Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I've been through. I said it's because no matter what,

I'm a SURVIVOR,

NOT a

VICTIM!

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9 Years Later

Normal P.O.V

Dark crimson red eyes stared at the over grown tummy a smile touched his lips. He kept his hands on it, getting up off the dark wood floor to look at his pink eyed wife. Their foreheads pressed together, eyes lightly closed, their lips met a soft, sweet tender kiss. Little kicks came from the tummy making them pull apart laughing a little and stare down, blossom hand on top of bricks as the little kicks continued. Soon their first born came running in, her little feet making a pitter-patter against the floor.

"Can I feel him?" She asked pointing to blossom's stomach.

"Of course Hope." She spoke her voice calm and at ease but only around her family and friends but around strangers silence or stuttering was the only thing she could do.

Hope lifted her little hand, barley reaching, blossom placed her hand over hers and bricks hand on top of hers. Brick, using his free hand petting his little girls long tame red hair.

"I don't know if you can hear me, cookie or even how you got in there but I'm Hope, your big sister. Which also stands for your supreme overlord so when you're out here get ready for a crazy game of hide n' seek!" She spoke, hoping that her parents would name her soon to be little brother cookie but whispered thinking they didn't hear what she said. They laughed quietly as the little kicks started again. "Ohh that feels weird! I like it!" Hope spoke, intensely staring at her mothers stomach. She took her hand away and quickly kissed the spot the baby was kicking a few minutes ago and then sped off.

Blossom's P.O.V

I watched my beautiful daughter race off, she had my hair and bricks amazing eyes. We decided on Hope for her name because when the lights completely shut off and you're left alone in darkness, all you can do is hope and dream of a better place.

The door bell rang, brick laced his fingers with mine as we made our way to the door. Buttercup and Butch came in newly married and they had a little girl named Sammy toughest little cutie ever just like her mom. Bubbles and Boomer coming in behind with a sweetest boy named Ricky who was an over protective cousin but it was cute. Hope ran with a big smile on her face, she pulled Rick and Sammy away probably on another one of her crazy adventures. We all went to the kitchen, setting up dinner, we only had two more people missing.

Bubbles jumped right onto all things new borns feeling my tummy which caused him to start kicking. Buttercup rolled her eyes snorting but placed her hand next to bubbles to feel him as well.

The door bell rang again, brick left to go answer it, it had to be the professor and Miss. Keane, considering they were dating again. We did this every Sunday, go over to one of our homes and eat dinner all together, it kept us close and my anxiety down. I only saw my therapist a few times but most were just to thank him.

We called the kids and sat down to eat dinner, grace was said and everyone dug in.

Once upon a time I was utterly destroyed, depressed but I held up a facade to protect my sisters till a night I had my own innocence stolen away from me. I couldn't even speak with out stuttering, couldn't stand other people's touches. Then the boys who stole our hearts came riding back into town, making our hearts break even more. Jake also stepped into my life, acting like he had a simple school boy crush on me when really it was an insane obsession. We believed the boys being here was a tragedy but really it was slowly fixing us up of course we'd always have those cracks but we weren't broken. Then Jake made a horrible plan to make princess kiss brick while I was looking, locking me back up inside my heavily guarded walls. Which lead me alone at home so he could kidnap me but leaving me to meet 4 strong girls, including a little 7 year old. I helped them escapes almost costing me my life, I was beat, raped and tortured till brick and the rest of my family, including butch and boomer, to rescue me. I barley lived, staring death in the face more than once that day but never giving in. After I was hanging by a thread, which was already breaking, the only touch that could calm me was bricks because I loved him, I trusted him with everything and I still do. It took me a while to barley take the touch of my sisters, professor and a few more weeks till the boys with the help of therapy and now the rest of my friends but it took 3 more years for me to not have a panic attack with others simple touches. At the age of 20 I married brick and a year later had a beautiful little girl and now at age 25 I was pregnant with a so far healthy little boy. I won't lie, I do still have a nightmare every now and then but with my family and friends I now that I could never give up.

Brick grabbed my hand, squeezing it with a warm, amazing smile. I returned it and we enjoyed the rest of the night with our crazy, loving, wonderful family. By 9:00 they started heading out because they all had work tomorrow.

Hope laid in my arms as I carried her to her room, a small smile played her lips and she muttered something about talking candy and her soon to be baby brother. I tucked her in, brick and I kissed her goodnight and went to our room, getting ready for bed.

Soon I was laying on bricks chest as he played with my hair, I looked into his heart stopping red eyes, "I love you so much brick." I whispered pecking his lips.

He sighed, dreamily, "I love you too blossom, so much I'd buy you the world." He kissed me, smirking his famous smirk.

I wouldn't change anything because I couldn't ask for anything better, no matter what I had happened in the past, I have my family, friends, children and adorning husband. The same words I told my therapist 9 years ago played fresh in my mind, "Yes but fate has a strange way to make light shine through the most darkest of things..." And that was the truth and I'd stick by that for the rest of my life because after everything bad that had happened I have everything I could possibly need.

The End (: