And I've Seen How You Live

[electronichound]

Characters: Batou and Major Kusanagi[Closed]
Location: Batou's quarters
Date: [during Bryn's party]
Rating: [ PG-16. Self-harm in this log, so please be warned if this upsets you.]

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[electroniccrane]

Pieces were falling into place, especially now that Batou had switched to her native language. That was hearing. He was carrying her, so the feeling in her back and legs was touch. Motoko had learned how to use a completely unfamiliar body before, and she had at least had a few years of practice in a biological one, which put her one up on her younger self

[electronichound]

It didn't seem like that long to be gone

[electroniccrane]

There was a man there--oh yes, Batou. The woman could trust him. She reached out to take whatever it was he was offering her, and the skin flopped down from the back of her hand, revealing a flash of white bone underneath.

The experiment had been a success, but the woman wasn't sure what to do now that she'd shown herself to be a counterfeit. Batou would know.

[electronichound]

His hand froze as she took the jello shot. He could see the bones and tendons working in a place that should have been under her skin. All Batou could think about was bacterial infections.

She could get sick like this. Blood-borne infections were some of the worst, and given that she was currently venting blood into a (thankfully) somewhat clean environment just meant that there was an open passageway directly into her circulatory system and therefore to her major organs.

He didn't allow her to grasp the jello shot and instead brought it to her mouth. His voice couldn't shake because it wasn't a voice, just a vocoder, and his artificial body couldn't show the pain inside at seeing her like this.

"Swallow this," he said again in Japanese. "Do you feel any pain? Did you scratch your hand open?"