Chapter Eight
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Around Nine Thirty that Night…
"BUTCH PLUTONIA! OPEN THIS MOTHERFUCKIN' DOOR!"
Butch was laid out on his bed when he heard the noise, but couldn't idly hear what the sounds. They sounded high pitched and distraught-the same thing his heart felt as he tried to drink the feelings away with his Colt 45. He went through almost three whole twelve packs before he felt the alcohol start to work it's magic. All he needed was about six more packs of them.
Boomer and his brother were around him, trying to keep him from drinking the beer, but there was no way they could stop him from drinking.
"Butch…" Brick said, "Think about what you're doing."
"Wha…" he said, slurring his speech, "I…thoug…bloss…bout trying to get h…her back."
Boomer looked from him to Brick with a raised eyebrow.
"What the hell is he talking about?" he asked incredulously,
"I don't know, but…" Brick was cut off by hearing another high pitched scream.
"Who the hell is that?" Brick asked, looking over at his wasted brother.
Boomer cursed and then looked out the window, hoping his worst fears hadn't come true. He then looked up at Brick with a scared expression-and then said the person's name.
"Bubbles." He said,
"Shit." Brick said,
"Dude, I love my girlfriend to death, but if she comes in here, Butch is gonna end up dead."
"I know." Brick said,
"What we do?"
"In the next few seconds, Bubbles is gonna tear off the door, and then come up these stairs. The only person that usually stops her is Buttercup."
"You try to stop her."
"I can, but Bubbles is hard to control when she pissed. Her sister just got hurt again…"
Right at that moment, they heard their front door being torn off of the hinges and Bubbles stalking up the stairs like a crazed maniac. When she turned, and stormed in the room, she looked inside, saw all three brothers. Before Bubbles could get a step toward Butch, Boomer zipped in front of her and then grabbed both of her arms.
"Bubbles." He said, as she growled at him. An animalistic growl that probably would've made him get turned on, but at the moment, he didn't have the chance, because he had a brother to save.
"Boomer. Move." She said, "Unless you want me to mess you up too."
"No. You can't kill my brother. I'm not going to let you do that."
"Who said I was going to kill him?" Bubbles said, feigning innocence, "I'm gonna do more than kill him."
"Bubbles." He said, "Stop."
Boomer couldn't help but notice the change in her eyes. She looked very appealing and sexy to him at the moment. He took his mind out of that train of thought.
"Bubbles…" he pleaded, "Please…"
"No." she said, "He hurt my sister, and I promised him, that not even Buttercup was going to stop me from killing him if he hurt her."
"Sweetie." He said, and then as he looked at her, he couldn't hold his urge in any longer. He shocked her by kissing her like crazy. Bubbles responded to the hungry kiss on instinct and then let her guard down. Boomer pulled his arms around her waist when he thought everything would be clear. He let go, looking into her eyes. Instead of seeing the intent to kill, he saw sadness there, and a tear slid out of her eye.
"He hurt her really badly. Do you know how I would've felt if you didn't tell me you loved me?"
"No, but I know that it would hurt if you ever didn't love me." Boomer said, wiping her tears away. He kissed her on the cheek, and then took her out of the room, trying to comfort her.
Brick had laid his brother out on the bed, hoping that he wouldn't try to do anything stupid, and went downstairs to see that his brother and girlfriend was seen to okay, because the last thing Bubbles needed was to break down over a problem that wasn't her own to deal with.
"Bubbles, you think you're going to be alright?"
"Yeah, but I'm still mad at him." Bubbles said, sniffling up her tears.
"Boomer, take Bubbles home." Brick commanded, seriously,
"What about Butch?" he asked him,
"I got him…" he said, and at that moment, they heard a hard thump on the floor, and then the three ran over toward where the sound was, and saw Butch laying there, with his ankle twisted.
"Oh shit." Brick said, "Oh shit."
"Fuck!" Boomer yelled, "What are we gonna do?"
"I don't know…" Brick said, "Bubbles, call 911, Boomer use the other phone and call ma at work! I'll take care of him…this time."
