The cable popped into place with a satisfying clink, and Lucy leaned back to admire her work. Now the stage should be fully fixed. She had no idea how Lucifer kept breaking things, but the high heel in the rafters gave her a clue. David waited below as she worked.

"David, if you want to play the piano, you can," Lucy offered. "It's going to take me a little while to check the wiring. I don't want to have to come back up here if I can help it."

David walked over to the piano on the stage and touched the keys hesitantly. The sound of "Ride of the Valkyries" played from below as Lucy finished checking the wires. Nothing seemed out of place. Humming to herself as she climbed over and down the ladder, Lucy paused at the bottom. A beautiful woman was watching David play the piano with a curious look.

"Hello, Ma'am," Lucy said with a smile. "Lux isn't open right now."

"Oh, that's fine. I'm here to see Lucifer," the woman said dismissively.

"He's not here right now. I think he left with Detective Decker thirty minutes ago."

The woman looked incredibly irritated and mumbled, "Well, of course, he would."

David seemed to have sensed trouble and stopped playing the piano. He looked over to where Lucy was now standing and walked toward her. Lucy looked back to the woman, whom now was focused on Lucy.

The woman looked over Lucy haughtily and said, "You must be one of his servants. Well, tell him that 'Charlotte' came by. He'll know what that means." She turned to David as he walked over. "I quite like the way you play that thing. My son is quite fond of it as well… perhaps you could teach me sometime."

Lucy watched with amusement as "Charlotte" gave David a sultry look. David looked to Lucy with confusion.

"I apologize, Ma'am, but I cannot," David said and got closer to Lucy. "We have more work to do, but we'll be sure to tell Lucifer that you came looking for him."

"Charlotte" gave Lucy a mildly annoyed look and walked out of the club. Lucy glanced at David with amusement. She couldn't tell whether he'd picked up on the woman's advances, but he did seem uncomfortable.

"You okay there?" Lucy asked and started to walk to the elevator. "She seemed to like you a lot more than she did me."

"It would seem so," David responded thoughtfully from behind Lucy.

Lucy smiled and pressed the button to their floor as David got inside. She looked at his confusion and asked jokingly, "Are you sure that you don't just want to make this your new home? You've already got someone interested in you."

"No, I want to see what else is out there," David answered with a begrudging smile. "I was created to be appealing to the human eye."

Lucy checked her phone and replied, "You were certainly appealing to hers."

Lucifer hadn't left her any messages about a "Charlotte." Lucy quickly sent him a message about her as the doors opened.

"Am I not appealing to yours?" David asked suddenly, causing Lucy to almost drop the keys. "Or does the fact that I am synthetic change how you view me?"

"No! As in… no, the synthetic thing doesn't really matter to me," Lucy replied as her face got hot and her fingers fumbled with the keys. "A person is a person, regardless of what they're made from or how they're made. I just… that's not something that I'm thinking about right now. There's really only one thing on my mind: getting home. Everything else is… superfluous."

"Home? To your Time Lord? What's he like?"

Lucy opened the door and went inside with David following behind her. She stammered, "She. Not he, she. And uh… she's kind of manipulative, high-strung, and… only really nice to a few, select people."

"That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship," David said as though concerned. "Are you sure that you want to go back to her? You appear to have a stable life here."

"Yeah, I'm sure. Besides if I stayed here, then you couldn't explore, could you?" Lucy replied quickly. "Anyway… I'm just going to try to figure out where we need to go from here. I'll be in my room if you need me."

"Do I make you uncomfortable?" David asked quietly. "I know that I made the humans on the ship uncomfortable. They lashed out at me… but you don't."

Lucy took a breath and replied, "Most people make me uncomfortable, David. You're not the only one."

"You didn't seem uncomfortable with the crew," David noted. "You seem to be wary of me. I would like to know how to make you less so."

"I don't… well, I kind of feel like you're analyzing me, but… I know that's a part of your programming. And I think some time will do that. I'm not a particularly trusting person, and it takes me a while to trust people. I just got a really good vibe off the crew. Janek defended me from Vickers when I got onboard, and Millburn seemed genuinely grateful. And… how much did you see before you took me back to the ship? After the Engineer knocked me out."

David seemed to think it over for a few minutes and said, "I saw you touch the Engineer, and it disappear into the air. After you got thrown into the wall, I thought that you were dead, but then you started breathing and put on your glove. Your injuries… they were far too deadly for a normal human to survive."

Lucy nodded. She'd expected this much.

He continued, "So I suspected that what you told the Engineer was true. At least in part. A weapon created by an alien race. Perhaps not so different from me."

"Well, I am human… just an augmented one," Lucy explained. "I die, but I can come back through sheer force of will. That's what happens when you mess with time. It pushes back and not always in ways you can predict… or fix."

David tilted his head and asked, "Why would you want to be 'fixed'? You have immortality. Something many humans would kill for. Why change that?"

"You're thinking of Weyland, aren't you?" Lucy asked and turned to David. "I had something that he never had: a loving family. While I don't want to die anytime soon, I don't want to watch my friends die too. I already had my family die before me. I'm tired of being left alone."

"But I won't."

Lucy hesitated and asked, "What?"

"With proper maintenance, I could live forever," David continued as though confused by her reaction. "I won't abandon you."

Lucy felt her face flush, but David didn't seem to think that he'd said anything out of the ordinary. She stammered, "Th—Thanks. I guess. But still… I'm hoping that The Doctor might find some way of making me… normal again."

David seemed to be irritated for a moment but put on a smile.

"No, none of that," Lucy said with a sigh. "If I say or do something that you don't like or offends you, then you need to tell me. I'm not a mind reader."

David looked hesitant but admitted, "I don't quite know why I was angry."

"Well, that's okay. Emotions aren't always rational. Just… don't pretend everything's okay when it's not. It's okay to be upset, but if you hide it, it only makes it more suspicious. To me at least."

David nodded and said, "Duly noted."

Lucy walked back to her room. Breathing a sigh of relief as the door closed behind her, she sat on the bed. Now she just needed to figure out what to do. Her best bet was to go to the world where she'd gotten a fiery haircut and look for another portal there. She'd done it before. Hopefully it'd work again.

"Anti? You haven't said a word since noon. What's gotten into you?" Lucy whispered to the watch.

"Nothing," he snapped back.

"Well, clearly there's something."

"You're telling him too much. You've never told me any of that," Anti replied irritably. "He's suspicious… we shouldn't give him any more information about us than he needs. You barely know anything about him. He led his own creator to his doom; what do you think he'd do to you given the chance?"

"I won't give him the chance, and I'm sorry. I never told you that because… well, you never seemed to be interested. Telling him about my situation… I don't think that's a weakness. He seems to want to understand people. I was just letting him get to know a little about me, but you are right about one thing. We don't really know much about him."

"He's still odd," Anti insisted petulantly.

"And we're not?" Lucy asked with a laugh. "We're all just creatures clinging to each other, lost in the magnitude of a reality that we can barely understand. He's just trying to make sense of things, Anti. I have no doubt that he'll leave once we find a place to his liking."

Anti mumbled his disagreement but let the argument drop.