departures
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It’s different. “Connor”.
Bland.
Hank thought it had a stick up its ass before, but this is something else. Every morning it’ll greet him in that annoying synthetic lilt, all placid smiles and canned platitudes. It’s banned from the field, too, just so that Hank never gets a break from its scrawny silhouette in his periphery. Haunting the precinct like a plastic specter. Gone are the little smiles, the attitude he thought he’d caught glimpses of. No more weird-ass small talk. Figures it’d drop the human act now that the gig is up.
Still, it creeps him out. The way it’ll look at him sometimes — wide brown eyes with nobody in the driver’s seat. He’s pretty sure it used to blink.
(The android revolution falls to a bullet. Hank returns to work to a familiar face.)
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- Part 1 of departures
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Nearly two months into the aftermath of an unsuccessful android uprising, Hank plays a game of Russian Roulette with the unambiguous intention to lose. Connor deviates.
Afterwards, that is.
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(An alternate ending to "seventh hour: fourth orbit". Can be read as a standalone.)
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- Part 2 of departures