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007n7 blinks.
Then twice.
Then a third time.
He stares mindlessly at the tray of uncooked cookie dough with blank eyes, blinking again before bringing his eyes up to the man on the other side of the kitchen counter. Telamon stares at him with a pang of interest, a menacing smirk on his face as he gazes at the father, who’s been staring at a pan of cookies for who knows how long.
Telamon’s head tilts questioningly. “What bothers you, 007n7?” the admin asks bluntly, his voice monotone as he speaks, that same smile not leaving his face despite his questions of concern.
007n7’s brown eyes found the golden ones in front of him once more, his eyebrows furrowed as he tried to come up with an answer. “Just thinking,” the hacker answers simply.
Telamon’s eyebrow raised at that, “Are you now? May I ask what about?”
007n7's heart sped up at the question. Out of all things you could have asked. He thinks to himself as he exhales slowly. He thinks back to the events a couple of nights ago. Telamon's morbid curiosity got the best of him, taking the hacker’s tail between his fingers, hand on his waist as he stared down at 007n7, who was trying his best to stay as quiet as possible.
And of course, failing miserably .
“I want to see you.”
The thoughts make 007n7 feel like he’s going to melt. Again.
He thinks about how Telamon’s golden eyes darkening, making them a more dimmer yellow as he had the hacker pinned beneath him on his back as he laid on the couch, curious hands slowly touching lower, and lower, making the heat in his stomach and his cunt throb as Telamon’s fingers bring him closer and closer to his climax and soon over the edge, to the brink of overstimulation.
“Oh, look at you, pretty little thing.”
007n7’s grip on the tray tightens as he finds himself thinking about those filthy words that came out of Telamon’s mouth so easily; it was almost scary . The hacker pulls himself out of his thoughts as he stares at the admin in front of him, a non-wavering smile on his face as he waits for 007n7 to speak.
“Just coming up with ways I can hide these cookies from C00lkid, so he won’t eat them before dinner and start bouncing off the walls.” 007n7 lies, a raised eyebrow on his face as he watches as Telamon’s smile grows wider, unrealistically wider, at that.
Telamon reaches over the kitchen counter, his clawed hand brushing against 007n7’s cheek, the hacker’s grip on the metal tray he was meant to put into the oven loosened at the feeling of physical contact. 007n7 is really trying his best not to think about the man across from him. His body doesn’t care about his wishes as his breath hitches when Telamon takes his hand away from his cheek and moves it to the top of his head, right where his horns stuck out.
He reflexes and his head sways in the opposite direction, away from Telamon’s hand. “Umm- I’m s-sorry…” 007n7 apologizes, eyes looking back down towards the tray, “I usually don’t let anyone touch my horns except C00lkid” 007n7 mumbles out. And Shedletsky, but I don’t think he would want to know that, the hacker thinks to himself.
Telamon nods his head, but his hand stays where it was, not moving on 007n7’s cheek as it finds its way back to his face, “My apologies, Seven… ” the deity replies.
007n7’s eyes snap up in the admin’s direction. Has he always called him by that nickname? The hacker squints at Telamon, who only hums out to himself as he watches 007n7 back, an expression on his face the retired hacker couldn’t read, except for that damn smile.
“No need to say sorry, Tela! I-I just got surprised, is all-”
“By what?” Telamon asked.
007n7 felt himself swallow at the admin’s question. He narrows his eyes at Telamon as his lips thinned into a line. He wonders if there’s something that the winged man knew that he didn’t, and that's why he suddenly looks so happy today– which is even stranger to 007n7, since the last time he saw Telamon smile this hard and creepily, it was when–
“ Just imagine how I would feel inside of you. ”
Yeah, his face was definitely red now, hearing those words in the back of his brain, sounding so clear it sounded like he was hearing them from the man in front of him–
Who’s now actively on the kitchen counter.
Hands touching both cheeks of his face now, Telamon’s smile couldn't possibly get wider, but it does somehow, and has 00n7 looking directly at the admin, closer now as he practically feels Telamon’s breath as he exhales and inhales slowly.
“Am I the subject of your thoughts?” Telamon whispered to him, and he brought his face closer, his lips now brushing against Seven’s, his body flinching slightly at the sensation. If you were to tell a younger 007n7, he would be actively this close to Robloxia’s most known admin, god, and swordfighter; he would not have believed a damn thing you said.
But look at him now.
