Chapter 3: Ka, Ba, Ren, Ib, Sheut
"You are my what!?" Charlie snorted out, half amused and baffled as he staggered back against the railing of the stone staircase in front of the jackal deity. His voice became a high pitch shriek for a brief moment, causing Nick and Judy to winch and lowered their heads down under the staircase's base. "What the hell are you on about? You're crazy right? You must be crazy!" Charlie tilted his head up and threw his hands into the air hysterically as he paced back and forth flailing around, half crazed by the cryptic meaning of Anubis's words.
"This is absolutely bonkers! Bonkers! Yeah that's what I think, you just met me and you think of me like a son you never have and pretend that I'm your son and your delusion now finally get to you!" He rambled at a lighting speed, a pace only motor mouths can handle as he sputter more and more. Anubis was heard sighing out in annoyance before proceeding to slap Charlie at the back of his head in a powerful slap, "Focus, boy." The jackal uttered grimly.
"Ouch, I wish you didn't do that." Charlie complained, making a canine whine before Anubis was seen taking extra steps upstairs towards the Curator Office, "But really, how come I'm your son? Do you have any proof of that? DNA Tests? Blood samples?" The robot wolf inquired Anubis incessantly, asking over and over as he followed the deity closely before seeing Anubis pushing the Curator's Office doors opened.
Anubis stepped into the chamber and sat down on a chair drowsily rubbing his temple, causing Charlie to fall silent, a deathly silent with his hysterical and almost insane grin disappeared, leaving a curious and cautious expression. "Blood doesn't speak as much as the persona. The mask which we wear to guide our understanding and shape our identity." The jackal uttered grimly as he rubbed his temple further slumping his head down.
He rested his head into his paws, his face was hidden by the palms as his elbows were planted on his knees. The pose Anubis assumed got Charlie to tilt his head in closer to the Jackal, his sensitive robot ears suddenly picked up the sound of the deity weeping and sniffing under his breath. He widened his pupils and perked his ears straight up, listening closely to the sound of Anubis croaking and crying in a pathetic manner. "Wh...what did I- was it something I said? If it was then sorry." Charlie stuttered in confusion before he was interrupted by Anubis.
"Ka, Ba, Ren, Ib, Sheut. They are the components of a soul...you were but a child...when I lost you. Your Ren, you had none. Your Ka and Ib were gone...only the Sheut and Ba remained." The deity lowered his hands and lifted his head up to face Charlie, the wolf gasped slightly when he saw Anubis's face wet with tears streaming down his cheeks.
Droplets falling on his laps and on occasionally, on the floor. "You died just when you were born...and I didn't get to hear the sound of birth and your cry...I'm sorry my son! Forgive me…" The jackal deity coughed out as he stood up from the chair, turning his back to Charlie as he walked towards the corner and rest his head into the stone wall of the structure causing Charlie to back away, apparently disturbed. "What are you talking about? I'm a wolf and you're a jackal...deity...thing. You can't be my father, I gotta go now." Charlie sighed out defeatedly, confused and perplexed as he turned away from Anubis and exited the office. Leaving the deity to bemoan his uncomfortable memories alone. From his office, he saw through the glass window the sight of Charlie riding off on his bike, presumably to his apartment in Tundratown.
"You have no idea…" The jackal uttered before clenching his palm into a fist and slammed it into the wall and felt the pain coursing its way across his body, affecting every fibers of his beings. He sat down on the chair and sighed, "Stupid...stupid...stupid!" He snarled to himself in self pity and agony as he tossed a glass statue of Aphroducky into the nearby bookshelves, shattering it into pieces. In his grief, he slumped his back on the chair picking up a portrait he kept hidden in his drawer and opened the rolled up canvas.
He sighed out a long drawn breath as he looked at the Renaissance style painting of a brown, slightly tannish gold female wolf in Medieval clothing, she wore a light tan dress with a hood over her head, covering both of her ears. The artist apparently had left her eyes dark as night while her arms were cradling a newborn, an infant pup still suckling from his mother's nipples. Anubis had a strange fondness towards the painting, gazing at it for minutes if not hours.
It wasn't errotic thoughts that crossed his mind, but rather sadness, anguish and a longing. "I've found him...my love...I'll take care of him. No matter what…" He silently spoke to the portrait before rolling it up and put it away carefully into a safe hidden behind a world map hanging on the wall of the office.
