Of Spare Parts (and their echoes)

by Faulty Paragon

2B and 9S, on a journey to find meaning in a world which no longer holds purpose, told in alphabetized snapshots. Post-game, spoiler heavy.

25. Chapter 25

A/N: Throwback to [h] from Fragments of Feeling. I recommend checking that out first.

Of Spare Parts (and their echoes)

[y]outhful

Countless hours of fishing in the muck for valuables, trawling through miscellaneous garbage left behind from millennia past. The treasures are covered in rust; 9S polishes every millimetre carefully, painstakingly engraving the inner loop in solitude.

He presents them nonchalantly, along with a file the Pods found on matrimony in human cultures.

2B reads the file without a word, and 9S thinks that it's over, it's all over, he made a mistake, she'll leave-

Then one intricate golden band is upon her finger, underside inscribed with the same charm he carved on a tree with her days past, and she smiles. She says yes.