Problems Elsewhere (Book 2) (Page 189)

~~~(POV: Aurora)~~~

~~~(Location: Command Deck, Immortalitas)~~~

"Why not talk to me about it? You've already come this far with your problems. It's not like I'm gonna tell Scott you love him. It might help you accept whatever you're going through if you confide in someone."

Durado has become an annoying pain in the ass more than I thought he could be now that Scott is gone until we reach the first map fragment.

I've been trying to ignore the guy for the past day, but every couple of hours. He always brings up Scott. Durado isn't good at a lot of things. The few things he is good at, he's the best at them. Be that killing people, or reading others.

He's read my feelings about Scott like I'm some sort of child with a crush. His conversation with him about me opened my mind more about it. How impossible it really is.

An organic body for Artificial Intelligence has never been done before. It's more complex than making a Coda Installation.

"So you're just gonna ignore me?"

Seems that way, genius.

"Fine, we can talk about something else. How about the girl he's seeing on Earth?"

That bothers me. More than I'd ever care to share. Whoever that girl is, she's able to do things with Scott that I can't.

Kiss him... Feel him... Love him...

All of those things are something I want to try with Scott. But I can't. I'm trapped in this digital body. Some would consider my powers over technology to be Godhood, but it's not. Not while I have so many other drawbacks to this power.

"Still ignoring me."

This time it's not a question.

"I don't know her name or what she looks like. But I'm certain that Scott has someone in his life outside all of his."

He raises his arms and refers to the place we live in. The Aeternus Universe.

"I wonder what she's like? To be able to capture the attention and love of Scott. It must be hard. Seeing that someone can have that with Scott and not have it yourself."

I'm close to throwing Durado into Hyperspace.

"Enough."

There is a tone of finality and anger. For the first time since he started talking, I'm actually looking at him.

"Okay, then, what are we supposed to talk about? The only thing we have in common is Scott, and it's for different reasons."

Instead of entertaining this repeated event, I leave the command deck and head deeper into the ship.

Durado doesn't know how hard his questions were hitting home. I guess that was the point of why he was asking them. To get me to react and engage in some talk with him. I'm not interested in sharing any part of my thoughts or dreams with Durado.

He's a bounty hunter that doesn't know how important all this really is. He's too busy thinking this is an adventure.

I'll be glad of the day when I don't have to deal with him anymore. But that day is a long way out. That much I know, and that isn't something I can change.

My thoughts drift to Scott and what he might be doing with whoever he has on Earth. It's something that I wish I could have with him. But it's not like I can. A certain part of me is jealous. If there is anything, I'd like to know her name.

That's something I can ask Scott. Casually ask about his Earth family. That'd be nice. Getting to know him more. I'll slip in who he might be seeing on the other side.

It sounds like I'm plotting a murder or something. I'd never hurt someone that Scott loves. No matter how much I hate it's not me.

Well, it's not like he doesn't love me. He loves me in his own special way. He did say that if I had a real body, he'd consider me a potential partner. That means, on some level, he thinks about me in ways that I think about him.

I wish I had someone to teach me about this kind of stuff. Borealis was my creator. My mother, in essence. She probably had feelings for Eternal Acuity. Just like I'm having feelings for Scott. But it's not like I can ask her.

The last I saw her was Primordium Prime. That place is probably infested with The Parasite now. The ancient homeworld of The Primordium has fallen to our greatest enemy.

For a second time.