Chapter 5

Heartbreaks

After the apple George gave him was eaten everything was silent other than the pounding of rain outside the makeshift home and the noise of walking bones and spiders.

Wiping the water and sweat off his face he muttered uselessly to himself and maybe George, "Well… I'm wet… and hurt."

'Oh quit complaining' George wanted to say but it only came out as a moo.

"Oh, I get what you're saying. I try to be a man ok? It's not in my data base apparently! So its clearly impossible for me like for me to get used to this damn domain which is most likely GLaDOS' test… but why? She wouldn't send you. She'd send a turret to shot me down DEAD!" He rested his elbows on his numb knees and his chin of his hands, "Oh, what am I to do George? You're my only hope in this world. But it'll be nice to have someone else… L-Like that lady!(Chell)"

His face fell, "… Man, I miss her… You see George, I guess you're confused and all but… I tried to kill her… Because I wanted power, to show that I WASN'T a MORON! S-sorry I didn't mean to yell… actually… she never called me one… well she's, uh, mute but, um… maybe… maybe she didn't think I was one… hopefully she thought of me as misunderstood… that'll be a day… I could be dreaming this all up and wake back up into… space. I-I may be dreaming…"

He quickly pinched him to make sure but it only made him wince at the pressure that pierced his skin, "O-ok… I don't think optimism is my friend here… I am most likely a pessimist half the time though I truly do try to stay positive… but that was the old me… trying to dominate… God, I was a fool."

He sighed sadly and looked at his cow friend with watery eyes, "I… really do actually miss them… But now Space core. Hell no… But… I kind of… miss GLaDOS… and her… s-she was a bit pretty too now that I think about it… at the beginning she was… uh… bleh, but on the way… She actually seemed attractive when she got angry or confused…" Blush crept onto his albino cheeks, "W-why am I thinking that way?! I-is that part of my system…? I-I probably um… H-hey the rain stopped…"

He took away a block to make sure and indeed it had stopped.

"Now that it stopped… what can I do? That won't, um… be my… death."

George mooed.

Wheatley blinked and gazed at him, "Do you have an idea mate?"

The cow walked over to the end of the makeshift house and bumped the side of the wall with his head.

The human core stared at him for a few seconds, "You want… ouuut?"

The cow rolled his eyes and mooed.

"Oh-oh! Are we playing charades? Uh, moving! A cow! Hitting a person! Uhh… WOOD! Am I close? Hot or cold?"

If he had a hand he'd face-palm.

He knocked two blocks out from their place and picked one up, moving over to a next door tree and placed it down.

"Oooooooh! You want me to expand this place! Oh ok! I guess this little tiny won't fit the both of us… I think I have enough planks- yeah I do! Alright! Let's do this!"

Again he used the leaves above as a roof when he was finished, "Ah, that looks much better! Roomy too! Now that the house is done what do think—?"

Suddenly he heard… voices. He blinked, "G-George y-you hear that too right? It's not just me right. I'm not h-halll…uuu… uh… Y-y-you know!"

"YYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAA!"

Jumping back Wheatley scampered behind the house as a familiar figure leaped out from the woods, "Ey, foureyes, look! I think someone else is here besides us!"

Before the idiotic core could think straight he grabbed his stone sword from his belt and ran towards them at high speed, his sword above his head and screamed loudly.

Then a fist met his chest and he fell back in an instant, knocking the wind out of him. As he laid there for a moment blurry eyed; he tried to breathe and realize what just happened.

Two figures looked down at him like he was a science experiment.

"Maybe, I hit him a little too hard."

"Fact: Punches in the chest are most likely to cause unconsciousness, punching them in the stomach would likely make him gag."

He recognized though voices… very well…

When his vision cleared and saw that one had green hair and the other had pink in the same outfit he knew he had gone to hell.

Immediately he jumped up, "H-how…? Wh-what?"

Rick spoke first, "Hey look it's the other four-eyes! I didn't recognize you! Uh, sorry for punchn' ya, reflexes."

