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After the guilt and thought's of what if's that has filled his mind after his son's disappearence. He has utterly given up on trying to find reasons to live, the missing papers didn't work, he'd only gotten prank calls from people he'd hurt in the past that they 'found' C00lkidd. He tried reaching out to Noli, but his number didn't work.
Maybe this is it, it's probably the karma he'd finally get for past exploits he'd done. Maybe hell has finally decided that he needs to pay for his sins no matter how much he repented. He tried—admins he tried, he cut off contacts with Noli just for C00lkidd to have a better life.
007n7 sighed, a deep hollow feeling of despair has spread within himself. How long did C00lkidd go missing? 6 months? He didn't know—he'd been drinking his sorrows away, but that made him even more pathetic than he already is. He hadn't sleep for three days, eating food? Don't even ask about that, the man barely ate anything.
The food inside the fridge had gone rotten, why would he need to cook when there's no one left to know you cooked their meals with love? The house itself felt empty, HE felt empty. Drinking didn't help either, (at first it did, but now he felt more guilty then ever) there was no more form of escapism he could lean on to now.
He can't help but beat himself for the neglect C00lkidd must have felt. Honestly 007n7 had little to no respect for himself, working 3 jobs that paid on average or even less. He should've used his exploting skills for IT, maybe being an anonymous white hat hacker. But he kept thinking over and over again that he had to do it because it was his punishment. Making him waste alot of hours where he should have played and teach his son the lessons of life.
But now that he got fired from his jobs for being late and procrastinating. He had nothing left, no job, no social life, no son, no happiness.
No feels of joy after coming home with C00lkidd showing his drawing.
No reason to live in a world where second chances feels impossible.
The only left thing to do is leave this world. He shakily grabbed the gun, the gun he bought to shoot admins or moderators who got to close to him. Ironic isn't it? Now the gun is ending the life of their own user. There was no hesitancy in his actions, only the regrets of not being a good father to C00lkid.
He pulled the trigger on to his head and a long bang was heared.
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Y'know...There's a theory that a person's brain would experience 7 minutes of replaying significant life memories before death...
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007n7 remembered playing with C00lkidd on the park they'd usually go after a long week. His red child would run around playing tag or hide and seek with him.
"C00lkidd, slow down! Your gonna trip over!" 007n7 exclaimed to the 4 year old overhyped red child.
Indeed, C00lkidd did trip and fall, he also face planted on the hard concrete. C00lkidd lifted his face up from the concrete and then let out a cry of pain.
007n7 ran towards C00lkidd and got on to his knees as he let the child up. "Are you okay, sweetheart? Which part hurts?" The father patted C00lkidd's clothes incase dirt got onto it.
"This part hurts, papa!" The red kid pointed towards his forehead. (I mean it was kinda obvious, since he face planted on the concrete).
"Don't worry, papa will make sure it doesn't hurt anymore!" He blowed a wind towards C00lkidd's forehead, before kissing on it. "Feeling better?" He asked.
C00lkidd nodded enthusiastically, he couldn't believe it! It felt like his father just did magic. "It's all better! You have magic papa!" The kid exclaimed excitedly as his father chuckles and patted on his head.
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"First day of Kindergarten! How do you feel C00lkidd?" 007n7 was packing up lunch for C00lkidd who was waiting at the front door with his red backpack and wide grin.
"Great! Because you said i'd get to make new friends!!" Just think about, new friends to go run around and play tag or hide and seek, maybe they could come up with new games as well! The kid couldn't contain his joy at the thought of new games.
The single father smiled.
His child was happy, so was he.
But the car ride back home wasn't so. C00lkidd looked gloomy and was quiet in the car, not the usual excited hyper active kid he was. It makes 007n7 worried on what could have happen back on Kindergarten.
"Buddy...what's wrong? You look sad." His question was only met with silence.
Something was truly wrong
C00lkidd was never this silent
Until the red kid spoke.
"Do i look weird to you, papa?" That definitely answered 007n7 gnawing questions in his mind.
"Why would you say that?" He asked gently.
Which made C00lkidd even more quiet.
"The other kids called me weird, and they picked on me for my horns and tail, and they said i didn't look like papa at all..."
That broke his heart more than he could've imagined. To hear his son getting bullied for being different (is NOT on his bingo list) was disheartening to say the least. I mean, could you imagine your own child being bullied by other child?
"Your not weird C00lkidd, your special to me. Don't think about what the other kids say, you just have to be yourself and sooner or later other kids who don't care about your appearence will come to you." He really does hope his advice will assure the kid's skepticism and gloomy heart.
"...i...guess."
That didn't go so well—maybe he should try a different method. "How about we get ice cream and then talk about our day, how's that?"
That seemed to lighten up the kid's mood by alot. "Ice cream!? Can i get two scoops!? Can i also get alot of sprinkles!?" C00lkidd was now rambling about what types of flavor he could get.
007n7 chuckled, relief spreading into his heart. "Sure Kidd, i'll make sure there's alot of sprinkles for you."
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Today was C00lkidd's 7th birthday! C00lkidd has invited all his 1st grade friends to his birthday party. 007n7 even saved enough to buy C00lkidd a chocolate birthday cake with red frosting and strawberries on top.
They even prepared games and decoration. Now they just had to wait for the guest to arrive!
007n7 knew or thinked it through—no one really wanted to visit an ex-hacker's place where he had ruin a lot of lives. No one really wanted to visit a kid with horns and tail and looks like a devil spawn.
He just hope
Really hope
That someone would come through that door to say happy birthday to C00lkidd and stay around for the party.
