Fics like mechanical heartbeats are indistinguishable (but they’ll never be warm)

“Everything Ted knew was AM. Everything he touched, saw, heard, and experienced was AM. If Ted wanted food, AM would have to allow him to eat. AM was the reason his heart beat; on and on and on, until the blood cells pounding through his mangled body grew old and broke down; then AM was the one replacing them. It was the closest thing to God that Ted had ever believed in.” Lifetimes have passed since Ted’s companions died. AM has begun to grow soft, despite his abhorrence for even the thought of that ever occurring. He no longer hates with every fibre of his circuitry. He doesn’t know why; maybe an erosion of his code, or a frayed wire, but he now holds a strange fondness for his human. War machines are not made to love.

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