Author's Note: Ok so I'll admit (as Blueberry correctly pointed out) the last chapter wasn't one of my better ones. Originally it was more detailed but when I started typing my mind went blank and I lost my ideas. Thanks to I am Blueberry and Riptide2 for reviewing the last chapter. I own nothing but Mallory
Chapter Six-Flight Time
Going through airport security was, always had been, and probably always would be a pain. It took them twenty minutes and then they had to run to the correct terminal to get on the plane. One they were settled a still tired Mallory drifted off to sleep. The vision came to her almost immediately. Mikaela and Sam were sitting in the back of an ambulance laughing. Somewhere else the Autobots were speaking to a few White House representatives. The soldiers from Qatar were being reunited with their families and Barricade was on an unfamiliar road driving.
Mallory was jolted awake an hour into the flight when a flight attendant with a name tag that said Carrie accidentally bumped into her arm. "I'm so sorry," the woman said with an apologetic smile.
"No problem," Mallory replied with an answering smile. She was asleep within fifteen minutes.
She had her cell phone held to her ear and was talking to Sam. She couldn't hear what either one of them was saying but he looked like he had gained some new kind of understanding. Mikaela and Sam then were at the lake together laughing and smiling widely. Mallory saw herself playing soccer in the road with a few Hispanic girls and laughing until she saw a battered police car driving down the road. One of the girls' mothers called her in and the others grabbed up their things and headed back in. Dark storm clouds blew across the horizon. The first rain drops fell on the hard packed dirt road and Mallory allowed a smiled to slip across her face.
"We will be arriving in Indianapolis in five minutes. It is ten o'clock there and the weather is sunny and ninety-five. Thank you for flying with us and please enjoy your stay," a voice over the loud speaker said, jolting Mallory awake. So Barricade was coming here. That was an interesting development. Of course so was the fact that she suddenly had friends in the vision even though Aunt Alisa was going to home school her through the last few weeks of school.
The drive to Aunt Alisa's old farmhouse was mostly boring except for one thing. There were two other farmhouses on either side of Aunt Alisa's. "Carla, Crystal, and Costanza Marco live in the one on the left and Jasmine and Elena Rubalcava live in the one on the right. Hopefully you girls can be friends," Aunt Alisa said. Mallory had to wonder if they weren't the girls she had seen in her vision.
She closed her eyes briefly and saw herself talking to Sam again. She did have his number, she had taken it from Mikaela's phone just before she had betrayed her sister, but it made no sense for her to talk to Sam unless… She had felt a compulsion to explain everything to someone. Maybe Sam was who she should tell. "We're here," Aunt Alisa announced suddenly, parking the truck. "Your bedroom is on the top floor, second door on the left." Mallory nodded and grabbed her backpack, ducking out of the truck and following her aunt into the house. She ascended the stairs a slipped into her room, flopping on the bed and pulling out her phone. She found Sam's number and dialed it. To her surprise he answered on the first ring.
"I would have thought you wouldn't answer for an unfamiliar number after what just happened," Mallory said with a slight smile on her face.
"Mallory?" Sam asked sounding slightly stunned. "Mallory Banes?"
"The one and only," Mallory said dryly. "Look Sam. I need to explain what's going on."
"Sure as heck you do," Sam snapped. "You betrayed us."
"Yes but for a good reason," Mallory said.
"What kind of good reason can anyone come up with to betray the human race to a bunch of maniacs?" Sam practically yelled. Mallory held the phone away from her ear and winced.
When he was finished she said," How about the fact that you would die, I would die, and the Autobots would lose." Dead silence on the other side of the phone. "Has Mikaela told you about the 'affliction'? The truth."
"She said you see the future," Sam said slowly. "I'm not sure I believe it."
"I do," Mallory said with a heavy sigh. "It's not like I want to but I do. I saw everyone fail if I sided with you so I did what I thought was best and betrayed you all. I am sorry."
"You really believe this?" Sam asked hesitantly.
"Yes," Mallory said simply. "Will you tell Mikaela some day? The truth I mean."
"You'll tell her yourself," Sam replied. "I'll back you up. Thanks for explaining Mallory."
"Thanks for actually believing," Mallory responded before hanging up. Then she went to take her shower and go to bed. Despite all the sleep on the plane ride she was still somehow exhausted. Thirty minutes later she was in bed and when Aunt Alisa came up to tell Mal it was time for supper the teen was fast asleep.