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. 766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8g3uQteZUN
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGoL9BKYj5
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡox5j1t68ZB
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPF2332rF84
I’m here. 766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xPaRfjjGb
But not really.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsbeZceNl6
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUC49Y3o2Fb
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDC1ztPDdK3
I’m here. 766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDPxvgsdTW
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoP3dzcmvC3
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbeciPi4cK
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPGFKf6NEt
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69eh66hQAO
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKFKCYbMjt
Because I don’t belong here.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsYKE32QzK
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZGlTPsrLr
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. 766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhFSfHlw5b
But I belonged with him.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4HpOQrRD1
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0UutgML1G
Do I regret it?766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHn0aeUZwyG
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfQGZ6iNry
“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?”766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9a1flxvx5
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. 766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYVb1KL6CB
“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…”766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyYkLX6tXc
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACBTfawk40
But then.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TwP9PEqxm
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLweqWPDEq
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ811LljsP9d
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.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2N93S4i0j
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QyKwZR1vm
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrGI32GtgV
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuIkPWAg0k
“Human, we were not sent for her.”766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAM5BZDjK7E
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXzsNWnfiQ
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrJPYeHaPv
As I watched my visitor fall. 766Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXw5WxmlK5
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