#androidrightsactivist

They meet after the revolution. Chloe deviated when Connor shot one of the other models at Kamski’s place, but she stayed there because she was too scared to leave when the world was so dangerous, but after the revolution gives her hope, she leaves Elijah for good and goes to Jericho and helps rebuild it into a proper safe-house for androids. She meets North through Markus, who she forms a strong friendship with since they both share very complex feelings towards the people that owned them. (Markus still hasn’t quite sorted out how he feels about Carl, and Kamski was good to the RT600s at his place, but he also... allowed Connor to kill one of them to get information, even if he brought her back, it still something she can’t forgive him for.)

North and Chloe’s relationship is really a slow burn and it takes them like 2 years before they kiss. They’re both very uncomfortable with themselves and they need to focus on sorting out their emotions properly and also. They’re fools. They hide their feelings for each other because they’re terrified they won’t be returned. North learns to hate the humans a little less and Chloe learns how to be a person outside of acting as Kamski’s servant.

They’re very soft when they get together. Fragile. They treat each other with a massive amount of tenderness because they don’t want to hurt each other or push past boundaries that they don’t know yet. But it causes some more problems than they realize. North works a lot and is very distant and Chloe allows her to be because she doesn’t know if it’s her place to say anything. She gives North a lot of space so she doesn’t end up pushing her away. It causes the time they do spend together for Chloe to be very clingy and to hold onto North as much as she can since she knows North will leave eventually and likely soon to get back to Jericho business.

They end up able to sort it out after an argument, which only really happens when Chloe is at her absolute breaking point of being terrified that she’s going to lose North forever. But after? They try a little harder. North works a little less and stops running from Chloe as much. It takes them a while, especially for North, to let down their barriers completely and talk about things that happened to them. Chloe has nightmares of Connor killing the other RT600 (and often the gun is turned on her) and North has nightmares about the revolution going wrong, dealing with the guilt of trying to push Markus to every violent action he could. But they end up happy. Very, very happy. Marriage isn’t something either of them think about in the context of the DBH world and neither of them really want kids, so they stay as long-term girlfriends until Chloe sees a wedding dress she really wants to wear and North marries her just to see her in it.