Late in the night Dexter was reminded how good at acting his sister is. He was lying awake in his bed thinking over the day before and how it started out like normal and ended with Mandark reappearing. As he lays there in his bed he hears some noise coming from Dee Dee's room.
Thinking that it was odd for her to be up this late he sits up and puts his ear to the wall to see if he could hear what was going on.
His eyes grow wide as he hears Dee Dee crying. "Why." He hears her say with a haggard breath. "Why did he have to come back?"
Dexter took his ear off the wall. "I'm so sorry Dee Dee." He whispers to himself. "I will do everything I can to keep him away from you, I promise."
Blossom and Buttercup never did find Mandark after spending hours looking for him.
"I wonder how he could have pulled that disappearing act." Dexter says as the city bus pulls up to their stop.
"The best we could come up with is he had some outside help, but from who is the question." Blossom says as the bus door opens.
"Anyone you can think of? Because no one from Nowheresville would have helped him." Dexter asks following Blossom onto the bus.
"Tech wise, maybe Mojo Jojo but he's not that good." Blossom says thinking over the known villains of Townsville.
"Well, there is… HIM." Bubbles says sitting down behind Dexter and Blossom.
"Who?" Dexter asks.
"HIM? But we haven't seen him in years Bubbles." Buttercup says sitting down next to Bubbles.
"Who is HIM? Dexter asks confused as to they are talking about.
"HIM is the worst enemies we have come up against. He's a sorcerer, and he could very well be a demon from another demotion. Every time we came up against him we would just barely stop him. But after the last time we had stopped him we had hoped that he was done for." Blossom says explaining who HIM was.
"What did he do?" Dexter asks curious as to what HIM did to the girls.
"He used his magic to try guilt us into giving up our powers over the death of someone dear to us." Blossom says balling her fists.
"What do you mean, did you take his source of power?" Dexter asks having never dealt with anyone that used magic.
"No, we have no idea where he gets his powers from." Blossom says looking down at the ground clearly not enjoying the memories of their last encounter with HIM.
"You didn't… kill him, did you?" He asks worried that the girls had walked down that dark path.
"Oh no we didn't go that far, we just beat him up so bad that we had thought he had learned not to mess with us." Buttercup says her normal boldness gone from her voice.
"That sounds like it was a really hard battle." He says sorry that the girls were tormented by HIM when they were younger.
"It was and we did go too far that day, but with HIM gone Townsville became a lot safer. So I think a fit of rage and anger was worth the safety of our city." Blossom says forcing a smile onto her face.
"I'm sorry that you had to go through that." Dexter says placing his hand on top of Blossoms that was balled up into a fist on her leg.
The cold touch of Dexter's glove snapped Blossom back from remembering the last time she faced HIM. But the coldness of the glove was quickly replaced by the warmth of Dexter's hand and Blossom felt a sense of comfort from his touch.
"Thank you Dexter." She says a real smile appearing on her face as she looked at him.
Over the next few weeks as the weather warmed up and Mandark never showed up again, but Blossom still had him added to the citys watch list as a level three threat.
While walking to AP science with Blossom Dexter noticed that kids in the hall were whispering and pointing at Blossom and him when they walked by.
Blossom had also noticed but she had chosen to ignore them, she's use to the kids in the school acting like this.
Dexter however would make eye contact with them which would cause the kids to turn away from them. "I wonder what everyone is talking about." He asks as they walk down the hall.
"Morbucks has started a new rumor about you and me." Blossom says answering his question.
"Dare I ask?" He says curious as to what Morbucks is saying about Blossom and him.
"She's telling people that were more than just friends." She says telling him what the rumor is.
"You don't mean?" He asks not wanting to say what he thought she meant.
"Yep." She says answering his question as she rolled her eyes.
"I'm not one to stoop that low, but I bet I could hack into the school computer system and get some dirt on her or flunk her out." He says already thinking of ways to get access to the schools database.
