Ash and steel

Chapter 7 robot

It had been some time since Elizabeth was sick, as bad as Heisenbergs remedy tea tasted it did help.

After she was better Elizabeth continued working as usual, what Heisenberg was unaware of was her little side project, she would collect spare parts and hide them in fear that he would get upset with her if he saw it.

Elizabeth was building a robot, out of rusted metal spare parts, things that where left over from whatever Karl had her build that day, and in truth her robot was almost finished.

Her reason for building it?

Elizabeth wasn't to sure of that herself, it was an impulsive decision and she almost did it without completely realizing, at one point he just had spare parts lying around and she instantly thought of building a robot with them.

Maybe to take her mind off things.

She was slowly getting used to being here, but it made it no less stressful, she still wasn't sure how much she could trust Heisenberg or what other plans he might have for her.

Whether his intentions where good or bad was also unclear, surly they where good for him but if his plans included her well-being was still up for debate.

It had taken her a few weeks to get all the necessary parts, mostly because she wasn't aloud to go anywhere in the factory so it's not like she could go looking for parts.

She had to wait to stumble across the necessary pieces she needed, and last week she was weary, Karl had remarked that he was missing a piece to something, Elizabeth must have accidentally taken something he needed, but he soon found a replacement and forgot all about it.

Today though she was finally finished with her robot, it was a small scrappy looking thing..no bigger than a small dog, the robot was meant to run on the same thing everything else in the factory did, but when Elizabeth turned it on it didn't work.

She sighed in disappointment.

Elizabeth heard Heisenberg approaching and quickly hid her little side project just as he walked through the door.

"What are you doing" he asked

"Me? I wasn't doing anything just working on this thing here" Elizabeth
smiled awkwardly.

Karl looked her up and down and went back to his place to continue his work.

They worked contently for a while.
Elizabeth was trying to move a piece of metal into its place when her hand slipped and she cut herself.

"Owe! Son of a bitch—" Elizabeth shot up from her seat, as she did a few things flew off the table toward her, Karl noticed the objects fly forward. Almost like she had a magnet in her hand.

"What happened" Karl asked and walked over to her, he noticed something under her table, but chose to ignore it for the moment.

"I cut myself" Elizabeth said holding her hand.

Heinsberg took her hand and opened it, looking at the cut on her palm, he sighed

"you really are prone to accidents aren't you" he said rhetorically.

He walked away to get a bandage for her.

Elizabeth shoved the box further under her table with her foot.

Heisenberg came back, bandage in hand, and wrapped her hand for her.

"Thank you" she said

"Mhmm, so what's under the table?" He asked

Elizabeth nearly choked on air.

"W-what do you mean?"

Heisenberg just stared at her until she folded under his gaze