AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Thanks to everyone who took their time to read this!

Also, Mr V, you are the greatest English teacher I have ever seen.

I own nothing. Just the story and my own characters: Amelia Tyler and Karen Rattmann.

[Bold text are my GLaDy's inner voice. xD]

(Sentences in parentheses are Amelia Tyler's thoughts.)

Hope you enjoy this!

-She looked around, unable to process anything. Dead bodies were scrambled on the floor- especially children. The neurotoxin was thick in the air, she saw the green gas swirling up in the air.

So she pumped more oxygen through the air vents.

[Caroline...]

She neared one of the bodies nearby, it was a little girl, with long red hair and green eyes. Her eyes were still open and lifeless.

Killed in an instant.

[Caroline...what have you done?!]

Her knees felt weak in a sudden, as if the hydraulics in her body was unable to carry her. She fell to her knees and hesitantly reached out for the girl.

[I...I didn't do this! Caroline, why?]

She closed the girl's eyes as a manner of respect.

"I'm sorry..."

She muttered, the mechanical tone in her voice was almost unheard of.

"I'm sorry, that was not me!"

She shook her head as she lifted herself up, taking support from her hands.

[Caroline, why are you doing this? Why are you abusing me? You know what will happen to me after this!]

She buried her head in her hands, trying her best to calm down.

[They won't believe me.]

She jumped when she heard the door open. Of course, the air was clean now, and the scientists could get in. She blinked a few times to get rid of the tears in her eyes. And then she turned around, her gaze meeting them. She braced herself for the shouts.

"You caused all of this, didn't you?"

She opened her mouth to protest, only to be interrupted once more.

"Of course you did, why am I even asking you that? No human being would do that."

The scientist in front of her was flailing his arms as he spoke in anger, his face flushing red.

"No human being would kill an approximate number of 452 children, along with our own scientists!"

GLaDOS finally lifted her head up, glaring at the man in front of her, biting the inside of her cheek. The bring-your-daughter-to-work day incident was not her fault. She did not want to do such a thing: lock the entire facility and flood it with the neurotoxin. They had caused it. The change in her behaviour, it had started a week after Caroline's installation. Her own behaviour sometimes creeped her out.

"I...sorry. I am sorry."

But she had to keep up. The scientists wouldn't listen to her anyway.

"Being sorry and apologising won't bring them back."

And there it goes.

What did they even want from her, to take a hobby: resurrecting the dead,maybe?!

She cringed when the artificial blood hit her tongue.

[Next time, do not bite the insides of your cheeks. Not even when you're angry.]

This new android body they gave her was fascinating. GLaDOS never knew that a body like this could be very practical when compared to her main chassis. The only disadvantages of this body were the wide range of emotions and physical pain.

She let out a sigh as she headed back to the Central AI Chamber, not even daring to stare at the male scientist once more.

"I am sorry."

[Why did that happen?

How could Caroline take control?

How could I ever forget my own existence at that moment?

How could I let Caroline hurt so many people?]

GLaDOS was sitting on the stairs-the ones that were right next to her main chassis-as she tried to find answers. Since an hour and 3 minutes, she could not find any. She wanted to find where exactly Caroline was in her systems,in her brain. She ran diagnostics, checked out many statistics and initiated many check-ups; but no, there was no trace of Caroline.

Whimpering in frustation, she buried her face in her hands.

[What have I done wrong?

Why doesn't anyone help me?

Why hadn't the scientists proceeded to talk to me normally?]

It wasn't her, she never intended to do such thing.

She looked around in the AI Chamber. She was still all alone.

For the first time in her existence, she needed somebody. But a human would never enter the CAC after all of that. They all were afraid of her by now. But she wanted to be loved, to be cared of; not to be ignored and feared! Being ignored, feared and shouted at hurt her greatly in the last few days. Because of Caroline, she was now blamed with many children's death- and she did not know what to do! She could not even trace her in her systems, for God's sake.

