I'm writing this before I edit this chapter. I'll let y'all know how many edits I make in the endnotes because I feel as though I need to add something interesting in these notes.

Again, TW: mentions of domestic abuse and blood, but I'm sure you guys were expecting the latter.

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Henry fired two shots and one of them landed, but because it wasn't on full effect the man only jerked slightly before resuming his gait.

A slightly louder curse escaped Kid Danger's lips and he immediately took off after him, just barely witnessing the cop lunge towards the woman as she fell backwards onto the ground, hysteria bubbling to the surface.

The guy was fast, Henry would give him that. The sidekick would have gotten him if the brush hadn't cleared out to an open area in the park. Kid Danger was more skilled than the average person at traversing difficult terrains at a high speed, but once that open space was out in front of them, the man was off.

That being said, Henry still had his crazy-superpower-overload-thing going, and he was gaining ground way faster than he ever could before.

He ended up tackling the guy to the ground—not ideal since he was still holding the knife, but he was obviously dangerous and Henry knew that he couldn't trust the police to get him off of the streets, or even to protect that woman whom he was beginning to assume was this sicko's girlfriend.

Unfortunately, the momentum sent them rolling, and he tried his best to keep his grip on the collar of the guy's shirt as they fell. The ground evened out and they eventually stopped rolling. Kid Danger thankfully ended up on top, but the knife jackass was very determined to get free because he twisted and punched Kid Danger in the gut.

Henry grunted and pushed down on the man's upper body to try and maintain his balance. He somehow managed to get one wrist pinned behind his back.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the one with the knife, and what's-his-face was swinging his other arm wildly in an attempt to hit Kid Danger. The momentum was causing Henry to lose his balance, so in a desperate attempt to keep it and the criminal in his grasp, he swung his left leg forward and hooked it around the guy's forearm, pulling it back so it was pinned against his side.

There were a few spectators, mostly some parents out with their kids at the park, so Kid Danger turned to the first one he found that didn't seem to have a child to watch.

"Will you go and get the police officer?" He yelled, fumbling around on his belt for the set of handcuffs he had. The citizen seemed to do a double take, before pointing at himself as if to confirm that the sidekick was talking to him.

"Yes, you!" Kid Danger yelped, as the man below him had jerked suddenly, "he's over there!" He explained, hand flailing behind him in the general direction he had come from. He had finally grabbed the handcuffs from his belt, so he couldn't point, but the guy took off at a sprint anyway.

Henry wasted no time in getting the cuffs on the wrist he had pinned with his hand. The criminal was still trying to swing wildly with the knife in his other hand, and Henry wanted to have the comfort that he had gotten one cuff on.

Then again, that meant that he'd have to wrestle that knife out with one hand, and he hoped beyond hope that his powers would kick in well enough to do that.

Which they had, as Kid Danger's hand wasn't grazed by the blade at all.

Except that he was so focused on getting the cuffs on while keeping his hands intact, that he hadn't noticed that knife-jackass had stabbed him a couple times in the calf.

He literally hadn't noticed until two cops came up to him and immediately exclaimed at the sight of the blood leaking through Kid Danger's pant leg.

Henry did a double-take as the officers hustled to help him, and he rolled off the criminal somewhat awkwardly as they grabbed him by his arms. The sidekick almost went to stand up on instinct, but he snapped out of it quickly and instead went to grab his pant leg to access the injury.

It didn't hurt to roll the material up, and Henry wasn't sure if the presence of that amount of adrenaline was a good or bad thing. He'd never been stabbed two days apart from each other, and he really hoped it wouldn't be a new trend he would be experiencing.

The gashes were…better than they looked—or at least he assumed. What's-his-face hadn't nicked any arteries (if there even were arteries that low in his leg, Henry wouldn't know). That being said, that didn't mean they were good. Kid Danger was lucky that the jackass was still moderately pinned, because the biggest stab wound was about half an inch deep. The other one was probably around a centimeter, if even.

But he would not be walking home any time soon. A sharp breath left the sidekick's nose, and he immediately pressed his gloved hands against the wound. He was bleeding pretty moderately, and he didn't particularly like the coppery smell.

A third cop had hustled up, followed by the woman from earlier. Henry quickly recognized him as the original officer from earlier.

He greeted both of them cheekily, hissing as he shifted to face them.

"Thanks, Kid Danger." The cop started, "I probably couldn't have been able to talk him down."

Henry was somewhat miffed that he didn't immediately ask if he needed help, which he obviously did, but he smiled and nodded his head in return. "I wouldn't have been there if you hadn't called it in."

He then turned to the woman, who, while obviously shaken up, had come out without any physical trauma—well, new physical trauma. The bruises that covered her face were hours old and obviously happened before the couple had entered the park.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

She frowned, eyes not leaving his ankle, and it took her a second to process that the blonde was addressing her. "What? Oh, yes I'm—I'm fine, it's...I'll get over it. Are you okay?" She asked, immediately bending down to reach Kid Danger's eye level, as he was still sitting on the ground.

As though to answer, a wave of pain was sent through his leg as the adrenaline started to wear off, and Henry grunted in pain. "I'll be fine." He dismissed, reaching with his less bloody hand to his pockets, feeling for his phone.

