Titus found himself following the stranger, running fingers through his own thick blonde strands. The android allowed him to follow for a short distance, almost as though he took what was said as something bizarre and was still processing it.
“Listen.” The android began, pushing through the crowd of half faced and broken, poorer older models. “I don’t just go around saving strangers and then trying to befriend them. I didn’t do it to get to know you.” The android spoke coldly. “It’s better you do not know my name. Its better you learn to stop snooping around where you’re unwanted. And its better you find a new home. Go find an android somewhere who gives a shit.” He seethed, his cold green eyes finally falling once more on Titus. The boy swallowed the large lump in his throat, pushing strands of thick, blonde hair back. It’d been a chaotic morning so far anyways. Spotting that broken old model and running into two scavengers and a strange…handsome android who told him to get lost. His chest stung for a moment. Realizing saving him from some giant mess he walked in on probably wasn’t an invitation for a new companion. Titus’ took the hint, looking away as the taller android shrugged and began once more making his way down the path.
Ouch, He though, rubbing his arm awkwardly before shrugging on his backpack. Its unlikely he will ever meet that weird android again anyways. Though, that wouldn’t stop him from thinking about their faces. What wonderful stories they must have with their lives. What amazing stories they must be able to tell.   As Titus made his way through the opposite end back to the mouth of the city, he found himself Sighing. “Another long journey back home.” He mumbled to himself as he dragged his feet. His backpack heavy and trembling as it shook with more loose parts to help fix and mend the animatronics he tended too. The journey typically took a while. Long stretches of barren wasteland. It was always bittersweet having to leave android cities as they were the only places with lush, green trees and grass in them. The only place you would see deer or birds. Though the animals you find in android cities looked nothing like the ones he would find, rummaging around old buildings that traveled way down beneath the ground. The barren waste stretched long until the small android cities would begin to pop up once again. Though, with sore and tired feet Titus treaded onward. He needed to get home quickly this time anyways. Though, his mind still stayed on the fierceness of those green eyes. That android in the robe…He looked so sad. Almost as though he wished he hadn’t reached out and helped and yet. He did! He helped him.
Night began to fall, Titus found himself having made a lot of progress! A journey that normally took a week was now almost done simply due to his early rise and quick exit of the market.
The boy began to build from scraps of wood and bark. Things that were sometimes hard to come by. Lucky for him, foraging in the forest kept him from having to worry for long.
He dug around his backpack, finding logs to build a tent with and then sparking a rock against a piece of flint helped spark the fire to life.
His blue eyes watched the flames as his mind drifted. Grabbing a blanket as several items he had rolled up in it tumbled out. Titus pressed the blanket to his shivering body, beginning to pick up the thrown items as the cold night began to set in.
Oh. He thought, picking up the parts he had taken from that scared android. “He…acted so surprised to see me. “Something about that conversation bothered him. It wasn’t like that was the first android he had to put out of its misery. With the shortage of parts and the most valuable parts being given only to the androids who were upper class and newer models, it left a lot of the older models, models who had been around since before the human android war where humans were wiped out, with out much to live off. It was causing quite a bit of a shortage in repair parts. Units who cease working usually enter sleep mode. Charging what they have left as they run off solar energy when they can’t find energy anywhere else.
He placed the items delicately back into his backpack. Alongside various other spare parts he traded for back at the market. Pulling his legs close to his chest He figured it would be another silent night. Almost drifting off before a voice could be heard behind him. It sent chills down his back as he quickly fell backwards. Surprise over taking him as he fell backwards.
“I didn’t mean to startle you. I wasn’t expecting to run into you again was all.” The man said, seating himself casually beside the fire. The android’s long dark braids that once were held up now laid flowing down his shoulders. He seated himself, one knee high and bent as he rested his arms over it and looked over at a less than composed Titus. “Did you even hear what I said? Or are you going to keep staring at me like that?” Titus once again found himself more than drawn to those beautiful pale green eyes. Green eyes seemed to be the theme of the day. The scavenger picked up a stick partially still in the fire, prodding at the flames as they licked the bark but never fully held onto the staff handed.
“…I mean. No one really travels the badlands. Its nothing but mutants and rogue androids out here.” He finally replied, repeating s nervous habit of his as he ran fingers through his thick blonde hair.
“So, then which one are you.” There was a pause. Titus’s shuffling back onto his position with his knees in the sand and his blanket firmly held over his shoulders.
“I’m…I’m just traveling to take care of the animatronics who raised me. I don’t get to talk to other androids often. I don’t really fit in well since I was raised by Animatronics.” He cleared his throat, feeling bashful. The android beside him cocked an eyebrow at that. Pushing a hand through his dreads before thinking his words carefully. “Other…Androids?” he asked. Which, once again, sent a shrill sort of fear through Titus.
There was a look of surprise, his face reading fear that was obvious and present before a hand was quickly thrusted into his face. Titus examined the hand carefully. Confused just as suddenly as it was placed before him. “I’m Osiris. I may not have been the one to throw the spear, but I was the one who grabbed you before the other scavenger did.”
