A/N: I hadn't actually watched the Robocop remake movie yet until the week I started on this set... but when I really looked at the plot summary of it, I couldn't not. Continuity, since we now have a THIRD SET of continuity: Alex got a new wife AND a new son, Clara and David Murphy, and he wasn't given amnesia, traumatic or otherwise. Also a new doctor tech guy, played by Gary Oldman, named Dennett Norton, and a male partner named Jack Lewis (I see what they did, there) instead of Anne Lewis. Everybody caught up? Okay. Let's do this.
Week 4 - Prompts Presented By Mira_Jade - Robocop (2014 Movie Reboot)
16. Misty
It is dark when he leaves what had been his home after the visit with his family. He doesn't want to go back to the precinct, back to the lab for the night for maintenance, but has no choice. As he gets into the waiting car, rain begins to fall and he looks blankly upwards for a moment at the dark, clouded sky, relishing the feeling of it.
"Alex?"
The doctor's voice tugs at him, reminding him that nothing is normal, but right here in this moment, he is a man getting wet on a dark and rainy night.
17. Lonely
Leaning against a wall after putting her son to bed, Clara Murphy can finally let herself take a moment to process everything. As different as he was now, she still wanted her husband in her life, in David's life. It had been so lonely since the night of the explosion and the decision to save his life had been laid out before her... had she made the right call? Would he forgive her if it ever came to light that the choice had been hers?
Taking a deep breath, Clara pushes off the wall. Tonight, just like every night since the explosion, she will get ready for bed alone.
18. Fiery
Standing in what had been his driveway, in what had been his last remembered moments as a whole person, the man inside a suit of armor can only watch as the memories merge with the CCTV neighborhood monitoring footage of that night. Can only watch as the car explodes in his face and he is thrown backwards by the force of it. Can only watch as his wife comes tearing out of the front door to first look at him and then run back inside to call 911. Can only watch as his son, woken by the noise of the explosion, stares down out of his upstairs window, terrified and still blinking sleep out of his eyes.
In an instant, purpose becomes clear, and man and programming agree and merge. There is no normal. There is no safety. There is the job, and the job is now to sort this out and bring those responsible to justice.
19. Golden
As Raymond Sellers watches the demonstration field test of their project and listens to the good doctor explain how the now-cybernetically enhanced police officer is acting so fact and efficiently by bypassing the normal decision making processes of a person with programming, he can't help but feel impressed. It's going to work, this project of theirs. It's going to be a success in ways he never dreamed of to get the public to accept militarized drones more readily.
Better still, it would be legal.
20. Undying
A loud noise that shakes the house wakes him, a scream on his young lips. Blinking in the darkness, slowly registering that there is unnatural, flickering light outside, David Murphy scrambles to look out his bedroom window. There, he finds his parent's car in flames, his mother rushing back into the house, and... is that his father down there, on the ground?
The scene makes no sense to his sleep-addled mind, but in an instant, life has turned upside down and will never be the same again.