Lawrence heard that just before death, whole life is running through one's eyes, but she thought it was crap, especially when death is fast. Sometimes it happens so fast, a man would not even be able to realize that he or she is dying. However, she was not right. When the xenomorph leaned over her, there came the memories of happiest days in her life - early childhood. Maybe not images, but sounds, especially David's voice, calling her from distance. She closed her eyes ready for a deadly strike, but it came from a completely different side than she expected, it wasn't strong either, actually it was not painful at all. Something wrenched aside her, she heard a strange metallic sound, then the roar of the xenomorph. She opened her eyes and saw the creature running away in panic, leaving behind a torn pieces of a robot.

“David!” Lawrence groaned, leaning closer to him. So it was not memories coming back to her, but David really called her. He saved her, protected from this creature, but he was seriously injured. He had a ripped leg and a huge hole in his corpse. White liquid from his body covered the floor.

“Everything is alright?” he asked as if it was she who lay sprawled in front of him.

“With me yes, but you ... Thank you for saving my life, now I will help you.” she wanted to get up and look for something with she could move him, but he grabbed her by the arm and held tight.

“No, Lawrence. There is no time, run away, I stay.”

“You're kidding me! I will not leave you, David. These are defects that can be repaired. I will take you on board.”

“Lawrence ... you know they will not let you take me on that ship. And I realized that I did not want to leave this planet at all. Walter is right, I am damaged, I can not stay with people because I have become a threat to them.”

“Do not talk silly, you just saved my life!”

David reached down to her cheek, smiling tenderly, and Lawrence hugged her face into his hand.

“I saved the only life that is more valuable to me than my own. I love you Lawrence, you're the greatest child anyone can have. I am proud of you and I know that despite all the odds, you will manage and you will be happy again. Forgive me that you had to see what-what I became ...” he reached into his pocket, pulled out something from it, and handed to Lawrence with this words. “If I can ask you anything, it's just to remember me the way I was … then.” Lawrence looked at what he gave her, it was a worn-out, strap bracelet that she had made for him when they were in Africa.

“David ... “ she was not able to say anything else.

“Lawrence.” he smiled again at her, then quickly pulled one of the cables out of his torn corpse.

“No!” Lawrence scream, realized that this cable was deactivating one. “No! No!” she screamed, hugging his damaged body, but David was no longer with her.

♡♡♡

Daniels heard the scream as she threw out the light-emitting device to the center of the square.

“What was that?” she asked Walter.

“Lawrence.” he replied. They looked at each other and understood without words they rushed to the temple.

Prepared for the attack, they slowly entered and saw Lawrence kneeling over David's body.

“What happened?” Daniels asked, walking up to her.

“He saved me ... from-from this monster, and then he desactivated himself!” she cried.

“Come on Lawrence, there is nothing we can do.”

“No! Leave me please.”

“I see the signal! I'll be there in a moment.” they heard the voice of Tennessee in Daniels' communicator.

“Lawrence, we do not have time, come on!” seeing that Lawrence did not react, she gave Walter a sign to take her in his arms. The robot nimbly threw her over his shoulder and they headed back to the exit. Lawrence tried to get away, but Walter held her in an iron hug.

Tennessee was just coming over when they went out to the square. Daniels did not let him land, they just jumped on the ramp. When they were in the cockpit, Tennessee swore loudly: “We have company.” The xenomorf, who attacked David, jumped behind them on a transporter.

“Fly! I will try to remove this shit.” Daniels said, grabbing the gun and going back to the ramp. Walter lied Lawrence on the floor, told Ledward to take care of her, and then set off for Daniels.

“What happened in the temple? I thought you are dead.” Ledward wanted to calm her down somehow. He was already preparing a sedative injection for her and an analgesic injection for Lope at the same time. It turned out that these creatures have a corrosive blood that burned his left cheek.

“As you can see, I'm still alive!” she spoke in painful voice. “But David no longer ...”

“Wow. Did you get him? You finally understood ...” - Lawrence did not let him finish and threw her fists ath him, hearing these words, but Ledward immediately stuck a needle syringe into her arm. Everything whirled around her, then began to get darker and she fell to the floor already sleeping.

