"Get back here, you little bastard!"

Said bastard ran as fast as he could after another day of fucking things up for people. He grinned wide as he was being chased, not even realizing his adrenaline running out the more he tried to avoid being caught by the man.

He had been running for a while from him after what he did. It wasn't so bad. 

So he caused a huge traffic jam, a major power outage and a small forest fire (not necessarily in that order). Big deal! It's not like the man chasing him couldn't fix it in no time!

He just wanted to have some fun, was that so much to ask? Apparently!

Suddenly he was cornered in an alley and the man behind him chuckled, "Got you now, glitch bitch"

Anti sighed in frustration," Oh come on! You know I hate that name. . .And do you? Do you really?"

Anti ran up to the dead end wall and glitched so he was able to climb up it and up to the roof top of the building, "Come and get me, hero!"

The man grumbled and quickly pulled down the ladder by the building and climbed up after him. Once he got up to the top, however, the glitch was gone!

"Dammit" he scoffed under his breathe, "Where'd he go?"

Said glitch contained his giggled behind the hero until he suddenly shouted in his ear, "̶B̸O̵O̷!̸"̸

The man stiffened but wouldn't let Anti get away scott-free again. Quickly before he could glitch away again, Jackie turned and flipped on some cuffs on him.

Anti stilled and looked down at the cuffs and then back up at Jackie, "You're no fun. What? We couldn't play tag a little while longer?"

Jackie practically hissed at him, "This isn't a game, Anti! You seriously caused a lot of damage today!"

The glitch rolled his eyes, "Oh whatever! No one got hurt! F̸u̴c̴k̶  ̴o̴f̸f̸ !̸"

Jackie scoffed but dragged his sorry ass with him, ignoring his occasional pouting groans.

"Knock it off, Anti. The fire was bad enough but then the power outage?! I have a lot to clean up now because of you!"

"Why you? Just let the city do it! It's their job, after all"

"Yeah, but it's also your doing. Be lucky I can't make YOU help fix things" he tugged him along with him to a car that was undoubtedly his, "Glitch in and don't mess with my car. Couldn't find my favorite radio station again last time, ya prick"

Anti smirked but zapped himself in on the passenger side, still hand-cuffed to Jackie.

"I should tell Sean about this"

Anti suddenly froze at that but quickly calmed, "Whatever. The fuck would he do, anyways? He can't kill me!"

Jackie just let it go and drove them across town. The car ride was complete silence beside's Anti's occasional static coming from him.

Once they came to a large house, Jackie allowed Anti to glitch out, still hand-cuffed and forced him along with him. He opened the door and led them to a rather messy room. The bed was unmade, clothes were everywhere, the curtains were closed and there was just a few random stains garnishing the place. Jackie made a disgusted face as he pushed Anti onto his bed.

"You really need to clean your room up sometime, man. It's gross"

"Mind your own business, asshole"

"Who's the asshole who just caused mayhem in the city today? Go fuck yourself, glitch. And I'm serious" Jackie then cuffed Anti to his bed's headboard, "One more mess and I'm telling Sean. Don't force my hand, man. Please"

"Whatever. Go fuck off now so I can watch TV or something"

"No. No TV tonight and no dinner for you, either."

Anti glared up at him, his eyes turning black, "T̸h̸e̴ ̴ f̴u̷c̷k̵  ̷y̶o̴u̶ ̶ j̵u̵s̷t̷ ̴  s̷a̸y̷ ̶t̸o̴  ̸m̷e̴!̷?̵ Don't tell me what I can and can't do, asshole! You think these cuffs can hold me!?"he tried to glitch out of them only to discover that he couldn't this time.

Usually he had no problem glitching out of Jackie's cuffs after a fight. What was different now!?

Jackie smirked, "Like the new cuffs? Had Marvin spell them" he winked, "You can't escape out of those until I uncuff you. Don't worry, though. I'll be sure to come back in tomorrow morning to see if you've learned your lesson or not"

Anti's face was priceless and Jackie walked away, ignoring Anti's cursing at him.

