Ro's dreaming about what?
I soon found myself in a familiar place it was a place I had been to before many times. Andy used to talk to me here when he died a long time ago. That was why I was so afraid of him earlier. Most of the time my dreams bothered me with demons that tormented me. But recently ever since I met Zee they weren't bothering me.
I was dreaming of being in Zee's arms again. He held me so gently but his hands held firmly. I rested my head on his chest and instead of being cold and metallic feeling it was warm and firm. I looked up but Zee's image disappeared suddenly.
"Ro are you there?"
"Yes and I'm wondering why you are still bothering me Andy? I was enjoying my dream here."
"I'm sorry but this is from a higher order. He told me I have to ask you before I actually do this."
"What is it?"
"Well people in high places up there want my debts to be paid off."
"What debts do you owe?"
"Well I caused you so much pain I owe you a wish to make up for my selfish act. I had to stop the dream so I could do it before sunrise."
"Can you make Zeta human for me?"
"Yes if that is what you wish. Are you sure that is what you want?"
"First thing how will he change? Is there going to be anything devastating different about him."
"He will change completely human except one part and that is one of his arms. He will still be able to create as much money he needs and that robotic arm will be covered with a hologram changing to however he is dressed or whatever."
"Will his personality or looks change?"
"Not at all. It is up to you how this will come out. If you don't wish for the way he looks and his personality to change then it won't. What's in your heart will happen for you."
"Go ahead, I want to make his dream to come true."
"As you wish Ro, one day you will become very high among the ranks in order up there."
"Wait hold on, you promise he won't change at all? He'll still be the Zee I know."
"Yes, his transformation will not affect the image he has created and he will be human so the NSC can't do anything to him. So he will also be a free man and he will have all the proper ID made, birth certificate, social security, and driver's Lucien."
"Okay but if he does change I'll never forgive you Andy."
"I promise and I'll see you in a couple of days if you or he doesn't like it then I'll change him back."
Changes for Zee.
I watched Ro while she was sleeping. She was smiling. She had been smiling and laughing or cheering the whole night. I think that this was the best night she had in a long time. I forget that she sometimes needs to have fun sometimes. She suggested a night on the town. I figured why not. She has effect of convincing me to do pretty much what ever she wants me to do.
But tonight she looked absolutely beautiful. That dress really looked good on her even to me. She looked really pretty when she just had the dress but after she got what she called a makeover. She looked how humans say drop dead gorgeous. She had fun with me by her side. Usually she does it by herself but soon I found myself I guess having fun. It was really enjoyable.
We both seemed to be lucky as Ro pretty much won as many things as I did. I would give her most of the things I won. I slipped my hand in an empty compartment I had. It was a picture that we took together. She was smiling with me hand wrapped around her shoulder hugging her smiling too. I couldn't help it but when Ro is happy I seem to be too.
I felt strange suddenly. I felt a sudden jolt of pain. I don't know what was happening but I dropped to the floor. My vision was shut off or something. I couldn't see anything. "Ro help me!" I yelled out. I felt something growing inside and out. It hurt real bad.
"Zee hold on I'll help you." I felt a new sensation. It felt good for some reason and warm. "Zee please don't leave me alone." It took all my strength not to cry out in pain. I never felt like this before.
I woke up finding myself turned facing the ceiling. Who moved me around so that I faced the ceiling and something soft and comforting was under my head? I looked at my hands. I thought for second to make the hologram go away. But something was wrong it didn't go away. I felt thousands of new sensations tingling my senses.
"Ro?"
"Zee you're finally up. Shh it's going to be alright." She wiped a hand across my face. It felt so soft, so new, it gave me warmth. I could feel temperature. It felt normal in here.
"Ro what happened to me?"
"I made your wishes come true."
"What?"
"Your wish to be human and a free man have been granted."
"How?"
"I had an old friend in high places up there who owed me a wish and I wished you to become human."
"Why did you do this for me?"
"Because I wanted to keep my promise by helping you get your freedom and I wanted your dream to come true since you made mine come true."
"What was it Ro?"
"To find that special person I've been looking for. Now that I found him I don't ever want to lose him to the government."
"Ro who is the special person."
"You, silly, clueless, sweet, funny, smart, kind, gentle man." Ro laughed as I touched her face. How soft it felt, I never imagined that being human would be this wonderful. I smiled as I lay down. I tried sitting up. I felt my strong legs working. I was glad my strong form stayed the same.
