Chapter 6: trust

Star looks at the rain. "are you sure about this?" wheatley looks at her. "star, you have protection on, you'll be fine." Star looks outside again. Wet. Cold…evil.

She looks at the floor. It's a brown color, and…wooden. She closes her eye. I can't…I just…can't. not after… she remembers herself filling up with water.

That… star opens her eye and looks up. I…can do this… she starts going towards the open door. She goes outside. I'm not! I'm not filling up with water! Ha! Take that rain! She's moving around a lot as she thinks this, then the hat she's wearing gets torn off her by the wind. Oh no.

she tries to get back inside, but the door is closed. "let me in! please! I'm going to die out here!" no one answers her. She's screaming for help at this point, she's starting to fill up with water. It reaches the top of her. And her power fizzles and she falls to the ground.

Star wakes up, gasping. She's crying too. Whealey's right next to her, trying to calm her down. But she's not listening to him. "STAR!" she stops, looking at him.

"your fine. Whatever was happening isn't true. It was just a dream." Star looks around. Right…just a dream. A terrifying one…star looks at wheatley. His blue eye is looking at her. He looks worried.

Star looks at the bed beneath her. it has a sea green blanket, almost reminding her of the ocean. Her golden blanket can also be seen, it's a nice color, in fact it's her favorite color. It also has some blue stars on it that she never saw before. She looks up and sees chell, wheatley now in her arms.

"sorry luv' did I wake you up?" chell looks at him, shaking her head. She looks at star, who is staring at them. Wheatley looks at star. "you okay now mate?" star looks at her blanket. "I guess so." She murmurs.

Wheatley looks at chell. Chell nods, and she picks up star too. Star looks at the star pattern on the blanket. The stars on here are nice. Blue and gold go together nicely.

She looks up, and she's being held by chell. Wheatley is right next to her, she looks at the floor. "ah! Oh, my goodness were up high…" she quickly looks up, not wanting to look at the floor at this Height. How tall even is chell? I feel like I'm a thousand feet high… oh goodness… wheatley looks over at star. She's trembling like a mad man, and her eye is closed.

Chell looks at star too. "I'm only 5'4…" star is still trembling. I'm guessing someone has a fear of heights… I guess she also hasn't gotten used to being picked up… hm… wheatley pushes star a little. Star's eye flies open, she looks over at wheatley. "you afraid of heights star?" he asks her.

She nods and looks away in embarrassment. "I…have been for a while. I think it happened when I was being fixed one day…someone dropped me on the ground and-" she remembers. Her creator was fixing her eye and was moving her around, and she dropped her on the ground. Her eye got really cracked, expect for a little bit near her pupil, so they saved that and put it in a brown eye to make star's new eye. Her eye was completely golden before.

Golden with a brown pupil, it was nice, and everyone loved it. her name back then was blue. Gold, not anything too cool… but that would mean her full name would be star blue. Gold. That was also the day she was given a new name and moved to teaching about space. "star? Hello? Earth to star?" star looks at wheatley. I guess I spaced out… "I just um… well… uh…" wheatley gives her a look.

"I… I just remembered…why my eye is like this. It.. wasn't always brown and gold… it was fully gold with a brown pupil before, but then someone dropped me, cracking the golden eye, but not near the pupil, so they put a new brown eye on it…and that was also the day I moved from being a mechanic to teaching space. Also, my name before was blue. Gold… yeah…that's what happened…nothing too cool or fun. That's why I'm scared of heights." Wheatley looks outside, thinking. So… her name was different, and her eye looked different…alright. Also, she was moved to teach about space on that day…hm.

Wheatley looks back at star. "is that all? Anything other than that?" star looks at him. "no. nothing other than that." And she looks away. Wheatley looks at chell, nodding at her to put them down. Chell puts star and wheatley back down, star sighing full of relief.

She looked at the bed for a moment, calming down after she was being held, then looked over at the door way. Space was right in the door way, his eye looking around. He had been silent for a long time, then. "…star? Id? Lady?" he asked confused about what was going on. Wheatley looked up in shock.

He…Said more than space? Is that possible? Chell looks at the two cores on the bed. "oh yeah, I have been working on him a little, so he can say more!" she says with pride.Star looks at chell, feeling pride overwhelm her. she…she's like a real mechanic now! Ha-ha! Star floats up to chell, 'hugging' her. "I'm so proud of you!" she exclaims.

Wheatley looks down. maybe I can teach him to say wheatley… hm. Lets give it a go. "hey space! Can you say wheatley? Because that's my name" space core stares at him for a moment, processing what he said. "…wheat…ley?" wheatley goes over to him. "yeah! W-h-e-a-t-l-e-y! wheatley! That's me!" space core giggles.

"wheatley! My space buddy!" wheatley winces hearing those words. 'space buddy' chell looks over at the two. Space core is floating around in circles, saying Wheatleys name. often saying space buddy after that. Wheatley on the other hand looks very uncomfortable, shaking every time 'space buddy' is said.

Chell walks over to them, still having star in her arms. She puts a hand on space and wheatley. They look at her. she lets go of star, letting her float around. "space…wheatley doesn't like…anything to do with space. I'm sure you understand…right?" space looks at wheatley, who nods. Space looks at him.

"sorry…wheatley…" wheatley 'hugs' his friend. "it's fine mate. Just try to remember that okay?" space nods. Star looks at the two. "now that I think about it…space…what name would you like?" space core looks down thinking for a little. "Orion! Space constellation! I like that!" chell smiles at all her core friends.

Orion, wheatley, and star. Everyone's so happy. It hasn't been like this for years. Also, note to self, find out when stars build day is so we can celebrate, also find out if star has any human friends.