Septic Ego Stories

not so Bad

Jackie gets injured during his hero duties. Luckily, there's someone at the house to help. But it's not who he expects.

Jackie pressed his hand on his side to try and stop the bleeding. He walked along the sides of buildings to get to the house. If he could just make it there, Henrik can help him out.

He should have known going up against three guys was too much even for him. But they were going to hurt a lady so he had to step in. He managed to save her but ended up getting stabbed by one of the guys during their escape. He promises that when he gets better, he'll find those guys and serve them the justice they deserve.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Jackie made it to the house. He stumbled through the door and landed on the ground with a loud thud.

"Henrik?" He called out into the darkness of the house, but there was no answer. The probably asleep since it is night.

"Henrik? Marvin? Chase? Anybody?!" His voice got more desperate with each name he called, but nobody came...

Then he realized something. Of course, no one is home right now! Marvin and Robbie are at Marvin's late-night magic show. Chase went to spend time with his kids and isn't back yet. JJ is probably with Marvin, and Henrik must be working a late night at the hospital.

'No no no no no' Jackie thought to himself as he tried to push himself up. But it was no use, he lost too much blood to use his strength.

Jackie can't believe that this was how he was going to die. Alone, scared, weak, helpless, pathetic. He suspects that it won't be long before he passes out and not long after that until he dies.

He felt something fall from his eyes. Tears. He was crying on the floor, losing blood. How much more pathetic can you get?

His vision started to blur and from the corner of his eye, he could swear someone was running toward him. He tried to reach out for help before the darkness consumed his mind completely.

Jackie woke up a few hours later, surprised that he was alive. He opened his eyes and had to close them again due to the blinding light.

Once his eyes adjusted, he saw that he was in a big room. Henrik's makeshift label if he had to guess. He could recognize those lights from anywhere since he does get hurt a lot.

Jackie did his best to look around the room. He was laying in a hospital bed. He also realized that there was an iv hooked up to him with something red in the bag, blood.

Slowly he sat up as to not hurt himself further. He threw the blanket covering him to see that he wasn't wearing his regular attire. He was shirtless and had a pair of jeans on. There was also a bandage where he was injured wrapped around it.

How did he get here? The last thing he remembers was collapsing on the doorway of the house. Did Henrik or someone else find him and helped him to Henrik's office?

"Oh, you're awake" Jackie froze when heard the voice speaking. It can't be......

Standing in the doorway was someone he'd never expect. His enemy and older brother. Anti.

"Are yea just going to stare at me all night?" Anti's words quickly snapped Jackie out of his daze.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, still staring at Anti.

" I heard a noise and decided to investigate, and I found you at lying in a pool of blood. You better be lucky jack created us with the same blood type, or else you would be a goner."

Jackie realized that the blood he was receiving was Antis. He gave some of his blood to save his life. But why?

"You helped me?"

"Well duh, what did you expect me to do, let you die?"

"We are not supposed to help each other, we enemies!" Jackie acclaimed a little too loudly.

"Don't get me wrong, I still don't like you. But jack would kill me if I let you die when I could have prevented it"

Jackie still stared at him, unsure of what to do. Anti wasn't supposed to help him. They were enemies, and Anti wanted nothing more than to make people suffer. Right?

Anti was getting uncomfortable with Jackie staring at him, so he stood up. "Alright, you should get some rest. You wasted all of your energy getting home. Of you need me, just call my name and I'll be here"

Anti turned around getting ready to glitch away when Jackie called out to him.

"Anti?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you"

"Don't mention it.....and if you tell anyone about this, I'll murder you, understand?"

Jackie nodded quickly and Anti left in a flash (literally).

Jackie was still confused but a small smile formed on his face. Maybe Anti wasn't so bad after all.

Jackie let out a yawn and laid back down. he closed his eyes and allowed himself to fall asleep, knowing that he was going to be fine. The smile of his face stayed there all through the night.

You can imagine Henrik's confusion when he saw Jackie in one of his hospital beds in the morning.

A/n: a little prompt I can up with earlier. I just love the idea of Jackie and Anit bonding. Even though ones a hero and the others are a 'villain'.

Thanks for reading!

-A.M.Spade