New Territory

Order and Craziness (3)

Jackson's P.O.V.

-Saturday-

My father has been gone since Tuesday morning on a business trip. I was twisting and turning all night, unable to sleep from my pent up anger, waiting for morning to come so I could tell him about David and Stephen. No one, especially an omega, deserves to be talked down to in such a way and I know my father will agree. It's 9 am when I decide to head to his study. Standing outside the door I take a deep breath to try and calm myself down before raise my hand to knock.

"Come in Jackson," my father chuckles as I open the door. "How was your first week of school?"

"My week has been fine, although I'm here to talk about something a bit more important." I hate getting straight to business, my father and I often have good conversations about the things we've had going on, but this needs to be taken care of.

He raises his  eyerbrows at this and motions to the chairs in front of his desk. "Take a seat, tell me about it."

"The other day at school I found David and Stephen tormenting the new omega. She was already extremely stressed about something and they got mad which only made it worse by scaring her and cornering her. By the time I finally got there her head was between her knees, with tears rolling down her cheeks, shaking, and apologizing for nothing over and over again. I'm done with those two getting away with all this 'omegas are weak' bullshit. Now that I've seen it with my own two eyes I can actually put something against them. Plus there has to be some of it on school cameras. We need to do something about this." I finally look up into my dad's eyes and and see him studing me with a somewhat glad expression. "You agree, right?"

He snaps out of it, "Of course I agree! You know how I feel about the degregation of omegas. It's repulsive! I was simply admiring how much you've grown. I'm so proud of you." He smiles at me and I smile back.

"Thank you dad. That means a lot."

"Now, the question is, what do we do with them. I would gladly go by the old rules and simply give them each 30 lashes, however I do believe we've put the whip to bed and that may seem a bit over the top. Even though they deserve it for scaring the living daylights out of an already stressed out omega. Speaking of which, is she alright? Did you take care of her after?"

"Of course I did, I made sure she was alright and took her to lunch. I was planning on having her sit with me for a bit anyways to make sure she was good to go and turns out she had already met pretty much everyone at the table the day before when I was gone. She's also coming to the group's hangout this weekend."

"Well I'm glad she has friends already. Keep an eye on her. Now back to David and Stephen. Any ideas?"

I take a moment to think. What could force them to stop their cruel behavior, be acceptable in this day and age, and also use them as an example for other people who want to act the same way? "What about something physical, like forcing them to drag heavy objects until the drop, like what you did with that one guy Edmund a while back? Since they didn't physically harm her in any way I think that's pretty reasonable."

"Perfect idea, that didn't even come to my mind. For Edmund we used barrels but for those boys I'm thinking we could use the tires from the training field for them. Two for David and one for Spencer since David is larger and I'm guessing the one who did most of the damage. That's just who he is, sadly... is there anything else on your mind?"

I think about it for a moment. I had toyed with the idea of telling him about Jericho and how she's been in my dreams and stuff, but I don't think that's really important right now. "Nah, that's all I can think of. Are you gonna start David and Stephen's trial tonight or tomorrow morning?"