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007n7 had a dilemma. Well, two actually. The first one was that the grocery store had run out of the specific brand of apple juice C00lkidd liked. The second was the eldritch god staring at him, refusing to leave him alone. 007n7 sighs.

"What even is your deal? Why are you following me around?" He asks

"You fascinate me" He answers, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"Why me specifically? I mean, there's like 8 billion robloxians. I don't get what's so special about me"

"You were one of the most feared hackers, then you suddenly stopped. Why?"

"To take care of C00lkid, I have already told you that"  

"But for what reason? You turned your entire life around for a baby you just found, that I do not get" 

007n7 goes silent. He still remembers that day clearly. When he realized someone had abandonned a baby at his doorstep. He had almost turned out, closed his door and pretended as if nothing had happened. But when it looked up at him, eyes so innocent and trusting. A look he did not deserve. He couldn't just leave him at some foster home, he'd get destroyed there. He knew he had to protect him. It wasn't an easy decision, and he almost backed out multiple times, but it was the best decision he'd ever made. He didn't just save him that day, he himself had been saved. 

But of course he'd never tell all that to some random Eldritch God just following him around so instead he turned around and decided to look for more apple juice.

"Hm? Don't feel like talking anymore? Think if you just pretend im not here I'll dissapear?" 

"God I wish."

"What, don't you like me?"

"I don't even know who- or what you are. You just randomly started following me one day and refusing to leave."

"I haven't even introduced myself? Forgive me for my impoliteness." He bows, though 007n7 can tell it's just for show. "My name's Noli. I used to be quite popular, but grew bored of my past life and found other things to entertain me. From that point I've been 'laying low' you could say, until now" 007n7 looks at Noli in thought.

"Noli, huh? Pretty sure I read about you in history class at some point. I don't remember much but I think I can recall 'do not trust'." 007n7 says in annoyance.

"Oh please, that was about a thousand years ago. Let a guy change" 

"Plus I never introduced myself either. Didn't need to appearently, you already knew everything. That's defently a sign of being trustworthy" 007n7 says ironically. He settles for one of the apple juices and continues walking down the aisle.

"I know everything about you and you didn't even have to say a word! Now that's a good friend" Noli says, walking right after him.

"I'm not gonna get you to leave me alone, am I?" 

"Not until I've figured out what's so special about you" Noli responds. 007n7 sighs

'How did I even get into this situation? Why does something new come and mess up my life everytime I'm starting to get it together? And I were just starting to get on better terms with Elliot, I swear if this Noli fuck messes it up I will go feral'

All he could do was just pray to whatever deity higher than Noli that things wouldn't get too chaotic.

"Oh. Welcome back 007n7 and.. uh..?" Elliot looked at the purple deity behind 007n7 confused. 007n7 tried blinking for help in morse code before giving up with a sigh and introducing him.

"This is Noli. He has decided to follow me around and I can't get rid of him." Noli waves behind him with a smug smile

"Ah. I see. There's always something up with you, isn't it?" Elliot asks, more to himself than 007n7. He still had mixed feelings about him, but after seeing his genuine attempts to change and make things right he decided to try to give him a second chance. So far everything had been going mostly alright. "Medium cheese pizza, as per usual?" 

"Yes please" 007n7 sighs. Atleast this was going okay, for now. He pays Elliot with a 50% tip like he's been doing as a silent apology for everything he's put him through, and Elliot goes to make the pizza. He always gets a medium cheese specifically since C00lkidd doesn't like toppings on, and also doesn't like leftover pizza. He claims it 'doesn't taste well anymore' when it isn't freshly made. And what else can 007n7 do but listen to and obey his kid. One of the clones were babysitting C00lkidd now that he was out running errands, he just hoped he weren't wrecking too much havoc while he was gone.

Noli was just silently observing him while they waited. He had just come out of nowhere a couple days ago and decided to tag along with 007n7. There wasn't really much he could do about it since Noli's power far outdid his, even when he was at his most feared as an exploiter, he didn't stand a chance against an all powerful ancient like Noli. And as it seemed he weren't planning to hurt either himself or his kid, neither anyone else, 007n7 decided it was just best to let him tag along for now. And as much as he hated to admit it, a little company from another adult was nice, even if it was from an ancient being. 

He was dragged out of his thoughts by Elliot returning with his pizza. "Here ya go. And goodluck with uh, your situation over there" Noli just smiles at him.

"Uhm, yeah, thank you again Elliot, for everything" 007n7 responds

"Yeah, yeah. See you around n7" 

The walk home was quiet. 007n7 didn't even know what to say about the bizarre situation, and Noli made no attempt to start conversation. 007n7 was lost in his head, as usual. I mean, with the life he has lived what wasn't there so think about? He was so caught up in his head that he hadn't realized that he had walked straight into the road. Neither had he realized that a car was comming straight towards him before he heard the panicked honking and the bright lights rapidly approaching. In an instant, he could almost see his life flashing before his eyes, confident that this was gonna be the end. Before he had time to move, or even think, he blinked and suddenly the car was gone. As if there had never existed one in the first place, the only evidence being his rapidly beating heart. 

"Huh- what..? I swear there was just.." He looked around in confusion, his gaze suddenly stopping at Noli who just stood there, smiling knowingly. 

"Please don't walk into roads without looking both ways, something dangerous could happen" That was the only thing he said of acknowlagement before he continued walking. 007n7 had no choice but to follow him along, silently wondering what he had gotten himself into this time.

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”Just go away!” 007n7 slammed the door in Nolis face. He locked it and immediately collapsed onto the floor. He hugged his knees to his chest and tried to breathe.

He was just so done.

Everything had gone wrong today. And of course Noli just had to follow him around and bother him all day. He just couldn’t leave him alone for a single moment.

All he wanted was some quiet time alone to calm down, but of course the stupid Eldritch being that was so set on following him around wouldn’t leave him alone for even a minute. No matter how much he tried walking away or telling him he wanted to be alone, he just kept following him. Teleporting into every room he went to. He could feel the tears running down his face and he couldn’t even tell if it was because he was upset or just so, so exhausted.

He had known Noli a couple months now. He’d say he knows Noli well enough to know he won’t decide to kill him or someone else for this, he doesn’t seem that malicious, atleast not to him.

Now that he was finally alone and the anger was starting to wear off he was starting to feel really bad. He knew Noli wasn’t used to human interaction and didn’t mean any harm (atleast he didn’t think he did), so he really shouldn’t have lashed out at him.

Now he was just starting to feel even worse than before.  Hopefully he could somehow fix this.

Noli stood outside the door, confused.

He could tell 007n7 was upset, that much he knew. He wasn’t stupid. He was very intelligent, actually. But he had trouble understanding humans and human emotions, since he had been on his own for many, many centuries. Since unlike from humans, he didn’t need any company to survive or keep sane.

Though of all his experience and everything he’s read about humans, it all says that comfort and company is the most important thing when feeling stressed or upset.

So of course, he had tried following and being with him to keep him company so he’d feel better, that was supposed to make him feel better. But it seems to have backfired as Seven just yelled at him to ‘just go away’ and slammed the door in his face.

He weren’t exactly feeling ‘hurt’ or ‘upset’ by the action. He knew humans could get irrational when upset. He decided to just wait it out outside the door until 007n7 felt like coming outside and talking to him again.

It still didn’t fully make sense to him but he didn’t want to aggravate 007n7 more so he decided it was best to leave him alone for now.

After an amount of time had passed 007n7 finally opened the door. He just stood at the doorway, not having the courage to look at Noli.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have lashed out on you.” He finally says, voice moments from breaking. Noli doesn’t respond. In turn he instead teleports to 007n7 and hugs him.

“Couldn’t have walked the 3 meters?” 007n7 asks but holds on to him none the less, burying his face in Noli’s shoulder. Noli can feel him silently crying, but he doesn't comment on it. He just holds 007n7's trembling form. They stay like that for a while, until 007n7 feels ready to pull away. Noli is glad at least not all of his information on humans were wrong, he silently notes that company does seem to help, just not always.

“Thank you” 007n7 whispers silently, barely audible. But Noli hears. Of course he hears. He could probably read his thoughts if he so wanted.

Life was confusing and overwhelming, but he’d figure it out. Somehow.

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”You’re up early.” Noli states. “Don’t human sleep 10 hours a night? You’ve only slept 4.”

“Supposed to sleep 10 hours a night. Rarely actually do. Not many of us have the time to rest that much, we have work to do. I have errands to run the whole day and I have to get to some stores before they close” 007n7 responds. It’s obvious that Seven is tired, the dark circles clearly visible under his eyes.

“It is not optimal to do full day activities when tired”

“Well too bad since I don’t really have any choice. It needs to be done today whether I want to do it or not”

“Can I come along so I can keep you safe?”

007n7 stops in thought for a moment. If Noli came with him he could practice interacting with others and getting used to the’ human part’ of the world. This could be a good thing… He sighs.

“Sure, you can come along.” Noli’s eyes light up. “But you’ll have to be disguised somehow, to not freak people out.”

“Why? Think I’m too ugly to be seen with?” Noli jokes, smiling

“No, you’re very dapper. But I don’t want to end up startling anyone, it isn’t exactly everyday you run into an eldritch being. And I don’t want to scare anyone.”

“How about this then?” Noli swiftly changes appearance, looking more ‘humanoid’. At least he looks the same age as Seven now so he could probably play them of as friends, only…

“Woah, you can change appearance?” 007n7 asks with amazement.

“There’s a lot I can do.” Noli states.

“…and that doesn’t sound creepy at all. Here” 007n7 tosses him a hoodie. “Wear this and we should be fine.”

“How sweet.” Noli puts it on and puts the hood up. “Do I look like a real boy now?”

“How do you even know of- nevermind. Let’s just go” 007n7 sighs

“I’ve been around. I’m not completely unaware of human artwork”

“Of course you do… I don’t really want to leave C00lkidd alone the whole day, I know the clones will take care of him but even if he’s safe I don’t like leaving him so long. We were barely home yesterday too.” 007n7 says.

“I’m sure he’ll be fine. We will be home tomorrow after all” Noli smiles. 007n7 looks down.

“You’re right.. Oh shoot look at the time, we have to go!” Seven quickly grabbed Noli and hurried out the door.

"First and foremost we have to visit Builderbrothers pizzeria, I have something I need to give to Elliot" 007n7 says, reading from a to do list he wrote. Noli is behind him looking over his shoulder. He long since learned 'personal space' was not a part of Noli's vocabulary. 

"You remember Elliot from yesterday, right? The guy we bought the pizza from" 007n7 asks.

"Blonde with the red uniform? I remember him." Noli responds.

"We don't really have the best history... as you know I used to be a hacker and I caused quite some problems for him when we were younger.. I'm doing my best to make it up to him and I think we're on okay-ish terms right now, but it's important that I don't mess anything else up" Seven explains.

"I understand. I will make sure to be on my best behaviour then" Noli smiles.

"Alright. Let's go then" They walk together to Builderbrother's pizzeria. Walking in they find Elliot standing behind the desk, waiting to take orders. He waves politely once he spots Seven.

"007n7, hello. Welcome. Would you like your usual?”" Elliot asks. 007n7 smiles sheepishly.

"No actually, I have something I wanted to give you" 007n7 blushes lightly when he hands Elliot a lunch box. "I know curry is your favorite, I made some yesterday so I wanted to bring you some, if you want it of course" He looks away shyly.

"That's... actually pretty thoughtful. I'll assume you haven't poisoned it. Thank you. I'll eat it on my break since I'm getting a bit tired of pizza" He accepts the lunch box.

"Builderbrothers pizzeria's best employee tired of pizza? This should be on the news" 007n7 jokes.

"Oh you wouldn't imagine how sick you can get eating practically the same thing everyday. I once had to somehow improvise making a chicken sallad with the ingredients here because I was sure I'd throw up if I had to eat pizza one more day" Elliot responds.

"I couldn't imagine C00lkidd ever agreeing with you, I'd bet he could eat pizza everyday and never get tired of it" 

"I'd argue my point but knowing C00lkidd I'm almost ready to agree with you. His love for pizza is really inhumane. Also who's that behind you?" Elliot gestures to Noli who's just been staring at them this entire time.

"Oh also this is Noli, same guy as I had along with me yesterday. He... changed his appearence a bit." Noli smiles and waves at them. 

"Well, it's nice to meet you then Noli." Elliot politely greets.

"The pleasure is all mine Elliot. It is always kind to get to know Seven's familiars" Noli responds. Elliot looks slightly taken aback but attempts to remain polite. 007n7 resists the urge to face-palm. 

"Noli is... not really used to interacting with people. We're working on it." 007n7 whispers to Elliot. Although he knows Noli will hear, he atleast has the decency to pretend like he doesn't want Noli to.

"I wish you luck with your situation." Another customer walks in. "Well it was strangely nice talking but I have to get back to work. Thank you again, Seven" 

"Have a good day Elliot!" 007n7 waves goodbye and Noli follows suit. Then they both walk out of the pizzeria.

They stop a bit outside of the pizzeria and 007n7 pulls out his to-do list again.

"Let's see... Next we have to go to the technology store and get some specific mechanic parts. It's quite a walk so we should get going" He says.

"Lead the way!" Noli responds cheerfully. They both start walking towards the store. 007n7 tries to start conversation as they walk.

"Hey Nol-" He turned to look at Noli again, only to find he was alone. The being that had followed him around for months without end had suddenly dissapeared without a trace. He knew he had practically been begging for Noli to dissapear but he didn't expect him to actually listen! Over the months he had grown used to and become quite fond of Noli's company, and he was quite sure he could say the same for Noli, so his sudden dissapearence didn't really make sense. He could guess it was just a joke, or Noli just wanted to check something out real quick without telling him but he still couldn't help but grow slightly panicked. He knew nothing could ever hurt Noli so it was defently his own choice to dissapear, but why? He sighed and just decided to just sit down on the nearby bench until Noli hopefully eventually decided to come back.

Either way he was sure Noli would find his way back to him eventually, but he didn't feel like continuing alone now so he just sat down and waited.

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”Why did you stop walking?” 007n7 almost jumps in surprise as Noli appears before his eyes.

“Wh- Where did you go!? Why did just- and where did you come from??” 007n7 frantically asks.

“I got ‘distracted’ by a strange tree. Once I was done inspecting, I teleported back.”

“Of course you did…” He resists the urge to facepalm. “I mean how did you know exactly where to teleport? You didn’t know if I had stayed or continued wakling”

“Of course I did. I know where you are. I can sense it” Noli responds as if it’s the most obvious thing in the world. 007n7 looks at him surprised for a moment before he sighs. He should’ve been anticipating that at this point.

