Yes yes checkers and chess. I am lazy! NOTHING MAKES SENSE I KNOW.
This is part of that whole weird AU thing waayyy down the road of it. FOX KNOWS. I'm mean to characters, so I wanted everybody to have issues by this point in time. Ty has his wirewolfness, Buzz has...something, XR is still haunted and preyed upon, and Savy I gave disguised cybernetic parts! Because I felt like it, and the whole android comment from the slayer made it an amusing thought to me. XD
the song that shuffled help with this, but i thought hey why not have a kind of an almost silly serious drabble? You're going to see more of Nos being mean to and interacting with Savy and Ty. I can't compete with all the lovely fics that feature him and XR, so I'm going to focus on these three.
If you're curious what the song was, it was a cry little sister cover, by tangerine dream.
"Something's.. different."
Savy glanced up from the game she was playing with the last person- robot, anybody would have ever expected. He preferred chess of course, and had always talked about how beneath him this game was; at least until he'd lost one of the first rounds he'd finally agreed to. Then it had become a matter of pride to prove that had been a fluke, and that checkers was something best reserved for 'people like her'.
Unfortunately for the vampire, things hadn't gone his way. She was unrelenting, and the whole thing had turned into a crusade to crush and triumph over the other. The game was more heated now that it had been when they'd started; this was one of their last games after all, and they were currently tied. Whoever won here could consider themselves not only better- as they certainly already did- but also on their way to being the best.
Neither of them thought that was saying much, but it would have been a simple pleasure for the caged energy vampire to lord over her, and thus an opportunity Savy wanted to snatch away. She didn't want him to have any kind of luxuries here. Given his extreme displeasure of failure, beating him at something had been the natural way to go. She'd just needed to use a simple, innocent game as the vessel for her aggression, to make sure none of the guards ever stopped to thoroughly question what motivated her to be the only visitor the vampire ever received.
Honestly, she'd only started coming to visit to bother him, and while it still worked to a degree, it had also backfired- probably hilariously so, in the eyes of an outsider looking in. It had taken him time, but ultimately Nos-4-a2 had gotten used to her presence. His existence was evidently so boring locked here in PC-7, that he really had nothing better to do. One side of his pride had ultimately given in to the other- convincing him that if he could annoy and taunt her back, crush her at games, it was something to fill in the hollow void his life had become.
Savy had a feeling Nos-4-a2 would implode if he didn't get the chance to gloat and act better than somebody. She knew that was the only reason he'd accepted her presence, because it meant he could belittle and insult her when there wasn't a damn thing she could do about it. He'd grown to enjoy rattling her cage as much as she did his.
"Hm, interesting.."
That was the only response he left her with as he jumped two of her pieces, already getting a good head start. Savy didn't like being left in the dark like this, even though she knew he was just setting her up to be the more irritated of the two of them.
"What's interesting?! The fact I'm gonna kick your butt again?!"
Nos-4-a2 leaned his head against one of his hands, elbow propped up on the grimy table he was granted. This time though, he wasn't looking down at the board thoughtfully or boredly. He was looking at her instead, his optics searching for the aforementioned anomaly.
When they started a path up her right arm and stopped at the upper half and where her shoulder was, Savy felt a wave of heat ripple through her chest.
He couldn't have known.
The medibots at Space Command had insisted the cybernetic parts she'd needed would emit only a dull energy field compared to what they possessed; something that wouldn't get in the way of electronics, daily life, or disrupt her brain. The necessary chip to allow it to easily control the parts had to be kept from overload, of course.
Maybe he was just so starved on the little bits of energy that they gave him, he had altered his programming to search for anything, even table scraps. But she couldn't jump the gun just yet. Then again, he might have seen the aftermath of the explosion, and what it'd done to her.
He'd stopped talking altogether, and was drumming claws on the board with one hand, while his others started to scrape against his face enough to concern her. It was subtle, but Savy understood his intentions nonetheless. Particularly when his optics gleamed with hunger.
"I'll finish creaming you later," Savy forced out as she stood up, deciding it was high time they were done. If he knew, then any further interactions would have to be done through dangerous energy fields. Or her blaster out and upper right side guarded at all times.
"I have better things to waste my time on."
His body language made it clear he would have attacked had she been oblivious to his predatory sides, as it relaxed and almost drooped when she left the cell and reactivated the fields he couldn't cross; energy that would drain him severely, if he dared to try.
Nos-4-a2 snorted insultingly as he flicked a checker across the board and into the field, watching as the energy incinerated it. She stared too, meeting his gaze once the moment had passed, feeling nervous at the unpleasant smile he offered, as he settled back into whatever a normal day in a containment unit constituted.
"I do look forward to your next visit, Sl2. I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about."
"Right," Savy scoffed, rolling her eyes before she turned her back on him and started walking down the long, solitary confinement hallway toward the main lobby. She could feel his gaze on her the entire time, until she'd finally exited that area of the prison planet, uncertain that there would be another visit.
