She was thirsty. So thirsty that her tongue stuck to the roof of her mouth. Also her head hurt like mad she thought it will fell apart any minute. Her body was sore and she didn't want to move at all. This was worse than any hangover she had ever experienced.

Elis opened her eyes, discovering she was not in her apartment but in a white and blue hospital room. She slowly looked around and saw another five beds and three patients there with her. Two were sleeping, one woman was sitting and reading a book.

A horrible stench of medical chemicals made its way to her nose, making her sneeze and cough.

The lady in the bed opposite her looked up and when she saw Elis awake she stood up, took her stand with drip bag and moved next to her.

"How do you feel?" she asked when she appeared above Elis. She was unable to speak so she only showed her OK sign and tried to sit up. It was like she started a firework up in her head. Everything went red and she fell back to the pillows.

"Oh dearie please do not try to move. You had a mild concussion and a broken skull, you have to take a few days to rest." the woman said, covering Elis with blankets and tucking her in.

"My robot?" asked Elis silently. Making words was almost as painful as sitting up so she tried to speak as soft as she could.

"What robot, dearie?" asked the woman "the doctors said nothing about any robots but ask them when they came to check you. They will be here any minute."

As she was speaking the door to the room opened and three doctors entered. Two of them moved to the sleeping patients, controlling their monitors and changing drip bags while the last one came to Elis and the woman.

"Good morning lady. How are you today?" he asked the woman beside her bed, clicking his pen above the desks with paper and giving her a nice smile.

"Oh doctor Loughin, nice to see you again!" blushed the woman when she saw that handsome doctor. "I was just keeping this poor girl company." she pointed at Elis who was lying in her bed trying not to move an inch.

Doctors blue eyes moved to Elis "and how about you, lady? How do you feel?"

Elis gave him a thumb up, then the pain came back and she frowned and turned the thumb down.

"I see you are still in a lot of pain. It looks like we have to give you a stronger painkillers," he quickly wrote prescription on the paper.

Elis tried to speak and ask about her lost robot, but thankfully the lady beside her was quicker. "She asked about some robot. Do you know anything about it?"

The doctor was shaking his head, trying to remember. Then he asked "you had one of those M-bots with you, lady?"

Elis slowly and carefully nodded.

"I think I heard something about it from our ambulance crew. I am pretty sure they said the robot was pretty damaged so that guys from the robotic company took it with them. I am sure they will repair it and you will have it back in no time," he gave her an encouraging smile.

"And you, my dear lady!" he pointed at the woman beside Elis "you are not allowed to leave your bed so back now!" he said that in a good way so the lady giggled and scuttled back in her own bed. With that the doctors left.

*******

Matt visited Elis the day after. They called him since he was the closest relative and he was the only one who could help Elis get home safely.

He picked her up in the morning with many questions on what happened and how he can help her to feel better. She was still a little bit shaken up but the doctors send her home since she was healing fast. Her headache was gone since she was on a heavy painkillers and she had to lay in bed for at least a week more. Matt called in her work, explaining what happened.

Traveling with him was a pain in Elise's ass. Matt did not shut up the whole way home in the cab and her mouth and throat was still a bit sore so she mostly communicated with nodding. He helped her into her apartment and led her to bed. Then he guarded her flat for the rest of the day, disturbing her every time to ask if she needs anything.

The next day Elis had enough strength to get up from her bed and take a bath. She was cleaned by the doctors while she was unconscious but she still noticed a faint smell of a rotten trash. A hot water made her muscles to relax and finally get some good mood in. She still has to call the Google company about M and she was so worried about his faith she could not sleep properly the last night.

She slowly clean her hair trying not to touch the stitches behind her left ear and then she dried herself up. She found some clean clothes and made her way in the living room. Matt was sleeping on the sofa, libs tossed left and right, head tilted back, drooling all over himself.

Elis took her phone and silently went in the kitchen to make herself some breakfast and call the Google during it.

