forum Glitches // OxO // Closed

Started November 27, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Nyx frowned a little bit. "Then how am I supposed to learn anything if I can't see anything?" He asked, looking up at Jude.

"No– of course you'll learn and see a bunch more of this city," Jude said, nodding at him, "It's just that it's huge and between living here and potentially travelling, seeing everything would really take a while."

Nyx sighed. "Oh." He sounded vaguely disappointed. "But I wanted to see everything." He pouted a little bit.

"Aw, c'mon," Jude said with a smile, pressing a kiss onto his cheek, "You can still see a lot, or almost everything. And if we go to a bunch of other places– Paris, for example –We won't need to see absolutely everything. It'd take forever."

Nyx pouted again. "But I wanna see everything!" he said again, looking up at Jude with his lower lip jutting out.

Jude just sighed, smiling at Nyx and tilting his head to the side. "But everything is a lot." He said, "I'll do my best to show you as much as I can, but seeing everything is impossible."

Nyx wrinkled his nose. "That's stupid." he grumbled. "Why can't I see everything?" he looked at Jude.

Jude raised his eyebrows at Nyx in a knowing look. "One;" He said, using his fingers to tally his points, "This city is huge. Two; even if we did figure out a way to see everything, it would take a long time. Three; we have to be careful about where we go. Four; we'd have less time to go to other places."

Nyx thought for a moment. "Why do we have to be careful?" He asked. "About where we go? Why can't we go wherever we want?"

Jude chewed his lip for a moment, glancing back to the TV, where a wobbly view of a Parisian neighbourhood showed little cafés and bakeries along the narrow road. "I mean…we can go anywhere. It's just that we have to be careful, like we talked about, earlier? Stuff like flying commercial and staying away from any RTI sites."

Nyx frowned a little. "Oh. Right." He had forgotten about that for a while, and the reminder sent him crashing back down again. "I forgot."

"But, hey–" Jude said softly, affectionately running a hand through Nyx's hair, "We're gonna make it work. Just need a plan and…a backup plan, probably."

Nyx sighed, leaning into Jude's hand. "But it's stupid." he grumbled. "Just because I'm made of metal."

"It is stupid," Jude said with a faint nod, letting out a soft breath, "And it's because of a lot of things. But if we're careful, we can do whatever we want, more or less."

Nyx let out a breath, leaning his head on Jude's shoulder and looking at the TV again. "I… Alright." He replied softly.

Jude smiled, watching the screen as it showed a view of the Eiffel Tower from below, the early morning sky a pale blue as the camera panned the empty side streets. "So…Paris?" He prompted, "Should we put that one on the list?"

Nyx nodded happily, watching the TV. "Alright." He replied with a happy smile. "And we can go sometime, right?"

"Probably," Jude said, weighing the options of how they might get there without drawing attention, "Yeah. Maybe…if I figure a way to get my dad's…private jet or something? Make up a cover story about why I'm leaving?"

Nyx looked at him, and shrugged a little bit. "Maybe." he replied, smiling softly up at Jude. "I don't know. And besides, we still have to finish New York. And America."

"Mm that we do," Jude sighed, smiling as he thought back to the summer road trip he'd taken with his friends after high school, "But– maybe tomorrow I could show you some of the pictures I took when I went around the states? Me 'n my friends mostly drove around the south."

He nodded a little bit. "Alright!" he replied happily. "That sounds perfect!" he smiled up at Jude, so happy and sweet, his wonder for the world rather child-like.

Jude's lips curved into a smile at the sight of Nyx's excitement and that smile that never failed to make his heart flutter. "Sure," He said, shrugging a little shyly, "And, eventually, we could come up with a little list of cities we wanna visit."

(Jude: okay, pick somewhere to go. Nyx: everywhere. Jude: Uhm…one place, Nyx. Nyx: e v e r y w h e r e)

Nyx thought for a moment. "All of them that we can?" he asked hopefully, raising his eyebrows up at Jude, smiling.

(hahaa get this boy an atlas or– g o o g l e m a p s. )

"Mmmm I dunno," Jude sighed, halfheartedly trying to calculate how much travelling they could do in a few months. "We'd have to plan a whole bunch. Figure out where to stay and what to do, cause I'm not gonna know much about wherever it is we're goin'."

(lmaoo yesss)

Nyx sighed. "But…" he shrugged a little. "Okay." he said simply, looking over at Jude.

Jude smiled, running his hand through Nyx's hair. "Hey," He said, nodding at the TV, which was playing a clip of him walking through the Tuileries Garden, "We gotta research stuff a little, before we go. Can't just pack up and leave, right? And plus– the more we know about where we're going, the more we can do."

Nyx made a face. "Humph. Fine." He replied, shaking his head and running a hand through his hair, leaning against Jude.

"Mm, c'mon," Jude said with a laugh, playfully nudging Nyx's shoulder before pressing a quick kiss onto his cheek, "We'll travel, I promise. Just gotta do it right, cause let me tell ya– hitchhiking in Europe wasn't all that."

Nyx sighed. "Alright, alright." he grumbled, looking over at Jude.

Jude smiled, softly nodding as he glanced back at the TV, where the tape was nearing the end of the recorded footage of his first week in Paris.