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. 741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSVKJ2ZRk6
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6gVteyHHe
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgmOo9YFHQ
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfdhcq3y6W
I’m here. 741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjgaSYop11N
But not really.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIbtMaITOR
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdSfoOJvuv
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQanRvhkLV
I’m here. 741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmLwNkbsqv
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSf1gYHVPf
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHnFrg1cIp
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6fJLI9rUy
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqotcvBA3J
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJk4vIa5NS
Because I don’t belong here.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMrWrToETw
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlz6F7EkYC
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. 741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89GqRGantR
But I belonged with him.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwxjdfetgE
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDI9IkcPQV
Do I regret it?741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFwcEjziuF
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7xaWe445Y
“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?”741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFHrJuVyvJ
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. 741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLC0cSJhbl
“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…”741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBupgaj4ydI
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsPCm9IFGh
But then.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFcpMfXavA
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEMk4OhNGB
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7Ons1gK1u
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.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMilIHlnJIz
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMEGISM02W
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtS322lNQWr
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjZcrjymBh
“Human, we were not sent for her.”741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52tBsR4A8M
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhhjuoeaDT
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0g1JHqsE7
As I watched my visitor fall. 741Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5OntAf9DR
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