‘Cole’ appears in his backyard with blood-red glowing eyes. "Hey, Nicole is it?"
Nicole looks unamused and rolls her eyes.
"Oh come on, it’s Andrew, it’s not Cole.”
"So? Still same ass dork.” Nicole says.
"I won't betray you like Cole did, I pinky promise.” Andrew offers Nicole his pinky.
“A pinky promise? That's grand.” Nicole scoffs.
"Listen, all I'm trying to say is that I just want to befriend you, and then maybe as a team, we can convince Cole to turn over to us.” Andrew puts his pinky away.
“What do you suggest we do?" Nicole asks.
“Well, here's what I can do. I can make Cole weak mentally and extra vulnerable, just searching for someone to spill his woes too.” Andrew says.
"And you want me to become his therapist?" Nicole asks.
“Well, kinda but here's the twist. While he is just vulnerable and weak mentally I can disable Max so Max cannot warn Cole or tell anyone else and then you start doing your thing. Once that is done, you can do whatever with him as long as The Kiss still likes him.”
“Do you mean torture or manipulation?" Nicole asks.
“Manipulation, duh.”
“Oh right, ok ok.”
"I mean think about it, if we have Cole as our little puppet then we can do almost anything!" Andrew exclaims.
"Do you have access to anything like dopamine levels? I tend to find it easy messing with people through that.”
“Oh, I can do that.”
“If you could just tick that level up any time he talks to me I think it will be just like old times." Nicole smiles.
“Perfect, also I might start fucking with him today just to see if I can get him to come running to you," Andrew says.
“Sounds like a plan.”
“Amazing. Shit he is waking up, time for our plan to go into action."
Andrew disappears.
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Later that day
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Cole walks into his room and flops on his bed and just screams into his pillow.
Nicole walks in and has a calm tone. “Cole? What's wrong?"
Cole snaps and a note appears on the floor in front of Nicole.
She picks it up and reads it.
The note reads. the fucking voices won't shut the fuck up god they just won't be fucking quiet
“You know…’ Nicole sits on the edge of the bed. "Maybe if you tried to focus on something else?"
Cole shakes his head.
“Hey, look at me, I'm sure it can't help but try.”
Cole groans and shakily takes his head out of the pillow and looks at Nicole.
"See? Now, what are voices saying?" Nicole asks.
Cole manages to mumble. “To kill people and commit violence and just screaming.”
"Ok, so just do a little bit of violence and I'm sure things will fix themselves.”
Cole shakes his head and mumbles. "I don't want to give in to them."
"I'm not saying to do that, I'm just saying to toss them a bone to gnaw on for a while, ya know?" Nicole asks.
Cole mumbles. “What are you trying to get at?"
"Well more like tricking your voices into thinking they got what they want.”
Cole shakily replies. “Like just hurting someone?"
"Yeah just a bit, and make sure they don't tell anyone, and you're right back on track to helping people!” Nicole explains.
Cole mumbles. “Who would I, uhm, start with?"
“What about Joshua and Mailman? I think I've heard them mentioned before.” Nicole offers.
Cole shakily nods and mumbles. “S-sure I can, uhm, do that-”
Nicole pats on the back. "I hope it helps, maybe make you happy even.”
Cole shakily smiles and nods. "I’ll, uhm, be back I guess.”
“Good luck.”
Cole disappears.
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Cole appears in Joshua’s living room with a lead pipe in his hands and stares at them as he snaps, 2 metal folding chairs appear to the sides of Cole.
Mailman looks over with a smile. “Oh, hello!"
Joshua looks over at Cole and his face drops. “Shit.”
"What's wrong?" Mailman asks.
Cole snaps and 2 sets of rope appear on the chairs as cole grabs MailMan and tries to drag him over to the chair.
“Where are we going?" Mailman asks.
Cole ties MailMan up with the rope and tosses him on the chair as he looks at Joshua.
“No no no no fuck off and fuck you-” Says Joshua.
Cole goes to grab Joshua.
Joshua scratches Cole on the cheek and kicks him away.
"Seems I can't move.” Mailman says.
Cole stumbles back and smacks Joshua in the teeth with the lead pipe.
Joshua screams in pain as his teeth crack and he holds his mouth.
Cole grabs Joshua, tosses him in the chair, and ties him to the chair.
Joshua thrashes around in the rope.
Cole smacks Joshua in the knees with the lead pipe and a crack is heard.
Joshua's knee fuckin breaks and joshua stops struggling.
"Hey, you're hurting him-" Mailman sounds a bit worried.
Cole angrily shouts at MailMan. "SHUT UP!”
"But that's hurting him-”
Cole smiles maniacally. “Good, i fucking hope so.” Cole then swings at MailMan's chest with the lead pipe.
"Why w-" He’s winded from the hit.
"Something wrong?" Cole asks.
Joshua groans. "Leave him alone, please-”
“Do you want to be smacked in the teeth again?" Cole asks.
Joshua shakes and trembles as he shakes his head.
“Good.”
Mailman struggles to get free.
“Stop trying to get free or your teeth are next,” Cole says.
"I don't have teeth!" He keeps trying to get free.
“Then your knees will do.” Cole strikes where MailMan's knees would be.
Mailman winces only slightly.
"Nicole was right, this was a good idea.” Cole swings at MailMan's chest with a wild smile.
