The immense amount of shopping had Brick walking around with what seemed to be a permanent frown. He was carrying Blossom's bags while she was living her glorious life. If only this was her life. They ditched their clothes they arrived in and changed into something more...appropiate. "We're done with this now"

"I don't take demands too kindly"

"You're not the one carrying 13 bags" He frowned at the pink-eyes beauty . She looked back at him with amusement.

"You are not carrying 13 bags" She narrowed his eyes at him and he returned the facial expression.

"You wanna bet?". There was a small silence between the two. "I never saw you as one of those girls". Blossom looked away then feeling some sort of emotion.

"Well I finally get to find out who I am after being cooped up for so long. Plus there's nothing wrong with having nice things." Brick instantly felt guilty for not being sympathetic towards her rough past.

"Of course now, I'll shower you with them every chance I get just to prove to you that everything in your past you went through, you won't have to again." Brick was looking directly in her eyes with compassion and ...love. He was falling for this girl, something he won't dare to admit. She was far from perfect which is what he loved most about her.

Blossom couldn't dare look at Brick, for she knew she would literally fall into his embrace. Why be in the arms of one man when you know your heart lies with another? she was confused over something she didn't know how to handle. She finally looked up at him and instantly melted. A sensation came over her as she looked into his crimson eyes. Her body was longing to touch him but what did her heart want?

The air was tense around them and others in the food court could feel it. People watched them as something around them seemed to true and blissful. Yet, everything broke as Blossom's cell phone rang. She quickly broke the connection to answer. "Butch is everything ready?" Everything came out in such a rush Butch felt something was up.

"Yeah, are you busy? Everything okay?" There was nothing said between the two sibling so butch came to assumption. "We're you two having a heated moment? Am I interrupting that? Oh BLOSS, I'm sorry for being such a cock blocker! I'll let you get back to that.."

Blossom spoke up before Butch could hang up. "We're in the food court , there's no heated moment going on! Plus when did you became an advocate for the Jojo siblings?"

"Alot has changed little sis."

"Obviously."

"Yeah well I've sent the coordinates to where we are. Hurry and get here before I consider this trip a vacation" With that Butch hung up. Blossom couldn't look back at Brick or she would have been caught in a heated moment. Instead she scrolled through her phone to pin-point the location.

"So..." Brick was looking at Blossom with slightly hurt eyes.

"So what?" Her eyes were purposely looking at her phone.

"So you gonna give me some information or should I eave your bags here and gather the information myself?"

So much for a heated moment... Blossom thought, she looked up at brick with all emotions erased. The shoved the phone in his face. "They are here. let's go"


It was an isolated area big enough for a helicopter equip with everything and more. "So glad you aren't dead. I wouldn't know how to explain THAT one to your old man"

"He's your father too.."

"I have yet to possess the results to prove that. Anyways, let's focus." He got sight of Brent, sitting all lonesome yet noticed how there was a strange attraction between Brick and Blossom. "Bloss, you can get the plans from Brent and Brick you can help me machinery." before waiting for a reply, Butch pushed Brick along. Blossom looked at Brent and her heart felt the pain. The pain she put him through. She slowly walked to him.

"Brent..."

"Blossom! I'm sure you're here to get plans. Let's start here..."

She tied to listen but her brain was more occupied. Her heart seemed to be making a decision while her brain was on its own. She looked at him and remembered at how close they once were. How he'd helped her and always been there for her but could they be more?

"Can you focus please?" That caught her off guard but she wasn't about to let im know that.

"What is there to focus on this in the classic plan. Go in get the information need and burn everything to the ground. Operation 245." He slightly smiled making Blossom's heart jump

"Exactly Operation 245. I didn't think you would want to remember what you gained from the Academy"

"Regardless if I want to or not, it sticks with me forever."

"I guess so, huh. Well let's just stick to the mission." He turned away from Blossom and continued explaining things that she already knew. But she knew what that was code for, he didn't and couldn't talk about the obvious... The tension between them. Blossom pushed away those thoughts and focused on the mission.


