Dragon's Fury
Chapter 3: Adelaide
As the sun shone through the half open curtains in a blue themed room a small electronic device sensed the time of day and performed it's designed task by switching on it's radio function.
As an upbeat tune played throught the speakers on the digital clock it prompted a certain blonde to get out of bed.
Bubbles sat up and stretched as she yawned out her weariness. Opening her still sleepy eyes she surveyed her room.
Her old stuffed toys lay in a pile in the far corner, her floor spotless except for yesterdays clothes discarded by her bed.
At the corner across the room from her toys was her studio, where she designed and made clothing, her hobby and chosen career path.
Slowly she removed her bed sheets then gracefully swung her legs out and stood to her feet. She began walking to her closet, but was interrupted.
"Bubbles, you can't go walking around in your underwear with the door open!", Blossom scolded in a hushed tone.
"Sorry Blossom, guess I was having a naughty moment", Bubbles replied coyly.
Blossom with one arm holding a bath towel and fresh clothes put her free hand on her hip. "Well nexttime you have a 'naughty moment' remember your house coat."
Bubbles sighed. "Yes mame."
Blossom grinned. "That's better. Now hurry up so we can have breakfast before Buttercup does."
Bubbles waved her away. "Yeah, yeah. Just give me a bit."
Bubbles continued walking to her closet and took her school clothes from their special rack.
She put her clothes on her bed and gingerly removed her undergarments before putting on her house coat. 'Oops, forgot to close the door', she giggled to herself.
Knowing she wouldn't be able to get into the shower anyway until her sister came out she walked over to her studio.
She looked down at her drawing board where various designs for clothes she had thought of lay.
Currently the most dominant were for her nephew, once he had been born of course.
"I better use a material that's easily cleaned. Babies are such messy things." She giggled at the thought of Buttercupgetting messy as she tried to feed her baby.
"If he inherits her stubbornness it'll be quite a show", she said with a laugh. "Which reminds me, I better go wake Buttercup."
Bubbles quietly walked from her room to Buttercup's next door. She carefully opened the door and stepped into her sisters room.
The room was still messy, having not been cleaned up since Buttercup 'awakened'.
Buttercup lay on her side facing away from the door her blanket reaching just below her shoulders.
Cautiously Bubbles walked over and gave her sister a gentle shake. "Wake up Buttercup", she sang.
The black haired girl remained still, only the gently rhythem of her breathing betraying signs of life.
Bubbles tapped her chin suspiciously, then ever so gently rolled her sister over. She smirked as her suspicions were confirmed by the ring of chocolate around her mouth. "I thought so." Chocolate stains aside Buttercup's face was the picture of peace and tranquility. She just didn't have the heart to wake her.
Bubbles sat down on a chair beside the bed just watching her sister sleep and sighed. "Oh Buttercup how I envy you. Your future seems so clear and bright. You're going to give birth to an adorable baby, you have Will and I can tell just how happy you are, and I wish I could have even half that much happiness."
Bubbles fell out of her dream state just in time to hear the water stop running. Siging she let her sister sleep and went to get ready for her shower.
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Bunny leaned against Will's car parked just off a short gravel airstrip, waiting for the incoming aircraft to land.
She sighed in relief as the black and green comouflaged jet touched down and slowed before taxiing off the runway and stopping in front of her.
Anxiously she waited for the female pilot to disembark from the small aircraft.
The pilot leapt from the cockpit and landed on the ground with flawless grace, her shoulder length blonde hair shimmering beautifully in the ealry moring sun and she looked at Bunny with sparkling electic blue eyes, all of it clashing with the standard issue German Luftwaffe flightsuit.
"Adelaide!" Bunny ran up to her friend and trapped her in a hug before they double kissed in greeting. "Oh it's so good to see you again."
"Yeah, It is good to see you again to Bunny." She replied, her german accent ringing through clearly.
"I'm so happy you could come so soon."