Brick picked his brother up and sat him on the couch, hoping that he wasn't in any pain. His fears were true, seeing him wincing a bit.
"Brick." Boomer said, rushing back, "Did you forget? Butch could mess himself the hell up and be better within a few hours."
Brick calmed down, remembering that little fact about them. The chemicals in their blood enable them to heal themselves within half the time it would take the normal human being.
Bubbles, came back, following suit, looking over at Boomer and his brother. "So…is he gonna be alright?"
"Yeah. Butch is the toughest. He'll pull through. He has to."
"I know." She said, "Somehow I think that Blossom's side wasn't the only side I needed to hear. I'm going home so I can tell them what happened."
"NO!" Brick said, "If you tell Blossom, she might get worried."
"Let her." Bubbles said, "That'll show how much she really loves him."
With that said and done, Bubbles went out the door, as quickly as she had appeared. The two brothers looked at each other and then decided Butch needed off time from school. If he walked in the next day with a killer hangover and a bad attitude, no one was going to have a good day, and he'd make his chances of getting back with Blossom worse than they were.
Brick and Boomer hauled their brother up the stairs and then helped up with a shower, and then helped him dress up, and put him to sleep. After that, they sat and watched over them until their mother came home. After that, the boys fell asleep hoping that the only thing that Butch would suffer was a hangover for making the stupid choice of drinking his life away.
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Bubbles flew towards the house, and the first thing she saw was Buttercup standing at the door with her arms crossed. Bubbles knew where this was going and she was going to stop it before it went any further because it wasn't even serious. She didn't get the chance to lay a finger on Butch. By the way Butch had messed himself up, she didn't need to lay a finger on him. Not even say a word.
"Bubbles." Buttercup said, "What the fuck were you thinking?"
"Death and a body bag." Bubbles said with a smirk,
"I told you all of this shit was Blossom's crap to deal with." She said,
"Don't worry. I didn't do anything to him. He messed himself up pretty bad on his own."
"Fuck. I knew he'd do some shit." Buttercup said, her face showing signs of worry, "What he do?"
"Drank himself senseless and turned his ankle out." Bubbles said, "He should be okay though, because they said he'd heal himself by the morning."
"You sure?"
"Yeah." Bubbles said, "They said he did it before and that happened."
Buttercup sighed and then looked up toward Blossom's room, where her light was still on.
"You think we should tell her what her boyfriend did to himself for her?" Buttercup said,
"I don't know." Bubbles said, "She placed a lot of stress on herself for nothing."
"Again." Buttercup added, shaking her head, "I don't know though. This must have been serious."
"She didn't tell you what happened?"
"No." Buttercup said, "She told me to stay the fuck away from her."
"You look like Butch. Could you expect anything less?"
"Oh. I forgot. I haven't seen much of Butch after they got together, so I think I forgot."
"Somebody sounds jealous." Bubbles said, sitting on the stoop to their house.
"No. Not really. I was getting ready for all of this to happen. I just have to get used to it." Buttercup said, "Sometimes I feel better by myself now a days."
"Oh." Bubbles said, leaving the subject to close, "Should we check up on Blossom?"
"Yeah." She said, standing up.
The two girls walked up the stairs and up toward their sister's room. They cracked the door open to see Blossom's school books open and her diary open. They then picked that up and closed it. Next to that, she was laid out on her bed, with her clothes still on. The two sisters, decided to soundly change her into her PJ's and then tucked her in. They each kissed her on the cheek and then left the room, closing the door behind them. They hoped that Blossom felt better in the morning. They wanted nothing more than to see her and Butch work things out, because they knew what was under the surface from the beginning.
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Brick Plutonia
8:00PM
I don't know what happened between Butch and Blossom, and I'm surprised that something happened, because he just told me he loved her. I guess the only way I'm going to find out is to talk to Blossom. I have a feeling that it was her fault…not hers per se, but she probably did something really messed up and snapped at him before he could explain. Who knows? I just hope they both come out okay and that everything works out. Butch is my brother and Blossom's my best friend. With both of them acting out of character with each other…or everything wouldn't do so good on my part…alone everybody else's. no way at all.