"Buttercup."

"Hmm?"

"Before we go in just realize that this may be a gay club but, it is a bit more complicated then that"

Buttercup looked at the demon; well no he looked more like a boy in his 20's with bright pink hair. They were outside the club, it was a huge black building covered in rainbow flags as well as random, what appeared to be bumper stickers saying things like "Do you support the leather flag?" On the door was a big "No Smoking Sign," for witch buttercup was grateful, as she hated the smell of cigarettes.

"What do you mean? And what is the Leather flag?"

"Well, it is interesting in there to say the least."

"And the flag?"

"You don't need to know, some of my more….open minded clubbers put that one on there."

The green puff looked at Him and pouted, "Awww Come on! It's not fair!" The demon looked at her and sighed.

"No, it isn't, but that's the way is has to be." Buttercup glared at Him and they entered the building, immediately loud, dance music pored into their ears and Buttercup had to concentrate to control the volume blaring in her head. The walls were a shiny black color, neon lights and speakers were mounted on the wall, some of the lights displaying some very interesting imagery. The club was a lot bigger then she expected, but it was also packed with people, she couldn't tell but she thought she might of spied some dance cages on her far right. The DJ was in the center behind a circular counter and a bar was to her left. Looking straight across she saw what might have been a bathroom but she couldn't tell. She finally hit the dance floor and swayed to the rhythm of whatever song was playing, the music was too loud to tall anyway, but it had rhythm and that was all that mattered anyway.

Looking around she noticed immediately what Him had meant by "interesting." Some people were wearing butt-less leather pants, others were wearing hiked up mini skirts and for shirts, well they were more like small cups on each breast. She gawked at everyone for a moment feeling slightly overdressed, then grinned and stared dancing. Only in a club owned my Him. She thought.

"Now come one Buttercup, that's not true, I've seen it in other places too." Said a girl's voice in her ear, startling her she spun around. The speaker had raven black hair about the same length as hers, with a few purple streaks, bright, mischievous violet eyes and a leering Grin. She wore black jeans and a black shirt with big claws on it that read "Scorpio" underneath.

"What the hell? Him?" Buttercup said, still dancing so as not to disrupt the flow of everyone dancing around her. The girl grinned even more and nodded. "Well, why the hell don't you look like that everyday? I'd say it would be a vast improvement."

"Hmph! Well! For your information I only did it so that I could speak to you without everyone thinking someone straight had wondered in. Now, just so you know way over that way," Him said pointing to that wall opposite they had come in. "That is where you will find that bathroom, should you be in any need of it. When you want to leave just find me, or if you pass out of weariness I'll find you."

"Yeah, yeah, alright Him. Oh and thanks." Buttercup said before watching Him disappear into the crowd. She danced for a while after that, sometimes someone would come up and just dance with her and some time she was by herself but she didn't care, she was having fun. After a while nature called and she ambled over to the wall where the bathrooms supposedly were. She opened the small doorway and walked into the little hallway, looking left she saw a door with the word "Girls" on it, but it had a picture of a male. Looking right she saw that the door said "Men" on it with a picture of a girl. Laughing she went into the door labeled men, glad to see she had guessed right.

After her business was done she washed her hands and walked out of the bathroom only to run right into someone coming out the other door. "Ow, Sorry." She said looking up only to see the horror stricken face of Mike Believe.

"Buttercup! Oh god, listen don't tell anyone you saw me here! I don't want anyone to know I'm gay! I mean, oh shit, don't call me a fag." He said quickly. It didn't seam to register to him that she was in the same club as him.

"Mike! MIKE! Calm down, ok. Fist of all, A: I am in the same club as you, what does that tell you?" A small oh formed on the boy's lips. "That's right, and B: Who called you a fag? I will kill them." The jade puff said, eyes narrowing in anger. "Why don't you want anyone to know anyway?"

Mike nervously swept his hair back with his hand as he tried to explain. "It's just that, people in high school are so immature you know? So I figured I would wait till we were at the end of the year to come "out." It's easier that way." He said, and then a thoughtful look came over his face. "Hey, wait a minuet… How old are you?"

"Seventeen." Buttercup grinned. "I kind of know the person that owns this place." She said by way of explanation.

"You know who owns this place? I've heard rumors but I don't know what is true or not. One person told me that the mob owned his place. Is that true?"

Buttercup laughed at that. "No! The mob? What is this gayola?"

"What?"

"Ever heard of stonewall inn?" Mike shook his head at this. "There was this club in New York called Stonewall Inn, it was a gay club. The mob owned it and the people would pay off the mob so they could stay and drink, it was called payola, but since it was a gay club they used the phrase gayola. In 1969 there was a riot because police stormed in and it was one of the first gay rights movements." Mike looked at her impressed. "I did a report on the subject." Buttercup explained.

"Oh. Well I got to get back out there, I have someone waiting," He said suggestively. "But you may want to check out the front door from this side of it, if you're interested in out history." He said cryptically before walking out into the dancing area. Buttercup shrugged and made a mental note to check it before she left. After that she went back out onto the dance floor. After a while she got tired and her head was ringing because of the music, she went to the front door before looking for Him. There was a plaque with a picture of a bay with sandy colored hair. Underneath were the words,

Matthew Shepard

Never forget

December 1, 1976 – October 12 1998

Buttercup knew who he was and had heard his story; she wiped a threatening tear from her eye and turned to go find her demon escort.

After about ten minutes she realized she probably wasn't going to find him as either the pink haired boy form or the violet eyed girl from before. "Stupid demon." She muttered to herself and went to go sit at one of the stools at the bar. After a moment someone came and sat at the bar next to her, but she ignored them in favor of laying her head down on her arm. She could feel them staring at her though and it was seriously pissing her off, he eyes snapped open to glare at a very familiar violet eyed girl grinning back at her.

"You!" She said, her head snapping up.

"Me," Him replied. "Me, me, me. Wonderful, incredible beautiful me!" Him said. "Am I to assume you wanted to go home?" Buttercup nodded sleepily and got up. They walked out the door and Him transported them to the living room of the Utonium household.

Buttercup looked at the clock shocked to find it was well after midnight. "Shit!" She cursed. "By Him, thanks!" She said running up the stairs and into her room. Him was about to make a remark but heard a car pull up. He looked out the window to see the Professor getting out of his car. Him quickly disappeared and the Professor stepped into his home mumbling to himself. "Stupid Monkeys…plans…. Goldfish should not be introduced to……chocolate soda…'s a bad idea." He walked like a zombie into the house and shut the door. He went upstairs to check on the girls, seeing three heads in the bed he mumbled and went to his own bed. Upstairs after the door had closed the green eyed puff breathed a sigh of relief before rolling over and falling asleep.

Well this one took a while because I was having a hard time figuring out what to do.. how did you like it? Should I add more, lesss? More discriptions? WHAT! What do you want? lol so yeah... I had this chapter done likea week ago.. I just... sort of didn't post it.. lol sorry about that... any ideas or request or something for the next chapter? I have an idea on how to start it... so yeah... lol