"Okay... Well we need to keep walking so we have time to do everything we need to today. Please don't dissapear again"

"Whatever you say pumpkin" Noli smiles. 007n7 has a feeling he doesn't fully take him seriously. He sighs.

"Let's just continue walking." 

They walked in silence for a couple minutes, 007n7 not really knowing what to say and Noli not making an attempt at speaking up. He decided to try starting conversation again after a couple minutes, if Noli was even still there.

"We can't get home too late, I promised C00lkidd to play cards with him tonight." 007 says. 

"I will keep watch on the clock as to not let him down, then" Noli responds calmly. 007n7 sighs and turns to Noli.

"Are you sure you're being entertained enough right now? We're not really doing anything except walking, I couldn't imagine that being too fun for you" 

Noli turns to look at him and smiles. "I'm happy to spend time with you. It is my preferred thing, matter what we do or are"

007n7 wasn't able to hide the blush on his face so he simply looked away although he knew Noli would know either way. He just hoped Noli would take mercy on him and not comment on it. Noli found it cute. 007n7 instead asks another question to try and shift the subject.

"There's two roads that both lead to the mechanic store. One goes through the city and through the forest. They're about the same length, which one do you want to take?" He asks.

"Hmm, I may be biased but I'd prefer the forest, as I'm more familiar with nature." Noli responds thoughtfully. 007n7 follows. "Forest it is then, come on" 

They walk off of the road and into a small path that led to a road in the forest. 007n7 had always liked nature, it was a peaceful and quiet break from his noise filled  and fast-paced life. Noli seemed to like the nature as well. It made sense, if he had existed for so long it only made sense that he'd be more familiar with nature than human-built cities. 

007n7 made sure to keep an eye on Noli as they walked to make sure he wouldn't just dissapear again. Even if he'd easily find his way back to 007n7 he still didn't feel completly comfortable with him dissapearing going god knows where as he pleased, especially with how he viewed humans and his morals towards them. Thankfully, Noli seemed to just be enjoying the nature and forest, listening to the wind and birds as they walked. For once 007n7 thought about how strange the situation was. Just a couple months ago his life had been normal- or about as close to normal he'd probably get. And now an all-powerful Eldritch ancient being had decided that he also wanted to be included in his crazy life.

007n7 had been worried at first, especially regarding C00lkidds safety and his already on thin-ice relation with the other people in Robloxia, but now that he had gotten used to Noli's company he honestly couldn't imagine it another way. Even if he could be difficult, he was fun to be with. And quite frankly, he had missed having another adult in his life he could be with. Aside from the fact that Noli was probably thousands of years old and could kill him in an instant if so desired, it was nice to have the company. He loved C00lkidd but that was his son, and he couldn't exactly talk to him and hang out with him as he could another adult.

He was still a bit upset at himself for how quickly he had gotten used to the ancient being just being a part of his life now. He really should be more careful but as he didn't exactly have any close friends, it was hard to try and refuse finally having some close company. C00lkidd also liked him, he seemed to view him as a 'fun uncle' of sorts and he also said he felt more normal, since now he had a 'role model' (kinda) that wasn't entirely human either, so he wasn't the only odd one out anymore. 007n7 decided that if nothing bad had came off it, he may as well just accept it for now. 

Before he knew it he was dragged out of his thoughts by the familiar road approaching once again, signaling that they were near the mechanic store.

"We're almost there now, just a couple more minutes" 007n7 says. Noli nods in acknowledgement.

A couple more minutes of walking and they finally reach the store. Going inside they immediately hear somebody call out to them.

"N7? Is that you? Hey, long time no see! How are ya doin'?" The voice came from a guy wearing an expensive looking suit and fedora, as well as a pair of sunglasses indoor. There was also someone with sharp icy blue eyes, long silky looking blond hair and a white button up and blue vest standing next to him. 007n7 instantly recognized them as Chance and who he guessed to be Itrapped.

"Chance, hey! Fancy seeing you here! I'm guessing that's Itrapped behind you?" 007n7 responds.

"Wow, you really can't help but talk about me to everyone you meet" Itrapped states. Chance nudges him playfully.

"Yeah, I had to get some stuff to fix one of the machines in the casino. Me and blondie are going to an event later today" He responds. Itrapped rolls his eyes at the nickname. "Who's that with you by the way? Don't think I've seen em around before" Chance asks.

"This is Noli" 007n7 says and gestures to Noli. Noli smiles and waves in responce. "It's... a long story. I'll catch you up some other time. I need to get some parts for the c00lgui and he wanted to come along. We'll be running errands all day" 

"I wish you luck! Though I'd honestly rather run errands than have to go to another stupid event my parents are forcing me onto. Luckily I won't be alone with a dozen strangers this time, so with company it may even be fun, I don't wanna jinx anything" Chance says.

"Why are you talking about me as if I'm not here?" Itrapped asks, tone slightly annoyed. Chance just smiles at him sheepishly. "My bad, my bad" 

"Well it's not like I got anything better to do. Might as well." Itrapped concludes. Chance silently gives a thumbs up. The worker comes back and gives Chance some mechanic parts. He smiles and thanks him before turning back to 007n7 and Noli.

"Well, we've got what he need to we better get goin' back to the casino. Talk to ya later!" He smiles.

They wave goodbye to eachother before Chance and Itrapped walk out. 007n7 spoke up before Noli had the chance to.

"That was Chance and Itrapped. Chance is the owner of one of the nearby casinos. Itrapped is his friend, though this was my first time personally meeting him. Chance is also good friends with Elliot and also a regular at the pizzeria." 007n7 explains. Noli nods.

007n7 approaches the cashier. "Hey, I'd like to buy some mechanical and technical parts for my computer please" 007n7 had long since learned he should just act like the parts he's buying is for a computer to avoid questions, since the C00lgui were pretty much still illegal even though he wasn't using it for anything bad, he could still get in trouble.

"Of course! What can I get for you?" The worker responds. 007n7 starts listing off what he needs and the worker soon leaves to retrieve it. Noli silently watches the whole interaction. 

The worker soon comes back with the mechanical parts and hands them to 007n7. He pays and wishes the worker a good day before he and Noli leaves the store. 007n7 pulls out his to-do list again.

"Alright now we just got one more thing to do. We have to take the bus to get to the city over to get to the Roblox HQ. I somehow ended up promising Taph and Shedletsky to pick up some mechanic parts for them too since I mentioned having to go there when I ran into them some days ago. They said it would really help so they wouldn't have to spend a day traveling so another city just to get some stuff to fix a machine. Personally I think that's just an excuse but since I don't have the best past with the admins either I'll do anything I can to help. Sorry for the rant" 007n7 explains.

"Happy to listen" Noli responds.

"Okay so the bus station shouldn't be too far away, so we should be able to walk over there pretty quickly." 007n7 pulls out his phone and checks when the next bus leaves. "The next bus will go in 20 minutes, if we start walking now we'll make it"

A couple of minutes later and they had successfully made it to the bus station with a couple of minutes to spare. 007n7 bought them both tickets and they took seats in the middle of the bus, waiting for their stop. 007n7 had always found bus and train rides relaxing. He almost had to stop himself from falling asleep, if he was any more tired he just might've passed out. Though that would be a small issue since he didn't really know how they'd get home then.

The bus ride wasn't too long and they soon reached their stop. They got off the bus and 007n7 pulled up a gps and looked up the way to the HQ since he didn't come here often enough to know the way.

The walk wasn't too long and soon they ended up infront of the giant building. After just a moment of hesitation 007n7 knocked on the door and waited for someone to open and let him in. It took no longer than a minute before the door opened and a proffesional looking lady answered them. 

"Hello, have you booked a meeting or have a purpose for your visit?" She asked.

"Yes, I was requested to bring some mechanic items for Taph and Shedletsky." He responded, trying not to seem nervous. He really hoped the lady didn't recognize him as the previous hacker.

"Very well, I will send them down. What is your name?" 

007n7 mentally braced himself before he responded. "007n7 ma'am." 

If she knew who he was she didn't show it, she only nodded before stepping outside again, closing the door. After a couple more minutes the door opened again by Shedletsky, Taph close behind him.
"007n7!" He greeted, smiling. He pulled him into a quick hug before he spoke up again. Noli defently didn't look jealous at all. "How have you been? How's C00lkidd?"

"I've been doing alright" 007n7 smiles. "C00lkidd is doing fine, probably a bit bored but more than that he's well" 

"Children, am I right? When are they ever not bored? If you figure that out I'd love to know! Who's that behind you?" Shedletsky asks.

"Oh, this is Noli!" Noli smiles and waves at them. He mentally takes note on how many times he's done that today. "Here by the way, your stuff" 007n7 hands Shedletsky a bag.

"Thank you! You're a life saver dude, really" He grins. "You two should come inside! I'd love to know how your live's going, and how you meet this dude. He seems interesting!"

"Ah, thank you for the offer but we should really get-" Before 007n7 had time to finnish the sentence Shedletsky dragged him inside.

"No no I insist! Come on, both of you!" 

007n7 was half convinced this was just a ploy to get a break but he didn't dare protest. Before he knew it he and Noli was in one of the employee break rooms together with Shedletsky and Taph.

"So how did you two meet?" Shedletsky asks.

"Uhh okay so bear with me here, this is kind of a weird story." 007n7 says. Shedletsky nods enthusiastically.

"He kinda just showed up one day and started following me around" 007n7 starts. Noli speaks up.

"I observed him and he caught my interest. I'm glad he did, in all my existence I've never met a human so... enticing."

"Noli isn't human by the way" 007n7 explains. Shedletsky goes 'ohhhh' in realization.

"All powerful Eldritch ancient" Noli says proudly. 

"And annoying" 007n7 adds.

"Hey, you know you love me" Noli playfully nudges 007n7.

"You're surely one to talk" 007n7 says sarcastically. "Either way we're just kinda.. living together now I guess. He's good company and C00lkidd likes him so I got no reason to complain" 007n7 shrugs. 

"Everyone I know surely has a strange way of meeting new people. I thought we admins were strange but just when you think something someone else comes along, huh?" Shedletsky says before he stops for a moment. "Hey, he won't kill or destroy stuff, will he?"

"Seven has forbid me from it" Noli says honestly. 007n7 speaks up. "Yeah, I'll make sure he won't, don't worry about it" 

"Then we'll take your word for it!" Shedletsky responds. 

"I appreciate it. I promise not to let you down" 007n7 says.

"If I may ask, what's up with him? Why isn't he speaking, I mean" Noli asks.

"Oh Taph is mute, he just speaks through sign language. Dusekkar or Builderman usually translates, but they aren't here right now. He can also write things down in his notebook when there isn't anyone close by to translate, but he usually doesn't." He waits a bit before he adds on "We're just happy to have him here" 

"I see..." Noli says before he turns to Taph and starts signing something out with his hands. Taph perks up before he starts signing back. Before they know it Taph and Noli start talking using sign language. 

"Why am I not even surprised anymore..." 007n7 says, more to himself than anyone else.

"Woah! You can speak sign language? That's so cool! I've been trying to learn for a while" Shedletsky exclaims.

"You'd be surprised by the amount of things he can do." 007n7 says, he continues "He loves showing off"

Shedletsky just laughs. "As long as he's on our side I don't mind. I think it's cool. He'd get great along with Dusekkar! Or they'd hate eachother. I'd see it going either way. On the topic of that, Taph, do you think Builder will get upset if we don't work today?" 

Taph looks at him and just shrugs. 007n7 looks at the clock and panic starts to set in.

"Shoot, look at the time! Our bus goes in 10 minutes, we gotta hurry! It was really nice meeting you both again but we have to get home now" 007n7 says hurridly.

"Oh, of course! Sorry for keeping you here hehe, let's hang out again soon! We'll follow you to the door!" Shedletsky says. They all get up and hurries out of the Roblox HQ. They quickly say their goodbyes before 007n7 and Noli takes off running, Shedletsky and Taph waving them goodbye sheepishly. 

They make it to the bus station in time to see their bus driving away. 007n7 sighs frustrated. Just his luck. "Well, that was the last bus."

"What do we do now?" Noli asks curiously. 007n7 looks uncomfortable.

"There's a train station nearby but it's really sketchy. It's known to be a common place for fights, drug dealing and other crimes. I prefer avoiding it but it doesn't really seem we have much of a choice now..." 

"Guess I'll have to make sure to keep you safe then" Noli responds. 007n7 rolls his eyes and checks his phone.

"The next train goes in fourty minutes. It's not that far so if we start now we should be able to arrive in time." He says.

"Well, there's no time to waste. Let's go then"

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“Ughh, of course we’d somehow end up here. Too bad you can’t just teleport us out.” 007n7 turned to Noli. “Are you sure you don’t just want to go home? I’ll come along soon enough.”

“No way. You said this place could be dangerous, I’m not just leaving you here” Noli responded insistantly.

“I’ll be fine. It shouldn’t be too much of a worry. Most people are just fine”

“If there’s a risk you won’t be, I won’t leave your side. I’ll protect you until you’re sure to be safe again.” Noli said, 007n7 sighed.

“Long as it won’t be boring for you”

“I’m never bored next to you”

007n7 tries to look annoyed but the flush that washes over his face quickly betrays his true feelings. Noli finds it humorous. 007n7 speaks up again before Noli can comment.

“Everyone here looks so suspicious.. I know you should never judge someone based on look but still..”

“I’d take safety over being a good person any day. By what I’ve seen, being suspicious and judgmental is a good way of staying alive”

“And too much of it will kill ya” 007n7 adds. Before Noli has time to interrupt the train arrives.

“That one is ours, right? Our city is on the trains list, the third one?”

“Yeah, the third stop is ours. Let’s go” 007n7 grabs Noli’s hand and walks onto the train. He knew this wasn’t the safest area but considering how many times Noli randomly disappeared today he’d 100 times rather take the chance to be attacked for looking ‘gay’ than running around on the train like an idiot trying to figure out where Noli went. Either way he knew Noli wouldn’t let anyone lay a hand on him, he’d be more afraid of causing a scene by what he’d do to the attacker.

They went together up the stairs and took a seat next to a window. Seven looked out the window. The night sky was relaxing.

His eyes starting growing heavy and he started to feel oddly dizzy. Before he could help it the world had already blacked out before him.

Noli felt a weight on his shoulder and realized Seven had fallen asleep. He figured if Seven managed to fall asleep at a place like this, he needed it. And if that was what Seven needed, he’d stop at no limits to make sure Seven would get his rest.

