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Loveless 0- Chapter 2: Devoid of a Soul

Juno stood there in the rain looking at the robot.  He felt as if he was going crazy.  It just wasn’t possible.
      “Did you say Sethra?”  Juno asked her.  The robot nodded emotionlessly.  “That’s not possible…you’re dead.”  Juno said starting to lose his cool.  Juno’s eyes started to water as he placed his hands on the robot’s shoulders.  “But you’re a robot…”  Juno said.  The robot looked seductively at him.
      “I’m not just any robot…I can do so many things a robot can’t…” she said as she put her arms around him.  Juno’s eyes opened wide as his emotions conflicted with his logic.  Juno pushed her off of him and ran into his apartment, he scrambled for his keys and tried to shove it in the keyhole, but as he fought with the keys the robot had caught up.  “That’s not very nice…why did you do that?  Naughty boy.” The naked robot giggled at him.  Juno looked at her with fear in his eyes.
      “What are you?!”  Juno said full of fear.
      “I am a model XX-7 robot, designed to give companionship to humans.  Made by the Bitri Corp.” the robot replied.
      “Oh…you are one of those huh?  But why are you here?  I didn’t order you.”  Juno said.
      The robot looked puzzled at him and said, “I don’t know…this place looked familiar.”  He knew this wasn’t Sethra…but at the same time he didn’t care.  He just stared at her.  The robot looked slyly at him and changed the subject “Aren’t you going to invite me in?”  Juno just finished unlocking the door, went in and slammed the door locking Sethra out.
      He sat down on the couch and heard a gentle tearing noise, and then suddenly the whole door and part of the wall cracked off the wall as Sethra tore the door off.
      “What the fuck?”  Juno screamed.  “Just leave me alone!”
      “Why?  Am I not pretty enough?”  The robot said sitting on the floor and tracing a small circle with her finger.
      “No…but why did you rip the door off the wall?  Now I have to get it fixed.”  Juno said.
      Sethra looked at it and with a cute grin said “Did I do that?”  Then she slammed it back into place.  “There good as new!” She said as the drywall cracked around it.  Juno just held his head and sat down.  Sethra crawled over on all fours and then climbed up on the couch and sat in his lap.  Just as Juno was actually starting to relax she pushed him down on the couch.  He looked at her and blushed, but almost immediately snapped out of it and pushed her off of him and onto the floor.  He sat there breathing deeply and staring at her on the floor.  Unlike Sethra, she looked back at him undaunted.  “Oh shall I play hard to get?” she chirped back at him.  Juno simply looked at her in disgust.
      “Wait…you were the girl that bumped into me in front of the diner…” Juno suddenly realized.
      Sethra made a silly look and said “Oh that was you, sorry.”
       “Why was that Polzei mecha chasing you?” Juno questioned.  She simply shook her head.
      “I came to and I was just running from that big thing…I don’t know why they were chasing me.  Please don’t let them get me…they were trying to kill me” Sethra replied.
      Juno felt some sympathy for the robot and continued “Okay…I will hide you for a while.  But…do you know where you got your name?”  Juno asked.
      The robot looked up at him and said, “It’s someone you loved right?”
      Juno was shocked and asked “Yes…but how did you know?”
      The robot clutched her head and replied “I don’t know…”  Juno went into the room he hated to go into so much and retrieved a picture and handed it to her.
      “Does this look familiar?” he said handing her a picture of Sethra.  The robot recoiled in horror and screamed loudly clutching her head.  Juno got up to help her, but she pushed him away and then collapsed.  Juno wondered if it had stopped working.  He got up to check her.  She appeared to be sleeping.  He still realized that she was nude.  That wasn’t helping matters.  He walked back into the dreaded room to get her some clothes.  He couldn’t just leave her naked.  And even if she wasn’t really Sethra…she atleast reminded him of her.  He gathered some clothes for her and then turned around and saw the robot sitting on the bed brushing her hair just like the original Sethra would do.  She looked different.  Her skin looked softer and her eyes seemed to glow.  “What’re you…” Juno started.
