"Pants."

"Okay, so, let me get this straight, she's just not a feely person?"

"Pants."

"Basically, yeah! She's never been too open about things."

"Pants."

"And I just need to sort of work my way in?"

"Pants."

"You could stand to be a little subtle about it, though."

Snort. "Butch? Subtle? No way. Anyway, pants."

"Oh, romance her!"

"No, she doesn't like those things like you do, Bubbles."

"I noticed she's a competitive person so maybe I could challenge her in some stuff?"

"God fucking dammit, Butch, pants!"

Butch stopped in his tracks and looked down at himself. "Well shit, why didn't you say something earlier?"

Butch had managed to snake his arms around both girls' shoulders and lead them away from his brothers while he continued to pester them more about their feisty sibling. Both girls somehow remained completely oblivious to the fact that the tall raven haired man forgot to put on pants as he hastily exited his dorm room. Blossom had briefly glanced down and averted her eyes quickly while slowly trying to back away.

"Erm, the challenging thing sounds like a rather good idea," Blossom cleared her throat, tugging Bubbles out of Butch's grasp. "Just remember that she doesn't really like to lose and she also hates when things are handed to her."

Butch pondered while standing there, still oblivious to the growing discomfort between the two girls. "That's gonna be difficult."

"Y-yeah, uhm, we'll, er, see you in the cafeteria?" Blossom grabbed onto Bubbles' hand as she bolted down the hall, not one for indecency. The two brothers, Brick and Boomer, looked between each other and back at Butch.

"Go get some fucking pants on." Brick sighed, calmly following after the girls with Boomer close behind.

x

"Oh, Buttercup! You decided to join us!" Bubbles cheered as she ran to her grumpy sister.

Brick and Boomer seemed indifferent as their middle brother stared at his female counterpart. Buttercup avoided his gaze and huffed at her younger sister. "Well seeing as how I couldn't go back to sleep because someone," Hateful glare pointed towards the two sisters, "decided to wake me up, I decided to get some food."

Blossom looked her sister up and down, noticing Buttercup's baggy sweatpants and equally baggy jersey top. "And you couldn't think to dress a little nicer?"

Buttercup reached down to adjust her flip-flop, "Take it or leave it."

"I'll take it." Butch whispered. Buttercup tried her best to ignore the ever-attractive idiot.

"Oh Buttercup," Bubbles let out a whine and started combing through her sister's hair with her fingers. "Couldn't you have at least done something with your hair?" Buttercup stepped away and shook her hair, messing it up further and making her look even wilder than before.

"No, I don't really care. I'm hungry." As if on cue, Buttercup's stomach growled. She walked away and towards the buffet line while her sisters silently apologized to the boys for Buttercup's rude behavior.

The three sisters sat across from their male counterparts after everyone had gone through the line. The cafeteria was a room filled with two separate kitchens, two large buffet lines, and held the seating capacity of at least two hundred people.

Bubbles happily picked at her fruit while lightly conversing with Boomer. Or trying to. Boomer hardly responded, just a nod every once and a while as Bubbles continued to talk about her passion for the arts. While Bubbles thought he was a good listener, Boomer was simply distracted by the way her eye lit up every time she mentioned a favorite piece of art or the way Bubbles would daintily push her glasses back up her nose as she looked down to pluck another fruit from her bowl.

Boomer really had it bad for Bubbles and that was becoming increasingly clear the longer the blond boy stared at the happy blue eyed beauty chatting away.

Buttercup's eyes narrowed as she continued to ignore Butch and stare at her sister's new admirer. While yes, Buttercup knew that if anything were to happen between the two then she would be more than capable of kicking any ass necessary, it was still a situation that would preferably be avoided as per preference to the redheaded elder sister.

Blossom just hated resorting to violence, after all.

". . . so when we started studying art as a whole I really got into the Victorian Era art."

"Mhm."

"And like, I'm generally a super bubbly person and bright and all about colors, right?"

Cue dreamy sigh. "Yeah."

"So it was just really weird for me to be attracted more to the gloomier looking paintings but all in all I think I was just super into the variations of techniques used to create such master pieces like Dante Rossetti's!" Another mumbled response that Buttercup didn't care to pay attention to. "But you know, he's just like super cool and he's also really known for painting redheads and I think that's maybe why I like him so much? Because, you know, like the redheads just remind me of my sister, Blossom!"

Blossom smiled softly at her younger sister while Buttercup growled at Boomer, who barely noticed. Blossom, however, did notice and elbowed her tempered sister.

"She's as super powered as the rest of us, she can take care of herself." Blossom whispered harshly at Buttercup. "We need to give her some space." Buttercup grunted in response while Blossom cleared her throat, clearly wanting to direct the conversation elsewhere. "So, Buttercup, how did you find this place?"

"Well," Buttercup took a swig of her orange juice. "Aside from the map that Dr. Clara gave us, there are these billboard maps like everywhere. Super hard to miss."

"Leave the attitude in the dorm room please." Blossom bit off a piece of her toast.

Buttercup rolled her eyes in response before asking "So what're we supposed to do for the weekend? And uh, what are we gonna do when Monday rolls around?"

"Oh! We're supposed to go exploring, duh! I want to see the entire campus in all its super-powered glory!" Bubbles giggled to herself.

"As for Monday," Blossom added, "I'm not quite sure but I feel that it's safe to assume that we will be provided a schedule."

"As well as a uniform." Brick interjected.

