Abomination

Last Chance, Connor

A/N: Okay so I had this chapter done a while ago but it got deleted by accident! I don't remember what I had written exactly so I was a bit upset that all that work was gone. :( I think that this is the best I could get it to what it was before the whole chapter was deleted. Also, this chapter mentions some heavy topics like suicide. I just want to warn anyone who may not want to read something about that. Besides that, I hope it's a good enough chapter.

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DATE

NOV 9TH, 2038

TIME

AM 12:05:23

THE TRIO FOUND THEMSELVES INSIDE OF NATALIE'S homey apartment. Thankfully, Ethan had yet to get home even though it was midnight. Natalie knew that his classes ended about an hour ago, but chalked up his absents to studying with peers or hanging out with friends. Really it was a miracle that he wasn't there. Though it gave her the opportunity to talk to Hank and Connor about her past without him there. Sure, it would be good to have her brother there for moral support. However, she wanted to be strong and not have a crutch to lean on. This was her story to tell, and she wanted to do it on her own.

She had made sure to get herself as comfortable as possible in the living room. She insisted that the man and android did the same because they were going to be there for a while. Her explanation was going to a lengthy one.

Natalie sat herself down on the love seat in the living room. She wrapped her arms around her knees that she had drawn up into her chest. Her bottom lip was pulled in between her teeth as she stared at her two friends.

Hank was nursing a beer, which Natalie had gotten him because she knew he needed it. He stared at her with calculating eyes. The older man had been keeping himself closed off ever since he walked into the apartment. Only a few words were shared, and Natalie was unsure what to make of it. So as she huddled up on the couch with the inquisitive eyes of both Hank and Connor, she decided it was time to start her long, long explanation.

"Let me start off by saying that yes, Elijah Kamski is my cousin. My dad is Noah Kamski, obviously his uncle." She let a sharp breath escape her lips. That was probably the easiest thing that she could say, things were certainly going to go downhill from here. "My dad died when I was about four and my mother, Marian, remarried a few years after that." She cringed at the thought of her brute of a step-father, Ronald Tyler. God, does she hate that man.

Connor nodded thoughtfully at that information and was now able to connect the picture that he saw the last time he was in Natalie's apartment. Even though he was an android, he couldn't imagine what it must have been like to live a life without a father. Considering he wasn't created the same way a human is, he never really had the connection of a father. Though even though Natalie had stated that her father had died while she was very young, he was able to see the pain in her eyes at the mention of him. Something glitched in his circuits as he gazed at the saddened woman. The android couldn't tell why it happened, or what really caused it, however, he certainly didn't like the upset expression on her face.

"I have three half-siblings, including Ethan." She continued on at the silence of both her friends. "I was the one in my family who excelled in science and math which explains how Elijah and I worked together on androids. Eventually, we co-created the first android to pass the Turing test, but I let him claim it as his own." She dared to glance at Hank and saw he had yet to really indicate what he was thinking about and that scared Natalie slightly. She continued, "I went to college for physics and started doing some mundane research." She paused for a second as her throat started to tighten up. "There was an accident a few years ago in my lab... I got seriously hurt." Natalie couldn't bring herself to say that she had basically been killed that fateful day. That piece of information was one that she would keep to herself for now. After all, even though they had been through a lot with each other and she has lied a bit to them, Natalie still believes that she's entitled to her own secrets.