Conformity
Jemma watches the world go by as the bus she's sitting on makes its way towards the school to drop off the students. She's clearly not in a good mood as someone sits down beside her suddenly.
"Hey," declares Sarah as Jemma looks at her with a similarly negative mood, "You still doing your thing?"
"My thing?" questions Jemma back.
"Your whole moody thing about Pandora?" Sarah explains in a somewhat cheerful way.
"If you mean am I still worried about her? Then yes. I'm still doing 'my moody thing' about her." responds Jemma.
"Come on, you're just being paranoid." insists Sarah.
Jemma sees something out of her window, which makes Jemma turn to face her companion as she speaks, "Really?"
The bus comes to a stop outside the school and students begin to file out. Sarah and Jemma make their way out to see Pandora is handing out apples to people as they come off the bus with several other people, including Amber, handing out similar looking apples. Both Sarah and Jemma stop to watch Pandora, Amber and the rest of them handing out apples.
Jemma turns to Sarah, "Still think everything's fine?"
Sarah scoffs at Jemma, "They're just apples," before walking over to Amber and taking an apple when it's offered, "Chill out."
Sarah leaves Jemma standing in what looks like a small swarm of people handing out apples to the others going to school. She bites into her apple and a black light flashes in her eyes. Suddenly, an apple appears in Jemma's face and it takes her a second to see that Pandora is the hand offering it to her.
"What's this?" Jemma asks suspiciously.
"It's a peace offering." suggests Pandora in a strangely cheerful way, "I know we haven't been on the best of terms lately. I want to change that."
Again Jemma looks at Pandora suspiciously, "With an apple?"
"What's that old saying?" Pandora asks rhetorically before in an obviously joking tone she adds, "An apple a day makes friendships better?"
"Not sure that's the saying." responds Jemma.
"I was making a joke, you know? A cheesy one? Like before when... look, the point is, I want us to be friends again.
"That's all? Just friends? Because I thought, we were more than just friends." Jemma says with concern.
"We are... or, I mean... we were. I just... I thought friendship would be the least complicated thing I could offer you, at least for right now. And this apple is going to be the way we get to that. It's going to fix everything." insists Pandora, getting increasingly frustrated as she explains, "Just... take it."
Jemma looks at the apple, then at Pandora for a moment before moving away from them both.
"No thanks, I think I'm good for now but, talk to me after all, whatever this is, is over. Maybe we can..." Jemma begins before being cut off.
"We got a conformist!" yells Pandora to everyone in the vicinity.
All of the people handing out apples and a few of the ones who recently accepted and bit into them suddenly stop what they're doing.
"Right there!" Pandora says as she points to Jemma, much to Jemma's surprise.
Not entirely sure what's going on, Jemma looks for a way out but doesn't really find one as the people looking are all around her. An apple hits Jemma in the back of the head and she grabs her head in response. It isn't long before another apple hits Jemma from behind. Eventually, more and more apples start coming at Jemma from all sides. The apples start to break partly when connecting with her or hit the floor near her, hitting her with mushy apple bits. She tries her best to block them but the sheer numbers overwhelm her to the point that she crouches down and even tries to curl up into a ball to fend them off.
Then all of the sudden, the pelting stops and not long after Jemma feels a hand on her, which makes her look up to see Pandora with an angry look on her face.
"Just remember... I wanted to do this the easy way." Pandora says rather coldly and puts an apple down in front of her.
Pandora then gets up as Jove comes running out.
"What the hell is going on here?"demands Jove.
He rushes to Jemma's side as she starts to wipe off some of the apple bits.
"Who did this?" Jove says as he stands up to defend her, looking around at the people who only a few moments earlier were throwing apples.
Pandora steps forward to challenge her father, "We did."
That makes Jove stare down his daughter, "You did?"
"Absolutely, and we'll do it again. We'll do it as many times as we have to until people actually get it." insists Pandora, loud enough to be making a speech to everyone nearby.
"And what are we supposed to get?" questions Jove.
"This is our world now and we're in charge." Pandora declares to which she gets loud agreement from the crowd, "And if you're not with us? You're against us. Anyone who tries to stop us..." Pandora throws another apple at her father, "Learns why that's a bad idea."
Pandora then leaves her father and Jemma out in front of the school as she and the rest of her followers do the same.
As the group thins out, Jove turns to Jemma, "Are you all right?"
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