The crew went straight through the front door. There was no officers or any type of defense for that matter. Either Robin and Mitch were unprepared or they were too ready. This was their headquarters, permanent residence. The place seemed to be empty for the time being, the perfect time to strike. The building was an old warehouse in the process of being renovated but that only made hiding easier. They stayed close against the wall until the came in to the main room. The pan was to keep the body count low until they find Mitch and Robin. The whole first floor was deserted. Just when they began to give up they heard voices in one of the rooms up the stairs. Butch signaled for them to move forward, carefully. Blossom was first she eased to the door, not yet breaking it down just to hear in on their conversation. "What the fuck do you mean you can't find them?!" Robin was sitting in a chair yelling through the phone at what she called her minions yet she didn't exactly hold all the power. Blossom can't hear the answer in the other line but she knew that her ex-best friend didn't like it... "Either you bring me the bodies of Brick and Blossom or I will have your head" Her voice was laced with such anger and venom that it shocked Blossom. She knew her best friend to be like this. It was a new side she didn't like. Brent looked at her in confusion. He motioned for them to enter but Blossom held up a finger to tell them to wait. She listened further.

"Babe, we will find them. We have a few days before the deadline, things will be fine" Blossom was guessing that was Mitch. He seemed to be the calm and mellow one in the situation. She looked to Buttercup who was behind her. She looked angrier than ever. This was the moment to take all her emotions out and she would get no backlash from it.

"No Mitch. We have to get them before they get us. Do you not understand?! This isn't fun and games anymore, this is the real deal. We could die soon" Her voice changed from angry to concerned and scared.

"Nothing will happen to us. You want to know why?"

"Why?" She sounded a bit optimistic in her question and that sickened Butch.

"Because you have me" That was enough Butch and Buttercup couldn't take anymore. They burst the door down together and held the guns up pointed at the two.

"Let's not shoot them and follow the plan, you can't act on anger" Blossom slightly lowered her gun to yell at the two who were ready to shoot Robin and Mitch's head off. Buttercup didn't lower her gun a bit, Blossom's orders didn't mean shit to her. She had a bone to pick with Mitch and she wasn't about to leave it unfinished. She wanted to make him suffer yet death seemed ike the easy way out... Butch was watching Robin so closely that he almost felt some sort of attraction towards her. What they had was always unfinished but was this the end of them? "Let's keep things clean-cut and direct. Who are you working for?" Blossom knew Mitch would break first, he didn't have the heart for this life. She directly spoke the question to him and he easily replied.

"We work for Princess Morbucks and are minions belong to the Gang Green Gang but are directed under our orders" Robin's eyes widened at how easily Mitch was giving away information. In this moment she was being to reconsider.

"So Princess Morbucks is trying to kill us?"

"No. Sedurita is, we all work under her command" Mitch just gave Blossom the key information she needed. Now to know the motive.

"Why? Why is Sedurita doing this?" Before Mitch could answer, Robin et out a loud screech before saying.

"DON'T YOU DARE! DO YOU HAVE NO LOYALTY?!" She couldn't believe how easily Mitch was giving up and how she fee for him. He was so weak and held no power.

"I'M TRYING TO SAVE MY ASS. i DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT i LOVE LIFE" Mitch was yelling directly at Robin but when he heard Buttercup snicker he quickly turned to her with just as much fire. "What the fuck is that suppose to mean?"

"It means you're full of shit! You love life? BULLSHIT. If you loved life you would have done everything in your power to keep our baby. BUT NO. YOU RUN OFF WITH THIS BITCH AND... Look where you are now?" Buttercup's emotions were all over the place but she finally calmed down in realizing everything happens with a purpose. Mitch isn't who she was supposed to be with. He wasn't meant to be hers and it took all that pain and suffering to realize it. She calmed down and was a bit happy that the dead weight in her life was about to be released.

"What do you want me to say? I can't fix the past!" Mitch was at crossroads. He was forced into this and went against everything he originally thought and look where he was? He didn't want this but this is what he chose. Time to suffer the true consequences of his selfish decisions.

"You are such a little bitch" Robin was so fed up with this situation and mad at the decisions she made. She left Butch for Mitch. Looking at them side by side now? She wanted to take the guns from his hands and shoot herself. Butch is obviously the better choice, he's such a good person. So good that maybe Robin was right to leave him. He's too good for her.