She found the phone number and first who greeted her was a pre recorded voice: "please stand by, other customers called before you. We are doing our best to connect you with the first free employee. Please stand by." said a soft woman voice followed by a waiting music.

Elis was cooking, phone holding on her ear by her shoulder. Suddenly the music stopped and a real man's voice introduced himself.

"Hello, my cousin's robot was taken for a repair two days before and my cousin is too dumb to call you by himself. Can you tell me how is the repair going?"

"Give me a name of your cousin, miss," asked the employee on the other side.

"Matthew Fredrick."

"Give me a minute, miss, I will search for the robot you are looking for." his voice accompanied a clicking sound of a computer. "I see. His M-bot is currently unavailable. It was really badly damaged and it is in the workshop right now. I believe we will send it back at his place during one week."

"Thank you for your help. We will wait then." Elis smiled. Her M will be ok. That is a wonderful news.

"I see your phone number and we will send you a message when and in what time it will be delivered to your cousin. Do you have anything else to ask?"

"No, that will be everything Thank you very much!"

"Have a nice day and goodbye." he hanged.

******

Elis enjoyed her stay at home since she had to recover from her injury. She send Matt to get groceries and she spend most of her free time on the sofa wrapped in a blanket and looking at the TV, reading or listening music. Her head was healing rapidly and her stitches were removed after a few days.

That day she came from the hospital from removing stitches her phone rang. It was an sms from Google. They send the repaired M-bot to them and it will be at Matt's place today. Elis jumped with joy and hurried to her cousin's flat. She then waited with him on the package during the whole day.

In the evening the doorbell rang.

"I think it is them. I will go get it" smiled Matt and opened the front door. Disinterested delivery guy just handed Matt a small thin package and left.

"That's something else. We are waiting for an M-bot." sniffed Elis and put her chin back in her hands.

"That's it! They are shipping them in this tiny boxes. I know, I am as amazed as you, cous." smiled Matt and put the box on the floor.

The lid immediately popped open and an M-bot spring out. He had the same blue shirt, black pants, glasses and a greasy hair as before when they unpacked him for the first time. He turned to Matt. "Hello," he said with an omniscient smile on his face.

"M!" yelped Elis and jumped around his neck.

The robot looked at her confusingly and slowly shook her off. Then he turned at Matt again.

"I am pretty sure they reinstalled his settings," said Matt.

"So he does not remember me?" Elis frowned. This was not her M as before, but maybe she can make him to remember everything they did together.

"I will rename him and give him to you as before." Matt took the new manual that came with the M-bot and gave him a new name "M" and command to change the owner from Matt to Elis.

The robot turned at Elis with mechanical movements. Elis was quite uneasy when she looked at him. Ok, maybe he has to take some time to remember and act naturally since he was put in his original settings. Kinda like a laptop after a reinstall.

"Fine, so let's go home." said Elis and gestured M to follow her. He walked behind her like a tin soldier.

They get to her flat in an awkward silence. Elis unlocked the door and let M in the hall.

"I recommend a charging station for night," he said, turning at her.

Elis was confused "you used to sit in that armchair overnight." she gestured at the comfy chair in the bookcase corner.

M nodded "do you request something for me today?"

"No. Thank you." said Elis and watched as M walked over to the chair and sit at it in a perfect straight position.

"M?" she asked slightly. Two shining brown eyes turned at her, she made a small step back. His irises were glowing in the dark living room like a two lanterns

"Good night." she whispered.

M said nothing, he turned his head back to the straight position.

She left him there and went in her bedroom. She felt really uncomfortable around him.

It was her M, but on the other side it was not. She knew every single M-bot looks like a doubler to the other one, but she thought she would recognize her M.

And this was definitely NOT her M.

**********

Elis had a day off so she was sleeping till late morning. She was so lazy and tired and her painkillers were so strong they made her feel like she was slightly drugged.

