Programming

Coffee

You:

Its been a couple days since Connor got here and I've royally failed to ignore it. I've ended up spending less time with Hank because of it and I felt bad every time my ignoring Connor lead to ignoring Hank too since it followed him like a puppy. His cute little run after him and the way his eyes lit up when talking about murder and for some reason is always right around the corner. There were police from other precincts here today to share cases about deviants and find any correlations. Which meant coffee runs all day, right now, there was a giant meeting with at least 20 cops from all over and I was tasked to get alot of them different coffees and snacks. Rushing around the precinct awnsering emails and getting lattes while the androids at the front desk awnser calls and take in the rising number of reports, the lobby seemed to never be empty these days. I almost wondered if some of them were lying and just trying to get an upgraded android.

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Connor:

Hank was extra grumpy today. Causing my proccecors to work overtime to find out how to keep the peace. All the extra cops here today put him on edge. I said we were wasting time and should be out studying these crime scenes rather than talking about them but Hank said we had no choice. This room was crammed and I tried my best to stay out of the way but no matter where I was they kept getting upset.

"Out of the way tin can"

"Fuck you doin?" Another said

"'State of the art' huh?" Reed snickered

I was in the far back corner and finally decided I just needed to leave. There was no point in me being here, especially if nobody wanted me to be. I told Hank I was stepping out and tried to make my way through the crowd.

"Excuse me," after "excuse me," I cut through every body and I was almost out the door when Reed tripped me.

Making me fall directly into the familiar attractive human carrying a plate of coffees.

She yelped as I fell forward and I wrapped my arm around her waist to catch her before she hit the ground and then caught myself with the other arm. The tray hit my back with a loud twang and hot coffee spilled over my back, dripping down onto her beneath me, causing her to wince slightly as it burned her skin.

"Connor! You dumbass! Our coffee... " Reed whined.

"I'm so sorry, are you okay?" I said ignoring him and pulling us to a standing position, having to hold her up slightly as she was still in shock.

"I- uh, I... yea I'm okay. T-thank you, Connor." She softly touched the spot on her arms where the coffee hit her and winced. Now that we're standing I could see with a scan there were spots on her legs that were starting to become second degree.

"Let me help you with those burns. You need to cover them with ointment to avoid infection." I gestured towards the way to the bathrooms, where the first aid kit was but she was avoiding my gaze, staring at her arms and hands.

"Well I don't know, I think I'll be o-" she stopped mid sentence when her eyes finally found my gaze and sighed, turning away and slightly hiding her face behind her hair as she said "Okay."

"I'll let Karlee know the officers want coffee." I said as I grabbed her wrist and pulled her along, Sending karlee a message in my head as we speed walked down the hallways. I wondered what that look was in her eyes when it seemed she changed her mind. How did she make it seem as if time slowed?

Humans are so complicated.

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