"No, it's always best to take the high road, she is in the third year of the best four years of her life. After high school she will be nothing and we'll be going off to college." She says as they start the climb up the stairs.
"True, I am looking forward to an academic challenge." He says agreeing with her.
"You want a challenge, try getting Buttercup to do her English report over playing video games." She says grinning.
Dexter laughs at her comment about her sister and Blossom laughed back.
As Dexter and Blossom laughed they didn't see who was walking down the stairs. "Aww look at the freaks in love." Morbucks says after she passed them on the stairs.
At the top of the stairs Blossom quickly looks down and melts Morbucks heel to the floor with a laser blast, causing her to fall on face.
"What happened to the high road?" Dexter asks having seen the whole thing.
"Well we are at the top of the stairs, I think that counts as the high road." Blossom says shrugging and smiling.
"Errrgh. I hate that stupid Blossom." Morbucks says trying to get her shoe off the floor.
"What happened babe?" Brick asks as him Boomer, and Butch walk up to her.
"Blossom melted my heel." She says pulling on the shoe with all her strength.
"Those girls and that dork of theirs need to be put into their place." Boomer says as he bent down to try and help Morbucks.
"Yeah, they are all a bunch of freaks." Butch says joining Boomer in pulling on the shoe.
"You know you're not the only ones that despise those three girls and Dexter." A voice says from behind them.
"Who the heck are you?" Morbucks asks as her shoe comes off the floor.
"Who I am is not important." The tall figure in a black hooded sweater with the hood pulled up over his head and black paints with a cast on one of his hands who the voice belonged to says.
"Then what is important skinny?" Brick asks glaring at the hooded figure.
"If you want to see those four idiots taken down then come to this address." The unknown figure says pulling a slip of paper from his pocket and hands it to Brick before walking away.
While walking home from school later that day Blossom, Bubbles and Butter's Communicators go off.
*de de dede dee de* the three devices play all at the same time.
"Yes Mayor?" Blossom says holding communicator up to her mouth.
"Powerpuff Girls Mojo Jojo is attacking the city." The Mayor's voice says coming out of Blossoms communicator.
"Were on our way." Blossom says back.
"Duty calls." Buttercup says then takes off into the sky.
"Buttercup wait for us." Bubbles says chasing after her sister.
"See you later Dexter." Blossom adds before joining her sisters.
Dexter was happy to see his inventions were working so well for the girls, but he felt a little sad that he had to walk the rest of the way alone. He had grown use to all the time he would spend with Blossom and her sisters.
As he walks down the road alone he wishes that he could build more of the inventions he has come up with but he needs more complex tools and resources were really hard to come by. So lately he has been writing some computer programs. He's written a cataloging program for the girls to use to keep information on all of the villains they have fought, he's also been working on a program that would allow COMPUTER to communicate with his reprogrammed IPhone. It's still in the early stage of development but he has plans for her to be able to send messages and call using Wi-Fi.
Opening the door to the Pizzeria he thinks that if he gets the communication program working he should maybe work in a way to contact the girls with it. 'It might never been needed, but it's always good to have something and not need it.'
When Dexter went on his brake for the night he had chosen to leave the restaurant and relax outside for his fifteen minutes of freedom from work for the night. Sitting in one of the chairs at an empty table outside the restaurant with a paper cup of soda he spots Blossom and her sisters coming out of the gas station looking beaten up with ice cream bars.
"Hey Dexter!" Bubbles says waving at him from down the street.
Dexter waves back at them and they walk over to him.
"It looks like you guys kicked butt." Dexter says looking over the three sisters. All three of them had what looked like grease or oil spots on their clothes, their hair was messed up and had scrapes on their hands and arms.
"Yeah we did, stupid green monkey didn't know what was coming." Buttercup says taking a bite from her chocolate ice cream bar as her and her sister sit down at the table Dexter was sitting at.
