Patient 0 - A Detroit: Become Human Fanfiction
Title: Patient 0
Fandom: Detroit: Become Human
Summary: Together with Lieutenant Hank Anderson and the android Conner the CyberLife-technician Robin Atkins goes on the hunt for the system failure that makes androids to deviants, not knowing that he is the key to it all.
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Chapter 1:
„I mean... can't you analyse it with something else?“, asked Hank with a face of displeasure as he walked into the police department. The android that followed him had the strange habit of licking evidence to analyse it. A skill that was as practical as it was disgusting. „It's the fastest method for getting results, lieutenant.“, answered Conner and made his partner snort loudly. The lieutenant's mood had been ruined the second the department had rung him out of his bed and into a crime scene before he had breakfast. A fleeting look to his workplace let him know that it probably wouldn't change soon. At the other side of his desk, onto a chair that clearly was taken from another desk, sat a young man who seemed to await his arrival. „Come on..“, groaned the old man annoyed and walked on. „Do I have to take on all the small offenders now? I have things to do!“ The visitors short red hair hang in wild locks around his head and his feet, which stuck in heavy army boots, he had laid on the neighbour's desk. All in all his clothes seemed as if they could easily belong to one of the angry protesters outside, that marched against the androids for they made them responsible for losing their jobs. As he came closer Hank could see that only one side of his hair looked like a birds nest, the other side was shaved. „Lieutenant Hank Anderson?“, he asked and offered his hand. „Robin Atkins.“ Hank didn't even think about to shake his hand; he put down his coffee and sat down. „Listen Punk.“, he began. „I don't know who sent you to me, but I have more important tasks to do than to solve trivial offences. Talk to someone else. There are enough people with nothing to do.“ „Lieutenant, I don't think that Mr. Atkins is here because of a crime.“, Conner remarked as he had recognized the stranger. „Technically I am, but of none I did commit.“, objected Robin. „I am Conner, the android sent by CyberLife.“, the RK800 introduced himself. Robin smiled. „I know.“, he said. „I've seen you in the tower. But they wouldn't get me close to you... what kind of morally condemnable feature did they put into your software?“ „Another one from CyberLife?“, mumbled Hank and looked up in disbelief. „Don't worry, they don't know I'm here.“, replied Robin. „I offer my help in the deviant-case.“ „And why would we want your help?“ „I know the models, their build and their failures.“, Robin explained. „Also the captain already said yes.“ Hank blinked a few times and looked into the young man's hopeful face before he sighed and stood up. Robin seemed like he truly wanted to help and like he knew things that could help them. Hank decided to bring him along, if only to find out if Conner had an off-button. Without a word he reached for his jacket and left. „Is that a yes...?“, Robin asked unsure, while Conner followed the Lieutenant outside. Hank answered without turning around. „Get started, before I change my mind.“ „Coming!“, Robin shouted gleefully and hurried after his new partner.
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The operation led the three investigators down town into the less pretty residential areas of Detroit. The Officer, who was waiting for them, instructed Hank about the situation and looked over to his company now and then. While Conner motionlessly stood in the rain Robin had put up his hood, leaned at the boot of Hanks car and stared shamelessly back at the officer. „Back from the mind palace, Sherlock?“, Robin asked as Conner suddenly lifted his head. He knew it was some kind of new feature in his software, an assembly centre for data, a hideaway in ones own mind. Conner tilted his head and lifted an eyebrow. „My name is Conner, not Sherlock.“, he said confused. „That was just... you know what? Nevermind.“ Robin shook his head smiling as Hank joined them. „She took the first bus that came and went till the last station.“, Conner explained. „It wasn't planned, she acted out of fear.“ Hank snorted. „Androids don't feel fear.“ „Deviants do.“, Conner disagreed. „They get overwhelmed by emotions and start to act irrational.“ „But this doesn't tell us, where she went.“ „She had no plan and no destination.“, Conner continued. „Maybe she isn't far...“ With these words they continued their search for the fled android and eventually split up. Hank, who insisted on Robin going with him, so he wasn't unattended, took a look into a shut-off parking garage in which only old car wrecks were to be found. Robin followed behind the lieutenant and kicked an empty tin can in his way. „This AX400... Kara.“, the young man began after a while. „Did she belong to the Williams Household?“ „Yes, the owner was Todd Williams, the victim of this case.“, Hank answered and screened the inside of a trash can. „Oh...“ Warily the lieutenant turned around. „Oh?“ „Defective androids get send back to CyberLife to get fixed, that's what I do.“, Robin explained reluctantly. „A while ago I had this AX400 on my workbench. Cause of defect was said to be a car accident, but trust me, a car accident would have looked differently.“ „Wait a second.“, Hank interrupted him and lifted his hands. „You wanna say, this made her a deviant?“ „Lieutenant, over 60% of the bio components had to be replaced, and we had to do a reset. An android with this kind of damages usually doesn't get fixed but replaced.“ „You think Williams lied?“, Hank asked and frowned. Robin crossed his arms. „I think, this may be the reason she left.“, he replied shrugging. „Maybe he got violent again, maybe against the child too and the situation escalated.“ Hank blinked confused. „What child?“ The case file reported a murder of a human and a fled android. There had been nothing about a child. „According to the sales documents of CyberLife Mr. Williams also was the owner of an YK500. An android modelled after a child.“ The lieutenant shook his head in disbelieve. „An android of a child? What the...“ „It's a relatively new model.“, Robin said. „Maybe she took the girl with her?“ Hank breathed out deeply and rubbed his forehead. „We have to update the search. If she ever was here, she isn't any more.“, he said eventually. „Let's get Conner and leave.“
