Brick's laugh still rang loudly in her head, she couldn't shake it off.

'What the hell am I doing? Did I just let him finger me midair?' She needed to cool the fuck off. 'did I just let my biggest enemy at the moment, the one who killed three kids and turned me into a pariah, finger me midair??

'Christ, Blossom, is it that hard? Just don't want to fuck your biggest enemy. How hard can that be? Are you that despicable as a person?'

She had turned into putty in his hands, like he said. Is it that obvious? Or is it just wishful thinking on his part?

His laugh had hurt her, but she didn't want to admit it to herself. Seeing the embarassing Alex situation repeat managed to hit some nerves.

She flew around for a few hours, hoping the air would clear her head. It hardly did.

She did , eventually, manage to come to terms to her attraction to Brick.

'I want him. Badly. It doesn't make me morally bankrupt though, does it? It's just my body reacting to him, pure lust, I have no say in it. '

'I can want his body and not agree with him. It's normal. Happens to everyone, right?'' Right.' she answered to herself, reassuringly. 'But what do I do about it..?'

Later that evening Blossom saw Buttercup leaving her room, nearly healed.

Her sister avoided her gaze, grabbed a snack and isolated herself again.

As the hours passed she found herself unable to sleep yet again. Close to 3 AM she could hear three familiar taps on the window. Her heart skipped a beat as she went to let him in.

He stood midair with his hand propped on the edge of the frame.

'Can I come in?'

'I'm sorry. You know that already. Can we talk? Just talk. '

She let him in and he propped his back on the wall nearby.

'I'm sorry. I know what it's like. It happened to me, too, you know?'

Blossom had no idea what he was talking about.

'The electric shock.' he elaborated. 'During sex. It happened to me, too.'

'Oh.' Blossom muttered, sitting down on the bed. Suddenly flashes of Brick touching an unnamed woman flooded her mind.

'Touching. Kissing. Fucking. Moaning. '

'I don't care. It's not happening again.' she crossed her arms.

'Why not?' he asked casually,and sat on the bed next to her. She moved further away.

'Do you even have to ask anymore? Listen, yes, I am attracted to you, but I could never forgive myself if I acted on it.'

Brick groaned. 'Well, at least I know you want me for sure now.' he lounged back on the bed, and crossed his arms behind his head.

'You didn't...? she gasped.

'Haha...well, I was bluffing a bit, of course. Who knows, maybe I implanted the idea in your head.' he winked. 'As for your moral dilemma...you'll realise soon enough how pointless it is to give a shit about humans. I just gotta try smarter.'

'You're bluffing again.' she narrowed her eyes.

He just smiled back at her, closing his eyes.

'So I was saying, I know what it's like. Before you realise... you're having sex with dead bodies. You're lucky yours didn't die. It might have messed up with your head more than it did with mine.'

He sighed. 'Since you actually care about them.'

'So...you had many partners? Blossom said, reluctantly.

'Brick smirked, his eyes still closed.

'Jealous, are we? Ye, I had a few. I tried, anyway. It never got that far. They couldn't handle it.'

'Did they all...die?'

'No, but some did. Some I just managed to hurt badly. They tried to make it work, but it could never be anything more than mediocre.' he said absent-mindedly.

Blossom shifted uncomfortably.

'Is this why you came back to Townsville? Because you thought I'd be a better lay? she said coldly.

This took him out of his reverie, and he turned his gaze towards her.

'I wanted a companion, someone equal to me. I don't mind if she also happens to be a good lay. In fact, I welcome it.' he replied smiling.

'...why me?'

'Well, that's easy. You're my counterpart. We're two sides of the same coin.'

Blossom wasn't convinced.

'But, I wasn't sure until that day at the Maharaja. I knew then. And I chose to think you wanted me, too. I guess you do.' he said, locking his blood red eyes with her pink ones.

Blossom shook her head in confusion, then rose and started pacing the room.

'So I'm supposed to just go along with this? I can understand you lusting after me, that I can understand. But...'partner'? You don't even know me. And the parts that you do know clash with your beliefs and values.' she said, the words rolling rapidly off her tongue.

'No, I don't. But I'm starting to. Also I can make you realise some things that I've learned. You'll change your mind, eventually.' he followed her, grabbing her waist.

'Come with me, let me show you something.'

Blossom was swept away in another long trip, and this time they stopped above the ocean, and she couldn't see any land as far as she looked.

'Ever did deep sea diving?' he smirked at her. 'The pressure can instantly crush your bones into dust, luckily ours are coated with Chemical X.'

They went inside with a big splash, diving was more difficult that flying, but Blossom got the hang of it rapidly. Soon they could see all different kinds of fish, and Brick pointed at something in the distance. They got closer, it was a whale, the redhead convinced her to touch it, it was silky smooth.

They went deeper and could see fewer and fewer fish. The darkness was unbearable, and Blossom could feel herself getting chilly. At this point Brick enveloped her in his arms and continued the descent.

They got to the ocean floor and Blossom was stunned. She could feel Brick's warmth in her back, but the sea seemed so dead, silent and black it looked like a different world altogether. Every now and then she could see a bright light followed by a hideous fish's mouth. Bubbles had told her about these..the anglerfish.

The darkness was getting oppresive, Brick decided to take her in a more familiar depth.

Before they returned to the surface, they took a trip among the coral reef. So many colours and species, Blossom looked amazed at each and every one of them.

As they flied away from the ocean, Brick didn't say a thing, they made it in silence to the outskirts of Townsville .Blossom felt obliged to say:

'That was beautiful. Thanks. You were right..I had never done it before.'

Brick just replied with a half smile.

'Cya later, Pink.' and he vanished.