Make Me Feel

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Notes: Cripes! I know, I'm starting to seriously suck at updating. But I found out that High School makes you really tired and by the time you're sitting in front of the computer, you're too brain wiped to think that hard. We had a late start today, so I'm a bit more motored than I've been in a little while. So, thank you Seizure Squirrel, Goldbryn Callow Lyte, Femme-Mishima, Toilet Paper Roll, Agent Silver, phendrana, slash addict, hpnjdevanescence, Pirate Goddess, DocOcksGirl31, Keaton the Black Jackal, Moon Avenger, Repto, and anacsadder for reading, reviewing, and putting up with this freakin' long wait for a chapter.

Extra and Happy Notes: I found an Otto Fangirl at school!!! She's a Senior and a cheerleader (of all things) and I am so happy that I met another one in person. She's not quite as crazy as us, but she came out and said, "OMG, Doc Ock was way hotter than Spider-Man in that movie!". So, YAY!! I met another one!! (-does a happy dance-)

Chapter 32

(32? When the heck did I get to chapter 32?)

Just as she had said, the needed materials were delivered around noon the next day. Otto had explained that he just needed to set everything up in the cave's lab, and that they would perform the procedure that evening.

Otto spent all of his time in the lab (which he marveled at the same way a child would if it's parent told him he could get everything he wanted in the candy store) and had convinced Zachary to stay upstairs and try to relax. Emily had been allowed to stay home from school after she had refused to leave insisting that she had to be with her brother who needed her. The two siblings remained in the small living room sitting close together, Emily trying to reassure her nervous brother.

Teresa spent most of her time doing who knows what in her study. Emily had been filled in by a very enthusiastic Zachary on how she had finally accepted Otto, but the young girl felt a grudging emotion when she wondered why their loving mother wasn't also here to comfort her son who probably needed his mother's arms now more than ever.

Zachary only nibbled at all of his meals even when Emily tried to coax him into eating. They stayed in the plush living room for all the day including meals and watched some of their favorite child-hood movies as they ate. (or attempted to eat)

Alfred had been kind enough to take meals down to Otto who worked nonstop in the lab making sure everything was installed properly and that everything was in order. The aging man was reminded of all the times he had had to do the same thing when Bruce had been alive, and after his initial fear of Otto had passed, he decided that he liked the scientist and that he would try to treat him the same as he would anyone, and not like a super villain with tentacles welded onto his back.

Otto had been very appreciative knowing that if the older man hadn't come to him with food, he never would have eaten anything that day. Rosie had always had to do the same thing when they were together. Otto would always develop 'tunnel-vision' when working and would always forget things like eating, sleeping, bathing, and making sure to drink enough water.

It felt odd being waited upon. But Alfred was very pleasant in his dignified butler way. He seemed to adjust to normally frightening and strange things quite well for a man who must be in his seventies or eighties. After the elderly man had left each time, he had gone back to work.

If this cave could tell him one thing about Bruce Wayne, it was that the man must have been purely brilliant. The man may have been a super-hero, but Otto would have given just about anything just to converse with the man about the technology that now surrounded him. This lab alone made everything Harry Osborn had paid for look like a cheap clinic.

And by the early evening, just as the world outside was growing dim and the sun was almost to the point of setting, everything was ready.

Zachary and Emily looked up at Otto when he walked into the room and saw his serious but reassuring face. Emily turned to her big brother who had grown pale and stroked his hair in loving and calming gesture that could only be made by sisters or mothers. She continued this but turned he attention to her brother's love.

"Should I come with you?"

Otto smiled softly but shook his head lightly.

"I don't think that would be a good idea. It shouldn't take that long, maybe half an hour to forty-five minutes at the most. Why don't you go inform your mother that we are beginning and she can expect a healthy and happy son soon?"

Emily pouted in concern but nodded her head and brushed some hair from her face. She looked back to Zachary who was slowly regaining the blood in his face and stroked his cheek.

"Okay, Mamma's been alone all day anyway. Come and tell us as soon as its over, kay?"

Zachary smiled at his baby sister and wondered how he could have ever believed her to be annoying. He couldn't imagine living without her stunning blue eyes looking at him or her sisterly arms around him in a sibling embrace. He reached up and wrapped his hand around her slight wrist gently, it was the left, but Emily didn't care about the smooth yet rough feeling of the warm but almost cool stone skin.

"I'll come running as soon as it's over."

He stood letting go his grasp on the young girl's wrist and walked up to Otto with an air of nervousness and loving trust. He immediately plastered himself to the older man's side and fisted the cloth on the back of the man's trench coat as if it were a security blanket.

Otto smiled warmly and wrapped an arm around the teenager's lean but broad shoulders and quietly began leading the young man away. Just as they were about to be completely out of the room, Otto looked back to the teenage girl sitting on the couch and flashed her a smile and a thumbs-up. The fourteen-year-old grinned in return and when they were gone, she got up and headed towards her mother's study.

(in the Batcave)

Zachary began removing his outer layers of clothing once they were in the lab and ready to begin. Otto started up the equipment and lowered the glass walls to the containment cylinder, which was almost identical to the one they had stolen from the OsCorp facility. Only when these walls lowered, they made a whirling sound instead of a swoosh.

Just like the first time, Zachary stepped up onto the center of the base in his boxers and the walls rose quickly. An oxygen mask fell and he fixed it over his mouth and nose and took several deep breaths. Otto looked up at him from the controls on the other side of the shiny glass and smiled. The scientist began pushing buttons and the main lights dimmed and the lights at the base and top of the tube lit up.

Then, the pale blue liquid began to pour in. In mere moments Zachary was suspended once again and the sedative through the oxygen did its job and put the boy to sleep.

"Please, let me succeed this time."

The words came out as a hushed whisper as Otto's hands flew over the control pad. His children watched the floating body inside the glass chamber and assured him that it would work. That it was working already and that they would be successful.

And thirty-five minutes later, they were just that.

End of Chapter

Man, took me three days to write this. I'm so tired!! Curse High School and homework to hell. Oh well, I finally finished the chapter. Now I will have to do another one. (-yawns-) But I'll wait and start that when I'm not looking or feeling like a partial zombie. It's almost the weekend, so huzzah! Thank you for reading and PLEASE REVIEW!!!

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