Beep.
Taylor stopped short, and the Jeep almost rammed into them from beind. They all flew foward.
"Good thing I warned you guys to wear your seatbelts," Taylor said off-handedly. Tess almost laughed. She would have, in fact, but the device in her hand had just gone off. She recalled Nasedo's training: "A long beep means that the device is losing power. A double beep means that the subject has changed location. A short beep means-"
"What the hell was that?" Kyle demanded angrily. "A short beep means-"
"Wow, is someone in a bad mood," Taylor commented. "Tess, was that your...thingie?"
"A short beep means that the subject has passed within a one-mile radius!" Tess exclaimed aloud. Michael. Michael, they were going to find Michael, because he was only a mile away. They were going to find him and take him home and and never let him out of their sights because e would be safe and alive!!! "Yes! Michael is within a mile of us!" She felt her face break into a grin, and knew that her eyes were lit.
Max knocked on Taylor's window. He, Maria, Alex, and Isabel stood outside, almost in a line. Michael, Michael, we're going to save you! He mouthed the words, What's going on? and Taylor turned the car off, opened the door, and got out.
She spoke to them for a few minutes, and then got back into the car and turned to Tess. "So that's it? We're really only a mile away?" Hold on, Mikey.
"Right. We just have to follow this thing for a mile and then we're there! She had never been this happy in her life. Even on the trip to Roswell, she'd been preoccupied-- What will Max think of me? What if they're more advanced than me? What if they don't accept me? What if they don't even know that they're aliens? but now, the only question was, How hard will we have to fight for him? She was willing to do whatever it took.
"Well, they're following us. So let's go." Taylor started the car again and turned off the road--driving onto the expanse of grass at the side of the highway, following the device.
It hadn't been a full minute when they came across the figure. Taylor slowed down and they all looked.
"Oh my God." Michael. It was Michael.
