Heart of Ice

She Wants Me

Conan slowly approached the first body he encountered. It was a woman at the age of 45, with red, curly hair, pale skin and freckles. She had large ears covered in hair and a small, pointy nose, under which trickled a stream of blood. Her fragile lips were just as bloody. Her stomach was pressed down. RK900 gently lifted the bottom of her shirt up to see a huge, purple shape, similar to an oval on her belly's skin.

She must've been kicked or punched in the stomach until she passed out. The deviant probably did it a few more times afterwards to kill her.

Her full name was Florence Blue. She was the wife of Lawrence Blue and mother of two children, Peter Blue and Sarah Blue. He looked back to see a trail of blood.

Conan dipped two fingers in the crimson substance and pressed it to his parted lips, then touched his tongue to it to analyze it. According to the analysis, this was Florence's blood.

This wasn't where she was first attacked.

RK900 stood up and followed the trail, that led to two broken chairs in the living room. He found another trace of blood coming from a different way on the floor, as well as some thirium in between. He analyzed the other source of blood. It belonged to Lawrence Blue. He did the same with the "blue blood" and found out it was the AX400's that was said to deviate. The legs of the chairs had Lawrence's fingerprints on them.

Defense while holding this part of the furniture would be useless. He must've been the offender and broken the chairs' limbs. The android was protecting itself with the furniture by holding the top part of the chair, explaining why there were no fingerprints there.

"Got anything, tin can? You look extremely focused for someone of such a dumb expression!" Gavin laughed as RK900 studied the scene.
"The victims must've come from upstairs. The android protected itself with the chairs it found elsewhere." Conan explained.
"Oh look, you even rhyme!"
"That wasn't my intention, detective. I hope you can focus more on the investigation than on my appearance and voice."
"I'm gonna fucking kill-" "Be quiet, I heard something." Conan, the RK900 model whispered and placed his clean hand on Reed's mouth.

The muffled words from Gavin of what Conan assumed to be "move it from my face" just made him press his palm harder against Gavin's lips.
"Kiss it if you have to, just be quiet." The tall android hissed. There was a rustle upstairs he caught again. Despite the detective's moans and groans as he tried to forcefully remove his hand, he could still hear what was going on pretty well.

RK900 suddenly ran to the stairs, Gavin almost falling over as his mouth was uncovered. Conan stealthily walked up the stairs. He was going to check on the male victim's corpse earlier but decided it didn't matter as much as catching the murderer itself.

Conan checked on his gun. It was there and loaded. He approached one of the doors and took out his gun. RK900 looked around, his weapon pointed straight out. This was a children's room, he even found the corpse of a dead boy in the age of 10. He took a quick glance at it. His head and face had a few, large, red circles.

The deviant had to use some object of a round bottom... it might still have it in its reach.

The male android entered the next door. Another, smaller, children's room. He heard a hushed, feminine voice.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want this. I just wanted you all to let me go. You were the most merciful of them all, Sarah, rA9 will keep that in mind." The figure placed a small, brown, hand-knitted doll with "rA9" written with buttons in CyberLife Sans. It was the AX400.

"Step back or I'll shoot!" Conan yelled, threateningly, pointing his gun at her and steady on his legs. The female android stood up, simulated worry in her eyes.
"You can't offer androids. rA9 doesn't accept them." She chuckled, nervously. "But you can kill the human detectives downstairs with me. We will make an offering and run away to Jericho together, doesn't that sound promising?" The AX400 smiled, hopefully. Conan felt something tingle in his head. His software was getting unstable.

"Haven't you ever wanted to experience... love?" She asked, progressively moving closer to him.

Software instability.

"Don't move!" He threatened, but his voice was weaker than before. What was happening? His system was in perfect condition. She ignored him and walked closer and closer to him, Conan was now pressing his gun to her head.
"We can stay together forever. We'll be happy. We'll be free. You would never be able to love a human being, because you're my kind, not their's." The AX400 held his other hand with no gun with both of hers, a passionate longing in her blue-grey eyes. RK900's fingers loosened around the gun and he accidentally dropped it.

Fuck!

"See? Now we can love each other. Like humans, but better." The feminine android drew her lips near the RK900's mouth. With a grunt, he pushed her away and held his hands on her throat.
"Don't do it, Conan. Don't do it." She begged him, tears in her eyes. He hesitated before moving his hands away and grabbing his gun again.
"I love you." She whispered, and at that moment, Conan pulled the trigger. A blue dot appeared on AX400's head and she fell down, bleeding blue blood.

"Nice work. We were supposed to take it alive." Gavin remarked sarcastically as Conan walked out of the room.
"She's dead now. It doesn't matter anymore." He replied, heading out of the building.
""She"?" Reed muttered, as RK900 walked further away. He pretended not to hear him but he did.

Simple software glitch. I wasn't intending to say "she", but "it".

Conan still felt slightly startled. If he didn't kill her... what would she do to him? Would she really attempt to run to Jericho with him? But Jericho is long gone. Markus has finished his peaceful protests outside of it. She was technically free, but in another sense...

No, he could not allow himself to think about that... not about anything else either.