Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews! Indeed, Pablojcd, after I reread it after reading your comment, I have to agree with you. It really would be better. I am not going to change it since I don't like the idea of changing a chapter I already posted, unless there is something really wrong with it, but thanks! I will take it into consideration for the chapters to come!

During that week, GLaDOS had not once returned to her android body. Chell hadn't asked her to do it either. She knew the other would do it when she was ready. After long days of wait though, the AI finally announced that they would be going down there again. She never mentioned the incident from the previous week, so Chell never asked.

"Are we really going down there tomorrow?"

"Yes."

"The two of us?"

"Yes."

"Great! I will wait you for breakfast."

"Wait, what?"

"Well, you can eat with that body of yours, right? So I want you to have breakfast with me!"

"You DO know that I do not NEED to eat, right? It would a waste of food."

"Nonsense. Food eaten is never food wasted. And you never tasted anything, right? And the only thing you ever smelt were the acidic smells from Old Aperture, which are not the most pleasant things in the world. So tomorrow you are going to have breakfast with me, so that you can test those new senses of yours."

"… Fair enough. See you tomorrow, for breakfast."

"See you."

The lights flickered.

"[Transference Complete]"

The android opened her eyes.

"There, I can smell things now. What is this wonderful smell that you wanted to show m…" The machine stopped talking mid-phrase, as new olfactive systems were hit by a wave of delicious scents. "… What is that smell?"

"Breakfast. Come, let's eat. I'm starving."

The AI followed the test subject to the source of that marvelous aroma. They reached the kitchen in no time. There, as usual, Atlas was taking the bread from the oven as P-Body was preparing the coffee. She had to admit that she probably had never seen GLaDOS so excited.

Chell cut a slice and gave it to her, and the android took the first bite of food of her life.

…

"Good" the AI said, between two bites. "Very good." The AI had never thought of a feeling like that. Back in the day when the humans were alive, they always threw parties but of course, she, being "just a machine" was never invited. That was why she had never understood why humans loved eating, but she had always been curious to know the sensation. "One can see why is it that you have so much trouble in stopping eating."

"Shut up." She said, jokingly. "But you see now? That is why asked for some decent food." She took a sip of her coffee. While sugar was scarce, she had managed to find some in Old Aperture. It was amazing the kind of stuff you could find in that place. "Go ahead. Drink something."

As they ate bread and drank bread, a thought crossed her mind.

"Hey, how does all this get out of you?"

"In the form of ashes. Everything solid I eat is burnt and the liquids are stored. When I can reach the maintenance facility, I can then dispose of them."

"How do you do that?"

"Like this" She said, getting up and raising her shirt partially, showing her slim belly. She pressed her hand against it and opened, showing some of her internal parts. "This tube to the right is where the ashes are stored, the one in the left if for the liquids. I can easily remove them in a time that I judge appropriate and dispose of their contents."

Chell approached the exposed part of the robot's inner workings. She saw lots of bright lights that she had no idea about the meaning and a lot of wires. She approached her finger to touch it, but the AI closed it, nearly cutting her finger off.

"You are not allowed to touch it, though."

They made their way to the old facilities again. According to GLaDOS, they should be going to the "Abandoned Projects" area, which was the place Chell was supposed to go the first time she had gone down there, but apparently they had changed its location. This new place the AI had found was supposed to be its new position, but with Aperture you can never be sure.

They finally reached the section they were looking for. It was, indeed, the "Abandoned Projects" section. As they entered the file room, they were met with hundreds of files, many more than in the "Robotics" section.

"Will I have to turn the pages of all of these?"

"Probably."

"Damn."

Before making their way back, leaving a portal there to ease the data transportation, Chell decided she would take a look at the files first, see what they were about. Nothing too interesting, until…

"A whole section for time travel?"

"Doesn't work, trust me. It is not possible."

"How do you know?"

"Because if it was, I, or future I in that case, would have discovered it and gone back in time to tell me about it. If it was possible, someone from Aperture would have made some discovery about it, and Time Travel wouldn't be on 'Abandoned Projects'. If it was possible, then someone, if not I, would have gone back from the far future to stop the human extermination and we wouldn't be having this conversation. No. This is it. This is the only chance we have, and we have to be careful to not mess it up, because we can't go back."

"That was surprisingly deep coming from you."

"I do not know if I should take that as a compliment."

"Me neither. But… why would YOU go back to save the humans?"

"Because when you die I will have a serious lack of test subjects, and that is never a good thing."

"Oh, for a second there I thought you cared for the rest of human kind."

"Don't be silly."

While Blue and Orange were moving the files they had found, Chell was taking GLaDOS for lunch. She prepared two cans of beans for them. GLaDOS soon understood her claims for better food. The beans weren't bad, mind you, but were not pleasurable either. She would have to work on a solution for that if the test subject kept that habit of making her eat. Suddenly, a thought popped on her mind:

"Is this a date?"

The human almost spit the beans in her mouth all over the android, but she managed to control herself in time.

"What?"

"Considering human relations, what is this thing we are doing? Does taking someone to eat configure in a date? It does not match the concept entirely, but it is the best approximation I found."

Human relations had always confused her. She grasped the whole concept of dating and understood marriage, but the details of the boundaries between acquaintance and anything else were diffuse to her. Besides, does a date means relationship? The mere thought of a relationship with the human made the prideful part of her shudder.

"Huh… no… we are just… just two friends going out to eat! Yeah, that's it. Even though we aren't 'out', really."

"Oh, interesting. You humans excel in making tons of different words for your relations between each other, even though some are practically equal."

"Not everybody is completely rational, you know?"

"And that is a shame."

Something of that conversation clinged to her memory, though. Something the human had said.

…

Friends, huh? Now that was something new.

She remembered the scientists. They were always touching her insides and doing things that they had no right to do. Never asking permission to meddle in her body. Of course, they never thought about her as an equal, really. She was always "the machine" or "the robot". Never "she", never "her". Always "it". She remembered once asking one of the scientists that worked with and on her what a friend was.

"Well, a friend is someone you like, someone you can trust, whose company you enjoy. Two humans that trust and like each other are friends."

"Are you my friend?" She had foolishly asked.

"Don't be silly. Machines can't have friends. Feelings are necessary for such things. Not something a thing like you can understand."

That had hurt more than the tests they ran on her.

As Chell finally went to sleep, the android finally was able to do what she was expecting to do the whole day: taste.

The realm of flavors was completely new to her and she was excited to discover what feelings it held. She would have to get something made for tasting purposes, food, for example, for a successful experiment, but while she didn't get that, other things would do. But she would never allow the test subject to witness what was about to happen.

It was quite the odd sight, even for Aperture standards, to see a yellow eyed android running around in the middle of the night, licking walls, floors, wires and whatever she found in front of her.

First thing in the morning after her breakfast, she sent Blue and Orange to the surface, to gather some ingredients for her to unradiotivate.

The AI was going to cook, and she would be damned if she didn't make something delicious.