[Blaze/Charlie/Parker] Hocus Pocus

[DECLAN JAMES HODGINS]

Declan leaned forward in the car, doing his best to lean over Parker so that he could look at his bruising in the mirror. She may have won shotgun, but he was still stronger than her. “ Jesus,” he muttered quietly to himself, poking the edge of his bruise. “ That’s so fucking disgusting, Dec.. You should have let me put make up on it,” his sister chimed in from the driver’s seat. “ Yeah well, your feet are disgusting as a result of your passion.. you don’t see me bitching about it,” he said, frowning slightly at the silence that came as a result of him snapping from behind the steering wheel. He sighed, sitting back and letting the guilt sink in. He knew she was self-conscious about her feet. “ Yeah well you don’t have to look at them. Your bruise is staring me in the face. Find a way to figure it out.” she called out, doing her best to avoid looking at him. “ Fine. Pull over,” Declan gestured, pointing towards a small group of what looked like a couple of nerds. “ What?” Charlie questioned. Declan lift his eyebrows. “ Pull it over. You were bitching because I didn’t have a costume, anyways,”. Declan waited until the car pulled to a stop and got out of the car. “ Hey…” he called out, making a slight face, “ Yo nerds,” he yelled towards them, jogging slightly away from the car to make it over to them.

A few moments later he came back towards the car, making a slight face as he watched the hood of Charlie’s car. “ Charlie, lift your hood,” he called out towards her, sliding the glasses that he had purchased off one of the nerds into his back pocket. Declan brought his fingertips underneath the hood, popping the latch so that he could lift it and take a look, instantaneously taking a step back from all of the smoke. “Yeah… this is beyond my scope of practice..” he said, scratching his thumb over his eyebrow. Declan moved over to the drivers side of the car so that he could lean into the window and talk to Charlie. “ We gotta get to a mechanic pretty quick. Neither of us have the money for a tow… I think the closest one is Blaze’s shop…” he said, giving an apologetic look to Parker. “ I’ll give him a call that we’re coming in,” he said, standing up as he came back to his seat. Declan sat in the back seat, talking into the phone. “ No, no, not my car man. It’s Charlie’s. Parker’s with us,” Declan bit the edge of his lip as he listened to the other end of the phone. “ Okay, we’ll roll in right now. Thanks man” he said, ending the phone call before he dropped his phone to the side. Apparently they were going to arrive fashionably late to the Halloween party whether they wanted to or not.

[CHARLOTTE JADE HODGINS]

“ What is he doing…” Charlie questioned as she watched Declan walk towards the group of kids. “Oh my god he is buying that kids glasses..” she said, sitting up to watch while clutching her hands to the steering wheel. She put her hands up in a ‘wtf’ gesture as he walked back, frowning as she noticed his gait start to slow. Just like that, he was gesturing to her hood and telling her to lift it. “Fucking great,”she muttered to herself, leaning down to pop it so he could look. “ Holy shit, Parker,” Charlie said as she saw the smoke come out. “ What the fucking fuck..” she said, trying to sit up higher so she could see. “ You’re best friends with Parker. Can’t she like… helicopter us somewhere or some shit. “ she said, pausing a moment. “ Wait, I’m best friends with Cole. Why is my car a piece of shit?” she said sarcastically as she waited for Declan to come to her window. “ Are you serious dude…. My hair is going to go flat by the time we get to the party…” she said, slightly frustrated as she put the car back in drive. Charlie smiled as she looked over at Parker in the passenger seat. “ He’ll fix the car and we’ll leave. You’ll barely even have to talk to him,” she said with a slight smirk.

“Twenty bucks says a girl is getting dressed while walking out,” she muttered quietly as she parked the car in the shop. “ Where is he?” Declan questioned as he looked around the shop. “ I bet he’s in his office. I’ll go get him,” Charlie said, tossing her keys to Parker as she made her way inside. Charlie tapped on the office door before stepping inside, smiling as she found him sitting at his desk. “ Hey,” she said, shutting the door behind herself as she walked inside. “ There’s like… smoke everywhere. Declan freaked out…” she said with a roll of her eyes as she made her way over to him. She smiled as she watched him for a moment, remembering the drinks they had shared at the party a few weeks ago now. Parker may have hated him, but.. he wasn’t all bad. And Cole wasn’t any closer to loving her. Who said you couldn’t fill your lonely nights with someone who had no interest in you either? “ Wow, you look really tired. You been working all day?” she questioned as she moved to stand behind him, placing her hands against his shoulders as she started to give him a massage. She took in a deep breath as she looked around his office. Charlie pushed her hair from her face before she moved from behind him to sit in his lap, straddling herself over his hips as she smiled down at him, doing her best to continue massaging his shoulders. “ So are you going to come?” she questioned with a lift of her eyebrows. “ To the party tonight?” she said before smiling slowly as she looked down at him.