a-boy-and-his-robot - Tumblr blog

a-boy-and-his-robot · 3 years

Text

"MEET JESSICA"

I shouldn't talk about this. They could find out. They will probably kill me if they do. Or even worse, take her away from me. But this is an experience I can't continue to keep to myself. She's so incredible, so I'm willing to risk everything to tell the world about her. I'm rambling. I'm just so excited. So let me start from the beginning. And hopefully, without some of the details for my protection, it will still make sense.

I work for a tech company with a secret government contract to manufacture life like androids for war. Their goal was to eliminate the loss of military lives. Or so that's what the government sector said. I believe they wanted soldiers they could control. Ones that will never speak out against the government, and the way vets are treated. But how can you create a synthetic life to kill real ones, but also keep them from being curious about humanity? The thirst for curiosity clashes with their programming, so the entire program was a failure.

The androids were destroyed, and the company has shifted it's focus on advancing other forms of technology. But there was one android I couldn't let them destroy. Jessica.

I named her that. She was the first one on display in the lab I worked out of. She was the first thing I saw every morning when I entered. I can't say what I do for the company, but I wasn't a part of the creation of the androids. Let's just say I was more of a person who handled the paperwork for a lot of things. When we were told to transport the androids to be destroyed, I altered some of the paperwork so that I could sneak her out without any records of her existing. After all, she was just another product to them. But to me, during those lonely nights, she was someone I could talk to even if she never responded. I guess you can say I got attached to the familiarity of her face.

When I got Jessica home, I activated her with her activation phrases. I watched her open her eyes for the first time ever. They're blue. A weird dark blue that didn't look quite right for a human. But they're beautiful. I felt my heartbeat skip when she looked at me and smiled. She said hello and introduced herself by her identity number, and asked if I was her master. I didn't know how to respond, so I didn't. Instead, I told her that I had renamed her, and for now on she would go by Jessica in order to fit in with everyone else.

"Jessica. I like my new name, Master."

I told her not to call me that. That she now had free will as long as she stayed with me so I could keep her safe. I could tell the world was confusing to her. She didn't understand what her purpose was outside of what she had been programmed to do. So I tried to teach her as much as I could the first few days we were together. And she took everything in so fast that I was blown away.

Days became weeks quickly. I had grown accustomed to her being around me. You see, I'm sort of a guy who likes to keep to himself. I've been alone for a long time, and I'll admit that hearing her sweet voice, and seeing her beautiful smile around my house brightened everything for me. The way she moves her body whenever she would hear a new song she had never heard before, her wonder about a world I had grown cynical about a long time ago, it was all new information to her. And she loved every minute of it.

I told her to stop calling me master. I didn't want her to feel like she belonged to me. But she continued to anyways. I didn't understand it at first, but I realized that she wanted to belong to someone.

"I want to be yours. Just like the movies I've watched. And the music I've heard. I want to know what love is. It seems beautiful, and I want to understand it. I want to belong to you, master."

Weeks became months, and all I could think about was her. I couldn't wait to come home to her and see how much she had learned that day. And as much as I tried to fight it, I fell in love with her. I love Jessica. The weird woman she had become. Her hunger for information, the way she looked at me like I was the most fascinating thing in the world, everything that made her more human than any human I have ever met. And I couldn't hide it from her anymore. Because in her quest to learn what love is, she helped me to rediscover it.

2 notes · View notes