AN: sorry for the long wait, but I'm working on three stories right now and I'm rotating chapters. Hope you enjoy!
Buttercup's POV
It was another fight with the rowdyruffs and I honestly was not in the mood to be doing anything. In a way, I felt bad for Butch since I was taking out my frustrations on him, not really holding back like I usually do.
"There's no way you can beat me!"
But then again, he is a villain.
I didn't hesitate to land another devastating punch to his jaw and a hard kick to the stomach, probably making him pass out for a few seconds from the sheer force. The sound of him crashing into an alley rang through the general area and smirked when he didn't fly back up immediately.
I slowly floated down to his crash site, ready to throw him in jail, but instead threw up at the sight of my enemy. He had landed in a pile of scrap metal and was cut up, bleeding heavily.
I ran over to him after recovering from the initial shock and checked to make sure he was alive. I let out the breath I was holding in relief when I realized he was still hanging on, but I had to do something.
Without a second thought, I picked up my counterpart gently and mounted him on my back. At this point, I didn't even care that his blood was getting all over me.
"Don't worry Butch… I'll make sure you don't die." I whispered to his limp form before shooting towards my house, going straight down to the lab.
I laid him on a medical table and grabbed bandages, disinfectant, and two shots of chemical X. I gave him the first shot of ChemX and pulled out the disinfectant, ready to clean all of his deep cuts.
"I'm so sorry…" I cringed as his sleeping face twisted in pain upon contact with the cleaning agent. Once cleaned up, I wrapped everything in bandages, hoping to stop the bleeding.
Once he looked decent, I gave him the second shot and he started to regain consciousness. I ran upstairs to get him a water, I felt awful for doing this to him. We were enemies, but nobody deserved to almost die a slow, bloody death.
Butch's POV
I slowly woke up and looked around in a panic. I had no idea where I was and the last thing I remembered was crashing into something sharp after that Powerpuff bitch kicked me.
I looked down at myself and saw that I was covered in bandages, but my wounds were healing extremely fast and I felt a lot stronger.
I snapped out of my thoughts from the sound of a door opening and someone walking down stairs. I watched with wide eyes, but my expression turned to a glare as I made the person out to be the very person who got me in this situation.
In order to have the element of surprise. I decided to attack as soon as she turned her back to put down the tray of food she brought with her. I launched myself off of the table at her and slammed her hard against the wall, my grip hard on her throat to make sure she couldn't breath.
I only let her go when her face started to turn blue, then followed up with a kick to the face when she dropped.
"Where the fuck am I Puff? You tried to kill me and now you kidnap me? There's something wrong with you!" She moved to sit up and I smirked at the severe nosebleed she had.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you that bad so I brought you back here so I could help you g-" I cut the girl off with another kick to the face.
"Just tell me where I am bitch!" She spit blood on the ground and turned a glare up at me.
"I brought you to the lab so I could fix you up. I was bringing you food, but you fucking attacked me!" Oh. Oops. I looked down at my bandages and realized she did save me, but she also was the reason I almost died.
"Yeah thanks for not letting me die and shit, but you're psycho. You tried to kill me for no damn reason whatsoever. I appreciate the help, but I should pro-" I looked down at the girl and my eyes met with her peridot green ones, full of guilt and embarrassment. I had never noticed when she got so pretty…
"I'm sorry… You're right and my sisters are probably gonna rip me a new one so you might as well just go. You seem well enough to me anyways." I had never seen her mellowed out like this and I realized I wanted to get to know this side of her.
"Why did you help me? Aren't you guys trying to kill us too?" She looked at me in confusion, but it was soon replaced with a look of understanding.
"We aren't supposed to kill villains. Our job is to save the citizens of Townsville and technically, all the villains live in Townsville too. We wouldn't really be heroes if we killed citizens of Townsville to save other ones…" I honestly didn't know how to respond, but maybe said the worst possible thing.
"Well then you don't seem like much of a hero to me." I couldn't understand why, but I didn't like the feeling I got when I saw her crestfallen expression.