Shit, he must have lost it when he tackled the jackass.

Kid Danger scanned the immediate surroundings, leaning carefully as to not upset anything. "Uh...my phone's somewhere around here," he hesitated, causing the officer and woman to turn around, "I uh, need to call the Mancave...get someone to pick me up…" he trailed off, suddenly very aware of the spectators. He wouldn't put it past someone to try and steal his phone and use it for, like, blackmail or something.

"I'll go look for it." An officer said, and started back in direction Kid Danger had come from, leaving the woman alone with the sidekick.

She crouched unexpectedly, and Henry jumped slightly at the action. Hey, the adrenaline was wearing off, it didn't mean it was gone.

"You're gonna need something cleaner than your gloves for that, you know." She said, causing the sidekick's eyebrows—well, mask— to quirk up.

"Yeah I-I probably do...how…?"

"I'm a nurse, though disinfecting is practically common sense." she stated blatantly, a hint of a joke on the tongue. She leaned over and tapped his wrist as an indication for him to move it.

She reached into the small backpack she must have discarded during the earlier kerfuffle, and rummaged through it. She pulled out a small pack of gauze and some hand sanitizer. Her lips pressed together slightly in agitation as she accessed the products.

"It's not the best, but it's better than what you're doing right now—lay down, you need to reduce blood flow."

Henry didn't know if he was thankful or not. On one hand, he was glad that she had the Authority Aura around her that a lot of first responders tended to have. It kept the spectators at bay, which the sidekick was glad for because he knew he was all over the news.

On the other hand, this woman had literally almost been killed, and she was off duty. She shouldn't be doing this.

"You really don't have to do this, you know." Kid Danger stated, but slowly leaned back anyways as she replaced his hands with the sanitized gauze.

He gasped, and a curse fell past his lips as the germ-x or whatever it was came into contact with the stab wound.

She didn't flinch, probably used to the reaction. "You helped me, it's only fair I help you."

"It's my job to help people." Henry said stupidly.

"It's my job, too." She retorted back, and the sidekick mentally kicked himself. He blamed his dumb words on the after-fight exhaustion.

The officer came up a few seconds later, holding a dirty but uncracked phone with Henry's phone case on it.

He thanked the officer as he took it, and quickly unlocked it, speed dialing the Mancave since he didn't trust his fingers to text comprehensible words.

Jasper picked up, to Henry's surprise. "What's up, dude, everything go well?"

"Yeah, I just got stabbed in the leg a couple times." Kid Danger said in a deadpan.

Jasper sighed, as though the information was redundant.

"Good job, Mr. Superspeed."

Henry felt a stab of agitation ignite for a second at the comment, but he covered it up with a snort.

"Whatever. Anyways, I can't exactly walk out of here, can you send someone to pick me up?"

A shifting sound came from the other end as Jasper agreed, his voice growing slightly distant as he fiddled with his phone.

"Schwoz will be on his way in a moment, Kid Danger."

"Thanks, Dude. Hey, why are you in the Mancave? I thought you were still at—" Henry side-glanced his surroundings, pausing briefly to look at the nurse, who was still tending to his wound as well as possible but was definitely listening.

"That Place." He settled on, emphasizing the words and hoping Jasper got it.

"Oh, I'm still here. Schwoz was working on something that involved a lot of noise so he rerouted the hotline to my phone for an hour or two."

Kid Danger rolled his eyes. "Ah. Makes sense."

"Yeah. Talk to you this evening, Man."

"C'ya." The blonde said reluctantly, before ending the call. He set the phone down on his stomach for a minute or two, before the woman gasped slightly in surprise.

Well, it wasn't so much of a gasp as it was a noise of surprise, but either way, Kid Danger jolted his head up to find her staring in a bewildered way at his wound.

"What?"

She jumped slightly, eyes darting to him and glancing him up and down for a second before shaking her head. "Sorry, sorry, I've just—never worked with a superhero before...do you by any chance have...super healing?"

Henry didn't answer, and instead sat up to inspect the wound in confusion.

The woman continued upon seeing his perplexed look, "I don't know if that's what it's called, but—"

A lightbulb went off in the sidekick's head as he saw his flesh starting to mend, and he interrupted her with a slightly limp hand wave. "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, you're fine I'm just—" he hesitated, wondering if he should say anything.

He caught her gaze for a second. "It's a...recent development."

She nodded her head maybe too vigorously, as though she were trying to compensate her shock with confidence. "Oh, oh yeah makes...makes sense."

She trailed off, and Henry had no doubt about what she was thinking about.

"I'm sorry 'bout that."

Kid Danger saw the Man Van pull up in the parking lot at that instant. He didn't know how fast Schwoz had driven to get here that fast, but he inwardly let out a sigh of relief anyways. The nurse caught on to this, and she turned to see what had caught the sidekick's attention.

"Oh, shoot, I still haven't bandaged this thing yet, hold still." She said sternly, sending a glare to Kid Danger as he shifted to put his phone back in his pocket.

He held up his hands in a defensive position. "You're the boss." He giggled, leaning back.

She sent him a grim smile, lips pressed together tightly as she wrapped him up.

"I will be, now that he's in jail."

Henry could only hope the smile he sent back was encouraging enough.

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