[Gem has gone to speak with Tron. Tron is the only one who might understand why she would be struggling with what happened, her processors trying to pare up the conflicts in her data. She had been happy during the shift, she had had a family. Something she'd never truly had before. Having that ripped away seems unfair. But Tron, whether a true
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N-no, it's okay... I don't mind at all. Um, I'm sorry for crawling into bed with you like that...
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Don't apologize. It was...nice.
My species can't have children. It was...a new experience, for me.
[Though it hadn't felt like something new at the time.]
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Perhaps we could sort something out, then. You are younger, yes?
[Forgive her, she doesn't know a lot about human-ish ages]
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I'm nineteen, kind of. It's a little complicated.
[And not really something he talks about a lot, either.]
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[She pauses again, then]
If you like, we could...have lunch together, once a week.
Or something like that?
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[A Creator, yes. But one who abandoned her.]
I'm glad I've done a...good job of it.
My programming is to take care of fellow Programs. Perhaps that is where it comes from.
I don't mind if you want me to still...serve that purpose, for you.
[It actually warms her circuits to know he sees her as a mother. Perhaps she has done something right. But she feels awkward, worried she can't live up to what she was the past week.]
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