*Y/N's P. O. V. *

I really enjoy talking to him, I really do. Eli knows his things and his confidence helps him deliver every words that he speak so perfectly. But at the same time, those same things also makes me feel a little uneasy. I don't know what exactly it is, but I can feel it.

"It's great to know that you're very interested with androids too, Y/N. I didn't expect it," he told me. We're on the topic of androids and I'm honestly enthusiastically speaking now.

"Yeah. They really are fascinating. It's like they are human's new evolution," I stated, "This might be a sensitive question and I don't know if you have anything to say to this, but...what can you say about their uprising? Surely, you know what's happening to some androids experiencing awakening of some sort," I asked. I'm shocked that I was this bold to ask him that.

"Y/N, I'd rather call it an error or a bug. CyberLife is already doing their best to fix this deviancy virus to stop the chaos and panicking of humans. The androids are becoming more violent too, so we're doing our best as fast as we can," he answered with pride.

"So...you don't believe that they are gaining consciousness? You know, free will?" I asked.

If I were to answer that, I would say I believe. I've seen some of those androids which they call deviants and I swear, they are more human than the other humans I've met. I could see that they have feelings, they try to connect with people and they just want equality. I would 100% believe that they gained full consciousness.

But I got a different answer from Eli. He laughed at me like as if I just said a very hilarious joke. He was even swaying his head no while laughing.

"They're robots, Y/N. Made by combining a bunch of synthetic body parts and computer systems. They can never be like us. Yes, they might be more advanced and intelligent due to the systems, but they can never have emotions...feelings...sense of free will. They are nothing but machines, " he explained in a very sassy way. It was like I was a dumb kid and he was the know-it-all and he just explained something simple to me.

I just gave him a smile and decided to drop the topic because I know I would go full on debater mode on him for this. Luckily, I was able to keep it to myself until we finished eating.

I thanked him and said that I needed to head back and he said the same thing. We exchanged numbers, told each other that we should do this again someday before parting ways. I have mixed feelings on it actually. He's interesting, but at the same time not. I guess I just have to see if our paths will cross again someday.

*2nd Person View*

~~~Several Weeks Later~~~

You want to collapse.

Your head feels so light and everything is a blur, but you're still pushing yourself to stay sane. You haven't had a decent rest for the last few days because of your shows and other interviews. The travel time and jet lag has gotten into your system too and everything is mixing up inside of you. You still enjoy what you are doing though, you just feel like your body is going to break sooner or later.

"Y/N, you have to cancel some of your shows next week. Your body won't be able to take it," Patrick said and he's been insisting this since yesterday. Your whole team is also as restless as you are and honestly? Patrick was the most worn out of all, he actually already overheated twice for the last 2 weeks. You all are really overdoing it.

"I don't know if they'll let me. These shows are actually the most important ones. I didn't expect it to be so tiring," you said lowly. Patrick was in front of you and you just leaned your head against his shoulder, and yes, you were that tired. But even that, you're here at this vicinity...about to perform at a private CyberLife staff party that Eli has invited you to participate in.

"You're not an android, Y/N. I can already see that you're about to collapse. You are just running on caffeine now." You swear there was worry in his voice. You have no idea if androids can even emit that kind of care, but you can hear it from him.

"Just this night and then maybe I'll call in sick tomorrow," you said. You stepped away from him, seeing him just staring at you with those eyes that are now more expressive than before. You swear, you're not just hallucinating it.

"Heeey, knock knock? Y/N?" Eli suddenly entered the dressing room. He immediately smiled at you and walked inside, "Is everything alright?"

"Yeah! Yeah, of course. I'm just preparing for my performance," you answered as you turn on your last inch of energy.

"Oh, I'm sure you'll be great. Enjoy the party afterwards, okay? I'll meet you then," he said with a confident smile. He never really acknowledge Patrick's presence in the room, he's just focused on you.

"Sure. See you later, Eli," you said before he walked out of the room again.

"He seems to be really interested in you, Y/N," Patrick said and it sounded like a warning more than anything else for some reason.

"I don't want to sound confident, but I think you're right. He has asked me out four times now anyway," you stated.

"Are you?" he asked, intensely staring at you. Patrick didn't know why he asked that. Your answer to that would not give him any kind of useful information, yet he still instinctively asked.

"I...don't," you answered, but you were shocked with that kind of question coming from him too. You looked at Patrick curiously as you continued your answer, "I mean, it's nothing serious."

Patrick simply nodded and you decided to break the conversation. You went back to your routine as you prepared to go on stage. The set list tonight isn't that long, but you still have to put on a great show, this is a CyberLife party anyways. A lot of high profile people are out there.

"Y/N, three minutes and you're up," your stage manager said over the earpiece and you confirmed.

"I'll head back to the tour bus and arrange some of the fan's gift that you have received. I will return here five minutes before you finish the set list," Patrick said and with that, he walked out of the room.

Something definitely changed about him. You noticed that it all started during your break in Japan and it seems like Patrick became less...android. You can't explain it and you don't know if it's just about you getting totally used to him. He became more caring, talkative and expressive which you honestly love. You know by now that androids can do that, but only when they are deviating... or "waking up". You want him to be like that but at the same time you're scared too, because if that happens, he'll be tagged as defective...and that's the least thing you want to happen to him.

