Dan, wresting control at last, answered.
“Lets just use it, it could be f-... what are you doing?” He said, looking up at Chell. At that moment Siya was trying to stop her from yanking the device from the TV, taking control of it herself.
“This thing is dangerous, look at what it did to Adam.” She ripped the plush from her sister's arms, thrusting it at Liam and Dan. “We can’t afford to take the risk. Let's just lock it away, wait it out, then…”
“Destroy it?” Dan asked, she didn’t answer, holding the laptop to her chest. “It's my fucking machine,” Dan groweled, “it's my laptop too.”
“I don’t want any machine like this to exist, Dan.” She replied. “I don’t want anyone to have that power, especially…” Her words cut off just in time, her eyes glancing around the room. “We never even trusted ourselves to get a cat, why would we trust ourselves with this thing?”
Dan walked over to the machine, to his laptop. Siya moved in, blocking him, with Liam moving in to hold him back. The melee began again, shouting rang out, and at some point Adam slipped, getting trodden on by Dan. The squeak he let out ripped through the room, startling everyone, the machine flying onto the sofa. Somehow, some way, the cursor had navigated onto Chell, and in the confusion commit was hit.
“Fuh… Liam.” She said, before letting out a squeak of her own. Liam moved in, supporting her, as Dan slipped away with the laptop.
In is den Dan locked the door, barring it with a chair as he began navigating the menus again. He was frustrated. Chell was always like this, always leaving passive aggressive notes, always judging his lifestyle, always criticising, especially if that criticism was particularly uninvited. He watched on the monitor as Liam and Siya tried to hold onto her, as she too began to shrink.
He navigated away from the transformation itself, ending up on the event log, looking at just what happened. It laid it all out bare, turning Dan irate at what he saw.
She didn’t trust Dan, she didn’t trust him specifically. She kind of trusted Liam, and trusted her sister with her own life, but not with everyone else's, but she also trusted herself to a great degree. If she got the device she could maybe use it herself, only a little though, just to make the world set out on a better path.
Dan fell back into his chair. Chell had been a friend since school, had been a constant person he had trusted all his life. At the very least, he felt he deserved that too. Liam also didn’t trust him, seeing him as ‘borderline everything’, and just a little too ‘full of himself’. Adam, a recent friend, trusted him a little, but only because he felt he should. The only person that trusted him with a device like this, trusted him at all really, was Siya, and that was - apparently - partially due to a crush.
He wanted to cry, but crying would ruin his plots.