Small thing before I begin, the image I placed above is how Wheatley looks in my book <3 That design resonated with me the most ! I am a huge nerd for this fucking metal sphere I'm sorry </3
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I sat down at my desk with a huff, the night had been ruined and I had decided it wasn't worth sticking around to see how much worse it'd get, it seemed like real people were harder to deal with than I was used to. I let out another sigh as I held back tears, this wasn't fair at all.. With teary eyes, I started up my computer that sat upon my desk, it hummed to life after a few seconds
It was one of the most comforting sounds I loved, it washed away all the stress from any day.

The screen flashed to life as it asked me for my login, as I typed in my details I listed to my keyboard click with each button pressed, as soon as I was in I went straight for portal 2. It was one of the games I played when I was lonely or just upset in general.
Something about seeing Wheatley talk and whirl around on his rail made me light up with warm fluffy feelings.

It wasn't uncommon for me to find comfort in odd fictional men, but Wheatley was the one who I loved the most out of all those characters. He just seemed to get me, a dumb lil moron trying to do his best, but in the end he ends up regretting everything he did. How could I not fall in love with a character who knows exactly how I feel???

The game booted up and started playing it's soundtrack, I clicked on a new game as I had already played through the game a few times before, I wanted to 'meet' Wheatley again.. And maybe imagine it was me in that situation.

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Hours had passed since I started playing, but my smile never left, I had gotten up to where I was doing tests for Wheat-man. It was so amusing to see him so pleased by the tests, it always made me laugh like it was him getting off on good testing, which was weird when you really thought about it, but it was funny regardless.

I figured here would be a good time to stop, funnily enough cockblocking the core from any further testing. I saved my game and hit quit, bidding a farewell to the core as I turned my computer off.

I quickly got comfy under my covers and snuggled in close with my giant plush of Wheatley (Best investment ever) and drifted off to sleep, feeling safe as I held onto the plush.

I tossed and turned in my bed, feeling around for my plush, but finding nothing... Had he fallen off the bed? I sat up and yawned, slowly opening my eyes, through my blurry vision the room seemed normal until my eyes adjusted.

"What the fuck.. Where am I?" I asked myself as I looked around.

"Hello, Hellooo?" A voice called from beyond the door, another person! I could get answers to where I was!
Quickly I hopped up and went for the door, opening it quickly. Screams echoed through the room from both of us once the door opened, in front of me was a tall robotic man with large sphere as a head.... He looked like all those drawings of Wheatley I had see on the internet. "You look.... good, yeah.." He fumbled about, coming into the room more so we weren't in the cramped hall.

I looked at him skeptically, this had to be a weird dream.. There was no way he was real, I looked over every detail on him, trying to figure out what to think.
"What's going on.. Where am I?" I feebly asked, now the fear was starting to set in. "Aperature labs, you've been in cryogenic sleep for a while, but lucky for you, you are alive!" He rambled on, there was no way...

He rambled on about protocol, making me repeat back some words to him before he went on about how we needed to get out of here. I nodded to him, quickly getting behind something while he went to steer the room, he continued to ramble on about how he wasn't informed about the well-being of any of the other subjects... This was too much like the game for me to believe, had I gotten sucked into it??

Eventually we came to a 'smooth' stop and Wheatley came back down from the roof, smiling to me. "Go on now, we don't have much time to waste." He said, tilting his head toward the almost steril looking room. With a sigh, I complied and walked over, falling through the glass beneath me.
"Are you okay?!" The android yelled down, the sound of worry in his voice. "Yeah! I don't see any portal gun so I'm going to look ahead!" I shouted back up. He let out a sigh and said he'd give an hour before he'd assume I died, wow thanks.

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Some time had passed and eventually I met back up with Wheatley, I showed him the beat up gun, he clapped his hands with delight. We went on for a bit before we hit a place he could not go without getting off of his rail. "I have an idea but it is bloody dangerous.. They told me I should never disconnect from my management rail or else I'd die." He spoke, shaking a bit from the mention of it.
I stared him down, holding out my arms to him with a smile "Well if you don't I'll still catch you regardless, so take a chance and let's see how it goes !" I chirped up to him, gesturing for him to give it a shot.
Wheatley was hesitant at first, taking a while to gain the courage to take that leap of faith.

Eventually he came off the rail, screaming for me to catch him, which I had, with a little bit of stumbling from the sudden weight in my arms. "See, you're okay bud! I told you I'd catch you" I smile to him, causing him to 'smile' back.

Gently I set him down, letting him adjust walking with me. He seemed fairly small when he was on his rail, but he was
TALL, like the kind of tall you think adults are when you're 10. It took us some time to get him adjusted but after a bit he was walking like a pro. It was endearing.. seeing him walk around like a baby deer.

After a bit we started to wander through more chambers and the long halls that held the production lines. Worry grew in my stomach as I knew what was coming up, I wasn't ready to face that yet... Maybe I could draw it out by taking it slow as we went, I grabbed onto Wheatley's sleeve and looked up at him "Can we take a break.. I'm starting to get really tired..." I begged, using my best puppy-dog eyes on him.

He seemed to stop for a moment, sighing "Alright, but not for too long, I don't want to be here longer than we have to be.. Especially near her chamber"

I nodded, finding a good wall to sit against and promptly sitting down, gesturing for the android to do the same. Reluctantly he sat with me, trying to get comfortable in a spot that wasn't his management rail, I giggled slightly at him before asking him a question.

"So how did you end up with taking care of the humans? I mean, I'd think they'd have you as a cute lil desk boy" I teased, giving a light laugh.

He seemed to sputter slightly at the word 'cute' before he went on another one of those rambles he does, explaining everything like it's the most important of details. The word 'moron' came up a few times in that rambling and it made my heart ache to see him so upset over it, which lead me to absentmindedly give him a hug.
It was only after I heard him give a questioned noise before I pulled back quickly, quite flustered by my actions. "S-Sorry, I don't know what that was... UhmUHMUHM Time to get going! Yeahahaha!" I nervously rambled as I shoved myself up to avoid further conversation.

Wheatley seemed confused but still followed along beside me, it was like he'd forgotten about the sudden hug and started rambling about whatever else was on his mind at this point, fine by me !

Soon we had gotten up to her chamber, Wheatley was going on about how we'd be dead if she was still alive, hearing this made my heart hurt more as I KNEW what was soon to come...

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Some time had passed since we waltzed in, having found our way to the control panel, wheatley stuck himself in and started to fidget around with all the switches and buttons which of course only lead to us turning Glad0s back on. As soon as we had gotten down we had come back up before her, the walking core in front of me was freaking out as she powered on. "Wheatley. Act natural, whatever she's going to do, we'll get through. Just... Trust me, it will be okay !"

I said, as I finished the murderous AI looked down towards us.

Her glare was cold but I only stared daggers back, I mean, why be nice when she's going to try to kill me later on.

"Oh, It's you."

She snarled towards me, making Wheatley ask his questions, but it was soon cut short by long wires picking the core up and crunching him.

Seconds after I was lifted up and dropped down a tunnel, well.... Here's where the fun begins.