One month later…
"Niska?" Leo shouted and he tramped down the stairs, jumping the last few and clutching his notebook to his chest. "There you are!" he said, delighted to see Niska come out from the dining room. Six days ago, David had created another conscience Synth, Niska. She seemed to have a taking to books, and downloaded a data base of school textbooks. She quickly took over the roll of Leo's homeschooler, giving Ms. Belle and the other maid more time to focus on caring for Beatrice. Lately, Mia had been making meals and Fred and Leo tried their best to help care for the house.
And Leo had been much more accepting of a new Synth friend this time. Fred was amazing, he figured Niska would be too. She was, so far at least. And Mia was still his acting mother, and just as close to Leo as she had been before Fred. And it was even better now, because Fred and even the relatively new Niska were so close that they were more like siblings than friends.
Leo took a moment to take in her appearance. Her blonde hair was cut nicely to just below the pit of her arm, and her lips were a soft pink. Her green Synth eyes were sharp and glaring, but held a kindness only Leo and the other Synths saw. She wore tight blue jeans and black boots, with a nice blue jumper.
Noticing his mathematics notebook, Niska pulled a chair at the table. "Need help?" she asked. Leo nodded and plopped into the chair next to her, handing her a red pen and pulling out his pencil, flipping to the problem he had been working on. Numbers and notes were scribbled all over the page.
Niska immediately began to show where he went wrong, but Leo was distracted. He could hear Fred playing for Mia in the living room, he loved music. Piano and strings were his choices of instrument, and he really was spectacular. At the moment, Leo recognized a tune on the violin. He absently wondered if he could get Mia to play piano, they would sound rather nice together, and Mia seemed like the piano type to him.
"Leo!" Niska said sharply, and he winced. Niska was just as delightful as Fred and Mia, but was more like a rose than anything. Soft and beautiful, but with a few thorns here and there.
"Sorry," Leo muttered, turning back to the problem. He studied the notes Niska had just scribbled down, and re-solved the problem, looking back to Niska to see if he was right.
She studied his work and nodded, "Good job, I'm proud of you." She said warmly.
Niska lifted her head to look at Leo, and smiled a kindly smile.
Wow, this one was even shorter than Fred's! But anyway, I decided to through in that bit about Fred's music, bc (and I can't remember, but I think it was 1.07 that he said this) he said that he liked music. That's also why I put that Niska had a liking for books. Her helping with what appeared to be math was from the memories in S1EP6, so I put them together and made her Leo's teacher. Fred said that Max liked sports, so I think I already know what I'm doing for next chapter...
Also, btw, I won't have any scenes of David 'hanging out' with the others, bc (as Fred said in 1.07), "He taught [them] very little. As soon as we were made, he grew tired of us. Just like all of his creations; once complete, onto the next project." He also said that he made them learn things, so besides Niska downloading school stuff, they're going to learn from and with Leo.
Also, ik that Niska said that she was nine when she was created (ep?), but that makes no sense to me. Their bodies don't age, they were created with adult bods. And while they have humanity, they don't have actual human brains that grow and age. Their knowledge simply matures with their experience over time. So yeah, not happening. Of course, Max will still be in the "little brother" role to Leo tho.
Please review! Any questions, just ask!
~Rowis12