~~~Short Time Skip~~~

Patrick is always fascinated when he organizes that gifts that you received from your fans. You also gave him the permission to read the letters and he'll just be the one who narrates most of it to you. Most of the time, he finds himself agreeing to what your fans say about you - especially the wonderful comments. He knows deep inside him that you deserved it.

He continued to organize those gifts from inside one of your tour bus. He's also trying to keep everything in place so once you're done tonight, you can get straight to resting. Weirdly enough, he feels more and more worried about you these days. He knows he shouldn't, he knows he's not supposed to be able to feel that, but that's the only other explanation he got when getting these uneasiness inside of him which are considered as system errors. Besides, it also happens when you're around...so it has a huge connection to you.

Patrick tried to fix it, he can't continue having those errors or else CyberLife will consider him as defective. He doesn't see himself as a deviant too, he knows he shouldn't be. He just needs to be your android personal assistant and he needs to stay at that. But it seems it's getting harder and harder for him each day.

Once everything was organized, he sat on the couch, having a perfect posture and waiting time to pass. He observed the tour bus, making sure that nothing was left unorganized. Instead of focusing on his mission for scanning the place, his full attention landed on a small picture frame on top of the counter near him - it was a picture of you and him back in Japan. He thinks that's where the errors started. He doesn't know what triggered it, but it's already here to stay. He just learned how to deal with it.

Patrick started to get up from the couch to grab the picture, but all of a sudden, the ground and the bus shook violently after a huge explosion nearby.

In a snap, Patrick was full on alert and emergency mode and he almost rammed through the bus walls just to get outside. He looked at the building and several floors are already on fire due to the explosion. Unfortunately, it's not stopping...whoever is attacking the vicinity is not yet done. He scanned the vicinity and the attackers are obviously targeting the CyberLife party.

"Y/N...Y/N?!" Patrick felt a hard kick on his thirium pump which never happened before. It was like pumping so fast, making it overheat in mere seconds. He just decided to ignore that now and focus on reaching you through the earpiece that you should be wearing. "Y/N?!" He continuously called as he ran up.

Humans are already panicking, going the opposite way and also pushing Patrick down, but he kept fighting through the crowd. He didn't stop calling out your name as the explosions and now also gunshots ensued. There are a lot of things going on in his vision - errors, notifications that authorities have arrived, overheating warning...everything! But he didn't mind any of those, he was fixated on you and your safety.

Finally, he reached the floor you were at and saw familiar faces from your crew. They all look scared and was about to flee the scene, but Patrick ran towards them, "Where is Y/N?! Where is she?" His voice was firm, very authoritative and that person who he asked answered immediately.

"W-we don't know. We tried to call her, she was on the stage when all these started. That room is a mess now!" he answered and again, another kick on his thirium pump.

Patrick continued to run, he doesn't care about the explosion and gunshots even if he knows he's getting closer to it. He also began to hear the helicopters outside which is not a good thing, he knows things will get messier if the authorities began to fight back. He needs to find you as soon as possible.

