Instant Crush - a David 8/OC AU fic
Part 1 : Pure Morning
*Our thoughts compressed,
Which makes us blessed,
And makes for stormy weather*
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Helena stared blankly at the wall as she listened to the voice emerging from her phone. “You did what now?” was all she could really manage. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
“I rigged the drawing!” came the cheery voice in return.
“You…Natalie, You’re going to get fired. You’re probably going to get sued too. I’m not going to be a part of this-“
“Helena, it’s fine! I covered my tracks, it can’t be traced back to me. I thought you’d be more excited about this,” she finished, sounding rather disappointed. Who wouldn’t want to lease out one of the new synthetic David 8 prototypes, anyway? And for free! Sure, it wasn’t a forever home kind of situation, but her homebody friend needed some companionship. Helena wasn’t exactly burning up the social scene, not that she ever really had, and a handsome synthetic hanging out around her house with her could surely only serve to improve the situation.
“You know I can’t accept this. It’s way too much, and I’m not exactly the target customer for a service android anyway.” As interesting as the prospect of a synthetic living with her was, she really didn’t have any need for one. She didn’t have any disabilities, and she didn’t need a caretaker. She was more than capable of cooking, cleaning, and all the other domestic responsibilities that could reasonably fall upon an independent 20-something woman living on her own. She didn’t need assistance, and a David 8 unit would be wasted on her. “There wouldn’t even be anything for him to do here, he’d be bored out of his titanium skull.”
“His skull isn’t made of titani-”
“You know what I mean. Whatever you did, you need to undo it.”
“…It’s, um…it’s a little late for that,” came Natalie’s voice from the other end of the line. Helena was about to ask how it could possibly be too late when she heard her doorbell ring. She remained quiet as she slowly and cautiously made her way toward the front of her small house from her bedroom. The bell rang again when she was just a few feet from the front door. Helena cautiously leaned again the large wooden door and peered through peephole.
Two men stood just outside, both wearing Weyland Industries logos on their clothing, one looking extremely bored, the other wearing a mildly curious expression. “Natalie…is there something else you’d like to tell me?”
“Yeah, um…he should be delivered to your home sometime today. That’s what the tracking information shows.”
Helena unlocked the knob and the deadbolt and swung the door open, staring at the two men before growling quietly into the phone, “We’re going to have a very long talk later, Nat.” She hung up the phone and shoved it in her back pocket, and her dark green eyes met the crystal blue ones of the tall, blonde synthetic, a little surprised at just how…beautiful they’d made him. An almost unnoticeable smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth, but Helena didn’t notice it as she shifted her gaze to the human male beside him. “I guess you have a delivery for me?”
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author’s note : Please don’t hate me David rp'ers! I just love me some David! Also, this may not end up having a concise beginning/middle/end, more like I’ll write as it comes to me. It’s been years since I wrote anything, so don’t judge me too harshly 🤖