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"Grandpa! Grandpa! Can we go out and play?" Sethos asked as he climb up Bamoun's chair, the who were in the library, Bamoun had just finished teaching Sethos about one of the God's history but it seems the boy was more interested in something else.
As he always do, He's already all over the chair, whining and begging to go outside the moment the old man finished his lecture.
Bamoun let out a sigh "we can take a stroll around the temple" he suggested, Sethos shake his head
"I don't want too! I want to go OUTSIDE! I'm bored in the temple all the time, Let's go have fun outside!" Sethos demanded.
"You're not ready yet, why don't you play with the kids in the temple" Those words made Sethos pouts
Yes he love playing with the kids in the temple, but whenever he does sometimes he felt like something was missing, like someone else is supposed to be there, by his side and play with him but he just can't remember clearly who.
And the nostalgic feeling made him lose more interest in even staying at the temple, he felt like something out there is calling for him.
"Remember Sethos, Don't leave the temple without any adults"
Bamoun had told him a few minutes ago, or was it hours? Sethos couldn't remember but it seems he had strayed T O O FAR!!!
In his defense he got distrated half way, what could a 12 year old do but to blame the environment that keep getting his ass distracted and lost track of time and the road, 'Grandpa must be looking for me by now' Sethos had thought to himself.
Besides the adults were slow, they couldn't keep up, do they even realize Sethos had left the temple long ago?
And yet as he kept walking and sometimes even staying to sit, none of the Temple of solence came to find him, Maybe he hadn't gone THAT long and so with that thought in mind the young future Heir start continuing his journey.
He stops when he find a strange opening in a cave, oh how interesting, some people in suit are guarding it... He wonders why, and so sethos approaches.
It wasn't hard to sneak passed them and see what's inside.
Dottore picked up a scalpel from the tray, he had ordered the fatui to look out the door so no one would disturb his experiment, the test subject is already unconscious on the table.
As he move toward the operation table he notice a strange figure darted by, Dottore just shook his head, perhaps it's just his mind playing tricks, the desert heat is always a pain to deal with... Even after 400 years he still hate it.
When dottore lowered the Scalpel and slowly push it to the subject's chest, slowly sliding it down to the subject's abdomen, he start making precise cut across the subject's chest and abdomen.
He move his free hand to dug into the cut and slowly and precisely he pull the skin-
"What are you doing?" A child's voice he DID NOT know suddenly asked.
The sudden question and the fact suddenly a fluff of Brunette hair perked up next to him, too close to his personal space made Dottore flinches and accidentally ripped the skin right off along with a few muscles and probably meat.
Blood spewed from the unconscious body, both He and the random kid that's somehow in his lab stare at the small blood fountain, Dottore's eyes darted down underneath his mask to look at the kid.
The kid look back up at him, he put a hand over his mouth "Oooooo you killed him" the kid accused.
Instead of screaming and crying this kid just point and accused himnof Murder (not the worst accusations but it's a fascinating respond a child give after seeing someone got their skin ripped off)
"How did you get in here brat?" Dottore growls in annoyance, the child blink and him and points at the open cave door.
Incompetent dumbass, can't even guard a door from a child! Dottore narrowed his eyes.
And so Dottore does the best thing he know how to do, hrow the kid into a Dog cage and go back with his day.
"Hey is this Kidnapping?" Sethos asked after just 5 minutes of him being in the cage, he was small enough that he can stick his legs out of the opening on the bars.
The strange man didn't answer his question, more focused on that body on the table. If there's another thing that ticks Sethos off is being ignored when he have nothing else to do! "Hey am I being kidnapped?" He asked again.
"No" the man finally responded "this seems like kidnapping!" Sethos shouted "incorrect, You're the one who stumble into my lab unannounced, Brat" the man corrected.
"Catchy, I have a name you know, Mr Mint" Sethos laughed "And so do I brat" the man responded before tossing something toward Sethos' cage, a silent 'shut the fuck up I'm working'.
Sethos didn't take the warning, If he always listen to warning he probably would be a very obedient grandson that his grandpa would already be proud of- but instead Sethos think a warning is a challenge!
And he will never back down from a challenge"so what are you doing?" Sethos asked, no answer it seems the man got fed up responding to him, he can handle that.
Dottore tuned off the rest of whatever the brat is saying, as he remove the heart of the test subject and replace it with a prototype he startwd to feel unease.
Why is the brat suddenly so silent? Dottore straightened up, when he heard small feet walking around.
There's no way the kid escaped right?! HOW?! When he turned around he was immediately hit by the cage, Dottore stumbled back, gripping onto the operation table as he let out a grunt.
Apparently the kid did NOT escaped but somehow lifted the cage, turn it horizontal and walk around why being stuck in it.
"Oopsie" the brat giggled as he look up at Dottore who was holding his head up, Dottore could already feel his blood boiling every moment this kid is in his proximity.
In the end Dottore told the Fatui to toss the kiss out somewhere... Anywhere far from there, and now sethos is out in the desert alone...
"Sethos!" Sethos turns around to see one of the Temple of silence running towards him, oh they finally look for him? How long has he been gone? "Hi hi!" Sethos wave happily.
On the way home he got scolded by them and Grandfather also scolded him for it, they end up in an argument..
"But I want to go outside! I want to explore!" Sethos shouted.
"Exploring is where you'll get kidnapped!" Barmoun shouts back at him, Grandfather never let him go outside, saying he's too young to experience such thing, talk about paranoid that he'll lose another Ba fragment.
Bamoun pointed at him "if you keep this recklessness you'll end up like your brother" he reminded, which only made Sethos pouts instead of making him behave
"Yea?! What if I want it to happen hm?! It seems like a fun life out there! Cyno probably ran off because you were being a big meanie too!" Sethos talked back.
He was in his teenager phase, Rebelling against his grandpa without considering his words, perhaps Grandfather felt hurt for what he says but right now Sethos just cared more about being able to explore outside the temple.
Sethos took a step back and start running, ignoring how his Grandfather demanded him to go back.
A part of him felt bad for raising his voice at his grandfather but his own emotions were a whirlwind, Sethos is mad and frustrated and so he runs out despite knowing that tonight there would be a heavy sandstorm from the look of it.
Sethos wasn't sure where he's running but he's just following the track he went earlier that morning.
"... WHY ARE YOU HERE????" Dottore asked confused when he saw the same kid, sitting on the table, sobbing.
And what's more surprisingly is, Dottore did not cause the kid to sob, he just somehow barge in again and start sobbing on the table that Dottore had just disinfectant.
How did the brat even get inside in the first place?! Especially with how raging the sandstorm is out there, Dottore is amazed the kid survive that and somehow find his way back to Dottore's lab... Just to start sobbing.
Dottore grab the Child by the collar, pick him up like a cat and drag him out to the entrance, when Dottore went closer to the opening he immediately got hit with a very horrible sandstorm.
Immediately he turn around and get back inside along with the child, he could just toss the kid out but something tells him the kid gonna get back in.
"Fine, You'll stay until the story is over" Dottore commanded
"Is this abduction?" Sethos asked
"... It's not abduction if the citimnis the one running into the cage himself" Dottore grumbled.
".... Is this adoption?" Sethos gasped, already stop his crying.
"N O, not in your life I would ever adopt you" Dottore bluntly declare (oh if only you'll know what the futuree hold for you Doctor, should've thrown the kid out to the sandstorm...)