A/N Picture: Pretty in Pink ( well black) :Andy Biersack from the Black Veil Brides Some might call him good looking, some might want to pull that lip ring out with their teeth to see if he makes a hissing noise like a coke can. Just saying. See Kayla and Joe conversation below.

Video: Just to show it's all current technology we land a robot the weight of a car on Mars Jenny can base jump down too. Think of it as jumping off on to one of huge jump bags stunt men use, but you're wrapped in the bag.

A/N Welcome to our 100,000 reads celebration chapter! One hundred thousand reads!!! Can you believe it- First chapter was 14th August! 80 reads and #375 in Scifi and now we are #1 too! ( Don't worry Expiration Date will be back at #1 soon but it's nice while we celebrate). We thank you for each and every read. We didn't put Cyborg's pet here, You did. We take this moment to thank you again. We watch each and every vote and read just as avidly as we did back when 10 new reads was a good day. On Monday the 26th we got a record 500 new readers in one day alone which is mind crushingly fantastic.

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21 seconds into the future: NMO date: 0003.1415

Planet 01/Region 01/Washington 2.0/Rockwood Hall

"So what happened then ?" said Kayla over lunch a couple of days after the breeding party after my nerves had calmed down. I tucked into a nice Pumpkin, chickpea & coconut curry in the cafeteria aka 'slave trough area #1' in a quite remote booth with Kayla.

"He turned into a huge white round balloon. Then everything around me was white. I realized the harness had inflated like a bunch of massive airbags around me. I was falling like a huge Michelin man, Wrapped in a bunch of massive balloons. I felt the balloon bounce off a building or walkway or something. I heard him screaming in delight, he was enjoying himself. I tensed up and then hit the ground then launched up again like I was on a huge trampoline. I landed in several bounces like the Mars Exploration Rover".

"Wow," said Kayla, nibbling on her smoky veggie feijoada.

"Eventually, I stopped bouncing and the whole thing deflated. I was crawling on the ground so dizzy I thought someone had put me into the washing machine on spin cycle. Then I look up and there was an explosion. He told me later that there was a biological cold store which was being auto-destructed."

Rockwood had told me that was the Senator destroying the evidence or rather the police destroying the evidence for her. Surprisingly none of the cities leaders had been arrested.

"What did you say to him after he pushed from a tall building to your near death?" Prompted Kayla fishing for one of my signature insults. The orange glow from my emotion earring light Kayla's face.

"Again again!" I said.

"What did he say?" said Kayla.

"Nothing he kissed me,"

"oh what was it like?" said Kayla.

"Parmesan Vomity - I was so dizzy I started to throw up," I said.

"That's so romantic," said Kayla.

"He was ok about it. We got into a ground car he had waiting. The place was crawling with police"

"bad girl, " said Kayla neutrally. What was he like when he got back?" said Kayla.

"Well, he was like the cat with the cream. He said if I wanted a game he would upload one. So he did this one involves me being tied down. It's a bit like one of those Simon says games except he has to stroke or touch a different part of my body in the right order. The collar detects which part of me is being touched then he gets points according to how accurately he hit the right body part"

"Sounds awful," said Kayla sarcastically possibly for the benefit of the PG13 filter around my neck. "I was so glad to be alive he could have taken an appendix out and I would be have been OK with it. Strange I thought all the Simon says games were designed for slaves. Getting you used too following machine orders using a fun and engaging way. Where is Joe?" I asked.

"I got a text from him saying Cinder had set up a lunch date between him and someone. He would cut it short and catch up," said Kayla.

"Cinder don't talk to me about Cinder, it's nothing but a breeding party in an App" I said.

"I'm getting quite into it. It sets updates based on your profile with other house slaves. Your collar forces you to go along to the date, but you can't touch on the first date. Your collar punishes you forcing you to go. So he or she is never a no-show. It's also and app on your collar. It suggests things you could talk about, stuff you have in common. It says things like 'now look at their eyes'. It feeds you with witty lines. If you follow the script it sounds like you're like the funniest sophisticated couple getting on really well" said Kayla.

"Autopilot for dating. Whatever next? But what if you don't want to carry on?" I said.

"That's the bit I like, It's full of wonderful, original, and sympathetic ways of letting someone down. It knows who you're talking to and finds one that hasn't been used on them. One that sounds plausible and plays to their weaknesses. It's really cool you should try it. If only to make someone jealous" said Kayla.

