We are machines (Reed900 fanfic)

The Accident

RK900 pov:

We were heading to our new case while i was summing up the file to detective Reed that Fowler had gave me earlier this morning. I suddenly received a notification.

Sender: Car traffic security system.

Object: perturbation on the xx street

Cause: car suddenly reported defective which has lead to a crash.

Possible damage: destruction of component xx and xx. High probability of car's autodestruction.

Risks: number of civilians in the calculated explosion perimeter is evaluated to xx. Level of danger evaluated to stage 3.

My teammate was still going through the file. In 17 seconds, i alerted the urgencies and reprogrammed our itinerary.

-Detective Reed, i must inform you that i just received a message from the car security system reporting a car accident on the xx road. I thus decided to bypass it and warned the competent authorities.

-What ? Why ?

-... Could you please be more specific, or must i assume that you are asking me why i warned the authorities ?

-Why do we need to bypass it, u stupid machine ! We should intervene given the fact that we are the closest !

-Given our police attributions and priorities i think it may be best if we-

-What was the indicated risks ?

-High level of 3.

He chuckled.

-Change our destination, we are heading there.

I frowned, not understanding why he needed to go there.

-I must insist that-

-Have u got dirt in your plastic ears ? I said we are going there. No objection.

I stayed silent then reprogrammed the GPS for the second time.

-I do not understand. Would you mind explaining me your intentions, detective ?

He gave me that look on his face, that i saw each time i seem to ask an obvious question.

-What reason would i need other than protecting the people ? Police officers are here to maintain order, but first and foremost, to protect people from danger, to prevent innocent lives from being taken needlessly. And i intend to fulfill my job.

My led spuned yellow then blue.

It's true that the detective Reed had always been a serious and competent cop. Despise the fact that he doesn't care about androids life or motive most of the time, which wasn't strange at all. After all, we are just the same as computers. And even though, he used to say that some people out there just deserved to die and wouldn't put much effort in investigation. He would still, no matter the situation, put his life's importance after the people's. And even though it bothered me... a lot for some classified reason, i still thought it was admirable.

He then asked me a couple of details about the car crash and we arrived in 13 minutes. As soon as the detective had flipped his seat to get out of the car, i received an utterly worrying warning. Although i was too late to hold him back. I rushed out, led going bright red when i saw him near the crash zone.