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CHAPTER 8: What Is A Mother

"I'll carry him." Jack Frost suggested in a commanding tone as he stopped the car.

The beautiful woman android, who was hugging the child protectively, shook her head. "If that's okay for you, I'll carry him, Detective Frost." she kindly declined his offer as she tried to open the car door, whereas she was trying to not to wake Ivan up.

He was almost going to smile at her adorable behavior, but he managed to hold it. "Let me do it." he simply said and got out from his car, then opened Elsa's door.

The platinum blonde stepped out from the old rusty car and adjusted her arms to hold the sleeping boy more carefully. They headed to Mr. Frost's apartment silently.

When they were climbing up the stairs, Elsa suddenly lost her balance. She would definitely fall and hurt the little boy if two muscular arms didn't catch her by her waist protectively.

"Fucking plastic, aren't you programmed to be perfect?" Mr. Frost snapped at her rudely, however, Elsa easily could see the pure worry in his beautiful blue eyes.

"I apologize, Detective Frost. I am really nervous, to be honest. This is the first time that I've ever carried a child. I've never made this kind of any physical contact with a child before." Elsa grasped Ivan even more protectively.

The young handsome man nodded at her excuse as he opened his door briefly. "Just don't be attached to him, Elsa. We still have to interrogate him, that's why I brought him here. Even my flat looks warmer than the station or the crime scene." he warned the woman android very seriously.

Elsa frowned at his comment. "I know that you didn't bring him here to just to question him easier, Mr. Frost. You have a kind heart-"

"Shut up, will you? And by the way, he is sleeping on your bed, not mine." he hissed, somehow quite softly.

Elsa smiled fondly at the grumpy Sergeant. "Do you want me to massage your back?" she offered, her eyes locked on his so lovingly.

The ex-soldier shifted uncomfortably at her gaze. "You don't need to, Elsa. I will be doing fine... I think Ivan needs your comfort more than I do." he blurted out suddenly, immediately regretted it that he said his thoughts aloud.

Elsa's peerless smile grew wider. "Then, can you help me with getting Ivan into the bed?" she requested a favor, as the man was nodding softly.

They went to her room, the snow white silvery haired man helped the platinum blonde android woman, both of them were trying their best to not to wake him up. When Ivan was laid on the bed, Elsa attempted to break their embrace, however, the tiny boy snuggled to her even closer.

"I think you should lay down with him." the young detective announced quietly, his eyes looked deep and... sad.

Elsa exhaled, even though she physically didn't need to. "Mr. Frost... I've never done this with anyone before. I don't know how to hold Ivan or make him feel better while he is sleeping. And I... I don't want to... sleep." she admitted her fear.

"Why?"

"I've never used my rest mode before. Humans and also deviants... they have nightmares. I don't want to have nightmares. They make people weak and afraid, even you, the strongest man that I have ever met can't handle them." Elsa bit her lip, she looked a little bit scared.

"Elsa... get into the bed." the detective ordered to her very gently, so she obeyed with any hesitation.

She felt Ivan little body next to her plastic and a metal one, the boy cuddled to her as she crashed him to her body tightly, but not enough to hurt him. Then, her scared eyes rested on the extremely attractive man, who was standing next to them.

The human detective offered her a light, very tiny smile. He then, leaned to her slowly and planted his lips to her forehead. Elsa gulped in instinct as she felt his surprisingly soft, wet lips on her body. She had a deep blue blush on her face. Then, the man kissed Ivan's forehead.

"My mother used to kiss my forehead to make me feel better. She always said that it would prevent me to have nightmares." he explained, Elsa could still feel his breath, his captivatingly exquisite face was so to close to hers.

The platinum blonde wanted to cry at that moment, his sudden affection made her too happy. But she was afraid that the detective would shut her down, like he always did.

So, she pressed her lips to his forehead, desperately tried to show how much he meant for her by using body language.

"Good night, Elsa." the man silently said as he was pulling the covers. He turned the lights off, but Elsa caught the glimpse of his faint blush. It was adorable, he looked too human at that moment.

"Good night, Detective Frost."

She couldn't wait to tell her brothers what has happened. She was eighty-six percent sure that Detective Frost didn't hate her.

Jack let out a low moan in delight. The heavenly smell of crepes made his stomach to grumble. Damn, he was really hungry.

He got up, rubbed his eyes sleepily. After brushing his teeth and washing his tired face, he followed the smell. When he heard a happy, loud laugh though, he could feel that his stomach was turning upside down. He has never heard that much of a beautiful laugh before, it was like a melody to his ears.

