Hey guys I'm sorry I took too long for this update, really. I apologize. I've had stuff happening in my life, but now I'm back and ready for more huff puff with Dan, 9S and our excruciatingly beautiful 2B.

So let's begin.

2B, after 2 hours of being in the same position, doing the same movements, and listening to the same sounds, started wondering:

How did she go from a merciless killing machine to an Android who felt incredibly relaxed by running her fingers through the hair of a new special someone she had met less than a week ago, while slightly feeling his soft breath on her tights, and slowly fading away from the comforting noise of his soft snores?

She really couldn't find an answer to that.

And trust her, she'd been thinking about that for hours.

It had been weird, at the beginning. Dan had commented something about her legs being soft, then in a matter of seconds he was already asleep. And yet, she couldn't bring herself to join him on that.

She really didn't know why, but she had long since suspected it had something to do with her artificial heart beating at a thousand miles per second.

Even POD had quietly suggested, yet again, to try calming down and asked if Unit 2B was feeling alright.

Of course, she ordered it to go into a long Rest Mode.

9S's POD didn't even dare say a word towards her.

And afterwards they had just laid there, the two boys snoring softly while she used this opportunity to think. Calmly. In deep silence.

Until the human's stomach started making weird noises.

She remember what he told her hours ago, My belly goes wild if it's not attended properly, and it had sounded so cheeky and stupid at that moment, but now she realized, they did leave his supplies down there, and there was no going back until they found what they were looking.

She chuckled when her processes started thinking of a way to elude the mission, postpone and then go back for Dan's supplies.

She'd go that far for him.

For a human.

She got kicked out of her mind when he shuffled his head, and snuggled closer to her belly. She felt his chest getting bigger, taking a deep breath and then exhaling happily.

She wondered if he worried about himself as much as he did.

Looking at the smile forming on his face as he slept, she highly doubted that last statement.

"Are we there yet?"

"You've asked that a hundred times already"

"I just wanted to know if we were there yet…"

"Dan…"

"Yes?"

"Shut up"

"Okay"

9S cracked at the exchange between his former superior and his newly found friend, Dan. He snickered at the way she had been looking so calm and relaxed when he was asleep, but now that he was awake and very much bored, 2B looked as she was about to kill someone.

A human, to be precise.

"I read humans needed eight complete hours of rest, at least, to be fully recovered" He commented in order to save his friend from his dreadful faith, and he turned around with a confused look in his eyes.

"Who keeps lying to you, Nines?" He joked as he laughed, "I mean, I guess some lucky people did manage to sleep a whole lot, but that's not many of the normal cases. My old man told me that many people used to skip nights in order to earn some more money, and others just didn't like sleeping at all! Call it insomnia, or whatever, I call it being completely nuts" he gestured circles around his head with his index finger and Nines chuckled.

"And you? Do you like sleeping? How long do you usually sleep?" He questioned his curiosity and waited patiently for an answer.

"Depends whether I'm tired or just willing to sleep for the night" He answered as he nodded constantly.

"Didn't you mention you required pillows as well?" 2B decided apporting into the conversation, and Dan yelped in surprise.

He was about to get exposed.

"Yeah! That too" He turned and grinned at her, teeth showing, and she just showed a small smile in return.

Dan coughed.

"And your thighs do a great job at that"

9S could feel the smack Dan earned from 2B.

"I think I can see it now!" Dan yelled, disturbing the comfortable silence that had built up between the three of them, and 2B groaned.

"It's just a dumb cloud, Dan. It's been a cloud for the last seven times!" She exhaled in frustration as Dan walked around and stood right in front of her, "What?" She asked with a frown.

She could feel his eyes scanning her own, and her heart skipped a beat.

Again.

"Nothing" He replied nonchalantly and spinned around, ending up next to her place, and sitting next to her with a grin.

"Are you finally going to calm down?" She questioned as he slowly shuffled closer to her.

She didn't mind, really. Not anymore.

"It's just that, well, I'm kinda hungry" Oh.

Oh.

She had forgotten about that single fact. He could get hungry, and it had been nearly six hours since the last time he allowed himself to eat something.

She could feel her worry increasing exponentially.

"I'm sorry, I hadn't notice...I forgot about it, and I'm sorry we left your supplies down there" She apologised without looking at him, "D-Don't worry, the moment we reach that city, we will look for something so you can eat and feel fi-" She stopped at the sound of something very familiar.

And very annoying.

"Munching?" She asked, and quickly turned her head to see Dan…

…

He was enjoying another of his proudly handmade energy bars, with both of his cheeks stuffed adorably as he munched the rest of the bar away.

"An energy bar!?" He slightly jumped at her tone and turned to look at her with wide open eyes, before nodding.

She would've hit him for making her worry for nothing, if he hadn't looked like a goddamned, stupidly adorable squirrel.

