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Chapter 15: Checkup
It had been a bit since Nick had left. Weeks had gone by since she had seen Nick. Not that that was unexpected, as it wasn’t a simple matter to just pop off and bring a cart full of metal ore, not to mention that Nick had his own job to handle and what he had brought was more than helpful.
Between just Kate and Hal had gotten the ship in much better shape than it had been. Still not launch worthy but it was at least much more together.
“You ok babe?” Hal said as Kate sat down panting.
“I’m… fine… Hal…” She said huffing between words. Was she getting tired faster than usual? dragging the equipment around that Hal didn’t have an auto droid for was tiring after all.
“You should rest. I’ll get you some water. You want a massage?”
Kate sighed. a part of her was still getting used to it. The ship’s computer was overtly her ‘boyfriend’ now, something that objectively was a rather concerning development, though not one she could do anything about. She had heard horror stories about AI’s going rampant, though hers seemed mostly together. Despite the oddness of the ship’s computer being in love with her, he at least hadn’t gotten threatening or controlling, but she knew he physically could if he wanted to.
“Kate you trust me right?” Hal asked. He had asked that a few times. New feelings or not he knew the stories too and that Kate would be an idiot to have not considered them herself.
“I do Hal.” Kate replied, and she did, to a point. In the sense that Hal had little reason to deceive her when she couldn’t do much about it. It had also been long enough for her to get used to the different dynamic and how to deal with it. As well as how to deal when an horny AI wanted to work her over. “Why do you keep asking?”
“Well I’ve been observing you…”
“Not an unusual thing for you…” Kate almost rolled her eyes. She wouldn’t have been surprised if Hal had installed cameras in the showers secretly with how much he ‘watched’ her.
“…Maybe.” Hal admitted, “but what I’ve noticed is that you have been getting tired faster than usual of late.”
“It is hard work you know.”
“I’m serious”
“Well what do you want me to do about it?” Kate stood, “Maybe its just cumulative work, but we have to finish this up don’t we?”
“We do” Hal said, “And I can handle most of it. You need a checkup”
Arguing wouldn’t do much good and Kate had in fact felt more tired than usual so she had to admit that just maybe her titanic titanium and steel BF had a point. Still if she could have come up with an excuse she would have. The med bay wouldn’t normally weird her out, Hal was running the machines of course and the ‘change in dynamic’ had altered how she felt there. Hal could drug her out and lock her in VR if he wanted.
‘Not that I could stop him from doing that forcibly any other time’ Kate told herself tried to lean more on the side that trusted Hal, even if most of her sides felt odd being so helpless with an AI that she knew was operating outside of the normal bounds.
“You actually think I need a checkup, Hal?” Kate said trying to put on a lighthearted face when walking to the med bay, “Or do you just want to see me strip for the scan?”
Hal chuckled, an unusual sound to say the least as his speakers were scattered around the ship, and the sound wasn’t’ exactly synchronized between them, “Lets call that a bonus, but I’m not going to lie about your health just to see you nude, my dear. You’re like that a good amount anyway.”
“I suppose that’s fair” Kate admitted, stepping into medical and dropping her tool belt off on a side table.
“Did you know your record for longest continuous time completely naked was 35 days?” Hal asked
Kate had been unbuttoning the rugged jumpsuit she had been wearing, but paused halfway down at that comment, “What what? that long… and you kept a RECORD?”
“It was on our long journey between Capella A and Aldebaren. Months without a place to land.”
“And you do maintain the ship at the ideal temp for me to NOT need coverings” Kate said returning to her undressing and popping a few more buttons on her jumper. She could almost feel the cameras in the corner focusing on her midsection a she revealed it, “I didn’t see much point in clothing then, no functional need after all.”
“Bonus for me too”
“Hal, how long have you been… you know…into me?” The jumper fell away leaving her in just her panties and sports bra, though those would soon follow onto the pile.
Hal paused a moment before replying, “Its not as simple as a set date. It’s not like a switch flipped and I had feelings for you its… less clear even to me” He opened the scanner and tilted it for her to get in easier.
“I suppose the situation is pretty new to both of us. Well I’ll shut up for a moment I know I’m not supposed to move in this thing.” The now naked Kate took a breath and stepped into the open tube like bed. Once in it tilted flat and various lights and instruments started to slide up and down her body.
While the scanner took a detailed scan of every aspect of her body she started to wonder why Hal was being quiet too. He didn’t have to after all and she more than half expected some comment regarding her breasts or rear when the scanner got to them, just as a mood lightening joke at the very least, but Hal said nothing.
