Mal Meets the Rebel

Chapter 112: Smells Like Revenge [Part 3]

After taking in account the curious looking device, it appeared to look very much like a dog collar- with similarities like the fake bracelet she assumed Mal had given her, but was in fact from this loser instead. Like the bracelet/arm band, it had the same black leather exterior as for what the rest of it was made from? She wasn't sure. However the feeling of dread was growing as Roxanne decided to finally speak up.

"Didn't you already try something like that once before and didn't it fail?" Roxanne said rolling her eyes completely unimpressed.

From what she could tell, it was plain as day to Roxanne that her cheeky little comment slightly agitated Steve, but at the moment she really could care less considering the day she's had so far.

In a tone of voice that match the look he gave her, Steve stated "Yes and no. Not exactly."

Folding her arms over her chest with a questionable and bored look in her eyes, Roxanne awaited his explanation as patiently as possible.

Seeing this Steve paused for a moment and chuckled, finding her impatience adorable.

"Yes I did, and it did not quite fail as everyone seems to think. In a sense I achieved what I wanted that day aside from pissing Mal off while concluding that my theory concerning that fool was right all along. (smirking deviously) But that's another story for another time." Steve concluded with a sly look about him as he too folded his arms over his toned biceps.

Raising her eyebrow with curiosity and skepticism, but decides not to ask on that last bit, Roxanne looks at the 'collar' in question, and inquires, "I see, so what does this thing do then."

"Whatever this 'collared-thing' is...and if it's anything like I think it is...which I'm pretty sure it is...and if for some odd and unexplained reason for say if it were to go wrong. I could be in a lot of trouble. Especially if this conversation is going where I think it's going." Roxanne silently ponders while observing the said-device in question and thinking back on a very similar one almost identical.

With a smug grin tugging at the bottom of his lips after seeing that Roxanne was interested, Steve couldn't help but think, "Hook, line and sinker."

Steve's boastful smirk widened as he explained, "The same thing really only this time it's guaranteed not to fail. The other one you wore was just a prototype- a cheap imitation of the real deal. (twirling it the collar around his finger with an evil smirk) Think of it as putting a leash on your bad boyfriend. Keeping him in check. So you wanna demonstration?"

Even though as much as it irked her at having Mal being referred to as her 'boyfriend', Roxanne was unable to stop herself. She couldn't help but like the sound of that - seeing what it could do that is 'not mentally imagining Mal as her boyfriend' she chided herself.

Roxanne smirks as she thinks to herself, "I'd like that."

An evil smirk of her own spreads across her face as she says nothing, but raises an eyebrow even further with her arms still crossed defensively over her chest. She was no fool, but her interest was indeed piqued.

Steve snorts and signaled for Scott to come over as Roxanne gives him (Scott) a dark-forbidding look that makes him shrink back slightly on edge. In only a short amount of minutes, Steve explains how it works.

As far as Roxanne could tell, the device was not mind-controlling like the fake bracelet that Steve so cleverly deceived her and Mal with. No, this one was a little bit different. But had dire consequences if the wearer did not follow orders directly.