      Sethra looked up at him and suddenly looked surprised and said with a start, “Juno!  What…I…” then she immediately reverted back to her original form.  “What do you want master?”
      “Did you just say Juno, Sethra?” He asked.
      “Is that your name master?”  Sethra asked her back.
      “It is…but how did you know?”  Juno said confused.
      “You told me.” She replied.
      “When?” He asked her back.
“Just now.” She finally said, “So is that what master wants me to call him?”  Juno realized that he must have been imagining things.  He threw the clothes to her.
      “Please put these on Sethra.” Juno said.
      “Oh you want me to dress up for you master?” the robot chortled.
      “Umm…sure…”  Juno said walking away.  “This will be your room until I figure out what to do with you, I sleep out there.”
      “You don’t want me to sleep with you?  That isn’t normal.  You say you loved this girl, so let me be her.”  Sethra replied.
      Juno looked upset and responded “For the briefest moment, I thought you were…but you are nothing but a horny man’s play thing.”
      Sethra looked confused, “Isn’t that what you want me for?”
      “No it isn’t!” Juno yelled back.  “Sethra wasn’t like that.”
      “What was she like?” She inquired.
      “She was sweet, her and I never had sex before.  We just liked cuddling and just being together.”  Juno said solemnly.
      “I can do that.”  Sethra said with a smile as she leaned over and held his arm.  “Like this?”  Juno felt himself melting.
      “Yeah…like that…”  He said with tears in his eyes.
      Sethra paused and looked at him seeing the tears and then said, “Why are you sad master?”  Sethra asked.
      “Because this isn’t real.”  Juno said accepting fate.
      “I am real.  I’m just programmed to make you happy.  Let me try master.”  Sethra said smiling.
      Juno looked at her in a moment of weakness and said “Okay.  Just one thing…call me Juno, not master.”
      Sethra smiled “Okay Juno, data entry complete.  What would you like to do?”
      Juno smiled and said, “I am tired…lets go to sleep.”
      Sethra got in bed without putting on her clothes and said with a naughty grin “Come to bed Juno.”
      Juno blushed and said “And…put some clothes on for the sake of my balls.”
      Sethra seemed to comprehend and said “So…no hanky panky?”
      Juno laughed and said “No, no hanky panky please.”
      Sethra looked confused and said “But it is what I am programmed for…”
      Juno replied still smiling “But you want to make me happy right?”  Sethra nodded cutely.  “Then no hanky panky…atleast not yet.”
      “Tomorrow then?” Sethra asked.
      “No silly.”  Juno said.  “You still have a lot to learn.”
      “I will try my best to be like Sethra Juno.”  Sethra said smiling.
      “Well don’t try too hard Sethra.  Just be who you want to be.  Sethra is dead, you can’t possibly be her.”  Sethra looked down seemingly upset about what Juno just said.  “What’s wrong Sethra?”  Juno asked.
      “But…it would make you happier if I was her.”  She responded.
      “Sethra…I don’t know what to think.  You look just like her and everything, but it’s all so sudden.  I just found you on my door step, and frankly I’m still uncomfortable with this.”  Juno said with a frown.  “But it is better than being alone…so I want you to stay okay?”  Sethra smiled and put on the clothing Juno gave to her.
      “But Juno…” Sethra said as she looked up at Juno.  Juno looked back at her and cocked his head.  Sethra continued “You gave me her clothes…so now I have to be her.”  Juno looked upset again.  This time he said nothing.  He simply went to sleep.
      “I’m sorry Sethra…but no one could ever replace her.  And you are still just a machine.”  Juno said as he lay down to sleep.  Sethra didn’t go to sleep though…something clicked in her head.  She went to the room that Juno gave her to use.  The surroundings were oddly familiar to her.  “I’m…home.” She said temporarily slipping into another state of mind.