"His robot suit was new and it took some work to take it down." Blossom says unwrapping her strawberries ice cream bar.
"So we got ice cream to celebrate." Bubbles says grinning.
"We also got the brain of it." Buttercup adds.
"Brain?" Dexter asks confused.
"The main computer system of the suite. We ripped it off and kept it." Blossom says answering his question.
"As a souvenir?" He asks unsure why they would keep it.
"No that's what I took one of its Eyes for." Buttercup says taking another bite of her ice cream.
"This was more advanced than what we've seen from him so we took it and are going to put it in our vault." Blossom says explaining.
"Vault?" Dexter asks again confused.
"It's our secret safe place for bad things." Bubbles says her blueberry ice cream over half way gone.
"We have this big safe in a secret location that The Mayor gave us as sort of an evidence room to put away dangerous weapons and devices we've taken from the various bad guys that have attacked Townsville." Blossom says clarifying what her and Bubbles were talking about.
"Sounds like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark." He says noticing the similarity between the movie and what they do with stuff they kept.
"Except we don't have "top men" examining them." Buttercup says making quotation sings with her fingers.
"Anyways just don't tell anyone about it, no one say for us, only The Mayor and The Professor are supposed to know about it." Blossom says missing the reference joke Buttercup made.
"I won't, so are the communicators holding out ok?" He asks curious if his inventions are working properly still. After the incident with Mandark he had been wondering if he had made them durable enough.
"They are holding out great Dexter." Blossom says smiling.
"I just wish we had some kind of super handcuffs, like ones that use electricity or super magnets." Buttercup says throwing out an idea she just had.
"Hum... I might be able to come up with something like that." He says scratching his chin as he thinks over her idea.
"We should probably get going so you can get back to work." Blossom says thinking that Dexter is probably expected to be back to work soon.
"I guess I should." Dexter says pulling out his phone and checking the time.
Looking at the clock on the front of his phone as sees that he does have to get back inside in a few minutes.
"Ok, well see you at school tomorrow." Blossom says as her and her sisters get up to leave.
"Bye ladies, have a good night." Dexter says getting up himself to return to working.
Later that night Dexter sat at his computer drawing up some designs for electromagnetic handcuff.
"This was actually a good idea Buttercup had." Dexter says as he sits back in his chair thinking over what kinds of power sources he could use.
"It does fit with you wanting to invent for the good of others." COMPUTER says through the speakers on the laptop.
"Yeah, it's I just wish I had access to all that scrap like I did in Nowheresville." He says writing down a few ideas for power.
A few days later Blossom invited Dexter to come over to her house to work on their AP Science project together. They were to make diagrams of different sound wave frequencies and label what each one was.
It was the first time in Dexter's several month friendship with Blossom and her sisters that he would see the inside of their house.
Dexter had already called his mother and told her he would be going over to the neighbors to work on homework.
"Ok Dexter dear, we'll see you later tonight. Have fun and be safe." His mother had told him when he had called.
"The Professor is at work, so it will just be the four of us." Blossom says as she unlocked the front door of her hose.
"Alright." Dexter says as following Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup into their house.
The inside of their house was set up a lot like Dexter's. The living room was to the right of the entryway that leads to the back of the house with a sliding glass door to the back yard and to the left was the kitchen and dining room. The stairs to the second floor are just before the sliding glass door to the backyard with a balcony over the back door leading to the second floor rooms.
"Were all the houses around here build at the same time?" Dexter asks looking around their house and seeing the similarities between it and his.
"They probably were." Buttercup says walking into the kitchen.
"The architect was definitely a unique minded person, you don't normally see houses made of cubes." Dexter says he pulled his backpack off his back.
After offering him a choice of drinks Blossom and Dexter had sat down at the dining room table to start work on their project. Buttercup and Bubbles had agreed to leave them alone and let them work, but they kept trying to spy on Dexter and Blossom from the kitchen. And every time they were caught Bubbles would laugh and run away while Buttercup would say something like; "Sorry sis, just making sure you two are not up to anything." While walking away.
