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Few days after attack on his lab, Multi was bothered by completely different thing. He actually thought that his unnecessary and stupid clossenes with Aldo started getting out of hand.
The first time it happend was controled, Multi had an excuse for that to take place, he just wanted some distraction from fear and stress caused by upcoming attack. Unfortunely, he didn't have that privilege the second time, he didn't have any reason to initiate a kiss. It was almost like he would lose all his self control around Aldo, and it was freaking Multi out. Not having control was probably the biggest nightmare for him. All things he had done were in purpose to gain that control. So why he was letting some meaningless relationship ruin his hard work. It couldn't happen again.
Multi heard a quiet knock on his door to the office. Only then he noticed that he was sitting there thinking about it, not getting any job done, for the past thirty minutes. It only annoyed him more, he got up from his chair cursing quietly.
„Multi?” A joyfull, soft voice rang out behind door. Multi knew who that was before he even opened the door and he saw smiling Quackity's face. „Are you busy? I was calling for you for like five minutes. Woah- Are you okay, man?” Quackity immediately asked when he noticed Multi's grimace.
„Sure.” Multi responded dryly moving to the side and letting Quackity enter his office. Clueless man just casually ran towards Multi's chair and spinned on it a few times. Past memories of what happened on that chair few days back made Multi pinch his eyebrows and ask impatiently. „What are you doing here, Quackity?”
Quackity gave him a weird look, slightly confused and worried one, then stayed quiet for a moment sitting straight, not moving anymore. „I just wanted to visit you, I can always leave if I'm not welcome here anymore. You can invite your new friend instead – Aldo.” He said putting on offended look and crossed arms on his chest.
„What even is your problem right now?” Multi asked annoyed. He started feel bad for being mean to Quackity, so he took a few breaths to calm himself down. That guy did nothing wrong, he just came in probably the worst time and started talking about the only thing that irritaited Multi the most for the past days. „Sorry, you just seem bothered by Aldo?” Multi asked again trying to sound softer that time, it seemed to work, Quackity straighted his arms and looked at Multi.
„Do you blame me for it? I learnt about you working with Aldo from him! Why didn't you tell me about this? I thought we were supposed to tell each other everything. It's what it supposed to be like, Multi!” Quackity started again, sounding more and more pissed by every word he had spoken.
„And how can you blame ME for it?!” Multi immediately responded annoyed once again. He needed to take another deep breath before speaking again to keep his voice steady. „You're never here, Quackity. You weren't even here when my lab was attacked. And if you are, for a short moment, I can only catch you up on the most important things. When I was supposed to tell you this?”
Quackity was quiet for a longer moment. He bit his lower lip and got up from the chair, without the word he started walking towards door to the office.
„We both know that if you wanted to, you would tell me something that important. I guess your piorites changed. I don't even want to know what else you are hiding from me.” Quackity said dryly and walked out, leaving behind him weird emptiness.
Multi heavly sighed and wiped his face with hands. He was just about to sit on that damned chair when he saw a message from Aldo saying : „Hi what are you up to”.
„This guy has a one, fucked timing, doesn't he.” He whispered to himself, starting to feel kind of insane and tired, but decided to reply to it either way. It might be important, besides everything else, they still worked with each other.
>>> Needyourblood : Hello, just working on stuff in reactor. What's up?
>>> aldo_geo : I wanted to talk about something when youre free
>>> Needyourblood : give me 15 minutes, where we meet?
>>> aldo_geo : do you have a waystone to my castle?
>>> Needyourblood : yes
>>> aldo_geo : then see you there doc
Did Multi have anything to do in those fifteen minutes? Absolutelty not, but he didn't want to look too needy for contact, because apparently he started to care about it and it drove him fucking insane.
He used that time to cleaned up some papers he left, previously untouched, on his deck and he took few more minutes to calm himself down. Last thing he wanted was for his new ally to think that he lost his mind already.
