GLaDOS took a deep breath and calmed herself. She then went over to the moron, who was in the middle of the hallway still talking to himself.

"…And what about those-" Wheatley stopped when he noticed her. "Oh, yeah. I…think I got a bit carried away…" He smiled in embarrassment, "Ahhh…" then he backed away, suddenly thinking of something.

"What is it, moron?" she asked.

"Well, I…I…" his eyes rolling in anxiety, Wheatley mumbled something to himself, "I found something…that MIGHT be the…thing we're looking for, you know, while you were away."

"If you noticed I was away," she narrowed her eyes, "why were you talking to yourself?"

"Ahh…"

"And you didn't notice any other…unusual happenings around here?" She indicated toward the half open automatic doors, the remnants of Mr. Johnson's rage.

"Of course, of course I did! I just…waited for you," Wheatley grinned, "so you could explain it to me. Because I didn't know what it was. So mystery solved! Let's go!"

She tapped her foot in a mix of amusement and suspicion.

"Oh! Yeah…So… What happened?" he asked, clearly uninterested.

"Well, do you remember that stupid thing you said about those androids being our 'grandparents '?" She was trying to hide the growing realization that encouraging him to ask about that had been a bad move. "I-"

"Okay! Good! So, with that out of the way," he interrupted, "We should go now!"

She rolled her eyes.

Wheatley mumbled to himself again "look, let's just go there and you'll tell me if it's the right one." He paused for a second, but before she could say anything, he grabbed her and started running down the hall.

GLaDOS released her hands and waited a second before Wheatley realized that he wasn't dragging her anymore "I know you're hiding something," she said. "And you're terrible at it."

"Don't…I mean…I don't know what you're talking about. At all." He chuckled. "I just want to…show you something! That never hurt anyone, showing them something, now did it? It's right over there! ...Off you go?"

Carefully, she turned her head and looked towards the place he was pointing at – a simple, grey, slightly rusty, most likely out-of-order elevator, with a metal fence that could be pushed down onto it in case that, say, one of those cowardly little lab-boys decided to inform the government about our little business here and then tried to escape through the elevator before we'd-

"Hey…are you okay?" Wheatley snapped her back to reality.

"Of course I am." She pushed him aside.

"No, it's just that you looked kind of-" he noticed GLaDOS glaring at him, "-never mind."

It was quiet for a second before he said, "So, into the lift you go, then!"

"Why would anyone put the device in an elevator?" she asked, almost teasingly.

"Err…"

"What. Are. You. Trying. To. Hide?"

"Umm… the device! I'm hiding the device from you. In the lift! Oh! You got me! Arrgh, my plan of betraying you has failed! Foolish me! Now, now just go over there, okay?"

"The elevator is empty," she pointed out, with annoyance.

"No, no no no!" he panicked, "It's just a small device, so… you can't see it from here." He started backing up towards the elevator. "You'll have to go inside the lift to see it properly. So please, please do!"

"So why don't you just bring it over here?" she asked, "So I could… check 'it'."

"Oh, no! I can't do that, Luv," he continued backing up, "because, because, because it's…too big! Yeah, too big! So I can't bring it out of the elevator because it's so bloody big and heavy!"

She rolled her eyes again.

"Oh! I meant…" He stopped for a second. "That it's …Heavy but small. Yeah, that works. It's tiny… but…but heavy, so you can't see it, but I can't bring it to you to see it…So, I guess you have no choice but to go there, don't you?"

"I think that at this point," she smirked, drawing closer to the retreating moron, "you actually deserve a prize for your absolute stupidity-"

Wheatley saw that that they were both now very close to the elevator.

"Ahah! !" he cried, pushing GLaDOS into the elevator and causing her to drop her portal gun in the confusion. He then quickly pushed down the fence before she could get out and do something horrible to him.

"Moron! What the hell are you doing?"

"Well, I've been thinking about something," Wheatley widened his smile.

And deep inside the A.I room, a single computer started slowly humming.