Heros

Chapter 2- Surprise Visit

Jack stood in front of a lone apartment building. It's was still in good shape, just no one wanted to live in this part of the city due to its sketchy nature.

The cut under his eye had stopped bleeding, but his eye was still swollen. He took off his bag gently off his back, realizing that the mugger had hit him  against the wall harder than he thought.

"That's why your not supposed to get into fights with big dudes...or in any fights in general" he scolded himself as he pulled out a set of silver keys before he walked into the building.

The marble floor echoed his footsteps until he got to the stairs. He climbed them until he was at the top floor, which was only a few stories.

The Irishman walked down the carpet hallway until he got to his apartment.

"Please don't let him be off work yet, please don't let him be off work yet..." Jack wispered to himself as he put the key into the knob, turning it slowly until it let off a soft "click".

He slowly opened the door, looking around the main room in front of him. The kitchen was to the left, while the living room was on the right. A small hallway led away from the kitchen to a couple of rooms, one of them being Jack's room, his hopeful destination.

"Garbage sweet garbage" he wispered to himself as he carefully stepped into the apartment. He slowly closed the door behind him, then turned around and took a light step. But of course, everythings louder at night. The wooden floor under him let out a long creek, like you would hear in a horror game.

A surprised gasp came from the couch as a figure shot up.

"Vhat the hell?! Seàn? Vhere have you been? It's vell past midnight" A brown haired German asked as he turned on the lamp beside him.

"Um.." Jack's mind went crazy as he tried to find an excuse, but he was too late. The German walked toward him and stopped ubruptly. He was wearing a dark blue T-shirt with scrub pants. His hair still as messy as it's always been.

"Vhat zhe hell happened to your face?"
He asked as he held Jack's face in his hands, examining it. Jack winced and pulled away. He stepped back, holding his hands up innocently.

"It's okay Shneep! It was just a small little fight-"
"Is your neck bruised too?" Shneep asked him. He sighed as Jack stayed quiet, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Vell come on, time to give you a check up"
"But honestly, im-" Shneep didn't let him finish as he practically drug him to the last door in the hallway. It was set up like a doctor's office. A medical bed, computer, supplies, all the good stuff.

Why he has it, I don't know. Guess he likes to work at home?

Shneep made Jack sit down on the bed as he went to the cabinet, grabbing some peroxide and cloth.

"Now Seàn, tell me vhat happened"
Jack reluctanty explained what happened from leaving Felix's place, to meeting Ethan, only stoping when he winced from the peroxide.

"Vhat was very brave of you to help, but zhink about if you had gotten seriously hurt, and I vasn't off work yet..." The doctor sighed as he sat down next to Jack, putting a bandage over the cut.

Jack felt a twinge of guilt as he hugged his older cousin. He knew the doctor had lost patients, and it had taken a toll on him. He didn't want to think about what would happen to Shneep if he were to die.

"I'm sorry shneep, but I had too. He was getting hurt, I couldn't leave him there" he felt Shneeps hand on his shoulder.

"It's ok Jack. Just... Please be carful, you'd some of zhe last family I got"
"I'll try, but ain't promising nothing"
The doctor smiled and ruffled His little cousins hair. He stood up started to clean up the office. Jack stood up to help, until something bright green cought his eye outside the window. As he turned to look, it was gone.

"What the hell..." He wispered to himself as he hurried to the window, looking out at the street only two stories below him.

"Vhat are you doing Jack?" Shneep asked Jack, looking at him in concern.
"You didn't-i thought ..." he sighed, "Never mind, I'm just going to bed"
"Okay zhen. Good night"

Jack went to his room and flopped on his bed, then instantly regretted it. The Irish teen thought about what happened. It felt good to help someone. He sorley took off his black PMA sweater and looked at his phone.

"Damn, it's 2:00 in the morning. I should go to sleep, buuuut sleeps for the weak!" He lightly shouted to himself as he sat back up.

He started towards his computer until he felt a slight breeze that made him shiver. He looked over to his window to see it slightly open.

"That's weird. I could have sworn I closed that before I left for Felix's. guess Shneep opened it"

Jack walked over to the window and put his hands on the seel to close it. As he did, he saw a green glare reflect of the window from behind him. He turned around quickly to see a floating green eye only a few inches from his face.

"Jesus Christ!" He screamed. The eyes tail went straight up in front of it, as if telling him to shush, but Jack was too freaked out to notice.

"SHNE-" the eye suddenly launched a Jack's head. Once it made contact, he felt himself hit the floor, and everything went black.