"Robin, you have no room to speak" Just saying her name was a difficult task for Butch. So many emotions wrapped up in one name... She moved closer to him, hoping to change his way of heart. She knew he still felt something for her, time to see if it was good or bad.

"Butch we can talk about this..." Butch almost fell for it but then remember who she really way and she did. Who left her in that room dying. He reassembled himself, so the gun was back aimed at her.

"There isn't shit to talk about" His keep him voice low yet it still held power. Buttercup felt as if Butch was about to break and she wasn't about to let that happen.

"Don't you dare take one more step" She changed her aim from Mitch to Robin. Mitch took this moment to attack. He jumped on Brick and was wrestling for his gun. Blossom was the first to react, shooting Mitch in the leg. Robin screamed and ran to his aid. tears started to form in her eyes and she grew restless. As much as she was Mitch as a weakling, he was still good to her.

"What do you want from us?"

"Give us all the information we want before we kill you"

"Why not just kill us now?" She was telling at them but couldn't do anything because she didn't have anything over them. Second thought... "Spare out lives if I give you this bit of information?"

"I might. Spill"

"Since you two didn't die in Cancun like planned, she will expose herself at the Marriage vow renewal in Miami. Well I don't know exactly what she has planned but I know it's big and she pinpointing for power and you two".

"Why?" Blossom couldn't quite grasp Sedurita's reasoning behind her madness. She had everything she could ever want, why destroy it all. Blossom was in deep thought but listened to Robin's response anyways.

"It has something to do with the past and this long web of lies and fuckery. That's all I know, that's all I can tel you." Robin hoped that blossom would spare her life and for a moment she believed she would. Blossom turned away from them and began walking away. Not before saying.

"Kill hem" Robin wasn't going down without a fight. She reached into her shoe and threw the dagger directly at Blossom. It got stuck in her arm. Blossom quickly turned around and released her whole round on Robin. The others just watched, there was no stopping her. Brick just watched this side of Blossom, a side he was beginning to see more and more. A side that slightly terrified him yet it was sexy at the same time.

Once Blossom released the whole clip she came back to herself and realized what she had just done. She took one long deep breath." Brent you gather anything in here that seems useful. Butch and Buttercup kill Mitch." With that she turned and left with haste. Brick was right at her heels.

"Blossom,wait." That only made her move faster. "Blossom!" He caught her arm and made her look at him. "Are you okay?" Her face said one thing but her eyes said another. Before Blossom gathered her thought and wanted to speak, Brent was behind them.

"The minions are coming back we need to leave. NOW"

Everyone followed suite and went along with their plan. along the way out they threw gasoline here and there. Butch was the last out of the building, and Brick lit the trail leading to dynamite and other explosives to bow the house to kingdom come.


The trip back home was long and tedious. Everyone was quiet for the most part. Brent was lost in the information he obtained, Butch and Buttercup were cuddling together while Brick and Blossom sat diagonally from each other on the plane. She was deep in thought about her life and he was in deep thought about her. Her head was obviously in some other place and he was going to help her every step of the way.

Luckily they got home late so no one was up to bother them with 100 questions. Blossom was the first to make it in the room. She sat on the bed and began to silently cry. Cry for the humanity she lost, cry for the death of her best friend, cry for the life she has just taken away and cry for herself. Brick entered the room but didn't hear Blossom crying right away for the was that quiet. It wasn't until it took off his shirt and laid on the bed. "I'm gonna take a shower t-" He quickly turned to her. She moved further away not wanting to be bothered, that only made him move closer. "Blossom" He caught her and pulled her closer but she pushed him away. Anger began to consume Brick so he got a little rougher. He wrested Blossom, surprised at how strong she was but in the end she was trapped beneath him. He held her wrists in his grasp, gentle enough for it to not hurt but tight enough for her to not break loose. "Look at me." She refused. " .Me" The command in his voice caused Blossom to look into his passionate red eyes. Brick's heart began to slightly grumble as he look into Blossom's red rimmed pink eyes. She was beautifully crying, at least that's how he saw it. She was still beautiful, even in one of the most saddest moments.

