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Rain was falling onto Butch&039;s face Was he outside? Had to be

Man heBecause he was flat on his back and his head was nothing but &039;slaw and the idea of opening his eyes was too much like work

He should probably just lie here and wait a while Yeah he should just sleep for a little bit

Except, holy hell, this rain was annoying The shit tickled as it hit his cheeks and slid down into his neck He lifted an ar around"

Whose deep voice was that? V&039;s yeah, and V was his roo Yeah roommate He liked V a lot

"Butch?" Nooman A very scared woman "Butch, can you hear me?"

Oh, he really knew her She was the love of his life Marissa

Butch&039;s eyes lazed open, but he wasn&039;t too sure as reality and as trippy nonsense Until he saw his woman&039;s face

Marissa was bent over hi on his face And V V was right next to her, down on his haunches, his oatee

Butch struggled to speak, but there was soet it out, Marissa went to help hiot a couple more in him"

More what?

From out of nowhere, Butch heard a scramble of feet

He lifted his head a little and was surprised to find that he was the oneup and down, and he watched as the spasress, but the seizure took over, traveling into his hips and his torso, ainst the floor

He rode the wave as best he could, trying to hang on to consciousness until it was just impossible

When he came back, he was dizzy

"That one didn&039;t last so long," Marissa said, s his hair back "Butch, can you hear me?"

He nodded and tried to lift his arm to her But then his feet started up with the Fred Astaire routine again

Three h the seizure park and the belt was finally taken out of his mouth As he tried to speak, he realized how truly drunk he was His brain was barely kicking over, he was so wasted Except hold up¡ªhe couldn&039;t re the Scotch

"Marissa," heher hand "Don&039;t want to see you drink sofor "Ah don&039;t you to see me drink so much want"

Whatever God he was so confused

V save to patients ere about to throw up "He&039;s going to need soot a lollipop on you?"

Butch looked over as a wicked handsouy knelt down "I know you," Butch said "Hey buddy"

"Hey, e reached into the pocket of his fleece and pulled out a Tootsie Pop After ripping the wrapper off, he put the thing into Butch&039;s roaned Godda he&039;d ever tasted in his whole life Grape Sweet Ahhhh

"Is he seizing again?" Marissa asked

"I think he likes it," Rhage ht, cop?"

Butch nodded and nearly lost the lollipop, so Rhage took control of the stick, holding it in place

Man, they were so good to hi his hand V&039;s pal sure the Tootsie Pop stayed where it needed to be¡ª

All of a sudden, higher reasoning and short-ter poured back into his skull He wasn&039;t drunk The regression The ancestor regression V&039;s hand on his chest The blackness

"What was the result?" he asked, panicked "V what did you find out? What was¡ª"

Everyone around him took a deep breath and someone muttered, Thank God he&039;s really back

At that ht Butch&039;s eyes latched on to thes, then a huge body

Wrath towered over the reached up and rereen eyes As they didn&039;t appear to have pupils, the stare was like getting hit with a pair of klieg lights

Wrath s cousin"

Butch frowned "What ?"

"You&039;ve got some of me in you, cop" Wrath&039;s slasses back on " &039;Course, I always knew you were a royal Just didn&039;t think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part, is all"

"Are you serious?"

Wrath nodded "You&039;re of my line, Butch One of ht, he braced hie took the lollipop out and reached for the belt Marissa and V tensed up

But what cahter A ridiculous, belly-rolling, tear-up, stupid-idiot wave of happy hysteria