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. 725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7xh2ePaDb
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9ps07nXgO
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1W67cKNInS
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemoUpMejMu
I’m here. 725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKKmRUgBQG
But not really.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Yt5PM5xlv
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfqL5MPX0Q
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2VuP3YhB6
I’m here. 725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpwKBNm0Xr
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmiAXKYVRO
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rMGJfNMXs
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX75KkuMCpI
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2v4ThecNOV
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGs1AYWnv4o
Because I don’t belong here.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDovlVfSAE
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEOXlvfwIW
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. 725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRE3EMmgGS9
But I belonged with him.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelb8GLtCtX
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxki5cWFD5
Do I regret it?725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3XiLBTXqK
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEeYLsdClKt
“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?”725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0pFsUJ9VR
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. 725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEorjAmK4Cc
“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…”725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrsMOwCcOI
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEM3xyxTOsj
But then.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxQJnT87Wp
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAEw7IXcjD
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27MdOF7vum
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSO1BUGDev6
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENDqJJ1enP
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmELTROP2tl
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrofl4XCpq
“Human, we were not sent for her.”725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNNjLr3xQV
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiT3dWWxDTF
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLiWs5CDpr
As I watched my visitor fall. 725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjUzvUMFRr
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