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“Hey, Colonel, I’ve got a question about the missio–” Jacobi is cut off by the feeling of something around his neck and the sound of it snapping closed.
He turns around and sees Kepler standing no more than five feet away, holding a little, black, rectangular object up by his face. It looks like a… remote? “Wha- what’s going on?” Jacobi asks, although something at the back of his mind tells him that he knows exactly what is going on. Kepler just smiles and presses a button on the remote.
Something runs through Jacobi’s body. Not a shock but not quite not a shock. There’s a heat on his neck, right under his left ear and it feels like his bones are vibrating against his muscles. It lasts for at least four seconds and then it stops and Jacobi falls to his knees, struggling to get full breaths.
Kepler [bastard] takes a step or two forward and kneels down in front of Jacobi, who is still trying to even out his breathing. One finger goes underneath Jacobi’s chin and tilts his face to the right while Kepler examines the collar.
“You will take it again.” Kepler says. It’s not a question, not ‘can you take it again’, no, it’s a command. It’s ‘you will take it again and Kepler doesn't care if it hurts. Jacobi just nods and squeezes his eyes shut.
It comes again, all those feelings at the exact same time and it takes everything he has not to cry out. It’s basically a shock, yes, but it hurts and Jacobi knows it’s going to leave a mark. He can feel it in every inch of his body and his bones are on fire. It aches and it hurts and it… it’s over.
Kepler reaches down and unclicks the collar, and pulls it off of Jacobi’s neck. Jacobi’s hands fly up to where the source of the heat was and he can already feel a raised area.
“What...the hell… was that… for?” Jacobi manages to say. Kepler just shrugs.
“Just for fun,” he says and walks to the door. He opens it and pauses, turns around and looks at Jacobi, slowing sitting up on the floor, one last time.
“You’ve been a good boy, Jacobi,” and closes the door behind him.