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A morning with a cup of coffee and a mix drink of protein is the idea of an ideal breakfast for Romano Valetti, the grey wolf. He sat in his apartment dining table and chair and sipped on his cup of coffee with his right hand. On his left was a newspaper of the Daily Herding, a broadsheet papers of Zootopia with a black and white photo of former Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether. The headline was written in a bold font with an underline underneath decorated by a lion crest blowing a horn. "Bellwether pardoned. Police investigation continues."
He huffed out seeing the headline and opened the newspaper to the relevant page to begin reading about the article. He scoffed seeing the columns stating Bellwether's exact location remains secret for her own safeties as he drank his coffee. "Idiota." Said the grey wolf in his early 30s. His ears however perked up as he heard the sound of music playing on the floor above followed by the sound of some thudding and slight racket. "Cosa sta succedendo lassù?" Romano asked himself before exiting his apartment and went up the stairs.
As he approached the source of the sound, he saw the door of Charlie's apartment to be a thin barrier to seal off the sound coming from inside the place. He heard what sounded to be 80s Ballad playing, namely the song "Down on love" by Fureigner. The song apparently was hitting the high note when he heard the panting and heavy breathing coming from inside. "Sembra che il mio vicino abbia una vita interessante." Romano thought with a playful grin on his face as he knocked on the door.
The knocking echoed into the room and caught the attention of Charlie who was at that moment busy with his pole dance practices, he quickly stopped his practice while in the midst of swinging his leg around a pole in the center of the apartment and lowered his thighs down along the metal bar.
"Ho boy, I think the old lady finally hop off her chair...hopefully not into a box." Said Charlie in a grim tone as he turned the music off and opened the door. He peaked out and saw Romano standing in the doorway, dressed in a casual grey shirt buttoned from top to bottom and wore a pair of baggy trousers. "Uhhhh, who are you and can I help you or anything?" Charlie asked Romano curiously not quite aware of the grey wolf's intentions with him.
"Hmmmm, I can see that you have a busy session preparing…" Romano moved his head to the side a bit, his eyes soon caught a glimpse of the metal pole in the apartment and his mind jumped to conclusion almost instantly. "...for serving other needs?" He asked Charlie in a rather lustful tone as he rubbed his chin examining Charlie's body up and down. Finding the comment rather awkward and Romano's uncomfortably hungry eyes on his body made Charlie felt the need to try and politely cut their conversation short. "Well...uh...that's none of your business but am I bothering you or something?" He asked scratching the back of his head.
"You think so? Actually I'm more entertained and interested in...spending time with you." Romano replied with a chuckled towards Charlie as he looked down at the young arctic wolf's muscular and athletic form. He saw before his eyes the round pectoral muscles and well toned six packs abs. Despite talking to a neighbor, Romano saw that Charlie was still wearing a navy blue speedo on him and was mostly stark naked, the looks of it alone were enough to tell Romano that Charlie was pole dancing. "And I can see that I am highly interested in your practice session. May I come in?" He asked Charlie in a surprisingly amused tone, causing Charlie to blush brightly red.
"Wa-wait what!? You wanna come in now? Uh..this is...kinda awkward for me and all. I just don't like people..." As Charlie stuttered he soon noticed Romano slowly unbuttoning his shirt as if to tease Charlie's eyes. He leaned back a bit while gritting his teeth apparently in a struggle to contain his own lust as he felt his own crotch bulging a bit from the sight. "Oh no please don't! Just come in! Don't do that in the hallway…" Charlie whimpered in confusion as he led Romano into his apartment in a reluctant manner.
Romano stepped inside the apartment and closed the door behind him with his left foot. He glanced around and for a moment, he let out a wolf whistle at the apartment's rather Sci-Fi like appearance of the apartment. Starting with the blue hue of the lighting and the large rectangular, lounge in front of an empty wall. Curiously enough, he found that there was no TV in the place, beside a bed, a medium sized refrigerator, a kitchen with some never before seen appliances.
He can tell that the appliances were not from any producers or brands found at the shopping malls or electronic store. "Quite a home you have here, mio amico." Said Romano in a thick Italian accent, Charlie took a moment to keep up with Romano's curiosity as he explored the apartment. The arctic wolf took a moment to sniff at Romano's breath as he spoke, catching on to the thick scent of connoisseur wines, Amontillado in particular.