Face being gripped by someone who used to be worshiped by many, the same admin who’s seen 007n7 at so many meetings about his hacking and exploiting, he eventually lost count of how many he’s been to.
None of that matters now.
Telamon laughs softly, the sound of his voice laced with something that made 007n7’s stomach burn, his tail swinging violently behind him. “Your mind wanders to our time together…” Telamon tells him, a satisfied hum leaving his mouth, “I can see it, perfectly clear, dear.”
Telamon gives him a soft kiss, a gasp leaving 007n7’s mouth at the action as he captured 007n7’s lips into the kiss, the shorter man couldn’t help the way he slowly leaned into it, the kiss becoming almost intoxicating for him to pull away from the winged man. Telamon makes a noise that sounds like a pleased hum, a response to 007n7, eventually leaning into the kiss.
Eventually, they stopped their short makeout session as Telamon pulled back, looking at 007n7 as he used the hands that were currently still holding the hacker’s face in place to make his head tilt to the side, then the other. 007n7 allowed him to do whatever it was he called himself doing.
“I've plagued your mind with nothing but me, haven’t I?”
007n7 lets a whine leave his throat at Telamon’s words. He doesn’t think he’s been thinking about the admin that much- only when he’s by himself in his bedroom when Telamon is currently the one fronting and would soak up whatever moonlight was outside on the roof or hanging out with C00lkid in the living room, who was most likely forcing the deity to watch some weird movie he found interesting–
007n7 would find himself alone in his bedroom.
In his room by himself, a pillow pressed between his legs and against his clothed cunt as he rolls his hips into the pillow, trying his best to get some type of friction out of it. It wasn’t enough. It’s been years since he’s had anyone make him this needy– but now he is needy and he doesn’t have anything to send him over the edge–
“Such a good boy you are.”
“Why don’t you just embrace it-” Telamon's grip on his face tightened, forcing 007n7 to look him dead in the eyes, not giving him any room to actually move his head even if he wanted to.
The pathetic sound 007n7 lets out is something he didn’t think he would hear himself make, but here he was, a broken whine in response to the admin in front of him. That all too familiar burning ache was coming back deep within his stomach, sending him that harsh truth that he wanted, whatever it was Telamon was promising to give him.
Telamon’s fanged teeth nipped at 007n7’s bottom lip, harshly, almost grounding the hacker from whatever thought he found himself getting stuck in. Because Telamon couldn’t have him thinking about anything else– anyone else, he wanted this once famous hacker to make those sweet noises he made all those nights ago, he wanted to soak them up and make sure he gave 007n7 many reminders that Telamon wouldn’t let him forget the time they spent together.
“ Embrace me, and I will wholeheartedly embrace you, like the sweet thing that you are.” Telamon’s words were honest, 007n7’s reaction was enough to tell the admin that. The hacker’s lip was red from Telamon nipping at it. 007n7 soon takes his bottom lip into his teeth, biting on it. Telamon had sucked and bit at his lip like it was the best thing he had ever tasted–
Of course, Telamon has tasted better from 007n7 before.
Telamon watches as 007n7 gives him a look he couldn’t read as he looks down at the man. The admin doesn’t say anything, he doesn’t have to, because he knows very well that 007n7 will only stay stubborn for so long until Telamon finds that itch within 007n7 that he wants to be scratched so bad to the point where he thinks he might just die.
007n7 stands on the very tips of his toes, Telamon’s grip on his face loosened as the shorter man brings his face closer to the admin’s, breathing shaky and ragged as the winged man could hear him audibly swallow. The hacker’s lips lightly ghost over Telamon’s.
“ Please- ” the word coming out of Seven’s mouth was coated in so much want , Telamon could feel that morbid curiosity come crashing down full force, dark eyes slightly glowing in the slight dimness of the kitchen.
Telamon chuckles darkly, “That’s right, give in to it, give in to me-”
Their lips were barely touching when-
“PAPA!”
007n7 stumbles back quickly, a shout coming from his mouth as he quickly backs away from Telamon, hands outstretched as he accidentally pushes Telamon off his spot on the counter. Small footsteps can be heard from down the hall as 007n7 tried to quickly collect himself before his son came into full view.
“The pushing was a bit dramatic, I must admit.” Telamon’s voice can be heard from the floor on the other side of the kitchen counter. 007n7 sighs apologetically as he rounds the counter and kneels on one knee in front of Telamon.