She made her way into the hallway. M-bot was sitting in his armchair. When she entered, he turn his head to her without blinking. He was kinda scary, she thought.

"Can you make something for breakfast, please?" she asked.

"Yes" said M-bot and walked over to the kitchen almost bumping into her.

The breakfast was a disaster.

This "new" M lacked any taste buds and he even burned the toasts. Elis was surprised her tea had no vitriol in it. Also the bot was looking at her like she murdered his favourite pet in cold blood and now he thirsted for her blood. He was slightly sipping from his cup, not taking his eyes off her.

She was so disgusted she let the food be and apologised to the robot, saying she felt bad after the surgery she had before and needed to go back to bed. The M-bot was following her with his gaze as she get up and quickly retrieved back into her room. She locked herself in.

Thank god she had some candy and cookies hidden in her bedside table for a midnight snacks.

The M-bot was useless during the whole day. Elis got the courage to leave her room and do some chores. She gave him some small chores but he broke almost everything. She gave him the duster and commanded him to clean her books.

She came to a disaster where M-bot was carefully picking book by book, touching them lightly with the duster, then ripping out some pages or just throwing the book on the ground.

Once he even hurt her a little. M-bot was on all fours, hopelessly trying to clean the flagstones in the hallway with soaking wet rag while Elis was cleaning the mess in her bookcase. She was on her way in her room with some of the most broken books where she hoped she will repair them. The floor was so wet her home slippers actually slipped. She swear she felt M-bot's hand wrapping around her trousers, pulling her backwards. She was able to outweigh it and did not fall after all. She continued in her room as fast as she could.

In the evening she left M-bot standing in the corner while he was charging and she hid everything breakable.

********

This was not her M and she was 100% sure about it. But she decided to give him one more try. She asked him if he could try to make a dinner.

"Yes" was his simple answer as he moved in the kitchen.

"Do you need any assistance?" she asked.

"No," he answered but then turned at her with a glowing white window with GIVING ACCESS? In front of him "But I can finish the task automatically for you from now on." his omniscient smirk was back on his face.

Elis shrugged and hit YES. M-bot giggled a little and then left.

She followed him, interested in what the hell is he going to do. In her surprise he grabbed a knife from the kitchen and turned at her.

Elis took a step back.

He took a step closer.

Elis walked back in the hallway with eyes glued on M-bot who was slowly approaching her with a knife beside him.

Suddenly a doorbell rang. Elis jumped, but M-bot was calm as a weather before storm. She tried to back up a little bit to grab the door handle, but she was still too far and too scared to move faster.

A loud knock was heard "Elis? Cous are you OK?" she heard Matt behind the door.

She looked behind her and that was the time M was waiting for. He leaped onto her and swung the knife. Thankfully Elis ducked on time and the knife only scratched her shoulder. She screamed in surprise, trying to push the robot off her while holding his wrist with the knife. Matt heard her screaming and tried to break the door.

Matt broke the lock on the door just in time. Elis was weakening fast and the tip of the knife was slowly lowering to her throat. Matt jumped on the M-bot and knocked him off Elis. He also kicked the knife away.

"Leave him be! He is too strong!" screamed Elis when Matt and the robot started to wrestle. Matt tried to run away, but M-bots grip was firm as a steel. Elis had only one idea. She picked up the heavy ceramic bowl with keys under the mirror and hit M-bot over his head with all her might. The bowl broke into pieces.

The M-bot fell on his back and started shaking and twitching. A few sparkles came out of his broken head.

"Let's go!" she commanded.

Matt wiggled himself from the robot's grip and run after her, closing the kicked door behind him. "Where are we going?!" he called when they were running down the stairs.

"To the robotic factory."

"We just get rid of one of their creations, why in all hell you want to get into their lair?" huffed Matt when they passed another floor.

Elis took another sharp turn on the stairs.

"I need to find MY robot!"