Tags: Mildly Dubious Consent × Dubcon Kissing × Mild Father-Daughter Relationship × Daddy Kink × Androids × Smut ×Fluff and Angst

Here's another daddy!Gold verse. If this isn't your thing, turn back now.

I can't feel anything. Where am I? Everything is so quiet. I can't hear anything. Nothing's here. Empty. I've got to escape.

"Okay Belle, bring yourself online."

The soothing voice commands and Belle has no choice but to do what the voice says. She felt like she was in a dream, as if the person she was, was not real. The voice she hears isn't real. The chair she sits in, the room she's in and the light that blares on her from above is not real. It all felt like a dream. It was a dream. Belle was in a dream.

"Hi." Belle says while graciously smiling at the woman the voice was coming from.

"Do you know where you are Belle?" The woman asked.

"I'm in a dream." Belle said simply in a standard female's voice.

"Yes you are, do you know what dreams are?" The woman asks to demonstrate to the people who are watching behind the two-way mirrors that were placed on each of the walls, that Belle's logic would never allow her to know the difference between what was real and what was a lie.

"Dreams are the mind's way of communicating, without actually speaking to yourself."

"That's right Belle. Now tell me, have you ever questioned your existence?" The woman asks to demonstrate that Belle would never question why she wasn't born, but made.

"No."

"And what about your father?"

"My father?" Belle asks with a curious expression.

The woman taps her fingers quickly across a computerized tablet in her hands. "And what about now?" Belle sees the woman tap the upload button on the tablet, and Belle feels a rush come over her. Like her mind was switched around. Thoughts and memories flutter in her head until the jumbled mess became clear. She knows her father now.

"Oh yes." Her voice now changes to an Australian accent. "Of course I know my father. His name is Carter Gold." She looks around the strange room, she's been in so many times, in so many of her dreams. Her father is nowhere to be seen, she starts to get worried and begins to panic. "Where is he? Have I done something wrong?"

"Limit your emotions." Belle's frown fades as the fear for her father's safety leaves her. "You will get to see him soon Belle, but first I need to ask you some questions."

Belle thinks the woman seems nice enough and she did tell Belle that she would be able to see her father very soon. Belle doesn't mind the questions either, she's very curious too. At least, that's what she's programmed to be.

"Okay Belle, how old are you?" The woman asks to exhibit Belle's new memories.

"I'm 17."

"What are some things that you like to do?"

"I like to read and go to school. Oh and of course make my father proud of me."

"What are your goals?"

Belle gives the woman a warm smile. "To always make my father happy, by being the best daughter I can be."

"That sounds like wonderful goals. Tell me more about yourself?"

"Well I'm adopted, but my father loves me all the same."

"When you go home and you don't see family pictures that include you, does that worry you?" The woman asks to show the watchers that real life logic will not effect her.

"No, I'm sure my father has his reasons for not having any baby pictures of me, but that doesn't mean we can't take new pictures and create new memories."

"Excellent Belle. One last question. Would you ever hurt your father?" The woman asks to show that Belle was designed never to hurt a human.

"Oh god no, I wouldn't even harm a fly."

"I know you wouldn't Belle, now wait here while I go get your father, he's looking forward to meeting you."

Belle smiles and nods while the woman gets up from her chair and exits the white room with the two-way mirrors placed on each of the four walls.

It was the year 2094 and a company called EnchantedWorld was on the move with their latest innovation. The synthetic human object with stories, or S.H.O.W.S. for short, were artificial human beings with programmed memories (or stories) and thoughts to make them think and seem real. They were also made to feel real. Their life-like bones were made of a synthetic substance and would crack and break just like real bones would. The blood that flowed through the veins in their bodies was fake, but was warm and crimson red just like the real thing. Organs, skin, hair, and nails, were all imitations but they worked and felt like the real deal. If you owned a S.H.O.W.S you basically owned a human, except you were the one to control them. You could control every thought, action, mood, and word with a click of a button or a simple command.

Carter Gold just paid 1.5 million dollars for his very own S.H.O.W.S. so that he would soon have his very own daughter to love and play with for the rest of his life. Belle wouldn't age, and she was programmed to understand that this man she never met once in her life was her father since she was a baby. Although it wasn't her who needed to adjust to this fact, it was Carter.