"Ro thank you for using a wish to make me human but why did you do it for me?"
"Hmm Zee maybe because you're my friend and the only one I got. Also for this." Ro wrapped her arm around my neck quickly. She smashed my mouth against her's. I felt this tingling sensation go down my back to my legs. It brought great warmth to me. I always loved her but I never really thought she loved me like this way. Maybe like a brother. She pulled away much to my disappointment. Another feeling I already knew.
"Mmm Ro that was great is that how a kiss always feels?"
"Sometimes better sometimes worse but yes most of the time it feels around that way." A sharp knock at the door alerted the both of us. Ro fixed herself up a little before opening the door. She was still in her tank top and shorts I noted.
I tried standing up slowly. This was new for me. It felt strange at first to feel the muscles in my legs working. I stretched each one of them out. They felt so powerful. I heard Ro talking to someone. I saw who it was as I sat down in the seat taking a rose petal that fell off in my hand feeling it's texture. It was the four of the DJs we made friends with and someone else I hadn't seen before but he looked familiar. He hugged her tightly almost crying patting her on the back. I think Ro found her brother. She let them all in.
The five of them pulled up a seat of sat on the bed. Ro just sat on leg. She introduced her brother. He looked like a guy who could party. He was much wilder and crazy compared to Ro. She hugged him many times. The other guys just talked about last night. We told them about winning the ten thousand creds.
"Yeah music I guess runs in the family. Mom and Dad have been looking for you Ro. Where have you've been? We looked in all the foster homes you had on your record they said they hadn't seen or heard from you for almost a year now."
"I've been helping a friend out." She said while sitting against my shoulder. She felt pretty light on my knee. I wondered how much she weighed. Maybe I was really strong but still. They all talked together I didn't say much. I guess I was just quiet or shy as they call it.
Ro's brother seemed to like me a lot though. Maybe he was thankful someone was taking care of his sister. Either way he liked me and tried to get a conversation started but I would end it as soon as possible. Ro's brother offered her to go shopping. I told her she could. I would be taking a nap. I was so tired.
Ro left with the others as I fell asleep on the bed. She turned off the lights.
Ro hangs out with her brother.
"Ro is something wrong with Zee? He didn't seem interested in talking to any of us."
"He's just shy, and I think he's tired or something."
"Does he take good care of you?"
"Yeah better than any foster home or any home I've been to before."
"Ro, I know you want to know why you were given up for adoption. I asked the same time when I found our parents. They were really poor and they couldn't take care of you."
"I know what life like on the streets Jazz, I've lived half my life there."
"Ro they're sorry they ever gave you up but you can't hold it against them."
"Jazz, I have a home, or family I guess now. It may not look like much but I do have a place where I belong."
"Where is that Ro?"
"With my friend Zee, I love him and I'm not going to let him go. Not now, not ever so I might know that my parents and my brother. I will visit but I won't leave Zee behind. I've made a promise to myself. I'm sorry Jazz."
"It's okay Ro I understand. But you can always come home to us if you ever needed to."
I went back up to our room. Waving off Jazz and his friends they had to go to work as DJs. that's probably a fun job. I looked at Zee on the bed. He was tired. I bet that was a new feeling for him. I sat on the edge of the bed he was sleeping on. I didn't get to sleep in either so why not just take a nap for the time being.
He woke up slightly. He was in a half awake state. I nudged him a little he soon wrapped an arm around me sighing. "Ro…" I held onto him as I fell asleep.
*
I woke up to the weird feeling of someone touching me. I opened my eyes halfway seeing Ro's arm on my chest holding onto me as she slept. She must of come back early from shopping. I expected her to take hours shopping since it was her favorite thing to do.
"Mmm… Zee you kicked me. Stop moving around so much before you hurt me." She commanded. I stopped as she asked. It felt so weird different to be in a human body instead of my metallic synthiod body. Ro smiled as she lifted her head up. "And I was sleeping so good too."
" Sorry, can we go somewhere today?"
"Sure why not? Have anywhere in mind Zee?"
"Well how about the beach?"
"Okay to the beach then." Ro handed me a some shopping bags. "Here I bought you a swimsuit and everything." She went shopping for me. Well this was new her buying things for me. Well I looked in the bag anyway. It had a soft, silky Hawaiian print shirt and some trunks to go with them.
