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❝I am the one who ruined me; I did it myself.❞
【ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#F54D70 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #FF7256】
|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||
【ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#F54D70 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #FF7256】
|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||
Jace could feel it in her chest, the sinking feeling that something terrible was going to happen. When the fight broke out, she picked the lock on her door, watching as Fina killed the humans. Her eyes widened, knowing that something was off. This was not Fina, this was not the android that was so attached to her ward, Minnie. No, androids could not kill humans, so what was this creature standing before her? Jace hid around the corner. Surely, if she could kill these three, Io was a monster that should not be trifled with. No, Jace would simply follow to see where this path would take them. Lita was in the process of being rebuilt, a new XENA unit. Her previous body had been terminated, thus leaving the idol in a floating void until her new body was ready. There was a reason there was only one XENA, because two would be too many for Dr. Grover to handle.
Even now, it seemed she had her hands full with the stealth unit holding her hostage. Jace did not step forward, rather, she was transfixed on the delicate body floating within a capsule. So small and delicate, so vulnerable, breakable. Not even Lita was as fragile as this being, kept alive only be the devices that tethered her body to this world. Jace was not sure why, but she felt a sudden need to protect it, the human. Callisto, read the name plaque and pieces began to fill the puzzle. This was her, this was Lita. She slept so peacefully, even as the capsule tilted and tipped, swaying dangerously. She was naked, her only clothing the scars that graced her pale skin. Pale hair floated in a languid halo around her head, as long as a fairy tail princess, trapped within her tower.
With one swing, the glass shattered. Jace stepped forward as Callisto swayed, held in place only by the cables. They were cut away, body limply falling forward. The android lunged, but Fina was faster. She caught the human easily and took off into the dawn. "After them!" Dr. Grover screamed, collecting herself over the sound of the explosion. Not one to be out done, Jace tailed them. What was Fina doing? Jace's hands balled into fists, she could not allow Fina to hurt her, she wouldn't let Minnie or her Mother either. If anyone would find out what was happening, it was Jace. Was Black Jack involved? Was this all a plot planned by Lady Reiss? But why would she want Callisto?
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The silence of darkness was all she had known. Jumping from machine to machine, watching the world through eyes that were not her known were what she had become accustomed to. Ones and zeroes, the click and hum that came from the life support machines, those were sounds that were familiar to her.
Suddenly, they all stopped.
A silence she had never known pierced the air. Breathing became difficult without the apparatus that had been doing it for her for years. No longer in stasis, her fingers twitched and her toes wiggled, but her movements were limited due to lack of muscle tone. Deconditioned, wasted, she was thin with limp, pale hair. You could count her ribs, visible and prominent, fed through the small button in her abdomen, but only enough to make it day by day. There were bruises on her skin, like a peach, they had blossomed the moment she was touched.
Callisto had forgotten what it was like to live within her own body. It was painful having to remember to breathe, it was agonizing as her body registered the pain that sat within her bones, eating her alive. The cancer was killing her, no longer slowed by the stasis tank. She had a handful of months, a year at best, before it would creep to the rest of her organs. Dr. Grover had given her time, she had extended Callisto's life, but she had not cured her.
Her eyes slowly fluttered open, it was immediately evident that something was wrong with the crystalline blue orbs. They were cloudy, as though fog danced across her vision. Callisto could tell it was light outside, but there was nothing else she could see aside from a white page. She shivered, but whatever was holding her offered no warmth; an android no doubt. Why? Why was she taken? Where were they going? Callisto was going to stop Dr. Grover, but it seemed even her last desire to save those children was taken from her. "Where.... are... you... taking... me?" Callisto managed to gasp like a fish, panting from the effort.