I don;t own fusionfall. 4 of 4 of the corrupt past arc

Chapter 43: Corrupted Past: Part 4: Pained

Eight days after the incident with the fusion of Holden and Tessa, a funeral is held in Endsville for the Wrens. Dexter and many others thought it is only right that Holden's parents be given a funeral even after what they had done was discovered. Many people attended, but oddly, Holden is no where to be found at the service.

Afterwards, the girls and the Professor return home on that windy cold November day. They enter the house and Blossom goes upstairs to her room to change. The room to the left of hers is Holden's. Bubbles' room is to the right of Blossom's and across the hall from Holden's is Buttercup's.

Blossom enters her room and uses her X-ray vision on the wall to see if Holden is in his room. He is in there, but he didn't get up from his bed to bang on the wall like he usually did when someone spied on him with their X-ray vision. Blossom could tell that he wanted to be left alone. That's the only reason he came home, because he couldn't get that kind of privacy in the tree house.

What did shock Blossom is to see him crying. She couldn't remember the last time she had seen Holden crying like this. Buttercup knocks on the door and she and Bubbles enter. They both have looks of worry on their faces.

Blossom knew what they wanted to do and she responds, "You both want to talk to him right?"

Buttercup nods, places her hands on her hips and replies, "Well duh, why wouldn't we try to? He's our brother after all. He always cheered us up when we are down or sad."

The triplets walk out into the hallway and slowly open the door to Holden's room. Blossom enters the room first and then sits next to Holden on his bed and runs her hand through his hair. Bubbles and Buttercup then enter, also sitting on the bed. Bubbles sits to Holden's left and Buttercup sits behind him.

Holden is still crying, but he manages to say something through the sobs. "I hate my parents, but why do I even feel this way? Why do I even care that they are dead? They abused me and I care they are dead! WHY?"

Bubbles pats him on the arm and responds in a low gentle voice, "They were still your family, no matter how cruel, heartless, and cold they turned out to be towards you."

Holden doesn't even turn to look at her, but responds, "If they were my family, why did they leave me like they did? Did they ever once care about me?"

Buttercup grips his shoulder and then responds, "Even if they did leave you, we're still your family and always have been. We care about you and that is what counts in the end."

Holden remains silent, still hearing in the back of his mind, his parents calling him an imperfection, stupid and a mistake.

Blossom brushes her hand through his hair again gently; nodding her head to what Buttercup has said and responds, "I know what your thinking sweetheart. It doesn't matter if you're an imperfection to your parents. You're perfect to us in our eyes, as our brother and as my boyfriend. We still love you and nothing will ever change that."

She giggles. Bubbles and Buttercup both smile and nod in agreement.

Holden sits up with a weak smile, while wiping away a few tears.

The three girls hug him tightly and Bubbles says, "We finally got you smiling again Holdie."

Holden then says in a small voice, "Thanks for making me feel a bit better."

All three of them stick their tongues out at him playfully.

Buttercup scotches off the bed and responds, "Come on, we have to talk to the Professor about this Exvarn stuff."

All four of them leave Holden's room to go down stairs.

The Professor is in the living room sitting in a chair looking over a report.

He looks up at the noise of the four teens coming down the stairs and he responds, "Holden you're looking a bit better. Is there's something you wanted to talk about?"

Holden nods to the Professor's comment and responds, "It's about Exvarn. Blossom and Buttercup said that my parents injected me with it. What do you know of it?"

The Professor frowns and says, "I know your parents developed it and that it has more potency than Chemical X."

The Professor sighs, looks at the floor and finally says, "I thought I knew your parents since I was good friends with them before and during college. Now, I don't even know who they are after all this."

Blossom frowns and then interjects, "There's something else about Exvarn isn't there Professor?"

The Professor nods and responds, "Since it was injected into Holden, I really don't know what will happen. I do know that once it breaks down in a person's blood, that person will start to develop powers like you girls have. I can't figure out what would trigger a breakdown to happen. Even a small amount if broken down would give limited abilities for only a minute or two."

Holden closes his eyes to think before opening them again. He knew that it happened to him once and the Professor knew it also.

Blossom looks intently over at him, worried, and says, "It's happened before hasn't it?"

Holden averts his gaze and looks down at the floor, closes his eyes and says in shame, "I don't even remember it happening because I was unconscious."

Buttercup then replies with a huge grin on her face, "That means you could get powers like us. That's cool actually. You can finally kick Mojo's butt more effectively now."

Bubbles eyes widen with surprise and replies, "Holdie, why didn't you tell us about this? We would have understood."

Holden just looks at his two sisters with sadness in his eyes and replies, "I don't want them."

Buttercup frowns and replies, "Why wouldn't you want them little bro?"

Holden then sits down on the couch and states, "I was scared…"

Buttercup's laugh interrupts him and she then replies mocking, "You? Scared of getting powers? That's worse then when Bubbles was scared of the dark."

Bubbles pouts, "That's not very nice Buttercup. Holdie, why were you scared?"

Holden breaths out slowly and continues, "I was scared to tell you what happened because of what all of you would think. I was scared of what would happen if I did get them and I lost control and I...I hurt all of you. I don't want to become like the Rowdy's. I don't want to lose who am I as a person and I don't want to lose the only family I have left."

A few tears appear in his eyes and Blossom sits next to him and hugs him tightly.

She can feel him shaking slightly and then coos, "It's alright. You don't have to be scared about hurting us or losing yourself to that or anything else. We're here for you if something happens like that."

She gives him a quick kiss and winks at him. Holden's smile returns at her reassuring words.

The Professor frowns, trying to change the subject, then says, "There's no point in dwelling on this right now. Let's get some dinner. Holden, I know you haven't eaten anything in the past week, so you must be starving. What would you four like to eat? We can order out for something."

The four teens huddle up discussing what they wanted. The four always disagreed on what to get when they called out for food. Today, it seems different because the huddle only lasted a few moments. The four have huge grins on their faces and they then go into the kitchen, leaving the Professor perplexed about what is going on.

Well it ends on a lighter note closing out the dark part of the fic. review please and say what you think.