Titus was a bit more than conflicted at this. Though, he took the hand anyways. Maybe it was foolish to be taking the hand of a guy who so viscously told him never to follow him. Titus cocked his head at the scavenger android. “So, what are you doing way out here?” Osirus shuffled, looking back towards the fire. “I could ask you the same thing.” He replied, to which Titus soured his look once again. Pouting his lip as he too turned to look at the fire before him.
“I’m heading back home. “He replied, burying his face into the blanket covering his shoulders. “Home? If you’re returning home, you’re a long way’s out. “Titus’ large blue eyes widened as he hesitantly decided to explain things to this android.
“I travel around to all the Android cities. I try to keep my family taken care of. “He scratched the back of his head, to which Osirus took note of. “You travel through the dead lands. Don’t you know that’s hard on someone like you?” This caused Titus to look puzzled at the android, scoffing lightly as he laughed. “What? Someone like me. It isn’t like I’m any different from the other models. I may not be a new model, but I can still handle a lot of things thrown at me!”
Osirus raised his brow at that, looking more than a bit confused at Titus’ statement. “...Other...Models?” Titus beamed, his eyes glistening with excitement,” Yeah! I don’t know who my original parents were...or what my model or make is but I must be somewhere between right?” There was a soft snort from the deep voiced Android across from him.
“Oh, I see now.”
Titus could feel his face squirm as confusion seemed to set in. “Well, why are you even out here? I'm going home. You told me not to even bother following you but here you are...following me. “That caused a sharp, sudden bolt of laughter to be expelled from the deep, rich skinned bot. His hand smacking into his face as he laughed at the sky.
“The last thing I expected was to meet the troublesome droid who nearly got ripped a new asshole to be wandering the wastes. I thought you lived in the city. Scavengers don’t like their faces being revealed. They especially don’t like being watched while they eat. “A chill ran down Titus’ back as he shivered. To which the clever eyes of Osirus took notice of. “What? Didn’t know we ate before we sell the parts? Or did you not know we were doing any of that?” Titus suddenly seemed more tense than he was before. Shaking his head firmly. To which Osirus scoffed, finding great pleasure in this information. “You didn’t know we were the cause of all those half-taken bots left here and there on the outskirts of android cities? Heh. I warned you to steer clear of me. Titus “Osirus, with a soft grunt, stood from the fire, his form changing in a matter of seconds as an eerie amount of vapor began to wave and dance around him as he changed. Moving into more of a serpent type being, large black scales with the similar mask like face as he slithered off down into the deep depths of the dark night. Titus gave out a soft sigh of relief. “Shit” He had literally not a fucking clue he was that close to dying. He knew he was close but to sit here and enjoy the warmth of the fire with another android who was potentially stalking him? Creepy. Bizarre and horrifying.
With that shit in pants experience over Titus shuffled around in his backpack, grabbing the small amount of fruit and vegetables he was able to grab while he was in the city before someone would take notice he was stealing. In the lower levels of an android city, food was a lot harder to come by as older models are told to ‘just use their power cells’ which is solar powered. The problem, as Titus just figured out, was that in order to do that they needed to shut down for a few days. Months. Weeks. Sometimes years at a time. Which makes them easy targets…for scavengers.
“Trying times indeed.” He muttered softly to himself. Biting into the hard spherical fruit that occasionally was bitter though sometimes it was sweet. Sometimes it just tasted like biting into water though too. His beautiful amber eyes rolled down to investigate everything that had just happened. His backpack was still intact. So was he for that matter. Probably should take him off the list of potential friends. Possibly. After a good meal, Titus clutched his bag of parts close to his chest, covering them and himself in the blanket.  
He slept soundly, the silence of the dead land sucking in any form of sound for miles around. His long dark eye lashes drifted open as the early morning sun broke over the dusty, barren hills and peered through a shattered structures glass. Melting the frosty tops from his eye lashes as he began to stretch and pack up his things once more. Just a few more miles. A few more hours. Another day and he would be home.
The rest of the journey was silent. Mostly finding company in singing to himself, whistling the tunes of the automated messages the automatons sometimes played. His feet were already beginning to drag on the third day, sore and painful from his many paces around as he sang a dry tone. His ears perked up at the soft sound though, the theme parks melody chiming as the clock struck 12. They were singing, which warmed his chest and caused a soft buzz. It gave him the energy needed to lift his sore shoulders and jog towards to opening gates, clambering over the short fence where they had gathered in the center of the park. Aside of Mr.Rush. Of course.
“Amy! Rat! Coaster!” he called out excitedly as he waved, the small cat character with a pink frilly dress pressed her rusted, jagged arms over his mouth as a soft chime began to ring out. Her code talking to the other animatronics before she spoke broken words to Titus. “Titu—You… Made it back!” Another round of harmonious chimes and beeps before Rat joined in “w-HE ALWAYS DOES!” A melody chimed out weakly from around the bend, A humanoid lizard crawled on its fingers as it tried to get around to the main square. Titus gaped before quickly rushing over to the chirping Anamatronic. Titus got to his knees, flipping the robot over on its back as it seemingly relaxed in his care. “ Its alright! I got enough parts this time for you! I even got some research documents on how to make new legs! You can hop again skips! “ Titus exclaimed, Quite overjoyed by this news. The animatronics were silent. Titus not minding or paying attention simply turned to his backpack to begin work right away. A chorus of chimes and chirps harmonizing as the bots talked amongst themselves.