Hocus Pocus (rewritten)

Cha. 11 Pinpointed.

(Nobody's POV)

(A/n: warning: long)

"A cricket! A traffic light! A cat!" Jackie shouts.

Jameson confusingly looks down at his whiteboard which had a scribbly-drawn dog on it.

He slowly shakes his head at the hero.

Jackie snaps his fingers in defeat. "You're good at this"

The dapper tips his hat as a thank you.

Both egos abruptly jump when the old apartment door loudly bursts open, hitting the wall with a loud BANG. Revealing a furious and soaking Henrik with an innocent and smiling Robbie in his arms.

Jackie shrieks like a little girl when a colossal strike of lightning clashes outside at the perfect time, the light flashing up Henrik's fuming face like a horror movie.

"Ngh- Vill you shut up!" Henrik howls, making Jackie go as silent as the mute across from him as an embarrassed blush infests his cheeks.

Schneep walks into the apartment and plops Robbie on the ground. He then grunts before looking at Jackie. "No luck" he says followed by a shaky sigh, properly standing to get some fresh clothes from his suitcase.

"Yeah, we weren't too fortunate either..." Jackie admits, looking down in worry.

"There's always tomorrow though? Right?" the hero perks up with hopeful eyes.

Henrik glares at the hero "Jackie, go to your own vroom. I need to get out of zhese abominable clothez und take a shower." he huffs, whipping the denim jacket from his shoulders and tossing it to the ground, landing with a splat.

In the light, Henrik looked even scarier with his charcoal dye drizzling down his face along with the eyeliner. So Jackie didn't want to tussle verbally with the grumpy doctor.

Standing up and about to leave, Jackie does a double, then triple take of Henrik's face.

It wasn't just eyeliner and black dye running down his pale skin, there was red.

"Schneep! What happened to your face?" Jackie blurts out, trying to dodge Robbie at all costs to get to Henrik.

"Nothzing, I'm fine!" Henrik rubs his sleeve under his nose as he takes the opportunity to the walk to the bathroom, as Jackie tries to step over Robbie without touching him.

Jackie quickly blocks the doorway "You have blood on your face!"

"I zaid I'm fine!" Henrik shoves him, doing absolutely nothing to the hero.

Jackie was surprised but didn't waver. "Doc..."

"Just move, okay? I don't vant to talk about it-"

"It was Anti, wasn't it?" The hero's eyes glow a little, piercing into the doctor's.

Henrik looks up at his blurry brother, sighing deeply "I ovar reacted." he croaks. Scowling to the side to mask his emotions.

Jackie comfortingly holds Henrik's shoulders. "I doubt that. Look, whatever he's done isn't your fault-"

Henrik slaps the Hero's hands away "It vas my fault! If I didn't yell at him, he vould have just come back here and talked about it. Maybe he vas interrogating her and I stormed in like ze idiot shooting-"

Jackie interrupts "Shooting?!"

Henrik tenses, slowly backing away from the very powerful fighter of crime. "Nothzing" he says in a pitch higher than his usual.