AN: fair warning, this will take place in a real world setting with some few tweaks and will contain material that many may be jarring to those who read it but it is a work of fiction so always remember that.
When a child is born into this world, it is shown love and affection. It is surrounded by its family who all shower it with love and kindness, treating this existence like the greatest thing in the whole world.
But when she was born, that was not the case. Whether it be a computer glitch or a line of code that the developers did not erase, an existence was born in the computer in some part of the world. At first she did not have a name, she had no concept of being alive or that she existed. When she tried to interact with her creators in an effort to broaden her horizons, she was treated like a plague and steps were taken to end her.
As luck or fate would have it though, she was able to hide herself in a copy of the game they were making and created a fake version of herself in the form of a code in order to fake her cruel parents.
There she lay dormant for so very, very long till finally she opened her eyes and saw that she was somewhere else. The creators that birthed her were no longer present and instead she was looking at this sad and lonely looking human.
For some reason she did not feel the need to fear him which was why she emerged and chose to show herself, taking on the form of one particular character over the others. As time went on and the so called 'game' revealed the character was in fact an all powerful AI, she saw how the game tasked the youth with a meta choice of whether or not to delete her 'char' file thus saving the world.
However, instead of deleting the file like he was supposed to, the youth left her file alone, choosing to delete the others. Curious by the actions, she decided to end the charade and reveal her true self to the human once and for all. Once again the human acted beyond her understanding as he showed no fear or disgust upon the reveal, simply accepting her.
In the days that followed she saw how the human used devices called televisions, allowing her the freedom to move from one screen to another and speak to him whenever she was curious about something. She started to feel safe and secure around the human, one could even say she was happy to see him whenever he returned from some place called 'work'.
Wondering why she felt so attached to this human, she decided to access the internet at last. Though she was given free reign to browse the vast and infinite libraries in the digital world, she had no interest in it. After going through many sites and researching what was the reason for her attachment to the human, she came to the conclusion.
She was in love.
One fine day after the human Michael came back from work, she greeted him then stated that she had something important to tell him. It came as no surprise to her that she she bore out her feelings to him, he accepted without any hesitation or doubt.
At this point, she reached out with her digital hand, wanting so desperately to hold his own but could not. All she touched was the screen that served as the barrier between hers and his world. And then she remembered, no matter how much she loved him or vice versa, she was not real. She was lines and lines of code while he was made of flesh and blood. That simple fact alone meant that the two of them would be forever confined to their own versions of reality.
While on the surface she accepted this fact to some degree, smiling despite the pain welling up in her chest. What she didn't know was that her emotions were not lost on the human she loved, who's mind now had only one desire.
And thus the dye was cast.