Ladies n gentlemen! A late happy lunar new yr to those tht we're celebrating it.

Another note about updates, they will depend on how fast I can write them and how fast I can have my friends beta read it, we all suffering college students ;( tryna juggle the beautiful game of life. For now, my goal is try to submit one chapter per week. - i died this week trying to finish this chapter on time. Mentally deprived so I apologize in forward if there r grammar/spelling mistakes. But mostly I guess the biggest time consumer is prob shifting to show and not tell writing. I look over like a lot of references to try to redo my writing, i think i spent like 12 hours on this XD did an hour each day and then a lot on friday

Shoutout to Vin especially for the amazing comment, I was like super saiyan motivated in writing the story after seeing the encouraging comment. Also shoutouts to uwillbeefound, JazzyHere, IrrationallyLogical and the guests that left kudos on this work and for those that bookmarked this!

Anyway, here is ur ch2! Reminder that is this a 'suddenly into a video game world' type of story~

Alina was at the DPD.

And it looked just like the version in the game, if not any better. She secretly pinched her arm to double check if this was reality. Ouch! That hurt. A LOT. She shouldn't have pinched herself that hard. But in all honesty, if anyone had said that they miraculously jumped into a video game world, most people would think of that said person as cRaZy. Yet, here she was, in her FAVORITE video game called Detroit:Become Human.

Literally twenty minutes ago, she was just calmly chilling inside her college dorm suite. It had been an exhausting day for her: 3 hours of part time work, 4 hours total of college classes, and another 3 hours of studying as well as homework. And FINALLY, just when Alina thought she could get some quality sleep, she opened the door to her room, only to face some blinding white light and then found herself smack in the middle of a road.

At first, she thought she was hallucinating or perhaps she simply collapsed on her way to her room and was asleep on the ground. But the Dva doll she was carrying from the living room was VERY MUCH THERE and so was the blowing snow whisking around her. It had slowly piled itself on her and the cold air biting her skin just confirmed that she somehow got transported to the outdoors. And that this was not a dream, at allllll.

It got weirder when Hank and Connor showed up in the snowstorm too. She didn't recognize Connor at first with all the blowing snow, and by the time she did, she most likely looked like an idiot with her gaping mouth. When he approached her initially, she thought he was one of those people looking to pick a fight after a fit of road rage. After spacing out and realizing the person in front of her was Connor, she had simply hoped the blowing snow covered up her cheeks, which were burning with embarrassment. It also didn't help that she was pretty sure that she looked even more suspicious to them when she evaded their questions and answered vaguely.

"Alina?"

"Hm?" She looked up from Hank's desk where she had apparently been staring at. She was currently situated on an extra chair near Hank and Connor's work space. As Alina expected, their work desks were right across from each other.

"Are you alright? I've been calling your name for a while now." Connor had a concerned look on his face.

"Sorry," she gave a small smile back. "I've just got a lot on my mind right now and I'm trying to sort everything out."

Connor gave a courteous nod back, "Of course."

For a second Alina thought he was just going to leave her be after that, but just as he started working on DPD paperwork, he stopped and turned his attention back on her again.

"Would you like some warm water?"

The sudden gesture surprised her a bit, but she made sure to quickly give back a polite response.

"Yes, that would be nice. Thank you." Alina watched as Connor got up from his seat and went into the break room on the side. Her eyes followed him until he disappeared behind the wall and her mind recalled the game sequence scene with Gavin in the same break room. In her first playthrough, poor Connor was left with the coffee in his hand after accepting Gavin's request to bring him a coffee.

She let out a soft sigh, she had wanted to establish a good relationship with other DPD coworkers in her first playthrough. But in the end, Gavin was just deemed an asshole by the majority of the fandom and like them, she wanted to give him a punch by the end of the game. Speaking of Gavin, Alina wondered if he was on duty today. She did not want to come up with another string of half truths and half lies, especially to him. Just the thought of him made her scrunch up her face and body. She looked around for a bit and to her relief, she didn't see him around the facility. She only hoped there wasn't going to be a repeat of the game sequence today and that he wasn't situated in the break room right now.

While waiting for Connor to come back, Alina took the time to mentally prepare for the barrage of questions she'd receive from the police.

Well, she managed to avoid the hometown question earlier once, but it was bound to come up again. She was from New York, but it's not like she could say that. One, they might send her there. Two, even if they do, she doesn't exist there, in this world in general. She doesn't belong here, and it sent a knot down to her stomach as she hugged her Dva doll closer to her body. Three, that meant no way of identifying her.

She just turned 18 too, that meant officially, she's a proper adult. But it's not like she has any financial means to support herself. No Social Security number, no ID, no way to get a job. Subconsciously, Alina began to curl up as more and more problems of surviving in this new world invaded her mind. If this really isn't a dream and I don't find a way back...how do I even start a new life here? It was at that moment that she lifted her head up to see a DPD ceramic cup set before her. She leaned into the table at the nice smell coming from it. She was surprised that instead of warm water she got a light brown drink with a fluff ball of whip cream floating on top. Confused for a moment, she turned her head back to Connor for an answer.

