for the right time to bring this up. You and Bubbles don't really do much any more." Ken told me.

I looked at Buttercup. She was hugging Brick close to her. There was a softness in his eyes that I had never seen before. He was stroking her back and looking at the top of her head. She suddenly pulled away. And ran inside with her right hand over her mouth and her left over her stomach. Brick ran after her.

She hadn't been doing all of the work. If any one was, it was me.

And I was going to prove it.

BUTTERCUP'S POINT OF VIEW

The moment the Professor had said that things were going to change a weight was lifted off of my shoulders. As they continued talking I hugged Brick. I was starting to feel sick like I had been earlier. After a bit more talking I felt sick to my stomach. I ran inside and to the bathroom. I knew Brick was following closely behind. When I got to the bathroom I didn't bother shutting the door. I fell to my knees and started vomiting my guts out. Sure enough when Brick got to the bathroom he shut the door behind him and got on his knees beside me. He grabbed my hair to keep it out of the way and rubbed my back. I could tell that he didn't know what else to do. Giving comfort was only something he learned how to do recently. And trust me, he still has a lot to learn.

It took a while but my stomach finally settled. I flushed the toilet and leaned back. Brick stopped holding my hair but continued moving his hand up and down my back.

"Thanks," I told him.

"You're welcome. I don't really know what else to do. Do you want some water?" He replied.

I nodded and he got up and left. I started to clean the rim of the toilet to get anything that splashed up onto it with toilet paper and flushed the paper. I then got up and washed and rinsed my mouth. Brick returned with a cup of cold water and I took slow sips.

We were silent for a little bit. It took a while before he asked, "Does that happen a lot?"

I shook my head.

"Only these last couple days. This is the second time this happened today."

He nodded in understanding. He breathed out a short breathy laugh.

"What is it?"

"Nothing it's just... I am still getting used to you being pregnant. It is easy to pass off as a small thing that doesn't affect me much until you start showing symptoms. It makes it seem more real. While it may not cause any changes in me it does you. I don't know. Seeing the changes... it is like there is this giant sign over your head advertising the pregnancy."

"I hope there is no sign. I haven't told my family yet and the last thing that will make it easy is advertising it."

"You don't want to rent a billboard saying 'I'm pregnant' with a picture of you under the words?"

"No, I don't want that."

He laughed for a moment before he slowly turned serious again.

"You know you have to tell them."

"I know."

"But you aren't. Are you?"

I sighed.

"Why are you pushing this so much? We just found out today that we are having a baby and already you want to tell the world."

"The more people around you that know the less likely they are to do something that will put the baby at risk."

"What risk could my family put the baby in?"

"Not give you the proper nutrition. Steal your food so there is not enough to feed the both of you. Wrestle with you too roughly. Not let you get enough sleep..."

"Okay, I get it. There is more danger to this than I thought."

"Do you want me to tell them?"

"They don't even know you. I don't think you telling them that you got me pregnant would be a good idea."

He sighed this time.

"Look, I don't want to talk about this right now. I am starting to feel sick and I want to lie down."

He nodded and held out his hand.

"Come on. I'll walk you home."

I took his hand and smiled gratefully. With that we started walking to my family's apartment.

BRICK'S POINT OF VIEW

I told my brothers I was leaving and they left as well. At the end of the drive way we took our separate ways. They were going home and I was going with Buttercup to her place. It didn't take long and pretty soon we were standing outside. Her stomach growled loudly and I smirked.

"I take it your stomach feels better." I said.

She blushed and nodded.

"I'm starving. I don't know how but I am." She muttered.

"Let's go out to eat. That way you can eat without worrying about your brothers. That Chinese buffet down town looks good." I offered. She smiled.

"That sounds great. I should tell my parents that I am going out to eat."

"I'll go with you." She gave me a look. "I promise I won't say anything about the baby."

She visibly relaxed and we headed up. She opened the door and immediately she was ambushed by one of her older brothers. He went to grab her in a wrestling move that involved wrapping his arms around her midsection when on instinct I lifted up my knee and hit him just right so that he was winded. Buttercup looked at me in shock. I gave her an apologetic look and crouched over her brother who was gasping on the floor.

"Well, let this be a lesson not to grab people as soon as they walk into a room. You don't know what they or who ever they are with will do. Understand?" I said to him.

He didn't reply. Buttercup's mother and father walked in. I heard a sink turn on and off and her other brother walked into the room from the bathroom.

"What happened?" Her mother asked.

