Portal 2: Love or Forever Friendship? [Completed]

"She's just my friend! I don't love her!"

"GAH!"

Wheatley sits up quickly. He looks around before realising that he didn't have his glasses on, which he grabs from his bedside table. No fire. No turrets. No test chamber. Just the moonlit glow from the window. Sighing, he crosses his legs and lays his arms across them, still covered in his thin duvet. Was it really that hard to stop a nightmare returning every time he closed his eyes? He hoped not. Valuable hours of sleep were lost each night due to this fear, the fear of loosing someone he loved...He shook his head firmly. He wasn't in love with Chell! Sure, he does get angry when Rick tries to flirt with her, but that's only to protect her!...Right? He rubs his eyes before looking around his room once more, stopping his gaze on some objects on the floor in front of the bedside table. He bends down and picks a few up; A fallen picture of all the Cores, along with Chell, Atlas and Pea-body; a few rare comic books about a red-haired man who is hell-bent on killing a ten year old boy who put him in jail; his old, weathered hat. He gently places the picture frame back onto his bedside table, from which it fell off, smiling with a slight chuckle.

"Ah, this one was taken when me and Kevin came back from that ol' space station..."

He could almost hear the fellow Core's voice as he finished his sentence, as at the mention of space Samuel would yell it out. He then gently blows a little dust off his hat before placing it on his head, smiling.

"Heh, hey look, I'm Rick, the Adventure Core! I love to wind Wheatley up by calling him a field full of wheat and flirting with Chell because I'm such a good friend!"

He laughs quietly to himself before taking his hat off and leaning forwards to place it on the end of his bed. As he sits back, Wheatley thinks over a few things that had happened over the past few days...He came back from the outside, an explosion happened, he had been thrown from a great height, he got kissed on the cheek by Chell...He quickly shook his head. What was his mind trying to tell him? That his best friend...Loved him?! It was impossible. But was it? It was only a simple hug and kiss on the cheek, but that was only because he had a breakdown from thinking that her and all his friends were dead! He puts a hand under his chin as he thinks. Could it really be possible? Could it be possible that he too...Thought that way about her? As soon as it entered his mind, it went out again from Wheatley smacking his hand against his own head.

"I do not love Chell! Gah, that hurt..."

He gingerly rubs the area where he hit himself. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was lying to himself somehow...A quiet knock at his bedroom door brings him back to reality. He pulls back his duvet and climbs out of bed, pulling his pyjama top down as he almost stumbles to the door. Wheatley unlocks it, and carefully pulls the door open. He looks at the person on the other side with a slight blush.

"Urm...Hello Chell! Uh..."

He awkwardly rubs the back of his head.

"Did y' have that nightmare again?"

She nods, looking at him with a slight smile, to which he smiles back. He opens the door fully to let his friend in.

"So...Was it the same one?"

"Yeah...The one in the main chamber with you and me...and her..."

He steps towards her and gently hugs her, his chin resting on her head as she nuzzles into his shoulder slightly, tears quietly slipping down her cheeks. She shakes slightly as she begins to speak.

"It was so horrible...She had us both in those...pincer things, and she was doing...HORRIBLE things to you...Crushing you like when you first met her...A-a-and then..."

"Shh...It's okay now...Nothing's gonna happen, a'right? No-one's gonna get hurt..."

A fresh wave of new tears flood down Chell's face as she hugs closer to him, making Wheatley blush more than he already was.

"But it was so real! Like it really happened..."

Images flash from his own nightmare into his mind, but he defiantly blinks them away. He had to be strong! He had to be strong for his best friend...