"Very good, as usual, you know what to do," GLaDOS sighed. Orange and Blue had proved to stupid to run tests with, so she got another human. It hadn't been hard, she just entered a chartroom, hacked into each users' computer to find all she could about them and then lured a suitable test subject to Aperture using an online alias.
Her test subject, Chris Freeman was the nephew of one of the greatest humans in history, who happened to be a scientist for Black Mesa. Perfect.
Chris could talk, she had heard him when he first arrived, but he had become almost completely silent over the course of testing, completing each chamber and becoming the second best test subject she had ever had.
Chris nodded slightly and walked to the elevator without a word.
Unfortunately, Chris had reached the end of testing and had to be disposed of. As the elevator opened, Chris stepped onto a moving platform that slowly moved towards the waiting incinerator.
Instead of screaming, Chris sat down and calmly waited. This was new, people usually tried to escape right about now, but he had instead placed his portal gun in the elevator before it closed. This had to be some form of trick, no human faced death this calmly unless they were insane, and Chris had proven to be anything but insane. But the teenaged boy just sat there waiting incineration. No, she could not let him die, she had to study him, see why he would except his fate so calmly, this was true science, she was learning something new, which hadn't happened since that day.
The platform stopped and moved Chris back into the elevator. He was then brought to GLaDOS' chamber.
"Congratulations," she said, sounding genuinely happy. "You have passed the final reaction to danger test, as a reward you will be given whatever you want as long as it is within possibility to get. GLaDOS waited for his response eagerly, you could tell a lot about a person by their greatest desire.
"I- I would like to stay here, not as a test subject but as an employee," he finally stuttered.
What?