Zev nodded, and put the rest away. He sat down after that, watching her. He watched her the way a human would, with blinking and a slightly…almost distracted gaze.
"And it became Human, in most ways that mattered." // OxO // OPEN
Within a few more minutes, she had finished up, organizing the last of the packets without looking over at him. She finally glanced in his direction when she had finished and almost jumped, not realizing he was still there, "Have you been here the whole time?"
Zev frowned a little, tipping his head. "Yes?" He replied slowly. "Should I not have? Alexi taught me that so long as a person isn't using the bathroom, changing, or having an intimate moment with someone else, then it didn't really matter if I stayed…"
"I mean, there's nothing wrong with you staying, it's just that you're so quiet," She explained, grabbing the movies and looking them over, "I'm just not used to having company on board also."
Zev nodded. "Oh. Alright." He replied. "I…think I understand." He shrugged a little. The program was still running that made his chest rise and fall with "breaths".
Thesa nodded, walking into the living quarters to put one of the movies in, "We'll have to both sit on my bed, since thats the easiest place to watch the movie from." She tapped one of the few silver buttons directly across from her bed and a small projector turned on, one that was hidden up on the ceiling above her bed and that projected across from it.
Zev nodded, and sat down on the bed. "Do you want any help?" He asked softly, looking up at her. "Or should I just stay here?"
She shrugged and took the movie out of the case, holding the disc gently in her fingers as she walked back over to the bed and stood up on it to try to reach the projector and DVD player attached to it, "I think i have it under control, you can just stay there."
"Alright." He replied, watching her. In his mind, he was keeping track of the hours, minutes, even seconds left until they arrived at Horath. Not because he was eager to get there, but because that was what he did. He was an Android. He kept track of things.
With a little bit of work, she finally got the disc into the player and pressed play, smiling when it worked and jumping down to go turn off the lights. She flipped them off and looked over at the movie now projecting on the wall, going back over to the bed and pressing play before sitting down next to Zev. In her head she was silently humming along to the music playing and starting to repeat all the lines of the movie.
Zev shifted a little bit, watching the movie. I wonder how many movies there are in the universe? he thought suddenly. What would happen if I watched them all?
Thesa leaned back against the wall as she relaxed and watched the movie, glancing over at Zev to see his reaction before focusing back on the projected screen.
Zev remained upright. While the position wouldn't have been comfortable if he were human, as an android, obviously, it didn't matter. He watched the movie, computer analyzing the actors, pulling up information about them from his database. That is, if he knew anything about them already, it did.
"Zev, do you want me to make some popco…" She asked, trailing off with a sigh when she realized her mistake, "Sorry.."
Zev laughed, then made an almost comical face that could be called, maybe, surprise, at his own laughter. "Ah. It's…fine." he said slowly, frowning a little.
Thesa felt like an absolute idiot and her face clearly showed it as her cheeks flushed in embarrassment. "I'll get used to you not having to eat or sleep eventually, but until then, just ignore me when I ask something stupid like that."
Zev nodded. "Alright. Will do." He still looked a little confused by the fact that he had reacted that way.
She had heard his laugh and it surprised her, though she didn't being any attention to it as her eyes turned back to the movie and she settled back in.
Zev frowned slightly. Perhaps the programming? No, I did not put laughter in it…though it is a self-learning program… He wasn't sure what was happening.
(should we timeskip to the end of the movie or the end of the trip?)
(end of the trip, maybe. Want me to do it, or do you want to?)
(If you could do it that would be great, I'm swamped in work rn and it would be a while before I got it up :) I'm just going to say that Thesa fell asleep during the end of the movie and was tired enough that she hasn't woken up yet)
(alrighty. :) )
Zev walked to the cockpit as they arrived, looking at the planet that had swallowed up the viewscreen. He walked back to where Thesa had fallen asleep, tapping on her shoulder. "Thesa. We've arrived. I need you to land the ship. Or…whatever it is you usually do when you arrive here." he said, working to wake her up.
She didn't immediately respond to him, but eventually she did open one tired eye and nod. With a yawn, she sat up, knowing that she didn't have time to wake up slowly and instead she had to pilot and land her ship.
Zev stepped back, running calculations in his head. "What exactly are we going to do here?" he asked her slowly. "How long do you think this will take?"
"While we're here? I'm going to actually get some good repairs done to the ship, and I'm going to meet up with some acquaintances of mine to get some more jobs lined up," She said, already shaking away the sleepiness and sliding into her pilot chair to get them landed, "If everything goes well, maybe just a few days. If you help, maybe only three."
Zev nodded, following her and sitting down. "I see." he was still making small adjustments to his programming, head cocked slightly to one side as they came down towards the planet. "Of course I'll help, so long as you let me."
Thesa nodded, flipping a few switches and watching out the window carefully, "Sounds good, now, could I ask you to leave? Or at least stay quiet? I need to concentrate fully."
Zev nodded, and went completely silent. Inhumanly so, though he continued to function normally. He watched out the window, but didn't say a word.
It was as if a switch had flipped in her mind and she was fully concentrated and awake, hands settling into their places over the controls as she made her way towards the planet.