Next chapter already? *gasp* :)
Pinoko
It didn't take long to regret giving Pinoko a body. He would never tell anyone that, but it was the truth. He regretted it, for a time. He regretted it when she'd pull him out of bed and dump freezing water on him, when she fed him disgusting food, when she interrupted his work.
It didn't take long before he stopped regretting it either.
"Doc, Doc!"
He was eating his breakfast. He did not like to be disturbed while he was eating his breakfast.
She had made his breakfast. He considered this while chewing his bacon and decided that this fact was enough to make him look down at Pinoko.
He wished he hadn't. She was on her tiptoes, lips puckered out in a facsimile of a kiss. He stared at her for a moment, then turned back to his food.
"Dooooooc!"
He chuckled to himself. "I'm not a very good kisser, Pinoko."
"I can teach you!"
"No."
The lips were still there. He could see the out of the corner eye.
"This is some excellent bacon, Pinoko."
Pinoko crossed her arms and gave up, stomping away. Black Jack couldn't help but laugh.
Why did she love him?
He'd been loved before. Not often, but enough by friends and family (his mother really, only his mother, always his mother) and even lovers to know that it was possible to harbor emotion like that for a man like him.
But he hadn't done anything for Pinoko, except save her life. He'd saved plenty of people's lives, and none of them had fallen in love with him. He wasn't charming or attractive or any of the things people were supposed to like...but then again, she was also a teratoid systoma while no experience of the outside world.
She loved it. She'd made that clear with, not her loud declarations, but the way she treated him, even when angry. She was immature and young and very important to him, but he could never love her the way she wanted. It made him a little sad; her love for him was pointless.
It also made him a little angry, that she'd make him worry about trivial things like this. People told him that love was special and important, but he was of the opinion that saving lives was more so.
Still, that didn't stop him from loving her like a father.
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