Chapter 29
Butch and buttercup are walking side by side into Townsville forest. Earlier buttercup fought with Jason to get him to cooperate, when he didn't, buttercup punched him hard on the head. This released butch who seemed more compliant then his counterpart. Buttercup breaks the silence and looks over at butch "I need to know something from you right now. How do you feel about me?"
Butch looks ahead of him and stops walking, he's hesitant because he knows she won't believe him given what Jason had done to her. He sighs and closes his eyes, he thought about escaping this conversation but fought the urge to, knowing that it wouldn't be fair to her "I love you, but you probably don't believe me right now, do you?"
Buttercup looks at his back for a while "I don't know what to believe. First you love me, then you don't love me, then you try to kill me, then you don't even remember me and now you love me again?" she gets impatient and grabs his shoulder forcing him to turn around "and how the hell did you get multiple personality disorder". She was getting frustrated and tears up a little.
Butch gives her a serious look "it's a long story, but like the bitch that you are, you're going to make me recount the entire story of my fucked up life. Are you?"
"Every fucking detail" Buttercup glares at him "YOU OWE ME BUTCH, for fucking me over, you owe me big time". A few pedestrians look their way and buttercup glares back at them "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ALL STARING AT?" Everyone there gets scared and speed walks away from them.
Butch gets angry "shit woman, lower your voice".
"Really?" buttercup gets angry back "you weren't concerned with the volume of my voice when you fucked me".
Butch looks around trying to ignore everyone's stares "come here". He grabs her arm and drags her deeper into the forest until they were in the center surrounded by nothing but trees.
Buttercup yanks her arm away and sits on a nearby log "alright here we are. Now tell me what's going on".
Butch sits on the log next to her; he then looks off into the distance for a moment. A memory that he hadn't thought of in ages springs into his mind.
[Flashback]
A bruised and battered 5 year old butch lays on his back. He's breathing erratically after just suffering a massive beating that lasted for 5 hours straight. He couldn't move, every part of his body was in severe pain. His clothes were cut and tattered; his chest also had cuts on it. One eye was bruised to the point where it swelled and he couldn't see out of it. With his good eye he looks up at his assailant, who stands over him with a sexually satisfied look on her face. She bends down and caresses the side of his face with her hand gently "you need to listen to me honey. I've given you a new name, why won't you accept it?"
Butch turns his head away from her hand "my name is Butch".
She slaps him across the face "YOUR NAME IS JASON". She suddenly caresses his face again "I'm sorry baby. You have to learn children are supposed to listen to their mothers".
"YOU'RE NOT MY FUCKING MOTHER" Butch yells out hoarsely
The woman suddenly throws her head back and laughs insanely, she then picks up a carving knife off the floor next to her "my brave little boy, all the others have cried, screamed, begged me to stop but you haven't uttered a single word, even though you are shedding tears of fear and despair you won't scream, not a single shout. It makes me want to punish you more. But….." she sits on his legs and dangles the knife above him playfully "if you tell me you love me and accept the name I gave you, this torture will stop".
Butches head turns to the side as fresh tears fell from his eyes and down his cheeks. He wasn't crying because of the pain, he was crying because deep down he knew this torture will never end because as long as he was alive he would never give her what she wanted. He looks up at her defiantly and utters one word "no".
The woman raises her knife "wrong answer". Butch flinches and closes his eyes as she brings the knife down on his shoulder.
[Flashback end]
Adult butch is jolted out of his flashback when buttercup yells out his name. Buttercup glares at him "I've been calling you 5 times already. Will you hurry up and tell me".
Butch sighs and looks at her for a while. He then speaks to her "well the first 12 years of my life were spent in pain, agony, loneliness and fear. Everything else after that has been a bed of roses. The end, Happy?"
"No" buttercup looks at him expectantly "I said I wanted details". She knew she was being demanding but at this point she didn't care, she had to know.
