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RATE: Rated M for language and content.

CHAPTER 5: BRICK AND BLOSSOM

Brick and Blossom were the first to get to Mojo's old place. He opened the door and motioned for her to go inside.

"Welcome 'home'," he joked.

Blossom stepped inside and was geniunely impressed. "Wow, it's a lot-"

"Nicer than you'd thought it'd be?" Brick guessed. She nodded. "Well since the monkey left we decided to fix it up and make it more, how should I put this, functional? The way he had it was awful." Brick made a face.

Blossom laughed. "So do I get a tour of the place?"

"Haven't you been here enough times to kick Mojo's ass?" Brick asked.

"Yeah but I haven't been here since you changed it," she said.

"Okay, I'm starting to see why you think of me as pathetic, but not as a lowlife." Brick mumbled. "Anywhere in particular you'd like to start?"

'You can just start here." Blossom motioned to what she assumed was a living room.

"Okay. This here is obviously the living room." Brick said. The room had two black leather couches and a 65 inch flat screen with several video game systems below on the floor.

"Wait. Did you steal all this stuff?" Blossom asked accusingly.

Brick shrugged. "You tell me," he said and walked over to a different room. "Kitchen." Blossom looked at him. "What?" he asked, confused.

"Who usually does the cooking out of the three of you?"

"Boomer most of the time, but once in a while I do."

She smiled. "What about Butch?"

Brick looked at her like she was crazy. "You really expect to find someone like him in the kicthen? Last time he even tried to make anything he almost burned the place down."

Blossom laughed and looked down the hallway towards a closed door. "What's that?" she asked.

"Open it," he said.

She did and there was a staircase leading to this basement. "Isn't this Mojo's lab?"

"Not anymore. Go look."

Blossom floated down the stairs and looked around. There were two doors on the right and one on the left. She opened the closest one on the right and looked inside. "Very nice," she complimented. Inside was a gym and be the looks of it Butch probably lived in it most of the time. She closed the door and moved onto the next. It was a training room like the one the Professor had that simulated different situations. Blossom was surprised. "Why do you have one of these?" she asked.

"To train," he said but continued when Blossom gave him an 'I-know-that-already-Captian-Obvious' glare. "We used to use it to get stronger and defeat you guys, but when we started realizing we didn't really want to defeat you we started using it for blowing off steam or having fun beating up something."

"When did you guys stop wanting to defeat us?" Blossom asked, actually curious.

"Umm," Brick blushed a little, "about a year or two ago I think."

Blossom noticed his blush. "Huh. And why didn't you want to kick our asses?"

Brick blushed more. "Uh, because...because..."

Blossom leaned up and kissed him. Brick heisitated for a second but then kissed right back. She pulled back first. "Is that why?" she asked.

"Yes," Brick said, sounding defeated. "We started realizing we had feelings for you and we didn't want to hurt you."

"Really? All of you? Or did you, being the leader, say 'Let's stop trying to defeat them just because.' ?" she asked him skeptically.

"Yeah, I think Boomer was first to start liking Bubbles. Then I think I was next for you. But who knows when Butch fell for BC. He's always good at keeping things hidden."

"Butch actually likes her?" Blossom raised an eyebrow. "Mr. Hardcore has actual feelings?"

"He does. I've been around him for how many years now. He's usually just stubborn and won't admit to most things, like liking your sister for example. Only reason I know he does is not because he said anything but because I started noticing that he'd act differently around her, like more gentle and caring. Today just kind of confirmed all that when he wasn't reluctant to hugging her."

"I see. Let's continue this conversation later, shall we?" Brick nodded and followed her to the only room left downstairs. Blossom opened the door. "Holy shit..." Inside was an even bigger TV than upstairs. There was a black leather wrap-around couch that took up almost two whole walls. On both sides of the TV were shelves that were filled with DVD after DVD. "There's got to be thousands of movies here..." she breathed.

"Uh, last I knew I think it's around three thousand," Brick said. "We watch movies down here, as you can tell. There's hidden surround sound, and the whole room is sound proof so you can't hear it everywhere. The TV we have upstairs is mainly for video games."

"I could get used to this." Blossom looked at Brick and smiled. She reached for his hand and took it.

"I think the only thing you have left to see really is the second floor. Shall we?" he asked and she nodded. They floated up the stairs and through a hallway that had a dark room. "Bathroom and laundry room," he said and kept going.