Adelaide shrugged. "I would have been here sooner but I thought it best to give them a chance to breathe first."
"So you came the second day after her emergence?"
"I thought it was long enough", the blonde replied innocently."
Bunny frowned. "Are you bothered by this?"
Adelaides smiling face suddenly turned sour and she crossed her arms not meeting the violet eyed girls gaze.
"I would have preferred he had been able to choose."
Now Bunny crossed her arms, irked by what the other girl might have been implying. "He had a choice. He could have resisted."
Adelaide stepped closer, her brows furrowed deeply. "You know how hard it is for males to resist when their at their peak! It's even harder when there is a female with them."
"It wasn't her fault!" Bunny shouted back, slight anger in her voice.
"I was told exactly what happened", Adelaide said as dark clouds formed above them. "She forced the issue, made it harder for him to resist.
"She did it because she knew he wouldn't be able to resist, so she wanted what was inevitable to be a deliberate action. She made it easier for him to make the choice."
Adelaide snorted. "Not inevitable. He could have resisted."
"You don't know that", Bunny snapped as the wind began to pick up.
"I know him better than his own mother", she growled. "And certainly better than you." How do you know he didn't have someone else in mind? Maybe there was someone else he wanted to spend the rest of his life with!"
Dark clouds swirled over their heads and the wind blew harder, rustling the leaves of the trees harshly.
Ignoring it all Buny leaned closr until her nose was barely an inch from Adelaide's and addressed her last statement. "Like who?"
Thunder boomed in the background as Adelaide's blue eyes glared into Bunny's Violet ones, tears building in them. She took a step back and turned away from the other girl.
Bunny crossed her arms and tapped her foot. "Well?"
Adelaide tightly shut her tear filled eyes and let out an inhuman shriek.
Hurrican force winds suddenly swirled around them and lighting flashed striking trees turning them to ash, thunder boomed loudly shaking the ground.
Finally Adelaide's scream died out and she fell to the ground. The storm quickly subsided and with one last rumble of thunder died out and rain took it's place.
Ignoring the rain Bunny walked up to Adelaide who lay on the ground curled up in a fetal position. She knelt down beside her and gently put a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you okay?"
Adelaide slowly lifted her head up and looked up at her, tears streaming down her red stained cheeks.
"Yeah, I feel better."
Bunny smiled and helped her up. "It's best to get the buried feelings out."
The blonde girl smiled. "Yeah, I don't need them anymore. Danke."
Bunny pulled her into a gentle hug. "You're welcome."
Released from the comforting gesture Adelaide walked over to her Jet which was now covered in leaves and branches. She frowned and swept her hand diagonaly in front of her, creating a gust of wind that blew the debris off her jet.
She jumped into the cockpit and pressed a button that opened a hatch on the underside of the aircraft, then she stepped down, all with unparalleled grace.
She reached into the hatch and pulled out her lugagge before closing it.
"Got everything?", Bunny asked."
"Yeah."
"Then let's go. It's a bit of a drive to Endsville."
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Bubbles grunted as she squeezed through the door carrying a pile of ravaged cookie boxes to the trash. "Boy that girl sure can eat."
She went back inside and was reintroduced to the pleasant scent of freshly made pancakes.
Having already finished hers she simply sat at the table as Blossom enjoyed her fill.
Looking up the vacant stairway Bubbles thought of Buttercup. "Funny how Buttercup isn't up with all these uneaten pancakes just sitting here."
Blossom paused from her eating briefly and smirked. "Depending on when her cookie fest was she's probably too tired and bloated to get out of bed."
Unbeknownst to everyone and contrary to what Blossom said, she was very much up and about.
She was in the bathroom wearing only the underwear Will's family had given her. She had a frown on her face as she looked at the numbers displayed on the digital scale she was standing on.
"Two days and I've only gained five pounds", she grumbled. Most girls would be upset about gaining weight especially in such a short amount of time but that was Buttercup's goal. To gain weight to create a protective layer of fat for her pup. To do this she had to gain roughly fifteen pounds and was upset with the seemingly slow progress.
