Hi again. This is just a story that's been nagging at the back of my mind for forever it feels like. I really feel like I'm supposed to write this. Don't forget to review. You don't have to like the story, but it would make me a little more confident.

P.S. Yes, I do indeed try to keep flames out of my review box, but I don't mind criticism. There's a difference between flames and constructive criticism.

Flame: It stunk! I hated it!

Constructive criticism: It was good but a little too weird for me.

Ok? Do you see what I'm saying? I don't mind criticism. It helps me grow as a writer. But flames don't help anyone. Yes you do have freedom of speech, but try to keep sensative about other people reading it. (there may be younger or more sensative readers) Thanks! ..

Monster. That was the word he described himself as; something out to do evil for the fun of it. He had tried to overcome the arms before, but had failed. Now, he was just their puppet, taking the credit and guilt of the tentacles actions upon himself.

And through it all, they continue to tell him that it's all right, that it was meant to happen, that it wasn't his fault. How wrong he knew they were in their fake sympathy as they patted his back.

Doc Ock now wandered the streets aimlessly committing crimes here and there. He didn't know anything to be cheerful anymore. He just felt forgotten and betrayed. Doc Ock felt an emptiness inside that he couldn't understand and, no matter how hard he tried, couldn't fill in.

It was like a hole in the center of his very being, the small tear in who he was. In the beginning, he ignored it, for it was so small. But, as the months grew longer and into years, it had grown so large that it was the only thing he could think of now.

Dr. Octavious sat on the edge of the clock tower in the center of the city gazing out over the buildings. He always went up there when he needed time to think or when something was bothering him. The doctor stared at nothing in particular as he mumbled to himself.

"Why am I a monster?" He asked himself. Doc Ock looked at one of his tentacles and it cocked its head as if trying to understand his question. "What makes me who I am?"

The tentacles all threw out answers in his head although he really wasn't asking them. "What is keeping me form happiness? Why does my heart feel shattered all the time?"

We're sorry, but we don't know why you feel this way.

"I do." Doc Ock looked up at them angry. "You're the reason for all of this!" he yelled. "You. Because of you, my wife's gone!!! Because of you, I'm a wanted man!!! Because of you, I'm miserable!!!" Doc Ock stood up and looked over the edge with red, swollen eyes. Tears streamed down his face and dripped off of his chin over the edge, "And because of you, I'm going to end my life." He finished barely being able to speak. Doc Ock tipped himself off of the side, but the arms held onto the building preventing his fall.

"Leave me alone!" he cried. "I don't want to live any more! Just let me die! Let me die, please just let me die..." he continued to plead through sobbing as the tentacles climbed down the side and along the ground. Doc Ock wiped his tears away with his sleeve and snapped out of it. People stood out of his way as he walked on the bottom tentacles through the crowded street.

Where are we going?

"Somewhere I can think." He replied.

But what was wrong with the clock tower?

"It held too many memories." He said bluntly. Doc Ock climbed to the top of a building and spotted a billboard advertising a perfume. It said that that perfume was the only thing you needed to be happy.

"As if it were that simple." Doc Ock commented looking at the picture. "Just by a bottle of perfume, and all your problems will go away."

How do you know? Have you ever boughten a bottle? The top right tentacle asked playfully.

"I don't feel like jokes today." Dr. Octavious said gravely. He looked across the buildings and sighed. "I'm never going to fit in, am I? I'll always be hated...no one could love me...not anymore..."

Well there you go. The first chapter. Yah, I know, it's really gloomy and kinda boring. But I had to set the background sometime or another. I'll try to have the next chapter up by tomorrow. Again, don't forget to review!