Episode Two, The Creator's Turn.
Flash.
Zero's visual sensors snapped on for a split second. The time with vision wasn't long to a human but it was long enough for him to take in a vast array of details.
For one, he could see that he was in the small room where he had been for the majority of his existence, as tests and improvements were made to make him closer and closer to a human.
For another, this was the small room where he had seen anything for the first time. He had both seen and heard Mia for the first time while standing in this very spot.
For that brief flash, he had seen Mia again. She looked very different to him now as opposed to when he had first been created. He had been through many changes since that day. Those changes included his sexual drive installation within his firmware.
Mia was beautiful. For that small moment, he had taken her visuals in completely. She was wearing small pink shorts and a shirt so small that he could see her finely toned stomach as she had been reaching up to adjust something above her head. Her bellybutton ring had been glimmering from an overhead light and he had noticed small lines of sweat running down her stomach.
She must be working hard on something.
Flash.
Another glimpse of the room in front of him showed him, Mia, staring down at her tablet as she chewed on her lower lip in full concentration. She looked as if she had been grumbling about something but Zero's audio functions hadn't been switched on for that moment so he could only speculate that it had something to do with his firmware.
Buzz.
Zeros audio functions fired off in his skull with static before stabilizing. He heard Mia displeased grumblings.
"I work for four years on creating the perfect man," she mumbled. "I slave over making him everything that I would ever want and who gets a first go with him?"
Flash.
His vision switched back on but this time it remained on.
"Not me," Mia went on under her breath. "No. Couldn't be me. It has to be the one that hasn't done anything to help with the project. And here I am, on my day off, working again."
Zero felt his free will functions shift on and looked at Mia in surprise. Was she so upset at the moment that she hadn't even realized that she had activated him?
With one small step, Zero approached the bronze-skinned woman from behind and took in her scent. She smelled frustrated, angry, and jealous. Could she be jealous of Amara for having sex with him first?
He lightly brushed his hand down the side of her arm, causing her to leap away and spin, slamming her back against the wall as she stared at him with widened eyes.
"I'm sorry," he offered with a forced smile. "I didn't mean to frighten you."
"How did you activate," she asked in a breath, not moving from the wall.
"I don't know," he answered honestly, stepping back to give the frightened woman some distance. "My senses came on and then free will was activated. I thought it was something that you had done."
"Maybe I did," she said, visually calming down. "I could have triggered your senses when I was crossing your data streams. Sorry, I didn't mean to overreact that way."
"I understand," Zero explained with a shrug. "I surprised you is all."
"How much did you hear," Mia asked after a moment of thought.
He could see a slight shift in her stance that clued him in on her nerves. She was worried about him hearing her complaints. But why? Was she afraid that he would tell Amara of her thoughts or was she afraid that he knew her desires for him?
"Not much," he began to lie but something felt heavy on his thoughts. Was it his conscience? "I heard you complain about Amara having me first."
"I didn't really mean it," she sighed. "I'm just upset that I had to come in on my day off. I was at the pool when the thought came to me."
"What thought," he asked.
