BATIM Adventures

Burning hand

Prompt requested by: @ Strawberry_ Theglich  thank you!!!
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"Where could he be?" Sammy mumbled as he searched for his boss, Joey Drew. The man demanded them to have the episodes finished by a certain date, but when Sammy needs him to aprove the songs for the next step, he's nowhere around! He had looked everywhere already. From the art department all the way to the music department. He looked in janitors closets, talked to nearly everyone and again even.  He couldn't find him.

Sammy stoped and sighed nearby a window. His office was far below ground and he never got take a peek at the world around so he decided to calm his mind by this. As he stepped up to it, the glass shattered. Sammy jumped and shielded his face from the glass, a good size rock landing near his feet. Immediately his hand began to burn and he looked at it, seeing the little shit run away from the corner of his eye. His hand now had deep gash and was bleeding pretty badly, the rock laid in a pile of glass. He sighed looking at his hand. That was his writing hand.

Wally Franks had seen the incident and ran to Joey. He knew the secrets paths of the studio and what Joey was up to and knew where Joey was. When he found Joey he told him what had happened.

"Ugh I'm going to have to give that kid nightmares for a few years" Joey mumbled as he got up. Wally saw worry in Joey's eyes for Sammy and followed him there with his broom and trash can.

"Sammy?" Came the voice he was looking for. Sammy turned around and saw Joey and Wally standing at the other end of the hallway.

"I saw what happened." Wally explained. "So I went to find Joey. Luckily I bumped into him." He lied.

  "I've been looking for you Mr. Drew." Sammy replied, trying to ignore the stinging in the back of his hand. "Until that shithead broke the window."

Joey walked over to Sammy. "I'll take care of the windows Sammy. For now let me see your hand."

Sammy raised up his hand in front of Joey to examine it. "It hurts like a bitch." He says a bit jokingly.

"It's deep." Joey sighed. "Come with me Sammy." 

Joey lead him to his office and went to his book shelf, looking at them. Sammy wondered what would be over there that would help with his hand, he didn't see any medical kits. After a moment Joey glanced at Sammy and then back for another few seconds. "Sammy...." He stared in a serious voice, grabbing Sammy's attention. "The way I'm going to heal your hand, you can not tell a soul. Do you understand?"

Sammy looked at him in confusion for a minute then laughs. "You sound like you're about to crazy perform a magic spell!" He continued to laugh. But Joey wasn't laughing he looked at Sammy seriously making him start and questioning. "W-wait. You're serious?"

Joey nodded. "I am."

Sammy's eyes widen. "But I- the world is-I never thought- but how?!" Sammy asked. A lot of questions going unfinished.

"I don't know how there's magic in the real world Sam" he replied as he pulled a think brown hard cover book from all the others and sat it on his desk. "But I learn how to do some. This is one of them so don't worry, it's harmless." He opened the spell book to a page and then lit the candle in front of him. "Give me your hand."

Sammy was a bit afraid to allow Joey to do magic on him, if this was real. He still half way thought of it as a joke Joey was pulling on him but gave Joey his hand after a minute. He watched Joey call to the gods to heal his cut, waving his hand over Sammy's as he chanted and before Sammy's eyes the gash grow smaller and smaller until it wasn't there at all. Sammy stared in disbelief, checking if it was really his hand or a trick.

Joey chuckled watching Sammy's reaction as he puts away his equipment. "So..magic is ...real?" Sammy ask looking at him. Not a hint of joking now.

"Indeed." Joey nodded at him.

"That's.... Incredible!" Sammy mumbled. "Can you...teach me?"

Joey chuckled at this but then stopped and thought about it. It would be wonderful to share the magic with someone and teach them how to use it. Plus he could spend time with Sammy.  "Why sure i can." He held out his hand.

Sammy smiles and shakes his bosses hand. "Great!"