"I'm not making him jealous. In the end of the day, he's the boss I'm the sexy slave intern. It's strictly business. He has a floor maid, a room maid, you're the maid that clean's his brain, I'm just the overnight bed maid. I don't have any delusions. I'm not going to like him, no way - it's both my job and currently my survival strategy. I know he doesn't like me I have a uterus. I regret the day I walked into the reassignment center, I never even got the doughnuts I was promised. I mean what kind of guy throws his pet off the top of a building without telling her she's wearing an airbag harness?"

Kayla looked at me "Sorry I blanked out there, were you talking to me, coz I think I was hearing a girl were trying to persuade herself."I looked at her, I didn't like her when she was right and currently, my ear glowed red.

"You know who isn't letting me join slave Net, not after my incident with the virus," I said I paused and eat my lunch.

"Let's face it the machine decides who dates who doesn't it?" I said going back.

"It has some algorithm," nodded Kayla.

"but then isn't the machine breaking the natural human act? You know the one which forbids humans being breed like animals" I said.

"Someone knows their law. You the slave, still get to decided who you end up with Miss Smarty pants" explained Kayla.

"But if the machines wanted to breed say super docile humans it could just make sure all the docile people meet first. If you were one, you'd have to really have to reject quite a lot to get past them to get to a non docile mate. I'm ... I studied a biology I know these things. It's Darwinian selection in action. Do you think the machines would line up a date between you and Joe anytime soon?" I said rather militantly. The breeding partly left a horrible taste in my mouth and it wasn't from his kiss."Well that would be near never, I had to change sexual preference to get to Joe, but that's just a data error." said Kayla.

"Letting the machines control our dating habits to an unknown algorithm is handing over our genetic destiny to them," I said, OK possibly a little zealously, the whole breeding party had freaked me down to a subatomic level.

"It's just a dating app. We are using it as a way to get Joe and me together. The system is no more insistent than having a very needy grandchild obsessed mother with a remote zap function. We both know we are forced to be there, it's safe. He's never a no-show. No one gets stuck with bill. If you don't know how to say what you want to say, the machine walks you through without hurting their feelings. I don't see your problem with it" Kayla said.

"I'm not saying it's a good app. I'm just saying the system is open to genetic abuse by our glorious overlords." I said.

"It's just there to make e-slaves happy. *I know*" said Kayla.

"Perhaps forming a network of friends and loved ones are the strongest chains against extreme-non-presence we could have," I said referring to escape.

I knew what Kayla was talking about. She was referring to her life as a traitor and agent provocateur. After her work was up she went home to have her own slaves. I saw Joe walking towards us in the distance with a tray. He got a lot of attention from former dates.

"We shouldn't be happy or content. It's playing into their hands. Have you told him yet?" I asked Kayla.

"No, and until I get brain damage after a particularly dangerous food fight, I'm not going to" Kayla whispered back.

An idea came as a flash to me "You're not working your old job again are you?"

"No. And what if I did? Do you know what kind of crap shield I was for you back in the Factory? Do you think you could go around saying 'hi my name is Jenny' for so long without a lot of serious punishment? If it wasn't for me you would be 5642 and loving it, like the rest of the factory brats. They never broke your spirit Jen. I ran alot interference for yo all the way down the line at the Factory and I didn't ask you for anything? No. I never even told you. I was the one who got 88 sent back as a return for you. I kept you out of the KCK machine countless times. I love you like a sister but if you so much as hint anything to him or anyone. If anyone else finds out then I tell you the next time you see me it will be in an identification table a morgue. So can it sister" said Kayla.

Kayla leaned back and smiled as Joe approached.

"OK, I promise," I said foolishly. Telling everyone was mad but not telling Joe was stupid.

"Ever wondered what having your back wiped felt like? Ever wondered what was worse a riding crop or a buggy whip? Well with KCK2100's just as painful-as-the-real-thing punishments you can finally find out. In tests 90% of slaves punished said the new KCK2100 produce neurological feelings just like the real thing without and down time after recover from bleeding wounds. Why not go along to your KCK2100 and take the KCK2100 is it real or is it 2100 pain comparison test? The KCK2100 features over 40 new novelty painful-as-the-real-thing punishments from a solid spanking to a painful cat-o-nine-tails. Remember KCK 2100, the machine at end of the line behind every no-I-won't-do-that master. Now available in this house". said an announcement on the speaker system.

