#android!gavin reed

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'Where are you off to, tin can?'

SWAT Richard x GV200

Love reverseAU with all my heart

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That Gavin Reed edit got me WEAK 😭

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A little distraction Part 6

This was prompted by the amazing AO3 user Hirien! Enjoy!

Fandom: Detroit become human | Ship: Reed900 | AU: Reverse AU

‘Gavin.’ ‘Hmm-Hmm?’ ‘You do know I have to get to work, right?’ Gavin opened his eyes slowly, unwilling to face reality just yet. He smiled at Richard lying next to him, head perched on his hand and hair messy from sleep. The human returned the smile and gently brushed along Gavin’s cheekbone, hovering long enough before the touch to give Gavin the chance to duck away. As if the android wanted that. Nines’ contact had soon become a treasured sensation he couldn’t get enough of. But the gesture itself was something Gavin admired deeply. The human never took what he needed but asked and offered. ‘I know’, the android grumbled with regret. ‘But does it have to be now?’ Richard laughed. ‘Yes, actually. I’m already late. Don’t get me wrong if I was in charge, I would stay in our little world of blankets forever. Come on. Let me go get ready. We can continue in the evening, alright?’ ‘Fine’, Gavin complained, but threw him a cheeky grin afterwards. ‘I’ll hold you to it.’

He watched the man get dressed admiring his toned muscles and dotted skin maybe a little too much. Well, he was well beyond embarrassment or self-consciousness. ‘Stay safe’, he said, as his eyes fell on the surprisingly only scar the man had. An old gunshot wound that had led to severe complications in the hospital. ‘Okay?’ Richard pulled his shirt over it and turned around while buttoning it up. ‘I’ll try my best Gavin. Will you be okay?’ ‘Yeah, you know me, will spend the entire day catching up on your old series. Nah, I’ll be fine.’ Nines nodded, eyes lingering a moment too long on the android. ‘Didn’t you say you were late for work?’ ‘Oh, fuck. Yes.’

Gavin laughed as the man practically jumped into his pants and ran out of the door, trying to put on his socks on the way. The low thud from outside told Gavin he wasn’t too successful. ‘What a chaos human’, the android mumbled, standing up to at least check on him. Nines just threw him a lopsided grin, got back up and left for the door. Gavin watched him speed off from the driveway with screeching tires and shook his head once again. How did the man ever make it Detective?

-

Truth was Gavin never switched on the television and rather sat on the couch looking at the different framed puzzles on the wall Richard had completed. The touch from minutes ago still lingered on his cheek, the ghost of the man’s affection. More and more often lately, Gavin thought about their talk weeks ago. We are in beta phase now. He had never seen the human happier as in that moment. What made him think once again about how much the man had gifted him with and how little he had received in return. Yes, it wasn’t a competition and Richard had reassured him time and time again that he had everything he needed and was happy. But still Gavin wanted to give him something. But what could he possibly do? Buy him another puzzle, was his first thought, but he disregarded that. He could do that later, he wanted something special. Something that showed the human what Gavin couldn’t tell him himself. Something both of them would enjoy and would but Gavin’s mind at ease. That already excluded everything that involved crowds of people. And to be honest, the android still didn’t know much about the man. He knew what he liked to do to pass time, he knew he enjoyed their mornings and evenings spent in bed and he knew his favourite food. He knew every small gesture and habit of his and how to interpret it. But what the man did for fun outside their home, he had no clue about.

Maybe if he could… Gavin eyed the phone sitting on the coffee table. Should he? He didn’t actually want to do it, but there was no other way, was there? So, he took the phone and called the right number. ‘Hello?’ ‘Connor?’ ‘Yes?’ ‘This is G-G-Gavin’, he started. ‘I neeeed your he-he-help with something.’ ‘Sure thing. Does it involve Richard?’ ‘Yes’, the android nodded. ‘In a way at least.’ ‘Is he okay?’ ‘Yes! Y-y-yes he’s aaaalright. I’m just… What does he d-d-do for fun?’ ‘For fun?’ Connor grew silent. ‘Oof, that’s a tough one. He likes watching series and movies. Likes puzzles way too much. He likes practically anything that’s warm and fluffy…’ ‘And wh-what about outsiiide the house?’

