A cold, wet nose pressed against my leg and woke me up from my lovely sleep. I immediately noticed the warm body to my left and a limp arm lazily resting on my back. "Hey, leave her alone. You're going to wake her," a voice that I recognized as Sunstreaker muttered to someone. I snapped open my eyes and reeled back from Sunstreaker's warm body.
My cheeks burned with embarrassment and I stood up from the couch to get away from him. "I am so so sorry!" I apologized and covered my face with my hands. Both of my dogs ran up to me excitedly, obviously to what was happening. I push them away and started to walk away to get ready for work.
"Aubrey," he called out and sounded like he was getting off the couch. I stopped in my tracks but didn't face him, too afraid of him pointing out that I was literally using him as pillow. Sunstreaker stood in front of me yet didn't touch me, most likely to the fact he doesn't like human interaction. "Make sure to call your brother."
With that said, his holoform disappeared in front of me which scared me. I released a big sigh before heading up stairs to my room. Kodiak and Vivian followed me, happily without a care to the world. I get dressed quickly in my uniform and headed down stairs for a hopefully boring day; rather have an uneventful day then a chaotic.
"My god! I slept with my arms around him. Why didn't he tell me to fuck off or get away? He seems like one to do that," I mumbled to myself before putting the dogs in their kennels and entering the garage.
Both of the beautiful Lambos sat there silently and unmoving, until Sides started his engine suddenly. This almost scared the shit out of me and caused me to grab at my gun. "You motherfucker! You are so lucky I didn't shoot your pretty little hood."
Sides's holoform appeared next to his alt. mode and was laughing his butt off. "You should have seen your face!" he cackled and attempted to calm down his laughter. I glared deeply at him and crossed my arms over my chest.
"Shut it," I growled, not too pleased about him scaring me and slammed my fist on the garage opener. The garage noisily rolled up so both of the super cars could exit. "Get out now." His demeanor changed by him stops laughing and gave me a look of betrayal.
"But-but why?" he cried and rushed over to me.
"I don't know… because you scared me! Now get, your brother can stay but you get to leave," I sarcastically said and headed towards my work truck. Whichever dog woke me up was in time, gladly.
He followed me to my truck while gripping on to my arm. "I'm sorry, please don't kick me out," Sides begged. I put on a thinking face on as if I was giving it a thought before telling him 'no' and hopping into my truck.
Right as I was about to start up my truck and leave for work, my phone begun to ring. The caller ID read Sarah as I picked it up and a small amount of worry bubbled in my stomach. "Yellow?" I answered my phone and waited for a response.
"Hey, Brey. I have a small favor to ask of you," Sarah responded. I started up my truck and put on my seatbelt for safety.
"Ask away."
"Could you take Anna to school today? Most of the bots are busy and I don't trust any of the twins," she questioned.
"Yeah, I'll start heading your way. You're lucky I was about to head to work," I accepted and began my way towards the Lennox's house. "Wait, what about your car?" Almost forgot she had that thing.
"Oh, thank you so much! Dead battery, and Wheeljack took the jumper cables and never gave it back," she answered. Well that's a bit mean, never giving back something that's not yours. I pulled up next to her car and honked, notifying her I was here. The honk echoed between the phones, making both of hang up.
Sarah walked out while holding onto Anna's hand who wanted to take off faster than a space ship. Somehow, someway, Anna was able to get out Sarah's hold and rushed over to the passenger side door and opened it. "Hi, Aunty!" she greeted and sat down next to me in the passenger seat.
"Thanks for taking her to school for me," Sarah thanked me and came up to my open driver side window.
"Of course, anytime you need me. I am an officer of the law and here to protect and serve," I joked and put the truck back into drive. "I got to get going though so I can get her to school and start my shift."
"Okay, be safe out there, please," she pleaded but there was nothing I could do to ensure my safety and return home. I nodded my head, rolled up the window, and took off to the road.
"So how are your boyfriends?" Anna asked all of a sudden. Her sentence surprised me and nearly made me serve, gladly my training me not to do that. Anna must be talking about the two following us, my guardians who are unneeded in my opinion.
"My, my boyfriends? We… we aren't together. We're only friends/guardians. Your father appointed them to me," I explained and attempted to cool my burning face. They are nice (including Sunstreaker for last night), funny, and handsome but they're alien robots from space; and as if they would ever go with me: a boring human that follows the laws.
Anna giggled, not believing the truth. "I see the way you look at them and how they look at you. I may be seven but I can what's going on between you two." I shake my head and stayed silent, wanting to get her to school quickly. "I'm going to take your silence as a you do like them."
It was best not to argue with her or it could escalate so I kept my mouth shut. "Sides and Brey and Sunny sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g," Anna sang the whole way until I dropped her off for school. She waved at the two Lamborghinis following me before heading towards the front of the newer school. I leaned my head against the wheel of my truck and released a sigh. This is going to be a long day…
I picked up my radio and pressed the button to call through to dispatch, taking a second for the beep to sound. "Dispatch, Wildlife 104, starting her shift," I stated and released the button. One of our dispatchers gave me a 'copy' and with that, I started a hopefully boring day.