"All snail our glorious bleeders," said Joe tiredly approaching. He was carrying a half eaten plate of Vegan beetroot Carpaccio and a black rice pudding.

"Whats'up?" we said.

"Just had to dump the last date. It's weird being on the dumpee side. He didn't take it well" said Joe.

"How was that?" I said smiling.

"I tried the lines the collar said and he had heard them all. Well at first I said 'we can never have children', he said he was fine with that. Then I said I was keen on someone, else a woman. He said he was fine with that. So I came out and said we had the same cards on body part snap" Joe said sitting down.

"Poor you What did he say?" I said.

"Nothing he just spat his lunch out," said Joe.

"Was that you or the machine coming up with that one. This PG 13 filter is so hard to express your self through" said Kayla as Joe sat down next to her.

They kissed, the collars flash red and they got a shock each.

"It just gets better and better with you - your electric," said Joe shaking off the shock. His heavy mascara focusing the twinkle in is eyes. He said the more you did it the more it felt like jumping into a pond of ice water. I admired the way they kept at it through the odds. Perhaps I was softening after my experience on floor 42 but I was getting to see what Kayla saw in Joe. I guess it was like dating Andy Biersack from the black veil brides. Some guys look good in makeup, you know. Perhaps the office on the edge of an orgy feel of Rockwood house was getting to me, old boy/girl certainties blurring. To be honest, I'm blaming my mom, she was a big Boy George fan back in the day, she's obviously passed on her New Romantic genes on to me.

"Hay that glowy ear weave piercing thingy of yours has gone green," said Joe.

"It does that," I said determined not to explain the real function.

"Kinda makes your look more cyborg-ish" said Kayla.

"I'm a cyborg's pet - doesn't every pet end up looking like their owner?" I said.

He'd thingyed me the night we got back. I could feel the site where he had done it when I moved. It could have been the elephant dose of adrenaline to my heart high, but I had secretly enjoyed it. I woke up with this cold patch in the bed and reached around to find the disc in the space between us. I asked my collar and that was the third time he had thingyed me. Five left according to Joe. Rockwood and the servant girls wouldn't talk about it and it was impossible to ask my collar unless I knew the real name of it. I guess I had been infected by the shame as I held back telling Kayla and Joe about it. No reason to worry them unnecessary right? Joe and Kayla were keeping each other up to date on Cinder progress. Strange how their love was so strong yet from the machine's point of view so unlikely. Seeing the way they laughed and smiled at each other convinced me that what made us human was our ability to find love in the most ridiculous and from a machine's point of view unlikely low priority places.

"Have you dated 1414?" asked Kayla to Joe.

"Sounds familiar - cute smile likes dogs and servitude," he said.

"Dogs and servitude" I laughed.

"I like the way your earring flashes orange when you laugh Jen." said Kayla "That's her Joe, but did she make a pass?"

"well..." said Joe.

"Because she made a pass at me," said Kayla. "She said I was very cute."

"Did it hurt?" said Joe.

"Of cause it hurt - you get someone to stab a drawing compass in your neck and say it didn't hurt. In case you noticed I'm still wearing a collar. I'm saying she was willing to do that to get a kiss from me." said Kayla.

"Does she still taste of cherries she steals from greenhouse orchard?" said Joe.

"Skult! Why do all the girls I date, have to be the girls you have or will date?" said Kayla.

"As far as I can tell they have all dated each other. What to know something weird? I am going to have to date a robot." said Joe.

"A robot ?" I said my ear turning blue.

"Yeh - turns out they can put themselves on Cinder. Same rules no touching. You can say no"

"Why would you say yes?" I said.

"I'm not sure, it's some kind way out I heard. Doesn't happen much robots don't like being in a position where you can say no. You be careful Joe those machines are super macho. It will be expecting to date what the database say's it's dating. Think of a cross of 50 Cent and Germaine Greer but with guns" said Kayla.

I paused my memory stream on the table. Rockwood was away that evening and my collar cam recording was the only entertainment I had. I scrolled back to Kayla's info burst. She had been protecting me from so early on. I guess that would explain a lot. I thought I had just had just taken a huge amount of my super strong will to be me, but I realized it can take friends to stay who you are.

Joe wasn't the dumb blonde he appeared to be. He would figure Kayla out eventually. What would he think of me? What of Kayla? This wouldn't end well. I hoped his date went ok.

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