Luckily, as it was quite late nobody seemed to be too interested in talking or making noise, most people quietly minding their business. So Noli just enjoyed the moment and being so close to 007. Sadly enough, their stop eventually came and 007 still hadn’t woken up. In Noli’s mind there was only one logical option.

So he carefully and gently picking 007 up princess style and carried him out of the train, paying no attention to the looks he got. A group of men stood by the tracks smoking, and one of them approached him. He could already tell what he wanted based on his expression. He looked like he was ready for a fight.

“Hey, we don’t appreciate your type-“ At once, Noli just stared at him and he disappeared. As if vanishing into smoke. The other men just stood there bewildered. “Wh-what…”

Not many had seemed to notice it. He usually wouldn’t just kill people like that anymore, mostly because Seven was against it, but they’d take him for a fool if they thought he’d allow anyone to wake Seven up. Since nobody else seemed to have anything to say he just turned around and left.

He only got a couple of weird glances while walking home, but for the sake of Seven he paid no mind to it. Reaching their house again, he got inside and put Seven to bed, letting him rest. C00lkidd was outside the door when he went out of the room, probably heard them coming.

“What happened with papa?” He asks worried, innocently.

“He’s just exhausted. We should let him rest. You should as well little guy, it’s night”

“But I wanted to play with papa before sleeping. He told me we could!” C00lkidd says disappointed. Noli looks at him for a moment in thought.

“How about I play cards with you tonight and all three of us play together tomorrow?” C00lkidd’s eyes immediately lights up. “Okay mister Noli!”

After playing a couple of matches together of go fish (Noli purposefully letting C00lkidd win a couple) he decided Seven would probably want C00lkidd in bed by now.

“You should head to bed now Kidd, your dad wouldn’t want you staying up so long”

“But… I wanna keep playing” C00lkidd responds defiantly

“We can keep playing tomorrow, okay? But you’ll be too tired to play tomorrow if you don’t sleep now” C00lkidd looks to be deep in thought for a moment.

“Okay! But promise we’ll play tomorrow again?”

“I promise.”

007n7 woke up very confused to say the least. Last thing he remembered was going on the train with Noli, and now he was suddenly in bed? He sighed and debated if he even wanted to know before getting up and mentally preparing to face the day.

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"Can we watch Coco? Please dad!" C00lkidd asks excitedly. 007n7, C00lkidd and Noli were sitting on the couch in their living room (007n7 in the middle with C00lkidd and Noli beside him). They had decided to watch a movie, or more C00lkidd wanted to watch a movie, 007n7 said okay and Noli just went along with whatever he did. 007n7 softly looked down at his kid, glad to finally be able to spend some time with him.

"Of course, kid" He responded. Although they had probably seen it about a million times already, he was nobody to deny his child his favorite movie. 

"What's that?" Noli asked curiously.

"It's about the day of the dead in Mexico. Miguel wants to be a musician but his family won't let him, they hate music and want him to continue their family shoe making business and- well, you'll see" 007n7 explains as he turns the movie on, C00lkidd almost bouncing next to him. Noli doesn't respond but instead turns his attention to the movie that just started playing.

"Do you think there really is an afterlife after death, papa?" C00lkidd asks about 20 minutes into the movie.

"I don't know kid, maybe! Who's to say there isn't?" 007n7 responds.

"I wouldn't know. I'm immortal but nothing that I've experienced has indicated that such a place exists" Noli says, but he's quickly shushed when 007n7 not so subtly jabs him with his elbow.

"Well, either way, we won't know until forever so there's nothing we can do but speculate" 007n7 finally says as he turns back to C00lkidd. Noli doesn't fully understand why Seven would suddenly jab him, but he decides that it's a sign to just keep quiet for now. 

Towards the end of the movie, both C00lkidd and 007n7 seemed to be in tears. Wel, more specifically C00lkidd was almost crying and 007n7 looked a bit sorrowful. Noli didn't fully understand why they were sad, much less about something that wasn't even real. Well, he didn't really understand sadness or feeling hurt in general, as much as he had studied humans feelings was something that he still didn't quite get. 

"Why would you watch something that you know will make you feel bad? From a logical perspective, that's completly stupid" Noli half-whispers to 007n7. 

"It- I'll explain after the movie" 007n7 sighs. C00lkidd gasps loudly at the plot twist.

"How could he!? I would never be like de la cruz!" C00lkidd says in disbelief and anger. 

"I know you won't Kidd, I know you won't" 007n7 says with a soft smile and just pulls C00lkidd closer to him. C00lkidd just laughs. 

When the movie was over, C00lkidd was crying. 007n7 was slightly questioning why he insisted on watching this movie when he ended up in tears everytime. He didn't ask, he just held him closer. Well, he didn't have to since somebody did for him.

"Why are you sad over something that isn't real? And why would you watch something that you know will make you sad?" Noli asks, genuine curiosity in his voice. 

"I don't get how you aren't feeling even the slightest bit sad after this" 007n7 responds. It was honestly a bit hard to actually focus on the movie enough to get sad when there was a purple towel whispering in his ear every 5 minutes. Either way he was glad C00lkidd was enjoying himself, in his own way he guesses. "Either way, did you want to play something too?"

007n7 turns to ask C00lkidd who had by now stopped crying. His expression changed in seconds to looking excited again. 007n7 was sure he would never understand what unstoppable energy was driving the kid, but he decided he was okay with that. As long as he stayed safe with him, that hardly mattered. 

C00lkidd nods eagerly as he looks up at him. 007n7 smiles. "Alright, what did you want to play?" 

"Can we play cards? Me and Mr. Noli played yesterday but he said you were too sleepy to join" C00lkidd exclaims. 007n7 couldn't help but feel thankful that Noli remembered that Seven promised C00lkidd to play together, so atleast someone played with him when he was out. He tried to ignored the light blush that dusted over his face as he replied.

"Of course Kidd" He responded and followed C00lkidd into the kitchen. Noli came along soon enough and they all sat down at the table. 007n7 started dealing out cards, Noli's expression unreadable and C00lkidd looking as happy as ever.

"I did it! I won!" C00lkidd excitedly exclaimed, almost jumping in his seat. They had played go fish and he had managed to get almost all of the pairs in the deck, all by himself of course, Noli and 007n7 totally didn't go easy on him. 

007n7 was really glad Noli had caught on on letting C00lkidd win. For an ancient eldritch being he sure was pretty socially aware.

"You did, great job kid" 007n7 smiled as he ruffled his hair. C00lkidd giggled.

"Well done..." Noli said. He seemed a bit out of place. 007n7 looked at him before he spoke up again. "Want to play again?" 

Everyone at the table agreed so 007n7 started dealing out the cards once again.

7 more rounds in (C00lkidd winning most by pure skill) and 007n7 could tell C00lkidd was starting to get sleepy. When he yawned once again Seven turned to him and spoke up.

"Are you getting tired? We can keep playing another day" Seven said softly. C00lkidd immediately shakes his head.

"No I'm not tired at all! Not even a bit" He turned his head in retaliation. Seven laughs. "It's okay, let's go to bed now and we'll continue playing another day"

C00lkidd looks up at him with his genuine and trusting eyes. A look he still didn't fully believe he deserved. "Do you promise?" 

"I promise." 007n7 responds firmly. C00lkidd sighs before smiling again. 

"Can we watch tv before sleep?" C00lkidd asks. Again? We just watched a movie... Seven thought, but instead of saying that out loud he just nodded in defeat. Who was he to deny C00lkidd anything?

"Sure, Kidd..." He sighs. "Just make sure to brush your teeth and get into your pyjamas first" 

"Okie doki!" C00lkidd said happily before he got up and went to the bathroom, leaving Noli and 007n7 alone in the kitchen. 

"He sure is adorable. You care about him a lot, don't you?" Noli speaks up.

"More than anything else" 007n7 replies with a bittersweet smile. Noli looks like he wants to say something more, but he keeps quiet. 

"We should probably wait for C00lkidd in the living room, he can get pretty impatient at times" 007n7 says, scratching his neck sheepishly.

"He's absolutely a child for sure"  Noli states.

"...yeah?" 007n7 agrees, slightly confused. "Either way let's go" He says and stands up, beginning to walk into the living room. Noli follows closely behind.

Roughly 10 minutes later and they were back at the couch. C00lkidd pressed up against 007n7's side who had his arm wrapped around him, and Noli at his other side who had a hand on his shoulder. This was nice, he thought. Just being able to relax with his family, for even a moment. Some show about dinasours playing on the tv and C00lkidd was fully invested.  He was fairly certain Noli was observing him rather than the tv, but he decided to just let him as he didn't want to stir the moment. 

He suddenly heard soft snoring to his right and looked down to find C00lkidd peacefully asleep, cuddled up to him. He smiled and pulled him a bit closer. Thinking about it, he was starting to feel a bit sleepy himself. He really hoped Noli wouldn't mind as he rested his head on the others shoulder. When he didn't move, he assumed he was fine with it. So he too closed his eyes and gently drifted off to sleep.

Noli felt a weight on his shoulder and quickly found Seven had fallen asleep on him. Realizing he was the only one awake he turned off the tv and lights and pulled a blanket over the two, careful not to wake them up. Although he himself didn't need any rest to function, he had nothing against staying there until they woke up. So he gently wrapped his arm around Seven and pulled them a little closer as he patiently waited until they'd wake up again.

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”Is there anything you can’t do?” 007n7 asks

“I’d say I can do pretty much anything. I can only teleport myself, but I can make others disappear from existence” Noli responds

“Please… don’t do that” 007n7 pleads, growing slightly uncomfortable at the though

“Don’t worry, I’d never do that to you”

“Not just to me, don’t make anyone disappear. Plus pretty sure that counts as murder which is illegal”

“You’re one to talk about ‘illegal’? The law has never limited me, but if it is against your wishes I will refrain.”

007n7 felt hurt by the jab at his past but knew Noli didn’t mean any harm, so he let it go for now. “Even if the law doesn’t limit you it’s still wrong hurting others”

“I do not fully understand but I will take your word for it Seven” Noli responds.

“Okay. Thank you.” 007n7 takes a deep breath. “What else?”

“Well I can change my appearance, make things float, I’d say pretty much anything. The list is too long” He says, proudly showing off.

“I don’t know whether to be scared or impressed. I’m glad you’re on my side either way”

“Of course Sev, you can live worry-free knowing nothing will ever hurt you under my eyes” He smiles.

007n7 rolls his eyes but can't help but smile. "I'm sure"

C00lkidd was still asleep. 007n7 had woken up early to find them all still on the couch. Noli had claimed he didn't want to disturb them so he just let them rest. Seven had sighed and carried C00lkidd to his room and put him to bed, careful not to wake him up. After that he and Noli had just started talking in the living room and the topic of his powers had come up. Seven couldn't help but be curious, and Noli was more than happy to answer, liking having all of 007n7's attention on him.

"I'm still puzzled about yesterday. Why would C00lkidd insist on watching that movie if he knew it would make him sad?" Noli asks. 007n7 sighs.

"Human emotions are.. complex. It's a sad movie but it's also got a happy ending? It's bittersweet in a way, and very well made. It's a good movie, and sometimes it can feel nice to feel sad? It's a bit hard to explain.." 007n7 tries to explain. "Atleast I'm not the worst at understanding emotions anymore" He says, mostly to himself.

"Humans really are complex..." 

"Though it's important to remember that everyone is different. What goes for one person wont for another. So it's probably easiest to just get to know each person and how they personally work, rather than trying to understand all of humanity as a whole. The only way to truly understand someone is to actually get to know them and how they work. A lot of studies are outdated also, as new things are discovered pretty much every year." 

Noli listens, doing his best to understand. "Huh..."

"It also depends a lot on what you have experienced in the past, we are a reflexion of everything that has happened to us" 007n7 says. Noli stays quiet in thought for a moment.

"I guess that makes sense.. We are naturally more logical beings, depending on strategic thinking rather than emotions. We still do feel emotions as much as anything else, but we don't acknowlage it often. It's most usually also logical. If something bad happens such as somebody close passing, we feel sad. When something good or entertaining, we feel happy. It's not confusing and switched around like with humans. It's all based on logic." He pauses. "Being with you however... makes me feel happy despite not having any logical reasoning for doing so.. It puzzles me" 

007n7 tries to hide his laughter. 

"What?" Noli asks, not getting why the other was laughing at him.

"Nothing- nothing, just- I like spending time with you too, don't worry about it" Seven responds. Noli just looks at him confused.

"Are you understanding something I'm not?" He asks.

"No, not at all. 

Noli looked at him skeptically but decided to let it go. "Okay, keep your secrets, secret-man" 

Seven just chuckled and decided to change topic. "Well, what do you want to do today? I don't really have anything planned, we don't have anything we have to do either." 

"You know it doesn't matter to me as long as we are together" Noli says. 007n7 thinks he said that way too casually. Seven couldn't help the way light pink started to flush across his face and he were sure the other could easily tell. If he did, he didn't point it out. 

"Well, firstly I have to-" Seven was interrupted by his phone suddenly ringing. He looked down and sighed. He had a feeling that their dilemma of not knowing what to do would soon come to an end.

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"...Him? Really?" Dusekkar sighs, half expecting Shedletsky to say he's joking.

"Shed, I know you ain't exactly the sharpest but if you really think that's a good idea I think I'll have to re-evaluate my opinion of your intelligence." Builderman looks at him deadpan.

"Hey! I'm serious, he's changed! He's trustworthy, and perfect for it!" Shedletsky retaliates.

"It's not about that, for the issue lies within another act" Dusekkar says.

"I wouldn't question that he has changed but it ain't a smart idea to let him into the HQ, we still can't be fully sure" Builderman sighs.

"Nonsense! He was here earlier and it was completly fine!" Shedletsky quickly says before thinking through it. He realises what he just spilled when he sees Taph's panicked gaze directed towards him. Builderman silently looks at him before speaking up in disbelief.

"...what." He stares at Shedletsky who looks back at him sheepishly before he continues. "What do you mean by that." 

"Uhh" Shedletsky tries to come up with an excuse before giving up. "Okay fine, we might have had him here a couple days ago" Taph looks increasingly panicked by the 'we'. "But he didn't do anything!" Shedletsky continues. "We just talked for a bit before he left. That was years ago, people change!" 

"What do you mean 'we'?? Who else was a part of this? And why was he even here to begin with??" Builderman looks at them with furthering disbelief. Dusekkar looks too stunned to speak.