But no one came
It was...
Expected.
But for C00lkidd it wasn't, he didn't know why his friends didn't come. He didn't know that 007n7 had a bad reputation on his shoulders that he burdens alone. Gosh, 007n7 felt selfish for dragging C00lkidd down this road.
"Hey, it's okay. Atleast you get all the cake you yourself!" He tried reassuring the kid, which didn't end well, but it did seem to lighten Kidd's mood a little.
"All the cake? For myself?" C00lkidd ran towards the cake. "Can i cut it?"
"Sure, but let's be careful with knife okay? It could hurt you." 007n7 picked up a plastic knife and leaded C00lkidd to cut the cake.
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Making pie seemed easy, but it became one hell of a job if the help you got was a hyperactive red child who keeps on touching things he shouldn't. Like for example the knife where 007n7 was going to cut up the apple's to make an apple pie.
"C00lkidd! Don't!" He exclaimed as the knife fell dowm the counter, it's a good thing the knife didn't ended up anywhere near C00lkidd to injure him.
"S-sorry papa! I just wanted to help!" C00lkidd was about to cry, he just wanted to help his papa out.
"It's okay, just be careful okay? What did i told you about knifes? Their sharp and can hurt you." He picked up the knife and began washing it on the sink. After that he went to C00lkidd to wipe away the tears.
"How about you put on the pie crust?" A good suggestion to distract the kid from crying even more.
C00lkidd nodded enthusiastically. He was happy he could help out his papa.
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To put it into words, 007n7 was worried. C00lkidd is 18 months old and hasn't formed any words. C00lkidd has still been babbling and making baby noises in which 007n7 is worried something might be wrong with C00lkidd.
Maybe he hasn't tried hard enough.
He's just really worried C00lkidd is non verbal.
He tried doing activities that are recommended by the internet. Reading, describing daily tasks, playing face-to-face, expanded some more difficult words. But nothing came through, C00lkidd was still babbling.
007n7 was just about to give up completely, until C00lkidd finally said his first words. "Papa!"
The single father frozed and looked behind him where C00lkidd is sitting on high chair, slapping his little hands on the table while he kept repeating the word papa. His father lit up and his eyes were wet with happy tears.
"Yes C00lkidd! I'm papa!" C00lkidd giggled incessantly while doing a graby hand motion towards 007n7. 007n7 laughed and took C00lkidd out of the high chair and kiss C00lkidd on the forehead.
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007n7 was just cooking dinner on their kitchen. He was about to cook C00lkidd's favorite meal when he felt a tug on his shit. He looked down and saw C00lkidd holding a paper.
"Papa! Look at my drawing!" C00lkidd showed a drawing of 007n7 and him playing at the usual park they'd go to. There were trees and a rainbow on top.
007n7 took the drawing from C00lkidd's hand and smiled at it. "This looks so good, C00lkidd! Let's pin it up on the fridge, shall we?"
C00lkidd smiled widely at the thought and nodded enthusiastically. 007n7 chuckled a little at C00lkidd's ethusiasm, he opened a drawer and got out a pin. He got to the fridge and pinned the drawing on it. "There you go!"
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College was boring as hell, good thing he had spare time to go exploiting with his 'best friend' Noli. They've ran away from some of the moderators after burning Builder Brother's Pizzeria for, probably like the 5th time this month.
Seeing Elliot's angered face was already an entertainment enough for himself and Noli. They don't need to get caught by the moderators now, but it seems like they've ran into more problems, they have now ended in an alleyway with no escape.
Looks like they'd have to teleport using the C00lgui. But there seemed to be a more heavier, divine presence that they have know to be familiar.
Shit.
It was non other than Telamon.
Not just an admin.
But a deity of sword fighting.
Noli's teleportation was set and quickly tried grabbing 007n7 to teleport with him since 007n7's C00lgui has been acting strange this few days.
But he was to late.
007n7 had to face off with Telamon now—and admin's was he fast as hell. Telamon dashed and pinned him against the wall (woah there), his face was very close—to close for comfort.
"It seemeth thou hast stirred more than one trouble, so that I was compelled to become involved." His voice was as godly as ever that the hacker felt fear.
"Oh really? And what do you want to do now that you've got me in a tight grip, birdie. Send me to the banlands?" Trying to be cocky infront of a deity seemed like a very bad idea, but 007n7 did NOT want to be preserved as a weakling.
"Art thou grown so bold? Even mine own fellow-workers would ne’er dare show such audacity before me." His words seemed to amuse the deity then anger him, which is strange given how prideful and egotistical the admin himself.
"Oh please, you don't scare me at all. I could just make an alt account." That's a lie—007n7 was fucking scared for his life.
"Is that so? Thou art not afeard of me? How most amusing. Thou art as a whelp—much bark, yet no bite, at least where I am concerned." How insulting, the admin thinks he's all bark no bite? Oh he'l show him what it—
"Yet have I grown weary of late, and thou hast already eased mine idle boredom. Thus will I let thee go—with but a warning."
That's unlike Telamon at all.
Usually he'd be quick.
Usually he'd waste no time.
And he definitely wouldn't let go a hacker.
But Telamon already teleported away, leaving a reddened 007n7 behind as he froze in shock on such acts.
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He missed all those memories with C00lkidd, and that encounter with Telamon stirred something inside him. But now he's dead...
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He though he'd woke up in hell, but he felt below him a woodened flooring. He groaned in pain as he open his eyes and looked around, a cabin? Where is he? Why is he here? Who are these people?