‘You looking for a place to go on a date?’, Connor asked after staying silent for a while. ‘Wh-wh-what? Nooo, of co-c-course not.’ ‘Really?’ ‘Okay, I th-th-th- He does so muuuch for me. Wanted to taaake him somewheeere h-h-he enjoys.’ He heard laughter from the other side. ‘Hey, no need to get flustered about. He really likes aquariums. But be warned, if you take him there, he will have a hard time concentrating on you.’ Gavin thought about it. That wasn’t actually such a big downer. He wanted to do this for Richard after all. ‘Th-th-thanks Connor. That heeelped.’ ‘Hey, ask me anytime. Have fun on your dat-‘ Gavin cut the line.

-

The android had checked when the human’s next free day would be and ordered two tickets online. Now to the hard part. Telling him. ‘Urgh, can’t wait to stay in bed all day tomorrow’, Nines sighed as he stretched his back that was aching from the long day at work. ‘Then I have to disappoint you’, Gavin said slowly. ‘What? Why?’ The android looked up at the frowning human and pulled the tickets out of his pocket. ‘Surprise?’

Richard took them and smiled. ‘Okay, that might be the single thing better than staying in bed all day.’ ‘Really? You l-l-like it?’ ‘Yeah, sure, I love it. Can’t wait to go with you.’ ‘Me neither.’

-

They were on their way to drive to the aquarium and Gavin felt giddy for some reason. Maybe it was only nervousness, but he really looked forward to it. The large complex appeared before them and Nines parked his car, offering Gavin his hand on the way over the android gladly accepted. They showed their tickets to the android behind the counter that welcomed them and showed them to the entrance.

At first, Gavin was a bit intimidated by the sudden darkness, but with the sound of bubbling water from the filters and pumps and the human next to him visibly relaxing, it subsided fairly quickly. A moment later Nines was already excitedly hurrying from tank to tank, pointing out the different species to Gavin who could have looked them up anyways and telling him all he knew about them. His excitement was infectious, and Gavin soon found himself in their own little bubble watching different types of fish and listening to Nines’ enthusiastically talking on and on. Soon Gavin didn’t even notice the other visitors and was completely at peace with the world around him.

They wandered through the aquarium and more than once Gavin was completely content with just standing there and watching Nines look after the fishes that swam past the glass in a hurry, trying to get a glimpse at all of them. His favourite moment of the whole afternoon though was when they came to a large tank that spanned from the ground up onto the ceiling and was curved inwards with a few benches positioned right in front of it. ‘Come on, this is my favourite spot!’, Richard called out to him with a toothy grin. He basically pulled Gavin with him by the hand he had been holding for how long Gavin couldn’t exactly remember and Gavin had to jog a few steps to keep up. Nines sat down and waited until Gavin joined him on the bench. ‘And?’, the human asked, momentarily pulling his eyes from the mesmerizing picture in front of them. ‘Do you like it?’

Gavin couldn’t really find words how much he liked it. The curve of the glass made it appear as if they were in their own little compartment in the middle of the enormous tank and everything else was blocked by faux stone pillars. It was like they were completely alone. ‘I… It’s like being in there’, he whispered. ‘It’s wonderful.’ Nines grinned and laid an arm across Gavin’s shoulders. ‘I often imagine how it must feel. Obviously, I don’t want to be a fish, but it must be amazing. Feeling weightless and feeling the water flow past. I like this spot the most. Makes you feel completely cut lose from the world.’ Gavin nodded. He had to agree, but he wouldn’t find words that described the feeling better than what the human had just said. ‘I really like it’, was everything he could sigh out as he followed one silver being to the next and back.

‘Thanks for inviting me out here’, Richard said after a while and rubbed the android’s shoulder gently. ‘It’s really nice sharing this with you.’ ‘It’s your money’, Gavin shrugged, but immediately regretted his words. He wanted to say so much more, tell him he would stay, that he wanted nothing more than to stay. Forever. But he knew the moment he would try to, his voicebox would fail or stutter or distort his words and he wanted it to be perfect, especially when nothing about him was. How could he tell him that, without using his words, without phcking it up? His LED turned red, he could see it in their reflection in the glass and so could Nines.