"What do you think she means?" Dexter asks after the fifth time Blossom caught her sisters.
"I don't know." Blossom says turning back around to face their work. "I just wish they would stop bugging us, we have work to do."
"If you could call this that, this stuff is so easy." Dexter says spinning his pen with his fingers.
"That's because you're a genius, the rest of have to work to get good grades." Blossom says jokingly.
"Then I guess it's a good thing you have me as your partner." He says joking back.
"So what you're saying is I should get an A on this then." She says smiling and raising an eyebrow at him.
"Easily." He says smiling still spinning his pen.
Blossom laughs at his boasting then hears someone walking into the room. Thinking it was one of her sisters she turns to the doorway. "I told you guys to leave- oh, hello Professor." She says seeing her father walk into the dining room.
"Hello Blossom, and Dexter." The Professor says greeting the two of them.
"Good afternoon Sir." Dexter says to The Professor.
"How was your day today kids?" The professor asks walking around to the other side of the table from them.
"It was good, we didn't get any calls today." Blossom says as her father sits down across from them.
"That's good to hear. So your sisters told me you two were working on a project together." The Professor says adjusting his tie to loosening it.
"We have a group project to make diagrams of different sound wave frequencies with labels." Blossom says explaining what they were working on as she pushes the almost finished project over to her father.
The Professor looks over their work. "This is very good you two." The Professor says looking up at them.
"Thank you Professor." Blossom says happy that her father likes their work.
"Well you are both smart kids, this should be easy work for you." The Professor says sliding their work back over to them.
"Thank you Sir." Dexter says liking the praise he got from The Professor.
"Hey Blossom, is Dexter staying for dinner?" Buttercup yells from the kitchen.
"Would you like to stay for dinner Dexter?" Blossom asks turning to Dexter.
"I don't mind, if it is ok with you Sir." Dexter says looking at The Professor.
"I don't mind at all, we would be happy to have you for dinner." The Professor says smiling.
"Thank you, I just need to call my Mother and let her know." Dexter says pulling his phone out of his pocket.
After a quick call to his mother letting her know he was staying for dinner at the Utonium's for dinner he helps Blossom clear of the table of their school work. Normally Blossom would help her sisters and father with making dinner, but they had let her pass for the night so she could keep Dexter company in the living room.
The living room was painted a pale white color much like the outside of the house, a window facing the front of the house with a couch under it and a coffee table in front of the couch as well as an armchair next to it. Across from the couch hanging on the wall was a big flat screen TV.
"That a big TV." Dexter says as he sits down on one end of the couch.
"Yeah it is, we don't use it much ourselves." Blossom says sitting down at the other end. It was a couch meant for three people so there was only a foot or two between her and him.
"Seems like such a waist." He says looking from the TV to her.
"It's great for watching movies on, we go this whole surround sound thing." She says leaning over to pick up the remote from the coffee table.
"See." She says turning the TV on and the sound of the cartoons that came on surrounded him.
"Very nice." Dexter says admiring the well laid out speakers for the sound system.
The two of them sat in silence watching the cartoons on the big TV and every so often one would look at the other and the other would look back and they would both smile before turning back to the TV.
Around a half hour later Bubbles called for them to come to dinner.
"Be right there." Blossom yelled back to her sister as she turned off the TV and stood up stretching.
Back in the dining room Bubbles and Buttercup were just finishing setting the table for the four Utonium's and Dexter. They had placed one set of plates and cutlery at the head of the table for their father and two sets on either side of his for the girls and Dexter.
"Bubbles, Buttercup, could you grab the other two dishes please." The Professor says walking out of the kitchen with a serving plate with five pieces of cooked chicken breasts on it.
"Yes Professor." The two sisters say together and walk into the kitchen.