Seeing the confused looks that the girls gave him, Brick went on to explain that this school preferred to have their students understand that they are equal with one another rather than superior. Individuality was a good thing when it came to powers and how the students may wield them but other than that it was best if the students learned to befriend each other and become a sort of ally if a problem were to ever come up. "There are just some people that view this school, as well as their fellow peers, differently."

"They sound like bullies." Bubbles puffed her cheeks out. Boomer wanted nothing more than to reach out and caress her face, and he might have if it weren't for the scary raven haired woman sitting next to the blonde.

"I wouldn't exactly say bullies, more like-"

"Weak dumbasses that think they are better than everyone else who apparently don't understand the true hierarchy here." Butch cut Brick off.

Blossom, known to pick up on the small details, folded her arms across her chest as she leaned back in her chair. "Hierarchy? I thought you just said that everyone in this school is equal."

Brick elbowed Butch in the stomach hard before re-directing his attention to the pink-eyed beauty. "There are certain exceptions but the details aren't important. Isn't it time you ladies start exploring?" Brick hastily grabbed his tray of leftovers and headed for the dish line. "My brothers and I have some business to take care of."

Blossom held Brick's gaze for a few moments before grabbing her own tray. "I suppose. Come on, girls, the campus awaits."

"Oh joy." Buttercup huffed, ignoring Butch's attempts at catching her eye.

"I hope we see you boys later!" Bubbles bounced off after her sisters, waving eagerly as they exited the cafeteria.

x

The girls spend the rest of Saturday and most of Sunday exploring the campus and getting to know how things worked as well as where things were located. They met many other students who seemed just as happy to have them at the school as the girls were to be there. Some smiled, some waved, some provided enthusiastic hello's but a small group went out of their way to ignore the girls – even when Bubbles attempted to greet them.

"Assholes." Buttercup mumbled, eyeing the girl who was filing her nails. The group continued to ignore the girls as they walked on back inside the dorms. One member of the group seemed to be smoking a cigarette and flicked the ashes at Bubbles as she strolled past the group. Immediately Buttercup yanked her sister to the other side of her so that Buttercup was now the closest one to the group. "Watch yourself, shithead."

The member of the group responded by sticking the cigarette back into his mouth and tilting his sunglasses down just enough to show his eyes. He winked at Buttercup and proceeded to blow smoke into her face.

Her eye twitched in response and she shouted, "I'm going to break this mother fucker in half!"

Blossom and Bubbles immediately latched onto their sister and attempted to calm her down. Blossom tugged at the raven haired woman's arm, "Come on, BC, we haven't even been here a week. We can't be picking fights! Let's go!"

Buttercup let her sisters take her into the building, but it didn't stop her from shouting, "That asshole is the one picking fights! Flicking ashes at you," she pointed to Bubbles, "and blowing smoke in my face is grounds for an ass whooping!"

"I'm well aware of that," Blossom rolled her eyes, "but the point is we're too new to do anything about it. It's expected that we would get some negative reaction, we used to everywhere else we went."

That last statement seemed to set Buttercup off in a whole new rampant, "This place should be different! We shouldn't have to worry about that type of shit! Everyone else in this God forsaken place is supposedly as mutant as we are so what right do those fuckers have for tryna pick on us?!" She yanked herself out of her sister's hold and turned to face them. "We aren't dealing with any normal people, these people can probably take a hit from one of us and I'll be damned if I sit back and let them try and walk all over us!"

"Buttercup," Blossom began, "I agree with you to an extent but as you and I both know there will be some form of bullying anywhere we go. I'm sure that they could possibly withstand a hit from one of us but I can also guarantee you that we may very well be some of the strongest beings in this facility. Your strength is unmatchable and it was extremely impressive for Butch to hold his own against you for as long as he did during your little spat, but even then he couldn't keep from being moved by you and," cue deep sigh, "ultimately being thrown against the wall."

"Yeah," Bubbles chirped, "but I was surprised to see that there was barely a dent made in the wall after he hit. Usually we take buildings down."

Buttercup huffed and started heading down the hall towards the stairs, making her way back to her room. "Whatever, but next time I ain't gonna let myself be dragged away by you guys! I'm gonna fight! I refuse to go through the same type of shit here that we had to deal with back home! Now good fucking night!"

Bubbles looked worriedly between Blossom and he retreating figure of her sister while Blossom just shook her head. "I'm not sure what we're going to do about her but we can only hope that the rest of our stay here will go smoothly."

Around the corner, Buttercup stomped by a hall that was occupied by three young men, all who had shamelessly eavesdropped on the recent conversation.

"There's only one group of dumbasses I know that smoke at this place." Butch mumbled.

"And they flicked their ashes at Bubbles!" Boomer scowled.

Brick cupped his chin, "but did you hear Blossom? It sounds like they are almost use to this sort of thing." He paused, "she also said that Buttercup's strength is unmatchable and that she can almost guarantee that they might be the strongest beings in this place. I think these girls know more about themselves than they've led Dr. Clara on to believe. They are definitely a mystery."

Butch chortled. "A sexy mystery."

SMACK

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Sorry I've been absent for a few months, I've had a lot going on but I'm finally out for the summer and decided not to take summer courses. I was also just recently in Alaska for two weeks with my bae and can ultimately tell you long distant relationships are the hardest thing ever and if you ever wanna talk to me about you and your struggles then I will be here to listen because dang I have literally no friends who are in the same situation and it'd be cool to talk with someone who is going through the same thing.

But my boo is coming home in a few months for a little while and then is being shipped off to another base and if things go well then I will be going with him :)

So yeah, I'm sorry but I'm still working on this story when I have the chance!