showed up at his club. He'd moved across the country bc everything back in their home reminded him of Sn, he'd even changed his name and left his whole life behind, joining the resistance and using his old contacts in the gov. to fight. His club was a secret resistance +

base and meeting spot, and he played the sleazy club owner with ease, fucking a new stranger every night bc his heart was and would forever be Sn's. Then one night this disgusting gov. official that Wcc had heard Sn mention, saying he was weird and creepy, came to the club +

with three droids following him. As much as they were indistinguishable from humans otherwise, droids had this empty look in their eyes that was easy to spot at a second glance. All three were gorgeous young men, and one of them was wearing Wcc's husband's face. It wasn't +

unheard of, the gov. owned the appearance of their employees and sometimes sold it or used it for other purposes. Wcc carefully inquired and the man who owned the fake Sn, that he even called Sn, had stolen all three faces of his droids for personal reasons, bc he was a creep. +

It wasn't hard to turn the resistance onto him. Some nights later, a friend from the resistance came by with the three droids in tow and asked Wcc what he wanted to do with them. Wcc had told them to destroy the fake Sn, but looking at his husband's face, he couldn't say it. +

"You're free, go do whatever you want," he told them. Live the life my Snie never got, thought. The other two left but Sn stayed. Wcc told him to go away, was he broken or something, did he not understand? "You saved me from that horrible man," Sn said. "I want to stay." +

Even in droid form, so fucking well-behaved and loyal and stubborn and fuck, Wcc argued and threatened but Sn was steadfast. He had to have an owner and he was Wcc's now. Wcc told him if he didn't go away, Wcc would treat him even worse than his late master, but Sn stayed. +

So Wcc did his worst to make fake Sn go away. Who the fuck would want to look at their lost husband's face every day? He yelled and was unreasonable and ungrateful, he even struck that stupid droid, but of course a droid didn't care about pain and humiliation, Sn just kept +

following his stupid orders. Months later Wcc was tired of feeling like a monster, and he asked Sn why he put up with this? Sn said he didn't know, but he knew he belonged to Wcc. Watching him, Wcc wondered if they'd somehow implanted Sn's personality into the droid as well +

bc there were a lot of little things. Sn stopped to talk to cats on the street, rushing to catch up when Wcc yelled at him. Sn had the same taste in clothes, and the same habit of touching Wcc's neck when Wcc was tired and cranky, and sang when happy. But it made Wcc even +

more angry and more antagonistic. He wouldn't betray his husband by replacing him with a fake copy, with a droid! His abuse of Sn got worse, but he couldn't keep it up for long. Finally, drunk off his head, he admitted to Sn that he'd known the man whose face and mind he wore +

and Sn looked very sorry, and said he'd do whatever Wcc wanted, if he wanted Sn to leave he would. Instead, Wcc let him make love to him, lost in the memory and fantasy of having his Snie back with him. But waking up with his lost husband's face smiling next to him in bed +

finally made him snap. He kicked Sn out of bed and struck him with whatever was nearest - a lamp - and then froze in shock. Sn *bled*. Droids didn't *bleed*! He was still shouting randomly about Sn going away, and with tears in his eyes, Sn fled. Droids didn't *cry* either! +

Once Wcc finally managed to move, he went to clean the blood off his flood and found something small that shone pink. A part of a chip? But droid parts were blue and health implants were green. He'd never heard of pink. He took it to the resistance techies, who got in a +

frenzy seeing it. This was illegal secret gov. tech! Proof of the mind-control the resistance was trying to show that the gov. was working on! A chip implant like this made it possible to control a human exactly like you'd control a droid, essentially making people +

obedient slaves. Wcc listened with growing horror. His Snie had never been lost. That man had faked it to steal him, and to openly walk around with him as a "droid". Not sure what to hope for, Wcc chased down the other two droids and had them examined, and they had the same +

chips implanted. When the chips were removed, they recovered their sense of self, although not their full memory. They were people. His Sn was still alive, but now lost and confused, did he even remember Wcc, from before? He needed to tell Sn who he is, that they're married, +

that he's Wcc's Snie. Even under the mind-control Sn had felt connected to him. But Wcc had been so angry, and yelled at Sn to go away and not come back, to not think he could ever be someone to him, not to mention the abuse of the past months. What would Sn think of it, now +

that he was free? Wcc searched, but steadfast as always, Sn had done as he had promised, followed Wcc's wishes and commands, and gone away. // that's it for now. Sorry not sorry 😭 I don't want to cry alone.