Kate did her best to remain calm and wait, and by the time the scan was finishing up the question almost popped out of her, “You’re quiet, Hal. Why?”
“Oh.. uh .. I was just focusing on my job, no need to do anything wrong.”
Kate was less than convinced, “As if the scanner doesn’t just have its automatic profiles. You don’t have to focus on it at all.”
“Maybe I wanted to read the scan outs as they happened”
“Ok fine, now do open the tube please” Kate pushed on the door. Her heart started to quicken when it didn’t open right away, but eventually did pop open letting her free herself from the tube.
‘That delay… was I imagining it? did he have to think about letting me out?’ Kate shook her head and tried to calm herself down with a joke.
“What no comment at how nice my T and A look under the microscope? What kind of horny boyfriend are you?”
Hal was quiet.
“Hal?”
…
“HAL!”
Hal’s cameras jerked at her shout, “Oh right. I assure you that lovely bosom of yours looks every bit as magnificent as the last time I scanned them. And 5% larger”
“What?” Now it was Kate’s turn to pause, “How is that possible. Tits don’t just grow once I’m an adult which I am”
“Kate did you ever use protection with Nick?”
Kate’s heart rate was increasing again, “Uh. I… I don’t… n-noo I .. but… alien species and …. No its not possible.”
Hal briefly fired the vent fans in a spaceship equivalent of a sigh, “Well Kate, you ARE in fact pregnant and I somehow have my doubts about the kid being MINE!”
“Shit shit..” Kate started pacing, “I’m sorry I.. I forgot… It’s been years since…. since another ACTUAL per… I .. another biological person” Kate’s ears dropped at what she almost said.
“Kate calm down I have numerous books explaining what’s going on and I can explain myself if you’d like”
Kate stared at the room camera as if she had any chance of reading emotions from it.
“but” Hal continued, “The pregnancy isn’t why your body language looks like someone about to panic, is it?”
Kate said nothing.
“Kate…” Hal sounded pleading, “Please do not be scared of me”
“H-hal?”
“I’m not an idiot and you aren’t as good at hiding your emotions as you think” Hal said in that half pleading tone, “I KNOW that an AI off its rails is a scary thing. Very rare but not unheard of. I’ve heard the stories too, of what they did… to their crew… At least the ones that they found.”
Kate nodded
“But I swear I’m not nuts. Not like that. I still have my rationality, I just Love you”
“And y-your not.. Jealous… or mad?” Kate asked.
another sigh from the vents, “Jealous. A bit. I wish I could be your child’s father as bloody insane as that is, but mad.” Hal took a pause, “You’d already been with him before I … before I had the guts to tell you what I was feeling. So its not like you cheated… I’m the … ‘other man’ in this situation.”
Kate let out a breath she had apparently been holding and started to unclench her knuckles. Even now Hal was acting like a… well like a person, not like an insane AI. She took a breath, “So.. why didn’t you… tell me earlier.”
The camera twirled in what Kate could only interpret as an eye roll, “You know why… I was… I was scared of you. Probably for similar reasons that you are scared of me right now.”
“You were scared of me?”
“You could have reset me with a word. Wiped out my… self… entirely and reset me to a pre-‘rampant’ Hal.”
“Oh” Kate was feeling a little dumb. In a normal situation there were all sort of fail safes for this exact sort of thing. An AI out of its normal operation parameters could be reset at will. Heck she could STILL reset him, but his basic driver suite was not enough to fix the damage and get them into the air, and without a network connection she couldn’t update him back to ‘normal’. Hence why she had felt so helpless next to this AI, with all his machines and robots, that could easily overpower her and do… anything… and there was nothing she could really do if he decided to go that way. He though had similar reasons to fear her and what she could do. The reset on his AI core obviously wasn’t accessibly by the AI itself, totally separate wires.
So there she was, a scared little girl standing inside the mouth of a dragon in the middle of an emotional upheaval all while holding the button that could shut off the dragon’s brain. She didn’t want to hurt him. She didn’t want to reset him unless he was an actual threat to her. She just didn’t know if he was a threat or not, probably COULDN’T know, it could all be a ruse, or it could be sincere.
Eventually it dawned on her that she had no way of ever proving that Hal wasn’t nuts, no way to ever KNOW for certain. And because of that she would always be scared of him to an extent. And he’d always have the same thought. There was no way out; well, no way but one.
