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Uzi got in bed with N and checked the calendar. Tomorrow was pill day. V would try to escape now...
Uzi set an alarm for 3am and went into sleep mode.
The lights flick on just before V opened the door. "V..." Uzi's voice was stern. The murder drones were, after all, kinda her responsibility.
"I don't want no damn pills" V growled
"You want to be driven mad by instinct? Cause you know you can't kill anyone..."
V just growled at that
"You know what we can do? We can wait til the end of the day but you have to stay in your room, ok?"
V thought for a moment, analyzing the situation and calculating her chance of escape...
By taking Uzi's offer she could postpone it, and maybe figure out a way to escape... maybe while Uzi was handling J who was staying with them because she had nothing else. This only happened because J had once broken down into tears when Uzi pointed her railgun at her for what seemed like the 20th time, stating that she was "only doing this cause [she's] sick of shooting this bitch time and time again"
Uh huh. Sure.
If she didn't take the offer... Uzi would force the pills down V's throat at 3 in the morning...
V was tired anyway...
"Fine..." V took off her coat and trudged to her room.
Uzi blinked as the door slammed shut.
That was easier than expected.
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Uzi's alarm went off and she got up to prepare the medicine. Meanwhile she called out to N, "N? Can you check V's still in her room?"
"Yep!" N responded cheerfully. "Wait... Why is V in timeout?"
"She's not in timeout, just in her room... hopefully"
"Why?"
"Because it's pill day, N... we made a deal this morning, she's gonna take her pills last"
N's eyes hollowed, he hated pill day... he groaned (good-naturedly) but walked off calmly to check on V.
When Retriever Boy got back and reported that V was laying on her bed, texting Lizzy, Uzi responded with, "Great, would you take these pills for me, N? Be a good boy for me?"
Uzi knew how to get him to do something. But today he decided he was gonna... do something... different? ....
"Uziiiii!" N whined "Why do I have to take them? I hate taking pills!"
Uzi didn't expect that "... Because... they're good for you? N... Be a good boy and take the pills, ok?"
"Mmmmm.... No..." N's tail tightened into a spring and he reeked of nerves. He had said no to J once before he met Uzi... worst beating of his life... he had been scared to undress infront of Uzi...
Because of the scar...
"N... I don't want to do it the hard way like I do V and J" N shivered. He'd seen and helped Uzi pin the girls down and shove pills down their held jaws.... with fingers!
N hesitated before taking the pills out of Uzi's hand... but he didn't put them in his mouth nor met Uzi's gaze...
Uzi was about to turn away when she noticed N's still figure... "N?"
"I don't... want to take the pills..." N muttered
"N..." Uzi sighed "I still have to do V and J... Don't make this hard on me, Love... please?"
N stared at Uzi before bringing his hand to his mouth and swallowing the pills. He whined gently at the discomfort of the pills sliding down his throat...
"Thank you."
When N and Uzi entered the room, J was curled up on that blanket they had laid out, she was always being either really territorial or aggressive, or really scared, never calm or anything. Uzi had started to consider getting a shock collar because of all the misbehavior.
She whimpered and turned her head away when she saw Uzi.
"J..." Uzi coaxed gently, pills held safely in her hand "I have pills... I'll be gentle..."
J groaned. No one liked pill day it seemed.
"Come on, J." Uzi tried, and before she knew it, she was flat on her back, J ontop of her.
N quickly defused the situation, jumping onto J and rolling so he had her pinned. Uzi quickly popped the pills in J's maw and forced her to swallow.
J lay there, tired and upset... like usual...
But it was Uzi's job to make sure she swallowed those pills. J let Uzi check inside her mouth with just an annoyed grunt.
Uzi entered V's room and immediately saw yellow eyes snap back towards her. The room was entirely dark so all she could see was seven yellow eyes staring into hers and a yellow glow flicking back and forth in an agitated motion.
Uzi flicked on the lights but V was nowhere to be seen...
Except for the tail flicking from under the bed, revealing V's hiding place.
"V, come on... You know you have to take your pills."
V growled animalistically, "Why?!"
"Because they're good for you" Uzi said to the two dots staring out at her.
