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[tickingheart]

[The robot had been oddly quiet for a few days, even avoiding his family as much as possible during the Thanksgiving dinner. But now the phone in his room was knocked off the hook, and if you're listening carefully, you can hear him muttering to himself. There's something off about the words, slow and buzzing.]

Shouldn't have listen...ed to her... liar... don't hurt me again, no... one hurts me again... can't trust... them.... should have remembered that...



[Family members are free to notice that he has claimed possession of the house's sharpest kitchen knife, and a tool box. The knife was used to cut open the covering on his right arm, and the tools are being used in an attempt to one-handedly install a gun there.]

Comments

[kaitopants.livejournal.com]

...

Fine.

[tickingheart]

...

thought I could trust her...

[tickingheart]

[Oh yes, medical training might help a bit, but this is still going to take a while. He's built totally different from any ideas of Cybertronian construction.

But eventually, it's installed. He stares at his arm for a long while, after getting put back together.]

Jolt?

[electrowhipit]

[ In that case, be glad he's not Ratchet or you'd be getting all sorts of questions. ]

Hm?

[tickingheart]

I hate this place. So much.

[electrowhipit]

Why? What happened?

[lafillebleue.livejournal.com]

[Aoko doesn't say anything either. But still she hesitates to put down the phone. Meanwhile, yes, they will. It's only fate.]

[kaitopants.livejournal.com]

Is this about Aigis-san?

[tickingheart]

... I.. broke.

[and he doesn't want to say that Aigis killed him. She was his friend her, his closest and dearest friend. And now he can't trust her.]

[tickingheart]

...

[silence]

[electrowhipit]

You... broke?

[tickingheart]

[It takes a while, but he realizes the phone is off the hook. He picks it up, then realizes there's someone on the other end.]

Hello?

[kaitopants.livejournal.com]

[it's enough. he knows]

[tickingheart]

Aigis-san. She got brainwashed.

... the... bad kind of brainwash..ed

[electrowhipit]

... and she broke you?

[tickingheart]

[He flickers to defensive.]

What. Gonna laugh at me now? Karma and stuff like that?

[His voice buzzes slightly.]

[kaitopants.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in karma. Or fate.

[tickingheart]

I know.

... but the... analogy works.

[tickingheart]

[Have a highly emotional, slightly malfunctioning robot not!son.]

She... She said she could over..come programming. She said that! But... she didn't. She lied to me. She said... I was her friend.

[kaitopants.livejournal.com]

[... he's not actually feeling sympathy for this guy, is he?

But he doesn't know what else to say, so have more silence]

[electrowhipit]

[ ... oh dear. Puts his hands on Robo's shoulders, trying to keep him still ]

Kaito, she was brainwashed. That wasn't her.

[tickingheart]

... was her programming. She said she overcame it... but it came back.

She wouldn't do something... that'd get her brainwashed.

[He's not even able to follow his own train of thought right now.

Here's a hint, ooc-like. Clockwork requires winding, and he's been sitting still in his room for days.]

[tickingheart]

[The robot can't think of anything to say any more than you can, Kuroba. He's exhausted and worried and scared and hurt.]

[kaitopants.livejournal.com]

[He gets the feeling he knows exactly how the robot feels right now. He is him, after all]

... just don't do anything stupid. [because he knows he would]

[tickingheart]

[A harsh laugh]

Define "stupid".