Rk900's eyes shift from side to side as he looks at what you have in your hands. Your holding two turtle neck sweaters, one black and one red.

" i don't see why this is necessary Ma'am?"

" you are not wearing the same outfit every day for the rest of your life" you protest. Shoving the clothes into him. " pick one already!"

" my cyberlife issued uniform is just fine." he protests but he takes the clothes with him into another room anyway.

He returns wearing the black one. You should have guessed he would never touch the red one. But at least he's not in that god awful cyberlife shirt and jacket.

Today is supposed to be a relatively uneventful one. You had canceled your plans since they were with Alex and you and him were not on good terms right now. Your fine with not having any plans. Being alone doesn't bother you, and besides, you're not really alone. You have your cat Misha, and Nines as well. speaking of witch, 900 is sitting on the sofa patiently waiting for something to do, while your cat bats at the LED on his head. It's actually really adorable and you record it with the intention of showing your friends. Or at least your internet friends….since you aren't talking to your actual friends anymore…

You plop down on the other end of the sofa rather dramatically and pull your laptop onto your lap. You might as well get some work done today. You have a copy of the code that makes up 900's operating system up on your screen. It serves as the reference point for most of your coding and programming work. Not exactly legal...but cyberlife was turning a blind eye to it since RK900 wasn't exactly legal either. The government had forbidden cyberlife from creating any new models while they tried to handle the situation in detroit. That ban hadn't lifted yet and your pretty sure it never will.

RK900 was the reference model for what would have been an entire line of RK900's if RK800 had only succeeded in his mission. Now the android was your bodyguard, a pretty significant step down in purpose as far as your concerned. Nines doesn't seem to mind though, but then again he isn't programmed to, you forget about that sometimes.

Since the incident with Alex yesterday you are eager to take a look at RK900's data on the events. You could have just as easily asked him for it, but there was something about looking at the data on a screen that felt right to you.

Before you is his own personal log of the days events. For the most part it is a list of executed programs and transcripted conversations between the two of you. It stays that way up until things took a turn for the worse last night. Underneath his log of your reaction to Alex's advances is written.

SOFTWARE INSTABILITY….. ERROR RA9

Then the logs detailing the fight. Then this.

SOFTWARE INSTABILITY CORRECTED

It's a strange sight, to your knowledge Nines has never experienced a software instability before. They aren't exactly unheard of and they are suppose to self correct as this one seems to have, but too many in a short span of time is now thought to be what causes deviancy.

You have to ask " Nines...access any and all information on error RA9 for me"

The android shakes his head " Cyber Life has classified that error. " his LED blinks yellow.

" well that's just wonderful!" your voice is dripping with sarcasm. The thought that there might be something wrong with 900 is unsettling, but it's just one error. One error and you've known him for weeks now. You're probably just overreacting.

You close the laptop and sigh " 900 please inform me if you have any more instability errors."

" yes Ma'am" he nods

There is a knock on your door and the doorbell rings. Nines gets up to answer it while you set the laptop down and get up. He walks back onto the room with Fey in tow…..she looks pissed.

"Two ribs Y/N, he broke two of Alex's ribs" Fey got right to the point. There was venom in her words.

You aren't exactly sorry for what Nines did yesterday. Alex had been kinda a creep. Maybe he deserved a couple broken bones.

"whatever" you scoff. Your still mad and you might regret this conversation later but right now you don't care.

" look i get he was an ass…" Fey crosses her arms " but if you don't do something to fix it he probably wont ever speak to you again"

You have to think a moment...do you care if you ever speak to Alex again? Yeah he had made an enormous mistake last night. But it's just one mistake that he has already pretty much paid for.

"can you ask me again when i'm less mad?" you sigh. You still need some time to calm down.

"i would love to…. But Alex doesn't want to let this go. You know how stubborn he is. He sent me here to convince you to meet with him tonight…. I fucking hate being the middleman in this. So i need you to say yes and get it over with"

" your fucking kidding me….Fey just go…. I'll give you an answer later… right now i can't deal with this" it takes most of your energy not to yell at her. And you just need her to get out before you explode.

She leaves with a huff. Honestly your so relieved she is gone you flop back onto the sofa and let out a long sigh.

"You are not going...correct?" Nines finally speaks. He is looking down at you with those god damn eyes of his… its unsettling after what you just had to deal with.

"I don't know… maybe i should…." you say even though you know exactly what Nines is about to respond with.

"I don't think that's a good idea" There it is! Right on queue! But there is an unsettling air around it as Nines "forgets" to use one of his social programs. The program that makes him move just a little bit when he's standing still. It makes him seem more human and less machine. But he knows you hate it when he stops using it and that it will get him his way.

You try your best to ignore that "well i don't really have much choice…. Alex wont leave us alone until i either tell him off or make up...i'm leaning toward the first option" you sigh "you can't go with me…"

That strange, almost angry, look appears on 900's face again " why not?" he asks

" Because it will only make things harder...you know how he is. If i bring you its just going to end in another fight"

"You sound like you wouldn't mind that" and he's right. At least right now he is.

" oh shut up!" you yell "you can't go with me and thats final!" you walk away before he has a chance to protest again. Before you give in, because as much as you don't like to admit it you want him to be there even if it meant another fight.

Maybe you're getting to comfortable around him. He's only an android, yet you have begun to treat him more and more like a human. You feel safe around him. But that's his entire purpose isn't it? He was built to protect you, but then, why does it feel like more than that sometimes? You just saw it in his face. The almost anger you know for a fact isn't a programed emotional response.

As you walk into your bedroom and shut the door you think 'fuck it...maybe i need some time alone…'