Title: Cause and Effect
Disclaimer: I neither own Doctor Who nor Transformers. Both belong to all respective creators, producers, and distributors. I make no money from this work of fiction.
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Sam, Charlotte Mearing
Summary: It will affect your standing with everyone involved, however, I need you to ban me from NEST.
Chapter 7: Exile
She knew from the reports the importance of the civilian codenamed The Boy was to the Autobots. It was just so obvious. Within a week of making first contact, The Boy had been assigned a Guardian, the yellow Camaro, what was his name? Ah, yes. Bumblebee. All one had to do was mention The Boy in passing, and immediately, the attention of every Autobot in hearing range was fixed on you.
It was an attentiveness that bordered on obsession, and Mearing couldn't help but be alarmed. She realized a few days later that almost the entirety of NEST treated The Boy as if he were some fragile thing, breakable, precious, without peer or value. And The Boy hated it. He took refuge with the British contingent of NEST, but even so, a good deal of them treated him as if they were in the presence of a living legend. It turned out that those members of the British contingent had affiliations with UNIT, and were aware of The Boy's connection with the famed Scientific Advisor known simply as The Doctor. She frowned at the files on her desk. All that constant attention and coddling simply could not be good for the young man's mentality.
There was a knock on her door, and she glanced up and smirked to find The Boy kicking the door shut behind him, two cups of coffee in his hands. Speak of the Devil.
"Got tired of the smothering, I see."
"You have no idea." He rolled his eyes and handed her a cup before taking a seat in front of her. "I need you to do something for me before I go insane."
She took a sip of the coffee, two spoons of sugar, and a dash of cream and milk, just how she liked it. She smiled behind her cup. It seemed the boy was buttering her up. "And that would be?"
"Mearing, this is going to completely ruin the way NEST sees you, but frankly, I need you to ban me from base."
She felt the blood drain from her face. Oh. Not Good.
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TBC
