Author's note: Well, here's the new chapter. This was the most difficult chapter D: Please forgive the lateness as well as the failure.

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Chapter 8

Wheatley grew more confident as he stepped through his portals for the second time. He was greeted by the determined stare of his stallion, who seemed to know the man's course of action. He ran to Rick and flung himself onto the stallion with a surprising amount of grace before rearing the horse to speed off toward the forest. "I have no plan at this point..." Wheatley muttered to his companion. "But that hardly seems like it should matter now..."

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GLaDOS pulled the last picture from the wall in Chell's room and placed it neatly in the stack she held in her other hand. The girl didn't even observe her mother figure as she took away her only things from the outside. The tanned walls seemed strangely barren without the scribbles and blobs tapped and pinned across the room. GLaDOS looked to Chell, who laid on her bed staring blankly up to her ceiling. Something drew her attention to her mother figure, her eyes slowly shifting to the woman. "I'm really a princess, huh..." GLaDOS could tell from the tone of the young girl's voice that it was a statement rather than a question.

"Yes." Was GLaDOS reply as she walked closer to the girl. "You're birth parents were the previous rulers of Aperture."

Chell's blank expression never changed as she spoke. "You look like my mother."

The woman's glare was directed to some distant place, as if a memory. "I was suppose to be your mother. The people who created me were idiots and never counted on their creation being sentient without a personality installed."

"You deleted her..."

GLaDOS' cold yellow eyes shifted slowly to the girl. "Yes." She said with a foreign softness.

Chell slowly lifted herself into a sitting position on her mattress before looking at GLaDOS again. "Why did you take me from there?"

If the girl were paying attention to her caregiver's expression, she would have seen the slight surprise in the woman's face before it was masked in her normal cold demeanor. GLaDOS edged slowly to the door to the door, making her exit. "I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I am unsure of how to answer that question..."

Chell fell back onto her mattress again to stare at her ceiling, willing the memories of the day to leave her mind. Flashes of the dorky smiling man kept flooding her thoughts. Her expression remained blank as tears pooled into her eyes. The girl glanced down to her hand as it slowly unclenched, showing the tear blurred image of a silver piece of fabric. Her brows knitted together in a glare as her fist slowly balled up again, suffocated the small flag once more.

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The stallion raced through the greenery of the forest as fast as his hooves would allow. Wheatley's determined gaze shifted quickly through the trees, cautiously looking for any red lasers. His confidence surged forth again as he noticed deactivated turrets sticking out from behind bushing and trees. His eyes drifted to the path that his stead had chosen before Rick reared up and kicked his front hooves in an attempt to stop. Wheatley fell from the saddle with a startled yelp to accompany Rick's distressed whinny. Mechanical laughter greeted the man's ears as he scrambled to his feet to see who had stopped them.

Wheatley was greeted by two teens cradling their own portal guns. P-Body grinned deviously as she giggled, while Atlas stood next to her with a venomous glare directed to Wheatley. The shorter teen seemed ready fling himself at the older man, but the girl held her arm out to stop him. "Atlas wants to hurt you for what you did, and to be honest I want to punish you for hurting him as well."

Wheatley took a step back, gripping his weapon tightly. "But we have to keep to our objective.." P-Body looked to the growling boy next to her. "It's just a coincidence that our objective is to keep you away. By any means necessary."

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Chell laid in her bed, completely still except for the soft raise and fall of her chest as she breathed. She glanced to her door as she heard GLaDOS' foot steps shuffle outside of her room. Before she had the chance to look away, the door creaked open slowly as GLaDOS' back nudged it's way into her room. "This isn't encouraging you to add to your... generous.. ness..."

Chell sat up quickly as GLaDOS' turned around to reveal a perfectly round cake adorned with frosting and flickering candles. Her mouth slowly dropped open at the sight of the treat in front of her. "And if you expect me to sing to you then you really are a lunatic.." The woman let a soft smile slip onto her face as she settled the cake on the bed.

GLaDOS sat next to the cake and began to carefully cut slices, successfully managing to keep the girl's bed clean of moist crumbs. She glanced up to Chell, taking in the slow change in her face. Her face went from extreme shock to a sad frown before tears rimmed her eyes once again. Any snarky comment that the woman wanted to say was dispelled before it could even surface in her mind as Chell pulled her into a tight hug. The embrace was not returned as GLaDOS just stared at the cake slice that was now skewed over the floor.

The woman reached up and pushed Chell away gently, allowing the girl to slide her arms away on her own. Chell looked up to GLaDOS' troubled expression with her own look of concern. The woman simply stood without a noise and walked out of the room. The girl couldn't help but smile as she looked back to her cake. Unknown to Chell, the woman stood pressed against the door of the bedroom.

/ ENTER COMMAND PROMPT ;/

Delete file name "Caroline" ;/

FILE NAME "CAROLINE" DOES NOT EXIST ;/

GLaDOS glared at the command prompt that continued to flash before her eyes. Her teeth gritted as she continued her attempt to delete the former queen. She refused to accept that the child's mother no longer existed, because if she did... GLaDOS' eyebrows drew themselves downward. Her legs seemed to move on their own as she walked to the window slowly, glaring out into the darkness. If she was to admit she loved her adoptive child, then that child would never leave again.

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Wheatley stood his ground defensively as the teens took their steps forward. "Look.." he began. "I don't know what you guys mean, but I never hurt that kid! I just did my job, it's not my fault!" His voice broke with a tremor as the glares of the teens intensified. "They wanted you, not me! Whatever caused you guys to be criminals is your own fault, I-"

"SHUT UP!" Atlas yelled through his single eyed glare. P-Body glanced to him, whispering hushed comforts. "No!" He gave the girl a light push. "I don't care if he's not that one that did it! It's his fault they got ahold of me!"