"Your son here decided to grab Buttercup the moment she walked through the door. I reacted on instinct and kneed him so he would be winded. I didn't mean to do it so hard. Just hard enough so he wouldn't do it again." I explained.

"And you are...?" Her father asked me.

Buttercup chose now to answer for me.

"Mom, Dad," she looked at her brothers. "You two." She grabbed my hand. "This is Brick, my boyfriend. If you couldn't tell, he is a bit overprotective of me."

"I'm not overprotective. I am rightfully concerned." I grumbled.

She squeezed my hand rather painfully. I got the message and shut up.

"We aren't staying for long. We just wanted to let you know that the two of us are going out to eat so I won't be here for dinner." She continued.

"Oh, well okay." Her mother said.

Buttercup looked at me.

"I am going to change. My cloths feel all sticky." She told me.

I nodded. I contemplated asking if she wanted my help undressing but thought better of it. She left and I was left alone with her family. Her brother that I had injured had recovered and was now standing next to her other brother.

"So, Brick, you think that you have what it takes to date my daughter." Her father said.

"Is this the conversation where you threaten me saying that if I hurt your daughter you'll hurt me?"

Her family all nodded.

"Look, it isn't my intention to hurt her. The last thing I want to do right now is leave her. Especially now with things I promised I wouldn't tell you. I love her. Despite what you or any of her friends think, I am going to be around for a long, long time. So, you might as well get used to me."

Buttercup walked out from where she was changing and looked at us. I was in a glaring match with her family.

"Oh for crying out loud. I leave for not even five minutes and come back to this?" She said.

I looked at her. She had changed into a pair of black leggings and a long red and green shirt. She had on a matching pair of red and green sneakers. Her hair was tied back into a braid with a red elastic keeping it together.

She looked stunning.

"You look nice. Are you ready to go?" I asked her.

She nodded and smiled. I took her hand and was leading her out the door.

"Have her back in two hours." Her dad said.

"I'll have her back when she is goddamned ready." I called over my shoulder.

I shut the door behind me and faced my girlfriend.

"Seriously? Don't you think that was a bit rude?" She asked me.

"I agreed to be nicer to you, not your family."

She rolled her eyes and took my hand.

"Come on, I'm starving." She said.

I laughed as we walked down the hall to the stairs and out the building. We then started the long walk to the buffet.

Our first outing together as a couple was off to a good start.

BUTTERCUP'S POINT OF VIEW

It took a little while to get to the buffet. By then I was starving. First I was sick to my stomach, then I was just sick, then sick to my stomach again, and now I am starving. I feel as if I haven't eaten in days and was forced to run one hundred laps around a soccer field.

My stomach growled loudly and Brick laughed.

"Well, if I had any doubts before as to your appetite after your little vomiting fest they are gone now." He joked.

I elbowed him lightly.

"It isn't funny. I can't remember the last time I was this hungry."

"Well, I'm glad you have an appetite. That means that I don't have to feel bad about eating as much as I want"

"Yeah, you do eat a lot. Not as much as my dad or my brothers but still." I smiled.

"Want to know another reason why I am glad you have an appetite?"

I nodded and he froze. He turned around and glared at something. I went to see what he was glaring at but he wrapped an arm around me preventing me from turning my back.

"Um... Brick? What are you looking at?" I asked him.

To be honest I was a bit worried. He practically went all guard dog on my ass. But, you know, in the sense that he was protecting me, not attacking me.

He looked at me and the glare was completely gone and a smile was on his face. He was trying to make me forget that he had just been protecting me as if my life was in danger. Was it?

"What? Oh, nothing, don't worry about it." He started walking again and so I walked along side him with his arm around my waist. "Anyways as I was saying. I am glad you have an appetite because it shows that as of now the baby is healthy."

I looked at him. He was walking with his head held high, a slight smirk on his face, and a gleam in his eyes. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have thought that he had just been glaring behind us. Out of curiosity I started to try to look behind me again but he once again stopped me.

"Brick... is there a reason you don't want me to look behind us?" I asked him.

"Not that I can think of."

"Then why have you been preventing me from turning around?"

"Is it wrong for me to want to walk forward with my girlfriend? Both of us looking towards the future. No turning back."

"Brick."

He sighed. "I just don't want you to worry about it. So, please drop it. I don't want it to ruin our first evening out together as a couple."

He looked at me with his eyes pleading me to drop it. With a sigh I did.

"Fine, fine. Come one, let's hurry up. I'm starving." I said to him.

We walked a little faster and before I knew it we were at the buffet.

About goddamn time!