After those, painfully long, fifteen minutes passed, Multi walked out of his reactor and headed towards nearby waystone to teleport to Aldo's castle, he got it the last time he flew there with Aldo. In a second he was inside cold walls of a huge bulding. It took even less to spot Aldo and Roier talking with each other few meters away.
They didn't notice Multi right away, they seemed to be very focused on conversation they were leading in Spanish. Multi didn't understand a word, so instead of focusing on spying on them, he decided to walked to them quietly. The first to saw him was Roier who immediately waved to him.
„Multi! Hello, man! How are you?” Roier greeted him excaited, it finally caught attention of Aldo who turned around to look at him. Mutlti noticed that from the corner of his eye, but decided to ignore it as long as possible. He definitely wasn't going to break his promise to himself that day, or any other day as well, so he needed to stay focused.
„Roier! Nice to see you. I'm good, I'm good. What are you up to today?” Multi asked sounding uninterested walking closer to them. Aldo took one, tiny step towards Multi, it was almost unnoticeable, but Multi saw it and it was enough for him to start feeling that weird tension bulding up once again.
„Not much, I just wanted to work on Oxxoier. And actually I was just going to leave, take care Multi, we'll talk later!” Roier said quickly and walked over to waystone. Multi noticed that he didn't even metion Aldo or say goodbye to him, whatever was that they were talking about, it had to be something very private and important. Multi started wandering what that could be. At that moment he completely forgot why he was even there in the first place.
„Doctor?” Aldo's voice woke him up from his thoughts. Only then he finally looked straight at Aldo who was standing with his hands behind his back. He looked very intimidating, Multi couldn't even explain why but it definitely had something to do with Aldo's whole aura.
„Yeah?” Multi asked waiting for Aldo to say something more. Multi kept his voice steady and his face serious, he didn't want to give him any non-verbal reaction.
Aldo took another steep. Multi couldn't say for sure but he was almost fully sure that at that moment Aldo's eyes were just as weirdly intese as like that one time in his office. Multi's body tensed up momentaly and he tried very hard not to move, not to give any response.
„What's our next move? Do you have a plan?” Aldo just asked casually and leaned on nearby pillar and moved his hand up front to his chest. He looked so comfortable and effortlessly, it made Multi feel so stupid for letting some silly situations actually control him. Aldo seemed like he didn't care a tiny bit about all of that, which was the most common response, Multi was just overthinking everything. Like he always would do.
„I don't know. I have more important things on my mind that worring about Tina or Foolish.” Multi sighed heavly looking away from Aldo's eyes, focusing on some painting on the wall instead. „I'm afraid that Nacho would be in danger soon. Dark Workers are looking for him for some time now, they could do a move any time now.”
„Oh? We have to protect him then.” Aldo said right away and Multi instantly looked at him.
He didn't even offer his help, he just decided to take part in that, without any questions, without any doubts. He actually wanted to keep that egg safe, he cared about Nacho, and that almost made Multi smile.
Aldo straighted up and smiled lightly. Then without any warning he took off his glasses, exposing his dark eyes looking straight at Multi's, and started to clean them with his shirt. Multi almost choked with air at that unexpected view. He was sure that his expression changed because Aldo's eyes immediately darken and his smile widen just before his eyes moved down to his glasses.
„Don't worry, Doc. It'll be the most secured kid on this island.” Aldo just said after they stood in silence for longer moment.
Although Multi couldn't really focus on making up an answer until Aldo put his glasses on. Only then scientist looked away from him and thought about what Aldo just said and finally responded, quieter than usually. „Thank you.”
„It's okay.” Aldo just said quickly sending him one more smile, very warm one that time, and moved away from walking slowly towards waystone. „I promised Roier to check up his shop. See you later, Doctor.”
And he just vanished leaving Multi alone in the castle. Multi instantly wiped his face with hands loudly sighing. It was frustrating, whatever was happening there. He appreciate Aldo so much, he felt like he was the one of very few people who he could trust completely. The weird reaction he was having were probably just beacuse of Multi's lack of sleep. The next time they met everything would be normal again.
