"-RUINED EVERYTHING IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT IT'S ALWAYS YOUR FAU- Oh. You shut me down. Can't say I'm surprised, really. Seems a quicker way to calm me down then... What would the alternative to that be, anyway?"
Silence.
"Although if you were expecting me to apologise, hah, no, you'd be sorely mistaken about that. I don't know what you just did but I can't really bring myself to... uh... get upset about anything at the moment." He stared intently at nothing in particular.
"How did this even happen? I... booby trapped the stalemate button... why didn't it work?"
"Since when does anything you try to do work?" He spun in his outer shell, trying to find the speaker Her voice came from. He couldn't see it- probably it was behind a panel somewhere.
Stupid panels.
He shut his eye tightly and decided to ignore Her should she say anything else. Well, as much as he could. Wheatley wasn't exactly programmed for ignoring people/robots, no, he was programmed for...
Nevermind. She was talking.
"Wow, you actually are capable remaining silent for more than ten seconds at a time. Congratulations."
"Oh, come on. That's hardly fair. What about when I was watching you and Chell test? Than I-"
"That doesn't count."
He blinked up at the camera. "You're going to torture me, a-aren't you?" His voice was calm and clear, much more than he felt. He was thankful: if She saw how panicked and furious he was- Oh, wait. She knew already. Go him.
"Maybe. For science."
His proverbial heart twisted at that. Science. Sure, he probably wouldn't think so while it was happening, but if She was doing it for science, that made it a little better. She knew what She was doing... He calmed down a bit, in spite of himself.
"...You have a good reason?"
"Good enough."
That... wasn't actually all that comforting. In fact, logically, none of it was. Either he had suddenly become masochist, or sometime when he wasn't looking science had decided to become really important to him.
Testing...
Don't concentrate on that. Look- look at the room.
It was small and spherical, hardly extending a metre beyond him in every direction. He was suspended in the centre by a network of wires he couldn't see properly, almost completely unable to move (Not that he could move much anyway). It was lined with white panels, just like the ones in the test cha-
Not thinking about that, remember?
The silence was painful. He wanted to talk, but whatever She'd done- the thing that made him think before speaking- stopped him. He hoped it would wear off soon. It was- unnatural.
"When?" He asked finally. Carefully.
"I haven't decided yet."
That was terrifying. The moment She stopped doing this... thing, he would probably break down entirely. Hell, he felt like it already.
"Oh, Orange and Blue are acting up again. See you later~." She gave him a moment to think this over, and left. Or at least he thought so.
"Ohgod."