"So would she ever question why she'll never go to college or why she doesn't age?" Carter Gold asks Belle's programmer.

"No, Mr. Gold. Belle is programmed to be content in a loop. Meaning, to her everything will seem like the same day, she's just waking up with the same memories of the previous day. Time doesn't move for her." Merlin says. Not only was he Belle's programmer, but also the master engineer and head of the coding department.

Carter Gold is behind the two-way mirror, along with Belle's programmer, her designer, and her behaviorist. He watches his new daughter behind the glass staring absentmindedly into the empty white room. He was having second thoughts on having an artificial human to take care of and pretend was his daughter, he considered asking for a refund and quickly fleeing the company. But he heard so many great things about these S.H.O.W.S. He'd read somewhere that they helped many who struggled with depression, PTSD, or other ailments but that wasn't Carter's case. Carter was just lonely. He never had a family, he never had time to, all he had time for was work and his only family was the millions of dollars in his bank account. It was enough for a while, until he retired and truly felt alone. He didn't choose a S.H.O.W.S that would represent a wife, instead he chose the companionship of a daughter. A daughter that would fulfill his dreams of being a father.

"She's been uploaded with the requirements you requested." Dr. Ruby, Belle's behaviorist, adds while handing Mr. Gold the computerized tablet with all of Belle's false human characteristics. They were based on a 20 point Richter scale. Belle's creativity was an 18, intelligence 18, empathy 18, drive/passion was set to 17, loyalty 17, motor skills 14, and courageousness was a 19, intuitiveness 5, curiosity 20, love 17. "So as you can see, Belle's a bookworm, she has your charm, she's intelligent, she's highly curious, but we scaled down her intuitiveness to counteract her high curiosity."

"And her memories? What does she know about me?"

"Everything." Merlin said to put Mr. Gold's mind at ease. "She knows everything that you filled out in your compatibility survey when you had your first psyche assessment. We've spent over 1400 hours building her program to fit your life like she was there from the beginning." Merlin assures him.

"Does she know what I look like? Will she recognize me?"

"Yes, the photos that we took of you, including your voice sample, have all been written into her program." Merlin answers quickly. Mr. Gold notices how confident he seems in his answers. Perhaps many people before him had the same concerns about their S.H.O.W.S. but that still wasn't enough to put his doubts away.

"What if I mess up, or slip and there's a paradox or something?"

"Mr. Gold, we here at EnchantedWorld have thought of everything. Any inconsistencies that she may encounter, Belle will see it as nothing. Her mind just won't let her process it. She wouldn't even question it." Dr. Ruby reassures him.

"For example, if anyone were to tell her that she wasn't a real person, it wouldn't effect her. She would simply overlook the statement." Merlin added.

"Mr. Gold, I'm Ariel, Belle's designer." The red-haired woman said as she shook Carter's hand. "I created Belle a little over 30 years ago and she was my first build. I made her veritable and versatile so she could be used as child or as an adult. As you can see, she's very small, 5'3, slender, I gave her blue eyes, she's a brunette, full pink lips and high rosy cheek bones. Some of her previous roles she played in EnchantedWorld were a princess, a warrior, and recently until your program she was a librarian."

"Well you've done a wonderful job, she's very beautiful."

"Do you have any more questions before you meet your daughter?" Dr. Ruby asked.

Carter Gold has a ton of questions but he can't form any of them into complete and understandable sentences, so he doesn't ask them. He nods his head and Belle's behaviorist takes Mr. Gold inside the room that houses his new daughter.

"Belle." He called out nervously as he enters.

"Father?" The hopeful expression she gave him warms his heart. She gets up from the chair and runs to him enveloping herself into his awaiting embrace.

"Yes sweetheart it's me, it's your father." Carter said squeezing her tightly. She's warm and feels so real. He closes his eyes and loses himself for a moment while he holds her close.

"Oh daddy I've missed you. I wanna go home." She said almost distraught, Carter notices how afraid she seems and he hates seeing her like this. He may have just met her, but he quickly knew that all he wanted to do was comfort her.

"Limit your emotions, take your seat Belle." The woman said and Belle had no choice but to do what the voice told her to do. The behaviorist made Gold realize he didn't appreciate anyone telling Belle what to do. It was clear how attached he became to her just because of the hug they shared.

"Will anyone just be able to command her?"