But that's not how my day went. I was called to another weird called, this time I knew what had happened at the scene and would have to cover it up for Will instead of exposing it.
When arriving at the crime scene, I thought this was going to be a quick case to close in matter of days like the others. Oh no, the gods don't like me having an easy day or job. It was located on a somewhat busy road where many cars were destroyed with the mixture of the blue substance and gas.
Officers of the nearby city were blocking off the scene so no news people were trying to get a shot of what happened. I hopped out of my truck and strolled up to the scene, being followed by the Terror Twins. A once over of the area told me there was at least three body counts so far. "What in hell happened here?" I mumbled underneath my breath.
"Cons. Lennox will try to get you put in charge of the case but they're fighting him," Sides answered for me and stopped next to me.
"I was a lucky one, then," I joked, the next second knowing it wasn't smart. An officer, by the looks of it a rookie, marched up to me with the hint of nervousness.
"Yeah, you were," Sunstreaker replied and straightened his back when the officer stopped in front of me.
"Officer Lambert, Sergeant Tipps wants to talk to you," Officer Crane stated and pointed off to where my sergeant and a few others were talking. I thanked him quickly before speed walking over to her and stopping in front of her.
"I was called?" I questioned after making my presences known.
Sergeant Tipps dipped her head to confirm my question. "Yes, you're 'friend' Will is going to great lengths to get you on the case. But with the many cases on your hands and hunting and fishing season going into full blast, you will not be taking the case. One of the officers from the city will be. I will tell them if they need assistance to go to you."
"Alright, am I needed here anymore?" I inquired and kept my posture straight with my face void of emotions.
She shook her head. "No, now get back to patrol." It may have seemed rude to anyone on the outside but I could hear the playfulness in her voice. I nodded my head before heading back to my truck.
"She's just like Prowler," Sides commented and received an elbow to the stomach from me. "Hey! Why did I get that?" I shook my head and kept quiet until reaching my truck and hopping in.
"You don't talk badly about my sergeant. She's nicer then you see. She's acts tough while out on the job due to training but outside of work, we have an absolute blast. 'Don't judge a book by its cover'," I quoted and started up my truck. "Get back to your c- yourself and continue being my guardian."
Sides being the child he is, stuck his tongue out at me and began to pout. "You're not the boss of me," he sulked while staying in place.
"And I can handcuff you in less than five seconds. Let's see who the boss is here," I playfully growled and prepared myself to follow through with my threat.
A playful smirk grew on his lips and he uncrossed his arms. "I would like to use those handcuffs on you," he teased. Sunstreaker finally butted in by smacking his brother with the back of his hand. "Hey! As if you weren't thinking it too."
Embarrassment spread between the two of us, aka victims, and I slinked back further in to my truck to be out of sight. Sunstreaker turned away from us with his cheeks the slightest rosy and literally marched over to his alt. mode. "And you missy, wouldn't mind it. I know it; I can see it in your eyes." I'm about to punch this man in his handsome face.
"Shut it before I make you and that's not meant to be sexual!" I nearly screamed before rolling my window back up and began pulling out onto the road. The three of us started our way back on the road, me leading the way to the nearest water way to check fishing licenses.
It was pretty busy at the lake today with people taking their children out for fishing. Hopefully they're teaching them the proper ways of fishing, aka having a fishing license (when you need one), the limit of fishing, and the size of fish you can keep.
The three of us were causally walking down the path to the lake when Sides decided to take off running ahead of us. I sighed with my patience stretching thin before chasing after him doing a light jog. His presences might alert everyone else that an officer of the law was coming. "Does he always act like this?" I questioned to Sunstreaker who was keeping up with me.
"More than you know," he sighed but the hint of a smirk could be seen on his lips. Sunstreaker's first impression on how he feels about his brother told me he was sometimes done with his attitude; now it told me loved him either way. Brotherly love.
When we broke past the tree line where everyone was fishing, Sides was standing at the entrance with a huge smile on his lips. "Beat you! I thought cops were supposed to be fast," Sides teased me when the two of us strolled up to him.
"I didn't know it was a race and when chasing a suspect, you don't want to run out all of your energy," I explained and had him walk with me to the nearest person fishing. "Hello, how's the fishing today? And could I see your fishing licenses." The three men in front of smiled back at me.
"Good, officer. How's your day going?" the one with a navy blue shirt replied and grabbed his wallet from his shorts pocket. His other buddies also dug for their licenses, hopefully they all have theirs. "Here you go." He handed it to me and his buddies did the same. I checked over them, making sure they were valid; they were.
"Okay, thanks. Have a great rest of your day." Then I handed back their fishing licenses and headed to check everyone else at the lake.
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see a group of four packing up their stuff quickly and making a not-so-sneaky exit. This set off a red flag for me and gave chase after them. "Hey, you four, stop!" I ordered and swiftly caught up to them. "Set down your stuff and give me your licenses."
