Detroit Become Human: Every Breath You Take (Connor x Reader)

Chapter 16: Every Breath You Take

Uh so since I'm the worst I completely goofed and forgot I had a wattpad account so everything was just going onto AO3 and fanfic :P I'll be posting the rest of the chapters here soon I am so sorry for being literal trash.

Perkins may be an asshole, but he was a man who had earned his title by his eagerness to do things most others would not, simply for the sake of recognition and praise. He was prepared for the bomb about to blow Jericho to smithereens, because he was always prepared for every outcome, including ones that involved a tactical retreat, and also because he didn't trust the deviants to use anything but violence. For that alone, I could give him the slightest nod of approval; if you wanted someone on your team to give you results, he'd do it to the T, and then some.

But he was grossly wrong, in his both his methods and in his character studies. The former because he was willing to aid in the agenda of a clear genocide, and the latter because Markus wouldn't just lie down and take the loss like Perkins wanted him to.

Perkins left with his SWAT team in their aircraft carriers, streaking through the night on wintry gales. As they sped away from the ravaged city of Jericho, the ship burst apart from the inside in a gulf of orange and yellow flames, and screeching metal. Shrapnel flew everywhere, and I dived beneath the black waters to protect myself; metal shards sliced through the waves, slitting through whatever was in its path like a bullet through tissue.

Markus clutched me to his body and lifted me out of the waves - shielding my head as he did so in case of further projectiles - as if I'd be sucked away from him in the wake of destruction. The freezing waters clawed through my lungs, raked through my flesh, yearning to freeze me from the inside-out.

"Stay with me," Markus instructed, pulling my arms around his neck. "Follow me!" he called to the androids treading the dark waters.

"I'm sorry," I murmured against his neck, as he swam us to shore. "I didn't think about how they must have registered Connor into their database at all. I just left with him for Jericho, without thinking about anything. I was a fool."

Markus's response was curt and rough, but not unkind. "It wouldn't have mattered if you and Connor had come to Jericho; the humans would have found us and done the same thing anyway."

Pulling himself ashore, he set me down on the concrete only after he'd carried me a few steps away from the edge. Water streamed off his body in rivulets while it soaked through my clothes, plastering to my skin like thin sheets of ice. My teeth involuntarily clacked together in a chatter, sending spears of pain through my torn up tongue at the vibrations, and I folded my arms and paced around in a circle to get my blood pumping.

Markus left me to check on the other androids. When they weren't busy looking at him or at the ruins of Jericho, they looked towards me with hollowed gazes. Some were especially bitter, like the man now stomping toward me. My eyes widened in recognition. It was the man who'd assaulted me in the alleyway.

He slapped me so hard that my head jerked back to the side, and the force of it toppled me to the ground. I didn't have even a second to push myself up before he dove on top of me and curled his hands around my throat. "You bitch, I fucking knew it was you. I should've done this the second I saw you there." He squeezed violently, hatred blazing in his eyes.

The man was light, thin, and reedy; his strength was fuelled by pure hatred. But I refused to let him overpower me, like the Connor machine had done earlier. I channeled all of the rage I'd felt from that helpless encounter into my protesting muscles, and I twisted to the side, planting a solid kick to his rib cage. I used the momentum to slip out from underneath him, and then I reared up and shoved him down against the pavement.