Winning wasn't what was important.
Survival as a vampire means being clever and hyper-vigilant at all times. For fifty years, Jonathan and his freshly turned lover Édouard manage to be so. And then they don't.
Edward made a promise to leave Gotham behind, but after Jonathan has recovered enough to travel he realises doing so would be a mistake. After setting himself the task of catching Gotham's new, fear-toxin-wielding vigilante, Edward is forced to face whether he has what it takes to move on and leave the Riddler behind forever.
If they continue this way, it could destroy everything. Core!WheatleyXcore!GLaDOS
GLaDOS realises she has feelings for Wheatley and confesses this to him, but to her horror and shame, he doesn't care.
Christmas is coming! Oh noes!
Even war is postponed at times like these.
The Cores were attached to control GLaDOS... but perhaps not for the reason we thought.
"[…] You know, when I woke up and saw the state of the labs, I started to wonder if there was any point to going on. I came that close to just giving up and letting you go. But now, looking around, seeing Aperture restored to its former glory? You don't have to worry about leaving ever again. I mean that."
GLaDOS is annoyed and bored. She needs a distraction. Now with a second part, partially by request.
She has lost everything, but she refuses to let go.
Chell attempts to return to Aperture to mend fences with GLaDOS, but she is unable to. Chell does not give up on her goal and discovers that there's more than one way to return a favour. The sequel to Want You Gone.
GLaDOS originally likes working for the humans, and is perfectly happy to do as she's told for them, but her world is shattered one day when she realises she's not who she thought she was.
GLaDOS is nearing the end of her life, but she still holds out for one last spark of hope to help her push back that dark part of herself.
One day Wheatley asks Chell if she ever thinks about GLaDOS, and when she says that she does, the two try to figure her out and wonder if she's changed at all since they've been gone.
"Kami no itte" refers to a move that is so unexpected, so brilliant and so creative that it seems like it would be a move only god can make, changing the flow of the game completely with a single move."
They got no closer than anyone else.
"This course was created and then abandoned by humans. They tend to do that, create something wonderful and then abandon it."
Wheatley, hacker under the employ of Aperture Laboratories, somehow ends up on the GLaDOS Project. His job: To teach her until she's able to learn on her own. But as happens with the best students, Wheatley ends up being the one learning the lessons… WheatDOS at the end. Human!Wheatley, Core!GLaDOS.
Change only happens when you admit it needs to. Inspired by the song 'Coming Home, Part II' by Skylar Grey.