[It knows how this gesture is typically done-- how this scene plays out between regular people, but they are not regular people. It's the entire reason they're here like this, together, and have been all along.
It doesn't speak its reasoning out loud; it lets their Bond speak, a warmth spreading there that isn't like the one they share when they're skin-to-skin, entwined. It's almost more like the warmth of the sun on skin, bright and soft, and it's something the machine would never allow itself to feel or face before, other than in rare moments spent with Connor. To allow itself to express such a feeling toward a human...
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[It knows how this gesture is typically done-- how this scene plays out between regular people, but they are not regular people. It's the entire reason they're here like this, together, and have been all along.
It doesn't speak its reasoning out loud; it lets their Bond speak, a warmth spreading there that isn't like the one they share when they're skin-to-skin, entwined. It's almost more like the warmth of the sun on skin, bright and soft, and it's something the machine would never allow itself to feel or face before, other than in rare moments spent with Connor. To allow itself to express such a feeling toward a human...
It assumes L will understand how rare this is.]