"I asked him to fetch us some technical stuff from the store where he lives for our broken machines, since he was already out doin' stuff. When he got here I let him inside to chat a bit since it would've been impolite not to! Taph was also there" Shedletsky rats out Taph who just looks like he wants to sink into the ground. Now it was Buildermans turn to look at them in disbelief while Dusekkar speaks up.

"For him I knew not to believe, for you I thought was smarter than he" 

"I know you didn't just call me stupid Matt! I thought we were friends!" Shedletsky looks at him, dramatically pretending to be deeply hurt by the remark.

"It would've been impolite not to after he came all this way for us! Plus it was raining" Taph signs, defending himself. Builderman sighs.

"So ye got him to fetch ya the equipment instead of getting it yerself? Did ye atleast pay him?" 

"..." Taph and Shedletsky looks at eachother in slight realisation.

"Oh my god" 

"Well.. now we kinda have to invite him back, don't we?" Shedletsky looks at them sheepishly.

"I can't believe you..." Builderman facepalms. 

"Come on, it's just some posters! Plus he can clone himself, so it will be super quick to set everything up!" 

"For the ability he may have, our knowlage shall be bare" 

"Dusekkar is right, we don't know if he can or not, but if he can it will be our responsibility to stop it. It's still illegal, after all. We have our suspicion but we'll have to actually take action if we know he does"

"If we know he does! Just because he can doesn't mean he does on a daily basis, we haven't gotten any reports, right? Plus he would be allowed to if it was to work for us!" Shedletsky tries to convince them.

"Morally right it feels not, but a point he has got" 

"That feels like a legal loophole" Taph signs.

"That's because it is." Builderman sighs for what felt like the 100th time today. "Fine. Just because it'd take an eternity for us to do it, and we can't get everyone in the HQ to stop working for some days just to set up posters. But if he does do something then it's on you. Know I'd vote against it but we don't seem to have much of a choice" Dusekkar looks in disbelief while Taph and Shedletsky lights up.

"You won't regret a thing Builder!" Shedletsky quickly speaks up.

"Can his companion come too? The one that spoke sign language?" Taph asks excitedly.

"The- what? He has a companion?" Builderman looks genuinly confused.

"Oh yeah! The guy that was with him! What was his name? Noli? He also spoke sign language" Shedletsky explains.

"Great... there's two of them now.." Builderman mutters to himself.

"Three if you count his kid!" Shedletsky says before he can stop himself.

"You're on thin ice. Don't test the waters." Builderman warns.

"Hehe, sorry.." Shedletsky scratches his neck sheepishly.

"Your judgement I fully trust, but this idea feels most unjust" 

Shedletsky wraps his arm around Dusekkars shoulders. "Ehh it's fineee, it's not like we're hurting anyone! Plus as far as we know he's just helping others either way so nobody will care. His friend said he wouldn't hurt anyone either so all well that ends well!" 

"Him claiming 'not to hurt anyone' doesn't really seem like the most trustworthy statement" Builderman questions.

"Well he's some sort of all-powerful edritch being appearently so if he wanted to take over Roblox he probably already would have at this point", or atleast tried" Shedletsky shrugs.

"He's a what now!?" Builderman and Dusekkar both look at him in shock.

"Oh did we forget to mention?" 

"And you think we should just 'trust them'? Do you know what could happen if they were planning something!?" 

"They're good, I promise! You just gotta meet 'em! C'mon Builder, give him a chance! He's a changed man" 

"Well I dunno how well I feel about having them all runnin' around together in the HQ" 

"What if we split them? Noli goes with Taph and Matt, and 007n7 and his kid goes with you and me! That way, he can't try anything!" 

"Fine. But you better be right that he's good now" Builderman sighs, in disbelief that he went through with this. 

"Of course Builder! You won't regret this one bit! I'll give him a call" Shedletsky smiles triumphantly before leaving the room.

Builderman sighs. Dusekkar still looks in disbelief at everything that happened but doesn't question. Taph seems happy.

"Let's hope he's right, for all of our sakes" 

"Hello?"

"Heyyy 007 my friend! Are you busy today?" They hear Shedletsky ask from the other line.

"...no, why?" 007n7 asks catiously.

"Welll we could really use some help over here, we got like a million posters we need to have up and we were wondering.. if you could help..? Now we're not saying that you still have clones or anything but incase you did still have access to them it'd be really helpful if you could help us out here! Of course it would perfectly fine here since you would be working for the admins and we'd have oversight over it. Come on, help a buddy out?" Shedletsky half-pleads. 007n7 silently wonders if this is some sort of ploy to catch him still using the c00lgui and arrest him, but thinking a bit more he'd like to think that Shedletsky wouldn't pull something like that on him, not after all this time. So he just sighs before he hesitently responds.

"I do still have access to the clones, yeah.. Where do you need me to be and when?" 

"Yes! I knew I could count on you! We were thinking if we split up, you and your kid with me and Builder and your purple companion with Taph and Dusekkar, so we'd cover more ground quicker! Is that alrighty with you?" Shedletsky asks. 007n7 looks at Noli. He was unsure what he'd think about being with two practical strangers the whole day, but Noli just nods at him. 

"If it's to your wishes, I shall help Taph and Dusekkar." Noli states.

"That's fine with us. When do you want us to come?" Seven asks.

"As quick as possible please! We'll wait for you at the HQ. Thanks again Sev!" Shedletsky says before hanging up. He could swear he saw Noli's expression change slightly at the nickname, but decided to pay no mind to it. 

"I have to wake C00lkidd up then and make him get ready." 007n7 says. Noli nods.

"I will wait for you at the hall then" Noli says. 007n7 leaves to go to C00lkidd's room.

"Hey buddy, wake up.." 007n7 gently wakes C00lkidd up who sleepily opens his eyes.

"Huh..?" C00lkidd stirs awake.

"Did you sleep well?" Seven asks softly.

"Mm..." C00lkidd responds as he rubs his eyes.

"I have a question, okay?"

"What is it papa?.." C00lkidd sits up.

"Do you want to come along to the Roblox HQ and help the admins set up posters?" 

C00lkidds eyes light up. "We're going on an adventure to the HQ?" Seven chuckles.

"Only if you want to"

"Yes please!" C00lkidd exclaims happily.

"Okay then little adventurer, get ready and we'll be on our way" 007 ruffles C00lkidds hair.

"Okay papa!" C00lkidd laughs.

"We'll wait for you in the hall" Seven smiles before leaving his room. He can hear a 'okay!' as he's leaving.

"What are you doing?" Noli asks as Seven cuts the corners off of a sandwich he's making. 

"I'm making a sandwhich for C00lkidd to eat on the way. He doesn't like the corners." 007n7 pauses. "...or regular cheese. This is just a regular ham sandwhich"

"He loves pizza?" 

"He doesn't like cheese unless it's melted"

"Ah"

007n7 wraps the sandwhich in some paper before filling a water bottle and putting them both in a bag. Right in time C00lkidd shows up just moments later. He hands the bag to him.

"Here ya go Kidd, ham sandwich without corners, just the way you like it" He smiles. C00lkidd accepts the bag and looks up at him happily.

"Thank you dad!" He exclaims.

"Now let's go to the car everyone" 007n7 says. 

He puts on his shoes and jacket and puts C00lkidd's jacket in a bag. He knew C00lkidd would never wear a jacket willingly, but he also knew it'd be cold outside that day so he decided to save them both the trouble and just bring it with him and hand him it when he got cold. C00lkidd was quickly done with putting his shoes on and they were out the door. 

Getting in the driver seat (he didn't trust Noli to drive) with Noli in the passenger seat and seeing C00lkidd put on his seatbelt and start eating the sandwich, he started the car and started to drive away, silently hoping that today would go okay.

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007n7 knocked on the door to the Roblox HQ for the second time that week, still as nervous as the first time. This time he’s actually have to interact with Builderman, the creator himself, and he’d be away from Noli. Atleast he already knew Taph and Noli got well along, and he’d be able to keep watch over C00lkidd while working.

He was only able to take a deep breath to try and calm down before the door opened. Standing there were Shedletsky himself this time.

“Seven and company, it’s so nice to see you! Come on, let’s go inside” He quickly says before urging them inside. 007n7 keeps a firm hold on C00lkidd’s arm so he won’t run away. Both him and the purple being had suddenly disappearing and giving Seven a heart attack in common, although it was slightly worse when it was his kid since he knew Noli could handle himself.

C00lkidd follows along excitedly and Noli silently follows them.

Getting a couple of weird looks but nobody commenting, they soon reach the top of the HQ and Shedletsky leads them into a room. Entering they find Builderman, Taph and Dusekkar waiting for them.  Taph waves at them and Builderman just sighs. C00lkidd waves back happily.

“Okay so the plan is” Builderman starts. “007n7 and C00lkidd comes with me and Shedletsky on the east side, Noli with Taph and Dusekkar on the west. Sound good?”

“Yeah, that works for us” 007n7 responds.

“Taph, come along with me and help bring the flyers. You two can stay here and explain to them exactly what we will be doing” Builderman instructs before leaving the room along with Taph. Shedletsky is quick to start talking.

“Okay so basically there’s some information about a bunch of different stuff we need to put up so people will see it.  And we want to be done by today because we have to get back to work as soon as possible. Do you have the clone controller with you Sev?” Shedletsky asks. Seven can’t help but think it was probably a good thing that Noli and Shedletsky ended up in a group considering how Noli was looking at him.

“Yeah, I have the C00lgui in my bag” He responds.

“Awesome! We’ll get started on it as soon as we are grouped up. Builder and Taph should be back any moment now”

“…” The room grows silent.

“Aaanyyy momenttt” Shedletsky tries.

“…” Dusekkar speaks up.

“Your type I do not recognize, not knowing what you are would be unwise” Dusekkar rhymes.

“You’re asking what I am?” Noli chuckles. “I am an ancient all-powerful.” Noli responds simply.

"But what does that mean exactly?" Taph signs.

“I’m sure you know enough to figure that out on your own. You seem smart enough” Noli smiles. 007n7 quickly elbows him to try and hint him to shut up.

“Haha sorry about him, he’s not that used to social interactions” Seven quickly tries to apologize. Dusekkar doesn’t look too entertained, he resists the urge to scoff at him. 007n7 shoots Noli a look.

“Well he sure does love showing off, so I’m sure you’ll find out today” Seven tries to save the conversation.

“I’m sure everything will go well!” Shedletsky steps in. Before anyone else has the chance to say anything, Builderman and Taph comes back with… a lot of posters.

“Alright guys we got the posters, let’s get this over with” Builderman sighs. "We have to get out as fast as possible to be done today. I can bring half the posters with me, Dusekkar you bring the other half for your group" He continues. Dusekkar nods.

"Follow me" Builderman says before he walks out the room. The admins follow without hesitation, the others look at eachother a bit before following. 007n7 takes C00lkidd's hand and Noli walks infront of them, following the admins outside. They start talking about the plan as soon as they were out the door.

"We'll all meet back up here tonight at 11pm latest. Call if you're done sooner. Let's go" Builderman gestures to Shedletsky, C00lkidd and 007n7 and starts walking. Shedletsky quickly follows.

"We'll see you later then, bye Noli!" 007n7 quickly waves at Noli before he hurries after Builderman and Shedletsky. Noli doesn't say anything but looks at 007n7 and C00lkidd as they leave. 

"..." Dusekkar looks at him slightly confused. "Uhm, Noli?"

Noli quickly turns to him. "Yes?" 

"For time is not in our favor, we have to get going sooner rather than later" He says. Noli sighs.

"The sooner we'll be done, the sooner I get to be back I suppose" 

"Do you actually want to be here?" Taph signs.

"It's important for 007n7" Noli replies simply. Neither Taph nor Dusekkar decides to continue the topic.

"The train leaves at 10, we have to leave so we won't be late again" Dusekkar says, mostly to Taph. Taph nods and they all start walking. Soon reaching the train station, Noli gets reminded of the night a couple days ago when 007n7 fell asleep on the train. He wishes he was here with 007n7 again instead of those two. 

They manage to arrive with 5 minutes to spare, not having to wait long until the train arrives. They travel mostly in silence, sitting down together Dusekkar speaks up. 

"Efficiency is most importance at last, for we have to find a way to be done before the day has passed" 

"Any ideas?" Taph signs.

"I might have one..:" Noli speaks up. Dusekkar and Taph looks at eachother a bit worried before hesitantly listening to him.

"Firstly we're gonna take a bus that'll lead to the east side of Robloxia. After that we will send out clones under full supervision to set up the posters. We're going to do specific areas at time so we'll have full control over everything that's happening." Builderman explains.

"Yay, bus!" C00lkidd cheers. 007n7 can't help but smile at him. C00lkidd had always loved car rides. Bus, car, train, he's always so excited either way and points out every single thing he spots out the window. 007n7 always humors him, just glad to see his kid happy.

"If we run now we can catch the next bus! Race ya there!" Shedletsky yells out before he starts running.

"Wait Shedletsky, don't-" "You're on!" C00lkidd interrupts Builderman who just sighs, dissapointed. '

"Wait, C00lkidd!" 007n7 quickly runs after him, and Builderman ends up having no choice but to grudgingly follow. 

"I won!" C00lkidd cheered. They were all on the bus now, everyone but C00lkidd completly out of breath.

"Woah you're, uh, really fast kid" Shedletsky breathed heavily.

"How is he so fast" Builderman asked, mostly to himself.

"Why do you think I have to hold his hand all the time so he won't run away?" 007n7 responded, looking really done with everything. Though he couldn't blame C00lkidd for this since Shedletsky had technically started it. What did he think would happen challenging a hyper active kid to a race?

"We made the bus in time though!" Shedletsky said once he realised Builderman was glaring at him. 

"Be glad we did." Builderman responded. 007n7 can hear a tired yawn comming from beside him.

"You getting sleepy?" He softly asks C00lkidd. 

C00lkidd quickly shakes his head but rests against 007n7 none the less.

"No just gotta close my eyes for a bit..." He mumbles.

"It's fine kid, the bus ride is long. I'll wake you up when we arrive, okay?" 

007n7 doubts C00lkidd even finnished hearing his sentence before he was out. He just smiles and wraps an arm around C00lkidd, letting him rest.

"He really fell asleep just like that?" Builderman asks, slightly in disbelief.

"You'd by surprised by how quick he can tire himself out" 007n7 chuckles.

It's silent among the group for a couple of moments before Builderman speaks up.

"Can I examine the c00lgui?" Builderman asks, but 007n7 knew it wasn't completly a question.