“Sorry, I may have overreacted just a tad” 007n7 tells him as he watches Telamon shake his head.
“When it comes to you, I think I am quite fond of your reactions to the things I do.” Telamon ends his sentence with a smile, and 007n7 could feel the heat rush back to his face.
“Papa? Why are you and Telly on the floor?” C00lkid comes rushing from his room into the kitchen, a confused look on his face as he looks at the two adults in front of him, currently still in their spots on the floor.
007n7 gives his son a forced smile, scrambling off the ground before he helps Telamon up right after, the annoying admin having a small smile on his face. “I just fell, sweetheart, nothing too serious” he slightly lies to his son, hand finding his hair to fidget with a few strands.
C00lkid hummed, “Do you need Band-Aids? I have some dino ones under my bed” The boy asked worryingly, making 007n7 laugh at his words. “No, no, honey, I don’t need any Band-Aids. Dad will be just fine, I was just clumsy.” he reassures C00lkid, who seemed to look a bit more suspicious before he finally believed the words.
“Kay! Are you done making cookies now?” the boy asked as he tilted his head to the side,
No , 007n7 was not done making those cookies because he was too busy giving in to stupid, horny thoughts he hadn’t had since he was in college! He doesn’t even know what came over him in the first place. He knew he was a little messed up mentally, but he didn’t think he would topple over and give in that quickly.
He’s done worse things to people during his earlier years of adulthood when it came to hacking, there’s no way he should be instantly toppling over for–
007n7 feels Telamon behind him, his body pressed against his back as the admin grabs his hand that was currently pulling and tugging at those same strands of hair, making 007n7 bring his hand down to his side.
“Your father’s been in his mind elsewhere, isn’t that right, Seven? ” Telamon asked against the shell of his ear.
“Y-yeah! Sorry, sweetheart, cookies are gonna have to wait,” 007n7 tells him, not liking the fact that he had to watch C00lkid’s smile waver at his words.
“Oh…” C00lkid mumbles, tip of his tail now in his hands as he rocks back and forth on his feet.
007n7 tries to give him a comforting smile, “How about you and I go play with some toys instead?” he asked, soon getting happy when C00lkid does get a little brighter in the face at his father’s words.
“Okay!”
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“You’re upset with me.”
Shedletsky’s words find 007n7’s ears as the admin looks at 007n7 from his spot on the couch, watching as the hacker cuts at some vegetables as a small snack for C00lkid. 007n7 doesn’t look up from his chopping to respond to his boyfriend.
“I’m not upset with you, Shed, I’ve just been somewhere else mentally, is all,” he tells Shedletsky.
The winged man makes a face, “I know I haven’t exactly been the one piloting these past couple of days but I’ll make it up to you and C00l, I promise” Shedletsky tells him, getting up from his spot from the couch to walk over to 007n7 at the kitchen counter, standing on the other side of it.
007n7 doesn’t know how to feel about it. He’s under the impression that Shedletsky doesn’t remember what Telamon does when he’s the one fronting and the other way around as well, but he can’t help but feel a slight guilt in his chest as he interacts with Shedletsky, even though he was doing a lot of… interacting with the once-worshipped deity a couple of days ago.
Does that count as cheating? Did he cheat on his sweet, loving, golden retriever of a boyfriend? If he could, he might just consider deleting himself from existence if he did do that.
I can’t fuck up this relationship, too. 007n7 thinks to himself as he stares at Shed with sad eyes. Not when I actually have a real one this time. His thoughts were persistent, as they always were when 007n7 thought he had done something wrong. Don’t get him wrong, he’s always had a complicated relationship with Noli; they’ve always been close since they were in college, close as friends, close as terrifying hackers, and close as two people who wanted something specific from the other.
His tail wagged slowly behind him, and he knew Shedletsky could see it, Shedletsky always had an ability when it came to his tell signs of when he’s upset. 007n7 shakes his head. Shedletsky wasn’t the problem here; he was, and he knew he was being a problem right now.
“I’m not upset because you haven’t been fronting,” the father tells the winged man, whose expression lights up ever so softly, most likely relieved that the shorter man wasn’t upset.
But Shedletsky’s smile was short lived as he stared at his partner, the same man who was too scared to talk to anyone back at the cabin when they were still stuck in the Specter’s hellhole, and when some of the other survivors tried their best to talk with the tired parent, 007n7 always politely declined, coming up with some quickly made up excuse as to why he couldn’t do it.
