Chapter 3- Doctor who?

Tessa was lead into a rather dilapidated room with both her friends, the man who had called himself Doctor Steven Boxlietner (how could it be him?) offered them each a slab of cheese, the all refused.
He then sat himself down on a somewhat cushy armchair, tenting his gloved fingers, "Sit down," he said kindly.

Tessa shakily sat herself down on a couch which was opposite of him, her hands rubbing against her arms as though she was cold.
Patrick sat next to her, glaring across at the man as though he was the one that had caused all of this distress.
Rose sat on the other side and tried to look anywhere but her friends, her gaze only going to the man every so often but it would dart away from him almost as fast as it had come.

"W-what's going o-on?" Tessa finally spoke, her voice shaking along with her body, "What is wrong with my brother? What did he do to mom? Who are you really? What did you mean that-that I could fix everything!?" her voice cracked as tears came to her eyes. All she could wrap her mind around was that she was sitting! The rest seemed like a confusing fog to her.

Was her mother dead?

The man called Steven gave her a look of distinct sympathy, "Relax, you're safe now," he said sincerely, "I am as I said, Doctor Steven Boxlietner. I suppose you'd know me better as Doctor Two Brains," she shrugged his narrow shoulders at her.

Tessa frowned at him, wiping her tears away with the corner of her sleeve, "But-but mom said that you…"
He put a hand up to silence her, "I used to be Doctor Two Brains," he said firmly, "But now I'm just Steven, or whatever of him is left," he looked wistfully at the ground, "I'm afraid I'm not-I'm not all there anymore after my second brain died," he bit his bottom lip showing sharp teeth.

"What happened?" Patrick asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
Two Brains ran the hand he had used to silence Tessa with to smooth back some rogue white hairs that had escaped.
"About five years ago my brain began to die, I'm not sure why, perhaps it was dying of old age perhaps it was never going to be permanent. Whatever reason, it began to die away, and I was able to collect some of my old self. After that I was able to remove the brain surgically, it was painful, but I managed."

Tessa looked befuddled, "Why would you remove it yourself and not go to a hospital?" she asked, her voice still cracking but with more confidence than before.
"It's kind of hard to say this-but I was a little bit afraid of myself. What if the brain worked again? What would I do? Besides, then your mother would…That's beside the point!" he sat up straight as a rake (he looked sort of like one he was so thin) "The point is, I'm back sort of," he smiled in a rather fake manner.

Tessa didn't much care, as cheerful as she usually was she still felt lost and she wanted her other questions answered!
Rose spoke up this time, "If you're back to normal then what's the problem?" she asked mistily. Doctor Boxlietner shook his head, "I think we have more important things to talk about," he said sharply.

"To answer your first question, what's going on is that your brother seems to have been over taken by some sort of evil. It was probably spurred from way too much jealousy, from what he said earlier that's what I could gather," he tapped his knee.
"I wish that I could have gotten your mother but I had to save you first," he looked at the ground again, "Her powers have been drained."
"What?!" Tessa gaped, "Do you mean that-?"

"Yes I do, if Steven's plan worked then she can no longer fly or have super strength or any other power besides perhaps her wonderful vocabulary."
Rose hugged Tessa, mumbling a few words of sorry into her ear. Tessa grabbed at Patrick's hand and squeezed it, whether he wanted to give comfort or not he was giving it!
The boy didn't pull away, but gave her a sour face to indicate how annoyed he was by her.

"The good news here is that I got you out of the way before he could take away your powers!" Steven smiled at her, though it was kind of pathetic.
Tessa stood up, using her strength to remove Rose from her, "What? No! No, I'm no hero!" she shouted at him.
"Whether you are one or not you're going to have to be soon!" Two Brains stood up as well, "Your brother is currently destroying the entire town! (city?) The only one that can stop him is you!" he stepped over to her and put his hands on her shoulders, he had a genuinely warm expression on his face and his touch was soft and comforting.

Tessa looked up at him with watery eyes, could she do this?
"If you need help, I'll train you. It's what I did with your mother it's what I can do with you."
Tessa almost felt like hugging him for how genuine he sounded, but something at the back of her mind screamed at her-

"A hero, are you crazy?! Since when have you been Hero material? You're just a little girl with a few tricks, you're not your mother! Look what Steven did with his gifts, what if that becomes you if you try too hard for power?"

She pulled away, "I can't!"
"No Tessa please!" Steven reached out his hand to bring her back but it was too late, Tessa zoomed out of the small dilapidated building as fast as she could.
"Tessa!" Rose shouted behind her, "Tessa come back!" she stood up and ran after her best friend. Patrick was more reluctant to help, but then, something screamed at him to-

"Look at how selfish and greed filled he is, not willing to go help his friend because he's such a lazy jerk!"

And he followed, before he ran though he spoke to the Doc who was looking utterly defeated, "We'll bring her back!"

What do ya think?
I quite like this, does it makes sense do you think for Tessa to have this problem? I never quite addressed it in any of the other chapters so sorry if it's so sudden!
Adding some character to Patrick, need some ideas for Rose if you've got any. I want these characters to be as real as I can make'm ;)

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