Butch runs his hand through his hair "ok fine, when Mojo was killed and we were defeated for the hundredth time, HIM was pissed and brick being the all around smart ass he was pushed one too many buttons with the fruitcake. So HIM stripped us of our powers and casted us off into 2 different places". Butch thinks for a moment before continuing "don't ask me where brick went but I ended up in Louisiana".
Buttercup scoffs a bit "Louisiana? That's where you've been all this time?"
Butch glares at her "bitch don't act like I was in fucking Mardi Gras all this time, let me finish". He was starting to lose his patience with her "anyway that's where I ended up. All I remember is being picked up and laid on a bed. When I woke up I was in an orphanage along with other boys my age and older. The lady of the house took a liking to me immediately, as it turned out she had a very sick and twisted habit. Her name was madam lily and she not only doubled as a dominatrix by night but she also had a sexual preference for cutting, sexual torture and molesting little boys".
Buttercups annoyed look went away immediately as she stares at him in shock "what? Butch you…..you mean…she…"
Butch looks off again into the distance "the molestation, the torture, I was her favorite target because no matter what she did to me I just wouldn't cry out or scream. She saw it as a challenge and wanted to see how long it would take for me to crack. This went on for 12 years before people cared enough to investigate her orphanage".
Buttercup scoots closer to him deeply concerned "so, where did Jason come from?"
"To be honest I don't know" butch says "I was so miserable and I wanted to escape so badly. All of my previous attempts to leave failed so I guess I found a different way to escape".
[Flashback]
12 year old butch is tied to a wall by his arms and legs. His head is dipped down low. Madam Lily loves boys with long hair, so she avoided giving him a haircut. His hair had grown all the way down the middle of his back and his messy bangs covered half of his face. The madam glares at him "stop ignoring me Jason, look at me now" Butch doesn't budge.
She gets angrier and walks away from him to get her whip, suddenly a pair of arms wrap around her causing her to freeze in her actions. A young man leans close to her ear and plants a kiss on her earlobe "another day, another boy to terrorize, eh momma?"
She doesn't turn around just yet, too afraid to face the person talking to her "J…Jason?"
The man holds her tighter "shhh it's ok, you know momma, if you keep this up, you might kill him, just like you did me".
"Jason…..I didn't mean to…I'm" she turns around with tears in her eyes but all she sees is butch still silently strapped to the wall.
[Flashback end]
Butch closes his eyes in thought "to be honest, I don't know exactly who Jason is or where he came from but he made the rest of my years there bearable. He allowed me to retreat into the darkness of my mind and took the brunt of whatever happened to me". He opens his eyes again and looks her way "I was there for about 4 more years until the orphanage got shut down. Funny thing is I haven't a clue where I was after that".
Buttercup becomes confused "you don't remember? Why?"
"Don't know" butch says "when the feds shut down the place, Madam Lily had disappeared and we were all transferred to another orphanage".
"What happened to Madam Lily?" buttercup asks
Butch looks at the ground for a moment "not sure, Jason came to me in a dream and said lily wanted me in her room. So when I got to her room, I transitioned like I always do and went to sleep. I was 17 at the time, but when I woke up, I was 20 attending a class at Devry institute for auto mechanics. I still can't figure out what the hell went on those 3 years I was asleep. After a while I got used to the constant black outs, cutting myself, being forced to adjust to whatever situation I find myself thrusted into. It's only lately that all of these things started slowing down, when I was with you". He stays silent for a while and buttercup stares at him expectantly "that's my life story, I know that I own a garage, I just don't know how, I blacked out again just before graduation, anyway that's all I can tell. Is that all you wanted to know?"
Buttercup shakes her head a bit half sympathetic "not quite. There are two last things I needed to know". She touches his hand forcing him to look into her eyes "that time we spent together, when we had sex and went on that amazing date, was that you or Jason?"
Butch grins a little "that was me, I wanted to keep appearances, so I dyed my hair white and wore contacts so regardless of whether I transitioned or not my eyes would always remained silver. Since Jason has already made a name for himself from high school to college I took on the name".
Buttercup frowns at him "so it was you I was with the whole time and you didn't say anything, not a damn thing. Why didn't you tell me who you really were?"
