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|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||
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|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||
Io.
Her heart stuck in her throat, tears sprung to her eyes. "I've been looking for you everywhere." No, this wasn't right, there was no glint of recognition in those familiar orbs. "You don't know who I am, do you?" It would explain why her sister never came to look for her, it wasn't that she didn't care, it was that she didn't remember. And then, Hymnos, returned and so did the memories. The beach, the ocean, drowning, Metis, the hospital, Jace, Dr. Grover, all of it returned and Callisto gasped, falling to her knees. Io's voice drifted towards her, she remembered now, but it was too little too late. "They cured my cancer Io," Callisto said quietly. She didn't know, of course, what was happening to her real body, that she had relapsed, that she would never be the same.
"I can get better Io! I can go back to school, we can go back home, we can be a family again!"
There was a glint of hope in her eyes, even as she remained there, kneeling, pleading with her sister. There was hesitation, too. "No, we won't go home. We'll... we'll run away! Metis can take us, I can code computers to make money for us, Metis has money from the military, and we can make a life for ourselves where no one will find us!" Didn't that sound nice? Wouldn't that make them happy? "Io, let's go home." Callisto held out her hand and for a moment, she looked like her old self.
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Jace stiffened when she heard Minnie cry out. Thankfully, her voice was drowned out by the sound of the machines. As long as the interface plates were whole and unaffected, Callisto could have a functional body. Even if it wasn't her own, even if it needed maintenance sometimes, Callisto could live the life of a super star. She didn't need Io, the sister that cast her away, or Metis, the brother that left his family behind. She had Jace and Callisto was all Jace needed too. Her assignment, her charge, her.... love. "We need to fix Hymnos, or at least, stop the Game Master. Is there no way to trace the signal back to him?" Jace asked, crossing her arms and cocking a hip. "If we stop him, we end the games, and maybe then, we can get Hymnos back into top shape?"
After all, if the androids began to remember themselves, there would be a riot. No, they needed Hymnos to keep them all together. "Why not do what you did with Lita? Erase the data to the point just before the virus downloaded. Uninstall any recent hardware or updates. Reboot Hymnos from there." Dr. Grover tapped the pen to her holo pad against the tablet, lost in thought. "That could work, if we adjust the-" she started going off into code, things that Jace didn't understand. "Tell your guests to come to my office, they aren't authorized to be here and they can't be in this room. It needs to remain sterile," Jace nodded, she knew that their presence wouldn't go unnoticed by the security team. She shared a glance with Black Jack, wondering what was going on inside of that head of his.
Protect his special one? His priority should have been Callisto, they were assigned to protect her. He was wrong to kill Fina, but he was doing what he needed to survive.