"Oh, of course. It's in my bag, give me one moment" 007n7 responds. He grabs his bag. C00lkidd stirrs a bit at him moving but doesn't wake up. It only takes a moment for him to pull up the c00lgui under C00lkidd's jacket. He hands it to Builderman who immediately starts inspecting it. He can see Shedletsky looking over Builderman's shoulder to see as well. Seven decides not to watch them and instead looks at the scenery outside. After a couple of minutes Shedletsky speaks up.

"Woah, this thing seems complex. Did you program it yourself?" 

"Huh? Yeah, although I did buy the base, I have altered and programmed it myself. I used to go programming in university before I dropped out. I did still continue learning to code and program, just through the internet instead of school." 007n7 answers. 

"Hm, cool" Shedletsky says and Builderman hands back the c00lgui. 007n7 puts it back into his bag.

The space goes silent once again. Builderman pulls up his computer and starts writing something, msot likely working 007n7 thinks. Shedletsky pulls out his phone and starts texting with someone. 007n7 can feel C00lkidd sleeping peacefully next to him, he decides to just return to looking out the window and wait for them to reach their stop.

"Next stop is ours, get ready to get off the bus" Builderman announces. 007n7 turns to gently shake C00lkidd awake while the other two puts away their things.

"Hey Kidd, we have to get off the bus now" He speaks softly. C00lkidd just stirrs and sleepily mumbles something in disagreement. 007n7 chuckles softly before crouching down infront of him.

"Come on, I'll carry you" C00lkidd sleepily opens his eyes and gets on 007n7's back, lazily wrapping his arms around his neck. 007n7 holds his legs and stands up, carrying his bag in his hand. It was a bit uncomfortable but if C00lkidd's comfortable, that's all that matters now. He would be fine. 

They all get off the bus and stands by the bus stop, Builderman looking something up on his phone.

"That looks a bit uncomfortable" Shedletsky states to 007n7.

"Yeah, a bit, but the little guy's sleepy. What else can you do, you know" 007n7 chuckles.

"I get it, when 1x was younger he would be impossible to wake up when he had decided to sleep. And even if I had managed to wake them, they would rain chaos as much as she could. Children really do as they please" Shedletsky says, laughing lightly at the memory. "Here, I can take your bag for you until he wakes up" 

"Oh, thank you" 007n7 looks at him gratefully and hands over his bag. "By the way how is 1x doing now?"

"Eh, you know. A bit rebellious, like teens are. Can't blame them since they're keeping up with school and not doing anything illegal, as far as I'm aware" He chuckles. 

"They really grow up so fast, huh?" 007n7 nervously laughs, still a bit unused to talking so casually with the admin, as if they were old friends. 

"They really do"

"Okay we will start by going to retro city. It's a 15 minute walk, let's get going" Builderman interrupts.

"Ay ay captain!" Shedletsky responds. They all start walking towards the city and arrive before long. 

"So how does this thing work?" Shedletsky asks.

"Well the c00lgui basically works as a control panel." 007n7 responds as he looks through and quickly types things in the c00lgui. "How many clones do you want me to spawn?" 

"Go with 5 for now, to control things are working." Builderman responds and 007n7 nods. He quickly writes the code in and presses enter. 5 clones appear before them, standing still, as if waiting for someone to tell them why they exist.

"Tell them to set up the posters within 200 square meters of this area" Builderman instructs and hands 007n7 a stack of posters from his bag. 007n7 puts in the code and hands each close a couple of posters. They quickly all scatter in different directions of the city.

"On the c00lgui you can see the exact location of each clone and what they are doing. You can also go in here," 007n7 clicks on one the the clones icons and the c00lgui turns to a first person view of the clones vision "to see what they are doing and their perspective. Once they've finnished their objective they'll dissapear. If they are disturbed they will also dissapear" 007n7 explains.

"Woah, that really is complex. But useful! Great job dude, it's great to have you on our side now" Shedletsky smiles. 007n7 prays they won't get to the topic of hsi past.

"Thanks haha" 007n7 responds nervously.

"Well do we just wait here now?" Shedletsky asks.

"We have to keep watch over the bots. It'll be our responsibility to keep everyone safe while we're doing this" Builderman responds.

"You're saying that like there's actually any risk in what we're doing. C'mon, let's try to have some fun while we're here Buildy!" Builderman sighs at Shedletskys carelessness.

"We'll keep our full attention on these clones, next city you can run around. We have to be on alert incase of an emergancy, even if the probability is low" 

Shedletsky reluctantly agrees. They all just end up sitting on a nearby bench, waiting for the clones to be done. After just about a couple minutes, the c00lgui alerts that all the posters are up and the clones had dissapeared. 

"The clones are done now, all the posters are up" 007n7 says and hands the c00lgui to Builderman. Builderman inspects it with Shedletsky over his shoulder. They see the pictures of the posters up on various walls that the clones took before they vanished. 

"It looks like they did their job..." Builderman admits. He finally sighs before he turns to 007n7. "I guess it's in order for me to thank you Seven. Without yer help this would take longer than desired. I know we don't exactly have the greatest past but even I can tell that you've changed"

"Oh, uh, thank you. I'm happy to help in any way I can after everything" 007n7 responds a bit akwardly at the sudden proclaim.

"Well let's go to the next city then fellas!" Shedletsky exclaims. 

They all start walking towards the next city over. Shedletsky talks for most part, sometimes with 007n7 and Builderman joining in. C00lkidd still peacefully asleep. 

They repeat the process a couple of times in different cities, sending out clones and putting up posters. It was fairly quick, traveling almost taking longer than the work itself. They were about halfway through the day, just about to buy some lunch when 007n7 can feel some shuffling on his back.

"Goodmorning, finally awake?" He chuckles.

"Huh..? Oh, goodmorning papa" C00lkidd sleepily mumbles. 007n7 lets him down. C00lkidd sleepily rubs his eyes.

"Why is it so cold?" He asks confused.

"We're outside Kidd" He smiles. The other two stops to wait for them. "I have your jacket in my bag" 007n7 says. On cue, Shedletsky hands him his bag and he takes out C00lkidd's jacket.

"Thank you papa.." He yawns, still newly woken. 007n7 helps him put on his jacket.

"We were just about to go get something to eat. Do you want to get some chicken nuggets?" He asks. C00lkidd's eyes light up and he eagerly nods. 007n7 had made sure so check out the place they were going to for lunch to make sure they had something C00lkidd would like. 

"Well then, let's go" He smiles and the group returns to walking. 

About 10 more minutes of walking, silence filled mostly by C00lkidd and Shedletsky talking to eachother. 007n7 was about convinced Shedletsky could start conversation and get along with just about anyone. 

They finally reach the restaurant and put in their orders. They sit down at one of the tables and start waiting, Shedletsky speaking up to start conversation.

"I wonder how the other group is doing. They surely can't be faster then us, we're almost done and only half the day has passed!" 

"It's not a competition Shed. We hope they will be done today as well" Builderman says but can't help but smile at Shedletsky's antics. 

"Still. 007n7, what do you think? Do you think Noli will be quicker than you?" Shedletsky asks, Builderman resists the urge to facepalm.

"Ah, well, uh, I don't really know" 007n7 replies, a bit surprised to suddenly have been put at the spot like that. "Noli is, well.. a pretty strange person. I wouldn't be surprised either way"

Shedletsky sighs. "Guess we'll just have to wait and see" He says dramatically. Builderman looks like he's just about done with him. Luckily, their food arrived before Builderman had the chance to hit him.

They stopped talking in favor for eating for a while before small chatter started to grow amongst the group. Once they were done eating they quickly headed outside to continue. The moment they went outside and stopped 007n7 could suddenly feel a presence behind him.

"So the next city should be-" 

"Hello." 007n7 jumped. Builderman quickly got interrupted by Noli appearing out of nowhere, right behind 007n7.

"Oh my- Where the hell did you come from!?" 007n7 exclaims in surprise. The rest of the group looked equally shocked at his sudden appearence.

"Aren't you supposed to be with Dusekkar and Taph?" Shedletsky asked.

"I do not mean to frighten you" Noli said, noticing everyones surprised appearence. "Taph, Dusekkar and myself finnished earlier. I followed them back to HQ to ensure they'd arrive home safetly, then I teleported here" Noli explains. 

"Wait you- you're already done? Damn it! I was so sure we'd be first.." Shedletsky sulks. Noli just laughs in response. 

"You've really gotta stop just appearing" 007n7 says.

"Noli!" C00lkidd exclaims and runs up to him.

"Hey Kiddo" Noli smiles and ruffles his hair.

"So you guys already finnished, huh?" Builderman questions.

"Yes. I found it more comfortable to return directly to you rather than waiting, once everyone was back safe."

"I guess that makes sense" Shedletsky responds.

"We just have to finnish up the last posters, then we can go home." 007n7 says. "Do you want to tag along?"

"That's why I'm here" Noli smiles. Since neither Builderman nor Shedletsky protests, they all continue on their way, this time with Noli as well.

They had soon finnished up putting out the last posters and had managed to catch the last train before it left. It soon stopped at Shedletsky and Builderman's stop near the Roblox HQ. The other three would follow to get to their car. Shedletsky speaks up just before the train stops.

"Thank you so much for your help today. Really, you've saved us an eternal hell of putting up posters all over Robloxia." He says gratefully.

"It's fine, really, we're glad to help" 007n7 responds. The sun had began to set once again, and the sky was turning dark.

"I'll take it you'll have no issues safetly returning home. Thank you for all your help today" Builderman adds. 007n7 smiles in return, unsure how to take the compliment.

"We'll get home fine, I doubt anything could happen. We didn't have anything to do today either way so we're glad to have been able to help out" 007n7 says as the train stops and the doors open. They all exit the train and walk to 007n7's car. Shedletsky and Builderman wave goodbye to them. They wave back.

"See ya around!" Shedletsky yells before they turn around and start walking back to the HQ. 007n7, Noli and C00lkidd get in the car and 007n7 starts driving. 

007n7 can't help but let out a sigh of relief now that it's just them again. It has been nice being with other people but it does get a bit overwhelming after a while.

"How was it with Dusekkar and Taph?" 007n7 asks Noli. He looks in the rear view mirror and can see how C00lkidd had fallen asleep again. He smiled softly at the sight.

"It was entertaining I suppose. They're two interesting people" Noli responds.

"And it was completly necessary to suddenly appear behind us?" 007n7 asks light-heartedly.

"I can promise I'm not spouting lies when I say it truly wasn't my intention to frighten you" He replies sincerely.

"Don't worry, I trust you" 007n7 snickers. "I promise" He adds on.

"I'm glad" Noli replies, genuine. 

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007n7 started unconsciously picking at his hands, a habit he’d picked up a while ago whenever he was stressed. What he didn’t have time to react for however, was Noli quickly grabbing his arms and stopping him from moving.

“Huh-“

“What are you doing? Why are you harming yourself?” Noli quickly asks, grip firm on Seven’s arms.

“I’m really not-“ Noli didn’t let him speak.

“Then what are you doing?” Noli asks. Seven takes a deep breath before he responds.

“It’s-“ He pauses. “Humans.. just do stuff like this sometimes when they’re stressed. It’s not meant to hurt oneself, just to easier calm down if that makes sense”

“So hurting yourself in stressful situations makes it better somehow ?” Noli asks, deadpan.

“I mean.. yeah I guess so”

“That doesn’t seem productive. Or logical. Your brain is supposed to work against letting you get harmed, why does yours encourage it?”

“Well, it’s like.. if you’re feeling very stressed, you can use physical pain to distract or balance out the mental pain to make it more manageable. Does that make sense?”  Seven tries to explain. Noli still looks at him skeptically.

“Kind of, I guess. But still, wouldn’t it be more productive to find other non-harmful means to calm down? I don’t see how harming yourself would be helpful.” Noli states. Seven sighs.

“It’s not that simple” He just says. He resists the urge to tell Noli to stop calling it that. Noli still doesn’t look convinced.

“Isn’t company supposed to help?  Just talk to me instead” Noli suggests simply.

“It won’t-“ He sighs. “Okay, I’ll try.” Seven finally says, having given up on explaining it. Noli has the feeling he isn’t completely genuine but lets it go either way, the last thing he wants is to argue with him.

“I have to make sure C00lkidd doesn’t get to bed too late, I’ll go tuck him in real quick” 007n7 says before leaving. Noli just stares as he walks away.

007n7 gently opens C00lkidd’s door.

“C00lkidd? It’s getting late, you have to go to bed…” He looks around the room, trying to see where his kid is.

“C00lkidd..?” To no avail, he isn’t anywhere to be spotted. He checks under the covers to see if he’s maybe just went to sleep early. Nobody there. He checks under the bed, behind the door, every single crevice of the room. Alas, his kid is nowhere to be found. In a last ditch effort he runs to check the bathroom, kitchen, quickly searching the whole house in an attempt to find him.

“What are you doing?” Noli asks, noticing him running around.

“C00lkidd isn’t in his room” 007n7 quickly states, stressed as he rushes to put on his shoes.

“Wait, Seven-“ Before Noli had the chance to say anything, 007n7 was already out the door.

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Guest 1337 was out on a late evening walk with his wife and daughter. Usually he’d encourage Charlie, his kid, to go to sleep at a reasonable time, but since it was the weekend he didn’t see the harm in some family bonding time. Plus, getting fresh air was good too. Although is was pouring outside, they all had rain clothes so it should be alright. Charlotte had always loved the rain either way.

Ever since the war had ended and he had been retired from the military he had been focused on caring for his family, and being with them to make up for the time he was gone.

Him and Daisy were happily listening to Charlie talk about school and what magical adventures she had been up to when he spotted something in the distance. What looked like a child, strangely red and seemingly lost. He stopped to examine the kid, trying to figure out what was going on. Daisy and Charlotte stopped as well after realizing he had stopped walking with them.

“Is something wrong dear?” Daisy asked, worried.

“Over there…” He points to the kids direction. “Is that.. a child?” Daisy and Charlie turn to look.

“That’s a kid alright.. he looks lost” Daisy says.

“I’m gonna go see if he’s okay” Guest 1337 says before approaching the child. The kid looks a bit scared as he’s getting approached. Guest gently kneels infront of him.

“Hey kid, are you lost?” He asks softly. The kid backs away slightly.

“My dad told me not to talk to strangers” He responds, voice shaking slightly.

“Hey it’s okay. Your dad taught you well, but we just want to help you.” He gestures Daisy and Charlotte to come over. “Do you know his number so we can call him?”

The kid shakes his head.

“Did you walk over here? If so you shouldn’t be too far..” Daisy guesses.

“You’ll get sick if you stay out here in the rain” Guest says and takes off his raincoat and puts it on his kid with minimal resistance. He couldn’t tell if he was shaking because he was scared or because of the cold.