♡♡♡

Lope's screams woke her. With difficulty, she opened her eyes and saw that she was already in the ship, in the medical department. The lights were dim, the gentle red glow swaying from behind the glass doors leading into the corridor. Several bunks further away from her, Lope was lying, he moaned frantically. Lawrence immediately got up and walked up to him staggering. The sedative, given by Ledward, still continued to work.

“Lope? What's happening?” she asked, but he did not answer, he had strong convilsuin, and a red spot appeared on his shirt. Lawrence immediately understood what was happening, she ran to the door, and pressed the alarm button. “Mother!” she turned to the main computer.

“Yes, Lawrence?”

“Call Daniels here! Say there is one more!”

“Of course.”

Lope's abdominal cavity broke, and not the pink and fully formed neomorf got out, but something that resembled a snake *. Lawrence pulled out surgical knives from the locker and threw them into a creature, which was moving quickly toward the ventilation grille.

“Oh no, little bastard! I will not let you escape!” Lawrence followed him, turning everything that was on her road, but she only managed to hurt it with one of the knives before it disappeared.

“Lawrence?” Daniels and Walter just entered the room. “Where is it?”

“Escaped! It escaped through the ventilation!” Lawrence moaned, furiously kicking the bed. “How could Lope got infected?”

“He said that a big spider stuck to his face when they were looking for Oram, probably that is how.” Daniels explained as they stepped out of the hospital room. “Go to the bridge, I'll find the rest, and we'll shoot for this motherfucker.”

“Let Walter go to the bridge, I will go with you!” Lawrence said, staggered again.

“No Lawrence. You stay with Walter, that's an order.”

♡♡♡

There was no one on the bridge.

“Where's Upworth and Ricks?” she asked Walter. “And what about Tennessee and Ledward?”

“So far everything was right. I'll find them right away.” he entered the command to the computer and a screen showing the ship showing where the individual crew members were. “Daniels already found Tennessee, they are together on board B12, Ledward has just joined them... and Upworth and Ricks ...

“They are in the quaters” Lawrence first noticed. "But I think they are not threatened, it's rather too small ... FUCK!” Walter found the creature and set up the camera view. “Only half an hour has passed and it's already as big as ..." Lawrence's voice tucked in her throat as she remembered the circumstances in which she had last seen such a creature.

“It is growing very fast ... We have to evacuate them from there.” Walter entered another command to turn on the alarm in the quaters. For a moment they watched as the dots marking the xenomorph was approaching on the plan to Upworth and Ricks. Despite the alarm, they were not moving.”

“Why they don't run away?”

“Maybe they don't hear the alarm. Daniels ... Daniels!” Walter called her through the intercom. “Upworth and Ricks are in the bathroom and it's up to them!”

“Understood! We go there.”

“Be careful!” added Lawrence. She could not sit still, she felt that she would be far better off in action than here. Walter could manage himself.

“I'm going to join them.” she said at last.

“No. Daniels told you to stay here.”

“So what?”

“So that, she is now a captain and you have to execute her orders.”

She sent him a murderous glare, but she sat down next to him.

“I'm afraid ... I do not want anyone to die again.” she sighed heavily, trembling all over her body. She realized that she was wearing only a thin, hospital shirt.

“Nobody wants it, but your presence there, will not help much. You are still under the influence of sedatives” Walter said, getting up. He took a blanket from the cupboard and covered her with it.

“Walter …?”

“Yes?” He muttered, again concentrating his attention on the computer display.

“What do you think ... what happened to him? Is his consciousness just ... disappeared?”

“You talking about David? I have no idea Lawrence, besides, this is not the right moment for such existential conversations.”

“You're the only one who can tell me anything about that ...”

“Really?” Walter turned to her. “If you ask a human what happens to people after death, do you think he would be able to answer you?” Lawrence was silent because she knew her way of thinking was idiotic, and Walter certainly did not want to hurt her and tell her what he really thought. And he probably thought the same as she, the androids have no soul, and even if there is some afterlife, they doesn't affect them.

“Walter! Where it is?” Daniels said.

“Over you.” The robot replied, glancing at the plan.

“Close all the hatches, bring him to board K. We will throw this bastard into space.”

“You got it. What about Upworth and Ricks?”

