Chell drifts between two dreams.
In one dream, she lives with her loving family in a town that managed to survive and thrive on top of a deathtrap. In the other, she's inside the trap, hovering between life and death thanks to the twisted mind of a supercomputer, overseen by a mechanical sphere who constantly apologizes "for being so bossy and mean, and is there anything you'd like to apologize for, like nearly killing me?"
In one dream, she knows she could never have trusted herself with that selfish, shallow facsimile of a human being, in the other, she knows he was always more than a machine.
Every night, Chell goes to sleep in a vault with the core who betrayed her, and every day, she wakes up next to the man she's grown to love.
Two dreams, two lives, two Wheatleys.
She can't tell which one is real, and she'll stay this way, between dreams, until someone opens the box.
Inspired by the creepypasta "Doug's Real Life"