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. 739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtf9m4HeU3K
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzdEVbBxYr
Yes. This is me. Lying here, listening to him watch me.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPCDlDrJN2
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Ry6vhAMzC
I’m here. 739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmI40jeV6IR
But not really.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3M7KJEPru
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk48VcLpCP4
But I could not move. I could not let him know. Let anyone know.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMyuJwWSHb
I’m here. 739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOaq4sjW3K
Yet somehow I knew he knew. He could see me. He pulled the chair closer to me, resting his head beside my still form.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDXWdnnjH5
A touching situation, a desperate hope, unspoken questioned fears.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCWnWK2fod
How did we end here? How could I feel his hair brush against my fingers and remain motionless?739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl5U5OKyOT
One day my body just… stopped. A clock that stopped ticking. My heart still beat, my lungs still responded. My body swallowed.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mKBXtwNuG
Then why did I stop? Why did my arms stop moving? Why did my eyelids slam shut?739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjBMhxWFkj
Because I don’t belong here.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpVV8kaKjd
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvDn8yo5pd
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. 739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqdTT96hDF
But I belonged with him.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SaFaGMlEE
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVDoYkLfIs
Do I regret it?739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRV3aahmvS
Not for a moment. But maybe I should.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLJo6KHB4w
“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?”739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKDlwoiIN9
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. 739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHCe0MvZKv
“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…”739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvGlpQmJJW
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUWot1btFr
But then.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxlUTNz5Qg0
A finger moved. My ring finger gracefully bent at the knuckle as though bowing to an assembly.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvov7yfsPEb
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6ZBKFFpfJ
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.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjCfjoc7ZM
The captain smiled as he padded into the room, his pony tail held back with a single blood red ribbon.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCpSE3lJRM
“You can’t have her!” My visitor growled, hand out over my frozen body.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGevNurc3n
The captain’s smile deepened, his face the likeness of a Greek god sneering down to the earthlings below him.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQV5mj9WEd
“Human, we were not sent for her.”739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OM0oBlcxr
My visitor lifted his chin, his eyes burning, "I know what she is, but-but I don't care."739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezTPciJj25
The captain raised his hand and he smiled cheerfully. My insides screamed, no programing could stop the hot tears sliding peacefully down my cheeks.739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidP2u2oQ9D
As I watched my visitor fall. 739Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7VZdW1qio
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