one of my features (DBH connor x mute!reader)

Eighteen: rescue

Silence.

It seemed to cloud the small office room like a thick fog that couldn't be gotten rid off. It lingered around even things like the rustling office papers that were being forcibly shuffled through, and it plagued the software of every android in that room, including connor.

Markus sat hunched over his desk, his eyes once again scanning over the paper containing all known facts about where Simon and (name) could be, as if he had missed something, anything that could be a critical piece in the case that he somehow missed or overlooked. However it didn't seem to help in the slightest, there was very little to go in after all, and since Simons whereabouts were based largely on assumptions and from Connors reconstructions Alone, maybe even that wasn't enough.

On the other hand, north and hank were huddled together around a map of Detroit framed on the far side of the wall, they kept pointed to various locations and either reaching for a nearby notepad and scribbling the name down on a piece of the yellow parchment, or turning to each other, shaking their heads in dismay, and turning somewhere else on the map to look. North looked even more stressed and irritable than usual, and hank kept facing his tired face to the hardwood floor and rubbed his drooping eyes, it was no doubt this was getting to them both.

Meanwhile, while the others were in the midst of this struggle,Conner was stirring crossed legged on the floor, with the immediate area covered in crumbled pieces of paper, opened digital maps that collectively covered every square inch of the state of Michigan in great detail, and different screenshots that were taken from nearby cameras in the DPD area however in the murky conditions of the rain it made the vision blurry and almost impossible to make out a great deal. It was frustrating, Connor was frustrated. For once in his experiences he felt...truly truly sad.

He felt lost, lost without her with him, lost without her glowing eyes and radiant smile. Without her in his corner he almost didn't know how to manage himself. Knowing she was somewhere out there in danger, in the cold wet rainy weather with temperatures dropping rapidly. it made him want to work as hard and yet that very pressure was what was holding him him back even more. He could hardly take any of this. He could take the silence no longer.

While it was true that, over the long course of the time they spent together, (name) had never uttered a single word to the android, he couldn't help but feel as if they understood and communicated on a deeper level that had nothing to do with the technical things of sign language. he felt like, just by looking into her eyes that lit up when she was excited or clouded up like rain when she was sad, or by watching her lips curve into either a smile that stopped his thirium pump momentarily or a dark smile that made even he who wasn't too knowledgeable on experiencing human emotions, become stricken with such dread and sadness, he understood her, and she understood him.

its true it was always halfway silent and it seemed like connor was just having a one sided conversation, however she, who couldn't even speak, lit up his life and understood him better than almost anyone had before. it was silent, but it was different tone of silent, it was a comfortable silence that neither one felt as if they had to break by conversing with the other, it was cozy, calm, serine, and one he felt comfortable with, and one that he certainly didnt want to loose.

it was quiet when she was around now  that she's not here it's silent,
and it's killing him.

"Connor!" Hank called, cutting though the quiet fog, "you heard anything from nines yet?"

"Not yet, I've tried contacting him several times yet I haven't gotten a response via my LED communication yet"

Right, nines. As far as Connor knew, he had been out ever since early morning, when he came into the station and found Gavin reed wasn't at his post. After multiple attempts to contact him and even going over to his house and finding it empty, even he started to get a little paranoid  and chose to go out and search for him alone. Nobody had been able to get ahold of him since. However connor wasn't too worried about his counterpart at the moment, he knew that he could handle himself. No, his concern was on Gavin, where was he? Even though Gavin wasn't the nicest to him, he still cared about him and knew him well enough to know that he wasn't just one to skip work without an explanation. Nines knew it wasn't like him as well, he was his romantic partner as well as his work partner after all, he knew him better than any, so if he was worried, then it certainly warranted concern.