"You uh a regular alcoholic?" Charlie asked in a curious manner, much to his mixture of horror and delight, he saw Romano turning around and taking off the shirt, unbuttoning from top to bottom before finally taking off the shirt to reveal his tankier body compared to Charlie. The arctic wolf gasped with his mouth fell open, his optics were observing the muscular and masculine grey wolf from Italy with a lustful desire being dialed up to eleven. He approached Romano slowly step by step, his feet trembled as his arms raised up slowly to feel Romano's fur and muscles.
He felt the grey wolf's chest to be a well built bastion of pectoral perfection and his arms having large, well rounded muscles to compliment the grey wolf's virile physique, he traced his paws down to Romano's abdomen area, feeling up Romano's well rounded and toned six packs, noticing how each one were indent and well defined. "I miei pantaloni, toglili per favore." Romano stated playfully and winked to Charlie, he gestured for the wolf to take off his pants, slowly and take his time. Seeing the body languages, Charlie made a nervous smirk as he slowly unbuttoned Romano's pants and slipped it down slowly.
The garment soon fell to the floor, revealing Romano's pair of beefy thighs and an equally tightly clenched pair of speedos. These were emerald green in color that contrast with his stone grey fur. But nonetheless, it made the wolf all the more...eye candy to Charlie. Before the arctic wolf can speak anything, he felt Romano wrapping his muscular arms around his back. The grey wolf was now groping Charlie's rumps, feeling the arctic wolf's round and well defined rear end as Charlie eeped out in surprise, but he didn't resist. He was enjoying it much to his chagrin. "Tell me, is your employment...lonely?" Romano asked tenderly as he nuzzled Charlie's muzzle.
"It is...to be honest, my act is a one man show and I feel like I should just end it and go home every nights…" Charlie replied in a more hesitant and slightly aroused tone as he felt Romano pulling him in close, now the two felt their bulges were grinding against one another gently and slowly. The movement caused the fabric of their Speedos to generate squeaky noises accompanied by the obligatory moaning and panting sound from the two, mostly Charlie due to how domineering Romano was. "Un bel allenamento qui amico mio. May I ask if your employer still hiring?" The grey wolf began to lick Charlie around the back of his ear, tracing the red tongue up along the triangle shaped listening appendage.
Charlie nodded to Romano making rather pleasured and audible moaning sounds as he rocked himself back and forth, rubbing his body against Romano's muscular and furry torso.
"Oh...yeah the manager is still hiring, last I checked he wanted another dancer for my show. You want to join?" He asked while looking at the grey wolf's face, his smile was devious and filled with naughty intentions towards Charlie as the grey wolf secured him in a passionate lustful kiss. He forced his tongue into Charlie's mouth, licking and rubbing it along with Charlie's own tongue, causing the arctic wolf to experience tingling sensations, ticklish and pleasurable stimulus that won't let him think properly.
"Si, I could use a job with you, seeing that you are...shall I say...charming neighbor? Mio amico, you have no worries, I've been working this for quite sometimes now. This won't be any differences." The grey wolf spoke reassuringly in a thick Italian accent as he massaged Charlie's back, the arctic wolf smiled back to Romano but blushed brightly red before nodding to him. "I'm a bit embarrassed but uh...hey anything goes, at least I know I won't work alone." The arctic wolf replied hesitantly before seeing himself shushed by Romano, who proceeded to kiss Charlie's lips passionately, silencing him on his bed at that moment.
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Ice Pleasure's opening hour has come at last with patrons coming to the place and entered the establishment's front door and lost themselves to a world of icy cold pleasure, contrast by the booze and dancing of various performers on stage. One of the patron there was Anubis, dressed in a more casual outfit consisting of a pair of khaki pants in dark color, he also wore a casual black leather jacket over his T-shirt. He sat by the bar, drinking some booze next to Logan as he asked the timber wolf with a slightly drowsy tone. "How long has he been doing this Logan? Tell me and I'll let you in something reserved for inner circles." Said Anubis as he held the shot of Whisker in his paw.
Logan grumbled to Anubis as he was in the audience waiting for Charlie to being on his routine show. Logan tapped his paw on the ground. He himself still dressed formal adornment still. A dark colored suit and tie on top, and dark slacks on the bottom with no wrinkle in sight. He stood out well compared to the usual crowd of the strip joint with many in the croup having unbutton shirts, or very ugly looking clothing. Logan had trouble answering the question.