A low gurgling sound reached her ears generating a sigh from the raven haired teen. "Guess it's back to work."
She picked up her clothes from their place on the floor and put them on. She went to the mirror to double check that she had removed all the chocolate stains from her face then went downstairs for breakfast.
By the time she entered the dining room everyone was finished eating, leaving a stack of still warm pancakes sitting on the table just for her.
Her stomach rumbled and she rolled her eyes. 'Yes and you too.'
"Good morning Buttercup", her family greeted.
Buttercup's insincts went on alert at the unanimous and overly cheerful greeting. 'Okay, they're trying to get me in a good mood for something.'
Bubbles pulled a chair out for her. "Come and sit down Buttercup."
Buttercup eyed her blue eyed sibling suspiciously but sat down in the chair anyway, a plate, fork, and knife ready for her usage.
Blossom used a spatula to put a five pancake stack in front of her. "Here you go Buttercup, enough to start you off.
Finally she could take no more. "All right what's going on!", she yelled. "You're buttering me up for something so what is it?"
The collective sigh from her family only seemed to increase the tension in the room as Buttercup awaited an answer.
"Well as you were told yesterday", the Professor began. "One of my collegues in science has had experiance with people who have undergone similar... transformations, and we've invited him and his children to dinner on Friday.
Buttercup nodded. "Yes I remember."
The Professor swallowed. "Well he also runs an institiution for other... uh gifted people."
Buttercup snorted. "You mean freaks right."
"Not freaks", her mother insisted. "Just people who are different."
Buttercup rolled her eyes. "Does it have the word 'Arkham' in it's name?"
"Stop that", her father demanded. "It's just an option for you. When he comes you can question him about it."
Everyone sat in silence awaiting Buttercup's response.
"On one condition."
The Professor straitened in his chair. "Condition?"
"I want William to be there too."
Her parents were breifly stunned and were about to protest but Buttercup cut them off with an outstretched palm. "Keep in mind that it's his pup I'm carrying and that as the father he has a right to put in his two cents because anything that changes in my life affects our son as well. That's the condition."
Her parents sighed in defeat. "Fine, but he better behave himself."
Buttercup said nothing and changed her focus to the breakfast in front of her.
Blossom and Bubbles just shrugged and went to get ready for school.
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Mandy sat on her bed sulking, an empty tray beside her. She was still wearing her night gown. Billy had tried to come to see her earlier but her parents had prevented him from entering the house.
So she sat there, silently stewing with bottled up anger just barely contained. The reason for her incarceration was obviously her punishment for sneaking out of the house yesterday, but despite her current situation she held no regrets about hat she had done.
A small grumbling noise from her abdomen puller her from her angry thoughts. "Hungry again eh?", she said to her belly. She reached over to a cupboard beside her bed and opened it to reveal her own pantry.
When she found about her pregnancy she began making preperations. Between the time she got home from the hospital and shen she and Billy broke the news to their families she went down to the basement and found a cabinet left over from when the kitchen had been redone. After cleaning it, it became her bedside pantry to satisfy her cravings.
It was especially usefull at this moment when she was forceably confined to her room and her window now nailed shut from the outside.
Her phone had also been confiscated completing her total isolation from the outside world.
Boredom and lonliness were her biggest enemies now. A grim smirk graced her lips as she compared her current situation to one of survival.
Sighing she opened up her box of crackers from the pantry, plopped one in her mouth and chewed. She frowned almost immediately from disatisfaction from the dry crackers that began to dissolve in her mouth.
"I need something I can sink my teeth into."
She set aside the box of crackers and went back to ehr pantry, searching through it's rather meek contents for something more satisfying.
She looked at every single item, often more than once, coming up with nothing sasisfying enough to fullfill her intensifying craving.
Grumbling to herself about not putting enough variety in her pantry she got to her feet and walked to her door. 'Screw confinement, baby comes first.'