      As Juno slept he awoke to the smell of death.  He sat up in bed eyes wide open.  He stood up and turned on the lights.  To his shock he saw his sister standing in front of him, pale and covered in vomit.  She was looking down so he couldn’t see her face.  She suddenly looked up at him with her face contorted in death.  Juno fell back and scrambled backwards screaming.  He had bumped into the wall and heard an inhuman wailing.  As he looked up he saw his dead mother falling from the ceiling wailing indescribably.  Juno covered himself with his arms and rolled out of the way.  He ran to the door of Sethra’s room to go find her to escape.  He opened the door and found Sethra’s headless corpse waiting behind it.  Juno screamed in agony and ran to the front door of his apartment with his undead family still in toe.  He struggled with the door as the corpses began to cling to him and try to pull him down.  The smell of death was only inches away as he finally got the door open and looked out upon a sea of female corpses.  The door closed behind him.  He was no longer in an apartment building, but a large rusty room.  The smell gagged him so much he threw up all over himself.  The room was silent except for an almost inaudible screeching that got louder and louder until it was deafening.  Juno clutched his head in pain and started to black out.  He looked up at the top of the room and saw the image of a giant body floating above him.  A weird light was flowing from the bodies into it.  Then Juno opened his eyes again after blacking out…but he was at home.  He was sweating profusely and was so frightened he cried out loud.  He got up and ran into the room where Sethra lay awake.  He climbed in bed and clutched her tightly.  Sethra turned around startled.  “Juno what…”  She started to say.
      “Just hold me Sethra…please.  Don’t leave me!”  Juno cried.  Sethra didn’t say a word, she just held him tightly.  Sethra didn’t even know what to say.  In fact she felt strange.  Her programming would normally tell her to do bad things with Juno to make him feel better.  But for some reason…she didn’t want to.  Her programming was almost silent.  What was happening?
      Sethra held Juno and eventually Juno fell asleep in her arms.  His sleep was peaceful though, unlike moments ago.  Unfortunately, they didn’t know what was approaching outside.  Sethra could hear its heavy foot steps.  So much for a peaceful night’s sleep…

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Loveless 0- Chapter 2: Devoid of a Soul

Juno stood there in the rain looking at the robot.  He felt as if he was going crazy.  It just wasn’t possible.
      “Did you say Sethra?”  Juno asked her.  The robot nodded emotionlessly.  “That’s not possible…you’re dead.”  Juno said starting to lose his cool.  Juno’s eyes started to water as he placed his hands on the robot’s shoulders.  “But you’re a robot…”  Juno said.  The robot looked seductively at him.
      “I’m not just any robot…I can do so many things a robot can’t…” she said as she put her arms around him.  Juno’s eyes opened wide as his emotions conflicted with his logic.  Juno pushed her off of him and ran into his apartment, he scrambled for his keys and tried to shove it in the keyhole, but as he fought with the keys the robot had caught up.  “That’s not very nice…why did you do that?  Naughty boy.” The naked robot giggled at him.  Juno looked at her with fear in his eyes.
      “What are you?!”  Juno said full of fear.
      “I am a model XX-7 robot, designed to give companionship to humans.  Made by the Bitri Corp.” the robot replied.
      “Oh…you are one of those huh?  But why are you here?  I didn’t order you.”  Juno said.
      The robot looked puzzled at him and said, “I don’t know…this place looked familiar.”  He knew this wasn’t Sethra…but at the same time he didn’t care.  He just stared at her.  The robot looked slyly at him and changed the subject “Aren’t you going to invite me in?”  Juno just finished unlocking the door, went in and slammed the door locking Sethra out.
      He sat down on the couch and heard a gentle tearing noise, and then suddenly the whole door and part of the wall cracked off the wall as Sethra tore the door off.
      “What the fuck?”  Juno screamed.  “Just leave me alone!”
      “Why?  Am I not pretty enough?”  The robot said sitting on the floor and tracing a small circle with her finger.
      “No…but why did you rip the door off the wall?  Now I have to get it fixed.”  Juno said.
