For a second, she thought she was back at her cell, thanks to the cold air. Her eyes told another story. It was a small room with brick walls and the door wasn't even a door, but just a hole. The only light source was a dim lamp hanging over her. As the rest of her was starting to wake up, she felt a stinging pain in both underarms. They were wrapped around a pillar behind her back at the corner of the room. She now noticed there was a brick pillar in each corner. Drops of water kept crashing into the cold ground, echoing through the whole room. She was already panicking when she heard a voice from behind that hole in the wall.

"… Understood. I will keep her here until further notice." When she saw his emotionless face, it all came rushing back to her. The RK900 loomed straight over her, looking down at her, much like the last memory she had of him. Instinctively, she leaped back as much as possible, sending a burning sensation to her already sore arms.

"I apologize for the rough treatment, but it was a necessity." He says with no sincerity. She has read enough about them to know that they had social relations program, which is one of the reasons she had problems of trusting that they meant anything said. This one didn't even try to hide it.

"Necessity? A necessity to punch me unconscious and kidnap me?" she yelled back, her tears aching to escape, which she barely held back. Her heart was racing and her mind was spaghetti. This is not happening. This shit only happens in movies.

" Correct. My mission required it"

"Your mission?" she asked looking as if she couldn't even understand his language. What on earth did his mission had to with her? And wasn't all androids according to themselves, deviants? Or alive, as they like to call it.

"Yes, but that is confidential information. To obtain it you must have a level 4 clearance"

"What the fuck? Just let me go! Please, I won't tell anyone, I'll just go on home and have myself a nice night on pornhub" she ranted as she tried to use her old spaghetti to find a way out of this. Her heart stopped a moment as she looked back at her words. Why did she says such things when she was terrified? Not that she really cared about that right now.

"Not possible. What is pornhub?" He looked genuine confused. Despite being a killing machine, he immited innocence.

"Uhhhmmm, you don't want to know that, just forget it" she said feeling a little flustered to even a brought it up in the first place. He seemed to contemplate a minute before his LED started to flash yellow. She could have sworn she saw a slight grimace of disgust before it was completely wiped away.

"Yes, you were correct. I should erase that". This whole event had almost made her forget what situation she was in. Her mind was starting to patch itself together, and somehow she managed to untangle a spaghetti.

"My pills! I need to take them, or I'll might die!" she pleaded and tried her best puppy eyes. She's full of shit, but she did indeed take pills and she might die, but those two are not correlated. His eyes shot up wide for a quick moment before going back to normal.

"I see. What pills would that be?" he asked as Emma thanked the gods that he bought it. She was also lucky that his mission included in keeping her alive, that gave her some time. In a panic, she managed to dig up a memory of the medicine her sick mother used to take and ask for it. Like that, he was running out the door. Finally she might be able to force herself out of this tight ass rope.

As the three detectives walked back into the police station, Kay prayed for her life that Jeffrey wouldn't actually fire them for not having the suspect with them. She carefully knocked on the door to his office and entered as he told them to come inside.

"Ah, back already? But without the suspect I see…"

"Yeah, but hear us out. We went back to the apartment and, based on the little we found, it seems like the suspect has been kidnapped." Kay explained as she sat down in the chair in front of the desk.

"We also found some blue blood, but it does not match with any android. I need your clearance to look through CyberLife's database." Connor advised.

"There was nothing on the street cameras outside the building?" Jeffrey asked Gavin, as he apparently had checked before going to the apartment earlier.

"Nope, nothing" Gavin answered. Kay sighed annoyed and asked Connor to check again. No harm in being completely sure. Also, she didn't trust Gavin enough to take his word for it. In less than a minute Connor's LED stopped flashing yellow.

"It would seem these recordings have been looped."

"God dammit Reed… Is there any way to fix them?" Jeffrey asked, sounding slightly stressed.

"Yes, but it would take some time. Maybe I could check other cameras close by and see if the unlooped ones have anything. Jeffrey only nodded and Connor went into searchmode. By a struck of luck, he saw an android, RK900 model, that was found nowhere in the database.

"Hold on… He is at the pharmacy downtown right now!"

By the time Emma's capturer came back, she was done screaming and found a position that didn't make her want to die. Her fucking loose shoulder did it again. As her body had went into a full fight or flee mode, she desperately tried to pull herself away as she heard that familiar click. There was no doubt about it. Her betraying shoulder just had to dislocate, today of all times.

"I got the pi… What happened to you" he said and rushed over to her, almost like a worried parent. He investigated her broken shoulder and quickly diagnosed the problem.

"You weren't supposed to get hurt. I have failed. I failed my mission!" he said while looking sincerely disappointed while his eyes was locked on the floor. In a frantic attempt, he managed to pull her shoulder back to place and with the click and her scream, he did a human sigh of relief.

"Good. That seemed to fix the software error". She didn't know what that meant, but she assumed his mission was alright again.

"Here" he said and crouched down to her level. He took a pill out of the box he had. She had no choice but to open her mouth and accept it. She kept it in her mouth as she waited for a chance to spit it out without him noticing. A couple of awkward seconds went by without his eyes ever faltering away from her. That moment she realized he wasn't going to stop until she did. She hoped it wouldn't kill her as she swallowed the pill, which seemed to please the android. He stood up to a more relaxing position and just stood there a good couple of minutes. Even with these circumstances, the awkward atmosphere was so thick you could slice it. Emma didn't know if she could stand just listening to her thoughts run wild or feeling her body be in a constant panic anymore.

"What's your name?" she asked, hoping to relieve some of her own stress and distract herself from images of her being murdered.

