Part 2:
It was dark in Axiom, an overcast sky blanketing the chilly November night. The mansion on the far outskirts of the colony stood out from the black sea of grass behind it, its silvery metal walls reflecting any amount of light that managed to fall upon them. In their chamber overlooking the east gardens, Nos and Two had drawn all of the curtains over the windows.
The couple were laying quietly in bed, bathed in the dim warm light of the heating crystals in the hearth. Two's processors were heavy with tiredness despite her normal habit of staying up later, but her battery didn't last nearly as long, even though she had started sleeping in later. She was flat on her back with Nos's arm around her and her head resting on his shoulder. Her visor was deactivated, but Nos's optics were still glowing a gentle shade of red.
Why hasn't there been any sign of him...? the Energy Vampire thought fretfully, Darkmatter wouldn't give up so easily. What is he waiting for?
His mind was brimming with all of the possibilities and scenarios, making him feel sick to his stomach (if he'd actually had one). It had been three days since Warp Darkmatter had found Nos and shot him, and they'd called the local authorities. Since Nos was a bit of a "special case," a team had been sent from Star Command to search the Axiom Colony for the blue-skinned cyborg. They hoped to find him and take him to PC-7 so that Nos's secret location would be kept as such. The only thing Nos-4-a2 couldn't understand was why it was taking so long.
The day after the accident, they had gone to the ARL and fixed all of Nos's shoulder that the nanobots hadn't repaired, leaving it as good as new. Eve One and Wall•E had been horrified to hear the news and offered their own home as temporary lodging, but Nos assured them that Computer was an excellent security system. If Darkmatter so much as sneezed at the front gate, Computer would alert the Space Rangers.
We're perfectly safe inside... Eve is safe... the baby is safe... he kept telling himself. He took a deep breath and tried to ease his mind, but to no avail. Anything could happen.
"Noooos..." Two grumbled threateningly. His optic opened wide in surprise.
"Y-You're still awake?" he looked down at her with a baffled expression.
Her eyeforms slivered open in a frown. "It's hard to believe how often you forget that I'm an Energy Vampire, too."
"Well, Energy Vampire fledgling—"
"—Whatever. The fact is, I'm between a rock and a hard place here. It's hard enough to go offline with the baby as is, but you're thinking so hard that I can hear your thoughts without trying," the probe murmured quietly.
"...I'm sorry, I had no idea I was keeping you up," he sighed.
"I know. I can just barely hear something like a distant whisper, but it's so dangerous... it's not healthy to keep asking yourself 'What if?'" she chided, "Or to keep me up by thinking such things."
"I know, little one. I'm just so worried..." Nos moved the arm that wasn't already around her and tenderly placed his hand over her belly. "I don't want anything to happen to you."
Understanding his concern, Two sympathetically pressed a spark to his cheek before nuzzling her head back into his chest. "Don't think about it any more tonight. I love you, Nos-4-a2."
Her eyeforms drifted closed as Nos pressed his lips to the top of her head. He closed his optic and whispered, "I love you more..."
An adoring wavelength radiated from white robot's core before she finally slipped offline.
Although he refrained from thinking about his worries any more that night, he kept a silent watch over her sleeping form until the light of dawn turned the cloudy sky gray.
A/N: Here's the piddly little middle part of Dark Matters. Sorry I'm not so good at the center bits of stories. :/
