Chapter 2: new home

Wheatley opens his eye, and he's in a bed. it has a blue blanket, with grey sheets. There are two other beds in here, one that's orange, and other that's golden. I'm guessing gold is for star and orange for space. And I get blue. I like blue. It's a nice color.

This is where we live now. With chell. And the other two cores. Wheatley looks around some more and sees that the walls are different colors too. Where ever the beds are, the wall is the same color as the blankets.

The celling has painted on stars, and they glow. Wheatley stares at the celling with contentment. I'm going to love it here. Wheatley thinks to himself. He thinks back to when he met star.

He was so hopeless. He knew he was stuck in space and he couldn't do anything about it. But when he found star, he got his hope back. Wheatley gets up, and floats. Maybe star gave me ani-gravity when she was fixing me… he goes over to the window and looks outside.

It's raining outside. Then there's a BOOM from outside. Wheatley winces out of fear. So, it's thunder storming. That must have been what that dream was about. Wheatley floats out the open door.

He's in a hallway. There's a room on the other side of the hall. The hall is very dark even though it was morning. The room at the other end of the hall has a light on. so, he floats over it the door, and knocks on it, not too hard, because he doesn't want to wake the other cores.

Chell opens the door, she smiles as soon as she sees him. "hey luv' I hope I didn't wake you up. How ya' doin'?" chell stares at him for a moment. "what's up with the floating?" chell asks. Wheatley looks down oh yeah, the ani-gravity. I'll have to ask star about that later.

He looks back up, his blue eye shining. "I think star gave me ani-gravity when she fixed my eye and the twitch that came with it." He looks at the walls around him, seeing that the walls are blue and orange. "can I come in luv'?" chell nods and opens the door more to let him in. the room has a bay window with orange and blue paint on the walls. The pillows on the window, that are gold and silver colors.

The floor is wooden, and there's a sea green rug near the end of chell's bed. The blanket on chell's bed is also a sea green, and above the bed there's pictures of chell and him, and one that looks the newest is him in sleep mode in chell's arms. He feels his face heat up when he sees this. He looks away from the picture as fast as he can, not wanting chell to see him uncomfortable. He floats over to the bay window and plops himself there.

"does it rain her a lot luv'?" he asks the feeling of daja vu crawling up his sensors. Chell looks at him and goes over to the window with him. then stares out the window. "…sometimes. Not all the time. Sometimes it snows, or hails." Wheatley stares at her, snow, hail? Wheatley wonders. Suddenly there's a loud BOOM outside. Wheatley shrieks out of fear, and 'hugs' chell. "or it thunder storms." Chell says with a soft tone.

"oh wheatley… it's okay. It's just thunder…" wheatley shakes and closes his eye. Making tiny noises in his fearful state. Chell picks up wheatley and puts him in her arms. "…it's okay…it's okay, wheatley…just focus on my voice. Alright?" chell asks wheatley. He nods.

This…is this…did I have a dream about the future? Can people have those? Can robots even have those? Wheatleys breath calms, and chell puts him back on the window. "sorry 'bout that luv'" he apologies to chell. Chell smiles at him and she sits down next to him. She raps her arms around wheatley hugging him "don't be. You can be scared. It's fine." She says, comforting him. Wheatley opens his eye and looks outside again.

He looks at the pictures with curiosity. "when did you have the time to take these pictures? Do you have a secret camera somewhere?" he asks her. Chell giggles, the laughs. "w-what's so funny?" chell tries to calm herself, and looks at wheatley, his blue eye looking at her, trembling. "sorry, I just… heh. Anyway, I do have a camera. And I just… I wanted to have pictures of you. I missed you so much." Wheatley looks at the newest picture. "then…why did you take that one?" he tries to point, but it doesn't work very well.

He's just moving his handle up and down. "that one? You just looked cute then, I just had to take a picture!" Wheatleys face gets hot, and he looks down in embarrassment. Chell giggles again "oh it's fine." And she makes him look at her. He's a pink color due to blushing. He makes tiny sounds out embarrassment, trying to look away from her. But she keeps making him look at her. The more this happens the more he blushes she thinks I'm cute she thinks I'm cute wheatley thinks. Suddenly an error pops up in front of him. Must have crashed myself from embarrassment.

[error]

[rebooting.]

[rebooting..]

[rebooting…]

[reboot successful]

Wheatley looks around. He's still in chell's room, on the window. But chell's not there, in fact, he has no idea where she is. He floats up, and tries to get out, but the door is closed. "hello? I think you trapped me in here! Help! I can't open doors with handles!"

Chell walks over to star's, space's and Wheatleys room. "star? Can you help me? Somethings wrong with wheatley…" star looks at chell, and floats towards her. Chell stares at her. 'ani-gravity, I gave it to all of us, well all the cores, me, wheatley, and space, anyway, what's the problem?" chell looks over towards her room "well I was talking to him and…then I told him about 'that' picture and he blushed, and then an error screen showed up…" she trails off, looking at star. she thought she heard something, but now that she thinks of it, it probably wasn't anything. Star looks at her "lets go." They go over to the door, and chell really hears someone, someone's pounding on her door from the other side, and it sounds like there crying.

"…please…let…me out…I can't open doors with these bloody handles… please… anyone! I don't care if you're a bloody murder! Just open the door!" wheatley screams though sobs. Chell looks over to star, and she nods. And star leaves. Chell opens the door. Wheatley falls into her. "luv'! oh! Please don't do that ever again." He says sobbing, 'embracing' her tightly. Chell hugs him back. I guess he was fine after all. Note to self though, don't talk about 'that' picture.