Elsa was... grinning lovingly, her eyes focused on Ivan, while she was making crepes skillfully. "Good morning Mr. Frost! The breakfast will be ready in a couple of minutes." she giggled as Ivan was trying to shape the crepe on the pan, which was still liquid.

While Elsa was shaping the crepe as a heart,

Jack sat on the chair. "Good morning, Elsa and Ivan." he greeted them softly and stared at Ivan with exhausted eyes.

"Good morning Mr. Frost." Ivan replied purely as he sat on the chair which was next Jack's.

"Call me Jack, buddy." the 26 years old man reminded him as Elsa put the heart-shaped crepe on his plate. Jack did his best to not to blush, and it somehow worked.

"But Elsa calls you as Mr. Frost?" Ivan questioned him innocently. He sure was a lot more talkative then yesterday.

"She is allowed to use my first name too." Jack's gaze dropped on Elsa, a little bit adoringly. Elsa turned her face to him, a faint blue blush spread to her face, which looked adorable.

Soon, Ivan and Jack started to make their breakfast while Elsa was smiling at them widely.

"Detective Frost, surprisingly you didn't notice the time. It is 10:12 a.m. I called Captain North and told him we will be late." the platinum blonde announced casually.

Jack frowned, how come he couldn't wake up? He had a wonderful sleep tonight, that was sure, but was he that desperate to have a nice sleep? He was such an idiot. "Whatever." he grumbled as he tasted the delicious crepe. This android was really amazing at cooking.

"Ivan... Would it be okay if I asked a few questions?" the clever detective silently checked his condition, remembered that he had to interrogate the child as his face became unhappy and emotionless.

Ivan took a sip from his milk, then nodded quietly. His eyes focused on the ex-soldier.

"Where are your parents? How did Everett find you, buddy?" Jack asked very gently.

Ivan frowned whereas Elsa was instinctively stroking his silky brown hair. "I have never met my mother. My father... He died in a car accident a couple of days ago. I had nobody, then Everett found me on a street. He invited me to his house and told me that he would take care of me." Ivan told calmly, acted like he was an adult instead of a little kid.

"What is your father's name?"

"Oliver Sanders." Ivan replied as he started to tremble, her eyes became watered.

Jack sighed in guilt and put his hand on Ivan's shoulder. "I am sorry kiddo. I don't want to bring up some memories, but I have to do my job."

Tears couldn't have just stayed on Ivan's eyes, they silently fell down from his face. "I... I don't love my father. He wasn't a good father." the poor kid stuttered out as horror represented on Elsa's face.

"What did he do to you, dear?" the platinum blonde asked, a deep frown came across to her beautiful features.

"H-He used to hit me." the brown-haired boy now, sobbed loudly. Elsa pulled Ivan to her body, wrapped her arms around his back defensively.

Jack cringed in disgust at the image of an asshole, hurting six years old adorable boy. "Can you tell us what happened in Everett's apartment, Ivan?" Jack continued to interrogate him with a kind tone.

Elsa gave him a very deadly glare. "He is traumatized, Mr. Frost. Don't push him, you have already predicted what had happened last night." she hissed for the first time. She was never rude or harsh to Jack before.

"I am a detective, plastic. You are too, so shut up and let me do the hard thing that you are not capable of." he snapped roughly and matter of factly. Elsa narrowed her eyes daringly but obeyed.

"Everett told me he needed a bath. After he said those words, I just had laid on the couch. I don't remember afterward. When I woke up, a woman was crying. She called the police and didn't let me go to the bathroom." Ivan told what had happened very bravely while he was hugging Elsa back. He seemed much more relaxed.

The boy wasn't lying, if he did, Elsa would definitely look uncomfortable. Even though she kept away what she was thinking, Jack would understand from her body language that Ivan was indeed, lying. So now that he was sure that the boy was saying the truth...

Jack bit his bottom lip and got up, started to turn around in the living room. Harley was clever enough to not let Ivan see the dead body. The strange thing was: Ivan didn't even hear that someone came to the apartment. He was completely unaware of the murderer, which meant that the killer was prepared, much more than he predicted.

Everett took Ivan to his house for the first time on that day. Even though the murderer probably did research about Everett, they wouldn't be able to find information about the young boy. The killer must have thrown some kind of a strong gadget to his flat to make them sleep, that's why Ivan didn't heard anything. The weirdest thing was: According to the previous case, that gadget was even capable of making the androids to get into their rest mode.

He and Elsa were dealing with a dangerous, extremely intelligent serial killer.

