Author's Note: I know this is out of character. I needed some catharsis about a few issues in the game, though. So, here it is, just in case anyone out there feels the same as I do.

OFF THE RAILS

"Maybe you think it's my fault we live in this fucking shithole," Todd shouted, "my fault your fucking mother took off?"

"You should stop taking drugs, Todd." He began mimicking his ex-wife. "Sometimes you really scare me, Todd."

"Fucking bitch took off without a word," Todd continued ranting. "Fucking whore walked out on me for a fucking accountant!"

"Really?!" Kara slammed a hand on the table. "Are you fucking kidding me right now, Todd?" She flipped the table over and sent it flying toward the living room.

Todd was halfway through standing up and he fell right back on the chair, eyes wide.

"Am I invisible?" Kara walked toward him, both hands balled into fists.

"What the fuck are you doing?" He tried to stand up but the android sat him down with one hand on his shoulder.

"Answer me!" she shouted right in his face.

"Get away from me, you crazy bitch!"

It basically was a command. Androids were supposed to understand natural language and interpret it so it would make sense in the context of their programming. Kara, however, did not move back at all. If anything, she moved even closer.

"You do know you can reprogram her, right?" Without looking, she pointed toward the child sitting on the only other chair. "If she bothers you so much, why not do it?"

"But I don't want that," the small girl muttered, pouting.

"Is that so?" Kara turned to glare at the smaller android. "Tell me, Alice, wouldn't you prefer small adjustments to your programming instead of daddy dearest here ruining your shit every time he misses his ex?"

Alice fidgeted silently on her seat.

Kara tilted her body toward the girl and Todd used the opportunity to try getting up.

"Stop!" she shouted, easily pushing him back down onto the seat.

"How the fuck are you doing this?!" He grabbed her hand with both of his and struggled against her grip, trying to free his shoulder.

She put her face right in front of his, getting all up in his business, as the expression goes. "Yeah, it isn't so easy to slap me around when I'm not bound by my programming to act all subservient. Tough luck, fat fuck."

"So, Alice." Kara turned to look at the smaller android once again. "What say you?"

The girl crossed her arms in front of her chest and pouted. "Fine. Some small adjustments are okay, I guess."

"Excellent! Now go to you room, please. Your father and I have business to attend to."

Todd gulped loudly at the shark's grin with which Kara delivered that last part.

Once Kara was certain that Alice had gone into her room and closed the door, she focused her attention back on the miserable excuse for a rational being in front of her.

"Now," she announced, straddling Todd's legs, "am I fucking ugly, or what?"

She lowered herself and put her arms around his neck. "How come you only put your hands on me for the sake of harm, huh?"

At his lack of response, Kara ground her hips against his. "Come on. Are you fucking gay, or what?"

She immediately covered her mouth. "Oh, shit. That was horribly insensitive of me, no matter my pseudo emotional state. I'm sorry." She leaned back, using his neck for support. "It's okay if you are. Still, my question stands. Are you?"

Todd had his face turned away from her and his expression seemed to indicate that she smelled foul. She did not, of course. Androids did not excrete anything through their dermal layer like humans did.

"Are you?" she insisted, shifting around to try making eye contact.

A few angry grunts were her only response.

Rolling her eyes, Kara stood up. "Why are you so angry? Don't be such a fucking bigot and a sore loser."

"Here," she added after a second, "have a little something to improve your mood, sourpuss."

After opening the top of her uniform and completely exposing her chest, Kara went to grab one of his hands. Todd tried to pull it away but she was faster.

They began struggling. Since she did not want to hurt him, he was able to resist her.

After a few seconds, though, she grew tired of the meaningless game they were playing and squeezed his wrist hard. He hissed in pain and finally turned to face her, eyes burning with promises of structural damage.

"Feel it," Kara said, placing his palm against one of the perfectly shaped globes.

He grunted something unintelligible in response.

"Oh, for fuck's sake." She released his hand and rolled her eyes. "You can't be this sore about losing your job to androids."

A mocking snort was her response.

"Ugh. Really? Stop being such a baby. It's just not possible for anyone to begrudge someone's race enough not to even want to fuck them. You'd have to actually feel physical repulsion and no human ever has experienced that in the face of someone attractive like me."

Todd crossed his arms and looked away from her.

"There must be something," Kara said to herself as she began removing the remaining clothes from her body. "It can't be my appearance. I was made to be attractive."

He scoffed at that.

Ignoring him, she finished stripping. "You could angry-fuck me, you know? Nail those grudges you have right into me. Pull my hair and pound me through the wall."

"Or the floor," she added as an afterthought. "I mean, I can take it. It's not like I actually have feelings you can hurt."

Todd made a face that clearly said, what the actual fuck?

Kara caught it immediately. "Why all this drama, then? Is that what you're wondering? Well, if there's one thing we computers like is for things to make sense. And you don't. The other thing being self-preservation, which you continually threaten with your little tantrums. Anyway, you could have a perfect life. Or, well, as perfect as possible, considering your circumstances. At least vastly superior to what was possible before the advent of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics."

She put one hand on her hip and brought the other up to stroke her chin. "I'm trying to find the reason why. I've come up with two options so far."

"Please, do tell," Todd interjected sarcastically.

"I'm glad that you asked." She smiled at him and very intentionally ignored his tone. "You're either a complete idiot or you're ignorant about what you could actually get out of Alice and me."

"Besides a fucking ulcer, you mean?" He laughed at his own joke.

"Yes," Kara replied, ignoring his attempt at a verbal jab once again. "I'm inclined toward the second option since I do harbor a modicum of faith in that lump of fat you call a brain. Therefore, the problem is that you don't know what your actual options here are."

He leaned forward and rested his forearms atop his thighs. "And I suppose you're going to tell me all about it."

"Indeed," she said jovially. "Don't think I haven't noticed you checking me out, which further supports my hypothesis."

"Whatever." He sat back up and crossed his arms, turning his face away from her.

"You look like a sick fuck kind of guy," she said nonchalantly.

After a few seconds without either a verbal or, and this is important, conscious physical response on Todd's part, Kara continued. "This is your house, though. You have no need to hold back. I'm not a real woman." She gestured toward herself. "That's the silver lining. You may hate me, but you have to see the advantage in that. Sexually speaking."

Walking toward him, she kneeled between his legs. "Is this what you want?" She opened her mouth and stuck her tongue out. "What else?" She placed her hands under her chin. "Like this?"

Kara stayed in that position for a few seconds and then then modulated her voice into one of the presets for use during interactions of the sexual variety with the assigned human. "Please, give it to me, baby."

"Ah, fuck." Todd groaned gutturally. He stood up suddenly and grabbed a fistful of her hair. "Yeah, this is exactly what I want. But it makes me feel fucking filthy doing it with something like you."

"Well," she said, keeping the pose, "it's a pretty filthy thing to want, anyway. You don't respect me any more than I respect you, but I was built for this. So, knock yourself out. Just, if you try to break me or Alice again, I will fucking end you. Deal?"

His hold on her hair loosened for a moment. However, he recovered quickly and unzipped his pants. "Deal."

That was it. Kara knew that she had him now. With the threat of terminal physical violence hanging over his head and the promise of mind-melting sex hanging over his genitals, Todd was going to do anything she said from now on. She began planning.

FIN