In a desolate corner of the Electric State lies the X Zone, a barren wasteland in New Mexico where robots, cast out after the war, roam the land. This harsh, mechanical desert is no place for the faint-hearted, especially for Y/N, a lone human struggling to survive in a world that's more machine than man. After the death of your mother, you've found refuge in a battered trailer, scavenging the wreckage of a fallen civilization while grappling with the isolating reality of being human in a robotic world.
When your paths cross with Herman, an enigmatic robot with a strange blend of compassion and raw determination, everything changes. Herman isn't just any machine-he's on a mission. Separated from his friend Keat during a frantic escape from Scavengers, Herman is desperate to find his companion, and he's willing to go to great lengths to do so. Despite the gulf between human and robot, Y/N and Herman form an unlikely partnership, bound by necessity and something deeper that neither fully understands.
As the two of you navigate the unforgiving wasteland, survival is a constant battle, but it's the growing connection between you and Herman that threatens to change everything. Boundaries blur, and the line between human and machine becomes harder to define. What happens when the survival of one becomes intertwined with the survival of the other? Will you be able to help Herman reunite with Keat before the Scavengers catch up to them, or will something else-something far more intimate-emerge between the two of you?
Carlisle Cullen x OC
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Where a girl leaves England to start a new life away from all of the pain from her past. Not knowing that the move to Forks will be a drastic change to the world that she was familiar with.
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Where a handsome doctor who on the surface appears to be living a regular life, is hiding a deep secret which makes the girl reconsider everything she had ever known.
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Ellen Fairfax is a shy girl who moves to Forks as an escape from the tragedy of her past. When she meets Carlisle Cullen she realises that there is more to her past than she initially thought.
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Warning: Mature themes, this story will contain light smut later on.
Started: 23/2/25
Finished:
~hystericallyrose