Make Me Feel

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Chapter 5

Octavius walked into his makeshift living room to rouse Zachary from his sedative induced sleep. He stopped short to study the sleeping teenager with an amused expression on his face.

The boy had at some point during the night curled up on his side with his face pressed almost entirely into the cushion. His right arm was sticking out above his head and dangling over the edge of the couch. The left was pulled up under his chest. He was breathing deeply and small flickers of movement danced underneath his closed eyelids. His dark bangs fell into his face and added to the young man's boyish appearance.

Ock was truly amazed by this boy. He had so much potential and so many resources and yet he had decided to seek out the dreaded Doc Ock just for the chance to meet him. Octavius had sat thinking for nearly an hour after the boy had fallen a sleep the night before. He had an idea of what might happen to the boy if he continued to change as he currently was. And it was going to take quite a bit of research and work to remedy the problem. Until he was sure, he wasn't going to tell the boy what the results of his mutation might be. No need to get the child all riled up.

Shaking his head Octavius walked up to the boy and shook his shoulder. Zachary mumbled something and attempted to return back to the dream he had been having. Growing even more amused by the boy's childish attempt at peace Octavius shook him harder.

"Zachary, time to wake up."

Hearing his name Zachary opened his eyes half way and looked up at the older man with sleepy eyes. His eyes were almost cloudy with sleep and for a moment he looked confused. He lifted his head and looked around still looking confused and then an 'oh, now I remember' look passed onto his face.

"What time is it?"

He asked reaching a hand up to rub the sleep from his eyes. He stopped short and looked at his stone hand and scowled. He sat up and switched to his right hand letting the stone left fall into his lap.

"It's a quarter after nine." Octavius said glancing at his wristwatch.

Zachary mumbled something and yawned.

"It feels like you woke me up at four in the morning."

Octavius chuckled at that.

"That's the sedative you took. You'll wake up better after you've had something to eat."

Even while partially sedated Zachary visibly perked up to attention at the mention of food. He gave the older man a 'food! where is it!' look. He stared up at the older man clearly waiting. His eyes looked a little less sleepy and the frosty pastel green irises were a bit clearer even while the pupils were still dilated.

Octavius continued to be clearly amused. He had been an only child and his dear Rosie and him had never had children. To see the boy's antics was very amusing and rather refreshing at the same time for him. He found it amazing that the boy could have been through so much and be so smart while retaining his childlike innocence and naive attentions.

Chuckling he lightly shook his head and glanced back at the young man.

"Get up. We are going out and I need to get some things. I ran out of rations yesterday, and need to stock up. Due to the fact there is now an extra mouth to feed, I'll be needing about twice as much as usual. We'll get you some breakfast while were out."

Zachary was clearly disappointed that he didn't get to eat right at that moment. He then raised an eyebrow as he thought of something.

"Eat while were out? You don't mean were just going to walk into Tim Hortans and order some food. They'll have a swat team on us before either of us can pick up a fork."

Octavius's amusement was growing by the moment. He found the young man's concern just added to his naïve ways.

"Don't worry about that. You'll understand what I'm going to do once we leave. Now get up so that we may leave."

Zachary gave the older man a weary look. He did get up as he was told, and paused a moment to stretch out some kinks that had worked their way into his back while he had slept. He paused another moment and had a look on his face that showed he was unsure of something.

Octavius was beginning to get a little irritated with the young man's slow attempt at getting up.

"What is it?" He said, some of his irritation leaking into his voice.

Zachary looked over at him clearly uncomfortable about something. He shifted around on his feet and looked at his stone hand.

"Do you think that I need to cover…this?"

He said gesturing to the gray appendage.

Octavius didn't say anything and instead walked over to the teenager. His four snake like limbs swung around to look at Zachary and started opening and closing the heads making small clicking noises. Two of the limbs shot forward and abruptly tore the black sleeves off of the boy's clingy long sleeved shirt.

"WHAT THE HELL!"

Zachary was extremely startled and shook up. For a moment he had thought the older man was attacking him. He looked down at his shirt that was now a tank top and then up at Octavius. The older man now had a 'cat ate the bird' look on his smug looking face.

"You shouldn't be ashamed of it. You should display it openly. Now everyone can see that you are different from them and that they are below you."

Zachary just continued to stare at him and looked down at himself. Small speckles of normal flesh could be seen high on his shoulder but everything going down was pure stone.

He looked at the older man and frowned for a moment but then it faded away. He brushed some black bangs out of his eyes, only to have them fall right back into their original place and sighed.