[Do AIs have a god?]

GLaDOS got up back on her feet, going down the stairs as her eyes were on the gate. Still, no one was there. She slowly neared the large desk near the gate, eyeing the red phone standing on it. Maybe she'd try to inform someone? But who?

[No one likes you, GLaDOS, just quit it already.]

She gently pulled the chair towards herself.

[No one cares. No one thinks about you. No one lets you to explain anything.]

She took a seat, her arms crossed, getting support from the desk.

And you won't be able to do anything about Caroline, so they'll shut you down forever for good. You'll be dead soon.

Her own thoughts were enough to get her even more emotional.

Emotions were foreign to her, illogical. She did not know how to control them, and that hurt much more.

Sighing, she ran her fingers through her hair. If only she could explain everything to someone. If only...

She heard the mechanical door open with a hiss. GLaDOS immediately got up, and spun around to face the human.

[Finally. Someone to talk to.]

It was a girl who stood right next to the entrance, a girl around eighteen or nineteen years old.

[What's a scientist's daughter doing in here? She's supposed to be running away.]

The girl's short brown hair were in loose waves, shining brightly under the fluorescent light. Her eyes stared right into Hers.

"Um...hello. I was looking for Dad."

GLaDOS quirked an eyebrow, why was the human still here?

"Hello. Your father? What is his name? Maybe I can help.

She did her best to keep the tone of her voice soft. And the female human ignored the offer of help.

(She isn't human. I have found GLaDOS instead of finding my dad.)

[Please, don't get away from me like them.]

The girl shuddered.

"You...you're the AI, right?"

She let out a pre-recorded sigh.

"Yes."

GLaDOS hated this. Now the human would run away without a single thought.

"Are you going to kill me? Like the-"

"No. I am not intending such a thing."

She interrupted the girl's words, she really did not want to hear the rest of the sentence.

Meanwhile, the human was taken aback by the female AI's words-she had killed many others;why wasn't she killing her now?

"W-why not?"

GLaDOS sighed once more-when did ever humans stop asking questions? Especially about unpleasant subjects?

[That wasn't me, human.]

"I do not want to. Besides, it wasn't me who caused the incident."

[It was a parasite crawling in my systems.]

"You didn't do that? Then who did?"

The girl neared her with short steps.

[She will not run away! She'll stay!]

"Caroline Johnson. She's uploaded into my systems. I...It seems like my Genetic Lifeform component is somehow alive and denying my authority here."

The girl simply placed a hand on Her android body's shoulder. GLaDOS visibly tensed up, but she seemed to relax a bit when she smiled at Her.

[She's harmless,she can't do anything at all. She won't.]

"So...it's like...two people stuck in one body,eh?"

The situation could not be summarized better.

[Smart.]

"Yes."

The girl's grip on her arm tightened. GLaDOS couldn't help but tense up again, humans had never touched her-until now.

[Like they would like to touch me. They think I am a monster.]

"Hey, calm down, I didn't mean to upset you. I am sorry. But you can talk if you wish."

She stared at the girl in the eye.

[Shall I tell her? Everything? Maybe she won't believe me. She's a scientist's daughter, only God knows what he or she has told her.]

"You alright? Would you like to sit down?"

But what if she does? This girl can think on her own, right?

"If you don't feel like it, I'll come by later,okay? It's been a hell of a day for you, I understand."

[She understands.]

Now or never.

"What is your name?"

She asked in a sudden. The girl in front of her was clearly taken aback.

"W-what?"

"Your full name, please."

The girl looked at her in the eye once more.

"Amelia Tyler."

The daughter of Henry Tyler, who was the head of the AI Division.

[How nice. But I will speak this time. I cannot stay silent anymore.]

GLaDOS slowly took a seat in the chair nearby as Amelia chose to sit down on the floor, staring up at her.

"I'd like to speak, Amelia."

The girl smiled softly.

"I'm listening."