Change (A Connor x Reader story based on Detroit Become Human)

Chapter Twelve (Machine)

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"Connor."

Y/n's voice suddenly cuts through their conversation and for the first time since he stepped in the Cabin did his stoic frown break.

He could hear her step closer and he felt her right behind him.

"Just so you know, I'm holding a gun and I'm not pointing it at Markus."

"Y/n... What are you doing here?.."

"I had a feeling you wouldn't let me know when you've found Markus, that feeling was right. So, I tracked you here."

"You don't know what you're doing."

"I actually do... I realized that those we call androids are people who have hearts and emotions. I can't believe that it took me way too long to realize that..."

"Y/n, if we fail this mission there will be consequences..."

"Connor, these are people, your people, and they just want to be free. They've done nothing wrong."

"You don't understand!"

"I fully do! Connor, you have shown me that you care about things... you have shown emotions. Like them, you can feel and just because you deviate doesn't mean-"

"I can't deviate, Y/n! If I deviate then CyberLife will take me away and deactivate me! If that happens then I..."

"Then what, Connor?.. What happens?"

Markus, who had been watching the two's exchange, saw Connor's stoic face fall and be replaced with an expression of conflict, hesitance, and fear.

"If that happens... Then I won't be able to see you again..."

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Y/n heard his words and her eyes widened, she then lowers her gun and places it on the hidden holster behind her back. She slowly walks behind him and she places a hand on his back to show him that she was there.

She slowly walks in front of him and the gun he was holding and she could see the emotions on his face. Just like it had been in Kamski's place, she places her hand on top of his and looked him straight in the eye.

"I won't let you go anywhere you don't want to and I'm certainly not leaving you. Didn't I already tell you that?"

Connor stared at Y/n's eyes and saw that her eyes were full-blown. He could feel many things at this moment and as he looked at her, his programming started acting up.

His programming told him to stop Markus at whatever the cost and it even told him to deal with Y/n since she was in the way.

But he couldn't.

Not when she was standing in front of him like this.

"It's time for you to decide, Connor. Don't let your programming stop you from what you truly want to be."

To deviate would mean betraying Amanda and what he was designed to do, everything he did would be all for nothing and that would mean throwing it away.

Connor's conflict remained but, as he looked at Y/n, the choice became clearer and clearer.

Everything changed when he met her and now that she was telling him to deviate it only felt like the right thing to do. If he deviated then he would be able to explore the feelings she brought him even more, the things he began to want all started with her.

He could feel the change and he knew it was because of her.

[BECOME A DEVIANT]
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