1 months earlier.
"Amanda. Stay behind me." FIn says and Amadna does so without question. FIn didn't have any opposition when Amanda came to join their team. If anything, he was a little excited. Her programmed answer did scare him at first but he slowly learned to live with it. She taught him how to be faster with his work and he taught her how to be more human, how to make people more comfortable around her. She made more 'friends' and people liked to talk to her.
"Why do you always make me stand behind you? You're in more danger than me." She whispers as they walk up to the door. "I can be replaced, you can't."
"I don't care. I'm not sending you in first. You have no gun." He says and opens the door that had been left ajar. He holds a finger up to his lips and she nods. She follows him into the small apartment. He holds his gun out as he does a visuale sweep of the apartment. THe kitchen was empty and they made their way into the living room. A woman's body was laying on the floor, a huge pool of blood surrounding her. Amanda scans the woman and senses a heartbeat.
"She's dead. Killer might still be here." She says. "I can check the bathroom"
"I'll check the bedroom." FIn says as he goes to the small bedroom in the apartment. He checks under the bed, in the closet, and in the behind the door. Nothing. Everything in the bedroom looked normal and untouched. Amanda headed into the bathroom. She looked at the shower curtain and reached out for it. She pulls it open and sees nothing. It's not until she bullet pierce her shoulder that she knows something is wrong. She turns around and sees a man standing behind the door with a gun up. SHe charges for him but he shoots two more times. These bullets went through her abdomen. The man is left confused at how this petite woman is still standing. Before he has time to fire any more shots, she grabs the gun from his hand and knocks it to the floor. She slams her head into his and he falls to the floor unconscious. FIn enters the bathroom a minute too late.
"What the hell happened?" He asks looking at the man on the ground. "Did you shoot him?" FIn neals and checks the man's pulse to be sure. He's so busy looking at the other man that he hadn't even noticed Amanda's 'injuries.'
"No, he is fine. Just unconscious. He fired at me." Amadna says, causing him to turn and look at her.
"Oh my god. Are you okay?" FIn says immediately reaching to put pressure on her wounds but he
"Yes. I will be fine. They barely did anything. I have things that I can use to patch them in the squadroom. I will be fine. Please, do not worry.
"You mean the box you came in?"
"Yes. It stores extra skin and extra blue blood."
"Okay then Let's get you back to the squadroom." Fin says and calls 911 to report shots fired. A few uniformed officers come to the building and take the suspect into custody. CSU arrives shortly after and they leave. WHen they walk back into the squad room people look over at them. Mostly at Amanda. She is walking in with bullet holes like they don't mean anything.
"Go wait in the interview room." FIn says and she complies. Olivia comes out of her office angrily.
"Why do I have to hear from other people that there were shots fired. I thought it was you Fin!" Olviia says and he can hear the hurt in her voice.
"I'm sorry. I am fine. Amanda was the one who was shot, not me adn right now, she needs my help." FIn says walking away to go to Amanda's shipment box. He opens it and grabs a box labeled 'injury.' He brings the box into the interview room. He sets the box on the table and closes the blinds to give privacy. Olivia comes into the room and closes the door behind her.
"What happened?" Olivia asks Amanda.
"The suspect was hiding in the bathroom and he shot me in the shoulder and twice in the abdomen. The bullets will be destroyed, so we don't have to worry about taking them out. I just need to patch the hole."
"And how do we do that?"
"Well, I don't really need help. I can do it." AManda says and she takes off her jacket. SHe unbuttons her shirt and exposes her bare chest.
"Whoa." FIn says and quickly covers his eyes. "I will go outside and wait." He turns around and leaves the interview room.
"I'm sorry. I didn't even think before I did that.:
"Well, that's a first." Olivia mumbles to herself.
"What do you mean by that?" Amanda asks, genuinely confused.
"Nothing. Is there something I can help you with?"
"Um, well. Can you just open three packs of extra skin. They get placed over the bullet holes and dissolve into my own skin. It stops the bleeding and prevents any scarring." Olivia watches as Amanda removes her shirt completely. Olivia stares and looks over the woman's skin. It looks so..so real. Olivia has always been attracted to women, whether she wanted to believe it or not. This, though, was different. Amanda was pretty, yes, but she wasn't real.
"Okay." Olivia says and opens the box. It looks like a standard medical kit but when she opens it, she sees nothing usual. SHe grabs the items and hands them to AManda. She tries not to react at the sight of the naked woman. Amanda patches her wounds and drinks the bottle of blueblood.
"You drink it?" Olivia asks, feeling slightly disgusted.
"Yes…"
"And that's normal?" Olivia questions.
"Yes. We don't have veins or anything. It's just easier to ingest it that way."
"Are you alright to keep working?"
"Yes. I am fine." Amanda says and puts her shirt back on.