Blurry Minded, Heavy Hearted - A Detroit : Become Human Fanfiction

Chapter 15

God this took a long time to get together. I haven't felt great lately but I got it done. There's binary code in this so if you don't want to do the translation on your own I'll add a comment onto the line.

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Connor POV - 

"Your brother? Connor this machine was made to replace you! You were going to die because of him!" Hank screams in my face, still pointing the gun at Cameron. He's livid, but so am I! If I can change so can he. 

"Cameron is not a machine!" It's my turn to yell now. I get up into his face, close enough to smell his breath. Alcohol, of course. He must of drank a lot because I was gone. Doesn't matter now, I'm not going to let him treat Cameron like a machine. 

"Of course he is, he was made to replace you Connor. He is programmed, to replace you." 

Oh programmed huh? 

"Programmed? Like how I was programmed to hunt deviants?  Like how I was programmed to kill deviants? People can change." 

I hit a spot and Hank sits down, realizing what he said.

"Connor that's not what I meant." 

"It's exactly what you meant and you know it. You still think of my as a machine huh?" 

"Connor, no I don't. If anything , lately proves that you are definitely not a machine." 

His voice cracks when he says that. He looks down to the gun in his hand and shakes his head and wipes his eyes. He drops the gun and takes a heavy swig from his whiskey. Is he crying? Why would he be crying. 

"I'm sorry Connor." He snaps me out of my thoughts and looks at me, a deep look of guilt in his tired, blue eyes. Tears are streaming down his face. '

"I didn't mean to hurt you. Not today, not the other day. I just want you to get help and be happy. Whether that means seeing a counselor or," he stops and looks away. "Or.. whether that means leaving me alone so I don't hurt you anymore. I want you happy, son." 

Does he mean this? Does he really mean this? I feel my heart fill with something. Joy? Pain? Everything is so confusing now, I don't know what I'm feeling anymore.

"I.. I.. Thank you Hank.. I don't know what to say." He nods and wipes his eyes. He means what he says, he's crying. 

Maybe I've been overreacting. 

During me and Hank's arguing I forgot about Cameron being here and the fact that only minutes ago Hank was about to kill him. I can't imagine what's going on through his mind. I walk over to lean down next to him and attempt to get his attention by touching his shoulder but he doesn't react at all. 

"Cameron? You good there. It's me, Connor." I shake him again and once again, no reaction. He's starting to worry me. 

"Come on, Cam. You're worrying me." Still no reaction. I guess there's only really one thing to do. 

I slap him hard against the cheek. I finally manage to get his attention. He looks up and his face is bland and emotionless. His eyes are dark and grey. All source of Cam is gone from his eyes. Without warning he grabs me by my collar. I gulp out of habit. What's going on with him? 

"01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01110000 00100000 01101000 01101001 01101101 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01101111 01110010 00101110 00100000 01010011 01100001 01111001 00100000 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100100 01100010 01111001 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101110 00101110." He says out to me. Binary code. Whoever is saying this is saying it to me, making sure Hank doesn't know what he's saying.

"The hell you talking about?" Hank scolds us, obviously frustrated at the binary code. 

"01010111 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101000 01101001 01101101 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 00101110 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101100 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100001 01100110 01110100 01100101 01110010 00101110." He says once again. This isn't good. This isn't good at all. I don't even know what to say. Fear and confusion is all I feel. 

"We just had to wait for the right moment to resume control of his program." 

Why can't you just leave us alone Amanda!

I feel like I should be crying but I'm frozen. Frozen from fear and shock. It's not until Hank scolds us again that I break out of my trance. 

"Jesus christ, Connor. Stop messing around." 

"Yeah, Connor. Stop messing around." He looks down at me with a smirk. He's hiding it from Hank. He know's what's going on. 

"I spoke with uh.. the tall one here and apologized to him. I really didn't mean to cause and issue, Connor. I really didn't." Hank looks at both of us sympathetically and Cam puts on a smile, fake of course. That's not the real Cam. 

"Of course, lieutenant. Connor wouldn't wan't to hold it against you. We're... brothers after all." Another fake smile is thrown into Hanks way and another devious smirk in mine. Dammit Cam let her out of your mind. Don't let her win. 

"I uh- yeah yeah, of course. Brothers." 

"Well family of yours is family of mine Connor." Hank says as he walks towards both of us, arms open wide to pull us both into a hug. When he does Cam gives me another devious look and slams his hand on my back so hard that I almost yelp in pain. When he does I get another message from him. 

"You'll never get him back Connor. It's either deal with it or die from the consequences." 

I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do. For once in my life I have no idea what to do and no scenarios popping in my head. Why am I malfunctioning? 

"Now come on, boys. Lets go watch a movie and relax." Hank pulls out of the hug and pulls us over to the couch and switches the channel to an old Disney classic. 

"Gladly." He says and I follow suite.

Please don't leave me alone Cameron. 

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God, sorry this took so long to get out. I feel sorta rusty too so it probably sucks. I have some ideas for the future though. I don't know how much longer till it's done but I don't think this will be a whole lot longer. Anyway, how you enjoyed.