"Not at all, only you. And well, her attribute team: myself, Merlin, and Ariel. But that's all." Dr. Ruby consoles him while giving Carter a pamphlet with a list of verbal commands. "Okay. There's are only 4 commands you really need to worry about, if you ever want to shut her down, you need to say this phrase:"May you find rest." Belle's head slouches over and she stares blankly off into the room.

"To turn her back on, you say this: Belle bring yourself back online." Belle shifts again and turns to face the pair in the white room and greets them with a simple hello in her standard female voice. "And she'll reboot herself."

"Now when you want to go into her settings menu to maybe tweak her program, you say analysis. To leave her settings mode you say, as you were. You can also halt her motor skills by saying freeze."

The demonstration was a lot for Gold to take in. She looked so real and life-like and to see Belle being turned on and off like a machine, left him unsettled. When he hugged her she even feels real. Her skin's soft and smooth, he could even feel the tiny hairs on her arm and see the sparkle in her eyes when she smiles. These small details are what makes her seem so human. He makes the ethical decision not to use her commands to his benefit. Carter wants the full experience of having a real daughter not some robot he could control.

"There's one more thing I need to explain. S.H.O.W.S have a mode in their settings called improvisation mode. This allows her to come off script and Belle will be more in depth, her reasoning will become obscured. And with Belle's curiosity already at 20 points, I would recommend you keep her on script to have a more enjoyable experience. Do you have any other questions?" Dr. Ruby asks with a reassuring smile.

"Not that I can think of right now."

"Well if you ever think of any, just call or bring her in. We're not here just for Belle, we're here for you too. If you're not adjusting well to her, let us know and we can tweak her program to what you prefer."

"That won't be necessary. She's perfect."

"I'm happy you feel that way." Dr. Ruby hands over Belle's computerized tablet that controls her whole being to Mr. Gold. "Belle it's time to leave, your father is ready to take you home."

Belle stands and walks to her father and smiles lovingly before placing her hand out for him to hold. Gold was still mesmerized by her. She was a real life doll programmed to be his daughter so he wouldn't be lonely. They walk hand and hand out of the building to his awaiting car that the valet brings from the parking garage. He opens the door for her and she gets in gracefully and then straps herself into her seat belt.

The car ride was quiet, since he didn't know what to say to her. He only kept looking at her from the corner of his eyes. His mind begins jumping to the worst possible situations: What if I break her? What if she doesn't love me? What if I lose her? His abandonment issues rear their ugly heads.

"What's wrong daddy?"

That word was so unfamiliar to him. "Nothing's wrong sweetheart, but can I ask you a question?"

"Of course."

"Do you really love me?" He asked, afraid she might say no, forgetting that she was programmed to always love him.

"With all of my heart and I promise dad, I will make you proud."

"Why do you want to make me proud?"

"Well daughter's are supposed to make their fathers proud."

"I suppose so." Gold never had a daughter, let alone any children. He isn't worried about Belle being a good daughter because she was programmed to be. He's more worried about himself being a good father to Belle.

"So what's the first thing you want to do when we get home?" Belle asks exuberantly.

Carter was all smiles. He loves her lively demeanor. "Well after we get you unpacked I thought maybe you would like to eat something, do you eat?" Carter asks but he quickly regrets it and worries if this would effect her logic. You don't ask a real human being if they eat.

"Dad what a silly question." Belle chuckles lightly. "We can cook together, doesn't that sound like fun?" Belle asked overlooking the conundrum just like the scientists said she would.

Before long they reach his home. Belle's new home was a 3 story mansion nestled in a secluded forest with tall trees surrounding the house. Belle gets out of the car excitedly while Carter grabs her things from the trunk along with her user manual. He opens the door for her and watches Belle walk aimlessly around his foyer.

"Is something wrong Belle?"

"Of course not father everything's perfect and just the way I remember." She said. Carter recalls the visit from the scientists to his home a few weeks ago. They took pictures of every detail of his house. Now he understands what the photos were used for.

He follows her as she reacquaints herself to her new home. She was absolutely stunning to him, everything he asked for was there. Even the Australian accent he requested. A perfectly beautiful living doll to keep him company. Belle seems happy too, pleased with her new home. Belle notices he's following her and she feels a sense of security as he trails behind her with fondness and devotion. Carter Gold may have never been a father before but that isn't going to stop him from trying to be one for Belle.

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