Mailman grunts after getting hit. "N-nicole?"
"Yeah, they told me to do this and oh my god it was a great idea.” Cole swings and hits Joshua's chest.
Joshua groans and winces. “Fuck you.”
"Who is Nicole??" Mailman asks.
“A short little like non-feral rat thing,” Cole responds.
"...Rose??" Mailman looks over at Cole.
“That's the name!" Cole hits MailMan in the chest.
He winces from the hit and then starts desperately trying to get free, starting to breath harder and shake some. "-no no no-”
"You know them, don't you?" Cole hits Joshua in the chest.
Joshua groans and winces. "I fucking hate you.”
"I work for Rose, this can't be right, there has to be a mistake!” Joshua can hear pure fear in his voice.
"Ohhhh, that is a shame.” Cole hits MailMan right on the snout.
Mailman winces and scrunches up his face as his eyes water. “Ahhh-”
"Awww, is your sniffer hurt?" Cole asks.
There's a knock at the door.
Mailman shakes his head trying to get rid of the feeling.
Cole strolls over to the door and opens it
There's no one there as the window opens and a Scarecrow slowly climbs into the room.
Cole shuts the door and walks back over to MailMan and Joshua.
The scarecrow looks at Cole and pauses as it was walking closer to Joshua.
Cole stares at the scarecrow with a confused look.
“Is that the fucking scarecrow from the one time?" Joshua asks.
The scarecrow runs to Joshua and starts trying to undo the ropes frantically.
"Huh?" Mailman looks over.
Cole smacks the scarecrow with the lead pipe directly in the head.
Some loose hay goes flying as the head spins around. The scarecrow steps back and unholsters a Ruger Vaquero.
Cole just stares at them with an unamused face and tries to smack them on the wrist.
Their head isn't on right as it shoots and misses. The gun is swatted from their hand.
“Cole Garnet moment.” Cole then tries to smack them in the head again.
Their head falls off and they stumble around.
Mailman sighs.
“Who the fuck is this bumbling idiot anyways?" Cole asks.
“No clue, they won't stop following me.” Mailman says.
Scarecrow stumbles over to their head and picks it up.
Cole smacks them in the knee.
Their leg falls off and they hop on one leg.
"This is like a fucking cartoon, I swear to god.” Cole smacks at their other leg.
Joshua is just watching this unfold.
Its other leg comes off and it crawls over to the gun and picks it up and tries to put its head back on.
Cole just watches it as he snaps a loop of rope appearing in his other hand
Scarecrow gets its head back on as it flips over and aims at Cole.
Cole just stares at it. “Do it, do it no balls.”
Joshua just sighs. “Don't do it.”
The scarecrow looks between Cole and Joshua as if confused.
Shoot me, no balls.” Cole says.
Joshua just groans.
Scarecrow fires.
A metal strip deflects the bullet back at the scarecrow's head. “You fell for it, pussy fart!"
It obliterates the straw as the arms shift around as if unable to see, aiming the gun around the room wildly.
Cole smacks the arm with the gun.
The arm falls off and they try to crawl at them with one arm.
Cole tries to tie the scarecrow up as he chuckles.
It struggles but is really weak.
"And there goes our only hope.” Mailman sighs.
“Also I'm leaving now, have fun trying to get out of the rope.” Cole disappears with the scarecrow.
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Cole appears in his bedroom with the scarecrow on his shoulder. “Look who I have!"
Nicole looks over. "...a Halloween decoration?"
“No no, they tried to shoot at me they are like living or something!" Cole sounds excited.
"Really?" Nicole gets up.
“Mhm!" Cole puts the scarecrow down.
The scarecrow struggles some as Nicole takes a step back. “Oh, huh...and how did the torture go? How do you feel?"
“I feel amazing! I really beat the shit out of them!" Cole says.
"That's the spirit! And they won't tell anyone right?" Nicole asks.
“Mhm!"
"Good job! So what did we learn?" Nicole asks.
“Torture is good?"
"Yeah! Good job!"
Cole smiles and giggles. “Thank you!"
“So, how often do you think you would want to torture people?" Nicole asks as she looks at the scarecrow curiously.
“Maybe like once a week or less?" Cole says.
"Really? Only that much?" Nicole asks.
"Twice a week?"
“Who knows, maybe more? I mean just do it as long as you enjoy it and don't let anyone stop you.”
"Okay! So should I change people that I torture or?" Cole asks.
“Yeah, switch it up and come back to ones you've tortured before when you think they are close to saying something. But get creative with who you pick, the more creative the better it seems to work in helping.” Nicole says.
“Who do you suggest I do it to next?" Cole asks.
"Hmmmmmmm… What about Jello?"
“No cause Harmonia would get mad and I don't want that.” Cole thinks. “I could take Knight."
“Hmmmmmmmmm….” Nicole thinks. "I mean anyone you want, really.”
“Knight can't teleport, plus I can just take his phone.”
"Sounds good then, uhh I may have some anger to let out myself, do you know of a room that would best for that?" Nicole picks up the scarecrow.
"Uhmmm you can use the living room, no one ever comes here anyway."
"Ok well remember to have fun out there.” Nicole puts the scarecrow over her shoulder and heads for the door.
“You too.” Cole disappears.