He thought she couldn’t hear him. But she could. She could hear him sliding into the room, moving to the chair when everyone else had left. When only nurses stalked the halls, and visiting hours were for those who slept in armchairs. He was there. 736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoKTlbMZIw
Her family didn’t like him. Not really. They had worried he would lead her away, lead her down a path she shouldn’t go. She couldn’t go. The family was good at looking him up and down, wondering what she saw…what-what I saw.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzh5bUdMmXN
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGHPTg4ZEh
Was I in a coma?
No. Not really. Not in the way that dulled my mind and lulled my senses to sleep. I’m still here.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEE935nKwh3
I’m here. 736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2pguqA8VSW
But not really.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VuquqoN7Y
I could feel him bend down to press his lips to my pale knuckles; I could sense his eyes on my face as surly as sunlight once did.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGT7ozVbtic
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgT81sdsE5
I’m here. 736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHB1Bvzke2
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9lJWlDGkN
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSch2yS50c
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOW0uPmB3fh
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRuymIi39i4
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyaa69NU5D
Because I don’t belong here.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3iaun4uNp
I’m no angel, though he always said I was. It holds no importance now. I had fallen in love with my project. I had been warned of the consequences, I know that. I had been called foolish, selfish, honour breaking, deceitful. I was a machine that was put down.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaDeixHqNc
He didn’t know that. He doesn’t know what I am. He doesn’t know that I- that I’m not as real as I made out to be. I’m not a machine as such. I can think and feel, I can feel my heart racing through me as surly as any human being. If you scratch away my flesh, organs reside within. But my mind – my cerebral structure is the perfect replica of the human brain. I remember when I opened my eyes, when I looked about me and felt the white light dancing across me, turning to the eyes that boggled me through the glass. I was a baby, an infant with growing potential. I felt more than out of place within the world – I felt curious about it the way a tourist explores a new city, knowing they don’t belong, yet excited for the possibilities. 736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4XrooPWJy
But I belonged with him.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRWr07EUHr
I was created for people. I was directed to guide them, to care and protect them. I loved them. Strength hidden within tender fragility, love healing blinding hate and consuming fear. Humans’ burn brightly, a fire that could heal or destroy in the same breath. I loved them against better judgement. So was it such a leap to fall for a boy who held the spark in his soul, yet shrouded in darkness? He encompassed my purpose and my love all in one human body. Was it such a shock? The computer data in my systems say it was a logical step, so logical my creators ought to have seen it coming. But they didn’t.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3GRvOoooN
Do I regret it?736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFQMvZm33a
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpciARmxHx
“Shasha,” he mumbled beside me, his face planted into the hospital bed, “I heard the doctors talking… they said they were going to shut you down. What does that mean?”736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35puMPvTz3
I fought my circuits. I wanted to yell, to scream, to hold him as he shook beside my still form. And yet, I couldn’t blink as he demanded answers from me. 736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCuHgye5Vk
“Shasha, I was hoping you’d wake up for me. I know it was stupid to think that… but I don’t know, I just hoped…”736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnscy3PKzl
I wanted to intertwine my fingers into his, to run them up his face and smile reassuringly into his face. But I couldn’t, no matter how I struggled.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXwcHllRcU
But then.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxqUYqm2G7
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVlEeRLfAO
I heard his breath catch, I felt his own rough, calloused fingers running over my own feverishly, as though trying to capture that moment of freedom. My spirit – for indeed I believed I had one mustered together for one final assault.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaALSQAbbGy
I opened my eyes to the trudging of boots in the hallway. I watched the fear and rage battle across his face as men with the logo of a snake around an apple marched into the room. He moved in front of me, attempting to block them as his instincts read their body language.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsq0odEoWDM
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumvxMZSlf9
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzCyluqZII
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybQG7FXniA
“Human, we were not sent for her.”736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LCXlcEcQL
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4rVMAeTgR
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHa7GmDWYWk
As I watched my visitor fall. 736Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDa60s6AZ8t
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