H8_Roger

Level 1.3

P.O.V Continued: Tam Roger

"Wait!" Tam said futilely as she got up and followed them with ATM.

Upon following the guards and Mat through the doors, Tam had to shield her eyes as the flashes of at least a dozen cameras all went off at once and kept going, no doubt members of the CCC Codex, which was the all-encompassing newsroom of the CCC. Needed reliable news and even more reliable gossip? All you had to do was look to them. Speaking of which, she saw regular news anchor Gossip Goodnight being filmed by the teacher who supervised the CCC Codex, Mr. Roberto Paparazzi whose face was hidden by the camera he was using to film.

"Ms. Roger and sibling! Do you have any comments in regards to your brother's arrest after his brutal killings of several clowns in the local Chi Pot Lee?" Gossip asked in an excited tone of voice.

"No...comment." Was Tam all had to say. She saw ATM nod their head in response in her peripheral.

"Bitch." Gossip muttered just lowly enough for only Tam to hear before she and Mr. Paparazzi stormed off with her legion of photographers and cameramen to follow the guards and Mat. Tam rolled her eyes at the two-faced display.

"Don't let her get to you, Tam." ATM put a hand on her shoulder.

"She's not getting to me. Everything's fucking getting to me." Tam shook their hand off. "Let's go see how Mat's doing. How the hell does he stay so relaxed?"

"Because he doesn't care about anything except himself, Tam. I don't even know if he can care about anything or anyone else."

"ATM..." Tam desperately wanted to correct her sibling's harsh assessment of her brother's character but she found that it was absolutely accurate. She hung her head low as she followed her sibling on the way to the holding cells in the nearest CCC Guard Tower.

"Did you make friends with Kit?" ATM broke the silence.

"Um...no. I'm pretty sure he has...a crush on me? Ack." Tam stuck her tongue out briefly.

"Oh? He's not the only one." ATM said playfully.

"Don't remind me. What do all these people even see in me?"

"Tam...You're smart, attractive, and you have a decent personality, which seems to be a rare trait nowadays."

"Not as smart as you."

"It's not as easy as it looks." ATM and Tam chuckled slightly as they pushed onward through the crowd and eventually made it the CCC Guard Tower, where they were lead to the holding cells. They received several snide comments by the other prisoners in the cells they passed.

"Woah-woah-woah-Gingers! Ginger bitches!"

"Come here good-looking! I'll give you a good smooching! Or a spanking if that's what you want!"

"They told me there was little girls here! Where?! Where?! Tell me ginger girl!"

Mat was lucky enough to not share his holding cell with any other criminals, but he clearly wasn't grateful for it, looking bored out of his mind. He was slumped against the light blue holo-wall that secured him in his cell and repeatedly smacking it with the back of his left hand, causing vibrations to appear all over it.

"Is that my two favourite siblings in the multiverse? What is this, a crossover? Cash-grab." He said the last part in a sing-song tone.

"We're your only siblings." Tam raised an eyebrow at him.

"How do you know?" He said in a tone that could have either been completely serious or completely sarcastic.

"Um...How you holding up, Mat?" Tam didn't want to derail their conversation with one of his weird tangents.