A Night to Remember - Chapter 10
“Perhaps love is like the ocean, full of conflict, full of pain. Like a fire when it’s cold outside, or thunder when it rains. If I should live forever and all my dreams come true, my memories of love will be of you.”
Cleo smiles softly as she finishes the song and looks at Chloe, who pulls the last note from the cello.
Elijah shivers but it’s not from fear, no. He’s touched. He looks at his maker, who is confusedly drying tears off his face. Mister Kamski looks smaller in sadness.
“It was beautiful!” Elijah awkwardly blurts out, applauding the girls. He would appreciate it if Mister Kamski could compose himself to something jollier and less awkward.
Instead, Kamski looks at him with reddened watery blue eyes, and the scrutiny does naught but increase the awkward feeling Elijah is experiencing. His LED flickers a distressed red.
“Have you learned anything about life?” Kamski asks his mirror image, then starts looking around the room for something.
“Your question is quite unclear…” Elijah answers disquietly.
“Are you alive?” Kamski asks more expeditiously and hands a bathrobe over to him.
Elijah approaches and allows his maker to dress him in the soft garment. “I’m not entirely sure that I meet the criteria that describe a living organism, but if deviancy is a virus, and if viruses are neither alive nor dead but a special type of—” he interrupts himself as he turns around and meets the man’s eyes. He takes a pause to reflect some more over his answer. “Maybe it’s not about biology or chemistry,” he reckons.
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When Elijah Kamski wakes up next to an android double of himself, he knows he's made a mistake, and Chloe has to deal with it for him. In a chain of unfortunate events, the android ends up "right where it belongs" if you ask some people in this fandom. Yes, this is a crackfic. Yes, it's written very seriously. Yes, you need to read it even if you don't know it yet.
Words: 7070 - Status: Completed
