This is one of the darker fics I've read in this fandom, but I like how you addressed the elephant in the room. Aperture really is a ticking time bomb if you think about it

Oh my Gooood why would you do this D'x

that is so disturbing and heartbreaking, since yeah without Glados maintaining the facility there wouldn't be anything stopping the reactor core meltdown. It seems Wheatley was destined to never be completely free even after leaving Aperture, poor guy. And poor Chell