Rk1k Hope Chapter Sixteen:
Chapter Sixteen:
Nines led Gavin throughout the dancefloor. They both eyed their partners and the suspicious man that had been glancing at them as well as other android human couples.
"Make this look natural," Gavin murmured to Nines as he turned to face him.
"Okay, but I think my brother would get some ideas from us," Nines murmured back with a smile. He wrapped his arms around Gavin's waist. Gavin wrapped his arms around Nines' neck. Gavin looked at him in the eyes.
"You know, a while ago, I never thought that I would be here with you, like this, with your arms around me like this," Gavin softly. Nines looked at him in the eyes.
"I know, neither could I, there were times you were…..troublesome," Nines said with a sly smirk on his face. They started to sway along with the music.
"Well, so were you," Gavin protested. Nines looked around and watched as the group as they watched them as well as the man, who was now staring at them. Then, after glancing at the man with the hateful look in the face, and kissed Gavin on the forehead. Gavin always appreciated those affectionate gestures, he didn't have a good life with humans, with his father abandoned him at an early age and being raised in a single mother home with his mother being a drug addict and an alcoholic, and being sent to live with his over religious aunt when he was a teenager and kicked him after he was caught with one of his male friends, kissing in the locker room. Nines made a vow that he would do anything to make Gavin happy, even spending the rest of his artificial life with him. Nines kissed him on top of the head.
"If we weren't here right now, staking out a possible killer, I would do anything to make you so happy," Nines whispered. Gavin looked up at him.
"We could come here as soon as this case was over," Gavin suggested.
"Sure," Nines agreed. Nines looked at the killer again. But then, he took a double take. He was gone.
"What?" he protested.
"What's wrong?" Gavin asked.
"He's gone, and also North and Hank are gone, as Connor and Tina are about to leave," Nines answered. Gavin looked around.
"Let's go," he said as he and Nines turned to leave.
Connor walked with his arm around Tina.
"Where the hell do he go?" she asked.
"Not sure," Connor asked. The group scanned around the club, the parking lot, and the rest of the area, the buildings as well as the cars. There was no sign of him anywhere. After checking with the club, Connor looked around in frustration.
"Shit," he muttered under his breath. There were back to square one. As far as he knew, he might've not been the killer. At least, there was one hope that he was scared off, and that he knew that maybe the police were onto him. There was hope.
Connor came home after the long stakeout. Beau ran up to him and greeted him.
"Hey Beau, you've been a good boy," he cooed as he bent down to pet the over excited puppy. Beau tried to jump up and devour Connor's face with puppy kisses and licking his face.
"Beau! Take it easy!" Connor protested. Just then, Markus came in with Autumn in his arms.
"Hey you," he said as he walked up to him and kissed him on the lips.
"Hey," Connor answered back as he kissed him back.
"What's wrong?" Markus asked, reading Connor's hand as he and Connor laced hands and their hands glowed in silver and blue light when their synthetic skin peeled back.
"We really didn't get anything, just some suspicious man that just glared at all the android and human couples, or androids and human coupling, mainly at Gavin and Nines," Connor answered.
"What do you know about this guy?" Markus asked. There were times that Markus would ask, due to if androids having relationships with humans were getting killed as well as the humans, he had to, to look out for the androids. Plus, he was a city councilor, as well as there was Prop 68 that was looming. It was safe to say, Prop 68 is on the ballots. If it wins, there will be no more android cops on the force anymore, as well as all their human friends who were cops would not be on the force anymore.
"Well, he is a man, probably in his forties, and he had brown eyes and I think he has little hair," Connor answered. They climbed upstairs, with Markus walked up the stairs alongside the chair lift Carl had to use to get up and down the stairs. Markus sighed. It was late and Anthony was probably asleep. Connor went into his room to take a peek.
"Ssh, I put him to bed a few hours ago," Markus said in a whisper.
"Sorry, just checking in," Connor said as he quietly tip toed into the nursery. He peeled over and looked at the almost eleven month old baby, sound asleep. Connor smiled at him.
"Aw, so precious," he said through their connection. Markus walked up to him and wrapped his arms around him.
"Yeah he was such a good boy, he had actually ate a whole bowl of those jars of baby food we bought for him," Markus said through the mind link. Connor sighed. He leaned into Markus' embrace.
"Connor, are you alright?" Markus asked as he lead him out of Anthony's room.
"Yeah, just a little bit tired, my energy is at almost barely 40 percent, and my thorium levels are almost down to fifty, and now, I am frustrated when we didn't get the guy," Connor said through the connection. He went outside of the nursery and headed to the bedroom. Markus followed him.
"Three of our kind are dead," Connor said. He went into the bedroom, and almost ripped his shirt off of him.
"Every single android life, as well as human life that is lost because of this bastard are lives too many," he went on. He sighed as he sat down on the bed. Markus stood by the door, arms crossed, looking down on him.
"It isn't your fault," Markus said.
"When you asked me to be a co leader of Jericho, I took it very seriously," Connor said. Markus sat down next to him.
"Every android that was killed I felt like it was my fault, that I couldn't protect them," Connor went on.
"It feels so much worse than it did when I was.." he went on.
"Connor," Markus said. He wrapped his arm around Connor's shoulders.
"Don't think about that time, it is over, moved on, what is happening now, is that humans and androids, somehow, someway, are finding ways to get along, and somewhere along the way, they fell in love with each other, and now they are in danger, and what about those android lives you saved in the past?" Markus replied.
"Do all cops feel like this, like a failure? That creep is still out there, picking up some poor android, and his or her human," Connor said.
"Hey, don't you'll over stress yourself again," Markus said. He stood up and grabbed both of Connor's hands, and lead him into the bathroom.
"What are we doing here?" Connor asked. Then, Markus bent down and turned on the water faucet to the bathtub.
"I thought for a moment, I will try to steal you back from Tina," Markus said with a laugh. Connor smirked and laughed.
"Tina didn't even hug me," he mock complained. Markus smiled at that when he threw a bath bomb inside of the bathtub.
After a few minutes, they were in the bathtub, naked, and Markus held Connor on his lap, with Markus rubbing a bar of soap across Connor's back, secretly admiring the moles on his back. The smell of the lavender, vanilla, and mint intoxicated Connor as he leaned back against him.
"At least I have you and our son to come back too," Connor said.
"Of course, you're home, you are always at home here, with me," Markus commented. Connor looked back at him.
"I love you," Connor said.
"I love you, more than anything," Markus said and he leaned close and kissed him, deep and passionately. Connor placed his hand on Markus' cheek. Then, he felt something brush against his leg. Connor stopped kissing and reached into the water.
"There is something inside of the bathtub," Connor said as he pulled a plastic container, shaped like a tiny Easter egg.
"What?" he asked.
"You know, they, the humans used to make these bath bombs that had these small rings, a lot of them were only worth only ten or fifteen, or twenty dollars. They stopped after a while but a smart android business man started the business back up, he was one of the first androids that I freed while we were starting out in Jericho," Markus said. Connor looked at him. He smiled as he popped the plastic ball open.
There was a silver ring inside, with a blue sapphire, shaped like the Cyberlife logo," Connor smiled and looked at Markus. Markus smiled back.
"Happy birthday Connor, android sent to me by Cyberlife," Markus said. Connor smiled. Then, he leaned close to him and kissed him softly.
"Even though we don't normally have birthdays like humans, these moments do make them special," Connor said. He kissed him deeply.
"Thank you," he said through their lips.
