"First step to change what?" What is there that would change by him admitting that he doesn't deserve anything? He couldn't name a whole lot of things that would. He'd feel more depressed and suicidal, maybe, but that was it.

Noah watched the two men argue, first gloating, and then shocked. When Elijah told Anthony was free to go and Anthony corrected him that he was talking about the cell, his jaw nearly dropped and he was back to gloating. Wow…. This was escalating. Bad. As soon as Elijah ran away, and he noticed Anthony crying, he wanted to say something. But Wesley beat him to it. He watched the conversation, weirded out by Anthony’s self-depreciating comments.
And then he quickly spoke to get a word in:

“The first step to getting your boyfriend back!”

Noah believed he should get an award for how funny he was.

Wesley almost replied but Noah caught him. He shook his head and waved his hand. "You really think Elijah is doing a lot of men, did he turn you down or something?" He asked, now not bothering to answer Anthony. The cell was becoming a weird mess.

Anthony scoffed as he heard that. He was just about to say something, but Wesley interrupted him before he could do that. "He's projecting," Anthony said to the constable and nodded wisely. He would have usually been annoyed by the 'joke', but it actually helped a little bit. Made things less tense.

Noah turned to Anthony, ignoring the constable. "You're free to leave, Anthony!" he mimicked.

Wesley held up a hand. "Alright, if you want to argue, do it quietly."

Anthony preferred this to whatever it was that he and Elijah were doing, then. "Go to hell, Noah," he said, before realizing what Wesley had said. "..oh. Sorry, sir." Back to licking boots, then. Maybe doing that will make at least one constable tolerate him.

"Suck up," the boy muttered.

Wesley shook his head but let them bicker as long as it was quiet while he went back to paper work.

"At least I ain't a broke, dumbass virgin like you," Anthony said. He had run out of unique insults, so he just smacked all the ones he's already said together. If it works, it works.