"Well. I can't say for as long as I've known him. Since I haven't known him for most of his life. He's been doing it since right after the Bunnyborow incident as we have been calling it. Once he got his robot body ironically." Logan said fiddling with cubes of ice in his own drink. He didn't seem to have the appetite though as Logan seems to be rather sick with each viewing. It was enough to perk anubis's interests seeing Logan's adversity to the current location.
"Really? Having a shiny robot body and took up exotic dancing? At least he won't contract HIV…" Anubis grimly replied as he rubbed his temple, Logan can tell that the deity was rather depressed and perhaps even annoyed by something. Namely Charlie related matters. "There's a reason that I can claim Charlie as my son Logan. It might confuse you but it's the most solid case from a spiritual perspective. Charlie carries in him the shadow and spark of my biological son, who died too soon to live." Said Anubis as he began to smoke a cigarette in his maw.
Logan though lower renewed his head and placed the bottom of his muzzle on the tops of his fingers listening to Anubis closely. It was a stunt for him not to listen or even pay attention to the gratuitous nudity around him, but he seemed to understand the concept. "Wait i think I know this actually. It's like reincarnation. I think I have read about this before. Born again. Same soul, but different set of cloth. Basically the flesh and body. I remember this in highschool when we were learning different cultures." Logan explained.
Anubis nodded to Logan as he took a sip of the wine in his glass before looking up at Logan's face. "Reincarnation, the boy has no memories of me, or his mother, a blank mind and a clean sled. If only I wasn't too busied with Ewegypt's problems, I could have just packed my bag and adopt him." Said Anubis with a bitter growl under his breath as he sipped some more wine. At that point they saw the lights went off with spotlights shone on the stage behind their back. The two could tell this was Charlie's show and it was beginning.
The moment Logan and Anubis turned around, they saw the curtains lifted and revealed a pair of male wolves, both of whom were beefcakes and eye candy physiques. They had shiny white teeth and well rounded and defined rumps, their bodies even had rolling muscles and fluffy fur to cover them. Charlie was wearing his usual blue speedos, facing the opposite direction was Romano, a grey wolf with amber eyes, in a pair of emerald green speedos. The timber wolf seems to be taller than Charlie and Logan apparently a few years older. But from the looks of it, he was now Charlie's dance partner on stage.
The two took their first steps out towards the poles on stage, wrapping their right leg around the poles before making struts around the poles, Charlie and Romano were like mirrored images as they swing around the poles, grinding their bulges against the metal rods. Romano and Charlie were licking the poles with their tongues tracing up along the cold surface while the two were face to face with one another.
The two soon broke their mirrored image dancing and went towards each other. They held each other hands firmly before hearing the rowdy crowds shouting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!", Logan and Anubis of course were immediately treated to the sight of Charlie and Romano kissing each other passionately on stage with their bulges grinded against one another and their paws rubbing and caressing their rumps.
Despite Logan's good track record of being supportive during one of Charlie's shows this time he could not bear the sight he was seeing for much longer. His smile went away as he watched the much older wolf start to maul Charlie's face with warm gooey passion. Logan's mouth fell open while his large eyes created a terrified expression. His face looked towards Charlie and Romano, but he really wasn't looking to them as much as he was looking deep into space. Lost for words he couldn't even speak.
As the sight played out in front of them, Anubis too was apparently too shocked to speak for himself, but the shock for Anubis was different than the one Logan had. Being a God of the Ancient World, Anubis saw this as a somewhat pleasant surprise instead. For a moment, his jaw was agape but he then drank the whiskey again casually watching the two making out on stage before the curtains came down over them, essentially ending Charlie's sideshow. "I'll wait for his explanation first this time." Said Anubis. He waited with Logan for a few minutes before seeing Charlie coming out from the backstage towards them in his usual navy blue outfit, Romano was following behind in sapphire T-shirt and brown cargo pants.
"Hey Logan how are you doing? This is Romano, my partner from now on at work." Said Charlie as Romano bowed his head down to greet Logan and kissed the police officer's paw. "Buonasera messere." The Italian wolf spoke up in a charming and deep baritone voice as he batted his eyes to Logan and Charlie.
Logan shuddered nervously while he looked around. "I- i d- don't know what you just said, but alright…" Logan moved his hand way for a different reason as he looked around hoping no one saw that exchange. He held his tongue out in disgust. "Yeah look Romano. I don't really swing that way. No offense. Nothing wrong with you doing it. I just. I'm not into that. Not really." Logan said in a stiff awkward voice.
