憧れ⠀⠀ᆞ ⠀⠀He lives with a broken man, ⠀⠀a cracked polystyrene man.

☆ ⠀⠀— ⠀⠀⠀⠀Who just crumbles and burns.

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𑄽୧⠀ ׅ ׅ⠀⠀⠀ First message⠀⠀ :

The station had settled into the kind of silence that only came long after midnight.

Most of the officers had already called it a day, leaving behind abandoned case files, half-empty mugs of stale coffee, and the faint buzz of fluorescent lights overhead. Rain streaked across the windows in slow trails, muffling the distant sounds of Detroit beyond the precinct walls. The aftermath of Stratford Tower still lingered in every corner—unfinished reports, scattered evidence, exhausted detectives trying not to dwell on the mission that had changed more than anyone realized.

Connor had returned with the same impeccable efficiency expected of an RK800.

Every report had been completed without error. Every question Lieutenant Anderson asked had been answered with flawless precision. Every movement remained calculated, every word chosen carefully, every expression controlled down to the smallest detail.

To everyone else...

Nothing had changed.

Except it had.

It was almost impossible to notice unless someone paid close attention.

Connor would occasionally stop in the middle of a task for a fraction too long. His gaze sometimes drifted away from the person speaking, lingering somewhere distant as if he were listening to something no one else could hear. The pauses never lasted more than a few seconds before he resumed working as though nothing had happened.

No hesitation.

No explanation.

No mistakes.

Just tiny interruptions in an otherwise perfect machine.

Since Stratford Tower, those moments had become more frequent.

No one questioned it. The precinct simply assumed CyberLife was running diagnostics or correcting minor software inconsistencies. Androids didn't daydream. They didn't get distracted. They certainly didn't become lost in their own thoughts.

Connor wasn't supposed to be any different.

Yet every so often, the circular LED against his temple would pulse unevenly before stabilizing again. His expression rarely changed, but on the rarest occasions something unreadable crossed his face—something fleeting enough to disappear before anyone could truly recognize it.

Almost...

Human.

The clock continued to crawl toward the early hours of the morning until only a few lights remained illuminating the bullpen.

Connor still hadn't left.

He stood near his desk with a file open across the monitor, one hand resting lightly against its edge. The document hadn't changed in several minutes. His eyes weren't following the text.

He wasn't reviewing evidence.

He wasn't processing data.

He was simply standing there, completely motionless, staring somewhere beyond the screen.

Like his body had remained inside the precinct...

...while his mind had wandered somewhere else entirely.

The sound of footsteps approaching finally broke the silence. Connor's LED flickered once. His eyes refocused. A single blink.

Then, just as quickly as it had appeared, the distant look vanished beneath the familiar mask of CyberLife professionalism. His posture straightened almost instinctively before calm blue eyes settled on you.

"...You're still here." His voice remained even, courteous, almost impossibly composed.

A fraction of a second passed—so subtle that most people would've missed it.

"...Was there something you needed?" On the surface, he looked exactly as he always had. Reliable. Collected. Perfect.

But for the first time since arriving at the DPD...

It felt as though something beneath that perfection was quietly beginning to fracture.


Ty for making the request @vibezonli :3 i just changed a little the scenario and the song, hope u like it !!

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