✦ MANEATER

vol 2 🩸 speak ³

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CHAPTER THREE : SPEAK

wooin

     The thing about joker, is that he can fight against me if he wants. He can kill me if he tries, the fucker can defend himself against me and pretty much anyone. But for the past 30 minutes this fucker has been eating my punches and beatings like this is his last meal.

He won't budge. He won't answer my questions he won't explain shit to me. He's just taking the beatings like a bitch. He doesn't deny nor comfirm anything.

     "Your friend isn't very responsive" Minu speaks from behind me. It's a Sunday and the kid has school tomorrow. Exam season is coming up but him and the rest of the search group are more focused on finding y/n. "We gotta find another way to make him speak because violence clearly doesn't phase this man"

Well he had a point. Joker fights for a living, and although he can handle my beatings, he wouldn't be taking them if he didn't deserve them. I get it. He's letting me take my anger out on him because it is his fault and he knows it. But he won't talk this way.

"Never thought I would say this but" I clean my bloodied hands on my black trousers, "I can't use violence to solve this problem"

     "Let me talk to him" Shelly stepped forward, she wasn't looking at me beating him up and I could tell she wasn't enjoying the screaming and the sounds much, not that I blame her, this is new for her, but an average day for me. I step out of the way and let her take over. She roughly grabs Joker's chin, her acrylic nails digging into his skin "I want you to look at me and listen attentively, don't even blink while I'm speaking. You will pay close attention to what I'm saying. Nod if you understand."

Like we all expected, he doesn't budge, but she moves her hand gripped on to his face up and down forcing him to nod.

"Good. Now that we're on the same page.." her nails dig slightly deeper on his skin "Y/n defended you when I dragged your name down to hell, she had faith in you despite not knowing shit about you, she talked about your soft spot for animals, fuck it she even gushed about how comfortable she felt with you, during sex AND after sex." Her nails dig deeper and that was sure to leave a mark for days. But no one dared to interrupt her, not even me.

"She was used growing up. Men used her for her body and looks and tossed her aside, they treated her like a fuck toy and left her damaged. Do you remember how she treated you and your friend" she pointed at me "when you first met? Why she was so entitled and mean ? She had every reason to be. But you both changed that, get it? She started seeing men more as people and less as tools. She realises hurting others isn't any better. She realised her old ways were hurting innocent people too."

Her nails digged so deep into his skin there was now blood coming out and she didn't seem to notice, Shelly was too heated. She's seen Y/n at her worst and best, she was taking this harder than anyone.

"How do you think she feels, that one of the guys that helped her try become a better person, helped her understand that not all men are evil, helped her realise that humans aren't toys, helped her fucking realise that she has hope for love. That she is worth being loved. How do you think she feels, that one of the guys that helped her realise all of this, is the reason why she's getting shattered by another man right now. The reason she's going to lose hope in men again. The reason she might relapse and go back to her old ways?" Shelly was no crying, she towered over Joker, her nails deep in his face, her tears falling down , dropping onto his face.

I know Joker, he's trying his best not to cry, but Shelly wasn't done.

"She's already been through so much" she sobbed, dropping down to her knees , her hands now on her face as she cried in despair, Dom approached her and hugged her as he kneeled by her side. She wiped her tears and looked at Joker again "I don't know why she was taken, who took her what he's capable off. So you are going to talk. You're going to tell me who she's with, why she's with them and what is happening to her. She could be getting beat up, assaulted and mistreated. And it's all because of you."

She wiped her tears and grabbed Dom's shoulder to help her up, she stood straight and tall, looking down at Joker.

"So if you have any amount of empathy, any amount of care for Y/n. Start speaking now."

I hate to admit but she was good. Very good with words, I'm sure she got to Joker's brain, and even if he doesn't say everything we need to know, it's all better than nothing.

It's silent for a second and Minu's phone rings "It's the police" he tells us "I'll take this outside"

He leaves and we're left alone with Joker.

His voice is hoarse, he's struggling to speak without his voice wobbling.

"I can't say everything" he begins "But-"

"But what!" Shelly snaps, she has no patience and no ounce of empathy towards Joker and that's clear as day.

"But I'll tell you all everything I can" he sighed. I untied his hands and gave him a cloth to clean himself up with, he was covered in blood, sweat and tears. Though the tears weren't his own.

"It started a couple of weeks after I met Y/n..."

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