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Some talks are just long overdue...

Who: Adell, Charlotte, Luka
What: Post-Event Reactions
When: Super-Backdated to "Way The Hell Back To the Day After The Love Event."
Where: House 44, Adell's room
Summary: As the morning breaks after the Malnosso's experiment wears off, there's going to be a number of things to deal with between three people...
Rating: PG-13, probly.

[The morning came much like any others, the sun inauspiciously shining in through Adell's window. He was still in bed, asleep, resting happily and calmly. Though he wasn't alone...]

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...Like what? [Okay she's awake now- ..Oh, naked. Okay, she reaches and grabs some covers to better cover herself, but aside from that she just looks between the two]

You tying me here. Really, could you untie me? This is getting uncomfortable.

[Ignoring Adell's comment. She knows that "something" happened. She knows what happened. She knows why. And she wants to get out of here, she really doesn't need to be chained while Charle and Adell realize what happened and get angry. It would be the worst humiliation and hurt she could get... She really doesn't want to go through this, thus she keeps fighting with the leash.]

[Adell goes back to trying to untie her.]

Don't tug on it like that, Luka. I think you're just making it tighter. ...How the hell did you tie it like this, Charle?

[Adell focuses for a moment as he continues to speak. At the very least, he's working to untie her while he's doing so.]

I think... I think we were all subject to another experiment by the Malnosso.

[...And if it means anything, Adell's remaining pretty calm while talking about it.]

Charle, can you give me a hand with this? I don't know what you did here...

Oh...! Oh, sorry. [She giggles and slides to the edge of the bed, still keeping the covers about herself. She waves for Luka to come a little closer so she can undo it. After all, it's just a simple knot!]

Come here, I'll get it.

[Luka is just... Going to remain silent, she has nothing to say after all. She just wants to get out of here and forget it ever happened. Forget she ever did it.

She approaches Charle as instructed and waits.]

[Adell glances over to watch Charle begin work on freeing Luka. His blush still hasn't quite faded. This is... a little embarrassing, but all things? He's very comfortable around both of them.]

I think what they did to us was like... what happened last year. Made us fall in love? Though they used a tree instead of a fountain.

[He pauses.]

...Well, even if that was an experiment, that could've gone a lot worse, I think. I'm not happy that they messed with our heads again, but... really. Of all people we could've been affected with, at least it was with each other, right?

[His tone's actually even, calm. Any annoyance isn't directed at either of them, and in fact... his tone is actually... warm?]

[Charlotte makes a little sound of confirmation as she keeps with the untying of the knot and- there. Much quicker than anyone would think it should be. But yes, there we are, done! She smiles]

Yes, it's a relief.

[A great fucking relief. Because this is exactly what she would have preferred, because this isn't bad at all, this isn't a failure from her or whatever. No sir, it could have been worse, much worse, the fact that she can't even imagine what could have been even equally bad to this shit doesn't mean it's the worst thing to happen, right?

Honestly it takes a lot from her to not be snappish and sarcastic, but it really would do nothing to help the situation. She notices Adell's tone being calm and all but it doesn't matter. He may be hot-tempered but not so much that he would snap right at that situation or anything. Even if he may not be angry at her it doesn't mean he approves or accepts what happened. And she really doesn't want to wait to check what it is.

Which is obvious by the way she bolts to the door as soon as Charle unties the knot. Don't expect her to stop voluntarily until she's at a good distance from them and this house.]

Luka?!

[Well, it's a good thing Adell had the idea to lock that door for the sake of... privacy last night. As soon as Luka bolts for the door, Adell's suspicions are all but confirmed. But with the door locked, the door has no give when Luka goes for the handle.

And the second or two she would need to unlock it is all Adell needs to be able to intercept her and keep her from escaping by holding the door shut.]

[Yeah, she was definitely trying to get away from them. To flee, given her efforts. That much was blatantly obvious; Luka didn't simply bolt from rooms without some sort of explanation.]

...Luka. You don't have to run from us. Talk to me.

[His voice is calm and reassuring, but serious as well.]

-Luka?! Why are you running?

[She says with a bit of an alarmed blink. They're so... active. It is way too early in her day for you guys to running around and doing things]

[She should have taken into account the possibility of the door being locked. But she was too focused in getting out and not enough in the "how", so she went for the handle first, forgetting the lock. As a result, she lost valuable seconds that allowed Adell to catch up on her.

