Neon Requiem (2023)

Breaking Bad

I walk out of the test with the idea of me missing the perfect mark for the first time in my life. I can't help but think whether it's the fact that I slept with my bosses wife, regardless I need to keep my head on straight this is no time to let my guard down.

The next couple days come and go with no update on any mission.

However when the weekend rolled around I received a message from Sharon telling me she wanted to see me again. I couldn't tell her no since I technically work for her under my bosses last name. Even when I asked her what she needed she kept it vague and said it was urgent.

I arrive at their apartment late at night, I know Jenkins, my boss, is at the club right now getting high off his mind. Upon entering I already know where this is heading, Hilbert is asleep and Sharon is in her bedroom.

"I missed you." She said as I walked in. She was sitting on the edge of the bed, naked, the corner keeping her legs open towards me.

"Sharon I can't do this."

"I thought we went over this? You already know you have to. Or better yet you want to."

"-i-i." Something in my head began to split almost like a glitch in my system. In times before where I would've immediately walked out without thinking now I stood there with a feeling of curiosity I had never before felt.

Something inside of me was itching to be with her while my conscious said no, but incredibly that small itch won. The itch took over my body and made it stop resisting, I looked over to Sharon who was waiting anxiously for me. She smiled as soon as she saw me take a step towards her.

For the first time in my life I was acting on something that wasn't in my system but yet it was. I can't explain it, nor figure out what it is but it's inside of me and it's controlling me. Despite this I don't feel like it's forcing me to do anything instead I feel like it's my own will doing as this sensation tells me to do.

For the next week I spent visiting Sharon every night, each night was a different experience, she had been thinking of this for a while with how meticulous she was in bed. With each night I spent with her I yearned to be with her more and more almost like a drug. I had become a junkie for her, a feen-on-the-edge of withdrawal if I didn't see her.

The first week passed by so quickly that when the second week came I didn't even notice that it had been 14 straight days and Sharon still hadn't had enough.

On the 15th day Jenkins told me that I needed to retire a Blade Runner that had had gone rouge and escaped to the badlands of Night City.

This whole time I believed that I could quit Sharon if i ever needed to and have no problem, however I came to a rude awakening when I went to retire the Runner.

His name was Kyrie an older model with the run-of-the-mill symptoms of a deviant. Kyrie didn't have any crazy mods however he still put up a fight. It was unlike me to so sloppy when it came to fighting my own kind, worst of all was that I had significantly newer and better mods. The fight came so close that I had to resort dirty fighting of biting and gouging to get the upper hand and retire Kyrie.

It had become clear to me that I was loosing my edge, and needed to find a way to keep it together.

Shit hit the fan when I dropped off the body and had to take the baseline test.

"Do you like to connect to things?"

"Interlinked."

"What happens when that linkage is broken?"

"Interlinked."

"Have they let you feel heartbreak?"

"-Interlinked."