A Love Too Great

This was also just for fun, like an earlier writing I posted on here. It was used to get out some of my emotions as well as sharpen my writing skills. Wnjoy :)

            Once upon a time, there was a female scientist in search of true love. Over many years, she had tried so hard, but all she had ever ended up with was a broken heart and a suffering that only slightly disappeared as time went on. Indeed, her last experiment with love was still quite fresh and she was sure this piece of her heart was lost with that man forever.

Because she felt she could never find her match, one night, she created a young male android in her lab. She gave this android brown hair and ice-blue eyes, glasses, a t-shirt with a heart design on the sleeve, and blue jeans. But the most important item she had installed him with was a mechanical heart, equipped with feelings of only love. His only mission in life was to discover the true love the female scientist had failed to find. “It can’t fail,” she told herself the night she awakened her creation. His eyes were so bright, filled with kindness and compassion and he smiled widely at her. Surely he would fulfill her dreams.

Within the next month, the scientist had trained with the android, helping him get his basic commands down. She taught him how to walk and to speak, how to eat and go to the bathroom. He was soon well trained in the essentials and the scientist knew he was ready to take on her request.

‘Android has achieved 120% in performance,’ she was writing in her lab journal just before sending her creation out. ‘He is very smart and shows great potential. However,’ she looked down at her creation. He was currently standing very close to her, looking back up at her with those blue eyes, smiling in compassion, ‘he seems to be a bit clingy. This is an unusual action, but one I assume will disappear after I have sent him on his mission.’

After finishing her journaling, the scientist opened the door to the android, showing him to the outside world for the first time.

“Go and find your match,” she told him, pointing off to the horizon. “Come back only when you have succeeded in accomplishing my request. You cannot fail. I’ve created you with a heart that can only love.”

The young male android looked to his creator, and for the first time, she saw his smile turn to a frown of confusion and sorrow.

“But…Master…?” he asked in hesitation.

But the scientist would not have his stalling. She gestured more forcefully to the outside.

“Go. This is what I have created you for.”

The android watched his creator for a moment longer with the sad frown. Soon, the expression lifted to a small smile, though one of doubt, and he nodded in understanding. Then, he stepped out and disappeared from her presence.

For many years, the scientist waited for her android to return. Just in case something happened to him, she had given him the address to house, but rather than using it for emergencies, the young android would send letters to his creator, telling her about his week. After each letter, he would sign it with a heart and an “I love you.” This carried on for the many years he was gone until she had sent him a letter reminding him of his mission to find his true love and told him to cease sending her letters. After this, the letters had ceased as she had requested, and for many more years, she had not heard from him. She had almost forgotten the young android…

…until one night.

The android had returned, stumbling into the scientist’s house while she was down in the lab working on her latest experiment. His eyes were no longer bright, dark circles shadowed beneath them, his smile had turned to a quivering frown, and the skin and hair the scientist had created him with looked almost dead, turned to a sickly ashen. In the darkness of the room, he felt around for a certain drawer, only somewhat familiar with layout of the kitchen, as he had only been in here once before the scientist had sent him on his mission. With his other hand, he clutched his chest. There was something wrong. The left side was in pain and he didn’t know why. “If I just…cut out this dreaded thing…I think I’ll be okay…,” he muttered to himself as he continued to stumble around the room and feel for the right drawer.

Once located, he opened the drawer, revealing many different knives. Some were dull, others were sharp, but all of their blades reflected the moonlight shimmering through the nearby window, coaxing him, tempting him to use them.

“This should suffice,” he whimpered, grabbing a serrated knife.

As he shut the drawer, he let his weakness grip him and take his body. He fell against the cupboard behind him, sliding down to the floor, then lifted the knife to his chest.

The scientist, still in her lab, heard the sound of the cupboards upstairs rattling as something collided with them. She looked up from her experiment in distress, afraid someone had broken in. Cautiously, she made her way upstairs, taking each step slowly and quietly. As she came to the kitchen, she saw the shadow of something lying on the floor. She stopped and studied the outline for a moment. When it occurred to her that the outline was the same shape and size of the android she had created many years ago, she rushed into the kitchen, turning on the light so she could see her creation properly.

“What happened?” she asked in concern as she knelt to him, taking him gently in her arms.

“Master…,” the android whispered as he turned his head shakily to look at her with his dull eyes. “I’m sorry…. I failed…at your request….”

The scientist, too shocked to speak, could only stare at the knife in the chest of her young android.

“I tried to…cut it out…,” the android breathed. “I tried to…get rid of it…. It was causing me too much pain…to fulfill your dreams….”

Slowly, carefully, the scientist took the knife in her grasp and removed it from the android’s chest. Even with her ginger touch, part of the android’s chest still came with the knife, removing skin and metal both. As the scientist set the knife on the floor, she examined her now quivering creation’s chest. Inside it was not the heart she had created him with. She carefully reached a hand into his small chest and removed what used to be a heart. The gears and circuits that had made up the body of the mechanical muscle were revealed by the large fissure running down the length of the heart.

“That’s what…was causing me so much pain…Master…,” the android breathed from her arms. “I knew if…I could be rid of it…then I could love…just like you wanted me to….” The scientist looked to her creation as he smiled shakily at her.

“How could this have happened?” she whispered in sorrow as she cradled her shaking creation in her arms. “I wanted you to find your match. After all these years, didn’t you find your true love?”

“Oh, yes…. I spent many years…searching, then spending time with each one…. But after every failure…I noticed that my chest would become more…and more tight with pain…. I couldn’t find…my true match….”

“Why…?” the scientist murmured as tears rolled down her cheeks. “Are we both forever destined to be alone…?”

“Master…,” the android whimpered. “I couldn’t find my true match…because I love you the most….”

At this, the scientist gasped in shock, her eyes wide. She looked back at her creation. He was smiling again, his dull eyes watching her with the love she had first created him with.

“But…,” she began, “I’m your creator! I’m not meant to be your true love!”

“Don’t you see, Master…?” he whispered as his eyes began to close. His shaking had ceased, but his condition had not improved. “You were my true match…. You’re the one I love more than anyone else in this world…. I tried to show you through my letters….”

“No…,” the scientist breathed as she held her creation close. The heat from his artificial skin was escaping quickly. “This can’t be! If I’m you true match, then why are you dying?!”

The android lifted his quivering hand, clasping his creator’s hand weakly.

“It’s true that…we are together again…, but that does not undo the damage my heart…has taken after being away from you….”

“I can fix it! I have the necessary tools!”

“My mission was to find my…true love…and I found…you….” The android opened his eyes only slightly to look back at his creator. “You cannot fix something this damaged…however…I know I can die in peace…because my last moments were with you….” He closed his eyes again, then the scientist felt his weak hand loosen its grip, and his arm fell limp. As tears began to well in the scientist’s eyes, she saw that her creation had died with that smile of love on his lips, the same one he had given her when he had first awoken.

And at that moment, the scientist realized that her true match was now gone from her forever, and she wept weakly over his cold body.

Author's Note

As stated in the description, this was for fun. I know I could have gone more in depth and fixed up some of the plot, but you're still welcome to give me any review you want. They're always welcome so I can learn how to better my writing :)