She tried to open the door, but for some reason it wouldn't open. It wasn't locked, at least not from the inside, unless. "They locked me in my room!"
Mandy's hands balled into white knuckled fists as fury built inside her. "They think I'm just going to sit in here?"
Furious Mandy began pounding on the door in anger induced hysteria. A good ten minutes past before she succumbed to exhaustion, having only sore hands and a battered door to show for her efforts.
Her belly continued to growl and rumble and she was becoming desperate. She managed to crawl back to her pantry and took out a box of graham crackers.
'Maybe if I pile them like a sandwich I...'. That train of thought birthed a deceptively simple solution to her predicament.
She reached into her pantry and pulled out a jar of peanut butter."
She spread the penut butter on the graham crackers and put the crakers from the first box on top. She repeted this process three more time before finally having a multilayerd crackers sandwich.
Admiring her creation she licked her lips and after a prompt from her growling stomch devoured it.
Her taste satisfied but her hunger not she made more until she ran out of crackers, then ate them all. Using her fingers she removed the peanut butter from around her mouth as well as the crumbes that had stuck to it then licked her lips clean.
Though she was now fully satisfied her feeding had thoroughly tired her. Using the last of her strength she pulled herself up onto her bed and fell into a deep slumber.
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Buttercup sat alone on the couch, not in the best of moods. Firstly she suddenly felt insecure being in the house alone, and secondly she was bored, and noting good played on tv at this time of day. She sighed but suddenly heard footsteps approaching the door. "Mandy?"
The door opened to reveal Rayza carrying two bags. "Hello Buttercup", she greeted cheerfully.
"Um hi", she responded. 'Maybe I should've locked the door.'
Rayza walked in and closed the door. "Hungry? I brought food."
Buttercup was surprised. "Uh, that's great Rayza but we have food here ya know."
Rayza shrugged. "I know but I can't cook all the stuff I want with the ingredients here." Without another word she walked into the kitchen.
Buttercup shook her head in deisbelief. 'Wierd family.' Despite it though she couldn't help but smile. After all, Rayza was doing this because she cared.
She heard the familiar roar of an engine pull into the driveway and was immediately curious. 'Okay, that's either William coming really early from school or it could be Bunny if she barrowed his car.'
Once again the door opened, this time revealing her brown haired sister. "Hi Buttercup", she greeted. "How are you feeling?"
"Bored", she answered sourly.
Bunny smiled. "I think that can be remedied."
Buttercup looked over and saw a blonde girl in a green flight suit. "Who are you?"
The blonde girl smiled. "I am Adelaide."
"She's Dray's cousin", Bunny added.
Buttercup raised an eyebrow. "Funny you don't sound Canadian."
Bunny laughed. "That's cause she's german."
Buttercup gave her sister an irritated glare for implying a lack of intellect on her part.
Rayza suddenly ran into the room. "Adelaide!" Rayza ran up to and hugged the german girl tightly. "Oh it's so good to see you again. It's been months since I last saw you."
Adelaide shrugged. "Well I cannot babysit you all the time you know."
Rayza rolled her eyes. "Like we've ever needed to be babysat." She looked over at Buttercup who wore a tired expression. "Getting weary of all the introductions?"
Buttercup crossed her arms and settled back into the couch. "It would be a lot easier for me if you just waited till the next family reunion to introduce me to everyone."
Rayza shrugged. "If we introduced that many relatives all at once you might have been overwhelmed. That's not good when you're expecting because it causes stress."
Buttercup sighed. "Well I guess I should thank you for that consideration."
Rayza smiled. "You're welcome." She turned to Adelaide. "And you, go change out of that flight suite. You're visiting, not preparing for inspection."
Adeliade walked up the stairs to the bathroom to change, Rayza went back into the kitchen, while Bunny sat down beside Buttercup.
