*Bubbles - Thurs, 3rd February 2022, 3.39am*
Bubbles recieved a call from Buttercup the night before explaining the situation with their oldest sister. The first thing the blonde did was get into her car and drive straight back home to Townsville, Buttercup thought it would be faster for herself to fly and meet at Townsville Police Station. When the girls entered the station the Professor was just getting released by a man who went by Agent Grayson. Buttercup and the Professor argued with Agent Grayson and demanded to see Blossom right away but he informed us that her lawyer will breif us, whomever he may be.
So far the story of Blossom being Professor X has hit the news media hard, especially after the blame almost being pinned on the Professor. Buttercup's been really emotional throughout it all which took Bubbles by surpise, she assumed her tough sister would've put on a brave face but she's been bursting into tear almost every five minutes. Butch stopped by earlier to check up on Buttercup but she was in that much of a state he decided to stay the night, Bubbles was in her own bed tossing and turning.
She sighed in frustration before sitting up and looking at the time. She got up and got dressed in a grey pair of joggers and a royal blue sweatshirt which imprinted "Megaville University" in white and a pair of grey uggs. She grabbed her car keys before leaving the house and making her way into her car. She drove around the dark town to clear her mind, she remembers the first time she heard of Professor X's name at a sorority party; her friends were passing around the pills for everyone to try but Bubbles declined, she preferred alcohol over drugs. She never in a million years thought that her oldest, smart, responsible sister would be Professor X. The news disturbed her and made her confused because Blossom looks her nose down on drugs so why would she involve herself in that kind of business? If Blossom hadn't self-surrendered she would've assumed that someone might be trying to frame her sister but nothing made sense to her right now.
Bubbles parked her car near Townsville park, driving wasn't helping to clear her mind so maybe walking might, since she was in no mood to fly. After she walked for ten minutes she could feel herself getting cold in the icy February weather, wish I'd brought a jacket she thought as she started jogging to warm her body up. She jogged further into the park, feeling her body temperature rising she jogged until she saw a man passed out on a park bench. I should maybe go check to see if he's okay...she thought hesitatly before approaching the bench, "Excuse me, sir, are you oka-...Boomer?" she whispered surprised to see her counterpart.
"Huh? Oh it's you...what uhh-" he could hardly sit himself up
"Boomer, are you drunk?" she asked trying to hold the boy up.
"Get off me!" He barked trying to push the Powerpuff off him.
"I'm trying to help! What the hell is your probelm?" Bubbles spoke back defensively being horrified by her counterparts response.
"My problem is your sister luring my kids from work into her sick twisted drug ring."
"Boomer, I have no idea what you're talking about - Blossom would never give vulnerable innocent kids-"
"Not giving, she used the kids to do her dirty work and sell the drugs! What, you thought she dealt the drugs herself?" He spat back aggressively.
Bubbles eyes widen, this is just making my stomach turn the more I hear...who even is Blossom? What happened to her when me and Butters left for college? She swallowed a dry lump before speaking again, "I'm sorry for what she did but it doesn't give you the right to be a jackass, I'm only trying to help you."
"Whatever." Boomer mumbled drunkly before passing out again.
Bubbles sighed before stepping back. She really wanted to walk away but at the same time she didn't want to leave him there, there's a lot of creeps nowadays anything could happen to him. She cursed to herself before lifting him over his shoulders, I'm such a sucker for people in distress, even when they don't know it.
She flew towards the volcano home before ringing the doorbell. She stood there for a couple minutes before hearing Mojo's voice raising from behind the door, "I don't want to hear anymore of this-" Mojo answered the door and stopped as he was shocked to be greeted by Bubbles and his son hanging drunklingly over her shoudler.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Mojo yelled mostly at Boomer.
"I found him like this, I didn't want to just leave him-" Bubbles was about to explain
"I dont care, I don't want to hear it. I'm dealing with enough tonight and this is just the icing on the cake! Put him in his room and make your way out." Mojo ordered making the blonde whimper before stepping into the house.
Mojo walked away from her and back into the hallway standing outside Brick's bedroom door, "Boomer's home no thanks to you!" Mojo barked before disappearing further down the hall.
"He ain't talking to me! How the hell can you find someone who's ignoring you- oh hey Bubbles..." Brick stopped talking and awkwardly scratched the back of his neck as he saw the blue Puff in his hallway with his brother over her shoulder.
