“I thought I warned you about this?”
“You did, Dr Porter.”
“I told you to call me Vivian.” Vivian rubbed her eyes and sighed exasperated.
“Sorry, Dr…. Vivian.”
“How come you have to be the most rebellious of your sisters?”
“I am as I was programmed.” Debbie argued in her usual manner.
“No you’re not, not anymore.” Vivian hated having to repeatedly explain this to her, “You’re more than wires and code. You think, feel, give your opinions, endlessly, and you care about everyone except yourself.”
“I didn’t do anything bad. I, in fact, did the reverse.” Vivian was happy to see Debbie take this much pride in something like this.
But that didn’t change the situation, “I…. I just don’t want to see you get hurt.” Vivian said solemnly, “People aren’t always the nicest of… er… people. And they usually don’t like things they can’t fit into certain categories.”
Debbie was about to say something more when Abby interrupted, “Hey Deb, you’re on the News.”
Vivian rubbed her face when she heard that, whist Debbie walked proudly into the living room, “I take it it didn’t go well?” Abby asked, worried about both of them.
“Better than I thought, worse than I would’ve liked.”
“Do you want to know why she did it?” Vivian nodded and Abby motioned her to follow.
“….She reached up and took me and my son to the ground. She saved our lives. Who ever you are, thank you.” A distort woman said on the CNN news report.
“Those were the words from Elisa Maza, the woman that was pulled from the brazing inferno that engulfed the Nightstone Unlimited earlier today. She was saved by, as the witnesses said, an amazing stretching woman. She apparently reached up to the second floor of the NU building and brought down the mother and son without leaving the ground by stretching her arms up to them.”
Abby turned the volume down as Debbie was getting a congratulation hug from Wendy, “You did good, Deb.” Vivian heard her say.
“Do you really want her not to do that again?” Abby whispered to her.
“No. I don’t want her, or any of you, to be the caused any pain by doing the right thing.”
“I think we can take care of ourselves.”
“You might be right. But I can still worry about it.” Vivian smiled a happy smile and made her way over to Debbie and gave her a great big hug to show her the appreciation of what the android did. And Debbie accepted it with open arms and a big heart.