The hallway up stairs had two rooms on either side and one opposite the stairs. "No bathroom up here?" she asked.

"We each have our own," he said. "My rooms the one at the end."

She walked past the other two open doors. One was blue and one was green. "I know it's obvious which room belongs to either or your brothers because of the colors, but even without the color I can tell which one is Butch's room. It looks like a tornado went through there."

Brick chuckled. "Yeah you'll start to learn where he's been by the path of destruction that usually follows."

Blossom giggled and walked into Brick's room. The room was painted red and had a black carpet, as his brother's rooms also did. He had a king sized bed with blood red sheets, a night stand, a couple dressers, a desk, and a bookshelf filled with novels. Blossom walked over to the bookshelf. "You read?" she asked.

"Yeah what do you think I do?" Brick asked and then wished he shouldn't have. Blossom was giving him a look that meant she thought he did something dirty when he was alone. "Okay, let's not go there," he said. Blossom kept looking at him as if asking 'Do you do the other thing?' He sighed. "Okay, fine. Reading isn't the only thing I do, neither is jacking off. Moving on..."

Blssom laughed and punched him playfully. "And so the truth comes out," she said. She walked over to where there were two doors. One was a walk in the closet and the other the bathroom. "Very nice," she said and looked around again. "This isn't bad at all. Clean, spacious, books. I like it."

"Glad you do," he said and walked over to one of the dressers. He pulled out a red shirt and black shorts and held them up to her. She was about to take them when he motioned for her to wait a moment. Brick ripped the sleeves off the shirt and some from the bottom to make it more her size. He did the same to the shorts by ripping some off the bottom. "There you go. Go get changed and give me your other clothes after so I can get them washed for you for tomorrow."

She took the modified outfit. "Why'd you wreck some of your clothes? They would have been just fine without you ripping them."

"It's only a shirt and shorts, Red. Not like I don't have anymore. I just thought you'd be more comfortable if you didn't feel like you were sleeping in something ten sizes too big. You can keep them by the way." He walked over to his nightstand. He grabbed the book off it and sat on the floor to read.

"Can I get a quick shower?" she asked him.

"Do what you want," he said and went back to reading.

She walked into the bathroom and shut the door. Blossom didn't lock it. She stripped off her old clothes and wrapped a towel around herself. She opened the door again and threw the old ones out and at Brick. "Think fast!" she yelled. He lazily held one hand up and caught them. Blossom shut the door again and this time locked it.

She showered, brushed out her hair, and threw it up into a messy bun. She grabbed the make-shift clothes and put them on. Not bad... she thought. Both the shirt and shorts were shorter than they had been in their previous state, but not too short. Blossom decided to tease him a bit by rolling the shirt up more and using another hair tie to keep it up. She opened the door and walked out.

"Very nice," he said. "But you didn't have to roll the shirt up more." He looked at her stomach. "You have your belly button pierced?" he asked.

She looked down and laughed. "Yeah I kind of forgot about that." Blossom started to take it out.

"No, leave it in," Brick said. "It looks nice on you." She blushed. "You want to get some rest?" he asked. She nodded and floated to his bed and got in. "Umm, are you sure you're going to be comfortable sleeping in the same bed as me?" he questioned.

"Yeah, I'll be fine," she said.

"Okay," he said. "I'll be back." He walked into the bathroom to change and came back out in something similar to what she was wearing, only not ripped. "Door shut?" he asked.

"Sure but if our siblings ask questions tomorrow I'm blaming you."

He shut the door. "Fair enough." He turned off the lights and floated to the other side of his bed and got in. "Night."

"Good night," she mumbled. A few minutes later and she was asleep.

Brick couldn't sleep for a while and became concerned when he heard Blossom crying softly. He thought she was still awake so he whispered, "Hey, are you okay, Red?" No response. He moved over to where she was and realized she was still asleep. Maybe she's having a nightmare about what happened today? he thought. Brick scooted up behind her and wrapped his arms around her midsection. He lightly stroked her head. "It'll be okay," he whipered. "I promise you that whatever happens, everything will be okay." Her crying slowly resided and Brick didn't want to move and disturb her. Hopefully she won't kill me for this tomorrw... he thought and drifted off to sleep.

A/N: Hope you liked. I'll be doing chapters focused around the Blues and Greens next and it will take place on this same day. I'm probably not going to go through the house again detail for detail, so they'll be shorter than this. Please review and I apologize for any errors. I will try to get another chapter up soon.