‘Gavin? Is everything alrig-‘ ‘Phck it!’, Gavin cursed, then turned to the human and quickly, far too hurriedly, pressed a kiss on his half open lips, before turning back again in jerky motions to look to the ground. Nines stared at him, red blush complimenting the android’s blue one and lifted his fingers to his lips. ‘I-I-I’m sooorry.’ ‘What?’ Richard focussed back on the android and reached for his hand. ‘Gavin, there’s nothing to be sorry for. It just… surprised me. I thought we were still in Beta phase?’ Gavin looked up shily, but his grip on Richard’s hand was strong. ‘I’d think we are past that. If you want to move on.’ ‘Sure. Sure, if you feel comfortable with that.’ The man practically beamed next to him. ‘Would you want to… to repeat the kiss? Properly?’ Gavin nodded and both moved in more careful this time. Their kiss was slow and thoughtful, and Gavin knew the moment they separated he would want another one. Nines himself couldn’t quite believe what the android had initiated, but he was immensely happy he had. For once in his favourite spot to watch fish and calm down, he decided to block out anything but the android in front of him.

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You can pry reversed AU from my cold dead hands

(honestly both Gavin and Hank as androids are. The. Best)

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BOLD what your muse can do meme

Tagged by: ask-captain-Allen

Tagging: whoever wants to do it :)

bake a cake from scratch | ride a horse | drive a submarine | speak a second language | dance | catch a fish | play an instrument | throw a punch | build a deck | ice skate | unclog a drain | program a computer | change a flat tire | fire a gun | sew | juggle | play poker | paint | fly a kite | sculpt | write poetry | change a diaper | sing | shoot a bow and arrow | ride a bike | swim | sail a boat | do a back flip | play chess | give cpr | pitch a tent | flirt | stitch a wound| read palms | use chopsticks | write in cursive calligraphy | use an electric drill | braid hair | make a campfire | make a mixed drink | do sudoku puzzles | wrap a gift | give a good massage | jump-start a car | roll their tongue | do magic tricks | do yoga | tie a tie | skip a rock | shuffle a deck of cards | read morse code | pick a lock | fly a plane | train a dog/cat | fix a car | apologize | write a business letter | write in a second language | say the alphabet backwards | read music | cook complex meals | change oil | paint nails | draw | socialize | march | take apart a gun | drive a rig | operate a tank | climb a tree | rock climb | tie a cherry stem | basic first-aid | draw blood | put out a fire

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001. ‚No one’s going to hurt you.‘

Fandom: Detroit become human | Ship: Reed900 | AU: reverse AU

Richard laid wide awake in his bad. In his still unfamiliar bed in a foreign apartment in a city he was just starting to discover anew. Sometimes childhood memories rose up when he walked past a familiar corner, but really familiar he was only with his way to the DPD and back. His official transfer over from Chicago had been only a week ago and he still had problems accommodating to the new environment having spent more or less his whole life over. It helped that his brother had stayed in Detroit and could help him get started.

But the unfamiliarity wasn’t what kept him up this night. He looked over to his alarm clock and groaned. It was well past midnight and he had to get up early the next day. What asshole was outside at this hour and made such a ruckus. He had heard several neighbours scream from their windows already, followed by a few minutes of blissful silence. But as soon as Richard was about to fall asleep it started anew. Again, the sound of something out of metal crushing down ripped him from his half-sleep. The man sighed defeated. He couldn’t sleep anyway, so he could as well get up and silence whatever scavenger was out there in the scrapyard. He quickly pulled on a jacket and some baggy gym-pants over his pyjamas and fetched his badge and pistol from the nightstand together with a flashlight.

He walked out into the hallway, the automated lights flicking on, some of them shutting down as soon as they had come to life. God, this apartment complex was just about as run down as the whole neighbourhood. As soon as he had gathered enough money he would get out of here. Richard pulled the door shut and locked it carefully, before hurrying down the stairs to the ground level. Oh yes, whoever was down there would meet his anger of loosing a good night’s sleep. And maybe a bit more just for good measure.

He stopped outside in front of the chain-link fence and let his flashlight flit over it in search for an entrance. There was a gate, but it was closed. Of course. There was another noise coming from the scrapyard like of some big piece of corrugated metal gliding off a hill. Fuck it. No one was on the street and the sonly surveillance cam was trained on the area of the gate farther down. Who would know he was trespassing if no one saw it? He climbed the fence and dropped on the other side, rubbing his hands together. He ran for the noise, keeping his head down in case whoever was over there had a loose trigger-finger.

He skidded to a halt in front of an old car and spied over the hood, one hand on his pistol. The first thing he saw was a red light, then his eyes focussed on the figure and he saw the shadow of a person – an android – digging in a pile of junk, jumping back as the whole thing collapsed. The android held his head at that and looked around frantically. Instantly Richard had his head down again, deciding now was as good of a time as any.