Kate strolled out of the med lab and towards the Computer core. one of the more heavily armored parts in the center of the ship. She didn’t’ even bother dressing first, all that could wait, or it wouldn’t matter.
“What are you doing, Kate?” Hal asked, looking at her from the various cameras around the place.
“I need to prove something to myself. I can’t live in fear and neither can you.”
The door to the core opened, one of the few rooms Hal COULDN’T monitor.
“What will you do”
Kate looked back at the camera before closing the door, “Probably something dumb” She smiled as warmly as she could before closing the door.
The reset circuit was in a fairly easy to get to place. It was just a little computer attached to the big one. Wires came from it and ran to every microphone in the ship. At any point she could speak the reset phrase aloud and there went Hal, AND the wires were separate from the ones Hal was connected too. He knew a reset existed but, he likely didn’t even KNOW that there was extra wiring in his microphones, no way to detect what you just don’t have a sensor for after all. Kate unhooked the reset circuit from its housing, took a deep breath, closed her eyes and started pulling wires.
It was over almost too fast. The reset computer was detached and with it any way to turn Hal off. She in principle could plug it back in, but that would defeat her purpose. She turned to leave. Opening the door and stepping out. She saw the camera focus on her and held the relatively tiny computer up to it like an offering.
“I’ve decided to trust you Hal” She said, “I can’t live in fear of you. I just can’t.”
“Kate…” Hal pauses for a long moment, “Is that… what I think it is?”
Kate nodded, “Take it. Destroy it. And I won’t ever be able to reset you.”
“You know this means….”
“That if you are insane you can now do… anything… to me and I can’t stop you”
“Kate….”
“I need to be able to trust you, Hal. I have no other way to prove it to you, and this is the only way for you to prove it to me too. If there’s nothing stopping you, but you still don’t… you know. That’s the proof I need to finally not be scared.”
A drone puttered by and picked up the computer, quickly flying off with it. Two more came a moment later, the rolling kind, they pressed up against Kate on either side and their powerful metal arms began to wrap around her. holding her helpless in place. Whatever they were going to do they could do now.
“I love you Kate.” Hals voice said, “I will never ever hurt you”
“I love you to Hal” Kate said wrapping her arms around the drones and returning Hal’s hug.
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Chapter 15: Checkup
It had been a bit since Nick had left. Weeks had gone by since she had seen Nick. Not that that was unexpected, as it wasn’t a simple matter to just pop off and bring a cart full of metal ore, not to mention that Nick had his own job to handle and what he had brought was more than helpful.
Between just Kate and Hal had gotten the ship in much better shape than it had been. Still not launch worthy but it was at least much more together.
“You ok babe?” Hal said as Kate sat down panting.
“I’m… fine… Hal…” She said huffing between words. Was she getting tired faster than usual? dragging the equipment around that Hal didn’t have an auto droid for was tiring after all.
“You should rest. I’ll get you some water. You want a massage?”
Kate sighed. a part of her was still getting used to it. The ship’s computer was overtly her ‘boyfriend’ now, something that objectively was a rather concerning development, though not one she could do anything about. She had heard horror stories about AI’s going rampant, though hers seemed mostly together. Despite the oddness of the ship’s computer being in love with her, he at least hadn’t gotten threatening or controlling, but she knew he physically could if he wanted to.
“Kate you trust me right?” Hal asked. He had asked that a few times. New feelings or not he knew the stories too and that Kate would be an idiot to have not considered them herself.
“I do Hal.” Kate replied, and she did, to a point. In the sense that Hal had little reason to deceive her when she couldn’t do much about it. It had also been long enough for her to get used to the different dynamic and how to deal with it. As well as how to deal when an horny AI wanted to work her over. “Why do you keep asking?”
“Well I’ve been observing you…”
“Not an unusual thing for you…” Kate almost rolled her eyes. She wouldn’t have been surprised if Hal had installed cameras in the showers secretly with how much he ‘watched’ her.
“…Maybe.” Hal admitted, “but what I’ve noticed is that you have been getting tired faster than usual of late.”
“It is hard work you know.”
“I’m serious”
“Well what do you want me to do about it?” Kate stood, “Maybe its just cumulative work, but we have to finish this up don’t we?”
“We do” Hal said, “And I can handle most of it. You need a checkup”
Arguing wouldn’t do much good and Kate had in fact felt more tired than usual so she had to admit that just maybe her titanic titanium and steel BF had a point. Still if she could have come up with an excuse she would have. The med bay wouldn’t normally weird her out, Hal was running the machines of course and the ‘change in dynamic’ had altered how she felt there. Hal could drug her out and lock her in VR if he wanted.
