(Josh -
about the Haitian
)
(Rajan - Done a profile yet?)
Arriving at the boarding school in Virginia, Eve and Rocky leapt out of Blue Spark as soon as he stopped. Eve carried Genie inside the building with her as she raced to the front desk. The receptionist was chewing gum as she flicked through the pages of a fashion magazine. She didn't notice Eve until she was yelling at her.
"EXCUSE ME!" Eve yelled. "My name is Eve Adams and I have to see my son."
The receptionist looked at her blankly for a moment before typing into an old computer next to her. She studied this for a while before turning back to Eve.
"Thomas is currently in class." she said.
"Well obviously! You kind of expect that from a school! Which one?" Eve replied exasperatedly.
"Math." replied the receptionist, looking up to see Eve and her dog race away down the corridors, following signs. "Hey, you can't do that!"
"Watch me!" answered Eve. Finding the right room, she knocked and burst in.
"Mom?" asked an astonished 13 year old boy sitting at a desk in the middle of the room. "Why are you here?"
"Tommy!" she cried in relief and went over and hugged him, stroking his casual mop of brown hair. Thomas squirmed and reddened. His mates snorted.
"Mom, don't call me that in front of my friends!" he moaned.
"Um, can I help you, Ms Adams?" asked a surprised teacher.
"Thomas has to be excused from class, is that ok?"
The teacher nodded and Eve grabbed her son and took him outside.
"Where's your dorm?" she asked. He showed her the way.
"What's wrong?" he asked back as they climbed the stairs.
"Some Government task-force called B26 is rounding up all the evolved humans." she began. She told him the story as they packed his bag.
"So they'll be coming for us? And the others?" he asked once she'd finished. Eve nodded as she led him down the stairs again.
"I think they already have my parents, my sister and my brother."
"Ms Adams!" called the receptionist. Eve turned to look and she saw that she had two men dressed in white psychiatric nurses uniforms with her, but they were heavily muscled with a mean glint in their eyes.
"It's alright, they're going to look after you-" the receptionist started, but Eve and Thomas were already running along the corridor away from them. Presumably the B26 agents had persuaded her she was insane and needed to be taken away. The agents followed them along the corridor, and the receptionist tottered along behind them on her heels, knocking on doors for other staff to come see what was happening too. This was the most exciting thing to happen at the school for years!
Not realising that the receptionist and the staff members could see them, the agents pulled out guns and tasers from underneath their disguises and aimed them at Eve and her son. The staff froze and a teacher had to cover the mouth of the receptionist to muffle her scream.
Eve and Thomas saw the red laser spots of the guns whizz around on the wall in front of them until they disappeared as they focused on the back of their heads. Turning round as they struggled to unlock a door, they saw the guns.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a large dark shape flew at the men, ripping the guns from their hands and grabbing their arms with its mouth and shaking them to stop them from attacking Eve and Thomas. It was Rocky, growling like a thunderstorm.
Thomas managed to unlock the door and he pushed it open and ran through, carrying Genie. Eve followed with his bag and called to Rocky, who let the men go upon hearing her voice and sprinted after them.
Outside again, the group ran towards Blue Streak who had driven around to meet them. He opened the doors nearest to them and they piled in. Thomas saw the agents running out of the door after them as they drove off.
"They'll be able to follow us in their SUVs!" he said.
"Not anymore." answered Blue Streak, a smile in his voice. "I may not have guns like a transformer but I still know how to slash tyres!"
Thomas grinned and patted the dashboard. Genie curled up in his lap and Rocky curled up on the back seat. Eve sat in the driver's seat but she let Blue Streak drive himself. He was much better than her anyway.
"What now?" the car asked.
"REBEL texted me again on the way here." Eve explained to Thomas, who she had told about REBEL. "He said that a man will contact us soon via Genie. Until then, let's see if we can track the others."
Blue Streak accelerated again, heading for the location she told him.
(Gtg again now.)
(Josh - So Simone has given birth now?)