Make Me Feel

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Chapter 6

After the encounter with Spider-Man Octavius picked up their groceries and transported himself and Zachary back 'home'.

Zachary had yet again been ordered to close his eyes before seeing the actual outside of the hideout. But he was still just fine with that. He was willing to let Octavius take, as much time to trust him as the older man needed.

Upon arriving Octavius immediately began walking in another direction with the bags of food without saying a single word. Zachary followed him and decided not to talk, figuring the other man was still worked up about the fight with Spider-Man. After a couple minutes Zachary found that Octavius had led him to the kitchen and was beginning to put the food away.

He turned and saw Zachary standing in the doorway and a small smile appeared on his face.

"We forgot to get breakfast. Are you hungry?"

Zachary's stomach answered the question for him by emitting a low gurgle. The boy's face flushed and a sheepish expression crossed his face. Octavius just chuckled and muttered "Teenagers." Under his breath.

He then pulled out a carton of eggs and a package of bacon along with a skillet, spatula, and two large plates.

"Go ahead and sit down. This will be done in a few minutes."

Zachary did as he was told and took a seat at the table. There were three chairs and he just grabbed a random one. He sat quietly and listened to the sizzle the eggs and bacon made as they cooked and caught the pleasant smell of the food. As he sat he noticed with some concern that the older man was walking with a light limp. It didn't seem very serious though, and he just brushed it off.

He looked up and smiled when Octavius came over to the table and sat two plates of bacon and eggs on the table and then sat down right across from Zachary. He pushed one of the plates in front of the young man and pulled the other towards himself. Silverware had been set onto the plates.

"So," Octavius started, "it's Granite now is it?"

Zachary looked up from his plate, a fork full of eggs less than two inches from his mouth.

"It was the first thing to come to my mind. At least it's better than 'Doctor Octopus'." He then pushed the eggs into his mouth. There had been a slight sarcastic emphasis on the name and there had been a teasing note in his young voice.

Octavius gave a slight huff at the boy's words and tried not to smile. But naturally he was failing miserably.

"Yes well, you need to remember I didn't pick my name. The newspapers did."

Zachary nodded his head as he chewed on a piece of bacon. After he managed to swallow he spoke again.

"I hope the bug passes on my name to the press. If he doesn't they'll come up with something cheesy. No offense Dr. Octavius, but if someone named me Doctor Octopus, I'd have them shot on sight."

The older man gave a slight snort of laughter and nodded his head.

"That's how I had felt when I had first found out. But I've come to find that Doc Ock isn't that horrible as long as you can pretend that you don't know what it's short for."

Zachary looked at the older man and saw the teasing glint in his brown eyes. He paused for a moment to take in the older man's appearance.

He was several inches taller than Zachary himself was but not nearly as skinny. He wasn't fat, just a little chubby around the middle. He had curly brown hair and brown almost sad looking eyes. Zachary found that the image of a basset hound had popped into his head. Strong facial features including nose and chin were obvious and fit perfectly into place. His face also seemed to be long but round at the same time. The man seemed to be in his mid to late forties but always seemed younger when he smiled. The four robotic tentacles were waving and curling around in the air behind him moving gracefully around and another image entered Zachary's mind. This time he thought of water snakes swimming around under water quietly and gracefully. All in all, Zachary decided that he was definitely a good-looking and attractive man, even could be good in bed.

Zachary nearly choked on his eggs but quickly recovered before the other man could notice and look up from his own plate.

Zachary had always been able to admit that some men were attractive to him but he had never considered himself to be gay. Before he had always passed it off as his wild and raging hormones getting the best of him. But he was seventeen now and he would have thought he should be out of it by now. Of course he knew this to be a total lie and knew his hormones would run wild until he was in his late twenties, if not longer.

But a single question forced it's way to the front of his mind.

Was he attracted to Doctor Octavius?

He couldn't be could he? The man was old enough to be his father. But, he had just thought that he was attractive. And he had been strangely driven just to meet the man.

"Zachary?"

He looked up at the other man and saw he was wearing a concerned look on his face.

"Are you all right Zachary? You just went from very pale to very flushed in the face. Do you feel all right?"

Zachary decided that he had some major thinking he needed to do. He stood up and pushed his chair in.

"I'm alright. I think I'm just going to lie down for awhile."

He didn't wait for the other man to answer and left the kitchen. He walked around for a little while and finally reached the small living room and went to lie down on the couch. He sat there with his eyes closed thinking about his feelings and eventually accidentally fell asleep.

End of Chapter

Hey there it is! I'm sorry that this one was shorter than usual. I had a really hard time trying to figure out what I should write about. This was the best I could come up with right now. I will try to do better on the next chapter. I hope Ock wasn't to OCC. I tried to do him the best I could. Thanks for reading, Please review!

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