Hey! I'm sorry I don't update often, I think I explained the whole "Now I do chapters then post" Thing. Anyway, yeah. Questions will start to be answered over the next few chapters. Not this one as much, but it will happen! Promise! Bye!
When I woke, I couldn't remember what had happened. I sat up slow, and held my head, trying to remember why I slept. I looked down and saw I was wrapped in a tan cotton blanket. There was a tent above my head, and it looked rather old. And slightly reminded me of something a ragtag group of people might use. It looked like some sort of an office. Maybe an infirmary of some kind.
In a flash, I remembered what had happened. The people, the humans, that shouldn't be here. It didn't make my head spin anymore, I had come to terms with it. The doctors were pathetic liars, and I was determined to find all the things they lied about.
From the doorway of the tent like thing, I saw Kanaya walk in.
"Oh good, you're up," She said, "I was starting to think you might never wake up. You had quite the scare there, didn't you." She said everything like she knew it was a fact. Like the chance of her being wrong were slim to none.
She handed me a cup of water, "Drink."
I took the cup and gladly gulped it down. I could tell by the scratchiness of my throat I hadn't had anything to drink for a while. This sparked my curiosity, and I asked Kanaya the question that came up.
"How long was I out?"
She looked at me in surprise for a moment, before speaking, "I believe that exact amount was two days. You passed out, slept through all of yesterday, and woke up today, in the morning. Yes, two days." She did the math for me, and I nodded.
"If you don't mind me asking, we're all curious, What is your name?" She asked.
"413."
"That's- That's not a name. It's a number," She countered.
"Yes, but my number is 413."
She looked at me with confusion, "No one ever gave you a name?"
"I told you, they gave me a number. They gave everyone a number," I said.
"Who's they?"
I looked down in what probably came across as shame. Truthfully, I was debating whether or not to answer that question then.
"I'd prefer not to talk about it now."
"Understandable," Kanaya said. She stood up and stretched, before offering her hand for me to grab.
"Come along now, the rest of the group will want to know you're up," she said, and lead me out of the tent.
What I saw was a small, tight ring of four tents, including the one I came out of. It looked sturdy enough to offer shelter, while not so sturdy they couldn't take off at a moments notice if necessary. The only person there, was standing in the center. It was Karkat, the crabby boy from earlier. Now that I had time to study him, he was a lot shorter then I had thought. He couldn't be more than 5'2". He looked up at us in a grouchy way, and rolled his eyes at the sight of me.
"Oh good, take a look at that! Mrs.'I'm-gonna-randomly-show-up-and-just-pass-out- for-no-fucking-reason-and-freak-everyone-the-fuck- out' is up! Great, sleeping beauty, thought you'd never get up! While you happen to be moving and actually doing work, why don't you say something so life changing and scary we all have another heart attack, huh? There'd be no harm in that for sure!"
"Karkat, take it easy on her," Kanaya scolded, "you don't know what her life might have been like before hand." She glanced at me then, as if asking me to insert whatnot might have been like. To her disappointment, I didn't respond.
"Yeah, well, whatever," he turned to me, "Since you're gonna stay here anyway, what should I actually call you while you're here?"
"413," I said, prepared to defended my answer.
Karkat gave me a confused look, like he was about to argue or say some snark comment about that being a number, but received a look from kanaya that plainly said 'Don't go there'. He dropped the subject.
"If you wanna stay, you better make yourself useful!" He threatened before walking away. Kanaya shook her head in disapproval.
"I apologize for him. He's always just a bit crabby, but I promise he really cares more then he says. He's the one that yelped when you fainted."
That made sense. Karkat was one of those distant kind that thought having feelings would get everyone hurt, so he hid them by sounding annoyed and angry all the time. But it was just that, He was hiding them. When it came down to it he'd be on your side.
"Come on, Rose really wants to talk to you." Kanaya lead me away from the center and off a little ways into the woods. We came across a tree that was perfect for climbing. Up in the branches was Rose, who was reading a book while relaxing comfortably in a little nook in the branches.
"Rose, She's awake," Kanaya called up to her, and Rose looked down at us from her spot.
"Oh good! I was hoping you'd be up soon," She responded, as she climbed down the tree and landed softly in front of us. She smirked at us and nodded at Kanaya.
"You can go now, I promise she won't hurt me," I heard the same sarcastic tone as when I first met her, "No need to get protective."
She seemed to be hinting at something I didn't understand, which caused Kanaya to blush. She nodded slightly and walked away from the direction we had come from.
"Walk with me," Rose said, as she started off into the woods. I followed her as she asked. I figured I would want to know whatever she had to say. Something told me it was important.
"What's your name?" She asked.
"413,"
She gave me an odd, sideways glance, but didn't question my answer either.
"What were you running from when you ran away from me?"
Her questioning reminded me slightly of an interrogation, and I quickly figured out what was going on. She wasn't sure if she could trust me. If I answered well, I could have the secrets I wanted answered lying at my feet. I decided to go completely honest for the sake of this.
"I was running away from the small child. The one smaller than even Karkat."
Rose nodded, "Nepeta. She has issues with self restraint."
I nodded in agreement, I had noticed that about the small feline girl.
"Speaking of Nepeta, she told me something you said that was rather interesting..." She said, as if to let me finish her thought. For the first time, I did.
"I am a robot."
Rose let that sink in, "What makes you so sure?"
So I told her my story. Waking up in the lab, and everything the doctors told us. Most of what they had told us made her eyebrow twitch ever so slightly, giving me hints as to what things were true and what were not. I told her about the beta's, about B-483 and team charge, About 88, about 266 and her similarities with John, our testing, everything. I didn't stop until I had said every detail, and to be perfectly honest, I don't think I had ever talked so much in my life.
Rose was silent. She never once interrupted throughout the whole thing, and after about a minute since I had finished she spoke.
"I am definitely a person who appreciates a good story, and that my friend is one wicked cool story. Believable, however, is another level entirely. Do you have any proof of your story, that this isn't some hoax to harm me and my friends?
My hopes fell for a moment. How could I possibly prove it? When I remembered.
"My charging port," I said.
"What?"
"My charging port, remember? The place where I insert my charger?" I turned my back and lifted up my hair, and pointed to where it was, "See?"
I felt Rose's hands mess around with it a little, too make sure it wasn't fake. She then stopped and stayed silent for another long while.
"Is all this really true?"
"Every detail."
I heard Rose take a deep breath, "Well then, I guess this means we have some discovering to do. There is parts of this story that don't line up, but I believe you are telling the truth. It's lack of information, not lies, causing the riffs."
I agreed with her, because the more I thought about the doctors, the more they sickened me. They were up to something, but I didn't know what.
"I noticed something else, that may be proof of you being a robot as well."
I was confused, I didn't think I had shown much else, But I nodded and let her continue.
"Have you ever done something on a computer it wasn't expecting, so it froze for a moment?" I nodded, "Then to fix it you start hitting random buttons? But taking in so much information, the computer will shut down for a while. When you turn it back on, it's fine and acting the same as normal. Like nothing ever happened.
"It reminds me of what happened to you," She said, and the second I heard that, it made sense. That was very similar to what had happened, and I quietly began to appreciate her information gathering skills.
"Let's get back to the camp," Rose said, and together we headed off in the general direction of the site.
