"Don't do this to me, please. I'm very sorry I stole the locket, I just don't want to die."
Mr. Arrow stood towering over Delbert, who was tied to a chair.
"Oh, you have more to be sorry for than just that darn locket, Doctor. The locket wasn't even mine! You stole my beloved captain!"
"Your beloved Captain? AMELIA?"
"Yes, Amelia. We were together long before you came along, dogface."
"Together?" Delbert stared angrily at Amelia, who was more or less trying to hide behind Sarah.
Delbert rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, whatever. I'll deal with this later. Of course if there is one for me."
Mr. Arrow had a chocolate bar and was holding it in front of Delbert's face. Delbert was desperately trying to resist the temptation, but the longer he stared at it, the more he wanted it.
"OH, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Delbert yelled as he lunged for the candy bar.
"Delbert, no!" Sarah and Amelia screamed together. Delbert caught himself just before he took a bite.
"Let me make this clear. If you don't want him to die then you'll be here forever," Mr. Arrow said, somewhat hinting that he didn't want to do his job much longer.
Delbert stuck his tongue out, trying to lick the candy bar. Just as he was about to, Amelia gave him a stern eye, which he interpreted as, "If you do that and live, I'll have to hurt you."
"If he doesn't eat the chocolate by tomorrow, he'll be cyber-frozen for forty days. All of you will stay here while he is frozen. If he survives that, then all of you will be able to go home. If." Mr. Arrow let the words sink in.
Eventually Jim spoke. "What happens if…if he doesn't make it?"
Mr. Arrow looked like he was bored. "If he doesn't make it then you will all go home…minus Delbert of course. Oh, what the heck, I'll freeze him today."
"But what about the kids?" Amelia blurted.
"What kids?" Mr. Arrow looked confused.
"Mine. Mine and Delbert's." Amelia looked as if she was going to cry.
Mr. Arrow started to get an angry look in his eyes. He looked as if he was trying to fight the temptation of shoving the chocolate down Delbert's throat and beating him to a pulp.
"I will give you 30 minutes to get the kids and the things that you need. All of you can go, but if you don't come back on time, I'll hunt you all down personally.
"Oh, and you don't need food, you'll be fed here."
Mr. Arrow left the room, leaving Delbert tied up helplessly to the chair.
"Delbert, you'll live. I know you will. You're strong," Sarah said comfortingly.
Amelia came up behind her and said, "Yeah Delbert, you'll live. Don't give up. Whenever I'm away on some life threatening mission, I think to myself, 'I have to live, because I have a family. What would the kids do if they didn't have a mom?' That's what I think, although in your case it would be dad instead of mom."
Delbert smiled slightly at Amelia's joke, making everyone else give a little half-smile too.
"Come on, I'm a dog. I would really be worried if I was a cat, because dogs rule and cats drool," Delbert remarked impudently. Amelia's eyes narrowed.
"What was that? I'm sure you didn't just say what I think you said."
Delbert angrily shouted, "DOGS RULE AND CATS DROOL?! DID YOU HEAR ME ALRIGHT THAT TIME OR ARE YOU JUST TOO STUBBORN TO ACCEPT THE FACTS?!"
Amelia gasped in surprise. "O.K., Buster. Just because you got in trouble for stealing some stupid locket or whatever the heck it was does NOT mean that you can take it out on me! Got it? I'm not getting the kids! NOPE!!! They can forget you ever existed for all I care! Because, to be quite honest with you, I really don't expect that you shall live through all this, maybe all for the better!"
Delbert looked horrified.
"You don't really mean that, do you? I'm sorry… you love me, don't you? I-I'm really sorry! Really, I-"
"I've got to go, but if I don't get to talk to you before you get frozen, remember this: I assure you that if you live through this, you will wish you had died frozen because I will make your life a living-"
"Come on Cap'n, let's go."
Jim grabbed Amelia's arm and pulled her out of the police station as tears silently streamed down Delbert's face.
Uh-oh, Amelia's really, really mad. Will she still be after Delbert's unfrozen? Will she keep her promise to make his life unbearable? Will my science, math, or history teacher give me two weeks off of homework? No, I thought not. I'm off to another chapter…*Starts singing this song to the tune of 'We're off to see the wizard'*…oh that's not owned by me, by the way.