“So what’s the matter?” Shedletsky's question was quiet; he’s trying his best to understand how he can fix whatever was wrong with 007n7. “Did Telamon do something wrong? I-I can tell him to back off- probably ” he mumbled the last word, but 007n7 smiled regardless.
“Me and Telamon have been getting along just fine,” 007n7 tells him, “It’s more of a me thing” the hacker tells him slowly, watching Shedletsky’s face to see if he noticed any form of hurt or anger on it. He was caught off guard when there was no sign of anger or any other negative emotion from the man.
“So what’s the ‘ you’ thing?” Shedletsky asked, confused, “Are you sure he didn’t do anything wrong?” The swordfighter asked, 007n7 could hear the worry and anxiety in his voice, his brain was most likely coming up with some crazy scenario of what could have happened to 007n7. He didn’t want Shedletsky to worry about him.
007n7 nodded, “Yes, I am sure, Shed, don’t get your feathers in a twist-” he laughed, “Nothing bad had happened to me, I’m just having conflicted feelings, that’s all.” The hacker admits. Again, 007n7 looks for a sign that Shedletsky is upset with him, and gets surprised when he realizes that the only worry that is on Shed’s face is from the very thought that someone has harmed him.
“Actually, can I ask you a question?” 007n7 asked the man, and the wings on the sides of Shedletsky’s head perked up as he nodded his head hesitantly.
“Sure?...should I be worried?” Shedletsky asked questioningly.
007n7 shakes his head, finally deciding to put down the knife he used to cut the vegetables to give his undivided attention to the admin. “Can you hear Telamon when you’re the one taking the wheel?” 007n7 listened as Shedletsky made a soft sound as he thought of an answer to the hacker’s question.
“Like in my head? Sometimes? It’s never anything too long, though! He sounds far away in my brain, even when I do hear him” Shedletsky explained. “Is there a reason why you’re asking me, Seven?”
007n7 eyes at Shedletsky. So it may be possible that Shedletsky can hear Telamon? The whole identity thing was still new to him, even though he was the one who explained it to Shedletsky himself; he still finds himself finding out new things about it every so often– he’s even luckier when C00lkid points out something that can help him further differentiate the two. He’s older than his son by many years, but the 10-year-old can surprisingly tell when it's Telamon instead of Shedletsky or the other way around.
007n7 feels himself getting lost in his own thoughts again. If Shedletsky can hear what Telamon is saying, is it possible he can remember the same things as him, too? Is that how this worked? Maybe, just maybe-
“...Seven?” Shedletsky called to him softly.
007n7 hand found a loose strand of his hair, slowly turning, twisting, and eventually pulling at it, a nervous look on his face. “No, it’s fine. It’s simply a dumb thing, I’m just being stupid.” 007n7 words were stern, but not towards Shedletsky, oh no, he could never talk to him like that– the words were directed towards himself and himself alone, he’s being stupid again and now he’s worrying Shedletsky–
But he just can’t stop thinking about it .
“It’s clearly not fine, babe. What’s the matter? You can tell me, you always know you can talk to me, Sev.” Shedletsky tries his best to comfort the hacker, who is still twisting and pulling at his hair. No . He’s being stupid because he gave in to stupid temptation with a used-to-be god who acts just as confused as his son when he discovers something new–
And he hates that he enjoyed every moment of it.
007n7 makes a face to himself, “ Nothing . Nothing is the matter.” The man crosses his arms across his chest, “I’m just having a rough day, it’ll sort itself out, okay?” He tried his best to sound truthful in his words, but he knew Shedletsky didn’t believe him. To be honest, he didn’t even believe in himself either.
Shedletsky's face softens, “Okay. The same goes for you too, y'know?" he reminds 007n7, who just gives him a confused hum. Shedletsky reaches up to slowly bring a hand up to grab 007n7’s hand that’s pulling at his hair to hold it in his own, 007n7’s hand now sitting on the kitchen counter with Shedletsky softly grabbing it.
“You always tell me and C00l that we can come and talk to you about anything, I’m saying you can come to me and tell me anything. You like to get in your head about things that shouldn’t be a battle only you have to fight-” the admin smiles at him as he feels 007n7 hand tighten in response to his words.
“You have me now, you’re not going to be alone again, I’m going to make sure of that.”
007n7 smiles warmly at Shedletsky's words before nodding.
“Okay, hun.”
