[i]"So... you're like some robot or something?"[/i] Alex snickered. [i]"Alex George- best friend and robot extraordinaire."[/i] He frowned as Riley winced.

"I'm not a [b]cyborg[/b]" He began, emphasizing the word cyborg correcting her ignorance on the difference between robots and cyborgs, of course he was only teasing. "I'm flesh and blood like you... It's just my DNA is wired differently and modified to make me... Superior?" Not liking his choice of word. 

[i]"Alex... what were his last words?"[/i]

Alex's eyes dropped, his stomach rising. He didn't think letting Riley know that he cried and begged for his life, trying to strike a deal with Alex was quite what Riley wanted to hear. He also knew that it would probably not help his appearance either, making him look malicious and just out for blood, which wasn't the case. He didn't believe that Riley would see that it had to be done. However, making up that he had asked for Riley to know he'd loved her would only worsen her heartache.

"He told me that..." Alex paused and breathed out deeply, "That they'd hunt me down to the ends of the Earth, he was fearless." He lied to her, for what he felt was a good reason.