The smoke is thick, choking him. He struggles to take a breath, struggles to inhale enough oxygen. Beside him, Captain Man is having the same trouble.
"We've got to get out of here." Henry says, coughing.
Captain Man doesn't bother to answer, just continues pressing on.
Please. Henry thinks. Please let the exit be close! The heat from the inferno they are stuck in sends sweat dripping, pooling in the small of his back. His mask begins to come unstuck from his face.
He can see that Captain Man is also soaked in sweat.
They never should have come. They never should have agreed to this stupid mission.
And suddenly he trips and is falling, plunging towards the licking orange flames below.
Henry jerked awake, his breath coming in quick pants. Covered in sweat, he struggled to calm his wildly beating heart. "Only a dream." He whispered, staring up at the ceiling. "Only a dream."
But the past was still there to haunt him, to make him wish that he could go back in time. To the glory days. To when he was a celebrity.
Now he is no one. Just plain old Henry Hart. Just "that kid who lives in that tiny town Swellview". Just. Just. Just.
No one every used the word "just" when they were talking about Kid Danger. Instead, they used flattering words like "amazing", "astounding", "breathtaking", "cute","handsome", "hot" and so many more.
Never "just".
He had been a legend.
Now he was nobody. Ever since his fallout with Captain Man three years ago, he'd dropped down the social ladder, as if everyone else noticed a difference.
Why was it that as soon as he wasn't Kid Danger anymore he wasn't popular? They hadn't known that he was Kid Danger. So why had they suddenly given him the cold shoulder?
Charlotte had said it was because he'd gone from Happy Henry to Gloomy Henry in just two days.
And as for Jasper . . . well, Jasper wasn't around anymore. He was too busy prancing around Ray's side, dressed in Henry's Kid Danger clothes.
Of course, no one but Henry and Charlotte knew the truth, but it still hurt Henry deeply.
For Ray to use such a low blow as picking Henry's best friend for the new Kid Danger . . .
Henry shook away that thought and tried to settle back down. He was so hot. The sheets were burning, and he couldn't find a single cool spot on his pillow, no matter how hard he tried. The temperature around him seemed to agree with his anger. And every time he fell asleep after thinking about Ray and Jasper, his dreams were riddled with laughing faces, Jasper's, Ray's, Schwoz's, and, occasionally, even Charlotte's.
And they were always laughing at him. Laughing at his inability to be Kid Danger. Laughing at him when Ray kicked him out. Laughing at him when he made the stupid mistake.
Always laughing.
Henry rolled off his bed and stumbled towards the wall, groping in the dark for the light switch. Finding it, he switched it on and blinked in surprise as the bright light invaded his pupils.
He needed a glass of milk, and maybe some cookies. He smiled. His mother had just baked a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies, and that sounded like something he needed right now.
Creeping softly down the stairs, he headed towards kitchen. Once again he found himself searching blindly in the dark for the light switch. When he found it, he flipped it and gasped in surprise.
"What are you doing here?"
Ray was sitting on Henry's kitchen table, looking right at home with a glass of milk and some cookies spread out across the mahogany table, complete with napkins folded in the shape of pigs.
Ray smiled. "Making you a midnight snack, what else?"
Yo my peeps!
I've decided to post another Henry Danger fic, and I'm really excited about this one.
Unlike some of my other fics, I've actually decided to think ahead, and write more than one chapter before just posting chapter one. (I've written up to chapter three or four sooo)
Of course this is a short chapter, but I kind of just wanted to introduce you to the background . . . to what's going on.
Also... I'm essentially fandom blind. Like... I've watched maybe four, five single episodes at the most.
I'm also one of those girls who thinks Henry is absolutely adorable... although I wouldn't go so far as to post it online :P
(but like... seriously,,, have you seen some things people post... like where Jace Norman might actually see it?)
(like... people... you posting stuff like "i love you jace" isn't going to make him love you back, in fact, it's probably just gonna make him irritated)
(I know I would be irritated)
But anyways... thanks for reading this... and another chapter should be posted soon, although I can't guarantee every week like Crystal,,, who is like legit my hero when it comes to writing (have you guys seen the way she writes?) *falls down and worships*
Anyway... this space is supposed to be about my story,,, and here I am blasting you guys with my opinion on Jace's fangirls.
I really like to talk.
I'll shut up now.
Adios!
-Addict