Robert wants Father Thomas to hypnotize his mother and sister for sex.
"I'm on to you. I'm not falling for that shit Father," said Robert looking away from the cross and shielding his eyes from the priest with his arm as if Father Thomas was the Devil and no doubt he was. "Get that cross out of my face," said Joshua as if he was a vampire about to suck blood from the priest and, by extorting him and blackmailing him, he was.
"Okay, this is your move to make," said the priest with a disinterested albeit arrogant shrug. "Now what then?" The priest dropped his cross along with his charade. "What's your plan?
"My plan? There is no plan," said Robert.
"What are you going to do then?" Father looked at Robert with boredom instead of with fear.
"Other than to report you, there's no plan for me discovering you hypnotizing women for sex. I don't have a plan."
"Report me? Huh? Who will you report me to? Are you going to report me to the Bishop? The Bishop hypnotizes women for sex too. He's the one who taught me how to hypnotize women." He smiled.
"Now that I know that, I'll skip him and report you to a higher authority," said Robert threatening with some sense of satisfaction.
"Higher? Maybe you'll go higher and will report me to the Cardinal? There isn't anyone any higher than the Cardinal except for the Pope. But be fair warned, our beloved Cardinal has a whole stable of devoted women who attend to his sexual needs daily." He laughed.
"I'll report you to the Pope then," said Robert with certainty that something will be and must be done about this perverted priest.
"You mean, of course, that you'll write a letter to Vatican City and hope it makes its way to the Pope? Is that it? Is that your plan because if it is, I'm so afraid," he said raising his hands and wiggling his fingers while laughing. "Oh, look at me. I'm shaking."
Father Thomas studied Robert with arrogance. Good at what he was doing, God knows for how long and how many women he's hypnotized for sex. Assuredly, with Father Thomas posing all the questions and having all the answers, Joshua was no match for the priest. Only, not worth his time and energy, too powerful a man in his small community, especially with him the only witness and Joshua's word against the priest, he didn't want to tangle with him. He just wanted to get what he needed from Father Thomas and return to his mother, his sister, and his little life.
"You're such a dirty bastard Father," said Robert pointing his finger of acrimony at him. "People believe in you. People trust you. People confess their sins with you and pray with you. How can you violate the God given trust that you have as a priest? Don't you feel guilty? Don't you feel the least bit bad?"
"God given trust my ass," said Father Thomas. "A mere mortal student of scripture, I'm just a man dressed in black with a white collar and a silver cross," he said looking at Robert with contempt. "Having spent my youth on my knees sucking his cock as a sexual slave in servitude to my master, an older, perverted men wearing the same uniform that I wear today, who do you think taught me how to hypnotize parishioners?"
"You're all sick," said Robert.
"Sick? Maybe so we all are. Yet, we all do what we must do to survive this Hell on Earth. How do you think the Catholic Church continues to get those huge contributions that turn Vatican City into pure gold? We hypnotize the weak, the meek, and the believers to pray and pay."
Obviously Robert had stirred something up in the elder priest as he seemed angry after confessing the sexual abuse that happened to him and the thievery that the church continues today.
"Trusting you enough to be alone with you, Elizabeth didn't know you were going to hypnotize her to suck your cock. That's just wrong Father," said Robert. "Why can't you see that?"
"I understand your concern my son. I truly do but you'll never change something that has continued for centuries," said Father Thomas. "Priests in the twelfth century, going back to Friar Tuck of Robin Hood days in Sherwood Forrest and before, have always had a hypnotic control over women. Why do you think men when to war? They went to war to conquer, capture, and to have sex with women. I could tell you some stories about Maid Marion when you have the time," he said with a laugh.
"I'm not a believer in the way that Elizabeth obviously is for you to have hypnotized her and for her to suck you," said Robert pointing his finger at the priest. "Only God knows how many others you've sexually used and abused. Yet putting aside all of that," said Robert falling silent while looking at the priest looking at him. "I'm willing to make a deal with you," he said.
"Ah, a deal? I like deals. Let's Make a Deal. I watch that TV show every day. A deal with the Devil, I like it," said the slowly priest while rubbing his hands together as if he was a fly and about to land on a hot, steamy load of excrement. "Okay, a deal we shall make. Tell me Robert, what's your poison?"
"My poison is the same brand as yours Father, I'm sorry to say. Ready to play your dirty game, even though we're not on a level playing field and you have the advantage of reputation, age, wisdom, and experience, I'll just here to dip my toe in the incestuous waters. Sex is my poison Father, specifically incestuous sex with my mother and/or my sister, preferably both rather than just one or the other. In the way that you're sexually attracted to the women of your congregation, I'm sexually and incestuously attracted to my mother and sister. Two of your most loyal parishioners, I dare say, I wish to have sex with them."
"I see," said Father Thomas. "Well Robert, as your spiritual counselor, I must warn you about pitfalls of having incestuous sex with your blood relatives, namely your mother and sister," he said. "No doubt, exciting at first, but tasting the forbidden fruit by having incestuous sex is a Pandora's box of trouble. Furthermore, incest is a sin against everything holy and against God, our Lord, Jesus Christ."
"Cut the crap Father," said Robert.
"Ah, I see. So focused in your sexual lust for your mother and sister, I see that I'm unable to dissuade you otherwise to forgo your folly for having sex with your mother and sister." The priest looked at Robert as if they were in a confessional and Robert had just told the priest that he had sinful thoughts of wanting to have sex with his mother and sister. "Allow me to reiterate so that there's no misunderstanding. You'd like to have an incestuous relationship with your mother and sister. Is that correct?"