No use crying over spilled milk
Genre: SCI FI
Rating: PG
Pair: Tao x Sehun
Word Count: 1,159
A/N: Where anything with futuristic shit is sci fi 8D
Beta-ed by the wonderful
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Summary:
Never eat or drink anything in the labs. Specially not in the "Human Construction" department.
‘PROCESSING COMPLETE’
The green font illuminates in the air, signalling the completion of another human body. A dark-haired man, clothed in a full white uniform, sighs and it echoes in the lab. That’s the 31st human he’s made in the past 48 Earth hours, and boy is he tired. A silver nameplate attached to his left breast reads ‘Tao’.
It’s year 4XXX, and humans are made in vitro, with their bodies and personalities being merely a mixture of chemicals. Tao is the Head of the Human Construction Department. After sleepless nights of 'human construction,' (since they needed more people on Uranus for god knows what reason), he accidentally spills a bottle of cow milk (the expensive ones, because Earth cows are rarely bred these days) into the personality mixture.
Tao sighs, he wasn’t engineered for this. He walks up to a wall near the edge of the room, just below the warning boards which say ‘no eating or drinking in the lab,' and pushes a red button. Immediately, a tiny gun labelled ‘plasmolyzer’ is revealed from a secret compartment in the wall. Tao takes the weapon and reads the precaution: ‘In case of emergencies where mutants may accidentally come out of the mixture.'
Tao sits at his desk waiting for the reaction to stop, it takes approximately 3.5 centrons of time to make a human, but this stops at around 3.2. ‘This must be a mutant.' he thinks as he readies his gear to wipe out the unsuspecting and potentially dangerous creature. But, after the smoke clears, he only sees cute round orbs, snow white skin, and one heck of a poker face ‘Well if you look at it carefully, it’s actually kind of handsome.’
Tao stands up and inches closer to the ‘human’. He knows that one shouldn’t be enamoured by how gentle-looking, cute, or even hot these ‘humans’ look. Once, about 150 years ago, a creature now called “KAI” had the ability to walk in and out of reality and managed to kill four technicians in the lab before being restrained. The “KAI” creature was a humanoid that somehow had some dark chocolate mixed into his body mixture, so for now, Tao was grateful that the milk was only spilled on the personality mix.
Okay, that was a lie. After a careful investigation, the 4 technicians kept on missing their shots and accidentally plasmolyzed themselves. KAI was actually a gentle creature and somehow helped out in finding lost objects and sometimes, lost people too. Keeping in mind that these mutations can be somewhat helpful (that and oh god how much does it cost to repair the lab), he lowers the plasmolyzer.
The creature looks exactly like a human, but Tao doesn’t really know for sure. It looks around, before staring back at Tao with a poker face that could rival his superior, Kris’. He aims the plasmolyzer again. The ‘human’ tilts its head to the side cutely, blonde-ish locks covering its face. It blows at its hair trying to get it off of his face and Tao thinks, ‘Cute’. It spots Tao again and now Tao is seriously considering on blasting the creature goodbye, before the creature suddenly smiles, and oh god what a beautiful smile, and lunges at Tao. Tao snaps his eyes shut, suddenly scared because it’s a mutant and its personality might be fucked and it might literally eat him and he pants uncontrollably.
That’s when he suddenly tastes milk.
He opens his eyes to see the ‘human’ face to face with him, surprised at the fact that 2 of its fingers are in his mouth. They stare at each other for about 5 seconds, Tao’s eyes almost bulging out of its sockets because of fright (or shock, or possible delight--whichever came first). The creature was back to its creepy poker face.
The creature smiles again however, and wiggles its fingers inside Tao’s mouth. Tao accidentally pushes the trigger on the plasmolyzer and his table goes out in smoke. The alarm rings and his supervisor, comes into the room.
“Huang Zitao! What are you doing don’t play around with the highly dangerous weapons are you trying to kill us a-“ The supervisor, or Chen as his nameplate states, sees the position said new human and Tao are currently in before he shushes his voice. “Ahem, as I was saying…”
“S-sir! But we have a situation!” But then Tao thinks back into himself spilling the cow milk. He would surely get fired or worse! No one ever dares to throw away precious Earth produce… specially cow milk (because Tao knows that Chen is sensitive to those domesticated bovines).
“So what’s the situation?” Chen raises an eyebrow at the new ‘human’ which was desperately trying to cling to Tao, while Tao was desperately trying shove its face away.
“Nothing sir! I just accidentally shot my own table with the plasmolyzer! All’s well with the human construction division!” Tao salutes with his right hand, the left fending off the clingy boy’s face.
Chen rubs at his head and tells Zitao to fill up a narrative report, as well as shell out the total cost of damages to the room. He’s also laid off work for a week to reflect on what happened, because apparently, tables don’t come cheap (or Chen just wants to bully him).
“Also, take care of that will you? Perhaps you need a partner here in the lab…” Chen wiggles his eyebrows, pointing to the white skinned ‘human’, mocking him and Tao thinks that maybe some snot fell into his supervisor’s personality mixture because how can he be so mean.
Tao is left alone with the milk tasting humanoid (that is oddly interested in his mouth) and decides, what the heck, it’ll be like a lifetime supply of milk.
A week later, the ‘human’ Tao made with spilled milk completed its information pushing (downloading all sorts of data into the human brain). It was now named Oh Sehun. Another week later, Sehun is made Tao’s partner as a human engineer in the labs. For some reason, they also happen to share the same room at the housing.
At approximally 3 weeks, Tao concluded the effects of the spilled milk: Firstly, Sehun somehow retained a sort of lisp, sometimes pronouncing his own name as ‘Thehun’ and Tao just laughs because he thinks it’s cute (also he keeps licking his lips and Tao admits it’s hella sexy). Secondly, the spilled milk has somehow affected his IQ, despite looking childish at times (and a scary poker face at other times), Sehun was actually way above the average IQ level, despite having a very childish personality. When asked about it, Tao just shrugs and blames it all on chromosomal mutations. Thirdly, Sehun is still maniacally attached to him, touching (groping?) him at random occasions. Tao writes this down as an unexpected and great increase in libido (not that he minds). And lastly, Sehun, as his own tastebuds bear witness to, still taste like milk. ‘Each and every part of him,’ Tao smirks as Sehun’s mouth finds its way to his. ‘Really tastes like top grade milk.’