To be Human

by StolenKiss32

Catherine Rivers, a former CyberLife scientist, had disappeared of the face of the Earth after the peaceful android revolution. She comes back a year later broken beyond recognition and dependent on a substance that is killing her: thirium. On the run, she stumbles upon an android detective who is keen on helping her but, will he be able to before it's too late? (Connor x OC)

1. Prologue

DATE: UNKOWN

TIME: UNKNOWN

LOCATION: UNKNOWN

She didn't ask for this.

She didn't ask for any of this.

Yet, here she was. Heart threatening to break free from her chest, hands tied painfully tight behind her back and the cold muzzle of a gun pressed against the back of her head.

Her ragged breaths rattled her shaking figure, bleeding knees digging into the cold stone as silent tears slid down her cheeks.

She knew the past would catch up with her, but not like this. Not this soon. Not when she had finally found something worth living for. She squeezed her eyes shut tightly at the reverberating click of a cylinder falling in line with the barrel of the gun. She felt despair fall over her like an icy sheet, enveloping her, choking her and bringing to the forefront of her mind the feeling which she had tried to suppress. She was going to die.

She opened her eyes, lips trembling as her quiet sobs threatened to break through. She desperately searched for the intense, yet soft brown eyes of the man she loved. The man who had loved her unconditionally even when she hadn't loved herself and allowed her to keep going through the pain. The man that she would never see again.

She found him bound to steel with blue blood running down his temple. He had tried to defend her. Tried to stop this travesty of justice that fell upon her. All that it earned him was a strike against his head and a promise of violence.

He felt her gaze and turned his head slightly to look at her. He appeared calm but the crimson red LED on his temple and his eyes gave him away. They conveyed a thousand words. The revealed what he truly felt. Pain, sorrow, guilt and undying love.

"I'm sorry, Connor." She choked, apologies spilling over her lips as the gun was pressed harder. This was it. She wouldn't be able to get out of this one. No way to appease her captor with her words. They had had no sway on his directives. He would accomplish his mission with or without her pleading.

Connor's carefully constructed demeanor crumbled at the resignation in her form and he trashed violently against his restraints, a desperate cry slipping through his lips.

BANG

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Author's notes: And so it begins, my first DBH fanfic! Hope you guys like it! Special thanks to my beta reader Melanie69196107.