"Nessun problema messere." Romano replied as he sat down maintaining an uncomfortably close proximity to Charlie even have his left wrapped around Charlie's waist, reaching to grab his abdomen causing Charlie to giggle in tingling pleasure. "Mia cara Charlie here is quite...attractive I must say. We met by chance in the apartment earlier today." Said Romano as Charlie blushed brightly red and leaned his head against Romano's chest. "Yeah, we had a practice session this morning and...well...he was pretty attractive and charming." Charlie stated as he kept his head buried in Romano's chest and felt the grey wolf's stroking.
It didn't help Logan's casse that the two only have known each other for a day, and yet somehow Charlie was already in love with the man as if he had known him for a long period of time. His teeth grit together hard as he tried his hardest not to cause a scene. He curled his toes hard and felt his fingers scrutch up.
"Oh how wonderful… I'm glad you two took the time and effort to think of this relationship…" Logan said through grit teeth. As Anubis felt Logan's emotions weren't exactly stable. If he could read his mind he would see and hear what Logan was thinking. "Oh god Charlie you never stood a chance! You never did! Only a day!? This guy is way out of your league man! You naive fool!" Logan thought.
Anubis who had been keeping himself reserved behind Logan glanced at the sight of Romano before speaking out to the grey wolf. "Signore Valetti, have you...been through several relationships?" Anubis asked the grey wolf while blowing his smoke to a different direction. "I can neither confirm nor deny that I have." Said Romano with a smirk at Anubis and Logan's direction as kept his hand rubbing on Charlie's shoulder. "Il tuo comportamento affascinante parla da sé." Anubis stated to Romano as a remark to the wolf's uncomfortable mannerism around Charlie's body.
"Signore…" Romano paused for a moment, apparently asking for a name as Anubis scratched his neck and replied cautiously. "Aaron, Aaron Longinus." Said Anubis, demonstrating his comfortability with Latin and Italian languages. "Va bene, messere Longinus. I have been with one lady during my teenage years...she was dead unfortunately in street violence. Ancient history by this point." The wolf stated to Anubis as he sighed out seemingly in a depressed state.
But as he looked down at his own glass of whiskey shot, he coughed out a bit, at first Logan thought it was a faux coughing as if to mock them, but it soon escalated in intensity and the violence speed of it. Charlie and Logan's HUD alarmed them to an escalation in heart rate coming from Romano's chest as he fell down on the floor coughing and spasm gripped his body. "Romano! Romano! Look at me! Look at me, please don't worry I got this!" Charlie scrambled over to Romano as he began to press on Romano's chest and struggled to control the heart rate to a more controllable level.
Logan's situation wasn't improved with Romano suddenly having a heart attack out of seemingly nowhere. Logan himself looked down unsure what to do and unsure of where to touch. "Oh god I don't even know what part is covered in what. How old is this guy if he's having heart attacks out of nowhere!?" Logan stammered.
Romano inhale and exhale in violently unpredictable manner as he wheezing out a barely audible "30" from his mouth. He then laid his head down on the floor breathing in a slower but now much more cautious manner. His eyes closed tight before Charlie called an ambulance over to carry him to the hospital. Anubis held Romano's wrist up trying to get a pulse from the wolf. "He's weak, heart problem, convulsion and cardiac problems aren't helping us. He needs a doctor now." Said Anubis in a quick assessment as Charlie nodded to Anubis and lifted the grey wolf up in his hands and brought him to a lounge and set him down.
Logan and Anubis can see that Charlie was not leaving Romano's side, keeping to the Italian canine all the time and kept his eyes on Romano's heart rates and lungs as he struggled to keep the wolf well. The kind of dedication from Charlie was genuine and they could tell but the mystery was Romano's receiving and replying to his care. They soon had the paramedics arrived to take Romano to Zootopia General, the hospital of the Downtown area. Charlie himself was sitting by the waiting room with Logan and Anubis as they awaited the doctor's verdict on Romano's fate.
Logan to the rest stil was in total shock so much had just occurred to him and the others and yet in so little time. Logan shook his head out and groaned. "Oh… what just happened. I like 5 minutes we went from strip joint, to meeting him, to ambulance, and then hospital. This night can't get any crazier!" Logan shouted.
However, just as he said that Hunter came into the clinic waiting room along with Canyon. Hunter had various shards of glass in his face, cuts, and a bruise over his right eyes. Canyon was seen escorting him to the nearest helpdesk "Uh yeah does picking a fight with a band of bikers count for anything here? Also while drunk?..." Canyon asked.
