Title: Childhood Days
Rating: PG
Word Count: 415
Characters: Sumdac and Sari from a distance
Notes: This came about from a discussion on Don's board after the web episode of Meltdown. My crazy mind took over from there.
Summary: Sumdac watches his daughter and remember why she is different for him.

Sari was dashing off to meet with the alien robots again. In some ways Sumdac laid the blame on himself, that his daughter felt more comfortable with machines then with humans. He turned away from the window as the yellow one, Bumblebee, open his door for her, and she quickly disappeared into his interior. He moved over to his desk, unlocking a small drawer, and removing a picture of a young woman. "Mai, you would have been so proud of, Sari," he whispered to the picture, remembering a time not long before Sari was born.

Mai had been studying organic biology when he meet her, both filled with hope and big ideas to make the world a better place. The became friends as the traded ideas, that then growing into love, but it wasn't strong enough to have them give up their life work. They had nights together and they had talked about having a family later. Later had turned out to be to late, or so he had thought.

The doctors told her she would never be able to carry a baby. He and Mai had been upset at the news but it only forced them to find another way to have that child. That was when Mai thought about using the Nanotech with organic material. "If this works, Sumdac, just think how many couples that can not have children would be able too if this works." So they research, did trail and error test, so that they could combine his robotic tech with human genes. And finally, years and tears later, he and Mai held their baby girl, still covered with the nanotech fluid.

Sitting the picture aside, he picked up the folder under it. He tried to continue with the research after he and Sari lost Mai. "But it still doesn't work even if Sari is the proof that it does. I didn't think that you saying she was special was that important but now…" He ran his hand across the folder cover, fingers gliding over the title. Was the fact that these robots were here the reason that Sari survived when so many others failed. "I wish you were still with us, Mai. Maybe you would have sorry this puzzle faster then I ever would."

He dropped the folder back into the drawer, the light catching on the title, showing it before the picture covered it back up, and it was locked in it's drawer again.

S.A.R.I.

Synthetic

Artificial

Robotic

Intellience