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. 969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEn257plSOn
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHoHrgazYs
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiAzB5NurI
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJVkmdapwR
I’m here. 969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMuoSEGH4k
But not really.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkNWIu8p4B
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRisnu2a4HP
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszZ1J0o7Dz
I’m here. 969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp86daVxWkK
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uBEeycMzj
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LS52D0bJY
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzfGj3R3cq
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjcZwizLnL
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCU5c25JG6q
Because I don’t belong here.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOSfOTpll7
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LsZHQxtab
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. 969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7GZRbKJ7L
But I belonged with him.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnUisxk97q
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePYi6NVH62
Do I regret it?969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIplVdVQi8x
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1x0MEvZvnN
“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?”969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfxt3ipqMC
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. 969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡml2A2rt5SA
“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…”969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY93U2x9AHe
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKqLe3UfPi
But then.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAjQzqKnum
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPgOumljXj
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkE2cSs7PDv
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.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszGDXCHbGS
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnf6rFvznqo
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZSnjXBdar
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczuQVCP1xY
“Human, we were not sent for her.”969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RzITfvQT7
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCldaaCkQXV
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHpDFoWR3x
As I watched my visitor fall. 969Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSe0FI9zqO
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and then Add to home screen.