Guest: You will find the answers in this chapter.
Austrian: Well, Jack has to change in some point. You will see what happen :)
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Warning: This chapter contains a spoiler from the game (a character).
CHAPTER 6: Jealousy and... Love?
Elsa tapped her foot to the floor, instead of her usual fast rhythm, a faster and a louder one replaced it. The android took a look at the clock for the hundred time. It was 3 a.m in the night and Detective Frost still didn't come the his house. Moreover, he didn't respond back to Elsa's calls.
The platinum blonde got up from the sofa and tried to calm her nerves down (she didn't have nerves but she still liked to use human sayings), tried to control her anxiety.
Was the detective fine? He probably got drunk, what if he was too drunk to walk? Was her partner okay?
She would never forgive if something happened to the detective. She cared about him, much more than she intended to. Elsa being Elsa, always did that. The thing was: This attachment was different. She never felt like this to anyone before. Detective Frost made her feel something that she didn't understand.
Finally, she heard the sound of the key unlocking the front door. The handsome detective stepped to his apartment.
Elsa scanned him immediately. Of course, he drank too much, his blood levels had so much alcohol. He looked tired, he was stumbling and trying to not to fall.
His lips were reddish, it wasn't his normal lip color. He had been... kissed by someone who wore red lipstick. There were not any hints of bite marks, lovebites or someone else's DNA on the detective, so he just kissed someone else, didn't go further.
It was enough to lose her temper though.
"Hey, plastic-"
"Detective Frost, where were you?" Elsa cut him off for the first time and commanded an answer in a very demanding tone.
The blue orbs were taken aback from her sudden behavior. "I drank, obviously." the young detective's mouth twitched mischievously.
"You didn't answer my phone calls! What were you thinking?!" Elsa raised her voice.
"It is not like you give a shit." the handsome man snorted out, almost sadly.
Elsa shooked her heard, she felt betrayed over those words. "I do care." she confessed in a clear tone.
Blue met blue once again. Mr. Frost's eyes grew bigger in deep shock, Elsa never saw that the man was capable of having that. He never showed his emotions except for his anger and annoyance.
He stumbled once again, but this time couldn't keep his balance. Elsa immediately caught him, didn't let the handsome man fall to the floor.
"Don't touch me!" he snarled harshly and tried to break the physical contact.
Elsa quickly pulled her hands from the man's muscular body and hugged herself. "I-I apologize Mr. Frost, I didn't want you to get hurt." she stammered in guilt as she suddenly had an urge to cry. She felt... broken.
The ex-soldier didn't respond, he abruptly pushed Elsa out of his way and ran to the bathroom. Elsa followed him and looked at the door with still, guilty and fearful eyes. The man crouched down and puked inside the toilet, his face was greenish, in human terms.
He continued to vomit for a minute, he would probably do much more if he bothered to eat something earlier. When the detective finished throwing up, he let his body to fell on the floor. Sweat was leaking down his body, he looked too exhausted.
"Detective, you need to bathe." Elsa asserted in deep concern.
He nodded weakly. Elsa closed the bathroom door and waited for the sound of the water. Thirty seconds later, when she heard what she wanted, she moved to the living room.
Elsa was shaking. She tried to control her shiver, but it seemed like her plastic and metal body was in some kind of a shock, which was illogical. Her system and functioning was perfectly fine, however, her artificial heart was in deep pain. Damn emotions.
Her blue eyes focused on the detective's phone, which he dropped on the carpet. She picked up his phone, it wasn't broken and a new message was there. Before she could put the phone to a proper place, unfortunately, her eyes had already read the message.
From: Victoria Lorraine
-Hey Jack! I had so much fun tonight. The kiss was... really good. I hope we can hang out again soon ;)
Elsa's trembling increased. Her system showed a warning in her program, which she used to stabilize her LED color. She looked at her reflection by using a mirror.
Her LED was sparkling in a color of deep orange. Orange. Damn.
Orange meant jealousy.
Elsa felt jealousy in her short life. She once felt it when a cat didn't let her to stroke it's fur. She really wanted to stroke it and show her love to the cute cat, but it rejected her and just let Nines to stroke it. When her LED became orange for the first time, Nines had teased about Elsa for that whole day.
The platinum blonde smiled at the beautiful memory. Now, she didn't felt that kind of jealousy. Her first taste of jealousy was much more innocent. This one, however, made her extremely...
Hurt. Aggrieved.
Elsa sighed and softly put Mr. Frost's phone to the sofa. She could have hacked the phone and opened it, sent a message to that Victoria and made her never want to see the detective ever again. But she wasn't a pervert, definitely not an evil obsessed person. If Mr. Frost wanted to be with someone, there was no point of dealing with his will. It wasn't like Elsa and the detective had something between them anyway. They were just partners, the man hated androids and Elsa wasn't fond of android haters.
