“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” - Mother Teresa

Data didn't make frequent visits to the Daystrom Institute, despite his interest in cybernetics. Perhaps it was that every time he entered, while the scientists were excited, they always acted as if they couldn't wait to get through his cortenide and duranium skull at the positronic circuits beneath. Even before the installation of his emotion chip, the place often left him with a sense of depersonalization. Their objective view effectively countered his efforts to emulate humans.

However, he found himself staring outside the window of one of the laboratories at the perpetually lovely lawn. The weather grid kept storms from interfering with the region- the technology too sensitive to risk with electrical surges. Rather than build it underground, the weather grid kept the environment vaguely warm and serene, the plant life maintained by an irrigation system. It was quite efficient, but in its own way, it seemed as artificial as him. A carefully maintained representation of something that occurred naturally but with augmentations to make it superior; though difficult to maintain without the carefully laid out balances.

( 'You- Are- Data-?' )

Character: Data
Fandom: Star Trek : The Next Generation
Words: 795

Who: Data | Kerr Avon
What: Data and Avon celebrate life and apparently a new engagement
When: Continued from here...
Warnings and Notes: Based off the poisoning in Lore!plot.

( The charge that ran up through his fingers beneath the trailing blue light relaxed them, his grip easing... )