Author's Note:
I am so sorry I haven't been updating! :( I've been going through a lot of heavy things in my personal life, but I won't let that stop me doing something I love, which is writing. I appreciate everyone who reads this, though I would appreciate a lot more feedback from my readers. Thanks! 3
Chapter Eight: Guilt
That night when Blossom and Bubbles got home from the Mayor's, Him had left to return to his lair. Despite having "gone soft" by falling head over heels for Bubbles, Him was still, well, evil. Maybe not in the sense that he wanted to harm the Powerpuff girls themselves, despite what annoying bitches Blossom and Buttercup were for trying to keep him and Bubbles apart (Buttercup especially), Him had no purpose in really wanting to hurt them unless they wanted to hurt him first. No, his battle was with the citizens of Townsville...and that idiot of a mayor they had. Couldn't even run his own fucking city and had to run to the girls for everything. When Him had first come to Townsville (again, the time he had actually been on Earth was not exactly known), the Mayor was a middle-aged man and had first come into office. The "sweet old man" that the girls knew and loved present-day was nonexistent back then. He was a heavy drinker, beat his wife, was emotionally vacant with his childern and basically just a lazy father, and had countless mistresses at the office. Him knew this because he spied on all the Townsville residents for years from his TV. (even back then he had some sort of spying tool when it wasn't a television, may have been a crystal ball. He couldn't remember.) Most of them were typical, average families that disinterested him completely, but there were a few incidents, like with the Mayor, that intrigued him. It made him angry and want to punish the scum of society. True, Him was an "evil" force, but he fed off the negative energy of others rather than creating his own. He was originally "good", and still had a loving heart somewhere inside him, but the corruption of the life around him and the treatment he had endured for eons made him the way he was; cold and apathetic.
He thought about all the distaste from the citizens of Townsville that he had to endure over the years. He couldn't even lurk the streets during daytime without being called a "freak" and sometimes a "queer" or "faggot" due to him being effeminate, especially back in the 1950's and 1960's when homosexuality and androgyny was viewed as a "disease." What the citizens of Townsville didn't understand was that the sexuality spectrum and gender spectrum were 2 entierly different things, and in the last 70 years or so, not much had changed. Townsville was so sleepy and ass-backwards it made Him sick to think about. The only open-minded creature in a sea of idiots was sweet little Bubbles. She seemed to understand him at first glance; as if she just "knew" that he wasn't scary or bad. Bubbles just thought of Him as beautiful, interesting, and funny; like the time he had sent her and her sisters on ridiculous riddle missions back when they were in kindergarten. The thought of that made her giggle now; it was such a cute and sweet attempt to show her how he felt. As Bubbles slept in her bed at night, beside her sisters, she thought of how much Him made her happy. His visits to her, though they weren't every night, meant the world to her. Seeing Him now as he truly was, just a tortured soul who loved her with every bit of his damaged heart, filled her with such joy and compassion for him and showed her how to love. Her dreams were once again filled with thoughts of just being together, whether their doings were "good" or "evil", just being alone with him was enough to mentally and emotionally stimulate her.
Blossom was slowly coming to terms with the fact that Him and Bubbles were a couple, though she worried of course for the sake of the citizens of Townsville and her and her sisters' careers as the Powerpuff girls, but she could see that the eccentric figure made her sister happy. Every so often, she would catch Him visiting her and she would smile whenever she would see Bubbles's face light up with excitement. However, she knew she had to get rid of the certain...problem growing in Bubbles's womb. If the Mayor, or anyone outside the girls for that matter, were to find out that she was pregnant with Him's baby, their careers would be shot and they would possibly be banished from Townsville. Not to mention bring shame to the Professor. Bubbles didn't want to shame her father, she loved her daddy with all her heart. But she loved Him too, so much that it physically made her heart hurt. She was blissfully unaware that she was carrying his child, a heavy burden to bear for a barely legal superheroine. If Buttercup were to find out, she would be furious, despite the fact that she was the "bad girl" Powerpuff. Bubbles seriously questioned whether or not Buttercup had had a pregnancy scare before. Probably, with all the times that her and Ace had been "seeing" each other. That wasn't the issue at hand now though, she had to take care of Bubbles pronto before things got out of hand, and she sadly knew exactly what she had to do. She had read enough research books about abortion and had enough ability...she would have to use her ice breath to make Bubbles uncoscious while both she and Buttercup performed an abortion on their sister with their laser eye beams. It was heartbreaking, yes, especially to terminate her own neice or nephew (weird to think that she shared blood with Him), but it was for the sake of Bubbles and her sisters' reputations, not to mention her young life. Blossom sadly sighed as she glanced over at Bubbles sound asleep, and rolled over to wake Buttercup. "Buttercup," she said, shaking her sister's shoulder, "I have to tell you something. Meet me outside. I don't want the Professor to hear." "What?" Buttercup said, rudely and clueless, "Just do it." Blossom said, "You're not gonna like it, but I need to tell you." "Oh boy," Buttercup grumbled, "I'm gonna need a drink after this one." She abruptly followed her sister out the window.
