JD: I'm so sorry I haven't updated this in forever! Between job hunting dealing with drama and being sick I haven't thought much of this account and stories. Spelling errors are from getting use to new kindle.
Recaps
On their way out of the restaurant they wave goodbye to Miss Wanda and her niece, Julia. Running ahead of Alex, Jack span around turning to face her twin. "It's the WEEKEND!" Jack scream on top of her lungs making Alex laugh at her. It's getting warmer out even at night but it still gets really cold at night. Wasn't freezing just cool compare to normal night in New Orleans.
Alex walked out to her and pull her to where her bike is chain up. Unlocking the chain and checking to make sure the the back was okay for her to stand on while Jack peddle them home. She push her bike and chain rap around her arm to where Jack is. Before she got across the street a car came swinging around the corner of the restaurant and hitting Alex and her bike hard enough to make Alex go flying over the car, Hulk went under. The car stop and out the driver's side came a man with brown hair that wasn't long just shaggy. It cover his eyes slightly and it in it's own way was neat even as shaggy. He move his hand through his hair showing his glowing blue eyes and he ran to where the twin laid. The other twin ran to her too. They both kneel down to her level and Jack help her twin up. Her right arm hurt more then it should.
"Crap, I think my arm is broken." She said and Jack move to her legs and saw her left ankle.
"Look like twisted ankle too." She said and then look to the older twin's face. "You'll need to see a doc." She said and then the worry of the bill hit them.
"How will we pay?" They both asked. They are saving up to move out when they turn eighteen they don't have money to spend on this and surely their mother and step-father won't pay for it.
"I know someone that will come out here." He said standing up going back to his car. Alex hits Jack's arm and motion her to follow the idiot that ran her over. Jack did and the man step out of the car looking to the twins.
Chapter Three:
Doctor Ratchet
"So?" Jack ask as she got closer. The man lean against his car and look between the two. "What your person said?" Jack was losing her temper with this guy.
He shrug his shoulders then a few minutes later sirens can be heard as a yellow green rescue hummer came around the restaurant. It stop a good bit back and a man with dark hair and blue eyes that glow neon blue behind his glasses. He's handsome for an older guy. He walked over to Alex and start to check her over. Jack moved from one foot to next not liking have to wait.
He help the girl into the back of the hummer and made Jack wait with the guy that hit her. "You two look like you will need a ride." He stated motion to the destroyed bike.
Jack winced at the thought of walking all of the way back to the house. It's not home so why call it that? The man was watching her closely as she look away to her twin sister's once upon a time hulk green bike.
Jack start to walk over where the older man helped her twin down. She had a cast on. It isn't a full leg cast but still one. Jack got to her twin and hugged her. The pain of someone touching Jack was worst then when she fell out of the tree when Alex and Cass dared her to climb it. While Alex start to pull away mumbling apologies to her twin. "Sides, you glitch, did you ran ober both of them?" The older man glaring at the younger one.
The younger one shook his head confuse about what's going on. "No. Only the one in red." He said real fast with his hands up. Jack and Alex both heard a hint of anger for being accused of such of thing.
Jack sigh and assume the doctor just notice the limp everyone ignores and the wince from the hug. "No, I just get in a lot of fights." Jack said with a force grin.
The doctor motion her forward. Softly he put pressure on her ribs which made her whimper in pain. "Broken rib. I can only feel one." He added as he motion her to turn. She did and touch her shoulder and a slight yelp left her lips when his cold hands touch skin. "Did you put a dislocated shoulder back in place?" He ask with concern in his voice but it was burried under the gruffness he was trying to play out.
Alex gave her a stern look. "You promise you wouldn't do that anymore by yourself."
Jack roll her eyes at her best friend and sister. "Well sorry it was that or get an F on a test because nurse refused to see me." She groan at the older twin.
Alex cross her arms and kept a steady glaring like stare at her twin who return it. "You two remind me of another set of twins I know." The doctor huff out.
The twins broke the glaring daggers at each other contest to look at him confused. "Hatch, can I leave?" The younger man ask aggravated heading back to his car.
"No, you are taking Miss Alex home. You don't have room for both and I need room to look over this one's leg." The younger groan but with a look that scares the young twins made the younger man agree.
"Name Jacquline but everyone calls me Jack." The other twin smile but the smile never went to her eyes. He nod his head and help her in to his passenger seat. She slip the seatbelt around her and he climb in starting the hummer driving down the road. The silver car right behind them. She gave him directions and with in fifteen minutes they were at a small white house with a wooden add on porch. A man came out, he can'teven walk right.
Jack flench and softly clench the door not wanting to get out. Fear doesn't cut what was going through her. Terrified stiff doesn't even discribe it. "Jack?" 's voice cut through. "Did you hear me?" He ask.
She shook her head and then took a deep breath. "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention." She laugh uneasy.
He looks like the type who wluld get pissed when others didn't listen to him or pay attention. The way he is looking at her though spoke volumes. She refuse to take pity. Her life is hell but no reason to take pity of others. "Do I need to speak to him about what happen or is there someone else I can speak to?"
She softly gulp. Her mother is an empty shell. He will see it once meeting her. That only leaves him. "Only him." She said softly. Her hair falling in front of her face. The man nod and got out of the hummer. He walked around it opening the door then help her down. "Whore!" The slur of word didn't effect how she still understood clear as day.