Gosh how much she hated squirrels.

"Yeah, I always keep some in my pockets" He explained after swallowing hard, "You think I'm dumb or something?" He asked as if the obvious answer would be no.

But, oh how much she wanted to say yes.

"Just...inform me, next time" She huffed and moved slightly away from him, "So I don't have to worry for nothing at all" She quickly closed her mouth and regretted what she just said immediately.

"Oh? So you worry about me?" She blused and looked away.

She wanted to silence him. To tell him to shut up again, but she couldn't bring herself to do that.

He would just agree again.

"Of course I do" She replied instead, opting to be honest for once, and Nines's jaw slightly dropped.

Dan just smiled at her, not once looking away from her. Her, and her embarrassed self.

Alert, Unit 2B, 9S and Human Dan have already crossed the thirty minutes line, we're about to reach the Unknown city.

They had been eye resting, all the three of them, and whilst 9S and 2B herself only nodded at the POD's alert, Dan had other plans.

They obviously involved dangerous, reckless, stupid actions from said human, and even more stupid consequences.

"What are you doing?" 2B asked him with a stern tone as he walked close to the closed entrance of their flying tent, and he turned to grin at her.

Oh he knew her weak points already.

"I need to pee" He replied awkwardly, and she coughed.

"Oh" She, again, had forgot about such mundane things humans needed to do, "Then go ahead" he nodded and crouched to open the tent's entrance.

Wait.

"Stop!" He yelped in surprise and stopped before even lifting the zip, "What do you think you're doing? You're gonna kill us all!" She heard 9S snickering, but decided to ignore him.

Dan just looked at her confused.

"Uh...No, I'm not?"

"Yes, you are!"

"No"

"Yes!"

"No!" He decided playing along, as if she was just messing with him.

"Yes, Dan!"

He squinted his eyes at her, turned around, and took hold of the zip before turning his head and looking at her mischievously.

"If you open that entrance, the only one that is going to fall straight to his dead is you, Dan, so stop in this exact moment or I will-" He lifted it up anyway.

This was it. There went her chance to save humanity, her chance to redeem herself, and her chance to finally be free from every single lies she's been told.

There went her hopes and her dreams, and she instantly reached for his arm, to try and hold him.

She closed her eyes, and waited as she held him tight.

"See? We're not dying" Dan laughed at 2B's surprised face, with her mouth gaping wide open and her eyes just the same. Her grip softened and slowly she loosened it up just for him to be able to scape.

She tried voicing her confusion, but words didn't come out of her mouth.

"I know, I know, I understand the concept, I understand what you're thinking, but really, you should really pay more attention to class" She blushed at the way he patted her head tenderly before chuckling, "We're essentially not flying, we're just being lifted up by a magnetic field that pulls everything up constantly and uniformly, and using our weight as an anchor, it makes it so our tent doesn't move out of place. All in all, it's as if we were camping on solid floor" He winked at her and she felt mentally assaulted, out of place, and embarrassed at 9S snickers.

She looked at the floor and scolded herself for not researching as much as she was told to, all those years ago.

"It's fine, nothing to be ashamed of" He shrugged it off and patted her shoulder, "It's advanced physics and magnetism knowledge, not something you would be taught off as a battle unit" He leaned closer to her, "Or an extermination unit, at that" He blowed off a tray of air on her ear and parted away, turning around so she could face his face, "Now turn around unless you want to see a welly-welly" She didn't need the POD to tell her what he meant by that, and awkwardly walked away from the scene.

She reached a new place, next to 9S, whom just looked at her questionably.

She went silent for a few seconds before sighing.

"Hey, Nines?" He hummed in response.

She just called him Nines.

"Would you teach me advanced physics?" Nines coughed in surprise and chuckled for a bit.

"I could get you a chip so you could learn it instantly" He almost passed away at the cute way she had pouted.

"Is that the way Dan learned?" She questioned him, as if he knew every single thing about humans.

"I wouldn't know" He replied with his hands on the air, "You'd have to ask Dan himself, for that" He grinned.

Secretly, he just wanted 2B to keep opening up to someone.

Her gaze stopped once again on the lazy form that was whistling as he looked at the vast sky.

She blinked twice when said form jumped in surprise, and almost stood up, getting herself ready for anything.

"I think I have some pee on my eye!"

Nines laughed hard, and she couldn't help herself from snickering.

"Hey! Not funny!"

Yes, yes funny.

Hey! Back! I hope you liked this chapter (if anyone is still reading this thing, that is) and I hope I haven't lost my humour this couple of months I've left the fanfic.

This was yet another snuffly lovey dovey chapter to fill in what's next, and also a warm up for my cold, stiffy hands.

Thanks to all your reviews, I hope I can get some more to keep me going!

I'll see ya!

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