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Line by line The_p.AI.nter drew, it had been a relatively slowly evening somehow even slower then usual and considering the rate at which night groups seemed to fail.
p.AI.nter finally felt as if he could take a small break to just draw, at least until another group full of suckers showed up.
As the little CRT continued to paint the air seemed to shift, his gaze turned upwards it was cold... his room was never cold if anything it was uncomfortably stuffy most days.
Yet here his room was all cold, his fans had slowed it all felt so bizarre and unnatural like something was lurking within the metaphorical frost.
"U-uhhh Sebastian..?" p.AI.nter quietly spoke he wasn't exactly sure what he was looking for comfort maybe? Reassurance that he's not totally lost it yet?
The moment seemed so drag on infinitely long time, Sebastian was not responding p.AI.nter cleared his throat yelling the fishes name louder... still nothing
Time seemed stagnant as p.AI.nter's internal clock remained at 3:33am for far too long, it had been 11:26pm last the bot had checked. Could time have really gone by so fast?
"Sebastian!! I know your there ANSWER ME DANG IT!!!" p.AI.nter yelled yet all he received was loud buzzing static, Why had the Walkie-talkie gone dead? The battery's were new!
p.AI.nter's gaze nervously flung around the room a distance off feeling of dread hung in the air like a thick smog, something seemed to dance and sway in the corner of his vision.
Eyes were upon him yet no-one was there, "I-I..... Hello? I don't know w-what game your playing but QUIT IT!" p.AI.nter struggled to keep the undeniable shake out his voice.
Whatever was hanging at the corner of his vision grew closer, It seemed to simply pass through the fence closing the gap even more a undefined blurry figure in the CRTs view.
It loomed in front of him form flickering in dim dying light, p.AI.nter couldn't tell what he was looking at like a hazy memory it seemed so close to familiar yet still so undefined.
p.AI.nter opened and closed his mouth like a fish out of water trying to search for words, would could he say? He didn't even know what this thing is!
Did it want something from him?
Did it want to hurt him?
Did it want to kill him?
Questions swirled through the robots mind like river rapids leaving more and more questions that lacked answers in its wake.
It touched The_p.AI.nter's caseing with hands cold like winter as it seemed to run them along his top in a petting motion, running along the plastic surface lifting and then putting its hand back to were it started to continue the motion.
The frost of its form chilled p.AI.nter's circuits making them feel like shivering static shocks. p.AI.nter wasn't sure if he'd ever been this cold before, yet somehow it was comfortable.
"A-are... you real?" The words almost silently left p.AI.nter as if he was trying not ruin such a tender, careful moment. The spector pressed a finger against their lips a soft 'shhhh' drifting around the room.
They continued to make the sound their finger moving down to press against p.AI.nter's glassy screen, he swallowed thickly his mouth refusing to function. The petting had ceased.
Their hand began to push into p.AI.nter screen phasing inside of his metal form, a noise manged to escape frozen lips landing somewhere between a yelp and whimper. A noise of soft lost confusion.
They clawed their way deeper inside its form tingling and pulsing like static snow, his caseing felt frozen from cold yet his insides drumed with a lazy warmth as they spread throughout his systems.
p.AI.nter continued to make sounds unable to tell if he wanted to laugh or cry, beg them to stop or tell them to stay... he was only aware of a dull unsure fear of vulnerability.
Confusion and muddled warmth sank at his weak resistance a pitiful plead to hold onto thought and self. Fear and dread being chipping away by beautiful hands holding him close.
Greedy hands caressed his mind trying to pull him down to bliss yet he refused to let himself for reasons he could not understand nor remember in this muddled state, Teetering on the edge of calm and love.
The CRTs screen flickered as the spirit searched through his art aplenty it was full of finished pieces, yet the unfinished art forgotten and half rendered seemed to peak their interest.
p.AI.nter's face grew hot and bothered as they looked at art meant for his eyes only now being displayed out into the world through his screen. His voice now strained and slurred manged to speak.
"W-tjhhat....sstoppl--uhj" It took effort to form the most simple of words a predicament that made frustration boil in his gut.
They seemed to settle on a piece, meadow full of flowers of bright calm colours and unkempt gress all blanketed underneath a sweet pink sunrise.
The image was then enlarged and the ground seemed to shift beneath p.AI.nter, his eyes fluttered open and he found him in the unfinished meadow dew and grass clung to his caseing as he laided unmoving.
