a/n: well this is quite an unexpected chapter... even I didn't plan to go like this... but I really hope you like it anyways. I had a ton of fun trying to type this one! Hope you like... please r and r.
Ch. 14 A Meeting of Opposites
We hit the darkest point of my street and stop. We can't return home, they'll be expecting me, they know where I live.
We have to make a run for somewhere else... but where.
I here a noise and me and my tentacles all look back. They hiss, seeing an enemy invisible to my eye. Then there's a shadow, moving here and there, slowly, cautiously, like you approach a wild animal. He steps out and is unmistakable...
Spider-man!
"Hey there Ock, nice night for a stroll huh?" he taunts me as if he had the right.
"Get away from me," I growl, like a wild animal would, my tentacles positioning for an attack.
He holds his hands up mockingly. I snarl and he turns back to me. Just now I realize how vicious I sound, how vicious I have been made, how vicious these people out there cause me to be.
But there was Mary Jane, she would never hurt me, she was kind, gentle, loving, just like my Rose.
I turn away, ready to leave, though I don't know where to go, I don't even know the time, but the moon isn't high, just rising, the night is still quite young.
But I'm stopped by a shot of web, hitting me hard, and forcing me back. He spins me around and my tentacles rise in defense. He looks at them, his bright white eyes reflecting the low, pale moonlight, showing no emotion, but I can sense his fear.
I try and break free but he has other plans that don't fit mine, "Now c'mon, I just wanna have a little man to man talk."
"What? Knowing I'm hated by every person in the area not enough, now I've got to be taken to the police?" I spat the words in his face, my eyes meeting his. Behind the mask I know he sees me.
"Why did you kidnap Mary Jane?" he asks, sternly, control in his voice.
I think about it. He wouldn't believe the truth, that these tentacles control my thoughts. No, he would just call me a freak, like all the others.
"You really want to know?" I know the answer, but I have to ask, my voice hard as I do so.
"Yes, I do Ocky," he's arrogant.
"They," I gesture to my tentacles, "told me to," I yell, not afraid to look him in the eyes.
"What?" I expected as much.
"Yes! They have voices, speaking inside my head endlessly, saying 'do this' 'do that', no say on my part, but I listen, knowing they will take care of me. I don't know why I took HER of all people, but they wanted it, so I let them have it." They words are hard, yet hollow, filled with poison.
He let's go of me and steps back, staring at them, as they click and whir, telling me to attack, but I stay positioned. They get fed up, they attack themselves.
He's fast, Spider-man, quick on his feet, easily out doing Liz and Bethany, but Kris and Sarah quickly catch and bind him. Then I see Liz come around and let out a drill like weapon that could pierce human flesh with a light prick, easily lethal.
"No!" I command her.
She turn and puts it away, but still on guard.
"Why shouldn't we?" Bethany demands, but all I know Spider-man hears are some clicks and whirrs.
"Because, he's human, no one deserves it," I say.
"Why not?" Liz is even against my decision, very unlike her.
"Because he cares for Mary Jane," I answer.
"He cares for them all."
"No," I simply say, no emotion in my words, but then my voice betrays me, as if I were in a memory of long ago, "he cares more about her then the others. Voice allows true love to show, no matter who is listening, as long as they listen the right way."
I pause and watch Liz and Bethany stare, along with him, still in the grasp of Kris and Sarah.
"Let him go," I simply command and they do, letting him drop hard onto the ground, dazed.
I turn to go to my house and I hear him again, "You know they'll catch you again there."
"I know," I simply answer and look over my shoulder, "You thought I had lost my intelligence in the accident?"
"Then why do you return?" he asks, getting his usual air around him.
"Because, some things can never be left behind," I look at him and turn at last.
He swings in front of me, "I can't let you enter there, you'll get killed."
"And you care?" I ask.
"I like to see everyone that deserves it get punished, but as you said 'no one deserves to die'," I can see his mask move into a smile.
"Then let me enter, I won't get killed, or harmed for that matter," I try to push by him, but he stops me with a hand, which is then quickly attacked by Sarah who narrowly misses hitting me instead.
I keep walking headed toward my house, leaving Spider-man behind, who only falters for a second, then quickly swings to the front of the house.
"I'll take care of him," I growl that he doesn't believe me, but when I see him enter the house I take off at a run, watching the police stare and start to fire, but miss.
I enter the house by crashing down the door, when I see he's in there, waiting for me I let Liz throw him aside as I head to the kitchen, he doesn't deserve death, but he's starting to piss me off.
I grab a sack and throw some un-refrigerated food in, quick in my action with the tentacles help. I then go and dash up stairs and take some extra clothes as well.
Now carrying three sacks I head out the upstairs window, down the back, into the backyard, and past the two or three officers through the shadows with no problem.
"Where shall we go?"
"The moon is high."
"At its peak, actually."
"There is no place safe."
I listen as my inventions quarrel about where to go and then it hits me. Inventions... The Lab!
"The lab," I confirm aloud.
They look and quickly agree, or at least to them for a short term area we can stay.
I know the lab well... isolated, extra food, non-perishable at that, and blankets for long nights that I never made home. Surely in ruins, but I can make it through, I will be able to stay, for a short time of course.
We turn and head to the very edge of the city, towards the water. My lab is the best place for me, and my tentacles agree. That is where they were created, where they were born, where Doc Ock was born.
a/n: well? What do you think? I always liked the lab and I had to go there at one point...
Next chapter coming soon but the thing on the 17 and 18 might cause a small delay!!!