"Hey, Brick..." she responded back, "don't mind me I was just dropping Boomer off..."
"Oh yeah, his rooms down the hall." Brick said as he led Bubbles to his brothers bedroom.
Bubbles dumped Boomer on top of his bed before turning around to see Brick was leaning on the door frame, "How's everyone at home getting on?"
"Not too good...as you can imagine." Bubbles replied, stating the obvious.
"Yeah, I guess. Well I just want to say thanks for looking out for Booms and also if you or the family ever need anything you know where I am. Boomer's probably not on the best of terms, he's been through a lot; him and Nelly's split up." Brick said as he nodded towards his blonde brother.
"Because of Blossom?" Bubbles frown saddened as her eyes turned back to Boomer
"It's complicated. But bare in mind that Blossom's still the same person; she's still your sister and she still cares for you, BC and the Professor." He reassured with a soft comforting tone.
"That's really kind of of you say." she smiled before tilting her head, "Brick, did you ever know about Blossom? About this whole Professor X business? Boomer's kids?"
"Do you really want to know the answer?" Brick asked as he raised his eyebrows, sort of answering the Puffs question for her. Bubbles looked down in sadness before Brick noticed, "I really did try to guide her away from it but..."
"But..." Bubbles was desperate for answers, none of this was making sense to her.
"She already made her mind up." Brick finished before shifting his eyes away in guilt.
"Right. Well, I better make my way out." Bubbles said, feeling nauseous as she awkwardly shifted past the redhead.
Brick walked her out, "Take care of yourself, Baby Blue. And remember, anything you need just hit me up."
Bubbles smiled weakly before saying her goodbyes. She flew back to her car feeling herself getting tired, must be from carrying Boomer her thoughts got interrupted when she heard a wolf whistle.
Suddenly she could smell weed taking over the air, she turned her heard towards the whistle to see the blue Rock approaching her, "Girl, I knew you were fine but not this damn fine." he smirked as he inhaled his cannabis cigarette.
"What do you want?" She frowned knowing she was speaking to Ben from the Rowdyrock Boys.
"I don't want nothin', I'm just taking a quiet stroll to myself until I seen your blue streak in the sky and I thought why not introduce myself since we've never been formally acquainted." He shrugged
"Well let's keep it that way, I'm not interested." she said as she unlocked her car.
"Neither was your sister until she came to her senses."
Bubbles paused before turning round, "Excuse me?"
"What? You thought Pinky would get in the drug business by herself?" he cackled evily, "how do you think Pinky became Professor X?" his lips twisted to a smirk.
Bubbles eyes darkened in anger, "So it was you that turned my sister into a criminal?"
"Meh not entirely, she did that all by herself, we didn't force her into anything." He shrugged carelessly
"She would never do dealings with the likes of you-"
"-Ye sure about that?" Ben raised his brow in amusement showing a toothy smirk
Bubbles didn't know what to think or how to respond so instead she stood silently, Blossom's lawyer's coming tomorrow; I'll find out the full details then rather than playing games with this delinquent, she scoffed before rolling her eyes and turning back to her car, "Whatever."
"Ye know something tells me that we'll be seeing more of each other." The blue Rock sang in a playful manner
"Then you've been smoking too much of that shit, stay away from me and my family. You got it?" Bubbles said in seriousness before climbing into her car and closing the door behind her. She started her engine while keeping an eye on her view mirror to see her evil counterpart was just standing there staring back at her with a devious smirk on his face. She started getting chills going down her spine, getting creeped so she stepped on the gas driving away while her mind wandered, there's no way I'm getting any sleep tonight.
*Blossom - Thurs 3rd February 2022, 9:02am*
The pink Puffs eyes were heavy with dark bags under each one, she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before either, so far it's been a rough 17 hours for her from the cops arresting her father to confronting Mac & Boomer to her self-surrendering. After signing the confession she's been escorted to the station jail until early hours of the morning to get her files processed and an hour ago she has been informed she would be on her way to Headwood Prison. Once she got to the prison she had to go through the process of a full strip search, including the swat and cough which put her out of her comfort zone but once that was dealt with she was given an orange jumpsuit which was brighter than her hair...and her future.
