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A semi honks speeding by as Frenchie drives, Bellamy leaning his head back in the passenger seat.

Butcher turns to Hughie. "So, how the hell do you know Starlight?"

Bellamy drops his head to the side to look at him.

"I don't really know her know her." Hughie says casually. "Just, uh... we met on a park bench."

Bellamy chuckles, looking forward. "Romantic."

"Huh." Butcher nods, looking intrigued. "You get her number?"

Frenchie glances back, waiting for the answer.

"Yeah." Hughie hesitantly responds, barely audible, staring down at the van floor.

"Hughie?" Butcher snaps him out of it.

"Uh, yeah." He looks up. "Got it."

"Good." Butcher glances up at Frenchie and Bellamy as they smirk, looking ahead.

Butcher's phone rings. "M.M." He answers. Bellamy's attention immediately moves to listen for an update on what him, and Cass, left for.

"Popclaw's eyeballing a vial of V like it's made of Snickers." M.M. tells him on the other line, back in the white van outside of Popclaw's place, he has the four squares pulled up on the laptop watching her.

"Snickers?" Cass looks down at him. Out of all the candy bars?

"What, you think she nicked some of A-Train's stash?" Butcher questions.

Cass clears her throat, motioning her hand at M.M.'s phone.

"Hmm, ugh." He sighs, moving it away from his ear he puts it on speaker. "That's exactly what I'm saying. Get over here now." He stresses and Cass clicks to end the call.

They watch as Popclaw puts the vile down, replacing it with her cup of wine before she slams it down and starts prepping her thigh.

"Oh." Cass clicks her tongue. "Here we go."

She flicks the needle, staring angrily at the tv she jams it into her ankle, gasping.

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"You gonna tell me why you were so eager to leave with me or we gonna sit hear watching roid-rage in silence?" M.M glances up at Cass as she stares at the screen. "And don't say it's cause you missed me." He shakes his head with a small chuckle. "Save us both the time."

Cass shrugs, keeping her eyes straight ahead. "Stadium was suffocating." Is all the says.

"Mmm." M.M. nods. "Just the stadium?"

Cass's tongue scrapes the inside of her teeth. "Do you wanna keep all ten fingers?"

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Popclaw screams in frustration as she back squats a fuck ton of weight.

Rejoined by Hughie, Frenchie, Bellamy, and Butcher, they watch what M.M. and Cass have been keeping an eye on.

"Fucking hell." Butcher leans forward.

"You said it." M.M. nods. "She's been at it for an hour."

"Come and get me!" Popclaw yells out.

"She's insane." Cass mutters, chuckling. "I love it."

"How'd you know to keep an eye on her?" Butcher asks M.M. impressed.

"Okay." He licks his lips, pointing to the screen. "You see that red case over there? I've been around long enough to know a fix kit when I see one." He explains as Bellamy squints and Butcher bends over to M.M.'s level. "And she told A-Train that V's a slippery slope." Butcher turns his head to him. "So she's got experience. I figured if you wait around long enough, two plus two equals nasty."

"Sherlock fucking Homie." Butcher smiles proudly. "Now admit it. This beats babysitting delinquents any day, don't it?" He asks him, chuckling he pats M.M. on the back.

"Fuck." M.M. mutters, audible to no one but him.

"Isn't he great? Almost like everyone else should step it up." Cass hums, eyeing others.

Bellamy tries to bite his tongue while Frenchie shakes his head at him, but Bellamy can't reframe. "Oh, and what have you done, other than try to break my fucking nose? Twice." He turns to her, arms crossed.

Cass's nostrils flare at him before Butcher stands up straight turning to Bellamy.

"Knock it off. Or I'll break it for her." Butcher tells him when suddenly a buzz sounds through the laptop.

Popclaw retracts her claws as she moves to the door, checking the peep hole she sighs before opening it.

Cass and Bellamy force their attention back to the matter at hand, ignoring the waves of anger wafting off of one another, drowning everyone else in their presence.

"Hey, Popclaw." A man's voice speaks.

"Mr. Lutz. Um... house call?"

"I'm just here for the rent." Her landlord tells her. "The rent you said you would pay?"

"You should come in." She offers cheerfully. "You can wait there if you want." She throws her arms up. "But it's gonna take me a few minutes to write the check. I don't bite." She turns back to the doorway. "Unless you want me to."

Butcher turns to Frenchie whose eyes widen. Bellamy shifts legs as Hughie looks at the screen puzzled, M.M. shakes his head in disgust and Cass rolls her eyes, still fuming.

"That was a joke, Alek." Popclaw adds.

"Oh."

"Alek, right?" Popclaw asks.

"Okay, let's get that check." Mr. Lutz enters the apartment, shutting the door.

"You want a drink, Alek, while you wait? You prefer Alek or Alexander?" She happily makes conversation.

Hughie adverts his gaze, looking uncomfortable.

"Alek. It's actually short for, uh, Aleksy."

"I like that. Sounds more exotic." Popclaw comes back into the living room.

"Okay."

"Mm-hmm." She hands him a glass, pouring him a drink her eyes follow his up to her nude photos on the wall. She pauses for a minute. "Like what you see?"

