Chapter 25- confront

'Whore!' yes, charming words to start off with but I could see where poor Boomer came from. 'Whore, you're sleeping with my brother...' he pursed. Ok I did not know where that came from. 'Well not the brother you cursed so this is bad.' he growled at me turning red in the face. 'You're dirty little tramp.'

'It is obviously not what it looks like.' I felt myself turning red.

'It looks pretty terrible. You're a terrible person!' Butch stepped forward and Boomer just seemed to turn on him. 'You're terrible too! What the hell? Blossom?'

'Shut up you little idiot.' he gave him a little flick round the head. 'Stop over reacting. She's only living with me. She's good at gutting rabbits.' Well...that was as good a reason as any. I looked down at my hands.

'I'm going to wash this.' I muttered shifting back into the bathroom. I had just stepped into some brotherly war, I didn't like it. I turned on the tap rinsing my hands hurriedly. I didn't like having dried blood on my hands and I didn't want to be in this situation. It didn't feel right at all.

'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Boomer was still telling Butch off. I groaned realising I'd be staying in the bathroom till Boomer left again.

'You need to back off.' Butch actually sounded angry now. 'You shouldn't put your nose into things you don't understand.'

'That's blossom. BLOSSOM. Are you colour blind or something?'

'I'm not banging her.' he growled in a hushed voice. 'I'm living with her because she's useful and she has no other home. It's not a bad arrangement really. It's been fine till you shower up. Do you have any idea what's in her head?' I pursed listening at the door again.

'Some crazed thought about befriending you no doubt. That's so Blossom.' Boomer began to say but Butch growled at him.

'She's got Brick in her head. Yes, I said brick. That crazy some of a bitch is in her head while she sleeps and then he's stomping around while she's awake.' Boomer said nothing. 'In your crazy scheme to make Brick into a semi-normal person again have you considered what it's doing to her? To the people you're trying to lift with those scrawny little arms of yours and throw at him?' his voice was shaking now. 'It's alright for us. We can just fly away from him but she's got a mad man in her skull bounding away. Try showing some compaction for someone other than that block head.' ok...Butch is awesome right now. I opened the bathroom door peering out at them. They were too engrossed in what was just said that I was unnoticed. 'She's also that girl running round the alleys so it's not like she's rocking back in a corner crying about it. No I get to listen to that when she's sleeping and you know what, it just makes me hate him more.' I frowned moving forward closing the door behind me. They looked up at the noise.

'Sorry.' I muttered. 'I didn't realise I still cried in my sleep.' I looked down awkwardly. 'I think I might go for a walk.' I ran to the door past them scooping up my coat on the way pulling it over my shoulders. No one stopped me.

I could breathe again out of the hut. I pulled up my hood as it began to snow again. This was crazy, too much arguments. I'd just let the brothers talk it out. I wouldn't know where to start with them.

'Maybe I should go tell them my side of it all.' I muttered 'I mean I haven't spoken to Brick in a week.' but he's still there. I know he's there he's just hiding because of what I said. Maybe he got bored of me and got tired of all the chats we had. I sighed walking faster. It didn't matter. Brick was out of my life for the mean time and I had a mission to do. I hugged myself shaking slightly.

'Walking out into the snow with only a thin coat-brilliant move.' I hissed at myself still walking through the thick snow. I'd have to sort out a way to hide my tracks on the way back.

I stopped walking and sat under a tree for a while. It was all quite peaceful for a while...all before the howling. It wasn't the howling you'd find form a wolf or even a depressed man; no it was something a whole lot more chilling. It ripped through the air making me jump to my feet. As soon as I did so I saw them. Two large black beast snarling and heading right for me. I moved to block their path from here to the hut. There was no chance that the brothers did not hear but I was here. There was no time.

'EX's.' I spat pulling down my hood. I was not in the mood for all this.

The charged at me, I held my ground till the fastest full on collided with me. I was forced back holding the snout of the monster as it tried to push me over. I growled taking a tighter grip on the monster throwing myself backwards and thus flipping the beast over my head and slamming him into the ground. I realised getting to my feet glaring at the other. It just stood there growling, it had three puffy claw marks over one eye. So this was the one that escaped last time.

'Blossom!' Boomer called, the brothers were here then. The two beasts rallied together circling me.

'You see them?' I circled with them. I turned till I saw them both, Boomer looked a little unsure of what was happening. Butch, his expression was far more surprising. He was stiff and lingered back. Was he afraid? I looked back to the beast and they began snapping at me. I lunged and the EX with the scratches took the challenge.

The beast got his jars round my waist and threw me into a tree. I growled back at it kicking back into it forcing it to roll while I held it down. I forced its head into the snow as I growled. The other one made some motion of getting closer but I snapped my head up to it growling. It froze.

