Hailey blinked her eyes open. Wait, wasn't she dead? She shouldn't have survived that.

She felt pain everywhere, and she couldn't move, like she had been paralyzed or something.

Someone was messing with her cybernetics, and Hailey glanced at them. It was Charles who was messing with her cybernetics.

"... Charles? Why did you save me..?" Hailey hesitantly asked.

"You just took down the Toppats all on your own! It's the least I can do."

"Didn't I betray you..?"

"Yes, you did. But clearly you had your regrets."

"No, I was betrayed too..."

"... Oh." Charles sounded less excited, and he was fixing some of the wires in Hailey's chest. "Oh dang, looks like you destroyed a circuit board. There's a bullet hole in it."

Hailey flinched as Charles removed her circuit board.

"You know? I never thought I'd be doing this." He turned and placed down the destroyed circuit board, grabbing a fresh one.

"Where am I..?" Hailey asked, glancing around.

"A military treatment facility. I'm the only one here he could've and would've fixed you, so I did. I mean, I know there's another doctor who would be better at it, but... She's not here." Charles explained.

"I think I met her. She was the one that fixed me in the first place." Hailey pointed out as Charles fixed the circuit board into her chest.

"Oh, really?" Charles asked, making sure it was locked in place before grabbing something else and using it to try and fix some wires.

"Mhm..." Hailey tried to ignore her pain. "I'm really sore... Is my spine fixed..?"

"No, it's still... kinked. But it'll get fixed at some point. Whether I'm doing it or someone else is." The pilot told her.

Hailey slowly blinked once, not paying attention to what Charles was doing, before he stopped fixing the wires and closed her chest panel. "There you go. Almost done."

Hailey didn't respond, but it did feel better, even if it was just a little bit.

Charles turned her palm over and opened a small hatch filled with more wires. "Oh boy, some of these are gonna have to be replaced."

Hailey sighed as Charles grabbed a pair of scissors and looked at a few wires. "This might hurt."

He snipped a wire.

Hailey winced as pain washed through her like a giant ocean wave for a small moment, but then it was gone.

"That sounded like it hurt. You okay?" Charles asked.

Hailey sighed. "Yes."

"Alright. I know it hurts but it will feel better after I replace your wires. There's one more that needs replaced." Charles told the cyborg, just before snipping another wire.

Hailey winced again as the same pain raged through her for a short moment.

"Okay, I'll replace them now." Charles stood and walked over to a set of something that he had, grabbing two different wires. He returned to the barely conscious cyborg and went back to fixing her.

He took one of the wires and adjusted it correctly into places.

Charles was right, it did feel better.

He took the other wire and adjusted it into her hand, making sure both of the wires were secured. He then grabbed something else, like what he had grabbed to fix Hailey's wires before, and then he started to fix her wires.

Hailey was exhausted. She wanted to sleep, but couldn't.

It didn't take Charles very long to finish. Must've been very few.

"Alright! You're done!" Charles sighed. "That took awhile, I was up fixing you for a few hours." He'd admit. "How'd you get your spine that damaged?"

"Shot by Raychel... Raychels dead though..."

"You need to charge, here." Charles said, grabbing two blue wires and connecting one to her palm and then her chest. "That should do the trick!"

Hailey glanced down at the two wires that connected to her. She didn't dare to touch them, even if she could move.

"Rest, okay? You've had a rough week." Charles told her.

"Mhm..."

"Alright then." Charles nodded to the cyborg.

Hailey didn't respond, she had already fallen asleep.