Ouch.

Sam and Jake collapsed simultaneously, Jake grabbing his wounded balls and Sam hugging her sides. Sam coughed and retched while Jake groaned in pain. "What the fuck..." Jake asked raggedly, "...did you do that for?" Sam finished.

"Just making sure you were telling the truth. Sorry Sam, but he had it coming."

Sam glared at her from watery eyes and started to get back up. "Is that what a kick to the balls feels like? Oof, they aren't kidding when they say it hurts."

Janet looked her over skeptically. "So what, you have phantom balls now? You feel pain in body parts you don't have?"

Sam coughed raggedly. "Not exactly. It's like I feel the general sensation he does, but not the specific location. Like that was an intense dull pain with a lot of nausea."

Jake was struggling to his knees. "Yeah, that's the long and short of it. Are you done kicking us around yet?"

"Kicking you around." Janet corrected. "Jesus, are you referring to yourselves as 'us' now? Sam, how are you not freaking out about this?"

"Well, I've had a day to get used to it."

Janet was unconvinced. "No, no, no. It would take more than a day to make my sister give up on her autonomy." She turned to Jake again. "You son of a bitch, you're still controlling her, aren't you? Making her say these things?"

Sam stepped in between them. "I told y-" Janet cut her off.

"I'm not talking to you. I wanna hear it from his mouth, not yours."

As Sam backed off, Jake tried to explain. "I can't help it. My thoughts are being **** into her mind against both of our wills."

"Then why haven't you gone to the ER? Why haven't you even fucking googled it? You've just been sitting around your house playing with my sister like a goddamn marionette, but I know Sam and she would never just accept this. You're doing it to her."

During this whole diatribe, tears were starting to form in Sam's eyes. Janet's words rung true but she knew Jake would never do anything to hurt her. She knew she only believed it because he did, but she couldn't not believe it.

"Ok." Jake spoke after a moment of reflection. "So what do you want?"