Jimin learns that it gets cold at night and Taehyung would rather have a body than a blanket. He learns that Taehyung doesn’t like certain types of laundry detergent, and that sometimes Taehyung doesn’t do the dishes for days and days and days but he gets sad if Jimin does them instead. He learns the intricacies of living with someone who hobbles around the house and puts his crutches tucked in corners where he forgets them later. All of Taehyung’s worst traits Jimin learns and grows around and rectifies, if he can. He pulls Taehyung out of bed before midmorning melts into noon, and he tosses Taehyung in the shower when he thinks Taehyung has gone too long without. He finds Taehyung one too many times eating yogurt at 4am, and pulls Taehyung away from his computer to eat dinner when he has to. Jimin learns the strange pattern of Taehyung’s speech, of his sleeping, of his work schedule. Jimin learns and learns and keeps on learning. The mechanic said that BBG95 had an adaptive AI - Jimin learns. “Your word processing is great,” Taehyung tells him. Taehyung is surprised that feature wasn’t updated, but he pulls the sheets out of the hallway closet and shows Jimin how the couch pulls out. “Sleep?” Some of the older models needed extended periods of rest rather than just being plugged into the port. “I still need to sleep,” Jimin tells him. He inspects the kitchen with his nose turned up, and he helps Taehyung situate the charging port. As soon as Jungkook drops them off, Jimin scopes out the house. A diamond in the rough, maybe, spit and polished into something that shines. Droids are expensive, and Taehyung exchanged dirt for what appears to be gold. Taehyung comes to learn that Jimin is rather human in all aspects. It seems rather human, all things considered. Thirty minutes later, winding up the mountain road, Taehyung turns in his chair and asks, “What is your name?” “Well.” Taehyung clambers into the passenger’s side and looks at the rusty mech shop out of the window. “I’m not sure this is a good idea,” Jungkook says one last time, helping the droid into the backseat. “The paperwork is in order,” Jungkook says, which is the other reason Taehyung brought him along. “Perfectly fine, thank you,” says the droid with a sniff. This one breathes, and the pupils dilate when the lights are turned on, and it looks at Taehyung curiously. Taehyung’s first thought is that this is a repurposed sex model - it’s rare that any other droid type looks so human. Its face is sweet, and the build looks both slim and muscular. Taehyung isn’t super involved in robotics, but even Jungkook has never seen the model before. Taehyung doesn’t know what he’s looking for.īBG95 is beautiful. “Seeing him won’t change he’s the only one we got, but if it makes you feel better.” “I guess.” The mechanic lumbers out of his chair. The person at the front desk looks a little gruff, but he says, “You’re Taehyung?” and is already moving to grab paperwork before Taehyung has even confirmed. It’s as clean as can be expected and the mechanics are all hard at work. When they open the rickety door, Taehyung doesn’t think it’s so bad. He’s dug his heels into the ground and will not be moved. Taehyung will not leave his home - his friends have already tried and failed to convince him. When it becomes too much, he says, “What else can I do?” and Jungkook falls quiet. Taehyung is thankful that Jungkook even offered to drive him, so he accepts the soft chastising. Taehyung knows this because Jungkook waves their Yelp page in Taehyung’s face before, during, and after the drive there. Whether it looks human or not matters very little Taehyung just needs something quickly. He needs something with a decent AI and fine motor skills, something that can drive and cook and help him clean. Taehyung doesn’t want one of the sex toys. He’d called ahead to make sure they had something that would suit him in stock. Rather, there is only one mechanic within a two hours’ drive and BBG95 is the droid that they have. Taehyung doesn’t go out looking for BBG95 specifically. He can still work, sure - but how will he live? He is self-sufficient, he has no close neighbors, and now he cannot drive. Taehyung falls from the tree and injures his leg and, sitting in the hospital while the doctors organize him crutches and a ride home, thinks about his options. It’s not until he injures himself that he starts thinking perhaps they are right. It’s in their nature to worry about their son, and the phone calls after his health are more endearing than anything. They’re old and don’t get to visit as often as they’d like. It can get lonely, sometimes, if he thinks about it too hard - but there is plenty of life out in nowhere. The city had been too cluttered, and when his job told him he could work from home, Taehyung made the decision to leave the bustle and find peace in the mountains. Taehyung lives alone in the middle of nowhere.
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