"What do they do anyway?" V snarled
N started, "I asked the same thi-!"
"N, not helping!"
"But-"
"They help control that hunting instinct, ok?"
"Hunting instinct?" N asked obliviously
But V seemed to relax slightly, "... I thought... that..."
"What?" Uzi was curious now
"Nothing"
"V"
"I thought they... affected our reproduction... or something..."
Uzi was taken aback, "What make you think that?"
V growled aggressively from under the bed. "None of your business"
"It may be my business... I do your matienence now... remember?"
V remembered the feeling of Uzi's hands inside her, touching things, shifting things, exploring... 'checking'.... V didn't believe that... And the way she touched...
Uzi's hands brushed against something as V suddenly yelped and growled at the same time, pulling harshly away from Uzi and turning to face her defensively, teeth bared.
"What?"
"Don't touch that" V stated simply
"Why? What is it?" Uzi had already done a mandatory check up on N but he was male... V was female...
"... Don't touch it" V repeated
"Why?"
"None of your concern."
"I'm gonna keep touching it if you don't tell me."
"It's my womb... you happy? It's the only reproductive organ in my body and it's extremely fragile" V was still standing, facing Uzi but now she was less aggressive. "That one touch... you... theoretically..." V blushed "Could have gotten me pregnant just now"
Uzi blushed too at that... What would N think if she got V pregnant? What would Uzi do?
V shivered at the memory.
"What makes you think the pills had anything to do with your reproduction?" Uzi reinstated.
"... Noth-" Uzi gave her a look. "... I... Female Disassembly Drones... we... we have what's called a heat... every month... for a week... and... we wanna... fuck... get pregnant, right?... but... I've missed mine... and it's.... it's... a sign of sexual maturity... so it stopping could mean... that my reproduction... has been effected... or turned off..." V explains, nervous and unsure, blushing heavily.
After a moment of silence, N says "... Uzi, what's the hunting instinct?"
Oh.
"It's... It's a need to hunt something down present in all Disassembly Drones, even if it's just a toy mouse or something," Uzi explains, "It's unaffected by hunger and simply scavenging for oil and taking what you find won't help with that instinct. The pills turn it off so that you can just take oil and not have to hunt for it or anything."
"Oh!" N says, comprehending, "That makes sense" he smiles. The little cylly.
V speaks up again, "In any case, I don't need the pills, I hunt anyway, so..." She finally climbed out from under the bed, lying on it again to rest. She picked up her phone and started texting Lizzy again...
Well... as much as she knew how. She mostly texted short, incomplete sentences.
"You know what, I'm too tired..." Uzi left, N following behind.
V was texting Lizzy about some... weird stuff that's been happening to her... needing more oil, feeling warmer, especially in the stomach region, the lack of craving for mating...
Lizzy finally texted back "Girl... that sound like preg!"
"No"
"True drones cant get preg
But humans have similar symptoms 4 preg!"
"No I can preg but I no mate rece"-
V accidentally hit send before she was done with the word... but Lizzy understood
"Wat abt those times? 😏"
V was taken aback.
During her heats, she would often ask Lizzy for help... A.K.A... start making moves until Lizzy opened her legs... so to speak...
But... Lizzy had never touched V's womb... not a single part of her, not even anything she had ever touched! Their 'sessions' mainly consisted of dry humping and grinding... well and tailplay and stuff but that's irrelevant... although, occasionally, that wouldn't be enough for V and Lizzy would rub her entrance with a finger, but she never went very deep! ... either that or... Lizzy would ask for some in return...
Workers didn't have any parts or anything like Disassembly Drones did, but their crotches and cores were very sensitive, so they could be pleased.
"No
U no touch wombat"
She meant to say womb but autocorrect did its job poorly.
"*womb" Lizzy corrected then continued "but do I need to?"
"Ya"
"My parents r gone"
Lizzy was being suggestive again, inviting V over with that simple sentence
"No" V responded simply
"Y?"
V didn't respond, she didn't know how... she didn't want no kid but... that was only the persona she put up talking... deep down there was that sweet, shy worker who... probably wouldn't mind kids... especially with her mate partner.
Having enough of the memories of someone V no longer knew, V curled up and begun to cry.