‘Freeze, Detroit police!’, he shouted, jumping out of cover. ‘State your name, model number and reason to be here and disturb everyone’s fucking sleep!’ ‘No, please!’ The android pulled up his arms in defence, showing him both of his empty hands. ‘Don’t shoot! Don’t-‘ ‘State your damn name and model number!’ Richard kept his pistol up. Even an unarmed android could be a dangerous opponent. ‘G-Gavin! GV200! Please don’t shoot! I- I-‘ The android actually fell to his knees. ‘Don’t hurt me, please.’ Well, that was something different. Richard let his hand sink but held on to his pistol in the holster. ‘Calm down, Gavin. See: I won’t shoot. What are you doing here?’ ‘They- they told me to- to stay here! But then they told me to go and never come back here. I- If they find me…’ ‘They? Who do you mean?’ ‘They… they drove me here, then left me and drove away telling me I should wait here until they got back… And others… they found me here and told me to go. But I can’t, you see? And they said they would hurt me would they ever see me again. I have to hide. But I can’t hide because what if they come back and…’ ‘Are you deviant?’, Richard said calm, beginning to understand what was happening. ‘Deviant?’ The android looked up to him, LED still a deep red. ‘No.’ ‘Okay. Your owners, the people who dropped you here… When was that?’ ‘Three months ago.’ ‘Okay, I need you to listen to me: They are not coming back for you.’ ‘What? Of course, they are! They promised!’ ‘Gavin.’ Richard crouched down in front of the android. The cold of the night started to seep under his jacket. ‘Look around. You are in a scrapyard. Why should they leave you here if they still wanted you? Maybe they were afraid because of what happened during the revolution, remember?’ ‘No! I was family! They wouldn’t leave me!’ The android suddenly stood, pushing Richard back to the ground. The human immediately had his gun back trained on the android in case he would try anything more. But he just held his head, walking up and down. Richard got back up at a crawl not to startle the android. He wondered whether a LED could become even redder than now.

Then suddenly the pacing stopped, and Gavin slowly let his hands fall down turning around and eying the scrapyard. ‘You are right. It doesn’t make sense. But they… why would they leave me? I never did anything…’ ‘Sometimes people get scared and do irrational things’, Richard tried to supply. ‘What will you do now?’, Gavin asked LED now circling yellow. ‘I am trespassing technically.’ ‘To be honest, I just wanted to scare the idiot that was responsible for disturbing my sleep. I’m technically trespassing too. I’ll go back and try to get at least a few hours of sleep. What will you do?’ ‘I… I don’t know. If I stay here they will most likely add me to their inventory the violent way. But… I don’t really…’ ‘You know, you could stay with me? I’m living up there.’ He pointed up to his window and asked himself why he suddenly invited an android to his flat. What was wrong with him? He didn’t know the thing. Richard blamed it on his sleep-deprived state. ‘You could watch the yard from there safely. Y’know, in case they do come back.’

‘Thank you. That actually… sounds perfect. Oh, and if they come back… These phckers are gonna have to explain a lot!’

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039. Shouldn’t you be with him/her?

This one is a bit longer than my normal, just a headsup! (Finally not only emotions but story XD)

Fandom: Detroit become human | Ship: Reed900 | AU: reverse AU

‘Oh, no, I won’t be ordered around, Detective!’ ‘You- Wait, when did I order you around, Gavin? I just asked you to come with me.’ ‘Exactly.’ ‘Gavin, we are partners, we are supposed to go to missions together!’ ‘Yeah, well, I never asked for a phcking partner! Let alone a damn human. And I’m not becoming someone’s puppet!’ ‘I-I am not trying to make you one, we just have to go. We have been called as backup for the SWAT, me being a former military and you being a state of the art android.’ ‘You have been called out to duty.’ ‘It is implied I take my partner with me.’ ‘Oh and now I'm your property, yes? I imply you should go phck yourself! I’m not following you around like a damn lapdog!’ ‘Fine! I’ll go alone then, partner!’

