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. 822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGCpcc72SY
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBReoc8Yof7
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6Bkdy2zlc
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm9FDb7ieq
I’m here. 822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFVUOsvBiG
But not really.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrUKtPGIPP
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSY1o4Vn8X
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5IjGlUvmb
I’m here. 822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSIyWNUfbT
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ155LS3DDMv
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Avq5eJpZc
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5elxlv8Acj
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCw75PKg3Fi
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWRbuoh69o
Because I don’t belong here.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGkJHaoIql
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcH5dgNPEZS
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. 822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpFCH90uje
But I belonged with him.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pQPXb2ZS7
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVEvM6NoLt
Do I regret it?822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlFbofr5As
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKily88EWp2
“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?”822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TJ4BiXsmr
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. 822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKd4mn7IElQ
“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…”822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VA34xatnV
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGIKWT61i2
But then.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xGn6bKFjH
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oPqNiTyMI
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkETObe3v3f
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKycbMOQwe
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmu4pQOG6D7
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUXtBkqu0x
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dj6yjTIrP
“Human, we were not sent for her.”822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTjSyaBNh1
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIZx1N4ALE
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZDalBTs8i
As I watched my visitor fall. 822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehJbWHYTiK
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