"A boy! Hi kid! My name is Hiccup, it is nice to meet you! Do you want some chocolate?" Hiccup babbled excitedly as he grabbed a bar of chocolate from his drawer. Ivan accepted the chocolate gladly, started to eat happily.

"Hiccup, what the f-hell? Jack's lips curled up in pure amusement as he managed to not to say the "f" word. It was nearly impossible to hate Hiccup, much to his dismay. The brunet male android had such a kind-hearted personality.

"Astrid adores chocolate, Detective Frost. I... I always reserve chocolate in my drawer, in case she wants to eat it." Hiccup replied, tried to sound logical, but the deep blue blush on his face was saying another story.

Elsa smiled at Hiccup. "Is somebody in love?" she purred as she bit bottom her lip to hold her huge grin. Jack shivered, why did she have to look so beautiful?

The blue blush on Hiccup's face became even more visible. "It has been only a week! Of course, I am not in love with Astrid." he gasped, whispered the last sentence, a hint of doubt spread to his voice.

"Sure." Elsa smirked, didn't even try to seem innocent.

"Jack, Elsa! Come to my office and bring the little boy!" North ordered abruptly, he was standing next to his office's door.

The partners' eyes met. Elsa's eyes looked horrified while Jack's eyes looked thoughtful and sad. When he closed his eyes and reopened them though, they seemed bored and icy, like always.

"Let's go Ivan." he ordered, almost harshly, didn't attempt to hold his hand or put his hand on his shoulder to support him.

Elsa was another story. She pulled Ivan to her body and held him strongly more than ever, as they walked to the Captain's office.

A middle-aged, a little bit over-weight man was standing in the office.

"Mr. Robertson is from the orphanage, he came here to take the boy." North declared casually as he has already been sitting to his comfortable chair.

Ivan grasped Elsa whereas he was shivering. Elsa's grip tightened, she looked too determined to not the hand the boy.

"Elsa." Jack called out her name sharply.

It was enough for the beautiful woman android to let go of the little boy with trembling hands.

Robertson took Ivan's left hand, fronted to the door. However, suddenly, Ivan broke the physical contact and ran towards Elsa. He crashed her into a hug as his whole body was juddering madly.

"Don't leave me, mom!"

And then, the time stopped.

The three male adults' eyes grew bigger at that word. They were too shocked to say anything.

Elsa used the advantage of the situation and hid Ivan behind to her body whereas her hands were holding him protectively.

"You are not taking my child." she announced in a very clear, confident tone. She was ready to fight and risk everything she had.

"Elsa, you are being unreasonable." North warned her as he inhaled tiredly.

"Give me the boy." commanded Robertson. Elsa shook her head in disagreement.

Jack swallowed as his gaze dropped on Ivan. Jamie. Jamie. Jamie... Ivan had the same scared expression as Jamie had.

Jamie had the same terrified look before he took his last breath, before he was killed.

"Elsa." Jack called out her name once again, this time, softly.

Tears dropped to the floor.

"I-I won't. Mr. Frost, please! Please let him live with us! I will do everything you ask, please, please, I beg you!" the drop-dead gorgeous android rumbled out whereas tears were streaming down her flawless face.

Elsa, the android detective, his partner, his roommate was sobbing loudly. Oh how much Jack wanted to soothe her, kiss her tears to make her feel better.

Instead of doing that, Jack pulled Ivan from Elsa's grasp, handed the boy to Robertson. As soon as Robertson touched the boy, he left the office angrily. Elsa didn't fight back, she was crying, her hands covered her face when her trembling increased.

"Are you a fucking idiot!? What were you thinking?! That... That you could be a mother?! That I could help you and be a part of a family as if I am... a father?! We are nothing but coworkers, you are nothing to me except being a pain on my ass! You don't even have a fucking last name, you are not even human! You could never be a mother, even though you wanted to!" the ex-soldier yelled furiously at the android, his hands turned to a fist as his nails were digging his skin.

He didn't mean half of those words. He meant that he couldn't be a father and be a part of a family. However, apart from those words, the others were a big fat lie.

A big fat lie that had to be said.

Elsa's loud sob died down, but her salty tears were still going down silently. Her eyes never looked that much hurt, aggrieved and sad before. He was sure that she felt like she was betrayed.

She was devastated and he was the one who had ruined her.

So, when Elsa threw her police badge to North's desk, when she ran out of the office without making any eye contact... Jack Frost didn't attempt to stop her.

When the time had stopped for a moment for them, Elsa's LED turned to red.

It never went back to yellow or blue.

Sorry for the slight cliffhanger and the angst... Please write a review, love you all!