The attraction wasn't just one-sided though, Blossom felt as if she wanted to cuddle into Brick's chest and release everything she held him. Tell him the good, the bad and the ugly. "You know I'm here for you, right?" Blossom searched his eyes to see if that was true. All she could do was nodded, opening her mouth would result in her breaking down and she couldn't do that. Not in front of him.

Brick sensed her hostility and just wanted to make her understand. "Blossom, I don't know why or how but I care for you a lot more than I would like you to know. I've watched you and been around you to the point where I truly, honestly care for you. I'm feel myself falling for you but you have this wall up. You won't let me in" Brick looked into her eyes which were starting to water again.

"I can't. How can I let someone see me when I can't come to face myself?! I am A MONSTER. I just killed my bestfriend today. The one person that I thought was there for me... She is gone because of me. How inhumane can I be? The way I just snapped...My humanity erased so simply and quickly. I don't want to be this person. I can't be the right person for you or for anyone." She felt the tears pool over and fall. The view of Brick became blurry but she felt him leaned down and whisper in her ear.

"You are exactly what I need. You can't blame yourself for what happened to Robin today. She suffered the consequences of her selfish decisions and you have nothing to do with that. That person you turned into today is the kick-ass side of you and you shouldn't ashamed of it. Own it because she's not only sexy ass hell she is not someone to be fucked with and I like her. I like all of you and seeing you cry like this, I can't handle it. I see you deal with so much and this brings you down. I don't like it but I like you" Brick knew he was slightly rambling, a nervous habit of his but Blossom must have liked it because she began to smile.

She was falling for this mess of a man and she wasn't going to admit it. But him hovering on top of her with no shirt on wasn't helping the situation.

"Was that a smile I just saw?" A thought just popped in Brick's head as he began to release Blossom and started to tickle her sides. The smile the erupted from her lips only brought happiness to him. The plead for him to stop but that only made him continue. brick stopped for a moment and noticed he was straddling Blossom, she took this moment to dominate and was straddling him. He looked the way she looked on top. He tucked a few hairs behind her ear and wiped away the tears from her cheeks.

Such an intimate gesture, Blossom became hypnotized to his touch. He let his hand ran through her hair all the way down to her waist. His hand stopped at her waist and rested there while he looked at her, waiting to see if she would allow this. She said nothing. Brick let his hand wonder down from her waist to her wide hips to her sensationally soft thighs. This moment was pure bliss to Brick as he was innocently exploring new territory. Blossom was amazed at how she craved more of his touch but her defense system was telling her differently. Blossom wasn't looking her best right now and she knew that but Brick made her feel so special and loved. She felt Brick's hands continue to roam but it wasn't until he said "You are beautiful" that she gave in. She leaned down and kissed Brick right on the lips and let him take the lead. Obviously he knew what he was doing and she didn't object to anything. She seemed to fit him perfectly, nothing felt awkward or out of place. She felt so natural in his arms.

Brick felt as if the tension between them only heightened as he continued to roam with his hands while his mouth was in its own world. She tasted of raspberries and innocence, he knew not to take it too far but... temptation is a bitch. His hands were everywhere but nowhere all at once. They were tangled in her long locks of fiery red hair then trailing down her spine leaving a cooling sensations through her shirt. Then he got to cup her ass without any comments in a moment of pure bliss. Yet it was blossom who wanted more but she was the first to pull away for a breath. She looked into Brick's eyes and felt everything she ever wanted from a person. Love. She wasn't dare about to say those three words though, she might be new to the game but she certainly knew how to plan. If she was the first to say it, he would run and never look back. She wasn't worried about that now, this was something innocent. Or so she just thought.

Brick pulled Blossom back down and captured his lips with hers. She pulled herself closer while taking him in. Her hands went from his deeply toned chest down to his stone hard abs and back up. She didn't want to go too far and mess things up. Brick felt her tense up, "You tell me when it becomes too much" the words were rushed but she heard them loud and clear. her only response was,

"More".Blossom was lifting her shirt,hoping Brick would get the hint. He smiled against her lips.

"Not yet"Brick left her shirt on but did turn them over. This was all the activity of the night, he knew that moving too fast would scare her off and he didn't want that. He truly felt that she was exactly what he needed. Sweet, strong, intelligent and sexy. Maybe this was the start of something serious...