      Sethra looked at it and with a cute grin said “Did I do that?”  Then she slammed it back into place.  “There good as new!” She said as the drywall cracked around it.  Juno just held his head and sat down.  Sethra crawled over on all fours and then climbed up on the couch and sat in his lap.  Just as Juno was actually starting to relax she pushed him down on the couch.  He looked at her and blushed, but almost immediately snapped out of it and pushed her off of him and onto the floor.  He sat there breathing deeply and staring at her on the floor.  Unlike Sethra, she looked back at him undaunted.  “Oh shall I play hard to get?” she chirped back at him.  Juno simply looked at her in disgust.
      “Wait…you were the girl that bumped into me in front of the diner…” Juno suddenly realized.
      Sethra made a silly look and said “Oh that was you, sorry.”
       “Why was that Polzei mecha chasing you?” Juno questioned.  She simply shook her head.
      “I came to and I was just running from that big thing…I don’t know why they were chasing me.  Please don’t let them get me…they were trying to kill me” Sethra replied.
      Juno felt some sympathy for the robot and continued “Okay…I will hide you for a while.  But…do you know where you got your name?”  Juno asked.
      The robot looked up at him and said, “It’s someone you loved right?”
      Juno was shocked and asked “Yes…but how did you know?”
      The robot clutched her head and replied “I don’t know…”  Juno went into the room he hated to go into so much and retrieved a picture and handed it to her.
      “Does this look familiar?” he said handing her a picture of Sethra.  The robot recoiled in horror and screamed loudly clutching her head.  Juno got up to help her, but she pushed him away and then collapsed.  Juno wondered if it had stopped working.  He got up to check her.  She appeared to be sleeping.  He still realized that she was nude.  That wasn’t helping matters.  He walked back into the dreaded room to get her some clothes.  He couldn’t just leave her naked.  And even if she wasn’t really Sethra…she atleast reminded him of her.  He gathered some clothes for her and then turned around and saw the robot sitting on the bed brushing her hair just like the original Sethra would do.  She looked different.  Her skin looked softer and her eyes seemed to glow.  “What’re you…” Juno started.
      Sethra looked up at him and suddenly looked surprised and said with a start, “Juno!  What…I…” then she immediately reverted back to her original form.  “What do you want master?”
      “Did you just say Juno, Sethra?” He asked.
      “Is that your name master?”  Sethra asked her back.
      “It is…but how did you know?”  Juno said confused.
      “You told me.” She replied.
      “When?” He asked her back.
“Just now.” She finally said, “So is that what master wants me to call him?”  Juno realized that he must have been imagining things.  He threw the clothes to her.
      “Please put these on Sethra.” Juno said.
      “Oh you want me to dress up for you master?” the robot chortled.
      “Umm…sure…”  Juno said walking away.  “This will be your room until I figure out what to do with you, I sleep out there.”
      “You don’t want me to sleep with you?  That isn’t normal.  You say you loved this girl, so let me be her.”  Sethra replied.
      Juno looked upset and responded “For the briefest moment, I thought you were…but you are nothing but a horny man’s play thing.”
      Sethra looked confused, “Isn’t that what you want me for?”
      “No it isn’t!” Juno yelled back.  “Sethra wasn’t like that.”
      “What was she like?” She inquired.
      “She was sweet, her and I never had sex before.  We just liked cuddling and just being together.”  Juno said solemnly.
      “I can do that.”  Sethra said with a smile as she leaned over and held his arm.  “Like this?”  Juno felt himself melting.
      “Yeah…like that…”  He said with tears in his eyes.
      Sethra paused and looked at him seeing the tears and then said, “Why are you sad master?”  Sethra asked.
      “Because this isn’t real.”  Juno said accepting fate.
      “I am real.  I’m just programmed to make you happy.  Let me try master.”  Sethra said smiling.
      Juno looked at her in a moment of weakness and said “Okay.  Just one thing…call me Juno, not master.”
      Sethra smiled “Okay Juno, data entry complete.  What would you like to do?”