Before he could let Wheatley speak again he continued, "You know I thought we'd see that pretty lady here. So far I haven't seen her. You?"

The core's face was completely red when he heard this, though he wasn't sure why, and breathed, "No."

The Adventure core studied him for a minute, "Hey, how'd you get though gnarly cuts on ya?"

"Oh, ahhh… Green things, giant spiders, and zombies…"

"That'll explain the spider bite."

Suddenly Craig spoke, his shoulder twitched before he opened his mouth, "Fact: Most spider's are deadly poisonous and likely cause death."

"I don't think that'll happen! I have George with me!"

Rick looked at him curiously, "Uhhh… George?"

"Yeah! George!" He pointed at the cow behind him.

Both of the cores exchanged glances and gazed back at him and whispered.

"I think he's hallucinatin'…"

"Or just a plain moron…"

His eye twitched but not because that they said that word but the other word he hated dearly and to be called it

Moron.

"I AM NOT! A! MORON!" He seethed angrily, "W-what are you doing? St-stop that!"

Fact core moved hand like a puppet and matched his words perfectly as he spoke, mockingly.

His eye twitched a few times before he pounced on the fact core like a cougar and grabbed him by his neck, "Quit mocking me!"

He lifted his fist up; about to punch him but it was stopped by a sweaty strong hand of Rick.

"Hey, now you two girls don't need to get testy. We have to stay together and try not to fight or we'll end up killin' each other. And we want to survive here right? Have a lil' adventure maybe. So can you girls do that?"

Poor Wheatley wanted to die right there. Suddenly he cried out, as he shook his hand out of his grasp and got off the other core, "Alright! Apparently God granted my wish for someone I knew to be with me! And I regret it! I sooooo rue it! Listen, I don't need any of you in this hellish world nor do I need YOUR help! I can survive on my own with George!"

Rick quirk an eyebrow and looked at him with the same concern as before, "Yeah, well your friend, uh, George is leavin' ya."

"Wha-what?!" He whirled around to see the helpful cow leaving him with the two human cores. His whole body stiffened for a moment then quickly ran after him calling his name. When he caught up to him he ran in front of him, panting, "G-george wh-where are you g-going?! A-are you leaving me?"

Surprisingly the cow nodded.

Wheatley's eyes grew unnaturally large as he shook uncontrollably, "G-George wh-why?! I-I finally found you and you're leaving m-me…? Wh-what did I do to deserve this? Pl-please George you have to stay with me! I don't know anything about this world! You have to stay."

The old cow gazed at him with eyes that told him, 'You're on your own. You know enough.'

Slowly he walked around him and off leaving him kneeling there, stunned.

He felt like he lost someone he loved again… that lady… w-wait 'love'?

The two cores strolled over to him, Rick's eyebrows knitted as he watched the cow leave, "Wow, what a display…." He gazed down at him, his arms crossed, and tried to smile comfortingly, "Uh, don't worry four-eyes, you have us now. We can show you what we know and all… uhh… would that make you feel better?"

Suddenly he shot a deathly, tearful glare; if looks would kill he would be dead in seconds. Instantly he stood and shouted up at him heartbrokenly, "I-I don't want YOUR help! Don't you realize that you made him LEAVE?! OF COOOURSE YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW A HEARTBREAK FEELS LIKE CAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A HEART! NEITHER OF YOU! L-like that lady… I-I HATE YOU TWO! I HATE YOU TWO SO MUCH! L-LEAVE ME ALONE! GO-GO AWAY!"

Immediately before they could speak he shoved them out of the way and dashed towards his home, reached it and slammed the door behind him.

Wheatley stood there shaking violently and suddenly wailed out bitterly, (making the two cores jump), tears continuously flowing down his cheeks as he collapsed onto the grass floor. Sobbing loudly he curled up into a ball.

The Adventure core rubbed the back of his neck and bit his lip, "What should we do four-eyes?"

Craig gazed up at him with solemn eyes, "Fact: Heartbreaks are usually solved by being alone for a long while… so let's do what he suggested. Leave him alone…"