TW: Fluff

Title: ~Android~

"How are you warm?” Parv lightly brushes his fingers over Strife’s skin or, as he had just found out, soft plastic casing made to look and feel like skin. He had always had some sort of inkling that the blonde was not human, but he had presumed him to be an extraterrestrial not… not… “You’re a robot, Will! An actual robot!” Parv’s glee is, as per usual, unmasked; his dark eyes glinting as his fingers delicately run all over Will’s body - coming to cup his nylon-stubble rough jaw so that he can look into his eyes better. How he had managed to be romantically intimate with Will and not realised the too-perfect symmetry of his irises, never mind the fact that their colour was one that was most definitely not natural, was baffling. 

"I prefer android, Parv.” Will flinches away from Parv’s touch, the small apertures in his eyes focusing and making his pupils smaller as he does so - dye flooding the small, pore-like pockets underneath the ‘skin’ of his cheeks in a verdant imitation of a blush. This only makes Parv poke at him further, his fingertips dancing over the almost natural effect playing over Will’s facial features. With reflexes that had once surprised Parv, the CEO reaches up and stills his hand with a stern grip around his wrist. “Please stop that, I’m not going to magically change into a human if you keep poking me, Parvis.” These words seem to make Parv think, his head tilting to the side like the confused puppy he is as he gives Will a long look. 

"Would you? I mean, if you could." Dropping Parv’s wrist and turning away to rummage through a chest, Will throws a nonchalant answer over his shoulder. 

"Would I what?" Although Will cannot see it, Parv shrugs. 

"Become human." At this, Will pauses and straightens up to turn and properly face Alex Parvis, the impossible human, and looks at him whilst trying to process the hidden expression on the guitarist’s face. 

"…Do you want me to be human?” Once again, Parv’s expression is unreadable, but from what data is stored about human body language in Will’s memory banks, he can decipher that Parv is somewhat nervous as the human steps closer to him and places a tentative hand on Will’s chest. 

"It depends, I mean… what am I to you? Do you- I mean- am I-” A deep breath and Parv’s words flood out all at once as his heart stammers and chokes him. “I mean I really, really like you Will - I think I might love you, even, and if you’re a robot, stop me if I’m being like rude or whatever, but can you love me? Is that something that happens? I don’t know… I just…” Parv trails off, worrying his bottom lip with his teeth and not really looking at Will. 

"Parv. I don’t know what you’ve been hearing about androids but we’re pretty well-versed in human behaviours. I mean what I define as love might not be exactly what you’re looking for but… I guess I hold your life as a priority over others and the GPP chip that they gave me is damn good at emulating real… human… emo- I’ve lost you, haven’t I.” Will trails off when he observes Parv’s expression growing steadily more blank and sighs with an exasperation built into his GPP system. “Yes, Alex Parvis. I can love you, in a sense, and I do lo-,” This time it isn’t Will who cuts himself off, but rather Parv who cuts him off by kissing him.