(Not) Alive - Machine | Detroit Become Human [finished]

100111 - Victim

Reliving all those months of captivity to give his testimony was quite testing for Connor but necessary if they wanted Zlatko to pay for his crimes. Ben Collins was very understanding, pausing him when his tale touched on a particularly painful point, he seemed to be used to victims and witnesses of atrocities and he treated him just as he would a human in the same situation.

It took them over an hour and a half to come to terms with the narrative and arrive at the events of the day before. He couldn't physically feel the tiredness and yet he felt exhausted, drained. He looked up to look for the comforting figure of Angie. She was still at her desk, typing her report on her computer. He wanted to join her and for them both to come home to snuggle up together on Hank's couch again.

He didn't tell the most intimate passages of the evening of yesterday which mattered only for them, it was not necessary for the investigation that everyone knows how he had recovered his memory and even less that they kissed.

He had spent part of the night in a standby state and the other part watching her sleep peacefully on his lap, still not believing that she had chosen him as she was dating a human. He had actually been excessively jealous when she told him that and he was still a little uncomfortable when he thought about it. What about this man now? Were they still officially together or had they already broken up? Maybe he should ask Angie ...

Lieutenant Collins brought him back to the present moment by speaking again.

- Listen Connor, you've been through a major trauma. In general, I refer victims or witnesses of traumatic events to the psychiatrists best able to take care of them. Unfortunately for androids everything is still in the early stages. But I know of a group that could help you, made up of human specialists as well as androids. I'm not gonna lie to you, it's still experimental, but I think your case might interest them and they might help you deal with the stress of what happened.

As he didn't answer, the policeman insisted.

- I must have their card over here, he said, rummaging in his drawers, it doesn't commit you to make a first appointment to see.

Connor nodded but he wasn't sure if this kind of "group" was right for him, he would ask Angie and Hank what they thought.

- All right, he replied, thank you.

He took leave of Lieutenant Collins and was finally able to join his friends.

- How was it ? Angie asked as he sat down on a free edge of her desk.

- Fine, he replied evasively. And you, are you finished?

- Nearly. I'll finish the last details and we'll go out for lunch.

- What about the interrogation?

He was impatient to be able to extract information from Zlatko about his comrades in misfortune. The worry but also the guilt gnawed at him, guilt for having left them behind and not having had the courage to return to seek them sooner.

- The lawyer hasn't arrived yet, Angie replied. We'll take care of that this afternoon.

She took his hand and gently stroked his fingers with her thumb. He loved it, when she touched him like that, it calmed him more than anything else when his mind was racing.

- We'll find them, don't worry, she added. We'll make him confess what he did with his other victims.

She knew his concern even without him expressing anything, he knew he could count on her and on Hank. His two friends were the best therapy for him.