Bang and Burn ~ Dreamnotfound + Skephalo

Chapter 14

There was a thick layer of tension in the conference room. The room had practically been split in half with George's team on one side and Clay's team on the other. No one knew what to say. George had found that his team was angry. They didn't understand why Clay didn't just tell them that he was an agent himself. Nick also brought up the fact that Techno would've known that Clay was an agent, so there should've been no reason that all of this happened. Clay's team, on the other hand, looked more ashamed than anything. Well, they all did except for Dylan, who was in some sort of angry staring contest with Zak.

Their weird silent stare-off ended when Darryl walked through the door, carrying enough cups of coffee for his own team. It was still very early in the morning, so they all agreed that they needed caffeine to push through the rest of the morning. "Ok, you muffins, let's just have a civilized conversation about what happened. Ok? We are all adults here."

"Dylan isn't an adult," Zak says sourly. "He's a petulant child."

Dylan slams his fist on the table and stands up, sending his chair falling behind him. "You're one to talk! Back when I took that class from you, all you ever wanted to do was mess with the class!"

"I was trying to make things FUN, unlike you, who'd go and ruin everything I tried to put together!" Zak was getting fired up. George couldn't believe he was arguing with a kid like this. Had he not just been involved with a huge amount of drama, he probably would've laughed.

Dylan rolls his eyes. "We were there to learn, not to be fucked with!"

"Language!" Darryl yells. "You two need to calm down. We can all talk through this calmly."

"That's easy for you to say!" Zak says to him.

Darryl rubs Zak's arm. "You're ok now. You know that, right?"

Zak looks at Clay. "Just because he doesn't want to kill me doesn't mean I trust him."

"We have no reason not to trust him!" Darryl states.

Nick raises his hand. "I don't trust him."

Clay narrows his eyes. "What did I ever do to you?"

"You lowkey stalked George to find our home and you would've hurt him had I not come home when I did," Nick explains. "You also made me drop my box of donuts which pissed off."

Clay groans. "I didn't stalk anyone. He gave me everything I needed to find him." He then mumbles, "he's not that great of an agent," under his breath.

"Take that back!" George shouts. Clay's eyes meet his, realizing that George heard what he said. "I was literally thrown into this job! I never asked for it! NEVER!"

"George, we know," Geo says.

George scoffs. "Don't even talk to me, beaver boy."

Jake laughs. "Oh my god. I'm using that one. I can see it now. 'Zelk to Beaver Boy. Come in Beaver Boy!'"

"I swear to god if you call me Beaver Boy, I May have to kill you," Geo threatens.

"Why are we even talking about beavers?" Vincent asks. "This is ridiculous."

Geo fishes his badge out of his pocket and tosses it to Vincent from across the room. Vincent opens it and sees the beaver that George had seen earlier. "Why doesn't it have your picture on here?"

"We're undercover agents," Jake explains. "We can't just walk around with our pictures on our badges." The other three pull out their badges to show them off. Jake's picture was a teddy bear with a Superman sweater on it and Dylan's was a drawing of a rose with a black background. Clay's was the funniest one in George's opinion. His badge had a picture of one of those big marshmallows that had a smiley face made from red food dye. What made it funny was the fact that it was obvious that the food dye dripped down the marshmallow after it had been applied. One of the eyes had a faint streak under it and the smile itself was runny. George caught himself starting to smile looking at the picture and decided to ask a question to hide his amusement.