      Juno smiled and said, “I am tired…lets go to sleep.”
      Sethra got in bed without putting on her clothes and said with a naughty grin “Come to bed Juno.”
      Juno blushed and said “And…put some clothes on for the sake of my balls.”
      Sethra seemed to comprehend and said “So…no hanky panky?”
      Juno laughed and said “No, no hanky panky please.”
      Sethra looked confused and said “But it is what I am programmed for…”
      Juno replied still smiling “But you want to make me happy right?”  Sethra nodded cutely.  “Then no hanky panky…atleast not yet.”
      “Tomorrow then?” Sethra asked.
      “No silly.”  Juno said.  “You still have a lot to learn.”
      “I will try my best to be like Sethra Juno.”  Sethra said smiling.
      “Well don’t try too hard Sethra.  Just be who you want to be.  Sethra is dead, you can’t possibly be her.”  Sethra looked down seemingly upset about what Juno just said.  “What’s wrong Sethra?”  Juno asked.
      “But…it would make you happier if I was her.”  She responded.
      “Sethra…I don’t know what to think.  You look just like her and everything, but it’s all so sudden.  I just found you on my door step, and frankly I’m still uncomfortable with this.”  Juno said with a frown.  “But it is better than being alone…so I want you to stay okay?”  Sethra smiled and put on the clothing Juno gave to her.
      “But Juno…” Sethra said as she looked up at Juno.  Juno looked back at her and cocked his head.  Sethra continued “You gave me her clothes…so now I have to be her.”  Juno looked upset again.  This time he said nothing.  He simply went to sleep.
      “I’m sorry Sethra…but no one could ever replace her.  And you are still just a machine.”  Juno said as he lay down to sleep.  Sethra didn’t go to sleep though…something clicked in her head.  She went to the room that Juno gave her to use.  The surroundings were oddly familiar to her.  “I’m…home.” She said temporarily slipping into another state of mind.
      As Juno slept he awoke to the smell of death.  He sat up in bed eyes wide open.  He stood up and turned on the lights.  To his shock he saw his sister standing in front of him, pale and covered in vomit.  She was looking down so he couldn’t see her face.  She suddenly looked up at him with her face contorted in death.  Juno fell back and scrambled backwards screaming.  He had bumped into the wall and heard an inhuman wailing.  As he looked up he saw his dead mother falling from the ceiling wailing indescribably.  Juno covered himself with his arms and rolled out of the way.  He ran to the door of Sethra’s room to go find her to escape.  He opened the door and found Sethra’s headless corpse waiting behind it.  Juno screamed in agony and ran to the front door of his apartment with his undead family still in toe.  He struggled with the door as the corpses began to cling to him and try to pull him down.  The smell of death was only inches away as he finally got the door open and looked out upon a sea of female corpses.  The door closed behind him.  He was no longer in an apartment building, but a large rusty room.  The smell gagged him so much he threw up all over himself.  The room was silent except for an almost inaudible screeching that got louder and louder until it was deafening.  Juno clutched his head in pain and started to black out.  He looked up at the top of the room and saw the image of a giant body floating above him.  A weird light was flowing from the bodies into it.  Then Juno opened his eyes again after blacking out…but he was at home.  He was sweating profusely and was so frightened he cried out loud.  He got up and ran into the room where Sethra lay awake.  He climbed in bed and clutched her tightly.  Sethra turned around startled.  “Juno what…”  She started to say.
      “Just hold me Sethra…please.  Don’t leave me!”  Juno cried.  Sethra didn’t say a word, she just held him tightly.  Sethra didn’t even know what to say.  In fact she felt strange.  Her programming would normally tell her to do bad things with Juno to make him feel better.  But for some reason…she didn’t want to.  Her programming was almost silent.  What was happening?
      Sethra held Juno and eventually Juno fell asleep in her arms.  His sleep was peaceful though, unlike moments ago.  Unfortunately, they didn’t know what was approaching outside.  Sethra could hear its heavy foot steps.  So much for a peaceful night’s sleep…