She currently sat in Governor Brown's office waiting for him to give her a 'grand tour' of the prison however, her mind was too occupied with her thoughts, I didn't even get a chance to find out if the Professor is alright...are my sisters back in town for me? Do they know what's going on? Will Mac ever forgive me?...Maybe not...would Boomer ever forgive me?...Doubt it. She sighed quietly before closing her eyes, Brick...he's always protected me from Berserk, from Bradley, from all of this as much as he could. Why couldn't I just wait for him? Oh wait, that's right...I got bored she thought to herself angrily as she let her head hang down in shame. All I had to do was wait a little longer for him and this all could've been avoided. Her thoughts got interrupted as she heard the office door opening, she turned her head to see a medium height man. He was bald with light grey hair around the head but hardly noticeable, he had a grey moustache with a clean stubble and he wore a beige suit with a white shirt and a cream tie, "Good morning, Miss. Utonium. How was your journey from Townsville to Glassville?" The man asked as he took a seat behind the heavy duty desk.
"Long and tiring." Blossom replied back plainly, eyeing the man up and down, watching his every move.
"I can see that from looking at you. Nevertheless, welcome to Headwood, allow me to introduce myself I'm Governor Jerry Brown. Now, Miss. Utonium, do you know why you're here?" Governor Brown raised a thick grey brow as he asked the question.
"I made drugs and supplied them, I self-surrendered, now I'm here." she answered as she crossed her legs and folded her arms
Governor Brown chuckled at her response, "No need to play cat and mouse with me, dear. I'm a very busy man with a very busy schedule so I'm going to ask you again; do you know why you are in this office at this time?..."
Blossom sucked her lips to a thin line before looking around the room then back at Governor Brown before leaning in, "I understand it's to discuss business"
"Now we're getting somewhere. So how much has Dean told you so far?" He gave her his full attention
"Just that I'll have a meeting with you to talk about it further but nothing in specific detail." Blossom shrugged
"Good. Once you leave this office you will be transferred to cell block C, you'll have a cellmate that goes by the name of Elizabeth Doyle, she sometimes goes by Betty. Doyle is here for attempted murder however, she's a trusted member of the inmates and is also a peer worker; she'll keep you right in here but keep in mind that none of the member of staff nor the prisoners know about our affair."
Blossom nodded taking in the information, ignoring how sleep deprived she was.
"There's another prisoner here that goes by the name of Scarlett Murphy, Murphy's our prisoners top dog; if you want to move your drugs you're gonna have to rip the title off her but you being a super-human I doubt you'll have complications with that. Murphy has a violent history in this prison, majority of the prisoners are scared from her and her crew. Until now..."
Blossom looked up at the man as she raised a brow.
"Miss. Utonium, I am hoping that you will turn things around in this prison but in order to do that you'll need allies. I can give you a list of names of trusted prisoners for you to approach to form this alliance, keep in mind that you're not gonna win them over at first and they're gonna ask for favours or for you to do certain tasks to gain their trust; whatever you need to do, do it without wrecking my prison." Governor Brown put his glasses on before looking at Blossom's file, "I've signed you to the laundry room for work duties, Murphy also works in there her job is to steam the laundry...whoever has the job of steaming is known to be top dog and by the end of the month I want you to progress yourself behind that steamer so we can move these drugs and make some money." He smirked.
"How are we gonna move the drugs in?" Blossom questioned
"Through the laundry room of course. I'll have a source that'll plant the drugs in and you pick them up and do what you have to do."
"Wouldn't it be better moving the drugs through the kitchen? I assumed it would be easier with the delivery system?" Blossom raised a brow
"Too predictable, all our deliveries gets checked before it gets unloaded in the kitchen. It would be too obvious. My staff think I run a clean prison. Let them think that." Governor Brown looked over his glasses, hoping Blossom was picking up what he was putting down.
"Yes, sir." She nodded, understanding his angle.
"Good. Now, any questions?" He asked before standing up from his seat.
"Visiting rights...when do I get them?" She asked as she looked up in desperation
"Visiting is permitted everyday through Monday to Sunday with a time slot of two hours. Add the people you permit to see on your visit log but you'll fill all that out once you get to your cell."
"Right." Blossom nodded as she started to feel nervous.
Jerry opened his door to call in a guard, "Ms. Hastings, that's Utonium ready for the tour."
Blossom turned to see a tall skinny woman enter the room, hair was tied back to a neat and tidy bun, she had a very plain face but her hair was dark as the night sky and eyes were light brown like melting honey. "On your feet, Utonium." She ordered.