"Huh?" Mr. Lutz looks at her. "No. Yes. I mean, it's... lovely." He nods.

"It's okay. A lot of guys have a superhero fantasy." She tells him. Butcher smirks as Frenchie's brows raise and Bellamy wishes he could cut his ears off right about bnow.

"I-I'm sorry?" Mr. Lutz stutters. "I mean, I... I mean..."

Popclaw takes a quick sip, gulping harshly she walks up behind him. "You know... there is a world where we could come..." She reaches her hand up to his shoulder. "To an understanding."

"Eugh." Cass lets out quietly, deciding she's going to bleach her eyeballs out once this over.

They begin foreplay, where Popclaw slides her bedroom doors open, yelling. "Stop! In the name of the law."

Lutz holds his hands up from her dresser, a black mask over his covering his face. "Oh, no. Popclaw has caught me."

She waltz's over to him, ripping off the mask and pushing him flat onto his back. "I am gonna sit right here until the cops come." She sits on his chest. "You're not a cat burglar. You're a filthy pig. Say it. You're a filthy pig who likes to eat ass." She moves on top of his face. "Say it!"

He repeats it, words muffled.

"Stay still!" Popclaw jerks. "You like to eat ass?" She jams her claws into the ground as Lutz's legs start flailing slower and weaker.

"He can't breathe." Hughie rushes out, turning to leave before Butcher stops him.

"No, no, wait. Wait, wait. Hold on. Hang about, hang about." Butcher grabs Hughie. "Not so fast."

Suddenly Popclaw lifts her arms up just as Lutz's head squishes underneath her and his brains squish out.

Hughie gasps loudly, M.M. shuts his eyes looking down, Cass rears her head back, and Frenchie jolts before leaning forward as M.M. glances back up. Bellamy makes a face of disgust.

Popclaw takes a moment before she stands, stumbling she looks down and freezes, realization washing over her she gasps in horror.

"Oh, my..." She let's out a scream.

"You let that guy die." Hughie says. Frenchie gives him a quick glance. "And he didn't do anything wrong."

Cass rolls her eyes, just when she thought he was too good to be true.

"He was dead already." Butcher tells him.

"That's bullshit." Hughie argues.

"What, were you just gonna waltz in there and save the day?" Cass looks at him, hand on her hip. "Hmm?" Cause that would have went over well...

"So you can cross a street, run up four flights of stairs in ten seconds like some Supe, can you?" Butcher asks, turning to look him in the eye. "And even if you had've got there, she would have clawed your fucking head off." Must be a piss day in hell for Bellamy to find himself agreeing with both Cassius and Butcher.

"Cassius is right." Butcher nods and her brows raise in shock. "And now we got her right where we want her." He continues, pointing towards the screening.

"What? What? What are you talking about?" Hughie stutters out as Butcher pushes past him. Slow? Or stupid? Cass wonders to herself. Hughie's proved to be smart, to it must be the former.

"You're a smart lad, but you still ain't twigged the one weakness they all got." Butcher puts his jacket on, stepping up to Hughie again. "Their reputations."

"Mhmm." Cass hums. So slow then.

Butcher steps around him. "Come on, Frenchie. Bellamy."

Bellamy exhales through his nose, barely letting his eyes travel over to the blonde before stopping himself and begrudgingly following Butcher out, Frenchie waiting for him before he moves.

One poor choice out weighs the other, unfortunately.

"Like you said." M.M. speaks once the door closes. "Whatever the price, you'll pay it." He turns to Hughie. "Right?"

Hughie stares back at him as Cass takes a step forward. "Is that so?" She looks Hughie up and down. "Will you? When the time actually comes?" Her icy cold stare causes Hughie to swallow.

Because sometimes... the fucking price isn't worth goddamn paying for.

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Frenchie and Bellamy appear in two of the bedroom doorways causing Popclaw to gasp, rising to her feet with her claws as Butcher approaches the third entry.

"Easy. Easy." He urges. "We ain't here to hurt you." They all three step further into the room with their hands raised. "We're gonna help you sort out this little mess." Butcher tells her as she eyes them while Frenchie bends down to observe the so-called mess.

"Put 'em away." Bellamy orders, lifting his chin towards her claws.

"And all you got to do is tell us everything you know about this." Butcher lifts the vile of what's now only a few drops of blue V.

"Who are you?" Popclaw asks, snapping her head from Frenchie to Bellamy to Butcher.

Butcher grins evilly as Bellamy crosses his arms.

"Why don't we ask the questions now." Bellamy states, tilting his head back.

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Hey, heyyy... Welcome back to Moronic Morosis Tuesdayyy!!

My dumbass put this chap's picture on last week's by mistake lmao, I was ready to go to bed y'all hahaha, sorry for that if anyone was like where tf is this scene, oopssss.

Anywayssss, hope y'all enjoyed this chapterrr!! Had to continue the M.M. & Cass momentttt hehe. The Popclaw scene was so ew to write, I literally cannot lmao. But omfg, I LOVED Cass & Bellamy in this chapterrr, ahhh!!! I cannot wait to get into them more for y'alll ;)

Well, we are offically on to episode 4!! So... stay tuned & I'll see y'all there, mwah!!!