Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers or Ellie. Ellie belongs to my best friend, Kurohane Ookami.
"Honey! I'm home!"
"I'm back-" There was a loud thump at the back of the shop. "SON OF A WHORE!"
The dark skinned young woman snickered as she strode around the front desk.
"Don't laugh at me, Ellie!"
"But it's amusing."
"You're a nurse. People's pain isn't supposed to be amusing." The young woman who hit her head on the hood of the car she was fixing narrowed her green eyes.
"But it is."
"I'm never coming to you if I get seriously injured."
"Sure you will, Leon!" Ellie grinned, planting her hands on her hips.
"I will not!"
"Yes, you will."
"No!"
"Yes."
"No!" Leon hefted a wrench. "Don't make me use this!"
"Please you wouldn't harm your dearest roommate. Would you?" Ellie pouted, giving her friend puppy-dog eyes.
"I'm very tempted." Leon growled, shaking her shaggy chocolate bangs out of her face.
"Well, it's very hard to take you seriously when you have grease on most of your face." Ellie snickered, ducking as the wrench came flying towards her head.
"Out!" Leon yelled, reaching for another tool. "Go make dinner!"
"But I've been on my feet all day!" Ellie complained, tugging her long black hair out of the professional bun at the base of her neck.
"Well, I've been bent over this car all day with my ass in the air. March! And don't you say anything about views!"
Ellie sighed, tugging off her shirt as she climbed the stairs to their apartment above the mechanic's shop.
The young nurse paused before the mirror in the bathroom, examining her face for any blemishes.
Her light mocha skin was –thankfully- clean, and her dark green eyes were lined with black eyeliner. Straight black hair stuck out all over her head and down to her shoulders.
Ellie grinned, striding to the kitchen after pulling on a baggy shirt.
"Son of a whore face!" Leon yelled from the stairs.
"Did you trip up the stairs?" The darker woman paused. "Again?"
"No!" The brunette scoffed, appearing in the door rubbing her elbow. "I was…uh…testing my ninja skills!"
"And how's that going for you?" Ellie skirted around the lemons with a frown before grabbing a can of soup.
"They…still need some work." Leon grumbled, heading for the bathroom to rid herself of the grease she had accumulated over the day. It was nearly ten minutes later when she reappeared in a pair of baggy pajama pants and a long t-shirt.
"Smells good." Leon began searching the fridge. "Hey, Ellie…?"
"There isn't any left. You finished it yesterday." Ellie laughed, pouring soup into two bowls.
"Why is the rum always gone?" Leon growled, slamming it shut and stomping over to the table where she picked up her soup.
The phone rang as Ellie set her bowl down.
"Hello?"
"Ellie?"
"SON OF A BITCH!"
"You burnt yourself didn't you?" Ellie asked her best friend, leaning against the counter with the phone away from her mouth.
"You could have warned me that it was hot!"
"It's soup. It's steaming." Ellie snorted, turning her attention back to the phone.
"Sorry. Can I ask who's calling?" The tall African-American woman asked, tilting her head.
"Do you want to put us on speaker phone? We need to talk to both of you." Ellie frowned, but put it on speaker setting it on the counter."HI LEON!"
Leon spat out the mouthful of mushroom soup all over the table.
"Uncle Will?!" She coughed, light green eyes wide.
"And me."
"Uncle Epps!" Ellie looked surprised.
"Nice job, kiddo. Do you have a computer handy? With a camera?"
"Yeah. Video chat?" Leon grinned like an idiot, darting to the computer and booting it up.
Epps and Will appeared on the screen.
"HI WILL!" Leon yelled. The commander laughed as Ellie leaned over her shoulder.
"How are our girls?" Epps grinned, arms folded across his chest as he leaned back in his chair.
"We're fine." Leon nodded, chocolate hair bobbing in it's wet ponytail.
"Other than getting a wrench thrown at me."
"You had it coming!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
Their uncles laughed, and the two girls focused on the screen with a sheepish grin.
"So what did you suddenly contact us for?" Leon asked, curiosity in her tone. "You're in Washington now, right?"
Lennox nodded.
"We've got an offer for you." Epps grinned. "We're having a bit of trouble with fixing our mechanical… stuff here, and we have a bunch of injured people."
"So you want us to come up to Washington." Leon paled beneath her tan.
"Okay, I know you don't like planes-" Will began.
"'Don't like' is an understatement. I hate them." Leon shuddered, gesturing for him to continue.
"NEST wants to hire you to help out."
"NEST as in you two." Ellie snorted, rolling her eyes. "Does the director guy know?"
"Well, kind of. We were supposed to hire professionals-"
"I am a professional, thank you very much!" The brunette protested.
"-but we thought you'd want a shot."
"So you want us," Ellie gestured to the two of them. "To go up to cold Washington to work at NEST for an unidentified amount of time?"
Both men nodded.
"You want us to leave sunny San Francisco to go there." She frowned.
"Ellie!" Leon threw an arm around her best friend. "Where's your sense of adventure!?"
"I'm plenty adventurous. Where it's warm."
"We'll take the job. But only if we can drive up." Leon ignored her friend.
"We've already sent you a jet…" Will gave a nervous laugh.
"I'm going to castrate you when we get there." Leon snarled as Epps disconnected.
"Come on, Leon, where's your sense of adventure!?"