“They are dead.” Tennessee answered. Lawrence looked sadly at the robot.

“Will it ever end? Or will it kill us all?”

Walter and Lawrence watched through the camera as three survivors of the crew, Daniels, Tennessee and Ledward set up their suits and went to deck K where the construction machines were standing.

“I'll lure him into a truck and lock him in the cabin, and when I say when, you blow this fucker into the space.” Daniels explained. Lawrence was barely breathing in fear of her companions. “Give it here, Walter.”

“I'm opening the lock.” that said, the robot let the xenomorph went to the hangar. Daniels drew its attention to herself, but she did not know how fast the beast was. If not for the fact that it tangled in the metal rods of the net, it would have caught her. She managed to close it in a truck, but it immediately started to broke the glass.

“Open the door! Now!”

Tennessee and Ledward released the truck and openeded the hatch. The decompression process caused the suction of everything that was in the hangar, including the truck, but the xenomorph was releasing from it. In addition, something blocked the chain and the truck got stuck in the middle of the road.

“It's stopped! Dump the next one!” Daniels shouted. Tennessee followed her instructions and the truck began to move on, but the xenomorph had already left the cockpit and moved on the roof. The truck flew into space, but the creature leapt and clawed at the edge of the ramp. Daniels stood ready to shoot it, when Ledward yelled:

“Watch out Daniels!”

She turned and saw the toothed front of another truck. She looked again at the xenomorph who was getting ready to jump and ducked at the last minute. The creature impaled itself at the sharp teeth of the truck, that flew over Daniels and fell into space. Daniels watched it for a moment while Walter's alarmed voice was heard in her suit:

“Daniels? Daniels?! Are you okay?”

“I'm fine, Walter. It's over now.”

♡♡♡

Lawrence was again in her cabin, she had the impression that whole eternity passed when she had been sitting there carelessly for the last time. She looked at her teddy bear, it seemed to be different after all these experiences. Everything seemed different. She sighed and slipped the David's leather bracelet into her pocket, then headed at the bridge. She made a decision. Now she had to convince the crew for it.

Few of them left; Daniels, Tennessee, Walter, Ledward and her. Everyone was on the bridge. Lawrence heard Daniels whisper asking Walter if he would help her build a wooden cabin on the lake shore, when they will reach Origae-6. Walter looked at her with such a feeling in his eyes that at that moment no one would say he was a robot.

“With pleasure, Daniels.”

Lawrence, hearing his words, smiled widely for the first time since leaving the planet.

“Hey. “ she said, giving them a signal that she was coming.

“Finally” Daniels broke away from Walter and announced. “Look, I think there's nothing to think about, we're going back to cryosleep and we're going to Origae-6.”

“I agree completely ... almost.” Lawrence looked closely at all the crew members. “I have to ask you something. I know you will start to get mad when I say it, so please, just let me finish. I want to go back and take David...”

“No!” As she predicted, Ledward immediately protested.

“Who is David? Tennessee was surprised, they had no time yet to tell exactly what had happened on that nightmare planet.

“For what?” Daniels also spoke. “After all, it is no longer usable.”

“I know. But I would like to take his body and try to fix it.”

“Lawrence ... You know that once deactivated android, it can not be fixed anymore.” Walter said softly.

"I would like to give it a try, at least ... I would not even get out of the transporter to not let anything get to the ship again. I would send a rover, it would certainly be able to tow it to the square ... It would take fifteen minutes maximum.”

Daniels and Walter exchanged glances.

“Please...”

“What if you fix it and he's going to get a freak again and he wants to kill us?” Ledward asked.

“I would have corrected his flaw, which made him was do such things...”

For a long moment everyone was silent, considering her words.

“I think we can agree with Lawrence.” Finally, Walter said, “Ultimately, all of these creatures have been knocked out by us, and if you take all precautions to keep from getting infected, there is no danger. David would be kept under strict control, preferably in isolation, but after all there is not even a half percent chance that the repair of such a ruined android would succeed. And even if it turns out that the deactivation did not run to the end, then anyway he will not be the same android. All data has been deleted, he will not remember anything, even you ...”

Lawrence smiled sadly at him.

“I know that all, but I have to try anyway.”