They gladly listened to my orders and did what they were told. "Now, will one of you tell me what the rush to get out of here was?" My voice meant I wasn't pleased of having to chase them down. They all seemed nervous like they had something on them.
That's when my nose caught the scent of pot on one of them. Why would you bring your pot on you down here with children? When all of them gave me their ID's, I decided to bring up the smell. "Okay, who has the pot on them?" Worry on two of their faces only grew and the two male parties tried to hide it.
"Connor! You better not have smoked any," the blonde female hissed to the newly named brown haired boy. Connor dipped his head in shame and kept his gaze down at the ground. "I cannot believe you! You said you were done with that shit." Oh, she didn't sound happy.
"Kate, please go stand by my partner with the red hair," I ordered and separating them to keep them from fighting. Kate glared at the man once more before stomping over to Sides and waited there for me to finish here. "Okay, so I'm guessing you smoke and either have some on you or smoked some earlier."
"I… I have about a gram and pipe on me," he mumbled and dropped his shoulders.
"Thank you for telling me, I can work with you on that. All you'll be given is a citation of having under 40 grams of marihuana which is only a misdemeanor. I'll have to take both of those and you'll be released," I explained. "Anyone else have anything on them that needs to tell me?" No one spoke up but that still didn't mean I wasn't going to search them.
"Let's go back to my truck and I get you your papers and you'll be on your way." All of them nodded their heads and we were on our way to my truck. Sides was keeping an eye on Kate for since she didn't look pleased about Connor.
We made to my truck in one piece and I started getting his papers signed. "Okay, I want you to sign on this line. It's not saying you're are pleading guilty to being in procession of the pot but that you'll appear in court." Connor signed on the line for me and handed over the pot and pipe.
"Lastly, I need to search everyone to see if they have anything else on them. This is your last chance to tell me if you have anything and I'll go easy on you." No one spoke up and I began to search all them. None of them had anything on them, gladly; they were given their ID's back and sent on their way. Great this meant I had to head to the department and give them the stuff.
An idea came to mind while sitting in my truck filing away the papers. I switched my radio to channel four in hopes that someone nearby would be listening to it. "Wildlife 104, I'm at Wilson Lake and finished with a report of someone having pot. Anyone willing to take the pot and pipe back to the department for me?"
It was a few moments later when a response came over the radio. "Jay 34, Wildlife 104, yeah, I can pick up for you. I'm heading there anyway."
"Okay, I'm at the south end of the lake." Gotta love channel four when in need of a transport. Sides cheered after hearing my call since he is a very impatient being. "Shut it, if you don't want to be here then ask Will to switch roles." I don't why those words came from my mouth, they keep me great company and usually stay out of my way.
This deflated his hyperness and Sides shrunk down a bit with a pout on his face. "But-but we like being with you! And I was just kidding." I gave him a pointed looked and sighed deeply while rubbing my eyes; after dealing with this morning a tiny bit and not getting great sleep, it has been tiring for me.
"Sorry, I didn't mean for that to sound so rude. It has been long day and I'm tired," I excused myself and leaned against the door of my truck. It was closed with the window down so I could speak to Sides and Sunstreaker.
Sides swiped his hand in front of him as if he was waving away my excuse. "It's alright, we understand, right my lovely brother?" Sunstreaker snapped his head in the direction of his twin and glared deeply at him.
The two bickered about this and that even when the officer to pick up my stuff came. I handed over the pot and pipe to Officer James; we made small talk before he went on his way to drop it off for me. The twins hopped back in their alt. modes so I could continue my shift.
For the rest of the day, it was boring; I sat on the side of the road, watching over people making their way through. At the end of my shift, we headed to my house and pulled up to it. I allowed them to park in the garage again even though it didn't seem like it was going to rain.
Since it felt like a long, tiring day, I stripped down my clothes, put on baggy clothes, and headed down stairs to the couch. The twins were on the couch, watching Counting Kustoms and on the love seat with each other. I laid down on the long couch on my stomach, crossed my arms, and rest my head on them.
The show was okay, sometimes on the cars, they would do these stupid looks for them and make them look ridiculous. But when they showed a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner, I sat up immediately and gave my full attention to the screen. "You like what you see?"
"Well duh, it's a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner. They're perfect for a long trips and their style is beautiful. I wish they still made them but they were discontinued in 2001," I stated and watched the mechanics pull the car apart to fix some rusting on the frame. This kind of job was going to be expense for what they are doing to it.
Sides, out of the corner of my eye, seemed surprise I knew these facts about this kind of car. In my garage, at this moment, there is a 1968 Plymouth Fury III, waiting for my brother to pick her up. "You know your cars then."
"Mhmm, I told you two about the reason I have my brother's Plymouth, right?" For the life of me, I couldn't remember is they knew about me fixing up my brother's car up.
Sunstreaker shook his head. "No, you haven't," he responded. This is where the story telling of the great memories I had in that car with my brother and what happened to it. Our talk continued to the point I literally passed out from exhaustion.