Just a little quick drabble I wrote up when the thought struck me that I don't think I really have done any scenes with just Michael and Kitt/Kat. This ones a little different, as it's from Michael's pov.

Enjoy.

Kitt had decided to wait for Michael outside, despite the fact that it was in the middle of a downpour.

Sometimes he still found it strange that Kitt was human, that his partner was standing just in front of him instead of waiting in the parking lot. Although if he had still been like that, Michael was sure that Kitt would have a complait ready about just how long he left him in one of his least favourite places.

Instead, he found Kitt standing just underneath the store's under hang, and just in time for Michael to see him slowly extend his hand out into the freezing rain, a pensive look on his face. Michael stood there for a moment, just watching. For as odd as it still struck him at times for his partner to be human, at the same time it felt perfectly natural. Kitt had always been curious, and whenever Michael caught him in these thoughtful states that might look odd to other people – seemed perfectly normal to Michael, as it was what he was already used to. He would've found it stranger if Kitt never acted like this every so often.

In fact, if Michael were being completely honest with himself, the fact that Kitt was human wasn't really strange at all. It was more unbelievable, but in a good way, as in it was something he had never thought could ever be possible. It was an unbelievable yet pleasant surprise. Over the years that he and Kitt had gone on their adventures together, he had come to view Kitt as more then just some super advanced piece of technology. By the end of it, he viewed Kitt as a person, just like anyone else. Whenever Kitt spoke, Michael could easily imagine the expression that would have been on Kitt's face had he had one.

Now that he had spent time with Kitt as a human, all those expressions he had pictured were the same as he had always pictured them to be. Thinking about it now, he realized that must be why Kitt had seemed so familiar back before Michael knew who he was. It was all in the way Kitt talked, the expressions that he made. He only wished he had realized that it was Kitt sooner, and perhaps he could have spared his partner at least a little bit of grief. The only thing that really helped that line of thought was telling himself that there was no way he could've guess that the depressed boy from the computer store was Kitt. After all, why would he possibly think that when he had never thought that the reason they couldn't find him was because he had become human?

What was with him and getting so pensive himself all of the sudden? Must be the rain, he decided. Michael shook his head and decided it was time to get going. It wasn't exactly warm outside, and he wanted to get back inside.

"I thought you didn't like the cold, Kitt." Michael stated, deciding to finally make his presence known.

Kitt glanced over at him briefly before looking back up to sky. "Rain is different. I actually happen to enjoy it."

"And here I thought you wouldn't like it since it would be adding wet to the cold." Michael responded with his trademark grin.

"I suppose if one chooses to think of it that way then I can see how it could be rather inconvenient. However…" Kitt trailed off, looking up at the sky so that he could watch the rain fall, "it fascinates me. It always has. And now I finally understand what you meant when you said that rain was hard to understand."

It was a point that Michael had almost forgotten about, but now that Kitt brought it up, he remembered that the time when his partner had asked him describe what rain felt like. It had been on an afternoon much like this, and Michael had spent the next several minutes failing to explain it. Every explanation he could think of involved feeling the rain, but as Kitt had no such ability or real concept of being able to physically feel anything (emotionally yes even if he tried to deny it at times, but physically no), Michael hadn't been very successful in explaining rain. It had ended with a simple 'thank you Michael, but I suppose that I will have to be content with listening to it for now.'

"Well, I'm glad you finally got your answer, buddy. Sorry it took so long." Michael had never talked about it, but he had always felt a bit guilty about not being able to give his partner a satisfactory answer. At least now, he thought, Kitt could finally have the answer he had been so curious about.

Kitt finally looked back over at him, shaking his head. "I don't blame you, Michael." He stated as if he had read the former crime fighter's mind. "I realized later that it had been a ridiculous question to ask when I had no way of feeling at the time. It's why I settle on simply being content to listen. I do appreciate the attempt, though." He gave a soft smile. "Now, shall we get going? I'm sure the others ate waiting back at home."

Michael nodded. "Ya, let's go. I'd like to get back someplace warm."

"Do you want to wait here while I bring the car around?"

"Nah, we'll go together, just like we always have."

-Xire