Divide and Conquer – Marco
Tobias.
I hate Tobias.
I don't know why I never realized before how much I loathe him. Now I know and
I want to do something about it. I want to ruin his life! Everybody always acts
so kind and considerate just because he is trapped as a hawk. Everybody always
feels so sorry for him just because he doesn't know what happened to his mother
and he had to watch his father die without knowing that it was his father.
Everybody just assumes that because he used to get bullied and because his
relatives don't care about him that they have to act extra nice to Tobias.
Well, guess what?!
Tobias can morph back! He doesn't have to be a hawk! And if he likes this war
so much that he is sacrificing his human life just so he can risk his life then
he's even crazier than Rachel! And who cares about his mother and father? My
mother is Visser One! I had to set a trap to kill her! My father is getting
remarried! To my math teacher! And Tobias's not the only one that gets bullied,
I also used to be teased. But do people feel sorry for me? Do they think 'Oh,
poor Marco, I had better be extra nice to him? No! They think that just because
I'm the smartest and the most ruthless I'm some kind of android that can set a
trap to kill his own mother without feeling bad about it!' It's all Tobias's
fault. Ever since he started following Jake around after Jake stopped those
bullies that were picking on him my life has been growing worse! I wish I knew
a way to make him suffer the way I am suffering. Not to kill him, because then
he wouldn't feel any pain but just to hurt him the way I am hurting. And I
think, no I know, just how to do that…
I will have to get the timing right if I want to do this. First I have to get
Rachel away from Tobias. That should be pretty easy to do. Cassie said that
Rachel and Tobias were at the Taco Bell. I can't see them though, no wait the
pretty blond over there is Rachel but where's Tobias? Doesn't really matter, if
Rachel is alone, all the better.
"Hey Rachel." I said, strolling over and sitting down opposite her.
"Hey Marco." She replied unenthusiastically. If she isn't happy with
me now, imagine how mad she'll be when-
"What?" I asked rudely, jolted out of my gloating thoughts when
Rachel elbowed me in the ribs.
"I said, what are you doing here?" She repeated patiently.
"Cassie wanted to talk to you about something secret urgently." I
lied. Cassie did want to talk to her but it wasn't urgent or even secret.
"Does she want me to come now?" Rachel asked eagerly, pushing back
her chair as she stood up.
"Yeah, she does but shouldn't we wait for Tobias first? Where is he
anyway?" I said, injecting a fake note of worry in my voice. As if I'd
care what that loser was doing.
"He had to go and demorph so that he wouldn't be stuck past the 2-hour
deadline." She curtly told me.
"Oh, here he is now." I pointed towards the bathroom that Tobias had
just exited.
"Hi Rachel? Hey Marco, what are you doing here? Did Jake call a meeting or
something?" Tobias asked me.
"No." I said, trying to keep my contempt for him out of my voice.
"Cassie wants to talk to Rachel."
"Okay, lets morph and fly over." Rachel suggested. We walked out of
the shopping mall and morphed except for Tobias who demorphed. 5 minutes later
a bald eagle, an osprey and a red-tailed hawk flew over the forest and into
Cassie's barn.
"Rachel, you go and talk to Cassie and Tobias and I will wait here.
Okay?" I asked.
"Okay." She said and practically ran out of the barn.
"Tobias?" I said, making it sound like a question.
Yeah?
"Can you morph to human?"
Why?
"Because I-I want to talk to you, face to face." I said, making my
voice quiver. Inside though, I was smiling with glee. This is working out just
fine. The only problem is that Tobias has to be human.
Okay, I guess. He fluttered down to the floor and began to demorph. I
waited until he had finished demorphing and then moved.
"What th-what are you doing?!!" he yelled as I quickly pinned him
against the wall.
"What am I doing? I'm making you sorry that you were ever born." I
growled angrily. I guess that he could see the anger in my eyes because he
started to struggle. The success of my plan depended on the fact that while I had
been working out and making myself stronger, Tobias had only spent 2-hour
intervals in his body and those hours were few and far between. I was stronger
than he was and he couldn't demorph because then he would be vulnerable while
he was demorphing.
