Chapter 3

(Warning : sexual harassment/assault? involved. If that's a trigger for anyone, or just uncomfortable, then please skip)


A knock at the door told Chris someone was there. 

"Come in" she said. 

In came two people. Chris was slightly surprised to see it was Ink, and one of her students, Ethan. 

Ink had a firm grip on Ethan's upper arm. Chris stood up and walked over to the two, giving Ink a confused glance. 

"I found him wandering around the female lockers rooms. While there were still a couple people in there" he explained. 

Chris gave Ethan a stern glance through slightly narrowed eyes as Ink continued. 

"He said that he had gotten lost while looking for his friends, who happened to be on another floor on the other side of the building. And while I was questioning him, he tried, multiple times, to get away. On the third time, I grabbed him, and decided to bring him to you, as he is your student" 

"Thank you Ink. You can leave Ethan here. I needed to talk to him about something anyway" Chris told the mercenary. 

Ink nodded and let go of Ethan's arm before turning around and walking out of the office, making sure to close the door behind him. 

"Ms. Jackson, come on, you believe me, right? I'm telling you, I really did get lost. I didn't even know I was in the girl's locker room. I-" Ethan said before Chris cut him off. 

"Shut your mouth and sit down" she said firmly, pointing to the seat beside hers. Ethan sat down and stayed quiet, watching as Chris opened her computer. 

"Our cameras caught something the other day. Something I think you should see" she said, pulling up the video she had watched. 

Fast forwarding it, she had Ethan watch himself sexually harass a female who had come out of the bathroom, and to make matters worse, the female was one of Ink's students. Dream had set things up so that Chris trained all of the new people that came in, but once they got to their advanced levels of studies, they had a choice of what they wanted to do. 

Those who wanted to become guards continued training under Chris, people who wanted to become soldiers trained under Ink, people who didn't want to do either of those things often became medics or assistants. This system honestly made a lot of things run pretty smoothly in the Justice Reigns.

Chris watched as beads of sweat began forming on Ethan's forehead. 

"T-that wasn't me. I swear! I was nowhere near that sector!" he cried as Chris shut off the video and closed her computer. 

"I thought you might say that, that's why I spoke to the victim in this situation, and asked her to stop by my office" Chris replied. 

There was another knock at the door. Chris stood up and opened it, revealing the girl from the video. 

"Er, Mrs. Jackson? You said you wanted to talk to me?" she asked. 

"I did Erica, and I have a question. Do you recognize this man?" Chris said and asked, pointing over at Ethan. 

Erica took one look at him before becoming a shaking and teary eyed mess. She looked away from Ethan and nodded. 

"Hey, hey, look at me" Chris said gently. 

Erica sniffed a bit and looked up at Chris. 

"He is not going to do a damn thing to you. I will make sure of that. What I need you to do, is tell me what he did to you. Like I said, I'll make sure he's not going to do anything to you" Chris told her. 

Erica nodded and sat down in the chair that Chris had summoned. 

"I met him while I was coming out of the bathroom. At first, it was all, just, casual talk, you know, exchanging names, getting to know each other, that kind of stuff" she said. 

Chris nodded, encouraging the girl to continue. 

"He was also a bit of a flirt, and he managed to make me laugh and blush. But his flirting took a more sexual turn, and he started to become kinda touchy. 

I asked him to stop, because he was making me uncomfortable, but he continued, and even started insisting that I come around to his room. I kept saying no, and I even tried to walk away, but he started becoming forceful. 

He grabbed my wrist and pulled me towards him. He pinned me to the wall and s-started to grind on me. I-I then re-remembered something that y-you had taught us when it came to th-these kinds of situ-ations. 

So, I j-jerked back my wrist, which c-caused him to come towards m-me a bit. Then I, well, I pulled my hand back and punched him as hard as I could in the face. 

H-he let go of me, and I took the chance to run away. He s-started chasing after me, and I m-managed to l-lose him by hiding in o-one of the closets that were in the next ha-hallway. 

I didn't e-even th-think about m-moving until I was sure he was g-gone"

Erica was by now an emotional mess, tears flowing down her face, hands tightly clutching and lightly picking at the tissues Chris had given her, and visibly shaking. 

"Oh come on! Isn't it obvious that she's lying?!" Ethan snapped, which made Erica cry harder. 

"You! Shut it! You not only traumatized another student, you broke a hell of a lot of rules while you r were at it!" Chris snapped at him. 

Ethan was about to argue, but the door to the room opened before he could say anything. Chris looked over to see Dream, Ink, and a couple of graduated guards. 

Ethan tried to inch his way towards Erica with a lustful look in his eye, but Chris was quick notice. 

"Hey! You back yourself up right now" she said firmly, putting herself between the two and sheltering Erica, who was by now starting to calm down, behind her. 

Chris now looked over at the other people who had come into her office. 

"I assume you heard everything over the cameras?" she said stiffly. 

Ink nodded while Dream looked over at Ethan. 

"Ethan, for attempting to sexually harm another student, I hereby suspend you from the Justice Reigns Organization" he said. 

Two of the guards came forward, one holding hand-cuffs, and they took him away, Dream, after a moment's hesitation, following. Ink and the third guard remained behind. 

"Can I, just, get back to my dorm?" Erica asked, wiping away some straying tears. 

Ink nodded, and the guard came forward. They turned out to be Erica's roommate. 

"Come on, I know something that will cheer you up" they said, leading the distressed girl away. 

After they were out of ear-shot, Chris looked at Ink. 

"I would suggest giving her some time to at least partially recover from this" she said. 

"Trust me, I will" Ink replied.

After that, he left the office, leaving Chris alone to be plagued by her thoughts...

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