As he shut the door, Jackie sighed and rolled his shoulders, 'Back to work I go.' he left immediately, 'Off to clean up his mess once again. I swear he does it just to mess with me. . .'

Back with Anti, the glitch pouted but couldn't really move or do anything about his new position. Since Jackie had cuffed both of his hands, he couldn't even turn himself properly to sleep away the future hunger-pains. And it was only four in the afternoon!

He had a long wait ahead of him.

'Hopefully mister goody goody feels bad and uncuffs me early.' Anti licked his chapped lips.

He thought about what he did, but honestly he wasn't out to cause trouble this time!

He was just in the nearby forest trying to see how high he could climb up the trees by glitching. 

Evidently the sparks he left behind started a fire which in turn fucked up a main power-line which in turn made that power-line fall into a busy interstate causing the traffic jam!

He honestly didn't mean it this time but Jackie didn't even give him a chance to explain, running after him. Not that Anti didn't enjoy being chased. It was fun to him but eventually he'd tire out and let Jackie win. Then they'd start all over with the next chase.

He always ended up doing something wrong. Not always on purpose.

To everyone else, however, it was ALWAYS on purpose. Whenever anything bad happened in that house or something suspicious happened in the city, everyone was quick to blame Anti.

"Well look what we have here"

Anti's thoughts were interrupted by the magician entering his room. He glared at him, "The fuck do you want, q̵u̷e̵e̷n̵y̸?"

Marvin snorted, "Just seeing how well my spell worked is all. Can you really not glitch out of them?"

"What? Doubtful of your own spells?"

"Well the first time I tried spelling them they turned furry . . . .but I bet you would have liked that, wouldn't you?"

"Is that all or are you going to be taunting me more?"

"Why not? It's so much more fun with you tied up like this." Marvin picked at his nails, "And you can't even do anything about it. Poor little glitch."

"Go fuck yourself, Marvin. Don't you have anyone else to bother?"

"Fine. You're such a bore, anyways. You know, you're rather lucky Jackie didn't tell Sean about this one. Would have had quite the fit this time."

Anti snorted, "What's he gonna do, kill me? We all know he can't. He's too fucking n̸i̵c̴e̴." he gagged as if it was the worst word to come out of his mouth.

Marvin chuckled a bit, "There's other ways to get you to learn your lesson. See you tomorrow. It looks like Jackie's pretty serious about no dinner for you tonight."

On queue, Anti's stomach growled but he refused to show weakness in front of the other.

With a sigh, Marvin flicked his finger so suddenly Anti was switched comfortably on his side and the head-board morphed to split so his arms could come down. Anti was about to say something but Marvin stopped him.

"Don't say I never do anything for you" with that, he walked out, leaving Anti in anger, frustration and confusion.

'Damn magician.' he thought, 'Don't need his fucking sympathy!' but he cuddled into the bed anyways, soon finding himself drifting off to sleep, completely unaware of the sleeping spell Marvin had also put on him.

When Jackie came back home, he found Marvin in the living room watching some game show on TV, mumbling to himself the winning letters and numbers as if he already knew what they were. Once Marvin saw him, however, he quickly looked away.

Jackie sighed and walked in exhausted, sitting next to him on the couch, "You did something for him, didn't you? I told you this time he needs to learn his lesson."

"I know but he looked uncomfortable. I just moved the cuffs a bit  so he could sleep comfortably.  . . . .and then cast a sleeping spell on him."

Jackie wanted to groan at him but held it back. Honestly he felt bad for the glitch, too. He knew he was just trying to seek attention but did he seriously have to vandalize a whole city to do it?

"I have to tell Sean next time"

"I know."

Jackie decided to change the subject, "Have you heard from the others lately?"

The magician just shook his head, "Nothing. They'll be fine, though, Jackie. They deal with grief and pain in their own ways. They'll make it out, I'm sure"

"I know. I just wish they knew they could come home if they wanted. We could help. It feels so lonely anymore without them."

"At least we have JJ and Anti"

Jackie snorted, "At least we have JJ. Anti's more of a nuisance sometimes than anything."