"I hope that you like hot chocolate. I read that most kids like the drink especially on a cold day and thought it would be better than water especially since you seem downhearted."

Alina accepted the warm drink and took a sip, smiling to herself as she relished in the sweetness of the chocolate. The drink wasn't too overly sweet to the point that it overwhelmed her and it had just the right amount of sugar. As expected of Connor to perfect the sugar to milk chocolate ratio.

"Thank you, it's perfect!" She replied back, grateful for the additional warmth from the hot cocoa. She looked up to see Connor, who was now across from her, beaming from the compliment.

"I'm glad you're enjoying it. While you're at it, could you fill out this paperwork too?" He handed her a mini glass panel and when Alina tapped on it, it lit up to reveal a digital fill out form. Unfortunately, that meant putting her Dva doll down onto Hank's messy table, but she'd rather not accidentally drop the tablet placed into her hands.

Curiously, she began playing around with the device. Until now, she had forgotten that the tablets featured in the game were basically like glass panels. It was definitely much more different than the ones featured by Apple and Samsung back in 2018. Her lips parted slightly with wonder at the device in her hand. As her fingers moved about the smooth panel, she found herself skimming through the couple pages of 'paperwork' she had to fill out. The form simply asked her to fill out basic information: Name, date of birth, address, etc. Name was easy, there was no harm in putting down her real one. Alina Niu.

Date of Birth. That's going to be a bit of a problem. Using her real birthday of December 5th was fine, it's just the year that she'd have to change. She could make herself 18, like she actually was, but in all honesty she didn't look like one with her small height of five feet one. Plus, there was the problem that being 18, meant that you were an adult and that came with its own set of problems. At least if she were a kid, shelter and food wouldn't be a problem since the government would take in orphans. It's settled then, I'll be a kid. Well, a teen to be more specific. 17? No, that would be too close to 18. 16? A 2 year difference should be fine, I mean, I look the part anyway. 16 it is. 2038-16=2022. That'll be my new birthday: December 5th, 2022. Typing her new birthday into the tablet left a weird and unsettling feeling in her stomach, but she'll have to do it for survival.

Alina also realized that she'll also have to constantly remind herself to stop writing 2018 at the end of dates too. The last date that she remembered was December 12th, 2018; however, according to Hank it was now December 13th, 2038. She found it peculiar how it was almost exactly two decades of a timeskip, well, except for that extra one day time difference.

Hmmm, let's move on. Ethnicity? Chinese American. Gender? Female. Parents. Should she put their names down? If she were to put down her parent's information, then they could use that to 'find her hometown' or any relatives. In either case, she had none at the moment in this world. It's 2038 with Androids capable of billions of calculations within a minute, the DPD Police department could easily contact other cities to get information. It would be better to keep that blank. Address? Nope. She looked over the form once more, filling in other miscellaneous items and handed the tablet back to Connor.

"Do you...not like filling out paperwork?" Connor inquired.

Alina tilted her head to the side in confusion, "Huh? What makes you say that?"

"You were furrowing your brow quite often during the process of typing everything out." Connor took a quick look at the tablet's pages and paused for a moment. "Furthermore, you seemed to have purposely skipped out on a number of parts. Or does the environment in which you are currently situated in, make you uncomfortable in any way?"

Alina quickly took a look around and found nothing unusual that would disturb her.

"No, everything seems normal around here." She frowned a bit trying to think of the reason behind Connor's last comment. She was simply thinking about how to explain her suspicious background. Oh, yes. I forgot that I'm considered a recently orphaned child, maybe that's what he's thinking along the lines of? Being in an unfamiliar environment? Or rather the police station?

"I guess, it's just sorta overwhelming." She let out a nervous laugh and shrugged. "Like I don't know what's going to happen to me after this. I...don't really have a home, you know?"

She watched as Connor went into deep thought for a couple of seconds as his LED whirled yellow.

"Why don't you stay with us for now? I'm sure Hank won't mind."

She stared at him back in response. The Anderson Connor. Wait no-Connor Anderson was offering to let her stay at their place for a while.

"You sure? Won't Hank mind?" She quickly stopped herself to properly address the older man, "I mean-Lieutenant Anderson, won't he mind?"

"I mean, I'm sure I can persuade him. Besides, statistically speaking we always have a chance." He gave her a reassuring smile from across the desk.

"Thank you!" She beamed, jumping up and giving him a hug, nearly knocking over the hot cocoa on the desk. She noticed that Connor was initially stiff to her touch, but then he reciprocated the hug by awkwardly patting her back with his right arm. When she let go, she noted that he was slightly flustered and maybe she was imagining it, but his cheeks had light tints of blue.

"Sorry! You probably don't like hugs. I should have asked first." She took a step back and rubbed her left arm sheepishly before sitting back down.