"Yeah, I know. I'm sorry… I really shouldn't have expected you to forgive me at all. You can go if you want. You should be all better now." I didn't really know what to say, but for some reason I didn't want to leave.
"Well, you can leave or you can beat the shit out of me. Your choice." I continued to stare at her and immediately lunged towards the girl, pinning her against the wall by her neck. She didn't try to fight back and it felt wrong.
"Fight back or I'm gonna kill you!" She met my eyes and I could see a look of defeat that I realized I hated seeing on her.
"I guess you can go ahead then. I'm done fighting for the day." This was my chance. I could finally get rid of her, the toughest Powerpuff girl, my greatest enemy. Then I thought about it. Would an enemy save me when I was defeated? Would an enemy care if they killed me? Maybe this girl wasn't my enemy at all.
I didn't even notice when I released my grip on her, but she somehow made it back to the ground.
"Maybe you aren't really a bad guy Butch." I glared down at the girl who dared say I wasn't bad.
"And what makes you think I'm not? I'm your greatest enemy!" She gave me a small smile, something I had never seen on the aggressive girl before.
"Then why didn't you kill me? Isn't that what an enemy would do?" Confusion built up inside me and I covered it up with anger.
"What do you know? Maybe I don't want you dead because then I wouldn't be able to beat you up anymore!" She only shrugged and I wanted to scream.
"If you don't want to kill me, but you still think of me as an enemy, why are you still here?" At that I gave up. Why was I still here? What did I want from her?
"I… I don't even know. How do I get out of your house?" She looked disappointed for some reason and led me up a flight of stairs. Once up the stairs, she began to walk towards a red door, but I didn't follow her.
"What are you doing? Don't you want to leave?" Her voice cracked in exasperation and I could tell I was confusing her. I didn't say anything so the girl I thought to be my enemy walked back towards me.
"Come o-" Before she could finish her phrase, I smashed my lips into hers. If you asked me why, I honestly wouldn't be able to answer you, which was exactly why I couldn't come up with anything when she pushed me away and sent me a confused glare.
"What the actual fuck Butch? You say I'm your enemy, refuse to kill me, say you want to leave, but when I bring you to the door you fucking kiss me?" I just stood there in shock and honestly couldn't control my body because instead of attempting to explain myself, I forced her into yet another kiss.
I wanted to pull away and run, not knowing what had gotten into me, but I lost the thought when she actually started kissing me back. I kept my eyes closed, even a few seconds after she pulled away from me.
"Please tell me you aren't just messing with me…" If I didn't know her better, I would've sworn she actually sounded scared.
"I honestly don't even know why I just did what I did… I-I'll just leave now." I looked at her a little longer and to my surprise, she looked… upset?
"Hey wait, what's wrong?" I actually flinched when she glared up at me.
"You can't just fucking do that! You can't fucking kiss a girl and leave!" I felt a pang of sympathy, but I quickly covered it with anger.
"What do you want me to do? Just say I love you? Well how could I love some psycho chick who tried to kill me just earlier today?" I immediately regretted my words when I saw her start to tear up, a foreign look on my counterpart.
"You're right. Maybe you should just leave. Sorry for almost killing you." Once again I felt awful, but hid my emotions.
"Yeah, and I'm sorry I even thought of kissing you! You, my enemy, of all people!" I watched as a tear fell down her face and she quickly wiped it away.
"Yeah. Me too. You know where the door is." I glared at her one last time before walking out the door. I looked through the window to see her sitting on the ground holding her face in her hands. Something in me told me to go back in there and apologize, but another part of me said it would never work, that we were on two different sides of the law.
I started to walk away and caught sight of a bandage on my arm. The one she put there. Maybe I did love her, but I wasn't good for her. If I had to break my own heart to make sure she had a good future, then I would do it.
I could handle it after all.
AN: Sorry it took so long! Hope it was worth the wait and hopefully you enjoyed it! Please review!