Sitting on the hood of the car Bubbles was lost. So completely absorbed with the drawing in her lap she had started on yesterday. She hardly had time to touch her sketchbook today so it was the first thing she reached for when Robin told her she had to grab her uniform and talk to the captain for a second.

Looking at the picture she no longer felt she could work with it. A girl with her eyes closed peacefully didn't feel right no it was wrong.

Wrong wrong wrong.

Her pencil hit the page striking down; effectively ruining the peace in the drawing. Her mind flooded from the sound of the man's muscles moving in his finger stretching and contracting over the trigger. The increased heart beat of the little man on the floor being crushed under the lanky man heel. The sound of the gun going off slowed in her head as she applied jagged lines between the girl's collar bone. The sound of the bullet breaking through that very spot vibrated through her ears.

A rough bullet wound formed as her hand moved, looking more like a twitch to the outside world that she had forgotten about moved over the rough paper. As it became more refined she had her red pencil out pooling the blood and running it down the page. There was much too much.

Hot tears filled her eyes as she finished the now refined and detailed bullet wound she moved to the eyes, her penil back in her hand she struck again.

The professor had held her for most the night as she cried on his shoulder. At the moment she didn't care what her sister said, she didn't care how horrible the man was. She bared witness to the life leaving his eyes listened as his body shut down as blood pooled out of him spilling onto the pavement. The fear right before he died. The fear in his hopeless eyes as he looked down the barrel.

The man who did it haunted her; he was callous; he was working with the little man and still killed him. She remembered the voice over the phone calling the man a useless runt that he wasn't needed. How the lanky man left him on the pavement like trash on the floor. She knew the dead man was bad, Horice Slug, she had read about him; his rap sheet basically took up a page in the newspaper. He treated people horribly, kidnapped women, children and men and sold them.

A person she wouldn't ever be able to humanize under normal circumstances but she witnessed his death. A horrible man was put down but the other man was a monster too. He had said that he bought the doctors then killed the seller for not delivering. It was all so sick and twisted. The tears burned her eyes though she blinked them away.

"Trying a new style Bubbles?" A familiar voice cut through her emotional turmoil looking up she looked into the face of her 'grandfather'.

"It's a lot more edgy but I think it's very raw." She looked at him like he was crazy for a moment before his eyes flickered back to the sketchbook in her lap.

Looking down she wasn't too surprised to see that her originally peaceful portrait had been drastically altered. A bullet wound colored and detailed set between the collarbones, tears streamed from the girl's eyes and the word 'sold' written in overlapping letters on both eyelids.

"You're still thinking about last night I take it?" He asked looking sideways for a moment after 11 years he had gotten better at comforting but he was still rough around the edges.

"You know Slug was just as slimy and disgusting as his name. He was around even in my time he had a method something the newspaper wouldn't find on record. He would find struggling men with families and pretend to help them while simultaneously putting them in horrible debt. Then when the men couldn't pay up he collected his wife and children as collateral." Raven grimised his lip pulling up under his graying mustache.

"I know he was horrible. I know that but the other man" she trailed off as understanding came to his eyes.

"The lanky man who hired him?"

"He was trying to buy those doctors. What if he takes them by force? He obviously wants them. What if his boss orders it?"

"Those doctors came into work and did their heart surgery. Your father has them under full surveillance. If something comes up we will tell you girls." It put her at ease at least knowing they were being watched knowing they were safe but she still felt something was off.

"What about the three from last night?" She asked, watching as his resuranceing gaze faltered. It was only a split second but she heard it, the subtle click of his back teeth, something he did when he had upsetting news.

"Hey Bubbles sorry that took so long!" Robin called, waving her hand as she came out of the building, Blink following after her.

"Oh Mr. Untonium, are you here to get Blink?" She asked, grabbing the girl's arm enthusiastically. Blinks grey eyes tuned up harshly towards the brunettes. "I'm not a rag doll Robin, stop tossing me around."

"Thank you for delivering her Robin; she might've slunk off somewhere and never showed up." He joked jumping into his grandfather mode, something he does flawlessly nowadays.

"I'm a lot of things grandpa irresponsible is not one of them. I get what I have to done." Tugging at her half up pigtail she trudged over to the car. "You sleep in every class, Blink." Robin laughed light heartedly though it was clear Blink really didn't feel like it but that flew right over Robin's head.

"Come on, Blinks being moody today. Don't let her be mean to the customers, Grandpa , we'll be seeing you." Waving her the older man off she hopped off the hood carefully closing her sketchbook her tears long gone she unlocked the car.

"So where are we going first?" Robin asked when she was in the car.

"Coopers coffee. Then maybe the hospital." It was reckless since Robin was in the car but Raven's clicking teeth had made her nervous.

"The hospital?" Robin asked, obviously baffled not expecting it. "Why?"

"I don't know, I just feel like we should go there." She couldn't be honest that she wanted to go check up on the doctors just to be sure.

"I don't think that would be a good enough reason for the receptionist. Unless you have family in the hospital I don't think we can get in."