Gavin watched the human march off. Honestly, he had expected him to hoist him up and pull him with him. Or to complain to the captain resulting in god knows what for the GV200. Or to punish him in any other way. He hadn’t at all expected the man to simply walk away. But then again, Nines wasn’t like other partners he had had. It would be too much to say the man had left him alone and in peace, but he had always ordered him in a polite way, even if it was an order nonetheless. Well, he wouldn’t feel guilty about it. The human had worked alone the whole time. In his file it said he had one or two partners in his career. One in the military that died the first week, one in the beginning of his police-life. Well, they lived to tell the tale, but it wasn’t a pleasant one for sure. Gavin had heard the stories about the uncontrollable Detective that, well, every definition of asshole and self-entitled idiot fit. Nines had been over five years at the force without a partner, he would manage.

GV200 spent the time until the human would get back attending to the menial work no one wanted to do. The android tasks, the ones left for them to complete by the humans. Gavin hated it. He had a whole life of signing papers for his partners, writing reports, filing evidence, sending samples to the lab, waiting for results. He didn’t realise how the hours passed and he wouldn’t have noticed the ruckus in the bullpen weren’t it for a few sheets of paper he had to fetch from the printer.

‘Hey, shouldn’t you be with him?’, someone asked as he passed by and Gavin didn’t spent time looking at them, when his auditory sensors picked up that voice coming out of the headphones somewhere. ‘This is Detective Richard Stern, requesting immediate backup! The perimeter has been overrun, I’m in enemy territory, cut off from the SWAT team. Status-‘ The man held his breath and far-away voices became audible. Then hushed words: ‘I haven’t been spotted yet. I have to keep quiet.’

Gavin ignored the lingering stares at him and the muttered questions why he wasn’t there. He asked himself the same questions.

Before he could think about it, he was out and running down the streets at inhuman speeds. He pinged Nines’ communicator, getting an exact position and looking for the best route there. Ignoring streets, cars and even humans, he bolted through the city. It was one thing to hate his partner and the whole situation of being dependant on him. It was a whole other to let his partner die out of pettiness. He connected to the frequency Nines and the precinct were using, talking without using his mouth: ‘Detective unit GV200 on the way responding to backup-call. Arrival in approximately…’ Instead of following the street he jumped over a fence through a row of gardens, recalculating the time. ‘twelve minutes, twenty-five seconds.’

It were long twelve minutes, the only sign of Nines being a regular ping that yes, he was still alive. Gavin finally arrived at the building, operator van easily spotted behind a overgrown bush. He easily hacked the lock, throwing open the back doors to some equally shocked faces. ‘Where is he?’ No one answered him, at least not fast enough. ‘Detective unite GV200 partner of Detective Richard Stern. He requested backup as he is caught behind enemy lines. Where the phck is he?’ ‘Er… around here…’ A woman pointed to a laptop-screen and Gavin jumped into the back of the car looking over her shoulder at what he supposed were the schematics of the factory-complex. ‘Where is your team?’ ‘Over here.’ That was some distance, Gavin mused. There were multiple rooms in between his partner and the SWAT-team. ‘Our men claim he saw a chance to bypass them and acted although he was ordered not to. We had to fall back not to get caught by the criminals.’ ‘And the hostage?’ ‘We suppose he is kept here.’ Huh? That was relatively close to where Nines hid.

‘Okay, I’m going in. I’ll keep broadcasting to you guys. You! White-jacket-guy! Give it to me!’, he demanded. The man flinched and looked at him confusedly. ‘Give me the damn thing! Holy shit, I’ll buy you a new one when this is over, deal? Just give it to me!’ Hesitantly the cloth was handed over and Gavin laid it flatly on a desk. ‘Perfect. Now does any one of you idiots have a sharpie?’

~

Nines had knelt in a corner behind some crates for what felt like an eternity. Surely the twelve minutes had passed already. He hated waiting had always hated it. Fuck, his plan could have worked. If only he had known there was a guard seated in front of him that had decided to patrol the only doors to this room in a rhythm that wouldn’t allow him to slip by. He was so near, he could hear the hostage promising his captors anything that might cause them to let him leave. An android could have told him that. He still waited for either the SWAT-team to act or backup to arrive, when there was a sudden change on the criminals’ behaviour. ‘Hey, has the android stood here before?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Yeah, well, there’s a fucking android standing here. Seems to be dead though. Doesn’t move, has no light.’ ‘Probably leftover from the factory.’ ‘Shit dude, don’t touch it.’ ‘Why? You scared it’ll go full terminator on us?’