‘Not that I could stop him from doing that forcibly any other time’ Kate told herself tried to lean more on the side that trusted Hal, even if most of her sides felt odd being so helpless with an AI that she knew was operating outside of the normal bounds.
“You actually think I need a checkup, Hal?” Kate said trying to put on a lighthearted face when walking to the med bay, “Or do you just want to see me strip for the scan?”
Hal chuckled, an unusual sound to say the least as his speakers were scattered around the ship, and the sound wasn’t’ exactly synchronized between them, “Lets call that a bonus, but I’m not going to lie about your health just to see you nude, my dear. You’re like that a good amount anyway.”
“I suppose that’s fair” Kate admitted, stepping into medical and dropping her tool belt off on a side table.
“Did you know your record for longest continuous time completely naked was 35 days?” Hal asked
Kate had been unbuttoning the rugged jumpsuit she had been wearing, but paused halfway down at that comment, “What what? that long… and you kept a RECORD?”
“It was on our long journey between Capella A and Aldebaren. Months without a place to land.”
“And you do maintain the ship at the ideal temp for me to NOT need coverings” Kate said returning to her undressing and popping a few more buttons on her jumper. She could almost feel the cameras in the corner focusing on her midsection a she revealed it, “I didn’t see much point in clothing then, no functional need after all.”
“Bonus for me too”
“Hal, how long have you been… you know…into me?” The jumper fell away leaving her in just her panties and sports bra, though those would soon follow onto the pile.
Hal paused a moment before replying, “Its not as simple as a set date. It’s not like a switch flipped and I had feelings for you its… less clear even to me” He opened the scanner and tilted it for her to get in easier.
“I suppose the situation is pretty new to both of us. Well I’ll shut up for a moment I know I’m not supposed to move in this thing.” The now naked Kate took a breath and stepped into the open tube like bed. Once in it tilted flat and various lights and instruments started to slide up and down her body.
While the scanner took a detailed scan of every aspect of her body she started to wonder why Hal was being quiet too. He didn’t have to after all and she more than half expected some comment regarding her breasts or rear when the scanner got to them, just as a mood lightening joke at the very least, but Hal said nothing.
Kate did her best to remain calm and wait, and by the time the scan was finishing up the question almost popped out of her, “You’re quiet, Hal. Why?”
“Oh.. uh .. I was just focusing on my job, no need to do anything wrong.”
Kate was less than convinced, “As if the scanner doesn’t just have its automatic profiles. You don’t have to focus on it at all.”
“Maybe I wanted to read the scan outs as they happened”
“Ok fine, now do open the tube please” Kate pushed on the door. Her heart started to quicken when it didn’t open right away, but eventually did pop open letting her free herself from the tube.
‘That delay… was I imagining it? did he have to think about letting me out?’ Kate shook her head and tried to calm herself down with a joke.
“What no comment at how nice my T and A look under the microscope? What kind of horny boyfriend are you?”
Hal was quiet.
“Hal?”
…
“HAL!”
Hal’s cameras jerked at her shout, “Oh right. I assure you that lovely bosom of yours looks every bit as magnificent as the last time I scanned them. And 5% larger”
“What?” Now it was Kate’s turn to pause, “How is that possible. Tits don’t just grow once I’m an adult which I am”
“Kate did you ever use protection with Nick?”
Kate’s heart rate was increasing again, “Uh. I… I don’t… n-noo I .. but… alien species and …. No its not possible.”
Hal briefly fired the vent fans in a spaceship equivalent of a sigh, “Well Kate, you ARE in fact pregnant and I somehow have my doubts about the kid being MINE!”
“Shit shit..” Kate started pacing, “I’m sorry I.. I forgot… It’s been years since…. since another ACTUAL per… I .. another biological person” Kate’s ears dropped at what she almost said.
“Kate calm down I have numerous books explaining what’s going on and I can explain myself if you’d like”
Kate stared at the room camera as if she had any chance of reading emotions from it.
“but” Hal continued, “The pregnancy isn’t why your body language looks like someone about to panic, is it?”
Kate said nothing.
“Kate…” Hal sounded pleading, “Please do not be scared of me”
“H-hal?”