“What do we do?” Daisy asks. “We can’t exactly bring him with us against his will. But he will get sick if he stays out here. Do we call the police?”

Guest shakes his head. “The police got enough cases as it is and I don’t trust they’ll prioritize returning him to his family quick enough. If we take him home I can try calling around to see if anybody knows anything. If nothing, we’ll contact the police tomorrow.”

The kid just stood there, witnessing the adults talk. While they were talking, a girl around his age approached him.

“Why are you in the rain without rain clothes?” She innocently asks.

“I saw a squirl and ran after it. I didn’t have time to” The kid responded, feeling easier to talk to another kid.

“My dad says it’s always important to dress appropriately for the weather. You should come with us so you won’t be cold”

“But my dad always tells me to not trust strangers”

“But my parents are kind. They want to help” She looks at him confused and innocent. “If you stay outside in the rain you will get sick”

“…” The kid looks like he’s thinking really hard before he speaks up. “But what if dad is looking for me and can’t find me if I come with you..?”

“My parents wants to find your parents. It’ll be quicker if you come with us and let them help” She responds simply.

“…” He looks like he’s thinking again for a moment before he finally responds. “..okay, I’ll come with you”

Guest 1337 looked over at the living room. Charlotte and the child they had found were both sitting on his couch, watching cartoons and drinking some hot chocolate. Daisy had quickly settled them to try and calm everything down as much as possible while he had started calling around and seeing if anybody knew who’s kid this could be. After a couple of calls he finally decided to call Elliot, his good friend and the employee at the pizzeria they frequented at the weekends. He probably knew half of their city at this point so he decided it was worth to give it a shot. It rang twice before he picked up.

“Guest? Hello? It’s late, did something happen?” He heard Elliot ask from the other line.

“Yeah so this is gonna sound pretty strange, but on our walk today we found a lost child. I’ve been calling around and wondered if you knew who his parents were”

“Wait wait wait, you just found a random kid on the street and decided to pick him up?” Elliot asks skeptically.

“No! It’s not like that, we asked him and he said he was lost and didn’t know where he was or where his parents were. We took him back here meanwhile since it was raining, he’d get sick otherwise” Guest quickly explains.

“Oh my god…” Guest can hear Elliot sigh. “What’s he doing right now?”

“Daisy made him and Charlie some hot chocolate, they’re watching cartoons”

“That’s good at least.. What does he look like? What’s his name?”

“He looks, uhh.. red..? Like completely red. About 10 maybe? I never got his name though, he was pretty cautious. Said his dad had told him not to talk to strangers. Charlie had to convince him to come with us, but I guess that’s a good thing” Guest explains.

“Wait, red? Like completely?” Elliot asks.

“Yeah, pretty strange, even with everything we see here” Guest responds.

“Oh my god…” Elliot sighs from the other line.

“What?” Guest asks.

“His name doesn’t happen to be ‘C00lkidd’, does it?”

“Wait, do you know him?” Guest perks up.

“I just might. Unless there’s suddenly more than one red kid in this town” Guest can practically see Elliot’s expression through his tone.

“Do you know how I can contact his parents and get him home then?” Guest quickly asks.

“Dude. That’s 007n7’s son.” Elliot says. Guest stops.

“Wait, the guy who used to cause chaos at the pizzeria?”

“Yes! I swear there’s ALWAYS something up with that guy. First the random deity that’s started following him around now this. Can’t he just be normal for two seconds?” Elliot sighs. “I’ll call him and tell him you found his kid”

“Thank you. I’m just glad he wasn’t hurt. I’ll tell him his dad will pick him up soon then. Goodbye Elliot!”

“Bye Guest” Elliot hangs up. Guest takes a breath of relief before turning to Daisy who’s sitting at the kitchen table.

“We figured out who his dad is, Elliot knew him. He’ll call him and he’ll be here to pick him up soon” He says, smiling.

“Oh that’s a relief!” Daisy smiles. “How did you find him?”

“Elliot knew the guy” Guest responded. “I’ll tell him his dad will be here soon.” He says and Daisy nods.

007n7 was frantically running through the city, shouting C00lkidd’s name. It was as if he had forgotten how to think rationally, the only thing in his mind was finding his kid. To his despair, not a single soul seemed to be near. It wasn’t too strange considering the night approaching and the rain pouring down like there was no tomorrow. Rushing through the street he didn’t even notice the being desperately trying to follow and keep track of him.

He couldn’t keep his thoughts from racing as he ran. Where could he have gone? How long ago was it since he left? What if he got lost? What if someone took him? His mind raced with all the bad things that could possibly have happened as if it was an Olympic sport and he was going for first place.

In his panic, it took him a few moments to process that his phone was ringing. He quickly pulled it out of his pocket, almost dropping it, before checking who it was. It was Elliot. He barely had the time to wonder why he would call him at this hour before his hands moved and quickly tried to accept the call through the raindrops landing on his screen.

“Hello- Elliot?” 007n7 quickly asked, out of breath. He can practically feel Elliot sigh on the other line.

“Hello 007. Did you lose your kid by any chance?” Elliot asks from the other line.

“Do you know where he is!?” 007n7 hastily asks.

“Unless there’s another red 10 year old missing, then yes. He’s at Guest’s house. He was out walking with his family and found him. I don’t even know how he made it there, it’s like on the other side of the city. I’ll give you the address” Elliot says.

007n7 guesses that Guest is one of his friends. He’s thankful somebody found him, if they were a friend of Elliot they should be trustworthy at least. He suddenly feels like crying from relief, but instead he just quickly opens the address and starts running.

“Thank you Elliot, Really!” 007n7 says. Elliot sighs.

“Just go get him. Be safe, bye” He ends call.

He is probably running on pure adrenaline by now. Before he knows it he was at the street the address said, completely soaked. He was probably shivering but paid no mind to it. He quickly rushed past the houses, internally counting their numbers.

‘One, two, three.. four!’ He quickly double-checked the address before practically running up, knocking on the door. He probably looked horrible but he didn’t care, all he wanted was to make sure his kid was safe. The door opened pretty quickly, standing there was a tall man with blue hair. He quickly ushered him inside before speaking up.

“You must be his father, right? He’s right-“ Before Guest could finnish speaking the kid quickly ran past him.

“Dad!” He shouted and practically leaped into his father’s arms. 007n7 quickly wrapped his arms around C00lkidd. Holding him close, as if to confirm he was real. It felt like an eternity before he spoke up, finally pulling away to stand up. He internally thanked whichever higher power there was that C00lkidd was safe. He took a deep breath before turning to the other adults and speaking up.

“Thank you for finding him and keeping him safe, I don’t know what I would’ve done if something happened…” 007n7 decided not to think about it. At least not now.

“Of course, we’re just glad you’re both okay. Uh, do you want like a towel or blanket or something? You’re kinda…” Guest responds. 007n7 realizes he’s basically soaking from the rain.

“Ah, sorry, I ran over here. I’m fine, you’ve done more than enough to help” He smiles.

“You ran- without a jacket or anything!?” Daisy asks shocked.

“Ah, I guess I forgot… I was in such a rush to just get out” 007n7 responded.

“Dad tells me you should always dress appropriately for the weather!” Charlie helpfully chimes in.

“It’s okay dad, I forgot too” C00lkidd smiles at him. 007n7 now realized C00lkidd was wearing different clothes, dry ones. He can assume that either of the other adults let him borrow clothes. He’d really have to thank them later.

“Why did you run away so late kid?” Seven asks C00lkidd, frowning.

“I saw a squirl and I ran outside to follow it. Then I couldn’t find my way back, I’m sorry papa. I know I’m not supposed to run outside without telling you” C00lkidd apologizes.

“It’s okay kid, I’m just glad you’re okay.. just please don’t do it again…” 007n7 sighs, relieved.

“I won’t papa, I promise” C00lkidd responds.

Suddenly, Noli appeares out of nowhere next to them. Somehow 007n7 feels like he’s getting a little more used to Noli just appearing for every time it happens. Sadly, it seems nobody else was. Clearly taken aback, Guest quickly moves to cover Daisy and Charlie.

“Finally! That took you long enough” Noli says, seemingly irritated but Seven can sense the slight relief in his voice. He quickly speaks up noticing the other families expressions.

“This is Noli, he’s also with us” He quickly explains, and that seemed to have calmed them down a bit.

“You’ve been running the entire evening, I couldn’t keep track of you through the rain and fog” Noli states. Ah, so that was what was following him when he was frantically searching. He made a mental note to apologise to Noli later.

“Seems like your kid isn’t the only one with the habit of running away without proper outside wear” Guest jokes, smiling. 007n7 doesn’t know whether to laugh with him or sink into the ground out of embarrassment.

“Haha, I guess so..” He responds.

“It’s getting quite late.. Do you want to stay over? We have a spare room” Daisy offers.

“Oh, no we couldn’t possibly.. You’ve been more than helpful but we have to get home, it’s okay” 007n7 responds.

“Then let me at least drive you to make sure you all get home safely” Guest says.

20 minutes later after some convincing from Guest’s side and 007n7 finally agreeing (mostly because he didn’t want to risk C00lkidd getting sick from being in the rain) they had finally arrived at their house. Noli walked inside together with C00lkidd while Seven stayed to talk with Guest.

“Thank you so much for everything today, really. I don’t know what I would’ve done if something happened to him” 007n7 said.

“Of course, I know how worried sick I’d be if something happened to my little girl, I’m glad we could help” He smiled.

“Also I’ll return the clothes as soon as I can” 007n7 said, talking about the dry clothes they had given to C00lkidd.

“It’s no worries, really. Charlotte hates those clothes, I really don’t know why but I’m pretty sure she’ll be glad to have them gone. If the guy likes them, it’s his to keep” Guest reassures.

“You’re too kind, I really don’t know how I can repay you for all your help. If you ever need help with anything, I’ll be happy to” 007n7 says.

“I’m just glad to make the world a better place, even just a little bit. It’s no worries, I’m sure we’ll meet again at some point, we seem to have pretty similar social circles actually.” Guest chuckled. He’d realized that when Elliot pointed it out at one point, surprised he hadn’t meet 007n7 sooner considering they apparently shared about half of their acquaintances.

“Maybe we will then. Still, thank you for everything today. I have to go and make sure C00lkidd gets some rest though, and make sure he’s okay. A lot has happened today”

“Of course. I’ll see you around then, goodbye!” Guest smiles before getting in his car and driving off. 007n7 waved before going back inside his house.

“Are you mad at me?” C00lkidd asks as 007n7 gently tucks him in, pulling the covers over him. He pauses for a moment.

“No, I could never be mad at you” He replies softly. “I’m just glad you’re okay. But please, don’t run off without saying anything”

C00lkidd looks at him before smiling. “I won’t, I promise”

007n7 gently kisses his forehead. “Good, now get some rest. Today’s been a long day”

C00lkidd just laughs. “I will. Goodnight papa!”

007n7 turns off the lights and smiles “Goodnight son”

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007n7 woke up feeling bad. Worse than bad. Straight up horrible would be a better word to describe it. The first thing he noticed was the piercing headache shooting through his mind. The second was the sudden overwhelming urge to throw up. He sat up, which proved to be a mistake as the world started spinning and his neausiaua increased what felt like tenfold. He quickly covered his mouth to try and prevent himself from throwing up as he felt someone appear beside him.

"Are you okay?" He can hear him ask. He quickly shakes his head.

"Bin" He manages to speak.

Noli quickly hands him a nearby trash can. He doesn't last another minute as he instantly throws up. Noli awkwardly pats his back as he pukes. He puts the back of his hand on Seven's forehead.

"38.5 degrees.. That's not good." He states. 007n7 continues to puke.

"I feel horrible..." 007n7 says, voice hoarse.

"Yeah that figures. I'll get you some medicine" Noli sighs.

"Wait-" 007n7 quickly turns to grab onto Noli's arm, feeling the world spin again. The last thing he wanted was to be left alone when he felt like he just might die any minute.

"I can just teleport it here, don't worry. I won't leave you." Noli says. 007n7 feels stupid, of course he can.

Instead of saying anything else and risking embarrassing himself further, he just takes the medicine and decides to shut up. Noli wraps his arms around him, he can for some stupid reason always sense how Seven feels. It drives him insane sometimes.

"You'll get sick.." 007n7 protests weakly.

"I can't get sick" Noli responds simply.

007n7 just sighs. He was too tired to try and come up with something to say so instead he just leans in and rests against Noli. He barely even notices it when the world fades to black.

Noli cards his hand through 007n7's messy hair, gently holding him. He knew he was sick and he should be feeling bad for him, but he couldn't help but enjoy finally getting to be close to the other. He teleports the bin into the bathroom, worried that the smell would make Seven feel even worse. 

He knew he should probably try to do something to make 007n7 feel better but seeing the way he unconsciously held onto him as if to will him not to go, he couldn't bring himself to move. Instead, he just stayed there with him, gently combing through his hair until he finally woke up again. 

After what felt like just a minute to Noli but was more likely a few hours, 007n7 sleepily opened his eyes.

"Feeling better now, Seven?" Noli asks, smiling. 007n7 looks at him confused.

"Huh? What- oh. A bit, yeah" He says, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "I feel really hot though"

"Unlike usual?" Noli questions,

"Huh?"

"I'll go get you a wet towel. Just rest here" Noli gently lays him down before dissapearing into thin air. He reappears no more than a moment later, laying a cold wet towel down on his forehead.

"Feeling better?" He asks.

"Mm, a bit.." Seven sleepily responds.

"Still tired? You just woke up." 

"Mhm... Maybe I'm drying..." He ponders, lighthearted. 

"You're being overdramatic" Noli responds.

"Tell C00lkidd I love him..."

"You have a fever, you aren't dying" Noli looks at him deadpan. 007n7 chuckles.

"You never know"

"Don't say that." 

"..." It goes quiet.

"...I'm sorry about yesterday. I shouldn't just have ran, I should've waited for you and stuck together, I... I was just so worried about C00lkidd, I couldn't think rationally.." 007n7 apologises. "It wasn't fair of me to just leave you" 

"..." Now it was Noli's turn to be silent. Of course, he knew this would come up at some point but he hadn't expected it so early. He sighs.