"No, no, it's fine. I've just never really been hugged before, other than Hank. It was…nice." He had a gentle expression on his face, but Alina was still worried if it was just his programming to appeal to humans. She went back to sipping her hot chocolate for the next couple of minutes when she felt a tap on her left shoulder. She looked up to see Hank and an East Asian female police officer. She looked familiar to Alina, perhaps she was one of the minor characters in Detroit: Become Human.

"Hey Alina, this is Officer Tina. She is just going to ask you some more questions and help you out, alright? You can take the hot chocolate with you too, if you want."

Officer Tina waved to her and greeted Alina with a 'Hello.'

"It's nice to meet you, Alina. I'm just going to ask you a few more questions and help you get settled into Detroit, alright?"

Alina nodded back and picked up her Dva and cup, following Tina's lead. She took one more look back at Connor, waving a goodbye before quickly turning back to Tina and hoping to hide the mild anxiety on her mind.

"See you around kid."

"Anderson!"

Hank turned around from his desk chair to see Fowler waving him over to his office. Ugh, what now? It had been a quiet day compared to other days of the week being flooded with android cases. The only big thing thankfully was that kid Alina, but Tina took care of that. When he walked into the glass office room he noticed that Alina's file was in Fowler's hands and something told him that he was going to have to deal with the kid again.

"What's up Jeffrey?"

Fowler let out a sigh, rubbing his neck before delivering the news.

"I need you to take care of that girl you brought in." Fowler looked him dead in the eye with a serious expression on his face.

"What the f*ck?! Why not have Tina or *Pearson do it?" Hank retorted.

"Tina and Person are roommates and if you just stayed a little longer in last week's meeting you would have known that they have family staying over."

Hank clenched his teeth before resigning to take a seat and arguing further.

"What about the other female cops in the precinct? I'm not cut out for this."

Fowler folded up his hands onto the tabletop and leaned in closer to Hank, lowering his voice down a notch.

"Look, the kid was insisting that she wanted to go with you. And apparently Connor already offered to let her stay at your place."

Fowler had more to say, but upon hearing that last sentence he snapped his head around to glare at Connor. The android seemed to have sensed Hank's glaring because Connor perked up suddenly and returned a pasted smile to him. That son of a bitch. Connor, why the hell did you offer our place?! I don't want to deal with taking care of a kid.

"Hank!"

Turning his attention back to Fowler, he stroked the top of his forehead in anticipation of what was to come.

"Look, it's just a couple of days and you know government facilities are barely running. You think the government has the money or resources right now to keep their federal orphanage center running? The city is running at barely half its normal capacity, most of the city's people have yet to return to Detroit. Plus the Android Assimilation Act has only recently been enacted and doesn't give full rights to androids yet so everyone's in a bind right now."

Hank simply groaned and looked away.

"Hank. She's not a little kid. She's 16, all you gotta do is give her food and shelter. And while you are at it, monitor her cause she's refusing to tell us anything about her background, family, or hometown. Just for a few days-"

Hank lifted his hands up to silently say that he got the message and point of the conversation.

"I got it! BUT just for a few days, no more than that." He pointed at Fowler with a threatening look, and as usual Fowler didn't falter from Hank's gestures.

"I've already spoken to Connor earlier a bit and I'll give you a small bonus as compensation for her living expenses, alright? Now pick up the damn little girl, Hank." Fowler waved off Hank, shooting him out of the office.

As Hank walked out of Fowler's office, he found Tina approaching from the right with Alina by her side. What the hell man, he's going to have to give Connor one heck of a conversation when they get home.

So as you can see, the level of writing quality sorta declined towards the end because I was rushing to finish this chapter before the weekdays came back to attack me XD I hope you guys still enjoyed it regardless, was hoping to write another page of writing for this chapter but I ended up needing the time for some schoolwork. And honestly im just like dead rn :p

*Also Pearson was supposed to be "Person". Apparently in the game according to the wiki, Person was legitimate last name of an officer in the DPD, she was a Asian female minor character like Tina Chen. Idk y that is her last name but it just was, so i just ended up changing it slightly

The following is just some thoughts on how I wrote some things in the chapter:

So imma be honest, i pondered btw whether or not the androids could blush n if they could, which color would it be. Bc humans blush pink due to a rush of blood, which is red. So I decided tht since they have blue blood, androids would probably blush blue? Though i pondered if they would have pink blush since androids are supposed to be similar to humans.

And yes one of Connor's replies to Alina was a reference to how he said "There's a high probability [of failure]... but statistically speaking, there's always a chance for unlikely events to take place." I just slightly reword it to pay homage, and also since the situation is like, u know, less dire. (.~)/

Overall, there was a lot of exposition here as i was tryna decide if i should do a flashback and explain alina's pov on what happened and so i ended up sorta doing a flashback? But not exactly?

Tried to fill in the dialogue some more too. AND WHOOOPPP WROTE 2,700 words, more than my usual so big win

BUT! Enough rambling on my part, overall please kudos and comment, and lots of love for yall cuz ik everyone is prob stressed out from something right now maybe. U CAN DO THIS! THE WEEKEND OF FUN WILL COME AGAIN