It had been a stupid mistake on her part. But she won't bulge, she still tries to overpower him, to open the door and flee even if it's useless. Her hands remain on the handle, gripping it tightly and with all her strength, ready to bolt the door open and get out of there. But that's the only signal of emotion in her body. She gives Adell a blank look, devoid of emotion or any feeling, with empty eyes that reflect nothing but what they are looking at.]

There's nothing I have to talk to you about, Master Adell.

[It's a screaming contrast, the way her body remains tensed, hands on the handle, ready to flee. But the face and voice remain empty, expressionless, robotic like never before.]

[He sees the discrepancy in her actions, let alone in how robotic her voice is. He knows this tactic of hers by now. It's how she runs, how she hides when she's afraid. She's lying, she's being defensive. She's scared out of her mind.

His tone grows more gentle, more reassuring. He doesn't want her to panic any more than she already has.]

Luka... please. You don't have to be afraid. Please, don't run from me?

[That's not an order. He's not begging either. But rather instead asking it as an equal, as someone without superiority, as someone who is genuinely concerned for the other.]

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...Why is she running at all though? [She's still just... confused over here. Her tone shows it. You two are being so weird]

I'm not afraid... "don't run", is that an order?

[Nooot moving or changing her tone. If she can't run away physically she will do this. She doesn't even blink as Charlotte talks or when she answers.]

This unit considered appropriate to allow its Masters privacy for the rest of the morning.

[It's a way of putting it. She doesn't belong there anyway so...]

[Now that sort of talk is what makes him start losing his patience. He's not going to snap at her, but rather his voice will grow more firm. He's not going to coddle you over everything, and insulting your sense of self by not using "I" in that situation really irks him. He's not fond of being lied to either.]

"This unit?" Really?

Luka, drop the robotic response crap. I know you're an android and not human. But you've said it yourself that you have a sense of self and a mind of your own. Don't try to roll back to that, it's not going to help solve anything. Besides... I don't think you were originally programmed to lie. [He glances over to Luka's deathgrip on his door handle, looking at every artificial muscle in her arms tensed.] You look terrified to me.

[A sigh. Time to go back to trying to diffuse this.]

I won't force you to talk. But Luka, as your friend and as someone who cares about you... you've got me worried about you. I don't want you to be afraid of me or Charle.

Um, don't run is an order from me though!

[She chimes in here, now more completely awake. Adell can do the sympathetic - she can too, of course, but that silly boy isn't going to be forceful enough because he's way too nice to girls. She can fell it already. This is why he face (despite her pulling the covers over herself and being naked) is getting serious]

[She doesn't want to be coddled, she wants to get away from there. Anyway she snaps at him as he talks.]

If you're that worried about me, let me out now! That's all I want.

[Charle's voice makes her tense again and she looks at her and then at the handle that she still has in a dead grip. For a moment considering just ignoring everything and keep running but... She lets the handle go, but doesn't relaxes a bit, she seems ready to bolt again or at least as if expecting to be hit or something.]

I'm not afraid. I just want to get out.

[The snapping is an improvement over acting robotic, at least. And it means he's on the right track. When she releases the door handle, he himself relaxes just a little. Progress, maybe?]

...But why? I've never seen you like this.

...Is it because of the experiment, Luka?

-There was an experiment?

[She frowns, thinking back. Well, the tree. ...The tree but is there more? HMM.]

The whole past week has been under the effect of an experiment, Charle.

[She... Chooses to ignore Adell because it's an stupid question anyway.]

And it made the three of us all fall in love for each other. Best as I can figure.

[Calmly stated, but putting the pieces into place. Adell leans back against the door, and rubs his hand through his hair. Yeah. It was all because of this.]

Oh.

[...Oh. That's... weird. She looks at Luka and then at Adell and then at Luka]

...I still love Adell though.

[She clarifies before anything else]

Because you loved him from before the experiment started. That was real, but everything else was fa-... It was just the product of the experiment.

[She was going to say fake. But the word tasted like a lie in her mouth so she changed it and focused on them towards her rather than the other way around. She's their android, a "friend", nothing more, nothing less and she's happy with that role. She has no place in romantic dates or snuggling times, those belong only to them.]

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