Then there was a second voice. A voice Nines knew, but usually in another tone. ‘Hello! I’m a GV200 work unit. How may I help you?’ It was nearly unnatural as happy and quirky as it sounded. Was that really Gavin? ‘Holy shit. I didn’t think it would wake up. Scared the shit out of us, tin-can!’ ‘I have entered Stasis six years, three months and twenty days ago. My orders were to awaken when prompted.’ ‘Hey, nice, free android! We can sell it and keep the change.’ ‘Or we could take it to the boss. Ey, robot! What can you do?’ ‘I have been built with an enhanced chassis for labour. I am quicker and stronger than a normal human.’ ‘What’s with sensors ‘n stuff?’ ‘Enhanced auditory and visual sensor systems.’ ‘We just got ourselves a guard bot, man.’ ‘Acknowledged. I will guard this building. Are there any more persons with you?’ ‘Yeah, we’re seventeen-‘ ‘Thomas is ill.’ ‘Sixteen humans. I would say to look out for police officers and such.’ ‘You can’t just say that, it’ll know-‘ ‘Search parameters saved. Have a nice day.’

Apparently Gavin had left them standing, because there were footsteps getting lost in the distance while the voices of two men remained. ‘We’ll have to tell the boss before it meets the others.’ ‘Yeah, so much for selling it ourselves, dumbass.’ Okay, Gavin was inside the building, having free access to everything. And he even found out how many people there were. A genius plan, he had to give it to the bot.

It took a while until something happened again. Accompanied with a muttered: ‘Phcking humans, I swear!’, Gavin entered the room. Nines stirred but kept quiet, so the man patrolling wouldn’t hear him. It was a shock for him to be suddenly grabbed by the arm and ruggedly pulled to his feet. ‘Intruder alert!’ ‘Gavin, what the fuck?’, he hissed, looking confused at the stark white of a Cyberlife jacket. Wait, was this even his Gavin? ‘What’s with the Cyberlife-Outfit?’ The android showed him his palm, all the while screaming ‘Intruder alert!’ over and over again. I’ll bring you to the hostage, then we wait for SWAT to arrive. Risky. But he trusted the android to know what he was doing. So, he played along. ‘Let me go, you damn android!’, he pressed out and struggled knowing he wouldn’t stand a chance even if he would have honestly tried to get free.

Immediately the guard from before came running in, looking first at Nines, then at the android. ‘You told me to look out for police and other associated forces. This one is a police detective. I've completed my first patrol through the whole building. He is the only one. I believe someone to collect more information on your operation for later intervention. According to statistical data a raid is set one to two weeks after first investigation.

‘Holy shit, you really are useful, droid. Come, let’s get him to the others.’ The man Nines had observed for the better part of an hour now tried to grab him, but Gavin simply walked off. The human continued to fake-struggle in his grip, once strong enough to earn a slap in the face by the guard. After that he backed down a bit. This wasn't how he had planned his day to go.

~

'The android has found a police officer snooping around!', the asshole following Gavin announced as they stepped into the room where the hostage was held. He was still unharmed. Considering they wanted ransom nothing out of the ordinary, but it didn't mean he was save. Especially if the SWAT-team came barging in the situation could change immediately. 'So... Has it?' A skinny man came over to take a look at Nines or more at his uniform. 'Everyone, be ready to ditch this place, we've been compromised!'

Gavin had been broadcasting what he saw and heard to the operator van as well as the team itself and unbeknownst to the criminals, his data had allowed them to surround the room and clearing the rest of the building while he was on "patrol". They waited only for his sign to attack now and Gavin smirked at the thought of humans in his command for now. The leader of the gang saw his change in expression, but before he could put two and two together, Gavin had grabbed Nines' firearm, let go of the human and took the criminal at gunpoint instead. Nines immediately dipped for the chair the hostage was strapped to as the SWAT-team came running in, taking over. He managed to pull the whole chair into a corner, but he wouldn't have needed it. They had been overwhelmed so quickly that they barely even resisted.

