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. 808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlUWbqN7NA
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcEV1J6wy3
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdli2EJxso
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0ki76tUSM
I’m here. 808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2TEX7XoeE
But not really.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacKmUL1P8q
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcb5KdHt9Xo
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgojYmwJmGV
I’m here. 808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6EIUPqt3d
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYU4fVNvSSY
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKE5YCUsNAn
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4yFMhgnqc
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAs99YKtyUe
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOarggVcLD
Because I don’t belong here.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76yGVRvRlk
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzEv9LTQvO
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. 808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTI6DpKxqyJ
But I belonged with him.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMEUZjN2G0
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObedxNxdHx
Do I regret it?808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YRlFzcA0w
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrG3KZvXpn8
“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?”808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsrWZ5410i
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. 808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hiODgoM84
“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…”808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaENebDVPpN
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwu5ZMsgMMc
But then.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLstAvidYh
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98cLsN1dck
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvj92h1fpm
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.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvnY7peBsC
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLHHuSp3QD
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWszXktsobs
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1FXRqrjHB
“Human, we were not sent for her.”808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDA7TIk6ISw
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCliXupXeJX
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzGU1Rc8aJ
As I watched my visitor fall. 808Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayOZN6lE2d
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