Hey everybody, here's chapter two of Mary's saga, all for Ally!! I don't own Kurt, Kitty, or Doritos.

TJ woke up and took in a huge whiff of train smell, that mix of polyester and cell phones and laptops burning in people's laps. He opened his eyes and found the left side of his face plastered against the window pane and pulled it off, sighing at the brief pain. He couldn't believe he was actually doing this. He couldn't believe this was the fourth time Mary Chorli was going to get him grounded. He glanced across from him, watching her doze as the train's movements rocked back and forth, and couldn't imagine why he ever did anything with her besides the fact that she was completely and unearthly beautiful.

He looked away from her quickly, glancing around the train. Three more stops to go, three missed calls from his father. He looked at his cell phone again and groaned. Four missed calls from his father. He was so dead when he got home. Mary, he thought. How the HELL do you talk me INTO these things?

Mary, sleeping, dreamed and found herself being pulled to Roran Yu again. She saw again through his eyes, staring around the small hospital-scrub clean room. –I'm here,- she said softly. –Don't be scared.-

"I'm terrified," she heard him whisper. "They want to cut me open."

-I know, just stay calm, I'm coming for you.-

"Please hurry," he said, squirming a little in his restraints.

Her eyes opened and she saw TJ, trying to remember where she was. Then she realized she was still on the train to Nevada. "TJ," she said softly. He continued to stare at his phone in grim agony. "TJ, are you alright?"

"Huh?" he looked up and smiled at her. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine. My dad's been trying to call me. He's um, called me four… five times."

"I know, it's taking everything I've got to block off my part of the Life streak," Mary sighed. "I can't let them know where I am, they'll come and get me and I won't be able to rescue Roran Yu."

"What is your obsession with this guy?" TJ asked. "I mean, you don't even know him. How do you know he even exists?"

"I know," she said. "Just trust me."

"You always tell me to trust you," TJ sighed. "And for some reason, I always do."

She smiled and tilted her head to the side, sending her rainbow-colored hair cascading over her shoulder like a waterfall of sunshine. TJ shook his head.

"Don't smile at me, I'm mad at you."

"For what?"

"For getting me in trouble," TJ snapped. "I'm always getting in trouble because of you. Do you have any idea what my Dad's going to DO to me when I get back home?"

"You're lucky," she mumbled. "You only have ONE parent to punish you. Do you know I get one punishment for each parent?"

"Lucky, huh?" He said. "Kitty's as bad as him, you know. With the worrying and the grounding."

"You should really try to give her a chance," Mary suggested, getting up and sitting next to him. "She really cares, you know, and your dad loves her an awful lot."

"She doesn't even know me," TJ grumbled.

"She's been with your dad eight years," Mary said softly. "Why are you still mad at them?"

"Because my dad can find the time for her and Colby," he said. "But he won't even tell me my mom's name. I just want to know what her name was."

Mary sighed and looked out the window, worrying for her friend. She never knew what to say to him when he was like this. She wished there was something she could do to help him, like he always managed to find a way to help her. Out of all of her friends at school, her cheerleader buddies and giggling fan squad, it was this geek who she trusted with her deepest secrets and darkest fears.

Sometimes she wondered if that was weird.

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"This is our stop," Mary said as she poked TJ in the ribs. TJ jerked awake and glanced at his phone again. "How many?"

"Jesus Christ, dad, if I don't answer the phone the FIRST thirty-two times, I'm not going to answer the THIRTY-THIRD time!"

"Wow, I thought my mom was bad," Mary laughed as she stood up and grabbed her bag. "Gosh I'm stiff. How long have we been on this train?"

"Forty-nine hours," TJ groaned and stood, stretching his arms and yawning widely. "Hey, we've been missing two days, that's a record for us. High five, Bonnie."

"High five, Clyde," she giggled and smacked her friend's palm.

"We should find something other than Doritos to eat," TJ sighed, putting a hand on his growling stomach. "I am seriously ready to die of hunger."

"Aren't you always," Mary said. "Come on, we'll pick up something on the way."

"So… how do you plan to FIND the secret military base, anyway?" TJ asked as they got off the train. "That might be the only glitch in your plan. Besides the getting in, breaking out this alien, and maybe the getting out. Yeah, this whole plan is off, Mary."

"I know," she said softly. "But I do know how to find it."

"Really."

"Yes," she said. "I just follow Roran's call…"

There's chapter two!! Okay off to figure out how many guards it takes to kill two teenagers…