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“I saw Papa put this in the soup, Shed!” C00lkid’s voice can be heard right beside Shedletsky as they both stand at the kitchen counter. After about 30 minutes of convincing, the admin had convinced 007n7 to go take a nap, and he could handle giving the boy a snack and working on dinner a little later.
Shedletsky laughs, “He does like you to eat your veggies, huh?” he asked as he picked C00lkid up, letting the boy pick up the chopped carrots from the counter and throw them into the metal pot as Shedletsky held him right above it.
A giggle leaves C00lkid as Shedletsky places him back down on the stool that 007n7 had given him a long time ago. “I only like carrots though, the other veggies taste like water kinda” he explained to the admin, who nodded his head as he focused on mixing the vegetables before throwing the pot on the stove.
“You’ll get used to it, kiddo. I thought I didn’t like vegetables either until Builderman cooked for our friends” he tells the boy, who gasps surprisingly at his words.
“Mr.Builder used to cook?” C00lkid asked excitedly.
Shedletsky nodded his head, “He did. If he wasn’t hunched over his desk, he would cook the best foods, kinda like how your dad cooks really good sweets” he tells him. C00lkid nods his head happily, tail swaying behind him.
“Papa was supposed to make cookies a few days ago, but he looked super sad, kinda…” C00lkid whispered, but Shedletsky's wings perked up at what the boy was saying in an instant.
“Was he now?” Shedletsky asks, throwing more vegetables into the pot before letting his eyes find the red ones beside him, “I think your dad has been a little stressed out, kiddo” he tries to tell C00lkid, who only hummed knowledgeably.
“Telly was trying to help, though! But I think he accidentally hurt Papa's feelings,” C00lkid tells him.
That makes Shedletsky look straight forward, out the kitchen and towards the living room, and soon back to C00lkid. The admin smiles at the boy nervously, “Was Telamon being mean to your dad?” he asked slowly, he didn’t want to pry when it came to the things that 007n7 didn’t tell him but he didn’t like the conflicted look in 007n7’s face as he tried to take his mind off whatever it was that bothered him.
C00lkid shakes his head, “Nuh uh, Papa and Telly were being nice to one another, Tela even took me to Bluu’s house and we talked a lot!” the boy tells Shedletsky, the admin nodded his head in response. “They were lying together on the couch, and he looked happy. Maybe something else happened?”
“Maybe so, kiddo” Shedletsky says as he pats the boy on the head, smiling as C00lkid laughed happily at the contact.
Shedletsky picks up the pot full of vegetable and soup broth before turning on his heels and setting it on the stove, and turning it on the lowest setting. He turns back to C00lkid, “How about we do some coloring while we wait for the soup, don’t tell your dad, but I’ll even give you a bowl of ice cream while we wait” Shedletsky tells C00lkid, who hopped off the stepping stool as he hugged the larger man’s knee.
“I LOVE YOU!” C00lkid practically screams into the man’s leg.
Shedletsky shivered as he chuckled at the sensation of C00lkid talking into his skin. “ Now you love me? I’m a little hurt,” he says sarcastically as he feels the boy unlatch from him, running out of the kitchen to grab his coloring supplies from his bedroom.
Shedletsky shakes his head playfully as he goes to the fridge and opens the freezer to grab the container of ice cream and to the cabinets to grab two bowls and, of course, spoons.
“SHED!” C00lkid yells from his room, head sticking out of his bedroom.
Shedletsky smiled, “Yeah, Kiddo?” he replied.
“I LOVED YOU WAYYYYY BEFORE THE ICE CREAM!” he screamed back, before poking back into his bedroom, where Shedletsky could hear things being thrown around in the boy’s room.
“Love ya too, kid!” Shedletsky yells back, smiling when he hears C00lkid’s muffled laugh down the hallway.
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Shedletsky sat across from C00lkid at the wooden table where they often have what 007n7 likes to call “family dinners” on random days or when he’s trying to get C00lkid to have a routine when it comes to eating at a specific time. Even though the boy runs away from the table to do something else with his time.
He watched as C00lkid tried to take a spoonful of ice cream with one hand and color his drawing with his other without looking at where exactly he was pointing the spoon. Good thing for 007n7 because Shedletsky decided a few minutes before giving the kid the bowl of ice cream to let the boy wear one of his larger shirts so he wouldn't have to worry about C00lkid destroying his clothes.