"I was never given a name. For me, that wasn't necessary and would make it easier to track me"

"Don't you want one?"

"Want one?" he asked as he seemed to try and calculate what that meant.

"How about… Tim? Nah, u don't look like a Tim" she rambled on to keep her sanity in check.

"What do you think?"

"I… I don't know" he answered as it seemed to have peaked his interest a little at least.

"C'mon, surely there must be one name that you fancy" she continued, a part of her wanting to believe there could exist some part of him that was alive. Someone that might show her some mercy.

"Well, I read this book one time with a character named God. Humans seems to like it"

"Ehm, yeah, that's not really a name" she chuckled.

"Your a model RK900 right? How about just, Nine?" She said, knowing fully well how uncreative that is. He contemplated it a little, looking up as if he was imagining it to himself.

"Nine? I suppose I like it" he answered, seemingly pleased.

"Nice to meet ya then, Nine!" She said faking a politeness although the name sounded a little silly. Also was that a small smile she saw in the corner of his mouth? She didn't get any more time to figure out if it was a real one or not as Nine suddenly turned around as they heard a loud knock from the door in the other room. She saw him grab a gun under his jacket and take cover by the door to the room they were in. Please be help!

By following the RK900 at the pharmacy, the three of them found where they might keep Emma. It was a one level storage room with just two windows at each side of the building, which was barricaded. It was an old building, with old fashioned lock on the main door.

"Hold on, I might be able to pull up a floor plan that can help us get in" Connor states as his eyes shake and his LED yellow as he finds the right floor plan.

"There is two rooms. First one is…"

"Fuck this…" Gavin mumbled and went to kick open the door like a badass, but failed like a loser. The door barely budged and made a loud bang, making the other two jump. Kay gave him a stare of death, but before she could start scolding, Connor interrupted with a cough, the one that humans made to get back to the main topic, he continued:

"As I was saying, first one is the main entry, where bigger equipment is held. Furthest back there is the second smaller room, which in truth really is just a poorly build storage."

"I didn't come here for a fucking architecture lesson." Gavin complained.

"I suppose." Connor says before kicking the door open with his inhuman strength.

"Idiots…" Kay mumbled as they hurried inside with their guns ready. Whoever was in here probably had already heard them, but they still tried to be silent. They cleared the main room before Kay signaled Gavin to investigate the smaller room. Before they could react, the killer android had knocked him unconscious and aimed his gun at Connor. Emma who had been quite hopeful, now recognized the man lying at the door. Of course it had to be those guys. Thanks a lot.

"No, don't!" Emma screamed as she saw Nine point his gun at someone in the other room. However, it didn't affect him at all as he fired a couple of shots. Time seemed to slow down as Kay realized that Connor was perfectly aligned to the bullet's path and ran with all her might to push Connor out of it's way. For a moment, she was relieved as she saw no blue blood, but a burning pain in her shoulder screamed that it hadn't gone as planned. Swiftly, Connor dragged Kay out of harm's way and took cover behind a shelf.

"What were you thinking?" he almost screamed as his LED was blinking red. Before she could even answer he had ripped of a piece of his sleeve to tie around the wound.

"I… didn't. I just didn't want you to get hurt… Damn, he looks just like you!" she mumbled as she tried to sit up more. Connor was a little shocked at the resemblance, but quickly threw the thought away and aimed his gun at where the android was. The android had gotten enough time to take Emma and use her as a bodyshield.

"No one moves or I'll shoot" Nine warned as he had the gun pressed against her head. Emma noticed that he didn't specify who, as his mission didn't allow her to get hurt, but if that counted for others humans she didn't know. Since she knew she would be safe, she took a risk and elbowed him. Even though, he couldn't feel pain, he staggered back at the impact. This gave her space enough to turn around and push him away. With Connor's calculations going wild, this seemed to be the best opportunity to save Emma. Quickly, he landed a shot in RK900's thirium pump, which will lead him to deactivate for a little while. The echo of gunshot was the only sound through the storage room as RK900 fell to the floor.

"Hurry, we can't let the android die! He has information we need." Connor said as he hurried over to him and picked him up and threw him into the police car.

"Come on. We'll take you to the hospital." Kay said and ushered the traumatized girl to follow Connor before walking over to Gavin to check on him. He had moved a little but looked disoriented. He mumbled something about 'fucking androids' before clumsily getting up with Kay's help.

After Connor's relentless insisting on Kay to patch herself up, the doctors removed the bullet at the hospital before stitching her up. Luckily the bullet didn't hit anything vital.

"We should have gone to the police station to question the suspect right away." Kay said as she sat up straight on one of the hospital beds. Connor had stayed with her the whole time, even though he could have gone to the police station to question the RK900, which they revived.

"Not with that wound. I still don't understand… If I was shot, I would be much easier to fix than you."

"I guess… But, it would be boring to bitch about colleagues to myself." Kay joked, which Connor just answered with a worried smile.

"Is Emma and Gavin okay?"

"Yes. Emma is in shock and is severely traumatized, but she has been given professional therapy sessions to help her further. Gavin is pissed, which is his usual self, so he is also fine" Connor explained, and Kay realized he was sounding a bit more human than before, which made her smile.

"Why are you smiling?" Connor asked, looking a little confused.

"Uh, nothing." she said, feeling her cheeks heat up. Why was her heart suddenly racing? To distract herself, she turned her focus back to the case.

"We should go back and question the two of them." Kay said as she got up from the bed.

"We can do that in the morning. Right now, you need to get some rest." he demanded as he guided her to the car to drive her home.