The dark haired girl barely registered Bunny's presence as the watched Adeliade ascend the stairs to the family lavatory. 'How did she already know where the bathroom was?'
"So."
Buttercup turned to face her sister. "Huh?"
"How are you feeling today."
"Well I was hungry all day yesterday and the day before so I thought I'd change things up a little and be bored instead."
Bunny chuckled. "Well if you want we can go for a short walk later, just to get you out of the house.
Buttercup sighed. "Well, it's a start."
Bunny shrugged. "Well what do you want to do?"
Buttercup sighed again. "I don't know."
"Well if you can't think of anything then you cannot be bored."
The two girls turned to see Adelaide coming down the stairs wearing a simple black t-shirt and miniskirt.
"Then what do you suggest I do?" Buttercup asked.
Adelaide tapped her chin. "Have you thought about names?"
Buttercup blinked. "Um, well... no I haven't."
Adelaide shrugged. "That's something you could do."
Buttercup's stomach growled and she sighed. "After my second breakfast."
"Coming right up."
Rayza entered the room cheerfully carrying a plate of large sausages and setting them on the coffee table in front of Buttercup.
"Do I even want to know what kind of animal those came from?"
Rayza laughed. "Probably not."
Sighing heavily the recently reborn dragoness dug into ther meal, though at a slower rate than yesterday.
Rayza sat down beside her. "What about Dezrick?"
Buttercup paused. "What?"
"Your pup. It means: Of great vision."
Buttercup frowned. "I don't know. I think to put my family at ease I should choose a more... human name."
Bunny nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I think that's best."
The other two girls sighed.
"Alright then", Rayza said. "How about Jacen, after the hero from mythology."
Buttercup shook her head. "Doesn't seem suitable. It seems too casual to me. I want a name with a bit more... power behind it."
Bunny grinned, she should have expected that. "What about Alexander."
Buttercup stopped and seemed to seriously consider it. "Hm, yeah, something like that."
Rayza smiled and flipped open a notebook. "Okay so we've got Alexander so far, how about Dimitri?"
Buttercup looked at her. "Firstly: no thanks Second: how long have you been holding that notebook?"
Rayza shrugged trying not to laugh, "Pretty much since I sat down."
Buttercup slapped her head in exhasperation and the other girls chuckled.
Adelaide was the next to put forward a suggestion. "Maybe Fredrick."
Buttercup shook her head. "Maybe I should wait a little longer before thinking of names."
Adelaide nodded. "Yes, inspiration will come eventually."
Buttercup sighed and nodded. "Eventually."
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The school day had ended and Will was on his way out to Buttercup's home. As he made his way through the sea of students he spotted Billy standing unmoving in front of his locker. Fighting his way through the crowd he approached him. "Hey Billy, what's up?"
Billy said nothing but grabbed his bay and secured his locker.
"Are you okay?" Will asked.
"Can we talk."
"Sure let's just get out of here first."
After ten minutes of navigating the flood of students leaving school for the day, Billy told Will about what happened that morning.
"They wouldn't let you in?"
Billy nodded. "I don't know what to do."
Will looekd at him sternly. "If there's an obstacle between you and theone you love, you either eliminate it or bypass it.
Billy sighed. "Well since I can't eliminate Mandy's parents how am I supposed to go around them?"
Billy stopped when he realized Will wasn't beside him anymore. He turned around and saw him staring at a house, Mandy's house. Had they come that far without him realizing it.
He walked up to Will and asked. "What are you doing?"
"Mandy's the only one home", he said. "It looks like she's in her room."
Billy didn't even ask how he knew all that. All her could think about was an oportunity to see Mandy. He ran to the door and rang the bell, hoping Mandy could answer it.
"Roughly twenty seconds passed and nothing happened. Then a dull tapping sound was heard. They backed away from the house and looked up to see Mandy at her bedroom window."
"What's wrong Mandy?", Billy yelled.
Mandy said something but her voice was muffled by the glass window. Billy couldn't hear what she said but Will with his predator's ears could.
