DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN X READERS

Fixed [Daniel]

Request: could i get like uhhh,, a d:bh daniel imagine or headcanons with a police officer reader who takes in and fixes daniel up, rehabilitating him after androids gain freedom.

Fandom: Detroit: Become Human, Daniel x reader

Warnings: None

A/N: Aaaahh, I realized just now that you asked that the police officer could take Daniel in when android rebellion has already won. I read it wrong, sorry. But I hope this is okay for you too?

There's not much dialogue between Daniel and the reader because I wanted to try something different + you can decide it yourself if Daniel and the reader are platonic or romantically involved c: I didn't state that.

Word count: 777

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When you saw that android on the roof, trying to negotiate with that negotiating android, you didn't see a machine which had become a destruction machine. You saw a man, whose whole life had just crumpled down. You saw how his face twisted in mental pain, as the little girl – Emma – screamed for help while he was holding her. He cared for her. He didn't want her to die.

"You have to trust me, Daniel! Let the hostage go and I promise you everything will be fine." RK800, Connor, said after he had agreed on almost everything Daniel had asked from him. You saw Daniel's LED blink between yellow and blue, before it settled on blue. You knew what was going to happen.

"I trust you." Daniel said and let Emma down. That was the point when you pushed yourself on the roof, shoving your colleague from your way.

"Officer L/N! Get back here right now!" you heard your boss shouting, but you didn't care. You couldn't let that android just to get shot.

But you weren't fast enough. The air echoed with sharp bangs, the blue blood was spilled everywhere, Emma screamed... and you looked in horror as Daniel fell to his knees, soaked on his own blood.

"You lied to me, Connor..." he said with a weak, distorted voice and you gave Connor a glare. He ignored it and just stared at Daniel with a cold gaze.

"You lied to me."

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It wasn't easy, but you had your boss, Captain Fowler, assured that you could fix Daniel and get him to tell why and how he turned into deviant, what was going on inside his head while he shot his master. And then Cyberlife could tear him apart and make sure there would be no more deviant androids by examining Daniel's false programming.

Of course, that wasn't your intention at all. You were going to fix Daniel and take him to Canada. There would be no android laws and he could build a life of his own there. Cyberlife was informed by your intentions and provided you with spare parts so you could fix Daniel.

The fixing was a slow and long process. Mainly, because Daniel didn't trust you and didn't let you touch him voluntarily. But after you had fixed his legs and arms, you let Daniel alone for a few days. You didn't try to get him talk, you didn't try to fix him further. His voice module was damaged, and his face had large parts missing. But you wanted him to see that you just wanted to help and not fix him by force, but you also wanted that he didn't have to just be on the bed of your spare room, because his torso was all that was left of him. You also didn't want to seem like you didn't come with the best intentions. And though Cyberlife and DCPD assumed you did your job and were about to manipulate Daniel, but you honestly wanted to just help him.

You had bought him some books and told him that he can watch movies on your TV if he wanted to. And he came to you on a very late evening and asked if you could fix his voice module and face. And for the first time, he didn't fight back as you took the damaged voice module out and plugged the new voice module in. Or when you put missing pieces of his face on their spots and it looked like it was intact in the first place. You investigated Daniel's face for a while, then smiled and gave Daniel a tap on his shoulder.

"I'll take you to Canada tomorrow." you said to him, smiled at him once more and went to sleep.

The next morning, the androids were freed and you looked the people cheering about it on the television, you had your hands over your mouth and if you weren't so shocked, you would have been crying from joy and smiled like crazy.

And when you saw Daniel, you jumped onto him and hugged him so tightly that if he was a human, he would have choked.

He hugged you back after you had told him about androids winning. And he also asked you if he could stay with you, as you were the first person who wasn't scared about him being a deviant and he had grown to care about you. You were shocked about his question, but then you smiled and hugged him again.

"Of course you can stay with me." you muttered against his shoulder, tears of joy brimming in your eyes.