I shoved him into the wall, so hard that he let out an involuntary gasp of
pain. I suppose that he decided that I was too strong for him because he
stopped moving, shut his eyes and waited for the beating that he thought would
follow. I laughed silently inside my head. Oh no Tobias. I'm not going to beat
you up yet. What I'm about to do is much worse.
I tightened my grip and then brutally kissed him. His eyes flew wide open in
shock as he really started to try and escape. He squirmed against the wall, as
the panic in his eyes grew.
Oh, this is working out so well for me. Too bad I only have about 30 seconds
left to ruin his life. He gagged and looked sick to his stomach when I inserted
my tongue into his mouth. Shock, disbelief, anger, fear, hatred, disgust, humiliation…all
those emotions showed on his normally expressionless face.
It isn't over yet Tobias. I haven't quite finished with you. I could hear
footsteps coming towards the barn so I loosened my death-grip on him but made
the kiss harder and deeper. By now he had stopped struggling, probably waiting
for me to let go so that he could escape. Not happening Bird-Boy. When I finish
with you, you'll be too shocked to try and run away from me.
I heard a gasp from the other side of the room. The look on Tobias's face when
he saw who it was was priceless. After all, it was the last person he'd want to
see at a time like this. I pasted a (fake) look of shock on my face and turned
around slowly.
Blond hair, blue eyes, and an expression of pure disbelief.
Rachel.
"Oh my god-this isn't what it looks like Rachel!" Tobias blurted out.
"Really? Then what is it? I walk in here to see you kissing Marco?!"
she shrieked.
"NO! You've got it all wrong! Marco was kissing me, not the other way
around!" Tobias protested.
"Oh really? It looked like you were enjoying it!"
"Tobias, you had better tell her the truth." I piped up.
"I will! Listen, I was just-then Marco-see what happened was-"
"I told him that we should have told you right at the start Rachel."
"Tobias shut up. Marco tell me what happened now!"
"You're listening to Marco! But-"
"I'm so sorry Rachel, we didn't mean for you to find out. We didn't mean
for you to find out like this."
"WHAT? He's lying Rachel! Don't believe him! I'd never cheat on you!"
Tobias cried desperately, pushing me aside. His face was as black as thunder.
Realization slowly dawned on her face. I smiled inwardly. Too late Tobias.
She's already started thinking about what our kiss means. I changed my shocked
look to a contrite, guilty look. She looked at me and then at Tobias. Then she
looked back to me again.
"You-you mean that you and Tobias? TOBIAS! How could you? I'd never cheat
on you! And why Marco? I'd understand if it were Cassie or some other girl but
Marco? What was I? Some kind of experiment?" she demanded angrily. She
then burst into tears and ran out. Tobias is gonna flip. It's amazing how well
my plan worked out.
"Marco, you bastard! I'm going to kill you!" Tobias yelled and lunged
for my throat. I sidestepped and grabbed his shirt collar. I punched him twice
quickly. Hammer blows, blacking one eye and cutting him across his cheekbone. I
then pulled him close to my face and blackened his other eye.
"If you think that you can keep me quiet by beating me up then you're even
stupider than I thought!" Tobias said scornfully. I grinned at him.
"That was just for fun Bird-Boy. It doesn't matter what you tell Rachel
because she won't believe you." I declared triumphantly. His eyes narrowed
and then he punched me. Hard. So hard that I fell unconscious.
Crayak:
I left Marco. I achieved all I could while using him. His hatred and envy of
Tobias would remain although it was unlikely that he would do anything without
me to control. What was most likely was that he would try to hurt them through
insults, jokes and innuendoes. It didn't matter though. My purpose had been
achieved. Rachel and Tobias had both been weakened. I would take Rachel first
as she is so very close to my darkness and it should be easy to fan the little
flame of hate inside her into a blazing fire. One Animorph converted, 6 more to
go.
Author's Note: I'm not saying that Marco, Tobias or even Crayak are gay. I'm saying that it's a clever way of causing trouble. I do support slash, but I will be sticking to canon couples in this story. Hope you liked reading it – if you did, feel free to review (hint hint).