I turned the water on in the shower. I hoped I wouldn't hurt something or myself. How disgraceful to have to call Ro if I needed help taking a shower. The water was at normal temperature. I hopped in after taking off the clothes that used to be a hologram. It was really weird to see it like that. I steeped in to the shower.
It felt good to feel the water beat down on my very muscular body. My arm was like a prosetihic arm. I washed my hair and the rest of my body from the dirt and sweat I got on it. I looked in the mirror. I looked like a body builder probably. I put the shirt on and the trunks. They fit perfectly. I wondered how Ro guessed my size?
Ro took my arm when I came out. She led me quickly down to the beach. "Ro are we going to go swimming?"
"Sure thing Zee anything you want will do this week. Think of it as a vacation." Vacations I think only being human I could really appreciate the rest and relaxation. Hopefully I could.
When we reached the sandy beaches I took my shoes off. The beaches were clean enough to do that. The warm sand feels good under my feet. I run to the water with Ro running behind me. I feel the water. It felt like the water running in the shower only on your feet.
I felt something on my back getting me completely wet. I turned around and got a facefull of water. The water stung my eyes but I wiped it away. Ro was going to so pay for that. I ran after her chasing her down the beach. No way she could escape me. I had her cornered. She was facing me still walking backwards pleading to my deaf ears. It was payback time. I picked her up in my arms spinning her around. She started to laugh hysterically.
"Zee put me down please I'm too high off the ground. Oh please don't drop me. Put me down." I grinned at her, as I knew what I was going to do to her. When she wasn't holding on to any part of me I would throw her up about a foot in the air. When she let go to hit my shoulder I threw her up about two feet in the air. She shrieked loudly. I caught her as she came back down.
"Oh why you. I'm going to kill you." I smiled to myself evilly. I never felt better in my whole life. It was fun to get the better of Ro Rowen. She held onto my neck making sure I wouldn't throw her up in the air again. While she was holding onto my neck I took advantage of her face being so close. I leaned down and kissed her. When I lifted my head again Ro had a big smile across her face.
"What did you do that for?"
"I was apologizing for throwing you up in the air it wasn't a very nice thing to do."
"If you're going to apologize like that maybe I should get mad at you more often."
"I don't think your going to have to do that Ro." Ro leaned up and kissed me better than she ever had before. It was like electricity flowing through my body when she kissed me. This was the third time I felt it. God she was beautiful. I never dreamed that I would ever of falling in love with this girl. But I realized even before being human I loved her I just didn't know how to explain it.
"Zee I love you, I've meant to say that I long time ago but couldn't thinking you would hate me for it."
"Me too Ro I didn't want you to leave me."
"Then why try to make me go away by saying it's too dangerous."
"Because I couldn't lose you to the feds."
"You won't Zee and I won't lose you." She hugged me tightly then letting go. Letting go of our fears was what had happened. I sat down still holding Ro in my arms before shifting her around so she could sit next to me. We both looked out at the ocean for the longest time.
That week went on like that pretty much. Ro and I where thinking of moving here in New Orleans. It was our kind of town. We could both find jobs here if wanted too easily. Ro was actually offered a job as local singer. I had some offerings to work at the same place Ro's brother worked at. I took the job after Ro convinced we it would be a good opportunity. I said I would only do it if she tried to get a record deal with a record company down the street called Columbia.
We soon found a small house only a half a mile away from the ocean and a couple miles from work. It was a safe enough city and It wasn't as dangerous as Gotham City but not as safe as a small town like Hillsburg. I learned to eat things without getting sick in a couple of days. I am new to this whole being human thing.
Ro helped me along each step of the way. She gave me different foods to see what I like and disliked. She said that I was lucky. I liked most everything she let me try out. I liked one kind of food really good. It was a steak which I tried some of the night before and Ro but some teriyaki sauce all over it. It tasted really good. Ro was surprised that I liked it so much because that was a favorite that she had whenever she could.
She gave me stuff called candy. The candy was really sweet and sticky. She said it was called a lollypop. It was okay but it made a mess whenever I tried to pull it out of my mouth. She laughed when I did try though.
We got a visit from her brother everyday and they talked more and more. I eventually got to talk to him. He was a real nice guy who after high school tried a talent search and he was hired for a local radio station. He showed us the whole studio and showed what Ro I did everyday. I pretty much was like a secretary at the front desk. I answered calls, took memos, sent emails, and arranged meetings and such. So far it's been great.