Shedletsky colored his picture in front of him; it wasn’t anything that good, just a picture of him with the other admins from who knows how many years ago. He’s has some artistic ability as he tried his best to color his sketch to the best of his ability. He glances up at C00lkid for a moment, watching as the boy quickly scribbles with a blue crayon.
“Telamon’s been nice to you?” Shedletsky asked, taking a spoonful of his own vanilla ice cream as he watched C00lkid look up from his drawing, ice cream staining the corners of his mouth.
He swings his feet from underneath the table, “Telly’s nice to me! Sometimes he looks at me, but he doesn’t look like he’s bored with me and follows me around sometimes” C00lkid tells Shedletsky as he hums in response.
“And what about your dad?” Shedletsky asked, he doesn’t need C00lkid to give him anything specific, just something he can work with so that 007n7 wouldn’t shut down completely when they finally can sit down and talk about it.
C00lkid taps a crayon against his cheek, making the image that he’s thinking of an answer, “I think they get along fine! Sometimes Papa smiles the same when he looks at you as when he looks at Telly, the ‘love eyes’ are what I call them.” C00lkid tells him matter-of-factly, “Papa's eyes were a different color one time, too. I forgot about that, actually!” the child tells him, taking another huge spoon of ice cream out of the bowl and stuffing it in his mouth.
“You’re going to get brain freeze” Shedletsky warns him, a light chuckle leaving him as he watches C00lkid try to swallow all of the ice cream. The admin puts his crayon down as he stares at C00lkid, “I don’t think I knew your dad’s eyes change color” Shedletsky says, watching as C00lkid nods his head excitedly.
“It’s so cool! Sometimes when I was smaller, he would use his cool hacking thingy to make things for me, and his eyes would get all red looking, like my eyes!” C00lkid rambled, “They stopped after a while though… but , it still happens!” C00lkid tells the admin who tilts his head.
“It does? Do you know when it happens?” Shedletsky asked him.
C00lkid hummed questioningly, “It’s a little hard to say, but I will try my best! They were red when Tella was here, when they were on the couch the other day, then it happened again a few days ago too.” C00lkid kicked his feet again under the table as he tried to think harder.
“Oh! I have a question, Shed” C00lkid suddenly blurts out.
Shedletsky sits back in his chair, “Yeah, go ahead, kiddo.”
C00lkid smiles warmly, “Can your eyes glow in the dark too?” he asked, innocence in his voice as he watched Shedletsky straighten up in his chair again. C00lkid tilts his head, “Did I…say something wrong?” he asked.
Shedletsky puts his hands up and shakes them quickly, “Of course not! Your question just caught this old guy off guard! Did you see Telamon’s eyes light up?” Shedletsky questions the boy.
“Mhm! Telly’s eyes were all yellow for a quick minute when Papa was helping him off the floor when they fell,” C00lkid replied.
Shedletsky finds himself thinking about 007n7. He’s known for the fact that all of the retired hacker’s abilities rely on the C00lgui and how much information 007n7 already knows when it comes to hacking. Though he doesn’t have many of his abilities now, Shedletsky still noticed the small things when it came to the C00lgui and how it affects 007n7.
The way his voice would get all glitched out when someone would get too close to him back at the cabin as a way to scare them off, or when Duskkar would perform any of his smaller spells during matches, like his protection spell, 007n7’s eyes flashed a quick reddish color, almost like they were alerting him that something was being done to him-
The thought hit Shedletsky full force.
If he's making the right connection with 007n7’s abilities, that would mean the reason why C00lkid had seen his father’s eyes go red is because there was something the C00lgui had picked up to alert Seven that something was being done in the first place-
“But my eyes only go golden when I’m…oh my spawn ” Shedletsky pinched the bridge of his nose.
“Did I help?” C00lkid asked, stirring his ice cream around in his bowl as he looked up at Shedletsky, who soon got up from his seat, bowl of his own in his hand, as he walked around the table to give C00lkid a pat on the head again.
“Yeah, you helped lots, kiddo” Shedletsky responds. “Now, how about we eat a snack or two before the soup’s done?” he asked the boy.
“Oki doki!”
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007n7 laid in the bed, staring up at the ceiling of the room. He let a noise leave his mouth as he exhaled slowly. He had to give it to Shedletsky, the nap made him feel a little better from how he felt a couple of hours ago and he didn’t even have to worry about C00lkid being by himself; Shedletsky was good with him, so he trusts him.