"Are we going or what?"

A cross between a smile and a smirk passed across the older man's face and he nodded.

"Yes, let's go."

30 Minutes Later

Octavius set Zachary down on the ground of the alley behind the Kroger. He then came down with the help of his extra limbs and set himself on his own human legs.

"I go to Krogers for my food inventory because they open at noon. That gives me plenty of time to get what I need and get out before anyone shows up for the morning shift."

Zachary nodded his head at the older man's words and waited.

Octavius turned to the back door and one of his tentacles went forward. The head opened and a small delicate looking tool stuck out and entered the keyhole. After a moment there was a small click and Octavius took hold of the doorknob and opened the door.

"I didn't know you could do that."

Zachary was looking at the other man with a look that said he was surprised, but that he was impressed.

Octavius just chuckled and said, "What, did you think I was just going to destroy the door and leave major evidence that I was here?"

Zachary didn't say anything in return and followed the older man into the stores back. Octavius immediately went to the security room and shut down the security systems and cameras. Entering the actual store he turned to Zachary.

"Go pick out a few things that you want. I'll get my things and the necessities."

After that he turned heel and went down some random isle.

Zachary stood still for a moment and a sudden childish giddiness entered him. He was getting to pick out what HE wanted. At home he had always been fed high-class fancy rich food that almost always came in small portions and bad flavor. At his twelve-birthday party his parents had served caviar and sushi shipped in from Japan. He was going to make the most of this as possible.

He spent the next ten minutes running from isle to isle packing his arms with pop-tarts, spagetti-o's and other fatty sugary kid stuff he had always heard of and never been allowed to have. Towards the end he had even pocketed a thing of super sour bubble tape just for the hell of it.

When he met back up with Octavius, the older man had already packed his things into a couple plastic bags and upon seeing Zachary's full arms flushed face and happy grin, all he could do to not burst into laughter was to bite his tongue.

"You are having to much fun."

Was the only thing that he could get out. He placed Zachary's items in a plastic bag and they left. Octavius fixed the security systems and shut off the lights just before exiting the door.

They continued on and Octavius dropped off their groceries on the roof of a building that was for sale. He explained that he always put them there so they didn't get in the way of his other errands and he always could come back on the way back to his hide out.

Everything was going just fine, until they were spotted by a certain bug. He had been swinging by and caught site of them and of course he had to come over since they weren't even doing anything wrong.

"Ock! What are you up to now!"

The bug had said as he swung over to them. He hadn't noticed Zachary who was still being held by a tentacle. Octavius lowered Zachary onto that current building rooftop.

"Just about to leave bug. Why don't you go away and catch something in your little web?"

Spider-Man seemed to take that as an invitation to fight. He launched himself at Octavius and the two began to battle.

((A/N: I'm so sorry, but I suck incredibly at fighting scenes. I'm going to do a little skip ahead thing so please don't kill me.))

About half an hour later on a shorter building rooftop Zachary watched with some interest. At some point the fight had been taken to the street. The Spider had tried to lead Octavius away but the older man hadn't fallen for it. Pedestrians had as usual run off but a few lingered in the broken walls of destroyed buildings.

Just as Zachary was starting to lose interest in the fight he saw a figure dressed in red and blue come sailing at him. His eyes bulged and he jumped out of the way as Spider-Man was knocked onto Zachary's current perch.

Getting back up he looked at the masked hero laying on the now slightly crumbled rooftop and walked over to him. The bug groaned and looked up at Zachary and froze.

"Who are you?"

He was obviously confused and then he turned and saw Zachary's stone arm.

"Holy…!"

Zachary looked at him and came to a very quick decision.

"Call me Granite."

"He works for me."

Zachary or now Granite turned and saw Octavius watching him with an almost proud expression.

"What, your taking advantage of little boy's with mutations now?"

Spider-Man said speaking with his voice full of sarcasm and anger.

Octavius chuckled darkly and smirked.

"Actually, he came to me. He wanted to meet me and I offered him a place to stay and help for his condition. He accepted entirely on his own. He's a smart boy."

Octavius didn't wait for the bug to answer. He picked up Zachary and they left while Spider-Man was still down, and thinking about Doc Ock's new partner in crime. A partner that was only a kid.

End of Chapter

Hey! Hope you all like it. This one really did take forever. I'm sorry if anybody thinks Ock is a little OCC in this chapter. I tried my best to make him seem normal. I'll update when I can, please review!!

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