Make Me Feel
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Chapter 11
They had made it half way back to the hideout when the insufferable pest caught up with them. Apparently Zachary hadn't hit him just hard enough.
Octavius had reacted quickly and had hid the stolen equipment the moment he saw the bug coming, but he had held on to Zachary. This is what had caused it to all happen.
He had been attempting to keep his hold on the young man and use his fierce tentacles to fight the web-head at the same time. He had managed to knock the spider over to a different building for a moment, but the part of the ledge one of his tentacles had been holding onto crumbled. The tentacle lost its hold and both men were swung up against the building side.
Zachary had been turned around at some point and his back was crushed up against the hard stone side of the building. Otto was pressed right up against the young man's front. Their faces were nearly touching and each could feel the other's breath. All in all, it was a very awkward position.
Octavius could see the web-slinger returning and a plan came to his brilliant mind.
"Zachary, do you trust me?"
He was staring straight into the boy's eyes and he seemed very serious. Zachary looked at him with an expression that said he was surprised, suspicious, and confused all at the same time.
"Do you trust me!?"
Otto's voice came out much more forceful and hurried this time. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see that Spider-Man was almost to them.
"Uh…yes. Yes, I trust you."
Zachary was looking at him clearly confused and weary.
"Good."
Less than half a second after saying that, Otto moved out from in front of the boy and over to his side, then he roughly shoved the boy off of the small ledge he had been standing on.
Zachary was falling from the side of a huge skyscraper towards the street far below.
Panic and utter terror gripped the young man's chest like an icy fist as he fell. He tried to turn and saw just in time to see Octavius leap over the roof of the building and disappear from sight.
He continued to see the fast approaching street and harsh air was blowing into his eyes causing tears of pain to swell up. He braced his arms in front of his face and waited for the fatal impact.
It never came.
Spider-Man had been torn between going after Ock or saving some confused kid from becoming street pizza. Guess which one he picked?
He dove down and after a brief moment of thinking 'I'm not gonna make it!' he managed to wrap and arm around the teen and swung them down to the street.
Upon landing he let go of Granite and watched the younger man sink down onto his knees and begin to tremble. His arms were still positioned above his head and he could hear harsh irregular breathing coming from the kid.
"Well, you sure have a great taste in friends."
The youth slowly lowered his arms from their braced position and stared wide-eyed at the spider. His face was deathly pale but the area around his eyes looked wind burned.
"h..he.. l.. l…lef.. t…me."
His voice was trembling as harshly as his body and he sounded as though he was asking a question.
Before Spider-Man could say anything else a familiar tentacle shot down apparently out of nowhere and grabbed the boy's ankle. The kid was then brought flying up upside down to the top of a random roof where the owner of the tentacle stood grinning smugly.
Zachary was brought over to Otto while still dangling upside down. This only added to Zachary's awkward feelings when he realized that while in this position he was exactly face to crotch with the other man. Exactly, face to crotch.
Otto could tell the young man was suffering from sheer humiliation and decided to take pity on the poor boy by carefully setting him upright.
The older man's smug grin faltered when he saw the boy's eyes were wind burned and noticed how shook up he was.
"Are you all right?"
Zachary stared at him.
"You just let me fall about three hundred feet, then grabbed me and whipped me around upside down, then practically shoved my face into your crotch. Yeah, I'm fine."
The young man's youthful voice came out winded and sarcastic with the slightest touch of anger.
Octavius just frowned and shook his head.
"I hid the equipment closer to the hideout. We need to leave before Spider-Man comes up here."
"To late Ock!"
Both men turned just in time to see the spider come soaring towards them. A moment later both the spider and Otto were fighting once again.
((A/N: Sorry, but another skip ahead. I know you guy's are probably annoyed but I'm sorry. I have this perfectly in my head but I can't find the right words. Please don't kill me.))
About ten minutes later Zachary was watching the fight start to slow down, but what he didn't know was that he wouldn't see the end of this fight.
Just as all three of the men thought the fight was near it's end the part of the concrete wall Spider-Man was webbed to crumbled. A large chunk of concrete stayed attached to the web as the bug swung to another building and the chunk was swung around. Only to forcefully collide with the side of Zachary's head.
A sickening loud 'crack' was heard and Zachary went tumbling along the rooftop and finally skidded to a stop. He lay limp and quiet.
Otto looked at the boy's limp form wide eyed and turned to Spider-Man with a sudden rage. The pest was still staring at the teen's body in shock and surprise and didn't notice Doc Ock until all four of the man's tentacles grabbed him and proceeded to beat him against the side of the building until he too, was knocked unconscious.
Otto's anger ebbed away into worry as he hurried over to where his young charge was sprawled limply on the pebbled rooftop.
He kneeled down next to the young man and saw his left temple was bleeding. The entire area around the temple was turning a sickening red and purple combination. Fear jolted through Otto's chest, temple wounds were the worst head injury you can get. The boy's left eye was also turning color and he noticed the small stream of blood seemed to pick up speed lightly.
As carefully as possible he bundled up the young man into his arms and carefully cradled the boy's head into the nook of his elbow.
The trip back to the warehouse was made slowly, even more so when he had to stop and pick up the stolen equipment from it's hiding spot.
He had quickly dumped the crate in the 'living room' and had to hurry carefully to his lab.
He spent the next hour checking the Zachary's head for any fractures, weakened areas, brain swelling and all things associated with head injuries. He was greatly relieved to find no fractures or cranial swelling, and managed to bandage the boy's temple.
He had carefully carried Zachary to his room and stacked both of the boy's pillows on top of each other. He then gently put the boy to bed. By this time, the entire upper left side of Zachary's head had swelled and turned reddish purple.
Octavius decided building the containment cylinder could wait until Zachary woke up and was healed enough to care for himself. Little did he know that it would be three days before the young man awoke.
End of Chapter
Hey! Well what do you think? I really worked hard on this one. I'm leaving on a weekend vacation tomorrow, so I wont be able to update until about Monday. Sorry, It's actually my parent's choice and they are dragging me along. Well, Thank you for reading and please Review!!
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