She start to walking pass as the doctor walk beside her. "Sir, I am Doctor Ratchet...-" he started but the asshole wouldn't listen.
He reach pass the doctor grabbing Jack's hair pulling it hard making her go down and he kick her where her broken rib is. Her scream made something snap.
The silver sport car though looks like normally speeds didn't this time. The guy stayed right behimd the hummer. The hummer speed up but he didn't. Glancing over to the young man he was what looks like lost in thought. "You know you are losing them right?" Alex's voice is softer than her twins and also something else is held in it. In a strange way she felt like she was picking on him.
He smile though it was a ghost smile. "He will get fragging pissed if I speed while you are in the car." He said as the hummer left view mostly.
She nod her head in understanding and look out the window. The fifteen minutes back to the dump they call a 'home' but Alex and Jack refur to as hell seem longer than should be.
As he slowed down Alex got a pang in her gut and a rush of fear. "Speed now." She panic and he glance to her and saw the panic. He put the metal to the petal and was in behind the hummer to see a man holding Jack on the ground with his foot on where Doctor Ratchet said she has a broken rib. He also pulling her hair.
Before the car could come to a complete stop not caring about her soreness or cast Alex was out of the car running as fast as she could to her twin. The man let go of Jack's hair and fell back as the good doctor gives him a good punch.
The brown hair shaggy man went to the girls looking ay them then to the Doctor. "Never seen you disobay an order from Prime." The younger man teased.
The doctor looks aggravated now at the younger one. "I am going to call Ironhide and Lennox." Be gruffs out walking away.
The younger man look down at the two girls. Alex is wrap around her twin sister singing a song softly though the soft sobs in her voice normal people wouldn't catch. "Lets move you two to a better spot." He motion to the drunk K.O. man not far from them.
Jack nod and he help them both up. He lead them to his car and though he look like he was going to protest let them sit with their backs to the side of the car. Jack moved her hand softly to the handle of the door and could of swore she felt a shiver from the car. She brush it off as pain mix with tiredness equals hallucinations. Her brain was playing tricks on her.
About twenty five minutes later a man in a black GMC truck pulled up. A man in army greens step out of it, no one else in the truck. He went over to the hummer talking to the doctor. Jack and Alex to far away to hear but knew it was about them. The man look back and them walk to them.
He kneel down in front of them. "I am William Lennox." He told them.
Jack look to her twin who is back in her shell. "I am Jack, she is Alex." She said softly.
"I heard you two had a quite the night. I am here to let you stay on base that we work on till he sobers up." He inform them. Jack knew he wasn't going to sober up. She knew Alex knew it too.
She just nod her head. "Don't they need clothes and stuff that squishies obsess over?" The young man ask beside them.
"Sides, you and Jack will go in and get them clothes for tonight and this weekend. We will let the local law handle everything else." Sides cross his arms grumbling about it but still help the hurting girl up.
They went inside as a girl ran over to Jack. "Sissy!" She squeal as she threw her arms around Jack. Jack wince and saw sympathy in the man eyes. His neon blue eyes watch her carefully as she softly pull the girl off. "Sissy?" She look up to the older girl.
She got down on one knee and hug the girl tightly. "Goob, Alex and I are going to stay at a friends for a bit...-"
"Daddy says you have no friends. That why I am your friend." She said confuse.
Jack felt her heart break a little. "Sweetie, we have friends." Jack lied. "We will be back soon though. Take care of mommy okay?" She spoke softly to the young girl who nod her head.
Jack got up slowly and lead Sides to her room. They walk in and he look around the small room. Paints and color pens and pencils everywhere as is random cloths and clothes. Posters of bands and movies on the walls. Jack made a noise and he turn to her getting out of a memory. He reach up pulling down the bags she was trying to reac for.
After that he watch her go through everything sticking things into the two bags. He pick them up after she said done. She made sure to pack both of their bathroom kits. She has a feeling only reason he is helping is because at some level he is scared of the doctor.
He seems nice enough. How bad can he be if he punch a guy for publicly abusing someone? He did what Jack wanted to all the time she has known him. Her step-father is a complete ass.
They got back outside. A police car is pulled up .cop is talking to the doctor and William. Alex talking to another cop. They didn't even look in Jack's dirrection. She and Sides put the bags in back of the black truck that Jack now recogonize as a Topkick.
She then sits in Sides car as the cops ignore her and tried to get Alex to say Jack provoked their step-father. She didn't but still piss Jack off. Pretty sure that is illgal. Jack thought to herself.
William help Alex in to the truck as the drunk over weight man start to come too. "What the fuck?" He scream. He jump up and stumble to where Alex is. He grab her by jer shirt collar and squeeze it making Alex panic. The cops are already down the road.
William tried to pry their step father off of Alex and when that didn't work he did what Doctor Ratchet did, punch him. Alex wheeze and cough looking to her scared twin who Sides was barely able to hold back. The man on the ground K.O. again this time looks like has a broken nose from the clear hit.
Jack watch William help Alex get in to the truck and push the man from in the srreet to the grass. After that they drove off. Jack and Alex are both stuck in their own little worlds trying to let the latest turn of events sink in. It just seems to good to be true.