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. 794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtWwA9wMU9
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnsob8NXEr
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVk6kYwNkLz
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSw8g0QoWA8
I’m here. 794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lH4m41Bih
But not really.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5GRds83lF
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIV0W8v72h
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0pn8l92PK
I’m here. 794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpP6Jt3IUz
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcoOT1olda
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gAWjWj57y
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUmjkscFuH
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyWPMIFbJg
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQZZ7kMdtC
Because I don’t belong here.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEPTiPJDAU
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTsh4laQ61
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. 794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuS0ZyaIWoi
But I belonged with him.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhscpvhDOf
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUXTKuf0gT
Do I regret it?794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9qPQrBB76
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfwvbuuJxu
“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?”794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZRAeDoRmW
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. 794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaekVcjUuru
“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…”794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwoI0kkE1o
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuzsahQ2ig
But then.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQESEvvwzq
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2O7HaXWFbv
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQUCPfPgnN
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.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKFINyWN1B
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLeLKCEBsu
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXjoS2vRTc
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpE04mdOGn
“Human, we were not sent for her.”794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdHH9CCTlR
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxaJ03FUgK
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wZriMmiT9
As I watched my visitor fall. 794Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYP8d8chxL
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