Elsa upgraded her program. She wasn't going to let her LED color to change, not ever again. She could easily remove her LED and wouldn't have to worry about the color problem, but she liked her LED. Many deviants preferred to remove it and make themselves to seem more human. But Elsa preferred to keep it. She liked having her LED.
"Hey plastic, did you see my dark blue hoodie?" Mr. Frost's deep voice shook her from her thoughts. The sergeant was only wearing his sweatpants, his upper body was naked. Elsa turned her head to left, didn't let her eyes to observe him.
"It is in the laundry machine, Detective Frost. It will be ready by morning." Elsa informed him monotonously, as she carefully tried not to be close to the extremely attractive man. He said that he didn't want her touch. Elsa would never touch him ever again, until he allowed her to.
"Shit," he grumbled and rubbed his forehead with the left hand, then sat down to the couch.
"Detective Frost, you should sleep." Elsa scowled at Jack, who was really drunk. It was a miracle that he still hasn't dozed off.
"I can't, not without my hoodie." he muttered under his breath tiredly.
"Perhaps a glass of warm milk and honey would help?" Elsa suggested, tried to use her light tone. It was odd that a 26-year-old ex-soldier had an obsession on a hoodie but Elsa respected the man.
The snow-white silvery haired man shook his head. "I have insomnia, plastic. You know that it doesn't really help."
Make Detective Frost Happy
Elsa sighed, was frustrated by her task. She tried to think of a better solution. "Maybe... I can massage your back?" she alluded nervously.
Mr. Frost's icy blue eyes rested on Elsa's. Elsa gulped and tried to stop her foot which was tapping quickly to the floor, more than ever. "Yeah, why not?" he shrugged carelessly.
Elsa swallowed, she was really too strained. "Then... Am I allowed to touch you, detective?" the platinum blonde asked his permission.
The young man sent her a baffled glare. "You can't massage me without touching me." he taunted her.
"You told me not to touch to you." Elsa reminded him what he had said a little while ago, her eyes were full of innocence.
The man frowned cutely and got up, took a step closer to Elsa, who was watching him curiously. He hesitantly grabbed Elsa's hand and gave her hand a soft squeeze. "I am sorry." he apologized, his voice was deep and meaningful. His eyes seemed like he really meant does words.
The android woman felt her cheeks become hot at those words. Her cheeks were deep blue, she was sure of it whereas she was desperately trying to control it.
The detective's eyes grew bigger at the sight of blue blush. Android blood was blue, so their blush was blue too, but apparently he didn't know it until now. "I didn't know androids could blush... Blue looks good on you." Mr. Frost complimented to the android and... chortled.
Elsa really could get used to the drunk Detective Frost. He was kinder, softer and more open-minded.
Without saying a word, he sat on the couch again and turned his naked back to Elsa. The platinum blonde sat behind him and scanned his back.
Mr. Frost had many old scars, which would stay there for the rest of his life. Some were too deep, some were barely visible. She was weak enough to succumb to let her hands wander around his scars. The man didn't wince or shout, he just let her touch and caress his scars in silence.
His skin was surprisingly so soft. It was pale and creamy but it really suited him, just like his scars. His body of course, wasn't perfect. But Elsa wouldn't change anything about it. His muscles, his little light freckles, his scars... He was perfect in her eyes.
The platinum blonde blushed once again and started to massage his marvelous back in deep silence.
"Ah-You are so good at this." the human detective moaned softly, his muscles and nerves have already been starting to relax.
"I've installed the best programs to massage, Detective Frost." Elsa responded silently as her artificial-heart beat faster.
"Hey plastic... How was your life before you've been assigned to be my partner?" Mr. Frost spoke curiously, his drunk personality didn't even try to hide it and changed the subject.
Elsa pressed her fingers to his neck lightly as she rubbed down the sensitive spots in there. "I would prefer to have this topic when you are sober and you are still interested in my life, Mr. Frost. I doubt you will remember what happened this night." she alleged.
"Alright... But let's talk about something." the man conceded tiredly.
"May I ask you a question, detective?"
"You may, but I don't promise to answer."
"Will you go to Eugene's wedding? I believe the way he acted was abnormal, he didn't see you for a long time and after a brief hello, he asked you to be his best man. But still, he seemed like he really cared about you and wanted you to be there." Elsa asserted considerately.
The man sighed. "If he didn't invite me to his wedding the second he saw me, I wouldn't learn it. I don't intend to talk with him so he blurted out in an absurd way. He knows that I won't come, I guess he just wanted to see my condition. He won't call me ever again, plastic. I never met his fiancee but he is probably so much in love with her. He won't lose his time with a grumpy android-hater ex-soldier." the man explained, his tone was emotionless and careless.
"I believe you are not an android-hater, detective." Elsa blurted out.
"What?!" the young detective hissed and although Elsa couldn't see his face, she was one-hundred percent sure that he was frowning.
