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"I'm-I'm not really sure what you're saying, son." The older man at the 'Choir Retreat' booth tells Butcher.

"Oh, God, can we go?" Cass tips her head back, mumbling as Butcher tries to tell the older man for the third time that God is a cunt. Impeccable reading your audience, great bedside manner... she thinks to herself as if she didn't just say 'oh, God' annoyedly out loud....

"I'm saying if there is some geezer up there with a big white beard, he's a world heavyweight cunt." Butcher repeats himself before taking a bite of his popcorn. M.M. gives him a look.

"I don't think he has a white beard." Cassius points out.

"Does that matter right now?" M.M. glances back at her.

She shrugs. "Well, kinda."

Bellamy groans, rubbing his hand down his face.

"I-I'm sorry, did you just call God a C-word?" The older man asks him.

"Yeah. He's got a hard-on for mass murder and giving kids cancer, and his big old answer to the existential clusterfuck that is humanity is to nail his own bleeding son to a plank." Butcher points his finger at the man, holding another piece of popcorn. "That is a cunt move. Come on, even you got to agree with me there."

"Alright." Bellamy clears his throat at the same time M.M. grips Butcher's shoulder.

"Hey, hey, hey, please..."

Cassius raises her hands up. "Kind of a dick move." Letting two innocent little girls be MURDERED? Cunt.

"Thank you, Cassius." Butcher proudly nods in her direction. "We should lob a fucking nuke at him, get it over and done with. You know what I'm saying?" He continues full force.

"We're sorry, sir. We apologize." M.M. smiles at the man. "My man..." He nods at Butcher.

"All right. Good talk. Think about it. I'm here all day, all right?" Butcher tells the man as M.M. pulls him away, Cass giving the old man a wave as she follows them, Bellamy shaking his head as he does the same.

"You always rile him up." Bellamy chews at Cassius as he catches up to her.

"Oh, I'm sorry, are you saying something? I'm talking to God." She bites mockingly.

"That's funny."

"Almost as funny as God's sense of fucking humor he has when fucking me over."

Bellamy swallows his words he always regrets speaking and keeps his mouth shut. He just hates when his brother is already on a tangent and Cassius purposefully plays into it, almost always making it worse.

"You mind piping it down just a little bit? Huh?" M.M scolds Butcher for his behavior back there. "You too." He turns to point at Cassius.

"Wha-" Her mouth parts.

"You're not helping."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't mean to offend your inner black Baptist mum shouting 'Praise the Lord.'" Butcher smoothly fires back.

"Fuck you, I'm Episcopalian." M.M. snaps back to defend. "And there's nothing wrong with having a little church up in you, you know?"

Bellamy exhales through his nose, knowing hell will freeze over before that ever happened. Bellamy's belief was a... interesting one. He's not sure why he believes in God at all after everything that's happened. But he does. He thinks Frenchie's belief is what's kept his alive after all this time. And he strongly believes he deserves to be punished for his crimes and his sins.

But his judgement day was not today.

"Said the bishop to the nun. What about you, Hughie?" Butcher looks at Hughie as they approach where he's standing with his arms crossed. "You believe in God?"

Bellamy was afraid of how God would look at him, see him. But he knows nothing could be worse than how the blonde woman next to him see's him. And that was worse than any punishment God could give, or the devil could sow.

Hughie slightly lifts his shoulder. "I mean, I don't know."

"What? Come off it." Butcher looks at him funny. Cass tilts her head, intrigued in his answer. She finds those who question God to be the most interesting. Because if a large group of people blindly followed someone and didn't question it at least once... well then, might as well be Supe-obsessed freaks and Homelander dick riders.

"Yeah, I don't know." Hughie squints. "I don't think it's Morgan Freeman up there or anything, but it can't all be random chaos."

Cassius believed there was a God, she just didn't believe in him anymore.

"So you think that what happened to Robin was some kind of divine intervention?" Butcher questions him. "Is that what you're saying?"

"Come on, Butcher." M.M. mutters.

Hughie stares at Butcher as his phone rings. Butcher pulls it from his pocket. "Hang about."

"Are you fucking serious?" Bellamy snaps at him as Butcher takes the call, walking away.

"Hello?"

Bellamy tires to live by the saying 'as long as God wakes me up, I can handle anything.' He's not sure when he started telling himself that, rather it was during his shitty childhood, his short time in the military, or after. And it's harder when he's waking up alone, and not next to a specific someone.

But it's what gets him out of bed each morning. Cause if God continues to wake him up each day... then surely he's not done.

And his times not up.

He's just not sure why...

Not yet.

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After Butcher's phone call, they were back to spying on Hughie as he rejoined Starlight and her mother.

Cassius made sure to put several feet between her Larry, Moe, and Curly.

"Keep an eye on the lad, all right?" Butcher tells Bellamy and M.M.

"No-" Bellamy shakes his head.

"Where the fuck are you going?" M.M. grills him instantly.

"What's going on?" Cass steps over, hearing M.M.'s voice.

"Butcher's fucking leaving." Bellamy answers, not bothering to look at her as his eyes remain on his brother.

"You can hold down the fort, can't ya?" Butcher looks at him. "Just do it." He tosses M.M.'s way before walking off once again.

"So does that mean we can all leave then?" Cassius snaps, so over this Jesus fair and Butcher running every five fucking seconds when he's the one that begged her to come back.

"Just stick to the mission." M.M. grunts her way and she sighs loudly, glaring at the side of Bellamy's face as she backs up, back to her post and Bellamy wishes more than anything that he could've stayed with Frenchie or that Frenchie was there with them to make the day pass more... manageably.

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Hey, heyyyy!! Welcome back to Moronic Morosis bitchesss ;) Happy day after Christmas!! Hope everyone had a good holiday!!

Sorry for the lack of new chaps the past couple weeks🥲 My plan was to update Friday the 13th (bc hello, how fucking cool & The Boys coded + it was the S4 six month anniversary anyway) but my cousin facetimed me & I was unable to write & was READYYY for bed afterwards lol. BUT THE PLAYLIST FOR MORONIC MOROSIS IS NOW FINALLY PUBLISHED!! And then last week I just had other books planned to update the entire week & ended up falling asleep & not even doing that at the end of the week lmao...

BUT WE'RE BACKKK!! And I hope y'all enjoyed this chapterrr!! Different religious tropes in film/television & books ALWAYS eatsss bc there's so many different tropessss, ugh! And I feel like both Cass & Bellamy's views on it just fit them so well, & is what naturally wrote itself!!

And I wanna close out this author's note by saying THANK Y'ALL SO MF MUCH FOR 2K READSSS!! WE JUST HIT LAST WEEK!! I was so happy when I created this book idea for Bellamy & Cass at the beginning of this year, that we got a new season this year, & that I published this book this year!! This was the very first universe outside of their original one that sparked the Cass & Bellamy multiverse, the first book I've published for their multiverse series, & this book idea really helped me develop their relationship & dynamic a lot & breathed a new life into me for them & their characters!!

So with that being said... thank y'all so much for reading this book in 2024, & here's to FAR MORE Moronic Morosis & Bellamy & Cass in 2025 bc... we're just getting started!! The next chap will be in the new year so until then... ;)