"I understand, for once. I know humans rarely think rationally under extreme stress. Just don't run from me next time"

007n7 smiles. "I promise" He pauses. "I have to check up on C00lkidd. I doubt he will get up by himself, and he has school tomorrow" 

"You need to rest. I'll go make sure he gets ready for the day." He continues before 007n7 can protest. "Plus you might get him sick if you interract" 

007n7 just sighs. He doesn't have the energy to fight back. "Fine, just make sure he's okay" 

"Will do Sev" He says before quickly dissapearing. 007n7 doesn't have the right mind to comprehend what is going on so he just shuts his eyes again and hopes that the next time he opens them, things will feel a bit easier.

"Wakey wakey, time to get up" Noli smiles. C00lkidd just rolls over and pulls the blanket over himself.

"I don't wanna.. where's dad?" He asks, protesting.

"Your dad's not feeling the best right now, he's resting" Noli answers honestly. That got C00lkidd to sit up and look at him worryingly. 

"Papa's sick?" He asks.

"He'll feel better in no time, don't you worry" Noli ruffles his hair. "But he wanted you to get up and start the day"

C00lkidd frowns. "Are you sure?" 

"I'm sure. Now get up little guy, breakfast's on the table" Noli says before leaving the room. He can tell that C00lkidd's just sitting on his bed, not moving. He decides not to question but rather just leave the room.

The kitchen table was completly silent. C00lkidd occasionally moving around his cereal with his spoon but not eating it, and Noli just watching him.

"Aren't you gonna eat?" Noli asks.

"Not hungry.." C00lkidd shrugs. Noli looks at him.

"007n7 wants you to eat." Noli responds simply. C00lkidd stands up and puts his bowl of soggy uneaten cereal in the sink before walking back into his room. Noli sits at the table, debating for a moment wether he should follow him or just go back to 007n7. Pondering it for just one more moment he quickly makes up his mind on what to do.

Opening the door, he finds C00lkidd on his bed, knees hugged to his chest. C00lkidd looks up at him for a moment but doesn't comment. Noli walks over and sits down on the bed next to him. They sit in silence, neither making an effort to talk.

After what felt like an eternity, Noli gently puts a hand on his shoulder.

"He's gonna be okay. I promise"

C00lkidd immediately turns to hug Noli, wrapping his arms around him. Noli hugs him in return, gently running his hand through his hair as he knows 007n7 often does. It took a while but eventually C00lkidd had fell asleep yet again. Noli hopes 007n7 won't mind, he's sure he won't.

Noli stays with him for just a moment longer before he lays him down and walks out his room, leaving him to sleep. 

Noli sits down on 007n7's bed, watching him sleep. He doesn't notice how much time has passed before 007n7 opens his eyes again, looking up at the deity observing him.

"Noli..?" 

"Goodmorning sleepyhead" He smiles. "Feeling better?"

"Mm, a bit.." He yawns. "Is C00lkidd okay?"

"Sleeping." Noli replied simply. 007n7 sighs.

"I'll go check up on him"  Seven says, sitting up, doing his best to ignore the sharp pain shooting through his head.

Ignoring Noli's protests he quickly makes his way out of his room.

"Papa..?" C00lkidd wakes up to find 007n7 sitting on his bed next to him.

"Goodmorning kid" He smiles. The moment C00lkidd's brain registers that he's there he jumps into his arms for a hug. 007n7 hugs him back instantly.

"It's okay now, I'm here" He says comfortingly. "It'll be okay"

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Elliot opened the shop like any other day. Since it usually took about half an hour for any customers (except Chance at times) to come in since it was still fairly early, he was about to go to the back to double check some stuff. 

But he barely even made it past the register before he heard the door open. He quickly turned around, ready to greet the customer.

"Goodmorning! What may I get for-" He stops when he sees who it is. He quickly does a double take when he recognizes the 'man' as 007n7's new companion. He finds himself looking around as if to see if he can spot 007n7, but not finding him anywhere. He guesses Noli is strangely alone today, for whatever reason.

"Good day Elliot. I am here to ask for a service." Noli smiles.

"Uhm, okay. What would you like?" Elliot tries to keep his professionalism.

"You make your coffee at place, yes?"

"We... do make our coffee in the back, yeah. That way it's completly fresh at service!" Elliot puts on his standard customer smile.

"Listen to me. I need you to mix in as much coffee grounds as you can while it still remaining a classified liquid." Noli states seriously. Elliot looks at him taken aback.

"Uhh, I'm nobody to refuse you service but I wouldn't advice that. It would taste badly and due to the amount of coffee beans used it would cost-"

"Price nor taste does not matter to me." Noli replies simply. Elliot stands face to face with what he deduces must be some sort of inhuman eldritch being.

"I-" He pauses. "Right, just a moment sir" He turns around and quickly walks to the back. 

He starts grounding the coffee beans, questioning what his life has become. Starting off with a regular coffee, he adds more and more ground beans until the consistensy is what he could only describe as a mix between slush and half-dried cement. The smell horrid, he had to stop before making himself feel nauseous. He cringes and puts the substance in a cup before returning to the front.

"Here you go, your... 'coffee', sir." He hands the cup to Noli, trying (and failing) to keep his professional front up.

"You have my blessings. Enjoy your day" Noli lays down what looks like a handful of golden coins before dissapearing into thin air. Elliot just stares at where his presence just was and can't help but think to himself that he needs a break before his work has barely started.

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007n7 was peacefully washing the dishes, Noli just sitting behind him observing him as usual, when C00lkidd ran up to him. He turned off the water to direct his full attention to his kid.

"Papa! Can I hang out with Bluudud today at the park? Pleaaaseeee!" C00lkidd practically jumps up and down. 

"Oh, today? Sure, as long as it's alright with his mom too. What time?" Seven smiles.

"Yay! Thank you dad!" C00lkidd exclaims in joy. "At five pm!" 

"Ah, that's a bit late. But I'm sure it'll be fine if we're there with you. Just let me finnish washing the dishes first, alright kid?" 

"Okay dad! I will tell Bluudud!" C00lkidd says and runs off. Noli gets up and walks over to him.

"The park, huh?" 

"You're not comming along." 007n7 says straight to him. 

"Wh- why not?" Noli actually looks a bit surprised for once. 

"I'm not risking scaring away C00lkidd's friend. No offense but I doubt 118o8 and Bluudud would share the same mindset about you as C00lkidd does. I'll introduce you to 118o8 at some other time if you want" 

Noli pauses. "I am offended but share an understanding. Guess I will have to find something else to do with my precious time" He feigns offence. 007n7 rolls his eyes and smiles.

"Yeah, yeah, you'll survive a couple hours alone" 007n7 says and goes back to washing the dishes.

"Surely." Noli laughs.

Right on time when he finnishes putting everything away, C00lkidd runs up to him.

"I'm all done dad! Can we leave now?" He asks eagerly.

"Is Bluudud and 118o8 already there?" 007n7 asks.

"Yeah they left a while ago" C00lkidd responds.

"Well, we don't want to keep them waiting! Go to the car and I'll be there soon" C00lkidd nods before running off to put his shoes on and go outside. 007n7 looks at Noli and continues.

"We will be back tonight, I'll make sure he won't stay out too late. Don't do anything dumb" 

"I would never" Noli says. 007n7 has a feeling they'd disagree on that but decides not to comment. 

"Okay, okay. See you later, bye Noli!" He says, putting on his shoes and leaving the house.

"Goodbye Seven."

Arriving at the park, C00lkidd practically jumps out the car. Bluudud and 118o8 was sitting on one of the benches, talking. The moment Bluudud spots him he gets up and runs over to him and they immediately run away before 007n7 has the chance to interrupt. He instead walks over to 118o8 who was still sitting on the bench and sits down next to her, joining her.

"Oh, hello Seven! It's a nice day, isn't it?" She smiles, greeting him.

"Yeah, it is. It's always nice to see them out and about" Seven responds.

"Mhm" 118o8 hums as they turn to watch their kids. "I hope they won't run too far"

"I told C00lkidd to not stray too far, let's hope he listens" 007n7 chuckles. "It should be fine as long as we can keep track of them" 

They sit in silence, watching their children play (or whatever they're doing) for a while before 118o8 breaks the silence.

"What... are they doing..?" 118o8 looks at them, puzzled.

"Playing tag I think- Bluudud's on the floor" 007n7 responds, interrupting himself, equally confused.

"They're having fun atleast, I think" They look at the scene meters away from them, Bluudud now laying on the floor on his back, seemingly accepting his fate. C00lkidd running in circles around him. Before 007n7 has the chance to question what's going on, 118o8 speaks up.

"You know, I did bring some old bread since Bluudud wanted to feed the ducks and geese here. Do you think C00lkidd would be interested too?" 118o8 turns to ask 007n7. He smiles.

"I'm sure he would." He turns to C00lkidd and Bluudud, shouting out to them. "Hey kids! Do you want to feed the geese and ducks with us?"

C00lkidd's eyes light up and Bluudud stands up. They both run over to them and 118o8 gives them both pieces of bread. 

"Now remember, give them small pieces so they can eat properly and won't choke, okay?" 118o8 gently instructs while the group walks over to the pond. They both nod.

"Yes mom, we know" Bluudud says. 118o8 laughs.

"Just reminding you" She smiles.

They reach the pond and starts feeding the ducks. Well, mostly C00lkidd and Bluudud throwing them pieces of bread while their parents watch but 118o8 and Seven joins in occasionally. 

One particular hungry goose seems to not be satisfied with the small pieces and tries grabbing the bread from Bluudud's hand.

"No! Wait for your turn" He tries to tell the goose off. In turn, the goose jumps and tries to bite his hand. Bluudud starts running.

"No stupid goose! Stop! Moooooommmm!" He cries out and hides behind 118o8 for help. 118o8 waves with her hands while laughing, scaring the goose off.

"There you go, you're safe now" She pats Bluudud's head.

"Haha, Bluudud got attacked by a goose" C00lkidd taunts.

"C00lkidd." 007n7 warns.

"Uh, sorry Bluudud. That goose was stupid" C00lkidd quickly backtracks. 007n7 sighs, good enough.

"I'm gonna chase you with a goose!" Bluudud threatens, still behind 118o8.

"That doesn't even make sense!"

"Oh you'll see!" Bluudud says before taking off running.

"Wait- Bluudud!" 118o8 doesn't have time to object before Bluudud somehow picks up a duck and starts chasing C00lkidd. 007n7 just looks at them in disbelief.

"That isn't even a goose?" 007n7 questions.

"No- Bluudud stop! Put that duck down!" 118o8 starts chasing the duo.

"Papa help meee! He has a goose!" C00lkidd cries and tries hiding behind 007n7. Bluudud just keeps chasing him. They start running around 007n7.

"No- Bluudud put that duck down or you're grounded!" 118o8 desperately tries to handle the situation. Bluudud stops at that and quickly drops the duck.

"Sorry mama! But he started it!" He says, pointing accusingly at C00lkidd.

"Did not!" C00lkidd retaliates behind 007n7.

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!" 

118o8 sighs. "What am I gonna do with you..." 

"Calm down everybody..." 007n7 chuckles. "Do you want ice cream? I saw an ice cream truck drive by" C00lkidd and Bluudud seems to have immediately forgotten their duel to instead focus on the new promise of ice cream.

"Race you there!" C00lkidd yells out and starts running.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Bluudud runs after.

"Wait, kids!" 007n7 sighs and runs after them too. 118o8 just watches them until deciding she should probably follow along, and starts walking after them.

After 007n7 finally managed to chase them down, they had located the ice cream truck and Seven had brought them all ice cream (he insisted although 118o8 also offered to pay). After a lengthy discussion between C00lkidd and Bluudud on which ice cream flavor was the best (chocolate or vanilla), and 118o8 saying strawberry simply to remain neutral, they had found a nearby bench and sat down. 

They sat in comfortable silence, everyone eating peacefully eating their ice cream, as the sun began to set. 

"It's getting late Kidd, it's time to go back" 007n7 softly said to C00lkidd once they had all finnished eating.

"Noooo, but I wanna continue playing" He frowns.

"You can continue playing another day, I promise. But if you don't rest you won't have enough energy to face tomorrow" 

"That goes for you too Bluu, we also have to get home" 118o8 joins in.

"Aww, but I'm not even tired!" Bluudud protests. 118o8 sighs.

"As Seven said, if you don't sleep you won't have any energy for tomorrow" She insists.

"Fine, I guess so.." Bluudud gives in.

"Well then we should get going. Thank you for today" 118o8 smiles at 007n7.

"Thank you too, I'm sure we will see eachother again soon" He smiles. 

"Bye Bluudud! See you tomorrow!" C00lkidd waves.

"Byeeeeeee" Bluudud says. 118o8 waves as they walk away together, hand in hand. C00lkidd yawns.

"Sleepy?" 007n7 asks.

"Just a little..." C00lkidd responds. 

"Come on" 007n7 crouches down infront of him and C00lkidd gets on his back, loosely wrapping his arms around his neck. He carries him piggyback style back to the car. He's almost certain C00lkidd is asleep by the time they get there.

He gently puts C00lkidd down into the passenger seat and puts on his seatbelt before getting into the drivers seat. 

The drive back home was silent and by the time they arrived, C00lkidd was still sleeping. 007n7 decided to just carry him inside instead of waking him up. With slight struggle opening the door he manages to get in and starts walking into his room. He puts him down on his bed and gently tucks him in before giving him a kiss on the forehead. He knows he should probably get him to change into his pyjamas and brush his teeth, but he decides to just let him rest. He turns on his nightlight before turning off the light and softly closing the door behind him. He smiles softly. "Goodnight, kid" 

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Noli felt the breeze of the wind in his hair, yet he felt completly warm. The sky, looking like a oil painting, was beautiful. But he was sure Seven was even more.

"Let's go to the field, just the two of us"  He recalled bringing Seven with him, leading him hand in hand to the open field under the ski. They sat upon the soft grass.

Everything felt perfect. If they could just stay like this forever...

The clouds looked surreal, like cotton candy. He had never wanted to be next to somebody more than he did in that very moment.

"Don't you think so too Seven? Just us, if we stay like this..." 

He could feel Seven's breathing. The tree above them shielding them from the sun that was setting, but his companion next to him felt a hundred times brighter.

"Isn't it perfect, Sev?" 

He was so close. He had never felt like this for a mortal before. For anyone, before. He didn't understand it. But when Seven leaned in, it felt right. Like it was supposed to happen. 

He barely felt Seven's lips ghost over his before the world turned around him.

He was alone. He could sense that nobody else was here. Starting to recognize the familiar living room that he had found to call home, he didn't even need to look around to know where he was. 

He hadn't teleported. It wasn't real. A dream? He hadn't had one of those in a while. It finally sets in what it was about. That was strange. 

He remembers. Seven was at the park, not the field. He thinks over his dream one more time.

