Depravity 1.7
"You're bullying her." I half-whispered.
Dennis turned his head and put his hand to his ear. "What? What're you saying? I can't hear you."
"You're. Bullying. Her." I growled.
Dennis actually looked fucking confused at what I was saying. "What's-what's your point?"
"Yeah," Mac piped in, "it's just Dee, it's fine."
"Yeah, I'm sure kids at your school do it all the time! Right?" Charlie said.
"I don't," I growled again.
"Well, that's because you don't have friends." Dennis actually suggested. "If you had friends, you would mess with them all the time! Tease them!"
"Is that what you call it? Teasing? 'Cause she looks really hurt."
"Cause she's weak willed. She just can't take a joke!"
I felt my fist clench. I felt my teeth grit. Can't take a joke? Is that how bullies defended themselves? By saying it was just a joke?
"No." I voiced. "You're bullying her."
"Why are you so focused on this?" Dennis asked.
"Taylor…" Frank slowly walked towards me.
"You're treating her like trash." I spat. "You're harassing her, insulting her, treating her like less than shit and you look at me like I'm the weirdo?"
They stared at me like I was a fucking idiot. Like me having empathy was the weirdest fucking thing.
How could they do that to her? What more, who's to say that they wouldn't do that to me?
"Are you ok?" Dennis asked, without a hint of concern in his voice.
"Y'know what? Fuck it." I swore. "Just forget it. You can consider me a failed recruit. I'm gone."
"Wait!" Frank shouted, but I was already out the door.
I stomped away, looking at the ground, not even looking where I was going. I couldn't get more than 30 feet away before I heard a voice from behind me.
"Wait! Wait. wait." I turned around and saw Frank running towards me.
I sighed. "What is it, Frank?"
"You can't leave! This team needs more muscle." Frank told me. "The team member that can really kick ass is Charlie! Everyone else would get destroyed in an actual fight. Dee's a coward, Dennis is useless, and Mac...well, he likes to fight hand to hand, and trust me when I say he's not exactly Mike Tyson. If you get what I'm saying."
"How is that my problem?"
"Admittingly it isn't, and I'm sorry he said those things. I always try to get him to stop saying things like that to Deandrea. A sibling should be more kind than that to their other sibling."
My jaw almost dropped. They were siblings? They looked nothing alike. And he was treating his sister like that?
"I...I can't imagine in a million years treating family like he does. Bullying them, insulting them. Being annoyed at them sometimes, maybe, but he's just a jerk."
"Look," Frank started. "If you want, we can go back and make him apologize. And if you're not happy with the apology, you can leave. If you are, stay."
I thought about it for a moment. And I admit it was pretty stupid for me to want to leave when I was working a double agent mission. I just didn't want to deal with more bullies or support them. I just had to remind myself, that I'll be putting these guys away.
"Ok," I finally spoke. "I'll do it."
Frank smiled at me and we walked back to the bar and through the doors.
Dennis crossed his arms. "I assume you came back to apologize for your unpleasant outburst."
"You think I should apologize?" I felt my blood pressure rising again.
Frank held his hand in front of me. "Dennis, we think YOU should apologize to your sister."
"You think I should apologize?" Dennis asked.
Frank simply shrugged.
"Well, of course. After all it's not like I'm infinitely more charming, intelligent, graceful, attractive, sufferable, relatable. Ah, it's obvious that I have to apologize to someone who...doesn't have any of the things I have, lives in poverty, barely showers, a terrible actress and in general is not even worthy to lick the GODDAMN DIRT ON OF MY FUCKING FEET!"
"Dennis…"
"CAUSE IN THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN, SUDDENLY GREATS WHO HAVEN'T EVEN PEAKED YET AND ARE CONSTANTLY GETTING GREATER HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO LOSERS! WHO ARE ONLY GETTING WORSE!
"Dennis!"
"AND WHY NOT, I MEAN IT'S NOT LIKE IN THIS WORLD WE SHOULD BE TRYING TO PRAISE THOSE WHO ARE GREAT AND SHAME THOSE WHO ARE LESSER! NO, WE SHOULD BE EMPATHETIC TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE! EVEN IF THEY ARE THE ABSOLUTE SCUM OF THE EARTH!"