"What is it?" Buttercup said, "Let me guess, Bubbles did something stupid." "Yes..." Blossom said, sighing, "She's pregnant. And you have to help me...take care of the problem." "I knew it!" Buttercup shouted. "Shhh!" Blossom whispered loudly, "Someone will hear us." "I knew he knocked her up!" Buttercup spat, "She was dumb enough to let him fuck her without a condom, and I TOLD you this would happen!" "You're right, Buttercup." Blossom began, "And I feel horrible for having to do this, but you and I have to give her an abortion so that we can just forget this ever happened and that we don't lose our careers, and so Bubbles doesn't ruin her life." "Dude I'm not doing that!" Buttercup said in shock, "That's fucking disgusting! I may think Bubbles is an idiot, but I don't wanna give her an abortion!" "What choice do we have, Buttercup?" Blossom pleaded, "If she actually has this child, what do you think is going to happen? They can't keep it a secret forever, the Mayor would find out, and it would be total chaos. Besides, we don't know whether the child would turn out to be good or evil, and for all we know, Bubbles could be breeding another supervillian for us to deal with on top of Fuzzy Lumpkins, Mojo JoJo, and the baby's father." "Oh all right." Buttercup said, "Well you're gonna have to be in charge of this one. I don't wanna kill her or anything." "I'll tell you what to do." Blossom said, "just be sure to be quiet about it and do NOT tell anyone." "Kay," Buttercup said, "You owe me one though."
The girls got inside, hovering over their sleeping sister. "I'm going to use my ice breath to keep her unconscious." Blossom explained to Buttercup, "Not enough to stop her heart, but to where she won't be awake, like how an ice pack can numb pain." Buttercup stood back and said, "So are you going to do it now, or what?" "No," Blossom explained, "I'm going to need you first to position her legs. "Oh jeez," Buttercup said, "This is getting too werid. She's our sister!" "Exactly," Blossom explained, "So you and I have to do what we have to do to take care of her problem. Now hold her legs while I use my ice breath." "Fine," Buttercup said as she held both her sister's legs, and Blossom blew a thin coat of ice over Bubbles's body, not only making her unconscious, but immobile. "Now step aside," Blossom said, "I'm going to perform the surgery using my eye beams." This was especially heartbreaking for Blossom as how she had to use her eyes to do it, meaning she'd have to look the whole time as she terminated the child's life. She slowly aimed her laser beams into Bubbles's body, targeting the child, and she concentrated extra hard as she stopped its heartbeat, then removed it from the womb to...incinerate it. She shed a tear as she held the child's lifeless body in her hands and told Buttercup to go outside with her once again so they could get rid of the evidence. Buttercup followed in suit, and Blossom thought she saw her shed a tear too. As they stood behind their house, Blossom said to Buttercup as she held the tiny dead child, "I need you to use your laser beams too...we're going to incinerate the body." Buttercup said not a word as she and Blossom concentrated their beams onto the child's body as the watched it slowly burst into flames. "Now get rid of the ashes..." Blossom said as she was full on sobbing now, and her and her sister focused their laser beams onto the ashes and obliterated them into nothing. Buttercup looked into her sister's tear filled eyes and simply hugged her as they both sobbed. "We don't have time to cry." Blossom whispered, "We have to get inside and unfreeze her." Buttercup and Blossom flew inside, as they silently cried, and they focused their heat rays onto their sleeping sister, who was so blissuflly unaware of what had just happened. They had made sure to use a drying agent too so that there would be no evidence of the ice. "Now we can cry." Blossom said to Buttercup after they had taken care of Bubbles. The 2 sisters flew back outside the window so that Bubbles wouldn't wake up and catch them. They collapsed into each other's arms and sobbed. They knew they would never forgive themselves for tonight.