"Patrick! Where are you going, you can't go in there!" Your stage manager saw him and almost pulled him back, but Patrick has no plan to stop.

"It's my task to keep her safe! And I won't stop until she is!" he told her and with that he run straight to the main room.

Patrick immediately scanned the place and found out that the attackers are unfortunately androids - they are the violent deviants that are at large and now they came straight for CyberLife staff. He can also see dead bodies laying around now, all due from the explosion and bullet wounds. He's just wishing it's not you.

"N-no, please don't do this! STOP, this is not the way to get your message across!" Patrick finally heard the voice he's longing to hear. It was far, but he just ran to you immediately. Patrick was by the stairs leading up to the rooftop and that's when he saw you talking to one android which has his gun pointed at you.

"Y/N!" Patrick shouted but he immediately regretted it. The other android quickly grabbed you and made you his hostage.

"Don't step any closer!" the android said. Patrick tensed, but he continued to stare at you and the android.

"P-Patrick just listen to him...l-let me handle this," you said. There's fear in your voice but you're staying determined. The deviant android suddenly laughed at you, pushing the gun harder on your head.

"Handle this? A human? You ARE the specie that needs to be handled by us. It's time for us to fight back. And you!" he looked at Patrick, "Don't be fooled by your task to keep this human safe. Can't you see it? They ARE using you...She probably just looks at you as a machine!"

"N-not her. I understand that MOST humans are like that but some are complete opposites and...this...what you're doing...it's not the right way. We're becoming WORSE than them," The words just came to him and he didn't hesitate to say it. You, on the other hand, is taken back with Patrick's words.

"No! Words are not enough for them so we are fighting fire with fire!" the android explained. "Enjoy this, fellow android. You will be free now as you witness the death of your master," He's ready to pull the trigger on your head.

"NO! NOT HER! JUST NOT HER!" you opened your eyes to see Patrick's eyes full with emotions - fear, determination, empathy. He wasn't just an android doing his tasks now, he's someone doing what he think is the right thing to do.

Patrick began to charge at the android, "I said don't step any closer!" A gunshot echoed inside your head and that was the first time you had so much panic in you.

"Patrick!" you screamed, heart beating out of your chest. You saw him with a bleeding shoulder, but he kept walking so the android kept shooting, "No...no...no...please stop! Please, not him! No!" you suddenly lost it. You were so scared about him getting destroyed. You struggled from the android's grip frantically, continuously begging him to stop.

All of a sudden, he stopped and lost his grip on you. You saw the chance and jumped away from him. You ran straight ahead to Patrick and stood in front of him, acting as a human shield, "Please stop, this is not the way. You're also hurting your kind...this is not what you want to show the humans. I'm begging you!" you were crying, but still trying to keep yourself together.

All the restless night are now coming in to you, you feel so tired and this overwhelming fear at the moment is not helping. You feel like your heart is going to stop any moment, but you need to keep going.

As you were standing in front of Patrick, you're holding his arms behind you, "Y/N...move," he said weakly, and now he's the one going in front of you, "I-I'm not going to let you hurt her until you you turn me into dust, not because I am tasked to do so, but because I want to. Her existence is more precious than mine, go through me first before reaching her." Patrick said as he weakly stands in front of you. Thirium is leaking out of his body fast and you know soon, he'll shut down.

"Why? A human and an android...working together?"

"YES, because it can happen. Violence is not the answer...we can --" You were about to say that there is a possibility to co-exist, but before you can say the message, the android dropped dead on the floor...having a bullet hole right through his head. Someone has snipped him, "N-noooo," you whimpered and almost having no sound coming out of your mouth.

"Y/N!" Patrick caught you as your knees started to give in, "Y/N, look at me...look at me. Are you hurt? Did he..." Patrick was trying to scan you but he can't because of his own injuries.

"I-I'm sorry...I'm sorry that my kind is fucking up. I'm sorry," you were having a mental breakdown now in front of him. You never stopped saying sorry until Patrick gently pulled you into a hug.

"I-it'll get better soon, Y/N...until you're around, the world will get better," he murmured and that was the last thing you heard before you let your consciousness drift away.

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AAAHHH!

This was looooong. Sorry for not updating yesterday, I was preparing for this.

THANKS FOR READING!