Beautiful

By: Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)

Chapter Six:

"Honey?" The door to the lab creaked open and the woman walked in, flicking on the lights as she made her way down the stairs to the lab where her husband, and 'daughter' were waiting for her.

Her feet made light footfalls upon each stair and her long black hair flowed behind her like a thin blanket as she made her way like a ghost to the area her husband told her to go to. A surprise, that was what he called it. Last time, she glumly thought, the last surprise was their daughter, turned into a cyber-robot with her memories kept in a computer, locked away by firewalls.

She closed her eyes, promising herself not to cry, "It's for the best." She wouldn't ask for her daughter to remember how things used to be—things would be so much sadder and everything in her 'child's' disposition would turn from sunshine yellow to rainy-cloud gray.

Her feet stopped, finally reaching the destination. She saw a happily smiling Elda near her husband, that beautiful smile on her face that reminded her off all the times her real daughter smiled so. It was an imitation, but she couldn't help but give her love to the robotic girl.

"Honey," her husband turned to her with a soft and tender look on her face. Her reached out for her hand, "I have another surprise for you and Elda." He gently squeezed her hand.

"What is it?" Elda giddily questioned as she clapped her hands together in excitement, amber eyes sparkling.

Her husband smiled gently.

Then, she let her eyes wander to the shadowed figure in the dark as he flicked on the light switch. Her eyes widened as she stared at a nearly-alike copy of her daughter. Her breathing stopped for a moment, and in a light exhale, she whispered a name; "Freya…"

The robot looked up and blinked with a smile, a name coming to her mind, "Mother!" She smiled and ran, hugging the woman with tears in her eyes and then looked at Elda who smiled happily. "Sister!"

The two girls hugged happily, ignoring their mother's tears. Smiles on their face were enough to speak of happiness—bitter memories locked away.

Her eyes drifted to her father and her eyes rested longer than normal. "Father!" Then, she hugged him as well, only longer than necessary.

A whisp of something came to Freya and she closed her eyes—and she made a resolve—to protect her sister no matter what. She felt a tug, telling her in her soul that she had done something in the past that made her feel the need to make it up to her sister.

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"Nov—On the way into the city, a youth entering into cram school was caught in a accident. Luckily, no horrible damage was done to the teenager, but head trauma was suffered. Doctors rushed the youth to the hospital where he lasped into a slight coma, staying in critical care for one night. He was released today adter waking up and taking many tests that confirmed what had effected him due to the accident—amnesia.

-Column by Toki Kamasaki"

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And… the rest is history…

OWARI

Author's note: Yes, go ahead and slap me. I just didn't really feel like I could make it fit with the manga and the book that I was referencing it to. I decided against choosing the book really, so I decided to do this. A crappy ending—I know. I'll do a one-shot to all of you Chobit readers in an apology, 'kay?