'You'll both leave this forest. If you value your life you'll stay away.' I realised the EX and it snarled scuffling to its feet. For a moment it didn't look like it'll back away, he snarled growling at me. I growled back marching to the other beast slashing my nails over the beast neck. A shallow wound but it felt it. The beast both retreated. The sweet smell of the EX's blood filled the air but they left all the same, both standing and both scared. I'd know if either one of them returned.

I sighed looking down at the blood on my hand. I groaned picking up snow and washing the blood from my hand. I looked up at the brothers; they didn't look like they had seen that before.

'What?' I snarled before remembering they weren't EX's. I shook my head walking back to them. 'I didn't kill them so you're pets are ok.' I said walking past boomer. 'Now both of you walk in front of me. I'm going to get rid of the tracks. They just followed instruction they flew up watching me. I nodded flying up myself staring down at the tracks I made and those of the monsters. I suppose I'll have to get rid of them too. I floated high inhaling before blowing out fast. I moved with the ice I produced, I had made snow before- a long long time ago. But I made it happen. I just had to focus. This I did now. Over the forest adding more coats where the tracks lay. When I was finished I flew up to the brothers shivering.

'I'm cold. I'm heading back to the hut.' I muttered flying past them.

The brothers weren't far behind me. I had already started cleaning up the rabbit blood on the floor and of course the furs and guts that were removed before this little argument started.

'You took on an EX.' Boomer muttered watching me clean. 'Do you know what that means?'

'That they'll be more and possibly homo-X's too.' I muttered. Butch walked past his brother picking up the bucket of guts.

'You said I'd have to clean It.' he simply said.

'Oh, yhea.' I frowned forgetting about that. 'Well I'll move the furniture back.' I nodded heading to the couch.

'Hello? Aren't you taking any notice about the amazing thing you've just done? When did you turn blond? How long have you been here?' I looked up at Boomer.

'It's not amazing, I'm sure you could do it if you had to. I turned blond a while ago. It's a disguise that turned wrong. I've been here for over a week. Interrogation over?' I pulled the couch back into its normal space. Butch came back in lifting up the rabbits and take them out onto the porch.

'It makes sense now. That's why Butch is letting you stay. You fight the EX's...amazing.' Butch snapped his head at his brother.

'You talk too much.' I frowned sitting on the couch looking at Boomer.

'What do you mean?' Boomer looked at Butch through the door, the scowling face turned away growling.

'well.' clearly he took Butches reaction as a go ahead. 'When we were...in the labs...' he looking back to Butch.

'I've told her about the labs.' Butch called from the porch.

'Ok them.' Boomer turned back to me. 'Well...in the labs, in the cells. His cell this EX broke free this one time. It was when it was really crowded and he was young. It tore everyone in his cell up...apart from him. They managed to shoot it before it got to him. You can see why he doesn't like them too much no one does. We just tell them what to do but they're actually just feral creatures that could snap at any moment. Everyone's scared of them. It's actually a bit risky using them. That's what makes it so amazing that you fought them. They see you as a greater predator.' Boomer looked awkward while he spoke. Well...he did speak about the lab. He did have a big mouth. I looked back to Butch...it did make sense.

'Back to the thing you were talking about before all of that happened.' I muttered trying to get the topic away from their past. 'I'm not "playing" your brothers.' I said very sternly at Boomer. 'I'm not a whore and I'm not going to be talking to Brick anymore other than to say "you have the right to remain silent". So stop relating me to him.' Boomer blinked at me confused.

'But you're Blossom. You are his counterpart, it's impossible to avoid him.' he sounded like he was getting worked up again. 'He's not that bad, he's just listened to the old geezer too much.' I rolled my eyes, I had no idea who "the old geezer" was but I'd ignore it for the time being.

'I don't care. He's a pig.' I growled. 'I don't want to talk to him.' Boomer looked like I had just hit him.

'Blossom...' he groaned rubbing his brow with his thumb and index finger. 'You don't know how much he just needs to talk to someone.'

'I do.' I muttered. And I did, he was crazy after all. 'But I'm not a councillor or a physiatrist or any form of doctor or even kind face for him to talk to. Why don't you do it?' he pulled a face.

'Dude, I'm his brother. Guys don't talk.' I groaned closing my eyes to him. 'Blossom...please, you can't give up on him' I opened my eyes to look back at him eyes large. Damn...he looked like Bubbles for a moment. I pushed him away growling.

'Fine. But if it doesn't work don't blame Me.' he grinned heading to the door.

'great.' he tipped his head to me as if he was wearing a hat. 'I'll see you then. You to Butch. Keep safe.' and with that he flew away. Butch looking back in from the porch.

'You don't have to you know.' he muttered. I groaned kicking off my boots and pulled my coat over myself like a blanket.

'I know.' I sighed. 'I just feel like I should do something. I guess it's the right thing to do.' I lay down on the couch getting comfortable. 'see you later.' I muttered before slipping back into sleep.