After Buttercup and Bubbles came back with ceramic dishes, one with macaroni and cheese and the other with mashed potatoes, the five of them sat down to enjoy their dinner.
"So Dexter, the girls tell me that you are to the one to be thanked for their new communication devices. Quite a fancy piece of technology if I do say so myself." The Professor says after everyone had been served food.
"Yes those were my handy work." Dexter says enjoying the praise again from The Professor.
"They've been a great help to us." Blossom says as she picked up her fork and knife.
"They are a great, and we love them." Bubbles adds smiling.
"With how often the girls would break cell phones it was nice to see something that could withstand the punishment they put their phones through." The Professor says as he started to eat his dinner.
After dinner Blossom had walked with Dexter to then out the front door.
"Thank you for inviting me to stay for dinner." Dexter says facing Blossom as she closes the door behind her.
"You're welcome Dexter." Blossom says she leaned against the door.
"So I guess I'll see you later then." He says not wanting to go home but knowing he needed to.
"Yeah." Blossom says not wanting Dexter to leave either.
"Well, good night Blossom." Dexter says taking a step backwards.
She didn't know where the idea came from, but she crossed the two steps between herself and
Dexter quickly and before he knew it she was hugging him.
The hug surprised Dexter, not only was he not expecting it but it was also the first hug he's ever gotten from a girl that was not his sister or mother. But he returns the hug after the initial shock of Blossom hugging him ended.
"Good night Dexter." Blossom says when they break the quick hug.
"Bye Blossom." Dexter says smiling as he took another step backwards his face a light shade of red.
"Bye Dexter, See you later." She says as she opened the front door her own face turning red.
The next day as Dexter was walking down the stair to leave for work his father comes out of the kitchen.
"Oh hey there Son, where are you off to?" Dad asks spotting Dexter.
"I have to work today Father." Dexter says as he reaches the bottom of the stair.
"Oh, well let me give you a ride." Dad says pulling his car keys out of his pocket
"It's not that far of a walk." Dexter says not seeing the point in getting a ride.
"Come now son, let you old man give you a ride. We don't get much man to man time anyways." Dad says ushering Dexter out the front door.
Dexter figured it was best to just let his dad give him the ride to work.
"So your Mother told me you were at the neighbor's house for dinner last night." Dad says as he backs his silver car out of the driveway.
"I was over working on a school project with Blossom and they invited me to stay for dinner." Dexter says as he looked out the side window of the car.
"Your sister also said you've been spending a lot of time with our neighbors, especially that Blossom girl." Dad says smiling at him as he shifted the car into drive.
"She's just a friend Father, despite what Dee Dee says." Dexter says turning to his father surprised he brought up that topic.
"I understand Dexter, it's perfectly fine to have friends that are girls. But you're a growing young man and someday you might start seeing them as more than just your friend and that's ok too." Dad says as they pass the park at the end of their neighborhood.
"What are you talking about?" Dexter says shocked at what his father is saying.
"I just want you to understand that it's all part of growing up." Dad says as they pull up in front of the pizzeria.
"Ok, I understand. Thank you for the ride, I'll see you later." Dexter says as he quickly got out of the car not wanting his father to say anymore.
"Have a good day Son, and remember what I told you." Dad says as Dexter closes the car door.
"I will." Dexter says as Dad started to drive away.
'What is with my family?' Dexter thinks shaking his head as he opened the front door to the pizzeria.
That Monday as Dexter waited for the bus to school he wonders where Blossom and her sisters are. Normally they would be at the stop before he would arrive.
"I hope they didn't get a call from The Mayor." He says looking over at their house as he hears the city bus coming.
The girls never showed up for the first half of the school day and as Dexter sat eating his lunch alone he started to worry that something had happened to them.
'I wish I had a way to get ahold of them.' Dexter thinks as he looks around the lunch room.
As he looks around he spots Morbucks and her flunkies. 'I hope they don't try anything today with the girls not here.' He thinks and he catches the evil looking smirks on all four of their faces.