Butch rolls his eyes "if you knew I was butch from the rowdyruff boys, would you have gone out with me?"
Buttercup doesn't answer that, she simply looks away and scowls. He was right, if she knew he was a rowdyruff boy, she would have torn him a new one "alright granted I would have kicked your ass. Next question, which one of you had a hand in bricks plan?"
"Jason" butch looks at her "he doesn't like you very much".
"Yeah I get that" Buttercup gets up for a moment "it's all a lot to take in butch".
"Yeah" butch says "it is".
"I'm not sure what to do here" Buttercup says.
Butch shrugs "no one's asking you to do anything. You wanted to know my story. So I told you". He then gets up and walks up behind her, he reaches out and touches the ends of her long hair fondly, just being near her made him feel like himself again for the first time in years "however, I don't want you to leave here without knowing that I meant every word I said. I really do love you buttercup, I was just caught in a situation I couldn't control".
Buttercup can feel him touching her hair but she found it hard to believe him. She holds herself and quietly speaks to him "don't touch me butch". She feels him pull away and her body relaxes a bit, but she couldn't help but feel a slight bit disappointed when he backed away from her. She doesn't look at him for a moment "I'm sorry for what happened to you, I wouldn't wish that on anyone, not even my worst enemy". She floats a little away from him "um…I need time to think, I'm sorry I just…"
"I understand take as much time as you want" butch says "I'll be waiting for you".
Buttercup and butch lock eyes with one another for a while. Then she fly's away but butch feels as though she flew away with his heart.
Meanwhile back at the hotel
The entire hotel room was wrecked, a total disaster area. Everything in the room was trashed, furniture was broken, glass and mirrors are shattered, and the screen glass door to the balcony had been blown completely off its hinges. Brick and blossom had sex 5 times; each orgasm was literally as explosive as the next.
Brick sighs cuddling close to blossom who's resting against his chest happily content "wow that's never happened before".
Blossom smiles "yeah, I guess I became a little too excited". She blushes a little "um... You kind of made my fantasies come true".
Brick looks over at her "really? Interesting fantasy, you were amazing by the way". He kisses the top of her head "but if you try to give me head again, I'll divorce you".
Blossom rolls her eyes and raises herself a little off of him to look at him "ugh come on brick, I said I was sorry".
"For nearly biting off a national treasure?" Brick jokes.
"I was trying to be kinky" blossom pouts.
Brick kisses the top of her head again "baby, those who don't know should never do". He gets up and walks over to the bathroom "just leave all the basement work to me".
Blossom sighs and pouts a little more; she wanted to be sexy for him. She just had to admit that she was a genius with everything else but when it came to what's sexy she was a complete novice. She lays on her back and stares at the ceiling. Then another question pops into her head "hey brick, what's been going on with you this past 20 years?"
She hears the toilet flush and then brick comes out of the bathroom with his underwear on "huh? Oh you know already. HIM took away my powers; I became a doctor, blah blah blah". He climbs back into bed and lays down next to her turning on his side to face her.
Blossom looks over at him for a moment before speaking "well yeah but how did you become Justin Tyme?"
"Well I landed in California, got adopted blah blah blah the end. What's for breakfast?" brick says grinning.
"Brick come on" blossom says sternly "I want to know about everything you've been through".
"Ok ok fine" brick gives in "the last name actually came from my corrupted senator father and his equally evil wife".
Blossom grins "oh come on, your mother adopted you when you didn't have a home. She couldn't have been that bad".
"Actually she was" brick smirks "she was manipulative, greedy, shallow, vain and conniving. She use to be a stripper when she married senator Tyme. He was rich, she was easy and selfish, it was a match made in heaven".
"Wow" blossom says
"Yeah" brick says "you sure you want to talk about this? We could just go back to the mind blowing sex".
"No" blossom sits up comfortably on the bed "if we're going to be married, I would like to know everything about your life instead of just what happened before you disappeared from Townsville".
"Well ok" brick says "I guess I'll start with my unnurturing mother…."
