Audrey awoke the next morning around six, groaning she turned on her side and starred over at the clock. Finally managing to wipe some of the sleep form her eye's she sat up and stretched. Francis looked up to her tiredly and yawned and then laid his head back down on the comforter and fell back to sleep.
"Yeah you keep laughing..." she said to the dog who sighed in his sleep.
Groaning a little she stood up and stretched again and began to make her way towards the kitchen to make herself some coffee.
Turning on the coffee pot she then moved back over to the kitchen table and sat down and turned on the television. The news was on again but this time they mostly talked about the weather and she groaned as she heard it would as reach as high as ninety five degree's that day.
"Perfect...just great..." she muttered at the screen and then noticed that her coffee was done she got up and poured it into her favorite chipped mug and sat back down and continued to watch the news.
After a breakfast of a bagel and coffee she wandered back into her room and changed out of her pajamas. Today was going to be hot and she new it so she decided against wearing anything that would cause her to heat up anymore beneath the coveralls she always wore when she worked. She grabbed a simple black sports bra from her dresser and put it on, not even bothering with a t-shirt. She then quickly stripped herself of her pajama bottoms and slipped on her coveralls; tying her hair back in a messy ponytail she turned to Francis and smiled slightly at the sleeping dog and gave him a kiss on the head and then made her way to the front door, doing on last check to make sure that Francis had food and water for the day she walked out the door and locked it behind herself.
She put the last of the tools in the back of her truck and walked around to the diver's side door and hopped in. She revved the engine and it sputtered to life with a roar and she slowly drove out of the garage only to have to get back out and close and lock up the shop. With a sigh she got back in the truck and began to drive off towards her new job.
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Audrey sat in the diver's seat of her ancient pickup and gapped at the sight. The car was completely totaled; she couldn't believe it. She kicked open the door of her truck and slowly walked over to the car, she looked at it long and hard and then sighed.
"Why someone would save a hunk of junk like you is beyond me..." she said to herself and walked over to the bed of her truck and began pulling out tools and extension cords.
Jazz glared as he watched the human female carefully, who was she to say he was a hunk of junk; he remembered Ratchet's words and obeyed them. 'Stupid human...' he thought as she came back over to him with a wrench and a power screw driver.
"I hope that your owner knows that you'll be getting a lot of extensive body work, probably scrap the whole thing..." she said to no one in particular as she check the batters in the power screw diver.
'Unfortunately he does...' Jazz thought to himself as she went back to the truck and grabbed a power saw out of the bed of it and he found himself slightly nervous, she after all had no idea what she was dealing with.
Grabbing an extension cord that was plugged into an outlet that amazingly worked despite her worries about there being no power in the warehouse, she plugged the cord into the power saw and started it up and started to advance on him. He resisted the urge to honk at her as she drew closer; she flipped her visor down as the saw came down near to his hood. He hadn't noticed the piece of sheet metal sticking out of his side and she began to hack away at it.
After a few minutes the metal was discarded and she set to work trying to pry the rest of it out. Finally after much cursing and huffing and puffing she reached for her pliers and used them to get a better hold on the metal; placing her foot against the side of the car as leverage she began to pull with all her might. Finally it came free and Jazz surprisingly felt much better with the annoying thing pulled from his side. Audrey had fallen to the floor from the sudden release of the metal and she sat up and glared at the vehicle.
"Damn, that hurt." she muttered under her breath and then set to work on the hood.
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By five she had finished the work on the hood and it was ready to be reapplied, she let out a sigh and looked over to the car.
"Your owner didn't tell me I'd be working on a Pontiac..." She said with a small chuckle and then grabbed her bottle of water and began to chug it down. "Who would total their brand new Pontiac this back is beyond me..." she then added and wiped her mouth off.
'You'd be surprised who'd want to total me...' the Autobot thought to himself as he watched the human girl carefully.
Audrey laughed and shook her head.
"I have no idea why I'm talking to a hunk of junk anyway!" she said and stood up and looked over to the car. "It's stupid...I must be outta my mind..." she then said and began to pack up her tools and put them in the back of her truck. "Can't believe how much more work it's gonna take to fix you up..." she muttered and finished putting the last of her tools in the truck bed. Sighing she got in the truck and began to pull out of the warehouse. 'Tomorrow we'll take a look for any singed or unconnected wires.' she made a metal note of this as she drove out of the warehouse and onto the street. 'Might as well order a few spare parts just incase...' she then thought and new she would have to order it on overnight delivery. This car was going to be a lot of work...
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Ratchet pulled into the warehouse five minutes after Audrey had left and drove over to his friend and transformed.
"Well it looks like she is making progress with you." he said trying his best to sound cheerful.
"She called me a hunk of junk..." Jazz said sourly trying not to think of the human female.
For a moment Ratchet said nothing, he just starred at his friend and then he began to laugh.
"What?!" Jazz demanded to know what was so funny about him being called a hunk of junk.
"Because right now it's true." the medic chuckled and he could tell that Jazz was pouting. "You have to learn to laugh at yourself once in a while." he then added when he noticed the annoyed bot.
"I'm not in the mood..." the Autobot muttered and refused to say anymore.
Ratchet sighed and sat down next to the vehicle and waited for a few minutes to see if the bot would speak anymore, but he didn't and the medic sighed and transformed back into his vehicle form.
"I'll check up on you tomorrow night." he then said and drove out of the warehouse once again leaving Jazz alone.
Jazz knew that his friend was trying to help but he just didn't feel right to laugh with his friends yet, he had to many thoughts going through his head at the moment, some of them he admitted were thoughts on how to get rid of the human girl but he knew that that was less then likely. He let out a groan as he thought about the next day and he began to wonder what she had in store for him.
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Miley had finally figured out a way to get Mikaela and Sam back for their evil suggestions. They were at the look out like they were every other night but this night was different, this night she had a plan.
The two love birds were sitting out by the ridge and Bumblebee was in his vehicle state just like the teen female had told him to stay in. Slowly she slipped into the driver's seat and patted the dashboard as she closed the door as quietly as she could. She made sure that the two hadn't noticed her absence and she looked around to make sure none of the Autobots were there because then it would spoil her plan completely. Looking one last time she grinned.
"Drive Bumblebee!" she said in a sly whisper and his engine revved and his wheels spun.
The couple turned to see what the noise was and they were shocked to see Sam's Camaro driving away with Miley no where to be found.
Miley chuckled evilly as they made their way down the old dirt path that they used to get to the viewpoint.
"Why again are we leaving them?" Bee's voice came over the radio and surprised the girl who hadn't been paying any attention to the bot.
"Because they deserved it." she said in a matter of fact tone and looked out the rear view mirror only to see a cloud of dust behind them.
"You do know that it's a ten mile drive back to Sam's house right?" the bot then asked her.
"Duh, that's the point!" she replied and sat very smug looking for the rest of the car ride to her house.
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When Audrey arrived home she received a very unwanted surprise; she opened the door to her apartment and gapped at the sight. The dog food bag had be ripped into as well as the coffee bean bag and there was stuffing everywhere, most likely from Francis's doggy bed or maybe even a couch cushion. Slowly she closed the door behind herself and carefully made her way through the messy kitchen. She entered the living room to see Francis lying out on the couch looking very tired.
"Francis!" she shouted at the dog who merely looked up at her for a moment and then flopped back down on the couch. "You know what caffeine does to you!" she scolded as she walked into her room and got ready for bed. She decided she would pick up the kitchen in the morning, but for now she would get some much deserved rest and let Francis sleep off his caffeine crash.