"Sometimes." Marvin shrugged before getting up, "What you want for dinner? Want to order out anything?"

"Nah, I think we still have some leftover Chinese in the fridge."

"Okay!"

JJ listened to the whole conversation from the stairs. Being as quiet as he always was, he was also pretty sneaky. He felt bad for Anti but on the inside, he knew that they were just trying to help him. Whether or not it was the right way to go about it will remain a mystery. 

Scratching his mustache, JJ went back upstairs, ignoring the two empty rooms he had to go by and sneaked a peak into Anti's room. True to Marvin's word, it looked like he did, indeed, cast a sleeping spell on the glitch who was now snoring loudly.

'I really do hope he learns from today' he thought, 'But something tells me he certainly didn't'

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The next morning, Anti blinked open his eyes and stretched and yawned. He only just barely noticed he had freedom of his arms again until the sleep from his eyes was completely gone.

"Finally awake, princess?"

Anti flinched at the sudden voice but glared at Jackie, "The fuck you doing in my room, asshole?"

"What?" he smirked at him, "You didn't want the cuffs off? Getting too used to them?"

Anti just rolled his eyes.

"I just thought I'd clean your room for you since I already knew you weren't going to-"

"Oh you know me so well" Anti snuffed mockingly and picked himself off the bed, shrugging past Jackie to the bathroom.

Jackie tried to remain calm, "Anti, look just please! Please just TRY and stay out of trouble? I-"

"Hold on! I can't hear ya! I'm pissing!"

"Fucking hell" Jackie grumbled to himself and tried pleading to whatever higher power there was to give him strength to deal with Anti's shit.

Once Anti came back in the bedroom, Jackie glared at him, "I'm serious. One more fuck up and-"

"And you'll tell Sean! J̴a̸y̶s̶u̵s̵!̵ ̷I get it already, alright?! Fuck! Now leave me alone, will ya?! I'm fucking starving!" he glitched out of the room and to the kitchen through the microwave.

Marvin was in the kitchen eating some poptarts when he glitched in.

Anti stared at Marvin but moved his eyes from him and back to the poptart.

"Are those my fucking poptarts?"

Marvin swallowed what he had in his mouth, "They're the Apple ones. I thought you didn't like those"

"Oh. Fine then."

"And you call me the drama queen. You were about to start shit over a poptart"

"Because they're MY fucking poptarts! P̵i̶s̶s̶ ̷o̴f̵f̶!̵" he grabbed out the oreo ones and bit into it through the foil angrily. Marvin stared at him in disgust as he merely spat out the foil and kept eating.

"I'd be glad that we put up with you, Anti" Jackie walked in, "You COULD be staying at the Ipliers instead with your best buddy D-"

"Don't you d̶a̵r̴e̷ fucking finish that sentence. You don't know a damn thing, hero" Anti snarled and walked out of the room, pushing past JJ who just so happened to be there looking awkward and worried.

Anti threw the rest of the foil onto the floor in front of them, "Gonna pick that up, good-goody?"

Jackie watched as he walked out, "He's practically fucking begging for it, isn't he?"

"Just ignore it" Marvin sighed, "He's just throwing a tantrum is all. Besides, you know better than to mention him. They don't have that great a history, remember?"

Jackie shrugged his shoulders, "I forgot." he moved just wrong and groaned in pain, "Mm. Think I'll stop by the doctor's office today. Pretty sure I pulled another muscle chasing after that brat again."

"Don't go to his office"

"Why not? He might like the company"

"Jackie-"

"You worry too much. I'll see you guys later, alright? If Anti causes any more trouble today, let me know, alright?"

Before Marvin could say anything, he was gone, leaving him and JJ behind.

JJ tapped Marvin's shoulder and looked worried.

"What is it, JJ? What's wrong?"

He signed to him, 'It appears Anti already left as well. I didn't see which way he went'

"Aw damn" he groaned, "We have Sean on speed-dial, right? Might as well get ready for that fun for later. Let's hope Anti doesn't cause any problems today"

So what do you guys think of the story so far?? :D