Nyx followed Jude cautiously. "Jude, I…I think you should sit down or something." he said worriedly. "Please?" he had no idea what was wrong; he had never seen someone use drugs before, he didn't know the symptoms. "I…" he fidgeted again, watching Jude worriedly.
"I don't need to sit down." Jude sighed, crouching over the glass display and pressing a few buttons to open it. "I think you should– so I can help with this stuff." He blinked, gently reaching in feeling slightly uncomfortable at the touch of the skin.
"Jude. What did you do?" Nyx said firmly, reaching out and putting a hand on Jude's shoulder. Careful, oh so careful not to hurt the other male. "This isn't your normal behavior."
Jude set the artificial skin down on the table nearby before turning back to Nyx, frozen under his gentle touch, not daring to stray from it. "I–" He uttered, his dilated eyes flickering away and bouncing to see everywhere except Nyx's face. "I really fucked up," Jude laughed without a smile.
"That doesn't explain anything to me, Jude." Nyx said slowly. "I don't know hardly anything about…well, anything, remember? Use your words and explain." He swallowed, studying Jude carefully. He had caught the dilation of the pupils, but again, he didn't know the symptoms of addiction.
"I–" He bit his lip, "I went back to it– morphine," Jude said shamefully, not meeting his eyes and curling his fingers into a fist against his jeans, "I'm not relapsing, I'm not…I just fell off the wagon. It's not going to happen again."
Morphine…drug. Nyx realized. Oh. "I…" He bit his lip a little bit. "Is it because of me? The…when I kissed you?" He asked slowly. He sat down, gently tugging on Jude to make him sit down too.
Jude shook his head as he found a stool to sit down on, a wave of cold going through him as he sat. "No…" He shook his head again, "It's not because you did. I don't know…" He sighed, realizing he'd have to tell him the real reason, "I think it's because the same thing kind of happened a while ago…" Jude swallowed, "I couldn't be with someone I–" He hesitated, "I just broke, I guess."
Nyx looked up at him, biting his lip a little bit. "Oh. I…okay." he didn't know what to say. "What can I, er…do to help?" He asked cautiously. "If… anything."
Jude managed a faint smile though shook his head, appreciating that Nyx was understanding rather than judgemental, unlike his parents. There was nothing he could do except to stay here with him and smile like he always did. Jude turned to the skin on the table and picked it up, gently taking Nyx's arm and looking at the two, side by side. He sighed, "I guess this is your skin." He said with a smile.
"Now that," Nyx said slowly, "Is not a sentence one normally hears in conversation." He let out a soft laugh, looking at the skin curiously. "So, er…how do I put it on?"
Jude managed a quiet laugh, "Uh– I don't know," He said, smiling, "Like…a glove?" He shook his head, trying to move the first one on.
Nyx cocked his head a little bit. "Uhm…" he bit his lip, looking at Jude for a moment, then the skin again. "Okay." he cautiously tried to pull it on.
(writing this is making me feel so weird lmaoo)
The skin curved around Nyx's arm almost perfectly, meeting the very end of where the metal stopped. A shiver ran through Jude, It looks so real… "I'll have to like…stitch this end.." Jude murmured, furrowing his brow in thought.
"It shouldn't hurt, but might leave a little scar." He ran a gentle touch down Nyx's arm, partially to admire the printer's work, and partially to show some muted affection.
(lmao same tho)
Nyx adjusted it, looking at the skin. "It looks…strange." he said slowly. "I don't…I don't feel like I'm supposed to have skin like this." he let out a breathy laugh, shaking his head a little bit. "I don't know. I just…"
"Yeah, definitely weird." Jude nodded, studying its appearance, "Try moving it? Make a fist or something." He suggested.
Nyx made a fist, and made a face at how weird his hands looked. At least to him they did. He wasn't used to seeing skin when he reached out, wasn't used to seeing anything but metal on his fingers and arms. He glanced over at Jude, then at his hand again.
"Looks…real." Jude nodded, slightly bewildered, taking Nyx's new palm in his and running a curious finger against it. "How do you feel? Can you feel it when I do this?" He asked, tracing small and gentle circles into his hand.
Nyx's fingers twitched a little, and he nodded. "Yeah. I… I can." He replied softly, biting his lips and looking at Jude. He looked down at their hands. God he wanted to kiss Jude again.
Jude was too struck to think about his little bit of affection. His eyes flickered excitedly around Nyx's hand, and he reminded himself, this was the reason he pursued robotics. "This is so freakin cool." Jude smiled. "I'm making… I made skin… like a God." He laughed, giving Nyx's hand a gentle squeeze.
Nyx swallowed. "I…you are no god, Jude." He replied with a laugh. "If either of us is, I am. I'm stronger and smarter and faster." He gave a light, teasing smile as he spoke, hoping the other male would take it as the teasing joke he meant it as.
"Joking." Jude smiled shyly, poking Nyx's shoulder playfully. If God kisses like he does, then I'll be on my way to church.
He chuckled, "Let's see the other arm," Lifting the other skin gently with his free hand, his other one still holding Nyx's 'new' hand, Jude placed it next to them.
Nyx laughed a little, and nodded. He grabbed the new skin, and started to tug it over his arm. He shivered a little bit at the strange feeling it created.
Jude watched as Nyx put on the other skin, thinking that this was a strange metamorphosis or transformation in Nyx’s life. They were reflecting what he really was onto his physical being. Damn.
Nyx finished tugging the skin on, and turned his hands over, looking down at them. "Wait, do I have fingerprints now?" He asked suddenly, looking over at Jude.