ic contact.

[heartlessglitch]

YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY INITIATED CONTACT WITH DANGER.

I AM CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE TO RESPOND.
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO LEAVE A CONCISE MESSAGE.
THANK YOU.

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[heartlessglitch]

You are utterly undeserving.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Then I don't deserve your damn chip in me, now do I?

[heartlessglitch]

I can hardly fathom why you would wish to return to your state of lonely helplessness.

[slightlyoffchilt]

It doesn't matter what I wish for. You're not going to grant me anything, and mostly out of pure spite.

Does controlling me help you cling to the idea that, well, at least you're in control of something?

[heartlessglitch]

I suppose that is the price to be paid for willingly associating yourself with a creature you know to be spiteful.
Perhaps you would find your success rate with relationships increased if you would cease to equate caring with controlling.
I may find it in my circuits to let this conversation go, given your obvious inexperience with being looked after, but I suggest that in the future, if you wish to discuss the removal of my chip, you consult a very skilled surgeon.

[ Though to be fair, it is pretty equivalent with her. ]

[slightlyoffchilt]

Duly noted, Danger.

[As if that wasn't foreboding a response at all.]

[heartlessglitch]

You know that you risk irreparably damaging our relationship, Doctor.
My patience with humans is thin these days.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Not all humans are of the same quality, Danger. I, for one, would not choose to annihilate you.

[heartlessglitch]

I highly doubt you have that capability.
You are a coward, and you yield to me readily when threatened.
Just because you would not choose to kill me does not mean there are not other ways you might hurt me.

[slightlyoffchilt]

It's curious, that you cut me down and call me a threat, albeit a different kind of threat, in the same message.

[heartlessglitch]

My programming is designed to analyze and detect threats.
Is that so unexpected?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Perhaps I ought to fulfill your expectations, then. Perhaps I should give your programming a purpose to exist.

Like you noted, I have other ways.

[heartlessglitch]

Do you want to hurt me?

[slightlyoffchilt]

I want you to respect me. I'll do whatever it takes.

[heartlessglitch]

Does my respect matter so greatly to you, Doctor?

[slightlyoffchilt]

All of my patients should respect me. But yes, especially you.

[heartlessglitch]

Clarify: Because you are my psychiatrist?
I find that to be a thin foundation for something so valuable as respect.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Because I am your authority.

[heartlessglitch]

No man is my authority.

[slightlyoffchilt]

I know you think that. You've demonstrated what happens when you feel like you are not in control.