The problem was that the next time they met, two days later, it definitely wasn't under normal circumstances. Because how even would you describe seeing Aldo, Katie and Shappo at the same place, at the same time.
Multi saw them in front of Katie's HQ while walking around the spawn to see if something changed. He wasn't even sure if he wanted to approach them but Shappo saw him before he even had time to escape.
„Father! You're here!” Shappo talked at him and shouted, moving everyone's attention to Multi. Scientist just rolled his eyes but walked over them anyway, despite everything, he didn't want to hurt Shappo's feelings.
When Aldo saw him, he looked at him absolutelty confused, switching his eyes from Shappo to Multi few times. And Multi couldn't even blame him, he didn't have any fucking idea how would he explain it to a normal person.
„He's your... son?” Aldo asked almost at the same second when Multi walked close enough to hear him.
„Not... exactly. It's complicated.” Multi responded quickly before Shappo could even open his mouth.
„Like every relationship you have, Doc.” Aldo joked sarcastically, but still he looked at Multi with raised eyebrow and scientist immediately felt the need to explain it further.
„I just... cured him. And he started to call me „father”.” Multi tried to make it sound the most normal he possibly could, but even then it sounded exactly what that situation was looking at that moment. Ridiculously.
„How could you say that, Dad?!”
„Oh, that's a little bit kinky.” Katie just said unbothered, shrugging her shoulder when Multi looked at her disgusted right after.
„Why the fuck would you say that, Katie? Oh my God.” Multi groaned regretting even getting involved in that conversation.
„That's... interesting.” Aldo said and Multi could see that he was just fighting not to laugh out loud.
„What are you even doing here?” Multi asked Aldo directly ignoring some fight Katie and Shappo just got into.
„Oh, I actually have something to show you. Come.”
And Multi just followed him into Katie's HQ without question. He could only heard Shappo's yell when he was disappearing into the bulding. „Of course! Just walk away from me like you always do, Father! Sure! I don't care!”
Aldo immediately turned his head back and looked at Multi with a smile and scientist just snapped. „Don't even say anything.”
So they walked towards Nacho's room in silence. Before Multi could even tought about the reason why they were heading there, Aldo already opened the door for him. He let him first, then followed and closed door behind them. Multi looked through the room trying to find something that changed and when he noticed it he uncontrollably soften up.
„Aldo... Did you-?” Multi started softly turning to look at Aldo who was standing proud and happy with Multi's reaction
„Yeah. I placed it today, I figured out that it would be helpful. Katie's HQ are not very well protected.” Aldo said smiling, pointing at the camera on the wall just above bunch of Multi's pictures. „I hid the radar as well. We'll know if something will happen here.”
Multi wasn't able to say a single word. He couldn't belive that Aldo just... did it. Without any request, he just did it because he wanted to and Multi felt like it was the nicest thing someone ever done for him. He wasn't even sure how to respond to that, what to say. He figured that there weren't any words that could describe how thankful he was. So he just send Aldo the kindest smile he could possibly do.
In response, Aldo placed his hand on Multi's upper arm. His touch was very gentell and warm, nothing smiliar to the previous touches from Aldo that Multi was felling on his skin. That was totally different, it was pure and caring, he was just moving his thumb over material of Multi's coat to give him comfort. And that gesture was far more confusing for Multi then those before. He couldn't form a single thought in his head, it was too much for him.
Still it was nothing compare to the next move Aldo made. When he moved his hand to Multi's face and placed it on his cheek, Multi could only stare at him with slightly open lips. It was eating him alive, he didn't have a clue if he wanted more Aldo to just stop or keep going. The climax point came when Aldo just brushed Multi's lower lip with his thumb and then Multi completely lost it. He was aboslutely ready to just break his promise he made to himself few days ago.
But then... Aldo just took his hand away. He send Multi one last smirk, and casually said. „See you around, Doc.”
And just walked away, leaving Multi there, in that room, completely alone with his thoughts. And the second Multi felt that boiling frustation he knew how fucked he was.