After school Dexter walked as fast as he could back to his neighborhood, the girls never came to school so he had decided to go by their house and make sure they were ok.
When he reached their front door he was breathing heavily. After pushing the doorbell he wipes his brow with the back of his hand wiping away the sweat that was gathering on his forehead.
"Oh, hello Dexter. We were not expecting you." The Professor says when he opens the door.
"The girls were not in school today and I was worried that something had happened to Blossom and her sisters." Dexter says pulling his tie loose to help cool himself off.
"No they're all fine, it's just a difficult day for them." The Professor says.
"A difficult day?" Dexter asks. As he asked his question he noticed that The Professor looked a little worn. His tie was sloppy put on and his dress shirt wasn't tucked in.
"The girls should be the ones to tell you, if you want I can asks Blossom if she wants to tell you." The Professor offers.
"If she wants to I will happily listen." Dexter says curious as to what could have happened to keep the girls from school.
"Ok, I will be right back." The Professor says before closing the door.
Dexter only had to wait a minute before The Professor came back.
"Blossom said she's ok with talking, and she's in the back yard." The Professor says as he opened the door.
"Hey Dexter." Blossom says from the picnic table as he walked into the back yard.
"Hello Blossom." He says back. Blossom looked worn as well, she didn't have her bow in her hair and was in just a pink sweatshirt and shorts.
"I was worried about you, and your sisters today." He says as he sat down next to her.
"We're all fine, this is just a day we stay home with our dad." She says cupping her hands together in her lap.
"May I ask why?" He says noticing that that was the first time he's ever heard her call The Professor dad.
"It's our birthday." She says looking down.
"It's your birthday? Had I know I would have gotten you something." He says wishing he had known that it was the sister's birthday.
"It's also the day our mom died." She says sound sadder than he has ever heard her.
"I- I'm sorry, how- how did it happen?" He asks forgetting all he's learned about social interactions.
"Mom was a scientist just like The Professor and they worked together at the same research lab. But when she became pregnant with us she went from working at the main downtown lab to the one in the basement. She was close to a breakthrough in a new substance that could potentially unlock the full potential of the human body." Blossom says staring the story of her mother.
"But one day close to her due date her and The Professor were down in the lab working when she had a contraction and jerked her arm hitting the container of the chemical she was working on causing it to spill onto her." Dexter could hardly believe her story but kept quiet so she could talk uninterrupted.
"The Professor rushed her to the hospital but it was too late, the chemical had an opposite effect on her then what it was supposed to. It was causing her body to shut down and they had to perform an emergency C section to save us. Mom was just able to name us and tell The Professor to take care of us and that she loved him and us and that it was no one's fault before passing." She says a tear forming in her eye.
"The chemical had also affected me and my sister and we had to be kept in ICU. The doctors were unsure about our condition, we appeared to be fine but our vitals didn't make sense. Our heart rate would spike along with our temperatures and our eyes kept dilating then shrinking back, but it had no affect past being the symptoms of someone who had just gotten done running." She says wiping the tear away.
"After several months our conditions regulated and the Professor was able to take us home. It wasn't until we were almost one that our powers started to show. Bubbles started to float out of our crib, Buttercup ripped the arms off a doll and I laser blasted the mobile above out crib." She says letting out a little laugh at the memories of her and her sisters when they were babies.
"The Professor had no idea what was going on with us, he tried to take our blood to run some tests but he couldn't puncture our skin with a needle. He was finally able to run some tests on our DNA he got from our saliva. Biologically we were normal and all he could figure out was that Chemical X had affected us. The Professor had chosen to keep our powers a secret, I guess he was worried that the government might try and take us away."
"But as we grew his attempts to keep our powers a secret didn't quite work, Townsville kept getting attacked and we would fight amongst ourselves a lot. So he finally let us show the world who we are when we were eight"
Dexter was amazed by her story. "It was you mother that HIM used, wasn't it?" He asks.
