It's Christmas Eve in Portland, and Maria Torres and CR-SO1 are decorating the lobby of Resurgam First Care. It's CR's first Christmas in almost ten years and he is excited to help with the decorating.
"Hey kid!" Maria called. "Come here and help me put these lights on the tree."
"Okay."
"Here, hold this for me."
He does what he's told with no questions asked. He doesn't want to anger Maria and ruin the holiday cheer. Once the lights are finally on the tree, they decided to plug it in to see how it looked.
"Here we go!!" Maria plugged the cord in the outlet... and nothing happened.
"Huh?" CR was confused. "Weren't the lights supposed to
"Hey, moron. You still alive there?"
CR looked up to see Maria standing in front of him. Unlike her usual harsh personallity, her faced showed concern towards the young surgeon. Behind those bars sat a man convicted of an incident that killed many innocents and is working off an immeasurable prison sentence. And the worse part? He wasn't sure if he did it or not. Maria couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
"What do you want?" he asked with little emotion.
Maria chuckled. "Jeez, I drop by for a visit and that's the greeting I get?"
CR doesn't respond. He just stares at her with his lifeless, crimson eyes. Maria sighed and walked into the h