His fingers ghosts over his lips before he decides to forget what just happened.

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"You know halloween, Noli?" 007n7 asks Noli. Halloween was approaching and it was well time to start fixing costumes to wear. He somehow kept forgetting and had to rush it every year. But not this time, he had decided! Now he was well in time and had made sure that there would be no last minute stressing. He thought back to one year where he had to ruin a blanket to make a ghost costume the night before because he had forgotten about Halloween. Atleast C00lkidd played into it and had fun. He was happy as long as his kid was.

"The dress up season? Yes I am familiar" Noli responded, not really keeping eye contact with him. It felt like something had shifted ever since he left Noli to go to the park with C00lkidd yesterday, like Noli wasn't fully facing him for whatever reason. Either way he had other stuff to deal with firstly and decided to just ignore it for now.

"Yeah, C00lkidd likes dressing up and wants us to join in for trick or treating, so we have to come up with a costume. C00lkidd wants to be a drakobloxxer and wanted me to be a shark. Unsure why but I won't question it. Do you also want to be some sort of animal to match us?" He asks.

"I guess so" Noli doesn't say anything more.

"...okay. Uhh okay.. how about a bear or lion or something?"

"Bear sounds well." Noli responds. 

"Has something happened? You're acting off" 007n7 asks.

"Hmm, no I'm fine. Why do you ask?" Noli denies the claim. 

Seven sighs, deciding that it wasn't worth to argue. "Okay, I'll fix something then" 

"Are you upset?" Noli asks, tilting his head.

"Just tired. If you don't want to talk, I can't make you" He says. Noli frowns. This was certainly not what he wanted to achieve.

"I have to go. I will be back soon" Was all Noli said before dissapearing into thin air.

 Noli rapidly paced back and forth. He was in some sort of forest somewhere, he hadn’t really thought about where he wanted to end up, just somewhere far where nobody could bother him.

He hadn’t expected 007n7 to catch on this quickly.

He had to figure out what to do. And fast.

He didn’t want to compromise his and Seven’s relationship, no, things had to stay the same.

If Seven hadn’t been fully convinced earlier he definitely was now. He knew teleporting away pretty much sealed his fate but what else was he supposed to do? If Seven caught on that he liked him which he absolutely didn't it could ruin their relationship.

He needed to figure out what to do instead of just throwing himself back into the situation. He can’t get too close but he can’t suddenly switch up and get distant either. He sighs. He had to solve this, and fast.

007n7 was at  his limit the grocery store, Halloween decorations and costumes had just rolled in so he thought it was a good idea to check them out in good time before everything was sold out.

Unlike usual, he was completely alone this time. Noli had disappeared to god knows where, and C00lkidd was at school. More time to actually focus on what he was supposed to do without interruption, he supposes.

Well, that was until he heard a certain somebody call out his name.

“Ayy, Seven! That you?”

He turns around to see Chance standing a couple meters away.

“Ah, hello Chance! What a coincidence meeting you here” He smiles politely.

“No red child or purple boyfriend today?” He jokingly asks.

“Noli isn’t my-“ He stops. “C00lkidd is at school, I’m shopping for Halloween”

“Hey, Elliot is working and Itrapped was busy, I’m here alone too! We should do our shopping together” Chance suggests.

“I- Sure actually, why not” 007n7 agrees.

“Sweet! Okay come along here, I need to decide which pumpkin to get” Chance quickly grabs 007n7’s arm and drags him along.

“So what are you gonna be for Halloween?” Chance asks, walking along the store with Seven.

“A shark, C00lkidd wanted me to. He’s gonna be a Drakobloxxer, and Noli will be a bear I guess”

“Ooo animal theme, I like it! I’m going as Hans and Itrapped is going as Elsa!” Chance loudly proclaims.

“Do I even want to know how you convinced Itrapped into that?” 007n7 looks at him in slight disbelief.

“Hey, it was his idea! I was as surprised as you when he proposed it, but I’d be a fool to let the opportunity pass” Chance chuckles.

“Well, I sure hope you’ll have fun”

“Oh trust me I absolutely will. I hope to convince him to go with me to the- oh wait we weren’t supposed to- nevermind forget that, haha” Chance quickly tries to play it off.

“The, uh what?” 007n7 looks at him confused. Chance sighs and leans in closer.

“Okay listen, I can’t say too much because I’m not permitted to but let’s just say you can most likely expect a letter from Shedletsky very soon..” He whispers and smirks.

“Uhm, alright” 007n7 says, confused.

“You didn’t hear it from me though”

“Alright, whatever you say Chance” He says, deciding to ignore it for now.

“It was fun hanging out today” 007n7 smiles. They had finished shopping and he had found some onesies. They were close enough and in the right colours, he was sure he could sew the details on himself.

“Sure was! I’ll see you again soon, trust me” Chance winks. They had also done their fair share of Halloween shopping today.

“If you say so” 007n7 responds. “Get home safely, goodbye!”

“Bye Sev!” Chance waves back before leaving.

007n7 sighs, wondering what was about to come. He just hopes he’ll solve whatever’s going on with Noli before the next issue arrives. 

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007n7 laid the onsesies down infront of him. He had gathered all his sewing supplies and some extra fabric (mostly old, worn out unsellable clothes) and was gonna try to atleast make it clear which animal it was supposed to be. C00lkidd would be in school another 2 hours (mondays were his longerst days in school, he had made a point to complain about it when they first got the schedules the year) and Noli was still god knows where.

He wanted to say he wasn't worried at all about him, he really did, but after his partners sudden dissapearence after acting so strange.. it felt so off. He just hoped he'd return and tell him what's going on soon.

He started drawing out the designs for each onesie and once he was happy with them he started coloring and cutting out pieces. He put some music on in the backround since this would defently be a lengthy process, and prepared to dedicate another few hours of his life towards turning 10 dollar onesies into Halloween costumes. 

After what felt like an eternity of drawing and cutting and sewing he was finally done with the first costume (C00lkidd's Drakobloxxer). He held it up and looked at it, feeling proud with his work. He hoped C00lkidd would be happy with it. He knew he was no professional, but as long as C00lkidd was happy, he was happy. 

Right on time when he were about to start on the next one, he heard the door open. He didn't even have a moment to wonder who it was before he heard his kid shout through the house.

"Daaaad! I'm hoomeeee!!" He heard C00lkidd. He put the onesie down on the table and hurried out to the front door to greet his child.

"Welcome home kiddo! How was school today?" He asked. The moment C00lkidd spotted him he quickly took off his shoes and ran up to him. 007n7 crouched down in order to properly hug him.

"Dad!" He jumped into his arms. "It was fun! Math was boring though" 

007n7 chuckled. "Well I'm glad you had a good day" He pulls away and stands up. "Come here, I have something to show you"

C00lkidd's eyes light up with curiosity as he follows him into the living room. 007n7 holds up the onsie to show him and C00lkidd looks at it with excitement, practically jumping.

"Woah, it looks so cool dad!" He runs up to him and hugs him again. "You're the best dad ever!" 

007n7 smiles and hugs him back. "Anything for you kiddo. Are you hungry?"

"Ooo yes! Can I get dino nuggies?" He pulls back and looks up at him.

"Of course Kidd, I'll go get them ready for you" 

Sitting at the kitchen table, C00lkidd was eating his dinosaur nuggets while 007n7 was inspecting his c00lgui. They sat in comfortable silence until C00lkidd spoke up.

"Where's mister Noli?" He asked innocently. 007n7 freezes up for a moment.

"Oh he's just out doing some errands, he'll be back soon don't worry" He smiles and tries to seem convincing.

"Can we play cards again when he comes back?" 

"Of course we can" 007n7 agrees. He could only pray that he could live up to that promise. "I have to go finnish working on the other costumes, put your dishes in the sink once you're done" He says gently as he gets up.

"Okay papa!"

He leaves and goes back into the living room.

He can't help but let his thoughts drift while continuing working on the fabric. He knew Noli could take care of himself, of course he could. He doubted anything could come close to harming him. But he was still worried for why he would leave so suddenly, if something had happened while he was gone that he didn't know of. He swore once he was back if he'd come back he would really tell him to stop dissapearing without a word about where or when he'd be back, but for now he just wishes he'd come back at all. 

He continues sewing in silence, deciding to focus on something else instead. He thinks about his encounter with Chance at the grocery store. They had said that he were supposed to expect a letter from Shedletsky, but he also couldn't say anything about it because he wasn't supposed to hear about it yet? He sighs. What was up with everyone acting so strange lately? Had he missed a memo or something? Maybe it was international 'act weird week' and he just hadn't heard about it. Either way he had decided to stop thinking about everything and hopefully just turn off his brain as he put some music on once again (mostly as a distraction from his thoughts). Hopefully Maybe tomorrow everything would go back to normal. Or his 'normal' atleast.

Chapter Text

"...no." 

Builderman looked at Shedletsky who was now giving him the puppy eyes. He knew this was a battle he was going to lose, but one he would try to fight none the less.

"But why!? The HQ is perfect! There's so much space, plus everyone is on break during Halloween so it's not like we'll disturb anyone anyways! What, do you not trust our friends?"

"Friends and our friends friends with your planning. Who knows who they'll bring in?" Builderman shoots back skeptically.

"Come on, I'm sure we'll know most already! Plus, do you not trust that the people our dearest familiars will bring in is trustworthy?" Shedletsky tries to convince Builderman. 

"Chance." Builderman responds deadpan.

"Chance does hang around some sketchy people"  Taph signs. Shedletsky sighs, he isn't exactly helping him convince Builderman.

"...aside from him. Most of the people they hang around aren't even their friends anyway, plus I'm sure he'll just bring his blonde friend. The one he's always around, other than us and Elliot." 

Shedletsky had been trying to convince the rest of the admin team to host a Halloween party for them and their friends in the HQ. It would be a fun little get together since they hadn't had the time to hang out with their friends much because of work. They would send everyone invites where it told them to dress up, bring something to eat and bring a +1. Then everyone would talk and mingle and have fun. But appearently Builderman was against fun and thought it'd be better if they would all suffer and die isolated in loneliness.

Builderman just looks at him for a while before he sighs and speaks up. "...fine. But you're responsible for anything and everything that will happen." 

"Really!?" Shedletsky's whole demeanor lights up. "Of course!! I will make sure nothing bad happens, you can trust me, Builder!" He smiles confidently.

"For the outcome hasn't been seen, this will surely get obscene" Dusekkar speaks up from the other side of the room, reading his book.

"At least try to believe in me for a moment! Don't be so sure this will go bad before it has even started!" Shedletsky shoots back.

"I'm starting to regret this already..."

"The party is ON" Shedletsky excitedly tells Chance through the phone.

"Sweet! You managed to convince him?" Chance asks back.

"Yessir! Now it's just to prepare the invitations and get the decorations up" 

"I can help, I'll go shop for some Halloween decorations and then we can meet up next week and fix the invites together"  Chance suggests.

"Sounds like a plan!"

"Can I tell Elliot about this? I talked a bit about it with him earlier"

"Sure! Try to keep it under wraps with the rest of everyone though. We wouldn't wanna spoil the surprise"

"Of course. My lips are sealed! I'll call you up later so we can plan more, alright?" 

"That works! I'll start planning meanwhile. Bye!"

"Byeee"

Chance quickly pulled up Elliot's contact info as soon as he ended call with Shedletsky.

"Hello, Chance?"

"Elliot! The party is on, Shed convinced Builderman!" 

"He actually did it?" Elliot snorts. "Guess I should've had more faith in him. What's the plan?" 

"Everyone is supposed to dress up, bring something to eat and a +1. I'm gonna help buy decorations later this week, wanna come along?"

"Sorry, I have work all week, but I can help you and Shed during the weekend! 

"Then you can help with the food!" Chance responds.

"Okay, I can do that. Also, who are you gonna bring as plus one?"  Elliot asks curiously.

"I'm gonna try to convince Itrapped to tag along. How about you?" 

"Oh I have a friend that loves partys. I'm sure they'd love to come. Just want to make sure they won't be the only person who won't know everyone there" Elliot responds.

"Ooo do I know them?"

"Not what I know of, they live a town over. You'll love them though" Elliot chuckles. 

"I'll take your word for it then Ellie!"

"Yeah, yeah. My break is over now so I have to get back to work. Bye Chance"  Elliot says before hanging up.

"Bye Elliot! Message ya later"

Later in the evening, Chance was at his Casino. He stood in one of the corners, frequently checking his phone, waiting for when Itrapped would get there. He didn't have to wait long as he spotted his icy eyed friend walking into the casino. Itrapped smiled when he spotted him and Chance quickly grinned and waved him over.

"Not gonna gamble today?" Itrapped asked.

"Nah, I gotta tell ya about something"

"Go on."

"So you know Shedletsky, right? The admin. He and the other admins are gonna host a Halloween party at the HQ next week and everyone is supposed to have a plus one with them. I was wondering if you'd maybe be interested to come along?" Chance asks, looking at Itrapped expectantly.

"Do you want me to?"

"Yeah!"

"Sure then, I don't really have anything planned. What are the requirements?" Itrapped asked.

"Everyone is supposed to bring something to eat, have a costume and bring a +1. That's really all we have decided." Chance responds.

"Sound simple enough. How many people will be there?" 

"We don't really know since we haven't sent out the invitations yet, but it shouldn't be that many. I'll tell ya when we know" 

"Hmm" Itrapped hums. "Just forward the time and place then, and I'll be there."

"Awesome! Do you want to come shopping for Halloween decorations with me?"

"No." 

"Awh"

Noli laid down on the grass ground. He had been in the forest over night now and he was pretty sure about half the day had passed too. Maybe more. He had been zoned out just thinking, he lost track of time after about an hour. He usually had a good sense of time but lately it seemed like his whole brain had been upside down. All because of a specific someone.

Should he just tell him? That's what humans usually did. It was a high risk-high reward type of action. On the upside, if Seven feels the same he could be together with him! On the downside, worst case scenario Seven doesn't and doesn't want him to be around him anymore. It wasn't worth it. Risking losing Seven was not worth it. 

He had decided that acting like usual was probably the best way to go. Seven hadn't done anything to change their dynamic, he had. If he just went back to how he used to be, everything would be like it was again, right?

Plus it probably wasn't the best decision to teleport away and dissapear without a trace for over a day. He should probably apologise to Seven. 

He looks up at the sky one last time before closing his eyes and feeling his body dissapear. When he opens them again he's back in their kitchen. Hearing soft lofi music comming from the room over he doesn't have to guess where Seven is. He takes a step and silently prays this will go well.