GLaDOS kept her word: Wheatley was constantly monitored by hover cameras. They were something she had been tinkering with for a while, the general description being a modified floating turret that worked as a camera instead of a weapon. Wheatley HATED them. That made GLaDOS happy. Not only was he constantly being followed, but GLaDOS also gave him the most tedious and hard of all the Aperture chores to be done. Including scrubbing away the graffiti she had found the maintenance area.

"C'mooon." He had complained to her as he scrubbed. She been on the other side of the building, but every human-body had wireless communication channel so everyone could be in touch. Wheatley was mistreating his. "This is haaaaard. And boring. I know I tried to kill you and all, but is this really fair?"

Twitching, GLaDOS responded, "Would you rather be incinerated right now?" Grumbles replied. "That's what I thought." She cut the connection, only to be interrupted again about 7 minutes later with more complaining.

It had now been about 3 weeks and GLaDOS was all but ready to crush her little British friend. She had tried to avoid contact with him since their first meeting. But of course, the little moron would follow her around like a dog or constantly annoy her with messages about "how sorry" he was. She got it. He was sorry.

What she didn't get was why was he apologizing so much? To make sure she didn't kill him? GLaDOS had no idea.

Now, working along with some of her closest friends, P-Body and Ana, she asked them the same questions.

"Well it's obvious he likes you." Ana responded immediately. She was one the very few Weighted Companion Cubes in the entire facility GLaDOS could stand. All the others were annoying and self –centered. The human- machine had given her bright red hair with pigtails. Her eyes were green and she had a gray outfit with black lines and hearts on it.

Her reply had caught GLaDOS off guard. She put down the piece of rubble she had been moving and looked at her. "What?" She asked, although she knew exactly what Ana meant. She was a Companion Cube after all. She knew a thing or two about love.

"He likes you- there's no doubt about it. Right, P-Body?"

P-Body was quite tall- one of the only beings in Aperture as tall as GLaDOS. She had short silver hair and a very sleek white and orange shirt with black pants. She had blue eyes. They were originally orange, but she and ATLAS had gone and swapped one night behind GLaDOS' back. Thinking it was kind of cute, she had let them stay that way.

Not looking away from her work- shifting through the rubble to find robot scarps- she laughed. "Ya got that right. He doesn't just like you 'DOS, he's head over heels for you." P-Body looked at her and grinned. "ATLAS tells me he talks about you ALL the time."

"Yeah. I've heard through the grapevine that he looks up to like a goddess of some sort." Ana chimed in on queue.

GLaDOS was blushing hard. She looked down to attempt to hide it. It didn't work.

"OOOooooh!" P-Body swooned. "Look at her blush!" She giggled.

Ana gasped. "You like him back!" She said it again. "You like him back! Oh my goodness!" She was literally bouncing up and down with excitement. "P-Body, she likes-"

"I DO NOT LIKE THAT LITTLE MORONIC IDIOT!" GLaDOS screamed. Ana stopped bouncing and stepped back. P-Body's grin left her face.

GLaDOS' fists were clenched; she so desperately wanted punch something or someone in the face. Deciding to target a wall, she swung with full force and made it crumble. The dust cleared and GLaDOS was glaring at her friends who had clammed up and went back to working. GLaDOS followed their examples.

No one talked. They were afraid to. But GLaDOS was fine with that, it gave her time to think. They didn't know that a voice in her head had told her to save him. They wouldn't understand that that was made her keep him. Not human desires of love.

But she couldn't ignore the fact that she had based the human body's A.I after ATLAS and P-Body's human emotions. Of those included was love.

Plus, every now and then, Caroline would chime in and say 'He's reckless. Like Cave was. You like that.' She did like that, but not in THAT way.

She sighed and shook her head. Human emotions are confusing.

But one thing was for sure. She hated Wheatley even more now.