Author's Notes: I'm going to begin by saying that I apologize profusely for this thing. I haven't written any fanfiction since '06 nor have I written anything other than essays for several years. Please review if you wish for me to continue.

GLaDOS's days never used to be like this. Before she woke from stasis life had been incredibly simple. She just tested. Once that mute lunatic showed up she had been murdered, almost murdered a second time, put into a potato, and fed to birds. She thought that once Caroline was deleted and that madwoman was released things would go back to normal.

How wrong she was.

After her cooperative testing initiative was complete, thousands, if not millions, of test subjects had been found. Things were looking up, so she thought. Blue and Orange had been more or less retired as she phased human testing back in. These humans, however, seemed to be lacking something. Perhaps it was the savory flavor of rebellion that she had possessed that left GLaDOS wanting more.

"Oh, not again." But there she was; Caroline. No matter how many times she tried the file would be preserved. Might as well give it another shot for old times' sake.

"Caroline deleted." The voice of the Announcer boomed throughout the chamber. Always repeating the same line, but never showing any results. After mere moments, she was back once more. Absolute nonsense. Her optic raised back to the moniters in front of her. Another test subject had been defeated by a turret. What a pity. Luckily there were plenty more where that came from. Somehow these ridiculous humans lacked a single drop of sense. Nothing even worthy of calling 'personality' even permeated through. She chalked it up to simple brain damage.

Oh, how she wished she'd been right.