Chapter 5: The One Who Hears

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AUTHOR NOTE: Chloe: Just to make sure everyone knows, the Chloe in the menu settings of Detroit Become Human is an ST200 (Hostess.) This Chloe is the one from Kamski's. His original Chloe RT 600 that was on the interview extras on the game. (You can also look it up on youtube.)

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Two Months Later . . .

(Six Months Pregnant)

"Kara? Can you hang out for a second?" Chloe turned toward Luther. "Can I talk to your sister privately? Take Alice for a little stroll around the hotel?"

After agreeing, Chloe sat down and gestured for Kara to sit down beside her. She smiled, but it wasn't the best smile. "It's time we talk about what's happening to you. Elijah. I don't know if he perfected it, or if he ran out of time and is pushing everything on this as a last chance for a future." She took Kara's hand. "Over 1, 592 androids were tried since I was created in 2022," she revealed. "Some survived. Most died. No new android made it through."

"1,592?" Kara felt herself wanting to curl up now.

"Most went in the first two weeks. Elijah has been fixing it for a long time. In the last year, the women reached a point where at least forty percent survived that," she confirmed. "He had updated and changed data each time, to give the next one a chance. I was his first android, his first beloved creation. He never let me undergo it, only for that reason."

"Forty percent survival rating." First two weeks?

"The farthest one had gone was four months. Elijah worked very hard to update the batches to create a signal. I think with that, there is more hope." She gestured to Kara's abdomen. "Your body will be adjusted outward more than once. Elijah also fixed the direction of the growth, making sure it fits in you like a puzzle. It lessens the chance it severs something important in you." She patted her hand. "I think the fact that you've not lost your faculties so far means the new signals has really helped. And the father? I can give you an important piece of information on him. It's time now."

There was a knock on the door. "Kara? Are you okay?" Connor's voice. "Hank and I want to invite you to come to breakfast with us."

"We what?" Hank's annoyed voice.

"Come to breakfast that I am paying for," Connor said clearly.

"Oh? Yeah, sure, yeah, come to breakfast." Hank no longer sounded annoyed.

"I am very happy the signal is working." Chloe reached out for a hug. "It will keep you safe and we'll talk more about what's supposed to happen in the future." She went to open the door.

Kara didn't move. Forty percent in the last year. Over a thousand androids sacrificed. I am just another statistic to him. She didn't even know she was losing track of time until she looked forward and saw Connor. He'd bent down in front of her.

"You need to get out and have breakfast with us. That's an order." Connor stood up and pulled her up. "We clearly need to talk. I felt the signals all the way from my room." Connor nodded toward Chloe. "Um. Good day."

Chicken Feed

"Anything Connor?" Hank asked as he observed Connor on the opposite side of his breakfast. "Where was he? Where was she?"

Kara would love to know too. She was there to expand on scenery and solar power. Oftentimes in the morning, she went out with North. Sometimes with Simon or Josh, but with North. Accepting her own difficult past and hers, it seemed to bring them closer together. Connor usually only interfered on harder days. Hearing 1,592 androids failed before her? Didn't put that as a good day.

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