How time flies

The hell?

Tord let out a small growl as Tom entered the room and saw it was only him.
"Uhg! How are you supposed to help me find him!?!" tord said frustrated as tom shut the door looking down at the floor.
"Well tell me how you are gonna help me!?" tord said frustrated
"Sir...what was your friend's name in the videos you saw??" tom said remaining calm
"What does that have to do with this!?"
"Answer me. What was his name?" tom said softly
"Thomas x-1! And in school his name was Thomas ridgewell..." tord said with a heavy sigh
"Sir..do you really believe they would send their lab students to school with his real name..?"
"Well no but how am I supposed to know his real last name?!" tord said giving a small growl under his breath
"You wouldn't..unless you looked at the old files i just deleted as u told me..if you had you would have found him right away." tom said glancing up at tord
"Uhg!! This is not helping!!" tord said slamming his hands down on his desk.

Tom sighed getting frustrated
"Sir..how do you think those letters you got from him got in here.." tom said finally closing his eyes
"Well he probably had a messenger send them in or something but i searched everyone." tom said leaning against the table
"Sir.. what did you see in the videos with tom.?" tom said smiling a little
"Well he turned into a monster! What you want me not to look for him because he is?! I don't care what he is, I want him in here!" tord said looking down at his desk frustrated and angry.
"But why?" tom said curiously
"So I can-.." tord paused trying to think of what he would say
"Can what..?" tom said raising his brow a little
"Apologize why eles.." tord said finally
"What makes you think he will forgive you?" tom said softly
"I-i don't think he will i just want him to know i'm sorry." tord said gripping the edge of the desk and looked up at tom
Tom smiled and chuckled.
"Hey do you think that he has other abilities so he could just, you know, hide right in front of you?" tom said still smiling
"Well probably but i don't know what he can do.."tord said sounding defeated
"Btw you didn't search every one.." Tom said, finally standing fully up as his eyes remained closed.
"So you know who he is and where!?" tords eye slightly widened with interest as he gave a small smile
Tom chuckled "mhm..and..'' Tom paused, debating whether now was the right time or not. But it was now or never i guess
Tord tapped his foot rapidly "well???" tord said, getting impatient.
"And I forgive you.."Tom said looking up with his pitch back eyes.

Tord froze as Tom softly smiled at Tord and chuckled to his reaction.
Tord slowly stood all the way up and made his way around the desk.
Tom slowly looked up at tord with a smile
"Miss me?" tom said raising a brow a little
Tord scoffed and finally smiled and slowly rubbed his face smiling brightly.
"Man, I completely skipped the person right in front of me this whole time.."
Tom chuckled softly as he watched tord drop his hand down.

But Tom was startled with a cold hard slap on his cheek but then it quickly followed with a hug.
"Never do that again you jehovah witness..." tord said, shoving his face in Tom's shoulder.
Tom let out a small chuckle then began to laugh as he slowly hugged back.
"Man, the first thing I get is slapped then a hug. Man you're still confusing sometimes."
Tord quickly started chuckling along with tom and they both just hugged each other for a short while before tord finally let go but kept his hands on tords shoulders.

"Why didn't you tell me about the lad thing!? I could have helped you sooner since my parents worked for them at that time..and you knew that.."
Tom shrugged smiling as tord scoffed with a smile to Tom's old lazy self.
"But I have a few questions."
Tom sighed and nodded.
"Lets sit first than you can ask."
Tord nodded and walked back behind the desk and Tom followed as they both sat in their own seats and faced one another.
"One. how did you change your eyes like that?"
Tom chuckled and sighed knowing it was gonna be a long day.
"All I did was shrink the black. If you had looked hard enough you would have seen that they were fully black."
Tord chuckled and rubbed his forehead
"Well sorry for not thinking powers were a thing."
Tom shrugged as he laid back in his chair.
"How did you change your hair color??"
"Oh that's just hair dye. I cant change my color. All I gotta do is wash my hair with conditioner and it will come right out."
Tord propped his leg up intrigued and laughed a little to tom.
"Well what else?" tord said, raising a brow.
"I dunno, I currently have a headache from shifting my eyes bro" Tom said rubbing his forehead.

Tord chuckled as Tom softly smiled.
Tom looked up to see tord grinning.
"What??" Tom said, raising an eyebrow.
"Sooo your gay hmm~????"" tord said resting his elbow on the table and his hand on his cheek with a huge grin on his face.
Tom's face flushed up as Tom quickly looked over to the side.
Tord laughed a little, crossing his arms and laying back one leg over another.
"It's okay, I know."
Tom huffed as tord chuckled. But tord soon stopped.
"Why didnt u just tell me it was you?"
"You would have killed me for shooting you down like that." Tom said looking up at Tord with a small smile.
"Very true." tord said shrugging
Tom nodded a little glad he did the right thing about hiding himself.

Tom groaned a little, rubbing his forehead, smiling softly.
"So what about the others?" tord said frowning and crossing his arms like if he already knew the answer.
"They left."Tom said, looking away from tord gripping tom's hands together.
"Why?" tord said sounding almost sympathetic
"They thought you died and blamed me and left.." Tom said with a small shrug.
"Oh. whoops sorry" tord said smiling as tom smiled with him and giving a small scoff to tords sarcasm.

Tom looked over at his computer and sighed before turning back to tord.
"We got a meeting in 3 min. We better hurry." Tom said, rising from his chair.
Tord let out a small growl and stretched as he stood up.
Tom pushed in his chair and began heading around the desk as tord did the same.

As they walked through the halls, tord seemed to remember something and turned to look at tom.
"Hey tom."
"Ya whats up?"
"Did you ever go back to meet your parents?"
Tom frowned and looked at the floor as they continued walking.
"Yes.."
"Oh neet what were they like."
"Don't know."
Tord raised a brow confused at what Tom meant.
"But-"
"They were dead tord..i found their graves..that's how i knew my last name was smith.."
Tom said interrupting tord, slightly looking up to see tord sympathetic expression.
"Oh I see. Well I like ridgwell and it's your new one and if i were you i'd go out and make a better name for ridgwell instead of mad lab doctor." tord said, trying to reunsure tom.
Tom smiled at tord trying to help as tord pushed open the doors to the office room.
The whiff of the cold room snapped at Tom, reminding him to straighten up. Tom then stood straight up at attention, hands behind his back, as they walked into the office and took their seats at the end of the long table.

Tom felt as all the eyes landed on Tom and mumbling started throughout the whole room.
Tom frowned a little as he closed his eyes knowing that's what they were looking at.

Tord must have sensed Tom's distress in the matter and slammed his hand down making all the eyes go to him, even toms.
Tom peared up at tord as tord was still standing.
"Can we stop the mumbling and get to work?!" tord shouted as the table of people nodded and tord huffed, fixing his jacket and took his seat.

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The meeting was a drag for the most part and Tom just kept his eyes closed unless Tord spoke to him.

As the shift of the day came to an end, Tom headed to his office and straightened up the last of his work to be sent off.
But before Tom could even open the office door holding his papers to be sent off, a blaring sound of alarms went off.

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Rut-ro alarms.
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