"Yes it was." She says sniffling.
He wanted to question her more about her mother, her work and their powers but guessed it was best not to. "I'm really sorry Blossom."
"It's ok, it felt good to tell someone for once." She says wiping another tear away.
"Your mother sounded like she was a great scientist." He says as she tried to blink away her tears.
"The Professor says she was and that we remind him of her so much." She says smiling a fake smile to try and hide her sadness.
"Her research was an amazing theory." He says thinking how the chemical worked for her and her sisters but not their mother, or maybe that their mother took the negative effects of it.
"The Professor had all her work cremated with her, he couldn't bring himself to continue it and didn't want to pass it along to anyone."
"Under normal circumstances it is customary to offer a friend who just went through an emotional spell a hug, so would you care for a hug Blossom?" He asks holding his arms out offering her a hug.
Blossom laughs. "You are so strange sometimes Dexter, yes a hug would be nice." She says really smiling for the first time of the day.
She wraps her arms around his chest and he wrapped his around her shoulders. She rests her head on his shoulders as they held each other tight.
Dexter started to feel funny on the inside as he held Blossom, it was similar to how he felt when she had helped him up when they had fallen sledding.
They pull away from each after other after a good while but still had their arms around each other. "Thank you Dexter, for lessening and for the hug." Blossom says feeling less sad about the day and what it reminds her of
"You are welcome Blossom." He says looking into her eyes and smiling. It was the first time he's ever looked Blossom in the eyes and he notices how beautiful her eyes are.
Blossom smiles back at him and they instinctively start leaning into each other, but just as their lips were about to touch the back door slides open and Dee Dee pops her head up over the fence.
"Blossom it's time to leave." The Professor says from the sliding door.
"Yo Dexter, you over here?" Dee Dee says as she looked around the back yard.
When Dee Dee and The Professor appeared Dexter and Blossom quickly let go of each other and turned away from each other embarrassed.
"We are going to where The Professor had let mom's ashes out into the ocean, to see her and talk." Blossom says looking down at the ground her face turning red.
"Oh, well have a good night then." He says scratching the back of his neck, his face just as red.
They walk through the house in silence not looking at each other.
"I'll see you tomorrow then." Blossom says not looking at him directly her face still a little red as she opened the front door.
"Right, tomorrow." Dexter says not looking at her as well his face red too.
When Dexter gets inside his house he is confronted by Dee Dee right at the door.
"Did you kiss her?" Dee Dee asks before he even had the door closed.
"That is none of your beeswax." He says the red color returning to his face.
"Wait, did I stop you from it? I'm sorry little brother." She says pulling him into a hug.
"I wasn't trying to kiss her. She needed a hug from a friend and I provided one." He says pushing her away his face getting redder.
"That's not what it looked like to me." She says smiling at him.
"Shut up Dee Dee, I am going to my room and you are to leave me alone." He says as he walked up the stairs his face red as a tomato.
That night Dexter talks to COMPUTER about what Blossom had told him.
"Chemical X sounds like it was very dangerous and it probably was a good thing it died with their mother." COMPUTER says after Dexter had finished telling her about Blossom's mothers work.
"Yeah, it's really sad about her mother passing away like that." Dexter says leaning back in his chair.
As he relaxes in his chair he thinks over his conversation and when he starts thinking about how he hugged her and almost kissed her he shakes his head to try and get rid of the thoughts of her.
'Brain what are you doing?' He thinks as he sits back up in his chair.
To take his mind off of Blossom and their conversation he tinkers with his phone and adds a way for the girls to contact him with their watches in case something bad does happen to them.
AN: Yeah about that not wanting to make the chapters too long… Sorry this one is long aswell. I hope my rewriting of how Blossom, Bubbles and Butter got their powers is acceptable, this has been my favorite chapter to write despite it being the saddest.