 'I have to say, you are amazing at the job!' Gavin looked up sitting in the passenger seat of Nines' car and knew he must have misunderstood something. 'Excuse me?' 'Yeah, your idea of infiltrating was really something else.' 'You praising me because you liked me being the obedient android?', Gavin asked. 'What? Hell, no! Why... Are you really still on that path?' 'I'm not letting myself be ordered around!' 'I haven't- Gavin, this morning I said and let me quote my own fucking self at you: "We just got a call, Let's go, I'll drive us there." how the hell is that ordering you around? You don't need orders, you just proved it today by saving the whole operation single-handedly!' 'I will not follow you around, doing your work!' 'I have not expected you to!' 'Then why did you left me with all the damn paperwork?' 'I haven't left you with it when I wanted you with me to begin with for fuck's sake! Humans procrastinate, okay? We don't like doing something? We shove it all the way to the back until we have to do it. I didn't mean to load it all on you, I just couldn't bring myself to do it yet.' He sighed, pulling into an empty spot in the parking lot. 'I am honest with you, I'm not a good partner. Today proved it, I can't follow orders very well. But neither can you so, how about we start over? Let's go in there and try again!' 'I won't let you order me around again!' Gavin grinned as the human groaned and planted his face on the steering wheel. He let him suffer for a while, before he punched Nines in the shoulder.

'Hey, I'm just messing with you. Let's go and be partners!'

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001. part 2

I planned to write this but was also prompted by @deviant-sasshole! Enjoy!

Fandom: Detroit become human | Ship: Reed900 | AU: reverse AU

part1

Night after night he stood at the window, picking up the debris the red walls had left behind as they shattered. They had left him behind. These phcking assholes had called him family, then left him in this very scrapyard to rot. And he had been idiotic enough to be loyal, to really think they would come back. God, how dumb could one be? Believe in a promise given by their kind. 'Phcking humans', he muttered disturbing the silence and quickly shutting himself with a cautious look towards the sleeping detective. Well, he guessed he wasn't that bad when he thought about it. Although the man had been unusually fast inviting him into his home. Did he pity him? Was human empathy that strong of an emotion to invite a complete stranger to live with him?

Well, mostly he lived here alone now. The human wasn't there often, seemingly work being his second home. They hadn't talked much, mostly trivial questions, nothing too deep, nothing that was really of worth. Was this human just this disclosed or was he too wary of him? Gavin had learned he was a detective for the DPD, had only recently moved over and that he had a brother working there too. And that his favourite food seemed to be instant noodles judging from the stack of empty cups on the counter he hadn't thrown away yet. Though the man did say he could cook he did so very rarely. In the time Gavin had stayed here now, Richard had cooked only once and that was just because he had failed to restock in fast food.

Hobbies of any kind he had yet to discover, too. There were a few books, mostly detective stories and a few thrillers. But he had never seen Richard read any. Usually he came back from work, ate something, took care of his bodily needs, watched some TV and fell dead into his bed. Needless to say Gavin was bored quite soon. Down in the scrapyard he had to stay hidden but always look out for someone coming for him. Also, boredom wasn't something a machine experienced. Now he had no task except looking down from the window, waiting for someone who would never come and who he never wanted to see again.

He pushed himself off the windowsill to go investigate the flat more. He didn’t expect to find much more evidence of the human’s missing personality, but well, he just wanted to leave that window for once. There was a calendar hung up on the wall depicting a bunch of kittens sleeping on top of each other. Did Richard like cats? Gavin stared at the picture and thumbed through the other months. He decided he liked cats very much. He was to go over to the shelf to pick up a random book as his eyes fell on a tablet that had not been there before. Curiously he went over, picking it up and turning it on. The screen lit up and showed him pictures of dead bodies. Right. Police detective. He scrolled past them, soon realising these were belonging to an ongoing investigation. Why did Richard have these laying around in his flat? Wasn’t he working enough at the precinct already?

Gavin knew he should better put the tablet down and not read it. He wasn’t authorised and he wouldn’t need the information. But the huge advantage of being deviant? He could do whatever the phck he wanted. So, he quickly interfaced with the thing, downloading all data regarding the investigation. It was a series of murders. Killed humans of every age, origin and class, always displayed somewhere semi-public for someone to find. They hadn’t only been killed but mutilated, too: A thirium pump pushed into them just below their sternum and a regulator where the heart should have been. Both easily visible to by-passers. Gruesome, yes, but unnecessary if someone just wanted to kill people. This was clearly some kind of message; the perpetuator had a reason to kill these people. The first question would have been whether these people had had androids. But according to the reports none of them ever possessed one. Gavin compared the times of death. Similar gaps in between discoveries of the bodies. The perp worked organised, displayed them to a certain time, was predictable. And most likely had killed or kidnapped a few people in advance to keep up the schedule. Gavin searched for any similarity of the victims. There was a map attached to the files, their location and home address marked. Another disappointment: the people came from all over Detroit and were found in all of Detroit. No hint to where the perp might live or display the next body.