Wheatley took a step back, unsure of what the boy was about to do. "Maybe he doesn't know what they did!" P-Body said quickly. "Atlas, I told you we should have gone after the guards for what happened, not-"

"Oh, I plan to.." The boy growled with a smile.

Suddenly he broke out into a run, before tackling Wheatley to the ground. He began to struggle under the weight of the mechanical body of the boy. His own robotic arm was pinned under one of Atlas' feet, rendering his weapon useless. The boy smiled evilly as he raised his empty fist into the air. Wheatley braced himself as he continued to struggle against the boy, but he was never hit. Instead the weight of the android was slowly lifted from his body.

Wheatley's eyes snapped open in time to see the board figure hovering over him tossing Atlas. "Why are you on the ground? Did he knock you over? Was he heavy?" Blue eyes looked over to the bright amber that covered on his other side. "Are you getting up yet? Is that horse yours? Is he taking you to that girl?"

Curi stepped back as Wheatley pulled himself to his feet. "Thanks.." he said to the dark haired man. Red eyes looked back to him and a devious smirk spread across Anger's face. "Not doing this for you." He stated bluntly. "These brats just owe me a piano.." he growled, turning back to the teens.

Wheatley dashed to Rick quickly, mounting just in time to see a bottle rocket launch toward the vengeful androids. "I-I'm a s-space cop! Ha ha!" The man waved to his three saviors before the stallion began to race off deeper into the forest.

Rick was quick to find the hidden tower. Wheatley dismounted as quickly as he can and began to shout, "CHELL! CHELL!" He waited for a response, staring wide eyed to the open window. After their was no response, he fumbled with the portal gun. Two portals later, he fell into Chell's room for the second time. "Chell! I'm sorry, I-" he stopped abruptly at the sight of the glaring woman in front of him.

"Oh look whose here..." GLaDOS said quietly. "You should just leave, she hates you."

Wheatley's eyes drifted upward to Chell, who stood in the doorway of another room. A look of pain on her face as she clenched her fist to her side. A small sliver of silver showing through her fingers. "No she doesn't..." he breathed out hopefully. He took a single step forward.

"Look, I know I left.." he started. "And I shouldn't have... But I love you, Chell! I do!"

GLaDOS looked to the girl, who just shook her head. "And I want us to be together, please!" Wheatley begged. Chell took a step back as he stepped forward again.

"Look moron, she doesn't-"

"SHUT UP, I'M NOT A MORON!" His shout cause Chell to jump in surprise, bringing her attention back to him immediately.

"Chell, Marry me."

The room was silent for a long moment, no one daring to even move. Everyone just stared at the man who stood at the window. Finally, Chell said in a barely audible whisper. "What...?"

Wheatley breathed a shaky breath before continuing. "Marry me, Chell." Slowly, GLaDOS' shock wore off and a glare steadily took it's place. "I know I don't have.. the proper things for this request, like a ring or anything but... Please. If we were married, we can be together. It wouldn't matter if you were the princess because I would be your prince. I would always be there and no one would be able to take me away from you. I love you Chell, so.. please, won't you..." he reached his hand toward her slowly, his face anxious. "Be my bride...?"

GLaDOS looked to Chell quickly, taking in the shocked form of her child. The girl had lifted her hands to her mouth to cover her agape expression, a bright blush seeping onto her face along with the tears in her eyes. The silence between them made GLaDOS smirk a little, of course there was no way the girl would agree to something like thi- "Yes..."

The word was small and shook with the girl as she said it with an even smaller smile spreading across her mouth. GLaDOS' smirk fell away and she growled. "NO!" She snapped. "I won't let you!"

She began toward the man. "There is no way that a moron like you could ever be good enough for her!" she growled. Wheatley took a step back from the enraged woman. "Do you honestly think she loves you? She hasn't been in contact with any other man except you so it's entirely her hormones. She doesn't love you, no one could ever love a moron like you!"

Just as she was about to shove Wheatley through the open window, a small purple blur flew into the room sending her into a panic as it began to peak at her. "Bird! Bird!" she cried out as Mora continued to her attack. Wheatley stepped out of the way of the flailing woman as she desperately tried to knock the bird away. Both the man and the girl let out a gasp as GLaDOS stepped back and fell through the window.

She would have fallen if it wasn't for Wheatley catching a hold of her arm. She stared wide eyed up at the man she hated. GLaDOS dangled helplessly, glancing back to the ground and to the man. "I got you, don't worry..." he said with a smile. Wheatley tried pulling her up, but her android body was too heavy for even his mechanical arm. Gears whirled loudly as he strained his arm to try to pull the woman.

"You little idiot, let go.." she huffed in annoyance, knowing fully well that a fall from this height wouldn't harm her. A bolt dropped out from under the man's sleeve as he continued to pull at her arm. He growled, pointing the portal gun out of the window. "What do you think you're doing? Whatever it is, stop it.." she said. "Just let go."

He fired one portal before the wires and metal connections in his arm tore free, dropping the woman. She fell into a portal and was flung out from another that launched her straight into the forest. "Luckily her fall was cushioned by all the tree-" Wheatley's face paled. "Oh god! Why did I think that was a good idea?" he began before Chell's hand was placed gently on his shoulder.

He looked up to her smiling face, "She'll be fine." Wheatley smiled back at her, raising to his feet and sweeping her into his arm. Breathing deeply into the embrace, he muttered how much he missed her. She laughed a little, returning his embrace.

They pulled back to look at each other, Chell's face now serious. "Did you mean it..?" she asked quietly. "Do you really want me to.."

Without an sound, the normal chatterbox merely kissed the princess deeply for his answer.


Author's note: Well, only the epilogue next.

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