Male: Topher Brink
Series: Dollhouse
Boyd sighed as he stood next to Adelle in her office and watched the scene unfold on the monitor screen. Topher was gushing, much like a school boy, over Sierra who was sitting in a green and white Japanese school girl uniform and had in blue contacts, who now answered to the name Kagome.
To any who would have happened upon this scene they would have assumed the two were lovers and were enjoying a nice day of hanging out in a very richly furnished flat. But they weren't. Topher was the head of technology for the Dollhouse, a place that made fantasies reality, and Kagome aka Sierra was an active playing a part that had been programmed into her.
Boyd turned to look at his boss who had a small smile on her face as she observed the two. "I assume you were aware of this?"
Adelle nodded her face losing it's smile. "Of course, he has to have special permission from me in order to do this." Boyd frowned in confusion. "Special persimmon to hang out with a school girl? Don't you think it's a bit odd?"
Adelle shook her and returned her gaze to the smiling and laughing couple on the screen. "No, you haven't been here long enough to understand." Boyd arched an eyebrow at her. "Then help me understand."
Adelle sighed and turned to face him a grim look on her face. "It isn't my story to tell." Boyd snorted. "Like that's stopped you before."
Adelle rolled her eyes and hid a small sad smile. "True, but I have to have your upmost promise that what I say won't leave this room." Boyd nodded. "Of course." She sighed and closed her eyes for a brief second before reopening them. "Well you see 'Kagome' is a special case. She was an intern working for Boyd. They grew close, very close, then one day while they were perfecting the imprinting process something went wrong. There was an explosion and she was put into a coma. She's been in this coma for the past four years. So every day on the anniversary of the accident Topher places her imprint in Sierra and they act as if nothing ever happened."
Boyd frowned feeling sympathy for the odd young man known as Topher. "I see, is there any chance of her waking up?" Adelle sighed sadly and shook her head negatively. "No, she's legally brain dead but Topher won't let us pull the plug. If we do it would most likely send him spiraling into a depression and we need him. He tried to kill himself after the accident, luckily he failed, I have no doubt should she 'officially' die he would try it again and succeed this time. So we let him have his day with Kagome every year in hopes that it will renew his hope that she will wake up one day."
Boyd frowned. "Isn't that worse? Letting him have hope when you know there is none to be had?" Adelle looked back at the happy couple, who were now cuddling on the couch and talking, holding hands like young lovers, and closed her eyes for a tense few minutes before turning to look at Boyd an unknown emotion in her eyes. "Isn't it worse to take away the only thing that keeps him going? It's better for all of us if we just let him have this. It is after all what we do here at the dollhouse. Make fantasies into reality. We make the dream come true."