Author's Note: This is the companion story for Tallie and Allie's Rules of the Universe though you don't have to read that to read and follow this. These first two chapters are just a short of introduction to Tallie and Allie so not anything amazingly interesting. Enjoy and I own nothing but Tallie and Allie
Chapter One: Ordinary, not so much
To all outward influences Talisa Adams looked ordinary. The truth was that she was in no way an ordinary seventeen year old. In fact Adams wasn't even her real last name. Tallie shouldered her backpack and glared at the grey sky outside the school. The bell that signaled the end of the day had this gloomy Friday had rang twenty minutes ago and there was still no sign of her guardian. She glanced around the empty parking lot and at the road hopefully. A car zoomed past but it wasn't the right one. Tallie sighed and slipped outside to sit on the school steps. She was dressed the same as always in a pair of light colored blue jeans with black ink designs drawn on them and a purple tank top with her blonde hair streaked with light lavender highlights was pulled back in a low ponytail. Her white converse also sported doodles, this time in paint marker. Tallie loved anything to do with art and normally that would have kept her occupied until someone came to pick her up but not today. Today she was worried.
Tallie had a cell phone and she had called Jazz's number but gotten nothing. She wasn't to the point of calling the NEST hotline yet but she was getting close to that point even if no one was there. That was when a Pontiac Solstice pulled into the school parking lot. "Finally," Tallie muttered before schooling her face into an uninterested look and walking over. The driver's door flew open before she could reach for the handle and Tallie climbed in, feeling her worry return. "What's going on Jazz?" she asked more sharply than she had originally intended.
"Optimus is dead. Megatron killed him," Jazz said after a long pause.
"What?" Tallie yelped, going stiff.
"He's dead and they're working on closing down NEST," Jazz said. Tallie stayed silent, head down and hands twisting worriedly. As soon as they arrived at the current NEST base Tallie slipped out of the car and darted off to her room. She tossed her backpack on the floor and sighed as her phone transformed and slipped out. The robotic baby alligator slipped over to her bed that she had flopped on and curled up on her lap, purring slightly in an attempt to comfort her. Tears dripped down her face and Tallie hugged the small creature.
"I just can't believe he's dead," she whispered softly. The alligator let out a little concerned chirp as Tallie began to sob softly. "I'll...I'll be...fine," Tallie said through her tears. She cried until she fell into stress and exhaustion induced sleep.