"Right." If it was just her she would have already been on her way but she couldn't just tell Robin to leave. She felt frustration building.

"Don't they have a coffee place there?" Robin asked suddenly.

"Yeah I think so?"

"Then i think i know how we can get in!" Robin grinned a scheme cooking up in her eyes.

"Really?"

"Yeah I heard Mike talking about how he needed a job and Harry just came out of the blue and said there was an opening at the coffee place in the hospital."

"That's brilliant but wait I already have a job and you don't need one plus Mike will think we're trying to take it."

"We're not actually going to apply, besides he can't go in today anyway." Her voice was harsh brows furrowed. She looked angry suddenly.

"Why not?"

"You didn't hear what happened?" Robin asked, causing the blond to shake her head.

"Well it was Elmor Sgloo and Wes Goinion of course who else." Bubbles felt guilt rush over her at the mention of the two bullies. They were so sweet back in Kindergarten just wanting friends and people to accept them despite their ...habits. Now they were worse than the people who teased them making their new habit to harass and ridicule whoever crossed their path.

"It happened during study hall. I swear those boys are absolute cowards because they waited till Buttercup snuck out to get her skateboard." Well that was new how was Buttercup able to.. then she paused taking a moment she noticed a familiar scent in the car Mitch and Lloyde went with her to. She could tell from the slight smell of bitter cologne. When had she taken the keys?

She thought for a moment before she figured she didn't care because they were returned so she could keep this from Blossom.

"What happened?" She asked, remembering she had to actually engage in the conversation.

"Elmer's specialty Mike couldn't even tell the teacher what really happened and he wouldn't let me or Harry tell her either! Poor Mike was completely embarrassed. I don't know how he's gonna get all that glue out of his hair"

"Yeah, it's just sad they were so nice back then" Bubbles sighed, forgetting for a moment that Robin would have no clue what she was talking about.

"Bubs what are you talking about? They've been jerks since kindergarten. I know you weren't here then but Elmer always ate glue and Wes always picked his nose. At some point they just started flinging it on people there gross." Robin grunted in a disgusted voice causing a crestfallen look from Bubbles cause that's what they remember. She remembered differently she knew it wasn't like that.

"Listen I know that you always look for the best in people but those boys are just horrible and there's no getting around it" Robin tried to comfort her friend even if it wasn't true.

Bubbles knew for a long time that some people will never have the best intentions but she also knew that those boys were made into monsters by their own bullies. She could still remember the small pasty boy with thick glasses and buck teeth turning into a giant coated in glue lashing out because kids were being mean to him because he ate glue.

By the time they had to 'start over' the damage was too deep ; now those boys wanted nothing more than to torment others.

"I know," Bubbles muttered. Of course Robin knew nothing about it, so she dropped it, pulled out of the school parking lot and headed toward the hospital.

"You know what I think?" Robin continued.

"What?"

"Someone needs to put them in their place. I don't even know why nobody has yet. Did you know that Joey started to hang out with them? He's started acting like a jerk. All of a sudden he thinks he is the biggest toughest guy on campus, like he has some sort of shadow over people. Some people are saying he keeps talking shit about Buttercup." she scoffed crossing arms.

"About Buttercup? Why?"

"He's still upset that Mitch didn't fight her when she broke his nose, '' Robin huffed, crossing her arm.

"That was in first grade" Bubbles scoffed, it was pitiful that fight had nothing to do with Joey and she remembered how excited he was about it. He spent all lunch before recess hyping up Mitch then turned on him after he lost.

"I know! That's the saddest part he dwells on the past too much even Mitch doesn't care about it now" Robin responded with a giggle before she went silent thinking of something. "You know I used to think Mitch was the biggest ass hat of the year but it's odd how much he changed when you girls moved in" then she giggled a bit like she was holding something in.

"What?" Bubbles asked.

"Oh it's nothing," she laughed.

"What?" She asked again and since Robin was horrible at hiding things so it didn't take much.

"Well ok i may have thought Mitch had the biggest crush on Buttercup" she said while bursting into laughter causing Bubbles to join in. "Really you thought that. I doubt it and if he did she might have killed it when she made his nose crooked." Bubbles giggled.

"I dunno, some guys like that stuff!" This only caused more laughter. Being with Robin was almost always nice; it was a time when she could be silly and close to someone. Robin knew a lot about them too. More than most people, not as much as they knew about each other but enough to make a close friendship.

Though sometimes she could admit it was difficult like when they had to cancel sleepovers or play dates, the job really saved them from that though. It took their nights and allowed them to protect the city. Most criminals, if they even bothered, tried to do something like a robbery at night with the perfect reputation the town had and all. They saw it as the perfect cover but there was a reason it was perceived as a perfect town. Because of her and her sister as always.

This time though no one knew.

"Hey Bubs?" Robin asked, suddenly as it went quiet.

"Hm?"

Though she didn't speak again as they went into the hospital. Getting through reception was easy now Bubbles needed to do the next part going to check on the doctors without Robin.