- Wow! Took long enough for me to update eh? My work is taking up all my time and energy! Sucks! Anyway hallucinations and minor Togusa/Suki abuse follow suit -

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8: 15 PM He had successfully done nothing all day except smoke every cigarette pack he owned and drank all the liquor in his fridge. Nothing chased it way…the feeling of utter failing and uselessness. He had failed him, he had failed himself, and what could he possibly do now? He was no longer working with Section 9.…two months leave…. she should've just fired him on the spot, or better yet shot his brain out instead of doing this to him! She knew damn well how he felt! How could he not take this personal? It was his partner and one of his only few friends! But what was he doing? Lying in bed starring blankly at the doorway that lead into his kitchen, feeling lost and empty inside. Suddenly the light came on its yellow flare sparking his eye's sensors, but he didn't move, he just kept starring at the doorway lost in his thoughts. Footsteps sounded walking across the hard wood floor, and then a man's figure appeared… it was Togusa. The man stopped and looked at him a moment and then just smiled a hello as if nothing had ever happened as if nothing had ever gone wrong.

" What are you doing chief?" he said casually strolling into the room. He was wearing jeans for once and a black T-shirt. He grabbed the sole chair belonging to Batou's desk located only a few steps from the kitchen entrance and pulled it up close to the blonde's bed turned it around back wards and proceeded to sit down stratling it, he crossed his arms on it's top. All the while never removing his light brown eyes from Batou.

He sat a moment just staring. How? Why would he just say that? As if this wasn't unusual! First of all Togusas here in the flesh and second in his house! Two things, which could not possible happen! At least not now given all that had happened. As he starred at his former partner who just sat there patiently awaiting his replay, never looking away. He was over come with even more pain and sadness but now centered like a knife in his chest.

" What should I be doing?" He finally asked still not moving. His voice was low and harsh. The smaller man sat a little straighter at that.

" Nothing," He smiled gently but his voice was soft as if he'd cry any minute, " absolutely nothing …..I'm dead after all," His smile strained slightly, " it's all your fault." It faded completely after that and his eyes starred strangely at him.

" I wanted…. I tired," Batou quickly, painfully recanted sitting up. Trying to form the words he wanted to say.

" Sure, " He said disbelievingly and looking away.

" Don't look away from me!" He screamed hastily raising from the bed, " Togusa! I –" He stopped what he wanted to say. After raising he noticed his friend was gone, the chair was not in front of the bed where his partner had drug it only moments before, but back at it's proper place. Glancing to the kitchen it was now dark……… "What the hell? Am I hallucinating now? " Just what he needed he thought as he starred at his apartment's main door.

" You have no choice!" She said towering above the shorthaired brunette, " You have to help me!"

"Do I really?" She said finally looking up. Her skin was indeed dark, her eyes a jade green with chocolate colored short hair, " I quit."

Suki looked down at the girl from her towering position above her and sighed, " but we're the same…all of us," Her voice was low and sad, " You can't tell me your honestly happy like this."

" I never said I was, but being this man's pet is better then being dead," She said crossing her long legs in front of her and giving Suki a half dead stare, " Anything is better then that."

" Honestly, I don't think so…don't you even want out of here? Even a little?"

" I've given up on that along time ago so have the others. We aren't happy but we are alive unlike previous ones."

Intrigued by this Suki sat down finally, her anger seeming to fade replaced by her police instincts of inquiry, " What others?"

" The others," The woman in front of her replied, " they were more like you wanting to escape so badly that they'd die for it, and they did. Yin doesn't spare people like you, no matter how much he fancies them."

" Were they women too?…I mean were they re-shelled as such?"

" I don't know I only saw one of them some time ago, before you showed up. She said her real name was Taylor an American immigrant I think…her new name was…Lisa I believe. She attacked Yin he killed her on the spot. Our models you see aren't made for rough combat, I mean we could survive some blows and such but not weapons, or say a five story fall."

" Not many AI's I know could do that anyway, but I thought our type of models would be more able to handle such things."

" A sex bot? No. And I don't care, I may be in a female chaste but I'm still alive and I really don't care how I live as long as I live."

That earned the girl a disgusted sigh, " How can you say that? Look at your self! I can't believe that you would just give up!"

" And look at you boy, you haven't?"

She shut up in shock at the questioned posed, " I've thought about it, " her voice was now unsure and shaky," But, I can't. I just can't."

" You think someone is waiting for you? You've been with him for how long before coming here? Every one you've ever cared about already thinks your dead. You're ancient history, you're nothing but a recreational toy now."

" I'm not! I have a name I have an identity! I'm not some mindless toy. That bastard destroyed my life! Everything I am…. I can't let him get away with it! I can't let him destroy any more lives!"

" HAAAA! HAAAA!HAAAA! Listen to the visualante! HAAAAAAA! " The blonde model sat up laughing her heart out her laugh was high and it hurt to hear.

" Megu stop!" The Portorican woman shouted the woman stopped but quietly chuckled, " You are pathetic though boy, thinking you'll escape Mr. Yin."

" Why is it so pathetic!" Suki said twisting around an angry scowl on her fair features.

" Because it's impossible. There are guards patrolling constantly not to mention you've got a tracker in you sweetie you won't get far, and when they hull your lilly white ass back here they'll kill you. " She said her voice accented and sweet.

" Then tell me where the tracker is, that'll get rid of half my problems, " She growled angrily.

" Careful you don't know who you are dealing with child, " The woman in front of her growled back.

" So kid what's your names?" The Portarican woman asked crossing her legs and sitting in a more or less bored fashion. The topic change destroyed her train of thought struggling to find her place in her previous thoughts she mindlessly answered the woman.

" My real name is Togusa I'm a police officer, but he calls me Suki now."

" Nice my name was Jason Malone I went to China on a live exchange program, needless to say I'm Anna now. The blonde next to me is Megu previously Allen Spencer um I think she said she was a communication specialist."

" Translator Indian to English nice to meet you newbie," She said in a smart tone.

" And the one behind you," Anna continued, " is Aya formally – "

" Screw you it doesn't matter who I was so shut your trap!" Aya interrupted violently pointing a finger at Anna, she obeyed.

" Right well that's that." She mumbled looking away.

" I'm sure…." Suki trailed off momentarily then recalling her previously interrupted conversation began again, " I'm really glade to meet all of you, but don't you even want a chance of getting out of this place? Having some as semblance of a life? Anything? You couldn't have all decided to just end your lives here? …. He changed our bodies we can change them back. Just – "

" Give it up. We told you before we won't help you. You wanna die, die alone don't drag us with you. All the stupid ones before you have meet their maker the same way your begging for it, don't you understand he's in control! You don't go anywhere unless he says you can. You don't have a life unless he gives it to you. You are his and you will stay his until he deems otherwise. " Aya interrupted her voice low but agitated none the less.

That earned the dark skinned woman a look that was puzzled, disgusted, and questioning all at the same moment, " You're crazy…." Suki whispered out in disbelief. The looked return was bold and aggressive. Suddenly Aya lifted her left arm and slammed her fist into Suki's jaw knocking her into the wall head first, then her shocked body slid down to the floor unconious…

" No I'm practical," was the last thing she heard before darkness over came her.

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- All will be explained in due time but anyway I've got more coming
just so no one thinks I've abandoned my story! -