"Dennis!"
"AND ANOTHER THING!"
"DENNIS!"
"WHAT!"
"This is a request from Taylor herself."
Dennis looked baffled for a second, then looked at me. "Wait, for real?"
"Um, yeah." I lied. I didn't feel bad about it though. how could you be so narcissistic that you can't even have EMPATHY for a fellow human? And go on an outburst just because someone asked that you fucking apologize for being a bully?
"Well," Dennis scoffed, "what do you want me to do Frank, apologize to this worthless piece of...trash! Is that what you're asking of me?"
"No, it's what SHE'S asking of you," Frank corrected, even though it wasn't true, "and we need more muscle so that when we get in a fight with another Lung, we can handle it. So I suggest you comply."
"You can't be serious!"
"Oh, they are," Dee said with a smile on her face.
"Ok...ok, OK." Dennis turned around and faced Dee, who was still smiling. I couldn't see why. I tried to think what if someone else made Emma apologize to me, but while I would be glad to see a reasonable authority figure, I wouldn't get any satisfaction from her apology because I know it wouldn't be sincere. Maybe Dee is happier that he's being humiliated than anything.
I could tell I would never like these people.
Meanwhile, Dennis has been stuttering for the last half-minute. "uuhhhhh...I...ummmmmmm...uhhhhhhhhh."
"GET ON WITH IT ASSHOLE!" Dee yelled.
"ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!" Dennis scoffed again. "Sorry." He said in a whisper.
"What was that?" Dee gleefully said. "Can't hear you."
"Sorry!" Dennis somehow exclaimed while still whispering.
"What? Speak up! Can't hear you, girlfriend!"
"SORRY!"
Dee smiled smugly. "Thank you."
"Well, aren't you going to accept my apology?"
"Nope."
Dennis was left gritting his teeth in rage after that. I don't blame Dee. That apology was very forced and insincere. I wouldn't accept it if I was her.
"Wow, what a Bitch." Mac actually said.
"UHEM! UHEM! URRRR!" Frank vocalized. He then gave Mac a look.
"Oh, uhh, I mean. Yeah, you should be more sensitive, Dennis! We all know Dee should be treated with kindness and respect. Like all women!" Mac sounded very fake when he was saying this. "We all know women are goddesses, and queens, and... can do ANYTHING a man can do and-"
"Ok just stop." Charlie ended the speech. "ok, now that we got, we got that out of the way. Now what? Should we like, knight Taylor, like, take our dicks and like jerk off on her?"
What?
"WOAH! WOAH!" Dennis cried out. "What?"
"Jerk off on her. When you jerk off on someone, you make them a knight. Isn't that how it works?"
He...he didn't actually think that, did he?
"N...n-no." Dee stuttered over herself.
"No, that's not at all how it works," Dennis told him.
"What could make you come to that conclusion?" Mac asked, a little confronting.
Charlie tried to explain himself. "Well, when people do the knighting thing, it looks like they're jerking off, like the jerk-off gesture."
"It does not look like that at all!" Dennis said in disbelief.
"It looks like someone taking something and putting it on your shoulder!" Mac pointed out
"YEAH, THEIR DICK!"
"THAT'S ALL IT LOOKS LIKE-NO IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A DICK, STOP SAYING IT LOOKS LIKE A DICK!"
"Are you guys going to jerk off on me?" I asked, sounding more panicked than I intended.
"Non-" Dennis was interrupted
"Nonononono we-" Dee tried to calm me down.
"-o," We're not going to"
"-'re not going to-he's an idiot."
"-do that. Yes, he's a moron. Just-"
"Just don't listen to anything he says, ok?" Mac chimed in.
"Ok…" I replied
"Well," Frank clapped his hands together, then turned towards Charlie. "To answer your question, no we're not doing that. And we don't have to do any missions until we strapped for dough, so let's just hang out in the Bar, have fun, and bond a little."
"Actually, I should get home. My dad must be worried sick about me."
"Ok," Dennis said, "well, how about this? Come back tomorrow and we'll do some team bonding, some exercises, training with our powers. We could even see a movie."
"What movie?"
Dennis looked at the others. Then said, "You ever seen An Inconvenient Truth?"
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