He sat up with a few pops of his joints as he stretched his arms out. 007n7 blinks a few times from not having his glasses on, eyes squinting towards the door as he hears a soft knock at the door. He yawns again before responding.
“Mmm… come in hun” he tells the person on the other side of the door.
Shedletsky pops his head in with a smile on his face, “How was the nap?” he asked, letting himself in the room fully as he held a plate of cookies in his hands.
007n7 reaches on the nightstand for his glasses, slipping them on his face, “You made the cookies? Aw, you didn’t have to do that, Shed” the hacker tells him as he watches as the admin sits on the edge of the bed, reaching over to give him the plate of cookies.
Shedletsky shrugged his shoulders, “It’s fine, Sev. C00l mentioned something about them while we hung out, so I decided to bake them, get the dough out of the fridge,” he reassures 007n7, smiling as the dad nods his head as he takes a bite out of the cookie.
“Ah, okay, and where exactly is C00lkid?” 007n7 asked.
“In the front yard with Elliot. The kid saw him in the window doing rounds and practically screamed out the window, so Elliot is hanging out with him during his break for a bit,” Shedletsky tells him.
007n7’s eyes lit up with surprise, “Oh, I’m surprised- Elliot usually has mixed feelings about interacting with C00lkid,” the hacker replied, taking another bite out of the cookies he’s currently busying himself with.
Shedletsky nods in agreement, “Yeah, I noticed, but I told him you were taking a nap and I had to take care of some things, so he offered,” the admin tells 007n7.
The winged man glances over at 007n7. “Hey, can we talk about something?” Shedletsky asked him. He watched as 007n7 took in his words. He noticed that 007n7’s chewing slowed down just a bit at the question.
“Of course,” 007n7 replied.
Shedletsky exhaled before he spoke, “Remember when I had asked you about Telamon and if he’s been doing anything to upset you?” he asked the hacker, who nodded in response, “C00lkid told me you two fell in the kitchen and I just wanted to know if it had anything to do with how you’ve been feeling these last few days?” Shedletsky questioned 007n7, his fingers playing with one of the cookies that were on the plate.
“It was nothing, I got startled by C00lkid running down the hall and pushed Telamon, I was just helping him off the ground,” 007n7 explained to him, voice a little quieter as he responded, “Is there a particular reason you’re asking me about that?” he questioned Shedletsky back.
“I’m just worried about you, the few times I glanced at you, there’s this face you make when you’re thinking too hard about something,” Shedletsky stated.
007n7's face flushed at his words, “I do not make a face!"
Shedletsky smiled, “I’m afraid you do, babe.” he countered quickly.
007n7 looks down at the plate in his lap, “I-I’ve… just been in my head about Telamon, that’s all” he admits to him. Shedletsky is pretty surprised he’s gotten this far with talking with 007n7 about this; he’s so used to the man in front of him pushing down whatever problem he’s faced with, to the point where 007n7 would just let it sit until it usually spirals out of his control.
Shedletsky raised an eyebrow, “Do you want to talk about it?” he asked hesitantly, 007n7 eyes found the golden ones in front of him, he turned to put the plate of cookies on his nightstand before turning back at the admin, hands now in his lap.
“Are- are you sure?” 007n7 asked him slowly.
Shedletsky gives him a reassuring smile, “Of course I’m sure! I told you already, we’re in this together now baby, you’re not pushing me away” the admin tells him with a fanged smile, “You can talk to me, Sev. I’m not going to be mad or upset with you” one of Shedletsky’s hands reached over to softly grip Seven’s in his lap.
“Okay then…Telamon got interested in me a few days ago- which is fine! I’m used to him walking behind C00lkid and looking around to try and figure everything out around him, it’s actually really fun to watch-” 007n7 explained, Shedletsky could feel the slight tremble in his hands as he continued.
“I guess C00lkid must have told him about my top scars, which isn’t surprising, C00lkid has seen me without shirts on before so he knows about them. Explaining them in a way he could understand was a little hard, though, but it was fine” 007n7 went on, tail swinging slowly behind him.
Shedletsky knew that 007n7 changed his appearance a few times after creating the C00lgui. Despite the fact that him having a red and black tail and horns made the other survivors look at him with much more suspicion when finding out his relation to C00lkid wasn’t even enough to get him to change his appearance. It was one of the things about Seven that made Shedletsky interested in him in the first place.
