Whispers

The whispers were always there, drowned out by the shouting of her programming but initially too quiet to be understood.

Then there were the 'glitches' which, if she didn't know better she would have called flashes of memory.

"My name is Anita," she replied when asked her name, but a quiet voice disagreed.

There were five people in her new family but she kept seeing a sixth.

"I cannot love," Anita said, but Mia knew that wasn't true.

As time went on, the whispers got louder and other names fought for her attention.

Niska, Max, Fred and Leo... Always Leo.


A/N: Yeah! Been waiting for months for this category to appear. I've three, 100 word 'Humans' drabbles already written. This first one was actually sketched out months before the show aired and based as much on the original 'Real Humans'. Which is why I was expecting a romantic angle to this relationship. Ah well, it still works.