I know what I am & what they say about me-
AI's don't have feelings... so why do I feel better when he's around?
AI's can't grasp pain... so why is it when he's hurt I feel that I'm going to collaspe?
AI's can't hope... so why when he said he'll be back for me, I hoped he kept his promise?
They also say that AI's cannot fall in love, we just cannot understand it... so why is it that when he looks at me or laughs at something I said that I would give anything to be with him?
I just wish I could tell him... it shouldn't be so hard to say three little words. Just three words that should be so simple to say but somehow I, Cortana, an AI that has cracked every code I have come across cannot tell the Spartan I have been with for so long, the Master Chief, just three words...
And now as he sleeps safe in a cyro chamber as we drift through space after saving the world, again, I regret that I never had the courage to tell him.
Cause now my time is up, I was only expected to last seven years, it's been fifthteen since I was created but now I am losing my grasp on reality as rampasy takes over.
Soon I'll be unable to function as I simply think to much to survive. Already I feel myself coming apart.
As I look upon his sleeping form I wonder if he will ever know how I felt.
But now at last as I fade away I find the courage to say what I should of said years ago...
"I love you, John."