Disclaimer: Oh come on, if I owned Knight Rider, Sarah and KITT would be together - you can count on that. Sorry for the bad grammar, this computer doesn't have a Microsoft Word where I can correct the sentences and spelling.
Chapter One,
At the dead of night, Sarah Graiman awoke with a terrifying scream. Her hands felt her sweating forehead and tear stained face. She panted, running a hand through her hair as she reached for a towel on her bedside table.
It had been the third night that she's had endless nightmares. Usually when a person dreams of something, they don't dream about it again, but for Sarah Graiman it was different; they would continue the next night, like a TV series. Her terrifying dreams began the night Mike was injured, and from then on she'd been having nightmares.
The tragedy happened during a wild car chase, on a snowy evening, and Mike hadn't been riding KITT, but another car. Unfortunately, he and his rival were ramming each other to see who would go off the side of the cliff first, and to their surprise they collided with an on coming truck, sending the car Mike was in whirling through the air, flipping multiple times, before coming to an abrupt halt in front of a bluff. His enemy, plummeted to his death down the cliff and was forgotten by the Knight Industries team when they came to patrol the area and help the injured Mike.
Sarah placed the towel back onto the table, and laid herself back down on the bed, staring at the ceiling. For a long time she kept staring at that empty space in silence, suddenly, the stillness was broken by KITT's voice through her earpiece, "Are you alright, Sarah?"
"Yes KITT," she replied.
"I'm assuming that you had another nightmare." the AI said, calmly.
Sarah shook her head, "Don't worry about it, it's nothing."
"If you say so, Sarah."
KITT said no more as he went back to recharge. Sarah went back to sleep, or at least, tried too. She tossed and turned in every direction trying to find a comfortable spot, and when she did she'd close her eyes - only to have them snap them back open and repeat the process of turning and tossing in her bed. When she finally drifted off to sleep it had been around 6 o'clock in the morning, thus only giving her a few minutes of sleep.
She awoke to find her whole bed a complete mess, and figured it had been caused from her turning and tossing of trying to get some rest. Sarah then got up, fixed her bed and went to dress. She stepped out of her room with her auburn hair tied up in a pony tail, wearing a green turtleneck sweater and over it, a plain Melton peacoat, with navy blue skinny jeans and faux fur boots. She wouldn't be wearing the coat, but the heaters in Knight Industries crashed, and the company technicians would only start repairing them today. She shuddered at the cold atmosphere of the premises, and headed to the SSC.
"Good morning, Sarah." came KITT's voice from his parking space in the SSC, "You didn't get much sleep last night."
"Don't worry about me, KITT. It's not like this is the first time I haven't gotten much sleep."
"Yes, it has not," the AI stated, "it's been three nights that you haven't gotten the right amount of sleep, Sarah; you are loosing extreme amounts of energy that you might need for important occasions."
Sarah smiled, shaking her head, "Just don't worry about it KITT, and it's finally Winter Break, after today, I can sleep and stay in late; I don't have to wake up at a certain hour."
"Okay, Sarah."
The pair stayed silent for most of the time as they waited for the others to come in. With Sarah who ran a scan on KITT, and after, decided to finish some overdue paperwork in her office. The AI was left in solitude, until quarter to eight when the crew started to come one by one, and they went to their usual spots. Billy and Zoe, in front of the computers, Carrie walking about, carrying paper work to different rooms, and Dr. Charles Graiman and Alex, chattering in a corner by the computers. There was only one person missing;
Mike.
It was true, and not even KITT and Sarah could deny the fact that they were probably more worried about Mike than anyone else was.
However, it truly concerned KITT how Sarah started to get extremely stressed out because of the nightmares she's been experiencing after Michael's injury. He would see the young woman through a camera, in her office, randomly slamming drawers or tossing folders at a wall, and after, rubbing her forehead in annoyance. The only time she could really finish up some work was at midnight, when most of the agents were asleep - complete peace and quiet.
Dr. Graiman's voice rang through out the room, "If everyone would kindly gather around here for a minute, it would be much appreciated."
KITT hadn't noticed when Dr. Graiman had taken a spot in front of his parking space, and he hadn't noticed the Knight Industries employees gathered around the room, or/and the different level of catwalks. Though he did notice the walking in of Sarah Graiman, she stood leaning on the computer table in between Billy and Zoe, who took quick glances at each other before turning back to face Sarah's father, who had walked out of the middle of the floor and was now standing with a crowd - Alex Torres took the spot.
"As you all know," he started, "It's Winter Break, and before we lock Knight Industries down I just want to greet you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Meeting dismissed."