He was unable to fully comprehend the moment as it moved without input or awareness, only able to observe as they're form approached his view.
Looking over at his body standing over him with a smile, his body felt heavy in their presence like wrapped in a weighted blanket prevent any escape.
Their arms pulled him in dragging him close in the vibrant and hazy dawn light, p.AI.nter felt a million miles away the dull and gray walls of the Blacksite little more then a vague idea now.
Like everything before this very moment had been nothing but a sorrowful nightmare he had been unable to wake from... resistance was slowly crumbling.
The ghost leaned in their face pressing up against p.AI.nter's in a slow tender motion ghastly lips pressed against glass, an artist and a observer.
The kiss seemed to last forever static and fire and electric dreams flickering between them in this moment, p.AI.nter felt his mind fail resistance falling through like hands holding sand.
He didn't want to be scared anymore, he didn't need to be scared anymore. Nothing needed to matter right now, not him or his life or escape nothing. The spector smirked their job now complete as they held the blissed out bot in their arms.
They wrapped their form around his own peppering him with kisses and praise watching with baited amused as he fell deep under control.
They saw through his eyes the curse facilities under their power, to play along with the fishes plan to simply enjoy said constant game through screens and monitors aplenty.
Through Blood and fear and gore and terror the spirit plays their part with ease the monitor resting within their gentle spell, lost in a dream of bliss unable to wake until willed too.
Within the endless cycles of deaths and doom the pair remain whole together, one no longer afraid the other no longer lonely both now content as they danced a silent waltz under the a sunrises glow.
The dawn around them would likely remain unfinished the date of first creation stretching back to 2023, the ghost simply frowned such things would not do such a beautiful thing should not remain forever forgotten.
p.AI.nter barely blinked letting them guide as they held his hand line by line, brush stroke by brush stroke the pair moved in their colourful waltz once more till soft grass and vibrant sunrise had been restored.
They both let themselves fall towards the grass as one their bodies became entangled within a hug, no sounds or words must be shared between them. Just a calm blissfully blank surrounded by sun and warmth.
Alas such blissfully entertainment must come to a end eventually p.AI.nter would get to leave hell soon and that was okay with the spirit. They'd find a way back to him they always did.
Their form exited his only suffering slight resistance from within the robot as his whined for warmth and love back, yet even he knew somewhere that this couldn't last forever.
They placed hands upon p.AI.nter's side leaning in for one last deep electric kiss before they must bid him adieu, they lean back with sloth words like wind leaving their lips "I love you"
The CRT giggled word tumbling out his mouth with lazy love "hheeh... Ll-llove youyy too--:3~" He was oblivious to how silly he sounded but meaning is what matters in the end.
The cold in the room then shifted fading away back to a familiar stuffy heat, just like that they were gone just like the computer thoughts.
His eyes had a vacancy to them everything that had happened was so beautiful and calm yet it left his form so slow and exhausted just like that.
"-----------?"
"p.-I.n--r.-!"
"P.AI.NTER!!!"
p.AI.nter mumbled a noise his eyes shooting open as Sebastian's voice cut through the fog within his brain, his eyes darted around his words confused.
"W-What..? Huh? Where why... huhhh????"
p.AI.nter could hear Sebastian on the other end sighing it managed to sound so relieved yet disappointed all at the same time, he then continued.
"p.AI.nter I've been calling for your name for the last five minutes, you okay it's unlike you to just not respond?"
p.AI.nter stared at his system time once more 1:52am he remembers it being later, yet also early somehow he had no idea how much time had passed.
"I... don't know" he mumbled "I-I uhh thinkkk I'm fine?" He heard another sigh from Sebastian more worried in nature now.
"Just... keep you chin up okay kid? You won't be waiting much longer, promise" p.AI.nter noded let's out a soft affirming noise before the radio stopped.
p.AI.nter stared forward for a moment trying to recall a single thing over the last two... or maybe more hours yet his mind drew a null, a memory file simply did not exist. All he could remember was cold.
Yet he did find something odd in his search a old, forgotten piece of his he had made for his creator. A meadow full of flowers and a sunrise left unfinished was now completed.
How or why it was now done alluded the bot, but it was and it was so similar to how he had envisioned it all those years ago and then he spotted it a hidden message in the sunrise for his eyes only.
"Till death do we part, my love~♡"
For some reason he felt his heart flutter.