The Inexplicable Exploits of the Dork Corps

Part I - Aquastrophe

     "Not Carter but I heard your argument Neme. I have tea and scones. Wanna talk?" It was Fire.  

     "Can you c-come i-in?"

     "Of course." Nemesis shifted slightly and the door opened to reveal Fire, looking bedraggled with a fluffy white towel a tray of tea, sugar and sour cherry scones.

     "You are a Goddess." Nemesis said eyes on the tea.

    "And you are freezing." She pointed out, "Why are you still in your... Never mind just wrap yourself in the damn towel" nemesis did and the shivering lessened slightly. "One cup of tea, two sugars right?"

     "Y-yeah. Earl Grey?"

     "Just how you like it, extra strong and extra sweet." Nemesis took a sip and burned her tongue.

     "And extra hot. You remembered!"

     "Yup. Have a scone and talk to me." Nemesis grabbed a scone with hands that were still trembling and dropped the whole think into her tea, fishing it out with a spoon and taking a bite. She practically melted. 

     "You are my favorite person today" Nemesis said through a mouthful of warm tea soaked scone.

     "Talk"

     "Okay..." She took a shuddering breath. " I don't really know why... Why am I lying, I know exactly what happened." She dropped another scone in her tea, "When, when I was younger I was with a," She gulped, "A foster family. I was ahh... six? Yeah six. my foster parent had left me home alone with my ten year old foster brother Jackson. He gave me a hug that quickly turned into a chokehold and, and then he-"

     "Neme, you don't have to-"

     "No, you deserve to know." She took a gulp of tea and another scone and said, "He shoved my head in the pool. I didn't know what to do, I just, I breathed in, and then I couldn't breathe and I was dying, and then he took my head out and I got in a breath and then I was back in the water again and I couldn't breathe, and I was dying again and I, I... I don't know what happened after that, or for how long he did it, but I woke up before my parents got home and tried to think it was normal for that to happen."

     "Neme I'm so sor-"

     "Don't be, its in the past. You can't exactly change that." She poured herself another cup and shoved a whole scone in her mouth and dunked another in the tea, "Next day, He threw me in the pool. I couldn't swim, I tried to walk, I tried to fly, but I ran out of air and passed out. apparently I floated up and my parents fished me out. My brother spun a tale of me falling in and him being none the wiser, and when I tried to tell the truth, they just, just said that I was a liar. And two weeks later, they couldn't handle any more of my 'lies' and they took me back to the group home."

     "Neme, what happened with Carter out there, it wasn't your brother. He helped you out, he-"

     "I know! I, just, he was laughing, and then he was my brother and he was holding me under and so I punched him. Because he was laughing and I needed to get him to stop before he dunked me back under again, and I just... just..."

     "Panicked?"

     "Yeah, and thanks for the tea and sympathy."

     "Did you just quote Harry Potter?"

     "Yes."

     "Do I need to kill Carter for you?"

     "No he'll forgive me tomorrow."

     "Forgive you? He was the one that starte-" Nemesis laughed dryly,

     "Apparently if I had a proper sense of humor I wouldn't have flipped, that it was probably 'removed in the surgery that took out any love I can have for another human being'."

     "God I'm gonna kill him."

     "No don't..."

     "Why is that?"

     "I don't know, I mean, he's a bastard and all, but I don't, I don't know. I just don't want him to hate me." I said, trying to explain what I was saying with hand gestures, Fire chuckled,

     "It sounds to me like you've got a bit of a crush."

     "What?"

     "Yeah."

     "I guess that makes sense."

     "Well, now I ship you two. But I'm still fully prepared to kill him."

     "How about we just get rid of all the coffee in the house? That'll be worse than death. No caffeine except for tea until he apologizes."

     "So... tea or apology? I like that."

     "Plus his addiction to coffee is seriously unhealthy..."

     "We wouldn't want him to die before you both get together right?"

     "Shut up."

     The next day Carter woke up without any coffee. And he sure as hell wasn't going to get any tea. When he asked Fire what the hell happened to it, she simply smiled and said,

     "I'm sure that if you made it clear to the 'coffee gods' how sorry  you are we could scrounge some up. Until then it's just Nemesis' tea and scones." Carter groaned, and after a few hours, Nemesis came back in beaming followed by a bedraggled Carter and she said,

     "The coffee god has spoken Fire, get this poor boy some caffeine." She patted him on the head and Fired poured two cups of tea. Carter groaned again as Nemesis laughed.

2807 Words,

~ Nemesis

(Edit: I should of posted this in early October woops.)