Detroit: Become Human~-~Connor One-Shots

(Request) Loveless

Prompt: Hi! I love your book! I was wondering if it isn't too much trouble, if you could do a connor x child android reader where basically the reader is being abused by its human "parents" and when the police come to the house to arrest the parents on an unrelated charge (like drugs or something) connor sees the reader, who has bruises, etc, and feels bad for them and decides to take care of them?

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Children are a gift, at least that's what you heard. You were never treated like something special despite being hand-picked by your human parents, they only saw you as property designed to do everything they said. You had to keep telling yourself they loved you, they just didn't express it the way other parents did. But on days where hope just couldn't pick you back up, you reminded yourself you couldn't feel pain, and repeated it until the aching of your nonexistent heart left.

You were waiting on your parents to come home from the bank. You knew they came home with more money than they had in their bank account, you knew they stole it, but you were labeled as obedient by CyberLife—that's why your parents bought you—so when they told you never to question them you listened. That didn't stop them from causing serious shortages of thirium in your system however.

The thing about android children is they don't heal like human children; if a child scrapes their knee the body will repair itself, and while there was some function in your system to repair small wounds, it couldn't keep up with the abuse you recieved. So what you were going through was constantly on display, but your parents were crafty. They kept you inside and if anyone asked they said you tripped or got in a scuffle with some other kids.

The front door opened and you raced towards it, ready to help your parents with whatever they requested. They shoved bags of money into your hands and instructed you to put it in 'the spot'. The spot was a safe down in the basement where they put all the items they stole. It was hidden behind a bookshelf and fake piece of wall and armed with weaponary if you put the code in wrong.

You ran down the stairs with the money bags in your hands. They were really heavy but somehow you managed to peek over the top of the bags and stumble over to the safe. You pulled the books out in the right order for the bookshelf to swing away, tapped the corner of the fake wall to cause it to fall, then input the code. You set the money down and were immediately shoved aside so your parents could put more bags in.

"Go get the other bags," your mother yelled. You obeyed. Once it was all locked up you headed upstairs to where your parents were celebrating with alcoholic beverages. They were too engulfed in their party to notice you, and you supposed that was fine. No attention was better than bad attention. But it wasn't long before they spotted you.

Father slung his arm around you and laughed. "We could afford 5 of you now!" You tried to smile but it wasn't convincing.

"Maybe they'd be better than you," Mother mused, making a show of thinking. "Wouldn't act like little b*tches all the time." Father's hold on you got tighter.

"I'm sorry if I did anything to displease you." That was the 67th time you said that this month.

"You don't mean that." Mother knew you were programmed to say that. "You wish you could get out of here just like the last one." You couldn't feel temperature like humans but it felt like the room got several degrees colder and a shiver ran up your spine. They told you exactly what they did to the last child android they had and even showed you the mangled remains of it. It looked exactly like you. The image remained in your database since then, and merely bringing up the 'last one' scared you silent.

Father laughed like there was something amusing about it and Mother joined him. You stared at the two of them and wondered what other androids had to be going through if people like these owned them. Your gaze fell to the floor.