Logan seeing this hunched himself downwards more as he felt his exhaustion speak up dramatically feeling himself grow tired. "Logan spoke too soon don't i?..." he muttered.
Anubis nodded to Logan and sighed out as he sat next to Charlie and placed his paw on Charlie's shoulder to calm the young arctic wolf. As Charlie curled up on the metal chair waiting for a confirmation, he felt unease by the fact that the twisted turns of Fates was taking away the first love of his life.
But as he was about to sink into hopeless despair, he saw the doctor, a doe with star like spots on her body came out of the elevator, she approached him with a notepad on her hooves and cleared her throat. "Good news, Mr. Valetti is doing well, just that he's a bit dazed by the convulsion. However there's a bad news for you." Charlie widened his eyes in shock as he looked closer to her face. "What's the bad news? Please don't tell me!"
The doe flipped a page of the notepad and looked at the information that was grim to hear for Charlie but all too normal by this point for doctors in a hospital. "I'm afraid that Mr. Valetti is not expected to live to see his 40s. His heart problem has been diagnosed to have advanced to incurable stage, he has at best a year and a half to live." It sounded like a hammer to his head, Charlie's expression turned pale and like a man hearing his death sentence, he sat down, collapsing his face into his palms. Anubis could hear Charlie weeping and even worse, the young wolf was apparently having a heart broken moment in his young life.
Logan however looked to Anubis for some type of guidance here as he saw the situation go from bizzare, to quick moving, to a disaster before his eyes. He looked over at Hunter being directed for the nearest operating room. Some how he wished he tagged on for their misadventures to see what was happening in their lives. To him at least there would be some humor. "Well shit… you're god of the dead! Go over there and make him less dead. You can do that right?" Logan asked.
Anubis sighed out to Logan as Charlie continued weeping and sobbing, this time he was genuinely conflicted, he could use his power to grant Romano a lease for life but that went against the law of the God's conduct. "I could help...bring him to life and cure the disease...but that's against the code of conduct of a God. Using their power for favors of others." Said Anubis as he paced back and forth, this time Charlie lifted his head up with a frown and began to scowl at Anubis.
"You're the God of the Dead! You can drag others into Hell for all I care and don't lie to me, this is your doing isn't it? You don't want him around me and you don't want me working there isn't it? So you want to kill him-" But in the midst of his accusations, Anubis slapped Charlie across his face.
The wolf fell down to the floor and held his jaw in pain, he groaned in pain as Anubis held his clenched fists looking down at Charlie. "Go and meet him yourself...if you think he loves you so much." The jackal deity scowl at Charlie harshly as he crossed his arms looking at Charlie as he slowly getting back on his feet.
"Well you didn't need to slap him! What was that for!? Do people just do that to their kids in Ewegypt! That shit don't work here! In fact i can't allow that here!" Logan stood up and showed his police badge to Anubis. "I can technically book you for an assault charge now you know that! I'm not hesitating either since that was my brother! What is going on tonight !?" Logan shouted.
"And I can book two weeks in the dungeon for you, Officer Lupis." Anubis snarled back at Logan, showing an aggressive side that seem to be out of character when compared to the usual calm and stoic figure he projected. Charlie huffed out and pushed Anubis aside as he walked towards the elevator to ride up to Romano's room.
"Shut up already, I don't care about either of your problems, I just want him to be well." Said Charlie in a cold and disturbingly similar to Anubis with an apathetic attitude that made Anubis glare into Charlie's eyes seeing something, a reminder of his own childhood.
"If you have a spell in mind then cast it to end me, so I can be done with this pathetic existence." was the thing he recall from his childhood, as the elevator doors shut and Charlie disappeared from sight, Anubis sighed out and sat down slumping his head over. "He's just like me...he just doesn't know it yet. And already I'm giving him a glimpse of his grandfather." Said Anubis in a depressed tone.
Logan himself sat back down on the chair next to Anubis, and looked up at the ceiling unsure of where to take this night. He didn't bother being up the fact Anubis had slapped Charlie. It seems to no matter as the night continued spiraling into insanity. Only now did it feel like it was taking a slow depressing crawl. "I don't even know what this means. Was his grandfather a bad person? No offense. Oh and not to say you're a bad person. So what went down?" Logan asked.