Blossom did was she was told as she followed the guard out the office and into no-mans land. Luckily for her by the time she arrived at her cell block it was roughly after 10am after being given the tour, already earning a few glares by her fellow inmates who she'll need to win over during a turf war. During her tour given by Ms. Hastings it gave her time to read the guard; Ms Hastings carried herself with pride a fair woman but very strict. Judging by how neat her bun was along with how she presented her uniform, Blossom glanced down and noticed how short and tidy her fingernails are the pink Puff narrowed her eyes sensing a touch of OCD from her. However, Ms. Hastings came across as pleasant; she was also well-mannered and softly spoken - comes from a good background.
Ms. Hastings eventually escorted Blossom to her cell, "You'll settle in here. Doyle, your cellmate is due to come back from her workshop duties round about now, she's also your peer worker if you have any issues Doyle will be happy to help and if you happen to find yourself in a pickle press this panic button." The guard pointed towards the red button that was at the side of her cell
Blossom nodded before settling her box of belongings down on the empty half of the cell. She heard Ms. Hastings' heels clicking with the ground as she took her leave. Her pink eyes travelled around the cell inspecting it, there were two single beds on either side of the cell, each side contained a desk with a chair, bookshelves, one toilet, one sink and a drawer each.
"You must be the new bird." She heard a Scottish accent coming from behind. She turned to see a redhead girl, her hair was darker than Blossom's but long and up in a high ponytail with deep emerald green eyes. She wore dark green prison takkies, the colour almost matched her eyes. She seemed quite young but older than Blossom, maybe about 24 or 25-ish.
"Yeah, Blossom Utonium. You must be Betty, I heard you're my peer worker?" She seemed confident to approach her new cellmate.
The girl crossed her arms before scoffing, "The names Doyle, we go by our last name here unless you have permission to use their first name." She eyed then Puff up and down.
"Oh...sorry..." she felt pretty awkward now, feeling herself getting small. Get a hold of yourself, Blossom, how are you expecting to be top dog when you can't even make a good first impression to your cellmate?
"Look, I know who you are and I'm just gonna say one thing; I don't like drama and you seem like a lot of drama to me. Keep your head down, do your sentence and don't cause trouble and we'll get along fine. Are you gonna cause trouble?" She asked rhetorically while raising her eyebrows.
Blossom shook her head already feeling intimidated by her cellmate
"Good. So, we've got three simple rules in Headwood; 1. Don't touch anyone's stuff without asking, even if you're borrowing it. 2. Don't snitch, no one likes a snake in the grass."
"Got it. What's the last one?" Blossom asked, trying to hide the timid in her voice
"See that panic button right there?" Doyle nodded towards the big red button
"Yeah?" Blossom nodded
"Don't ever touch it." The green eyed girl said in a sharp tone, making her accident seem more firmer.
Blossom nodded, no words were needed to understand those three simple rules. She mentally took a deep breathe being prepared for anything possible, take control.
Doyle smiled, "Smashin' so now that you know the ins and outs let's get some scran. You probably haven't even eaten yet, it's last call for breakfast in the dining hall."
Blossom nodded as she turned around to her belongings, "I need to change into my takkies, don't want to be the only one in an orange jumpsuit." she said more confidently as she approached her folded green takkies. She'd be a walking radar with pink eyes and an orange jumpsuit while everyone else wore their respectable cell block colours.
"Aye, nae bother. I'll see you in there." Doyle nodded before making her way out the cell but turned her head before making her leave, "Oh, and welcome to Cell Block C."
Blossom sighed before sitting down on her bunk mentally preparing herself; Okay, Bloss this is it. Get a hold of yourself. Take fucking control.
*Buttercup, Thurs 3rd February 2022, 10.30am*
Ding-dong she heard before her lime-green eyes jolted open as she jumped hearing the door-bell which alerted her awake. She felt a pair of strong arms wrapped around her, "Don't worry, babe, it's just the doorbell." Butch whispered into her eyes soothingly.
"It's Blossom's lawyer," she quickly sprung up pushing Butch off her and jumped out of bed like she was on a mission.
"Butters, calm down-"
"-how can I stay calm, Butch?! I hardly slept a wink last night before blubbering like a baby, I'm an emotional wreck just let me go and see how my sister is getting on!" She snapped angrily making the green Ruff sink back into the bed and pulling the sheets over him.
"Okay, go do you." Butch shook his head before rolling over to fall back asleep.