"She's locked in her room", he told Billy.
Billy was flabberghasted. "Why did they do that?"
"Let's just get her out."
"How?"
Will handed Billy his school bag. "Hold this."
Billy took the bag and watched as Will crouched and then jumped up to an extraordinary hight up to the lip of the roof under Mandy's window.
Will pulled himself up and stood on the roof. He examined the window and saw that it was simply a board nailed to the window frame. Crude but effective.
Will grabbed the plank that held the window shut and with some effort pulled it off.
Mandy quickly opened the window and grabbed Will by his shirt. "You have to get me out of here."
Will nodded. "Okay, but you might want to change first."
Mandy suddenly remembered that she was only wearing her nightgown. "Uh, right."
Mandy quicly grabbed her clothes from the floor and dashed into the bathroom to change.
Only a moment later she came out and Will picked her up and they dropped to the ground.
The instant Will put her down she ran towards Billy, and the two shared a passionate embrace. "Oh Billy", she cried. "I was scared and hungry and lonely."
"You're okay now", Billy told her. "You're okay."
"I better be going", Will said.
"Oh uh, yeah great, thanks", Billy called back.
"Billy."
The red haired boy looked down at Mandy who was still clinging to him. "I need to go for a walk."
Billy nodded and gently pulled her along as they walked down the sidewalk.
Blossom and Bubbles were flying the short distance home since the bus was not available.
"I wonder what Buttercup does to keep herself amused all day?" Bubbles wondered aloud.
"Probably timing herself on how long it takes her to clean out the fridge", Blossom replied only half joking.
Bubbles gave her sister a disapproving glare. "She can't help it."
Blossom sighed. "I know."
They landed in front of their house and walked towards the door.
"Remember", Bubbles said. "We're her sisters. We have to be supportive and understanding during this time in her life."
"I know I know", Blossom said in irritation. "But that doesn't mean we have to approve everything she does."
Not waiting for a reply from her blonde sister Blossom entered their home.
"What about Victor?" The two heard as they entered the house.
"Not bad", they heard Buttercup say. "But it still doesn't quite fit."
"What's all this about?" Blossom asked.
"Names", Buttercup answered. "They've been spamming me with'em all day."
"Aw", Bubbles whined. "Couldn't you wait until I got home?"
"The conversation shouldn't have started up again in the first place." Buttercup said glaring at Rayza and Bunny.
Bunny shrugged sheepishly. "Sorry, guess I'm just excited."
"You will have your turn at making babies soon enough Bunny."
The two puffs turned to see a blonde haired girl come out of the kitchen.
"Friend or relative?" Blossom asked.
"Relative", she answered quickly. "I am Adelaide."
Blossom put her hands on her hips. "Not that I don't appreciate your family taking an interest in my sisters well being but this isn't Grand Central Station."
She shrugged. "We are a close family."
The door opened and Will entered the house. "Adelaide!"
he dropped his bag and ran towards the blonde girl picking her up and spinning her around before they gave each other a quick kiss.
'Apparently closer than everyone thought', Blossom thought to herself, surprised by their actions.
"Oh it's so good to see you again", he told the girl in his arms. "I knew you'd be coming but I didn't think it'd be so soon."
She smiled. "Well someone has to come and make sure you're taking care of yourself."
"That's what my mother's here for", he reminded her.
"Your mother doesn't know you like I do", she countered.
"Ahem."
Will turned to see Buttercup sitting on the couch arms crossed and looking rather peeved.
Sighing he released his cousin and turned to her.
"Look, I know I wasn't here this morning but I was taking care of something important."
The room was deathly silent, like in a movie when two characters confronted each other, ususally leading up to an epic fight scene between them.
Everyone waited for Buttercup to respond, but she didn't. Instead she stood up and walked towards the stairs.
All the rooms occupants seemed to collectively hold their breaths as she paused as she made the first step up.
"Are you coming?"