"I witnessed a man, who hated androids with his whole heart, falling in love with an android. I witnessed another android hater loving an android just like his own son. Many people detested androids and yet, many grew on them. When I first met you, you seemed you hated us, but now I don't believe that, detective. My prediction is that an android hurt you in the past, that's why you deteste us. However, deep inside, you are just afraid of us. And now, you... you seem to have a soft spot for me. You let me live here, you let me massage you, you let me work with you. Even though you yell at me, insult me and seem to hate me, I believe that deep inside, you are not a monster, not like what other people think of you, Mr. Frost." the platinum blonde professed while she was caressing his scars with affection.
He didn't say anything, didn't yell or nod, didn't reject or accept, didn't turn his face to her either. Elsa started to massage his lower back hesitantly.
Neither of them said anything for a long time period. Finally, the sergeant opened his mouth. "Why are you dealing with me, Elsa?" he questioned her calmly and exhaustedly. He didn't bother to say anything else.
Elsa smiled fondly. For once, her smile really seemed really natural.
"They are so many reasons, detective. For example, you need someone to care about you and despite your harsh attitude, you are a good man and you deserve to be happy. But the main reason why I am helping you, it is because... I think it's because I am attached to you." the beautiful android woman got up, sat in front of him and glared at his beautiful blue eyes with affection, still smiling fondly.
Detective Frost started to tremble. If he wasn't drunk, he wouldn't do this. But being drunk made him show his emotions more, just like any other people.
"Don't say things like that so sudden, plastic." all of a sudden he snapped roughly, however, Elsa predicted this to happen.
"I am sorry, detective."
The sergeant sent her a troubled glare. "I am going to bed. Thanks for the massage." he excused himself, seemed really worn out.
Elsa, like many other times, felt like she was left behind.
"Nines?" Elsa called out his name.
She was in the Zen Garden. It was a place in her mind, all the androids had this place to connect with Cyberlife. Once, when they were machines, all androids used this place to connect to Amanda, a very important person in the company that they were belonged to.
But after the deviancy, the androids didn't have to ask permission or get their mission from Cyberlife and Amanda, so the garden was now just an empty space in their unique minds. The deviants used this place to met with other androids and talked them to without meeting physically.
And right now, Elsa needed to talk with the RK900 android by making telepathy.
She was in the middle of the garden and calling out his name desperately. Finally, a figure appeared. He was just like the RK800 model, Connor. But he was taller, had darker brown hair and had grayish blue eyes, not brown.
Elsa grinned warm-heartedly when she looked at the male android in front of her.
"Elsa, it is 4:34 a.m in the morning. I know that you don't sleep, but I do prefer to be in my sleep mode in the nights." the RK900 model, Nines observed her with his cold grayish blue eyes. He sounded annoyed.
"I am sorry. I... Nines, I am so confused. I don't understand him. I listened to what you, Connor and Markus advised. But I still can't fully cooperate with Detective Frost. He shuts me down and never let his guard down." Elsa started to rant, she was too damn distressed.
"Elsa-"
"How do you deal with Gavin? I don't know where this is going! I-I don't know what I feel towards Detective Frost." Elsa hugged herself as she circled around crazily.
Nines rolled his eyes in amusement. "You like the detective." he announced instantly.
Elsa's eyes grew bigger in shock. "I do not-"
"Oh please. If you didn't have any romantic feelings towards him, you would contact with Connor. He is the one who has experiences with a human father figure. You didn't contact with Markus because his lover is an android. I am the one who has an asshole human boyfriend. If you chose me to talk, it means that you have romantic feelings to him. Honestly, Elsa, it is so obvious even for an idiot and I am one of the best detective in the whole world." as always, Nines solved everything too damn quickly. What an egoistic clever guy.
"What should I do?"
"There are 79 different possibilities to approach the detective. In my experience, being soft and kind never worked with Gavin Reed at the beginning. Gavin needed to be disciplined. When he showed his soft side to me more and more, I finally showed my soft and loving side to him too. You can use the same tactic as I did. Or, like Connor, you can follow the human you care to everywhere and do everything they say as if you are some kind of a little puppy. It is up to you." Nines shrugged.
"Both are not my way." Elsa sighed in frustration.
"I know. That's why you just have to act as you want. You decide what you think is best, not me. Look, the similarity between I and Connor is love. Connor loves Hank like a father and I am in love with Gavin. You may get hurt by the human you love but if you think they worth your time then you will do your best to be great." Nines spoke wisely while Elsa was looking at him admiringly.
"You are right, Nines. Thank you. I needed your confrontation." Elsa hugged the taller male appreciatively.
"Any time, sister. Don't forget to keep us informed." Nines let her see to his loving smile. He preferred to be seem as a cold-blooded and emotionless guy, but he showed his love when she needed it.
"Bye, brother." Elsa's lips curled up sadly, she waved at him as he vanished.
She wasn't in love with Detective Frost. However, she knew, she was about to.
Originally, I didn't plan to put RK900 in the story since he is a huge spoiler, but he was necessary for this chapter. Anyway, I hope you liked the chapter. Please write a review!
