Chapter Two- 1/18/13-

Whitley awoke with a strange pain in his neck. He had fallen asleep with his face on his desk. He opened his eyes and saw ED-E buzzing about. ED-E beeped as if he were happy. Whitley smirked and turned on the television for him. ED-E hovered down onto the couch and faced the television. Whitley didn't care what Autumn or Grant had to say, these robots were alive to him, they were conscious. Or at least ED-E was. He had to be.

At them moment Doctor Grant opened the door with a box of supplies. She hesitated setting them down on his desk, but proceeded anyway.

"I'm sorry about earlier, David. I just had to get approval from Autumn. It's too time-consuming to upgrade them when they're active. I'm sure Colonel Autumn already explained everything, but just let it go Whitley. They'll be fine." Grant says.

Whitley senses it's been practiced and she's been waiting to say this for a while. He has always known she took him for an idiot, but now it seems more apparent than ever.

"Grant, I've already discussed this matter with Augustus, I'm not going to discuss it again."

Whitley stared scowling at Grant over his electronics. Grant looked disappointed that he did not answer her question. "I got you something," she said, "I found it and had it repainted for you." She hands him a small rectangular object wrapped in bits of scrap paper. Grant walked out of the office and left Whitley alone.

Whitley looked at the small package and reluctantly began to tear it open. Underneath the paper a red license plate was revealed. It read "2ED-E59" with "Great Midwest" inscribed in white at above it.

Whitley smiled a genuine smile. He went over to ED-E who was still happily beeping on the chair watching cartoons. He turned off the television and put ED-E to sleep after giving him a brief hug. ED-E had a weak spot he had discovered on his right side. Whitley grabbed a few tools and bolted the plate over ED-E's weak spot. He rubbed the plate to shine it a little and smiled yet again. His robot was now unique from the others. Everyone would know which one is ED-E.

Doctor Grant awoke with a start. The terminal in her room started beeping constantly, and

loudly. She rubbed her eyes and began to walk over to her desk. She entered the password and looked at the message. It was from Colonel Autumn and read:

"Adams Air Force Base Staff,
All Enclave Eyebot Duraframe models(including Subject E) will be upgraded to the new Hellfire Armor. The armor is more efficient and can withstand being blasted by our enemies most powerful weapons. The shipment will arrive in around a week, please start preparing the robots and stripping off their old armor. Thank you for your cooperation, God bless America,and God bless the Enclave.
-Colonel Augustus Autumn."

Grant was scared of how Whitley would react. He doesn't handle things like this well. A crash came from down the hall.

Grant was set into a panic, she threw on her lab coat, grabbed her reading glasses, and started running to where the noise came from. Enclave officers patrolled the halls up and down, but none of them seemed to be concerned with the noise coming from the lab. She reached the lab door to find it locked. She yanked on the door with no success and then tried to look inside.

Whitley was standing next to ED-E and seemed to be recording some sort of message. There were a few boxes full of what seemed to be his things and all of his work. He looked hurried and tried to record quickly. Grant saw broken glass on the floor and found the source of the crash. Beside the broken glass there was something sort of dark. Grant continued to stare at it, but couldn't place what it was. It was on the glass too, but the viewing window of the door stopped her from seeing the little piece of light brown next to the dark liquid. Suddenly it clicked in her head. It was blood, and that familiar brown she saw was Colonel Autumn's duster.

"Oh my God", Grant whispered to herself. She started banging on the door and telling Whitley to let her in. Whitley stopped the recording and grabbed a bag on his desk. He started throwing some of his things in and then turned off grabbed a larger bag with a blanket from the floor and put ED-E in it. He threw some of his clothes on top. He took off his lab coat and hung it up.

He scribbled something on a sheet of paper and then moved out of Grant's sight. She banged on the door as much as she could. Whitley still continued to ignore her. She ran around to the other door of the lab. She was hoping Whitley would go out that one. Instead no one was there and the entire corridor was deserted. She tried to open the door and discovered it was unlocked. He must've left when she ran over here, he can predict her so well. She walked inside and took a look at the paper Whitley had scribbled on. It was for her.

"Amy,
I am leaving. Do not show this not to Autumn when he wakes up. I really hope to see you again. I want you to continue working on the eyebots, finish my work. I don't think I will ever return. I'm sending ED-E to Navarro, do not go looking for me and do not go looking for him. He'll return here eventually but he needs proper armor, unlike the "Hellfire Armor" Augustus loves so much. I'll visit sometime, Grant, but you cannot know my whereabouts until I'm far away from the Enclave. Again, don't show this to anyone, I just wanted to say goodbye and thought I should explain. My personal terminal password is "28135", no one else in this facility knows the password, don't go flailing this paper around.
-David Whitley"

Grant stared at the note then lay her head down on his desk. She folded up the note and placed it in the pocket of her lab coat. Tears streamed down her face and dampened her long brown hair. She closed her eyes and fell asleep fearing she will never really see Whitley again.