AN: Hello. These are a few stories about the other cores besides Wheatley. Some of them are fluff and some are "emotional". They can be taken as either slash or friendship...so far... So whatever floats your boat! I'll rate it T to be safe! Some also take place after Portal 2 and some take place before Portal. AND for the sake of these stories they are human :3 because i can! Enjoy!

Fact laid on his back, arm folded behind his head, looking up the ceiling. Today it was his turn to have the bed. Unfortunately, these were the days he couldn't get to sleep. Because the bed was such a privilege, the blankets and pillows went to those sleeping on the floor, so he was always cold and uncomfortable sleeping on the bed.

Every four cores shared a room. Each room connected to GLaDOS by wires that took the energy from each of them. Fact had the pleasure of staying with three corrupted cores. Of course, he wasn't corrupted, oh no. He was just stuck with the other imbeciles! Adventure thought his shit didn't stink, Intelligence Dampener was... an intelligence dampener, and Space was obsessed with... you guessed it... space. Fact was capable of saying correct facts at will and was incredibly smart. He was the smartest. And also most handsome. At least he thought so. But his thoughts were the only ones that mattered. Only sometimes did he get a twitch and say off the wall data. But that didn't mean he was inferior! He shouldn't have to be with these idiots!

Fact wondered how the others slept at night. He heard morality, anger, intelligence and curiosity all shared a bed. How did that turn out? He sat up looking at his roommates. Adventure was snoring softly and Space murmured about stars in his sleep. The other one... he never stayed with them. He thought he was special. He thought he was a worker in the lab with test subjects. He would walk around aimlessly. They rarely ever saw him. Fact never paid any mind to him anyway. He was a moron. Fact laid back down, his head hitting the mattress hard. A few moments went by and sleep was about to take him before little hands shook him awake. He opened an eye to see Space staring at him. He had huge expressive eyes. Fact was shorter than Adventure and Space was shorter than both of them, making Space look like a child. His energetic personality didn't help either.

"The-the monsters! I-I-I can hear them. Hear them! Space... S-space monsters! outside. Outside in space! the space monsters..." He whispered. Fact sat up and indeed heard something outside their door.

Tink Tink Tink

Turrets. Their tiny legs were hitting the floor outside as they walked. Space was afraid of them. And with good reason. Fact rubbed his face and groaned.

"Fact:" he started. "There are no such things as space monsters..." He patted Space's head reassuringly. He twitched and added "But there are such things as volcano aliens." He blinked before snapping out of it and saw Space's petrified face. Fact sighed and motioned for him to crawl into bed to his left. It was Space's turn for pillows so he brought the ones he had into the bed with him, which Fact was thankful for. After a few moments of trying to get to sleep, Fact heard a few shivering whimpers from the core next to him. He turned to look and saw the little blonde was shaking with his thumb in his mouth. He almost laughed to himself. He really was just like a kid. Behind him a blanket was thrown on the both of them. Fact quickly turned around to see Adventure smiling.

"Looked liked you two girls could use a little warmth." Adventure always took it upon himself to act as the manly figure to the other two, something that really got on Fact's nerves. He thought Adventure was pompous and a jerk. Adventure thought he was even cool enough gave himself a name. Rick.

But, like now, he did have his moments. Fact smiled up at him. Rick turned to walk back to his place on the floor. Fact twitched then blurted out "Fact: Body warmth is the most successful in making a person warm!" Fact was glad that the lights were dim so Rick couldn't see his blush. Rick let out small laugh.

"Well if you wanted to get me in bed so badly why didn't you just say so?" he teased while slipping into the bed to the right of Fact. "Shut up..." said the pink haired man, moving over to give him room. The bed really wasn't big enough to hold three men so they all had to sleep close. Space's and Fact's backs were against each other's. Fact's face was pressed against Rick's chest and had nothing better to do with his arms but to hold Fact. Both men blushed but neither said anything. Fact just waited until the morning where they could all go back to hating each other. He smiled to himself, thinking that it was absurd! But he secretly wondered if that's what a real family was like.