Sighing Will left the company of his cousins and went up the stairs after her.
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Billy and Mandy had been walking for roughly ten minutes without either of them saying a word. The whole situations seemed tense as they waited for the other to say something.
Billy was the first to break. "You wanna talk about it?"
Mandy sighed sadly. She didn't want to talke about it but she knew she had to, and Billy had a right to know.
"My parents sealed me in my room."
Billy looked at her shocked. "Why would they do that?" Then her remembered. "Is it because you snuck out yesterday?"
Mandy scowled. "Partly but mostly their using aht as an excuse to utilize their new authority to get back at me for everything I did in the past."
Now it was Billy's turn to frown. "Don't they realize that you're pregnant?"
Mandy sighed. "My guess is they think that they can push me until I start showing."
Billy's blood boiled. Didn't they realize that everything that happened to Mandy affected the baby as well?
At least your parents aren't schemeing to take the baby away from you", Billy told her.
Mandy gave a light snort. "It wouldn't surprise me if they were."
Billy blinked. "What?"
Mandy took his arm and pulled him to a bench, implying she wanted to sit down when she explained. They sat in silence for a moment as Mandy collected her thoughts.
"I never told anyone this", She began. "But my mother always treated me more like an accessory then a daughter. Taking me to outings and get togethers with her lady friends but otherwise she didn't spend any time with me."
Billy paused a moment to consider her words. "That explains a lot."
It seemed clear to Billy that Mandy's cruel behavior had spawned from the passive parenting her parents had given her. An accesssory to her mother and her father wishing she were a son. Was it any wonder she had been like that. This caused him to wonder; what about the baby had caused Mandy to change?
Billy's thought were interrupted when he heard sniffling. He saw Mandy's cheeks had a few tears slowly falling down.
Gently he pulled her close, trying to comfort her as more tears fell. He stroked her hair as she started to calm down.
"You wanna keep walking?" He asked her softly.
Swallowing her remaining tears she answered. "Yeah, I'd like to stay out of my 'home in hell' as long as possible.
Billy felt saddened by Mandy's choice of words for the place she lived, but he felt he couldn't do anything about it now. But damned if he would let this continue.
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Will didn't know if he was more nervous before coming into Buttercup's room or after she had shut the door after he came in. Neither of them had spoken a word but the seriousness of on Buttercup's face spoke volumes.
"Are you upset about the fact that I didn't come see you this moring, or is it something else?"
Buttercup went to her bed and sat down. "That's not a big deal actually", she told him.
"Well something's got to be bothering you", he said as he sat beside her.
She looked down. "I think my family's trying to get rid of me."
Will struggled not to laugh at the absurd notion.
"I know it sounds dumb", she continued. "But more and more I keep feeling that's what's happening."
"And where is this feeling coming from?", he asked her.
Buttercup took a deep breath. "This friday some science guy my dad knows is coming for dinner with his kids. To see me obviously."
Will's lips curled in a snarl. "What's with your parents are they trying to tell the whole world of our existence?"
"Anyway", Buttercup interrupted. "I want you to be there."
He raised an eyebrow. "Your parents agreed to this?"
She smiled. "They had to if they wanted me to cooperate."
Will couldn't help but smile himself. "If they want me to cooperate the science freak is not going to touch you."
Buttercup's face turned serious. "I just don't want to do anything that'll put the... pup in danger."
Will wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close. "If that science freak tries to get at you." He unsheathed the claws on his other hand. "I'll kill him."
Buttercup chuckled. "Oddly enough that's one of the most romantic things you'lve ever said to me."
He grinned and lifted her chin up. "You know me. I'm a romantic."
Buttercup made a grin of her own and moved closer. "Yeah, my kind of romantic."
They finally met in a passionate kiss that burned all of Buttercup's fears away. At thay point she knew that if all else failed, if her family ever did abandon her, he would not.
so after a long wait it's finally up. Sorry for taking so long but it's up now. Enjoy.