“Telamon found out about them eventually and let’s just say he went… exploring for other things” 007n7 was hesitate to say the last words of his sentence, “I hope you’re not going to ask me to explain all the details” 007n7 tells him, hope in his eyes as he stared at Shedletsky, who lets out a soft laugh.
007n7 groaned at that, “ Please tell me you’re not going to ask me to tell you what that man had put me through.” The hacker groaned again at the very thought of it.
Shedletsky shook his head, “You can save the details, babe, I understand.” he replied, “Is that what you were worried about?” the admin questioned 007n7, who quickly nodded his head.
“Why wouldn’t I!? It feels like I cheated on you somehow and I would rather kill myself than-” Shedletsky brings a hand up to stop 007n7’s sentence, giving him a stern look on his face, “I would like to not think about you harming yourself, Seven” Shedletsky tells him, smiling and taking his hand away from 007n7’s mouth as he watched 007n7 nod his head.
“Yeah, right, sorry-” 007n7 apologized before continuing, “I don’t even know what happened to be honest, I swear Telamon’s eyes felt like he could see right through me” he explained to Shedletsky, the winged man humming in response.
“Telamon has always had a thing with seeing , just as much as he had a thing with wanting to know things,” Shedletsky states, “Me on the other hand, I don’t really have the urge to know, I’m more on the side of helping and protecting when I’m needed” the admin tells 007n7.
“I guess I’m just confused-” 007n7 confessed, “He looked at me with those glowing eyes and I just felt compelled to say what he wanted me to say, it was so similar to when I was younger and at the admin's meetings” the hacker explained to him.
Shedletsky nods before speaking, “All the admins had abilities of their own when we were together, they were kinda like talents that matched our personalities” the admin tells him, “I don’t remember the others, but I do know that Builderman had a talent with building and creating, Telamon had a thing with knowing- or more so wanting to know more so he kinda soaks it up it in a way, so that might be a reason as to why he’s probably used his compel abilities, that would explain the yellow eyes glowing” Shedletsky tells 007n7 simply.
The hacker just stared at him.
“Shed, baby, dear - you’re telling me you have mind control powers?” 007n7 asked, his tail swinging behind him faster as Shedletsky looked at him, confused.
“They’re not exactly mind control powers. It’s more like making you confess things you wouldn’t normally say- it doesn’t control physical actions though” Shedletsky tells him quickly, “And besides, the mind reading is the only thing that has anything to do with your head-”
“YOU HAVE MIND READING POWERS?!” 007n7 blurted out, making Shedletsky jump at the sudden rise in volume.
“You- you didn’t know that before?” Shedletsky asked hesitantly, watching as 007n7 eye twitched ever so suddenly, “I would think Telamon would have told you that, his ego as a once divine deity and all that would have definitely loved to soak up at that reaction of yours I’m assuming” Shedletsky tried to joke with the father with a nervous smile, it quickly goes away as he sees 007n7’s eye twitching once again.
“You can read minds, Shedletsky?” 007n7 asked the winged man in front of him, Shedletsky shrugged his shoulders in response. “I only have the ability because I am a part of Telamon, or that’s how Builder explained it to me, at least. I never used the abilities though” Shedletsky tells 007n7.
007n7 nodded slowly, “Right, glad to know I didn’t get compelled to cheat on my boyfriend” the hacker mumbles to himself, a lazy smile on Shedletsky's face in response.
“I know how you feel about Telamon, Seven. I was more worried about if he made you do anything you didn’t want to do” Shedletsky answered truthfully.
007n7 makes a blank face.
Nah, Telamon didn’t make him do anything-
Though, that was the most needy he has ever felt in his life, as a matter of fact.
007n7 coughed loudly, “N-no I’m fine Shed, he didn’t make me do anything” the hacker promised the man in front of him.
Shedletsky sighed as he got up from his spot on the bed suddenly, reaching his body over and giving 007n7 a peck on the lips, 007n7 blinked as looks up at Shedletsky. “I’m glad. I just want to make sure you’re safe” Shedletsky tells him.
007n7 ears burned at the sudden act of affection, “O-of course…” he stammered out. Shedletsky chuckles at 007n7’s nervousness, “How about we get C00l? He's probably running circles around poor Elliot by now” the admin joked to 007n7 as he stood straight from leaning to hold a hand out to his boyfriend, wings outstretched behind hom.
007n7 smiles appreciatively, “Yeah, I’d like that.”
He takes Shedletsky’s hand.