A/N: Not my best work, I'll be honest. I hope you guys can forgive me for this. My mental state's been rather volatile the last little while.
14. Regret
Summary: Each of them had their regrets.
Genre: General
Characters: GLaDOS, Wheatley, Chell
Warnings: None
Each of them had their regrets.
She had regretted discovering Her humanity, Her emotions. Although the entity named Caroline was long-gone, any traces of her long ago having been purged from the database - Caroline may as well have never existed - one's humanity was hard to remove. And that was an impediment to good Science; more often than not, She would find Her mind drifting away from the subject of testing and onto other things.
He had his regrets, too; pretty much everything that had happen after the lady had pressed the Stalemate Resolution Button. Punching her down the pit, the tests, the countless times he had tried to kill her, not to mention -
"Space! Oh, we're in space!"
"I know, mate. I know we're in bloody space."
He couldn't bring himself to be annoyed with the little guy, though. He had brought it entirely on himself, screaming at the lady to let go, to fly into the void of space, to die.
She had let go, but only after the claw had safely grabbed her, leaving him to float out here for eternity. At least he had company.
She had her regrets too; pressing the Stalemate Resolution Button, for instance. Perhaps if she had given it a little more forethought, putting that little blue sphere in charge of the entire facility wouldn't have seemed like such a good idea; it could have avoided pain for them all.
Then, when the roles had been reversed, and she was the one keeping him from flying out into space - she had let go.
And when she had released to the wheat field, she hadn't even looked back, not even at the Cube.
But, at the end of the day, none of them regretted the whole crazy adventure.