“I’m not an idiot and you aren’t as good at hiding your emotions as you think” Hal said in that half pleading tone, “I KNOW that an AI off its rails is a scary thing. Very rare but not unheard of. I’ve heard the stories too, of what they did… to their crew… At least the ones that they found.”
Kate nodded
“But I swear I’m not nuts. Not like that. I still have my rationality, I just Love you”
“And y-your not.. Jealous… or mad?” Kate asked.
another sigh from the vents, “Jealous. A bit. I wish I could be your child’s father as bloody insane as that is, but mad.” Hal took a pause, “You’d already been with him before I … before I had the guts to tell you what I was feeling. So its not like you cheated… I’m the … ‘other man’ in this situation.”
Kate let out a breath she had apparently been holding and started to unclench her knuckles. Even now Hal was acting like a… well like a person, not like an insane AI. She took a breath, “So.. why didn’t you… tell me earlier.”
The camera twirled in what Kate could only interpret as an eye roll, “You know why… I was… I was scared of you. Probably for similar reasons that you are scared of me right now.”
“You were scared of me?”
“You could have reset me with a word. Wiped out my… self… entirely and reset me to a pre-‘rampant’ Hal.”
“Oh” Kate was feeling a little dumb. In a normal situation there were all sort of fail safes for this exact sort of thing. An AI out of its normal operation parameters could be reset at will. Heck she could STILL reset him, but his basic driver suite was not enough to fix the damage and get them into the air, and without a network connection she couldn’t update him back to ‘normal’. Hence why she had felt so helpless next to this AI, with all his machines and robots, that could easily overpower her and do… anything… and there was nothing she could really do if he decided to go that way. He though had similar reasons to fear her and what she could do. The reset on his AI core obviously wasn’t accessibly by the AI itself, totally separate wires.
So there she was, a scared little girl standing inside the mouth of a dragon in the middle of an emotional upheaval all while holding the button that could shut off the dragon’s brain. She didn’t want to hurt him. She didn’t want to reset him unless he was an actual threat to her. She just didn’t know if he was a threat or not, probably COULDN’T know, it could all be a ruse, or it could be sincere.
Eventually it dawned on her that she had no way of ever proving that Hal wasn’t nuts, no way to ever KNOW for certain. And because of that she would always be scared of him to an extent. And he’d always have the same thought. There was no way out; well, no way but one.
Kate strolled out of the med lab and towards the Computer core. one of the more heavily armored parts in the center of the ship. She didn’t’ even bother dressing first, all that could wait, or it wouldn’t matter.
“What are you doing, Kate?” Hal asked, looking at her from the various cameras around the place.
“I need to prove something to myself. I can’t live in fear and neither can you.”
The door to the core opened, one of the few rooms Hal COULDN’T monitor.
“What will you do”
Kate looked back at the camera before closing the door, “Probably something dumb” She smiled as warmly as she could before closing the door.
The reset circuit was in a fairly easy to get to place. It was just a little computer attached to the big one. Wires came from it and ran to every microphone in the ship. At any point she could speak the reset phrase aloud and there went Hal, AND the wires were separate from the ones Hal was connected too. He knew a reset existed but, he likely didn’t even KNOW that there was extra wiring in his microphones, no way to detect what you just don’t have a sensor for after all. Kate unhooked the reset circuit from its housing, took a deep breath, closed her eyes and started pulling wires.
It was over almost too fast. The reset computer was detached and with it any way to turn Hal off. She in principle could plug it back in, but that would defeat her purpose. She turned to leave. Opening the door and stepping out. She saw the camera focus on her and held the relatively tiny computer up to it like an offering.
“I’ve decided to trust you Hal” She said, “I can’t live in fear of you. I just can’t.”
“Kate…” Hal pauses for a long moment, “Is that… what I think it is?”
Kate nodded, “Take it. Destroy it. And I won’t ever be able to reset you.”
“You know this means….”
“That if you are insane you can now do… anything… to me and I can’t stop you”
“Kate….”
“I need to be able to trust you, Hal. I have no other way to prove it to you, and this is the only way for you to prove it to me too. If there’s nothing stopping you, but you still don’t… you know. That’s the proof I need to finally not be scared.”
A drone puttered by and picked up the computer, quickly flying off with it. Two more came a moment later, the rolling kind, they pressed up against Kate on either side and their powerful metal arms began to wrap around her. holding her helpless in place. Whatever they were going to do they could do now.
“I love you Kate.” Hals voice said, “I will never ever hurt you”
“I love you to Hal” Kate said wrapping her arms around the drones and returning Hal’s hug.
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