~Hey! Looks like I'm back again! I'd love some more feedback, and thanks to icanhascamaro, my first reviewer! This chapter is mostly filler, there isn't going to be a huge amount of plot related stuff here, just so you know. But since I have to, onto the disclaimer!
I don't own Transformers, all I own in my own characters and this plot line. All rights to their respective owners, bla bla bla….~
Chapter three, Lunch.
Now with a clear head, Lucy looked at her watch. "Lunch time already? I guess time flies when making life changing decisions.." She thought to herself. She was snapped out of her thoughts by the feeling of a hand on her shoulder. Twisting around on instinct, she came face to face with none other than Jona.
"Lu, wanna go for lunch? I found this super awesome little deli not too far from here." Jona asked, looking at her in slight concern.
"Oh, sure! Sorry, I just zoned out a bit there, just thinking about my past and all.." she trailed off, looking down and to the left, avoiding his gaze.
"Hon, you and I both know that's a rabbit trail we don't want to go down." He said, looking at her both sternly and compassionately. "Now come on, we've got thirty minutes, and I don't want to loose my favorite table." He said with a small smile, tugging her arm like the three year old he nearly always acted like.
Lucy chuckled "Okay, okay! Just lemme fix my sleeves." she said, tugging the ends down over her wrists shyly.
"You know, you don't have to hide them, everyone's got a past, hun." Jona said, sadness in his ever expressive green eyes.
"Can we not talk about this right now, Jona? I don't really feel about having this conversation at this moment." Lucy said uncomfortably, tugging at her sleeves once again.
"Okay, but if you want to talk about it, I'll be here, you know that, right?" Jona replied, putting a hand on her shoulder and squeezing it gently, his dark brown styled hair blowing slightly in the draft from the air conditioning.
"Yeah, I know, now lets go, we don't have much longer till break is over." Lucy said, looking at her watch.
Jona looked at his own watch "Oh shit! We've gotta move hun!" He said, pulling her towards the exit.
Lucy laughed and walked faster, near jogging, "At least we'll have an appetite!" She teased.
Jona rolled his eyes "Last thing I care about right now, besides, you know how I get if I don't eat." He said with a slight laugh.
Lucy shook her head slightly as they exited the building.
It was a rather large, metal building. Somewhat industrial in appearance, but it still held a stylistic elegance to it. The logo for the building was built into it, a Sparrow alight in flight, with glowing blue circuit patterns upon its body. It was a striking logo, one that drew the eyes. Beneath the sparrow was the name of the company "CyberFlight" and on all of the employee's business cards was its motto, "Technology. Safety. CyberFlight."
The two friends arrived at a small Italian bistro, a family place. It was quiet, and filled with only three or four other people. Jona smiled as he saw that none of the other workers had discovered his secret, and sat down in a corner booth. The two ordered a medium sized pizza, one half with ham and olives, Jona's. And the other with three cheese, heavy cheese, Lucy's. Lucy was not, in fact, a vegetarian, she just liked cheese. The two ate their meal and tipped generously, as the young waitstaff had been kind enough to hurry the pizza.
As the two exited the small bistro, stomachs full and wallets somewhat lighter, clouds began to gather above the city. Yet another rainy day in Atlanta.. Lucy sighed as she jogged for cover under another building. She loved rain, but this was not a good time. After getting back into the CyberFlight building, Jona and Lucy went back to their respective tasks, Jona to security (which explained his penchant for finding her no matter where she was..) And Lucy to programming.
The rest of the workday passed fairly slowly for a Friday, Lucy working on yet more lines of code for a new project. It was much more complicated than her normal stuff, and she was only allowed to work on part of it. Yet another downside of working for a contractor for the government. But, such was life, and she was in no place to ask questions about it.
Jona was watching the screens run, endlessly showing every person and place within the veritable fortress that was CyberFlight's headquarters. Within this building there were so many state secrets that you'd have trouble not finding something that would get you killed..
~POV switch, Hannah~
Hannah's day had been pretty normal, aside from the whole 'your sister is going on some sort of government top secret thing' that was pretty out of the ordinary.. But nonetheless! She had put Eli back down for his nap (again...) And watched an episode of her favourite show (Cooking shows! Yay) and ate a snack.
Yep, just another day, a mere millisecond in the stopwatch of life, but she felt something, a foreboding kind of feeling, like when you're watching a horror movie and everything is going just too well for the main character. That kind of prickle of the neck hairs, the sudden feeling of your own heartbeat, the pit of your stomach, something is going terribly wrong somewhere feeling. She hated that feeling, nothing good ever came of it..
~I'm so so so sorry this has taken so long! I've been super busy for weeks, but it's almost over. I've got about maybe another week, then I can really crank out chapters.
Also, dun dun dun, looks I left a cliffhanger... My first ever, enjoy the wait!
Keep calm and I NEEDED THAT!
-Nightburn ~