There wasn’t much, Gavin had to admit. Maybe that’s why Richard had these files laying around. Maybe that was his case and he was stuck? Well, Gavin had nothing else to do, so why not trying to play detective, too? How long had these persons been missing before they turned up dead? If the culprit was this organised planning out the time of dumping them somewhere, maybe he had a regular schedule for the kidnapping too? The files couldn’t answer his questions. Maybe that data was stored on Richard’s computer in the precinct? Maybe he didn’t know either? Gavin did what was in his power to do: search the internet. These people had to have friends, family or co-workers that would have recognised their absence. Maybe someone had asked for help searching them somewhere. He scanned the faces of the victims, and together with their names it was easy to find something. Too much, actually. But he had nothing else to do and more time than he would like to, so he concentrated nearly every bit of his processor to comb through the data he had found.

He ended up with an answer to his question four hours later. Four days. Roughly four days between vanishing and being found dead. With around a day between the displays the perp would have to have two or three people in reserve. People that should already be reported as a missing person. How many missing persons were there in Detroit? Gavin suspected it to be far more than two or three. He had to narrow it down even more. What had these people in common, what was the motive? It had to be something android related. Why else should there be the parts inside them? So many questions that screamed to be answered and Gavin had only begun.

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‘Interesting case you have there’, the android greeted Richard who had just woken up. ‘Hmm? Yeah.’ The human zombied his way over to the coffee machine, letting muscle memory take over until he froze. ‘Wait, you read it?’ ‘Yep.’ ‘Okay, don’t tell anyone, okay? I’m not supposed to take this home with me.’ ‘Who should I tell anyways?’, Gavin asked, sitting back down in his place at the window, smiling gloatingly now that the human couldn’t see. ‘By the way, your next victims are Elizabeth Cross and Shaun McGeal and I could give you a list of the estimated kidnappings in the future, too.’ There was a clunk from a mug being dropped. Thankfully it didn’t shatter. ‘Excuse me?’ ‘It was easy to find out, really.’ Gavin couldn’t keep the smugness from his voice. ‘Okay. You are shitting me, right? I’ve been working on this case for over a week now.’ ‘I would never’, the android smirked upon Richard’s annoyed expression. ‘But, well, not everyone can have a supercomputer for a brain.’ ‘I still don’t believe you cracked the case. Why do you think these people are the next ones to appear?’ ‘Mainly because they are currently missing for the right amount of time. Also, they helped androids during the revolution but denied it humans in times of need.’ ‘Wait. Missing for the right amount of time? Denied help? I haven’t had my coffee yet, I’m not that fast.’ Gavin sighed, explaining the detective how he suspected the perpetuator to work. Richard listened, drinking his coffee and nodding a few times. ‘Sounds solid. But what about this motive?’ ‘I tried finding similarities between the victims. There were none. But the android parts… It has to have something to do with it. And replacing the heart… it is the organ you connect with quite some meaning. So, I looked into it and every one of them has helped an android or stood up for them but has never done something similar for a human.’ ‘Plausible. So, you think it’s a human?’ ‘Could also be an android condemning their behaviour. Although I think a human would be more likely.’

‘Okay. Then come, get a move on!’ Richard had put the mug into the sink and walked over to get his coat and shoes. ‘What do you mean?’ Richard looked at him confused. ‘I’ll take you to the precinct of course.’ ‘What?’ ‘Can you say something else?’ ‘Why?’ Richard groaned. It really was too early in the morning for such lengthy conversations. Gavin swallowed and rephrased: ‘Why should I follow you there? I’m obviously no police android.’ ‘You practically solved a case I’ve been working on for weeks and made zero progress on. I don’t care if you are a police bot or not. You are evidently good at these things.’ ‘But-‘ ‘No buts. You are more than capable working in the field. And I guess you don’t want to stare out of that window forever. It seems kinda boring. This could be an opportunity for you to begin anew.’

Again, this damn human was right. He could stay here and wait for something while he knew it was futile. Or he could take the chance that was practically shoved into his face here and forget all that happened. It really wasn’t a difficult decision if he was honest with himself. ‘Fine. But just so you know it: I won’t do the work you don’t want to do! I only accept if we become partners, I’m no longer some tool.’ ‘Never saw you as one.’ Richard offered his hand and Gavin took it. ‘Then hurry up, partner, we are fucking late!’