No, no, no, no, no. He has to be around here somewhere. He can't just disappear like that. She swore she saw him just yesterday.
Jazz rips the blankets off of her bed, shaking them out and throwing them aside when she didn't find what she was looking for. Going back to her bed, she pulls the mattress off the frame and looks underneath it and in between the wall. Not there either.
She kneels down and crawls under her bed, pushing books and old toys out of the way.
Nothing but dust bunnies and spiders under there.
Where could he be?
Jazz takes one last look around the room before running into the hall and into Danny's room without knocking.
"Jazz! Hey! It's called knocking!" Danny says, falling from the air onto his bed with a transformation. "What if mom and dad had been in the hallway?"
"Have you seen Bearbert?" Jazz asked, hair askew.
"Bearbert? Why would I have seen Bearbert?"
"Because I can't find him!" Jazz wailed. "I'm sure I saw him yesterday but now I don't know where he went!"
"Well, he's not in here." Danny said as he picked up an open book from his bed. "Why do you need that old thing anyways? It's just a stuffed animal."
Jazz glares at him before walking out the door and slamming it shut.
"What?" Danny said from the other side. "It's not like you need it anymore."
"Shut up, Danny." Jazz said as she walked away from his door and down the stairs. Maybe she had left him in the living room after the last time her mom fixed him.
Walking over to their shelf that held all their knick knacks, Jazz scanned it for Bearbert. He wasn't there either.
"Hhhhhh." Jazz whined and started heading down towards the lab.
"Mom? Dad?" She called as she walked down the stairs.
"What is it, Jazzypants?" Jack called to her.
"Have you guys seen Bearbert? I can't find him anywhere. He wouldn't be in your room, would he?" Jazz asked as she twisted her hair.
"Sorry sweetie." Maddie said as she pulled her hood back. "I haven't seen him since I stitched up his arm last week."
Jazz sighed. "That's okay. Thanks anyways."
She headed back upstairs and collapsed face first into the couch.
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Jazz walked grumpily down the hallway at school. She had been up late last night as she continued tearing her room apart in her search for Bearbert. She doesn't know what she could have done with him.
She opened her locker and pulled out her books, slamming the door closed when she was done. Maybe she'll have to ask Sam and Tucker later when they-
"Hey, guys, check this out! I found this at Fenton's place when his sister was tutoring me. Fenton really is a baby, huh, keeping his old toys like this."
Jazz's eyes squinted and she turned the corner to see Dash Baxter standing in the middle of the hallway, presenting Bearbert to a crowd of people.
"What a nerd." Dale said, trying to snatch the bear from Dash's grasp, who raised it out of his reach.
"Now come on, we gotta do something good with it. If we just-"
Dash stopped as soon as he saw Jazz stomping through the crowd of people towards him, a death stare on her face. She stopped in front of him and held her hand out in a give me motion.
"What? Are you here to rescue your baby brother's toy back for him?" Dash chuckled, high fiving Dale.
"No. I'm here to get my bear back from you." Jazz said coldly.
The crowd in the hallway quiets and shuffles awkwardly at Jazz's tone. No one wants to mess with the goody two shoes when she's brimming with rage.
Slowly, Dash places Beartbert into Jazz's hand. She gives the bear a thorough look over, double checking to make sure that the seam her mom had fixed last week was still intact and tucked him into the crook of her arm. Jazz is about to turn and walk away before she faces Dash again and clocks him in the face.
The crowd around them gasps as Dash falls to the floor, partly from the shock and partly because Jazz can actually hit pretty damn hard.
"Don't touch people's stuff." She growls and starts heading away down the hall.
Behind her, she can hear Dash's friends howling with laughter at him.
"Man, Dash! That was real good!"
"Shut up!"
As she walked away, she held Bearbert in front of her, giving him another lookover. Then she sighed and pulled him into a hug against her chest.
Everything was once again right in the world.