Anubis sighed out to Logan as he rubbed his temple and forehead and sighed out. "He...wasn't what you would call a father...but he was the only one I have. Begrudgingly. He was abusive, constantly angry and driven by anger beyond reason to inflict as much pain on others as possible. It's best not to invoke his name, he already done enough damages to me already." Said Anubis with a sigh as he sat in place, he crossed his arms and lie down on on the chair, he looked upward to the ceiling seeing the blinding light of the hospital. It felt nostalgic for him, to recall his childhood memories, his formative years and how he struggled to survive. "He has but a Shadow. But now it seems he has a name, a heart and personality...I'm a stumbling old man compared to the burning passion in his heart." Anubis stated drunkenly as he contemplate the situation with Charlie.
Logan appeared to be equally lost. Though he did learn one thing out of the awkward conversation they were having. "Huh. I just assumed you guys to be the best at everything. Deity place's like a paradise with only a few occasional war stuff. You telling you have to deal with abusive parents? What else financial issues, disease, divorce? Real world issues like here?" Logan asked.
To his chagrin, Logan saw Anubis nodded to his questions as the jackal deity sighed out with his hands crossed in front of his chest. "Unfortunately yes. It's not paradise like you imagined. It's...like anywhere else, life, challenges, problems, and everything. The true Paradise is for lives that has lived to their fullest, Aaru, the Field of Reeds where I wished my mother to be in. The Duat, a junction point for recent dead, the purgatory wasteland of memories." The jackal deity groaned and sighed out as he stood up and began to head out to the exit. "Tell Charlie I left early for the Museum. If he bothers to listen." Said Anubis as he exited the hospital heading out to the museum before disappearing from sights.
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As the elevator doors opened, Charlie let out a huff and a sigh before exiting the elevator on the 2nd floor of the hospital, he followed the doctor's direction towards room 215 of the floor and found Romano lying on a bed. He had IV drip plugged into his veins and life support keeping him conscious. To his right hand side was the view of Zootopia with the skyscrapers of Downtown Zootopia glowing brilliantly. "Hey, how are you doing...Romano?" Charlie approached Romano slowly and hesitantly seeing the grey wolf slowly turning his head to look at Charlie. He smiled at the arctic wolf as the guest sat down on a stool next to him.
"Mio amico, did I leave you longing for air?" Romano asked sarcastically, half joking and halfway to death. "You did. And a bit more than that but…air, well I don't know if I need it anymore." Charlie remarked casually as he sat down on a stool and sighed out to Romano. The grey wolf leaned in closer to Charlie, noticing the slap mark on the left cheek and began to gently stroke it, soothing the pain coming from it. "Did somebody hurt il mio piccolo amante? Don't worry, old Romano here got you covered." The grey wolf smiled to Charlie as he leaned in and smooch the arctic wolf on his lips, gently tracing his tongue around Charlie's lips and teeth. "How come your mouth is so cold?" He asked Charlie curiously for the first time, usually it would have been Charlie asking him a question.
"Oh...uh nothing don't worry about it. People say that about me all the time. Maybe it's Tundratown getting to me." Charlie blushed brightly red as he let out a playful innocent chuckle to Romano. The grey wolf reasonably cocked his head to the side curiously, the reasoning didn't stack up to him. Animals in the arctic have fur to keep warmth and no amount of cold can render their lips icy cold, save for death.
"Interessante, perdonate il mio segreto Charlie. I should have told you I have a weak heart...but then again, who would speak of their impending doom as a first meet?" He asked Charlie rhetorically in a sarcastic manner as Charlie sighed out and slumped his head down nodding. "True, no one would...a year and a half...you're going to die aren't you?" He asked grimly to Romano who nodded to the young robot in disguise before looking up to the ceiling. "I was hoping to find an old friend of mine...last I heard he was in town but...well...complications I can't tell you much. It's best you get some sleeps now." Romano sighed out as Charlie whimpered.
He held Romano's paw with both hands, seeing that Romano holding his palms back, Charlie glanced up at his face pleading for his well being. "Please...be well won't you?" He pleaded in vain hope to Romano who then reluctantly pulled him closer, Romano was now holding Charlie's cheeks and secured him in a passionate and lustful kiss. For a moment, Charlie closed his eyes and melted into the kiss letting Romano stroke his mouth with his tongue licking and rubbing. The love making session took them five minutes to complete, once Charlie broke away from the kiss, he exited the room and went back down to the atrium of the hospital.