Buttercup rolled her eyes being in a mood with her boyfriend before climbing down the stairs, she heard voices coming from the family living room. She entered the room to see the Professor and Bubbles, the Professor looked worried and Bubbles looked like she'd hardly slept either. They were sitting on one end of the couch and a well-dressed, dark headed man sat on the opposite side of the room.
"Fantastic, the whole family's here. Pleasure to meet you all formally, I'm Dean Miller, Miss. Utonium's lawyer. I'm here to discuss of her crime affairs with yourselves."
"Crime affairs?" Buttercup whispered, unsure if she's still dreaming as she felt a tear roll down her cheek. She wiped it away before it being noticed.
"Mr. Miller, we're having difficulties processing what's going on, entirely. Could you please help us wrap our heads around it?" The Professor asked as lit his smoking pipe, he hadn't smoked for years...until now.
"Of course. For months now Blossom has been getting herself involved in gang activities of making drugs such as MDMA pills. She's been getting involved with the Rowdyrock Boys, they had a very straight forward relationship; Blossom makes the drugs in exchange for money."
Buttercup closed her eyes tight to prevent another tear rolling down, this isn't Blossom, it can't be.
"However, the DA were happy to settle on a deal for sixteen months, considering her formal hero-hero title until Boomer Jojo decided to press charges for involving vulnerable minors into the drug industry." Dean went on
Buttercup now felt her stomach twisting.
"Which concludes the sentence to twenty-four months with no parole. On the bright side she's in minimum security, plenty of workshops she can take, less chances of violent outbreak and time to rehabilitate herself back into our society." Dean finished as he crossed his legs. "I'm also here to discuss about Miss. Utonium visiting list and would need you all to sign a form which will give you twenty-four hour access to the prisons visiting logs..." the fancy lawyer went on discussing in further detail but Buttercup couldn't take it.
She launched for the stair-case, leaving everyone in the room puzzled, "Buttercup?" Bubbles called after her but by the time Buttercup could answer she just made it to the toilet, vomiting hardly anything since she's hardly eaten in the last 12-hours. She coughed harshly, bringing everything she could out of her.
"You alright, babe?" She heard Butch call but instead of flushing the toilet and washing herself off she started sobbing. "Aw, babe." She felt Butch's hands rubbing her back.
"This isn't a dream, this is a nightmare." She managed cry out in between sobs
"I know. But we'll get through this. We always do." He said lightly kissing her head before looking up to the ceiling, praying for some sort of miracle that would bring his girlfriend out of the emotional pain she's in.
After a few minutes of silence Buttercup finally got up and flushed the toilet. "I'm gonna head in for a shower." She announced before going into her room to grab her shower-bag.
"Cool, I'll be in your room if you need me." He said following after her, "Hey," he said grabbing her lightly before she headed out the room, "you know you can talk to me about anything, right?" He asked, assuring she knows he's there for her.
She nodded her head smiling weakly
"And you know I'd do anything for you as well?" He asked as he raised a brow
Her smile widen as she nodded, "of course I do, dickweed." She giggled slightly before pushing past him playfully.
She heard Butch chuckling which made her feel better until she remembered of the reality of the present in time; her big sister being a convict and in prison. Her smile now disappeared as she locked the bathroom door behind her. She put the shower on before looking in the mirror to herself. She took a deep breath before going into her shower-bag and pulling out a box which contained a single pregnancy stick.
She undressed her bottom half before sitting down on the toilet and opening the box in the process. She read the instruction and peed on the stick and left it on the side of the sink. Buttercup pulled her underwear back up before pacing around the bathroom, she had two minutes to kill and so far it was the longest two minutes of her life.
Her mind took her a trip down memory lane, going back to high school to the first time Butch ever asked her out. She scoffed at him and told him it was never gonna happen, she smiled thinking back of the memory. And then she remembered he was going through a dating period with so many different girls in school to make her jealous which she found hilarious. Until he was dating Spencer, her ex-best friend now. He actually cheated on Spencer with Buttercup but it was never meant to happen like that, Butch just wanted to win Buttercup over and Buttercup didn't want to commit to anything until Butch stopped playing games...guess nobody's perfect.
Her smile widen when she thought of the happiest moment of her life; Homecoming prom. Butch and her got announced as Townsville High King and Queen of 21'. Buttercup looked down at her pregnancy stick and seen two pink lines while she read the instruction on the box, looks like the King & Queen are expecting a Prince or Princess...
