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Chapter 9: Reality
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Nora blinked at him. "Hm?"
"Your headphones. I don't think I've seen you without them."
"Oh... um..." she bit her lip and lowered her head to hide her face. "That's complicated."
"Oh?"
Nora twitched as she fingered the headphones. "You see when I was little my older sister taught me that just because she couldn't hear the music didn't mean she couldn't feel it. When she died I fled to the only thing that we had shared. Same thing happened when my father was killed. Except that it took weeks for Miki and Nana to get me to crawl out of my shell... That and a very large assortment of headphones. It's what keeps me sane." she sighed.
"So..."
"It's my crutch and my lifeline. But 'Music is Life' is the saying and I guess it's true for me. Besides everything could use a little music."
"Have you ever thought of doing something in the music business?"
Nora scoffed. "It's all about money and corruption. I'd rather live out in a tree than give in to those cut throats." She said as they came to a stop outside the Colonel's door. Nora sighed as she stared at the door. "I'll catch you later." she said before knocking and entering the office.
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Sam sighed as Bumblebee pulled into the main hangar and let him out. It had taken the better bart of two hours to pry Judy off of him, and then Bee spent the better part of the trip teasing him over it.
"I gotta go check in with Lennox, I'll catch you later Bee." Sam said as he headed for the offices. Sam sighed with the familiarity of the base. This had been the first of the many NEST bases that had been instated but it hadn't been in full operational use since they had sent the bots to Diego Garcia. Even then they still used it as a continental base of operations until the DC base had been constructed.
"My full name?" A girl's voice groaned on the other side of Will's door.
"Yes your full legal name."
He knocked on the door before poking his head in. " Hey Lennox."
"S-Sam. What a surprise to see you back so soon." Will blinked at him.
Sam wasn't looking at Will but the teen that had turned to glare at the door. The same facial features except for that razor blade of a nose... the same glare, but her eyes were not the blue green that was seared in the memory... nor was Mikaela that tone of tan... But either way something told him he knew this girl...
"Uh... Sam this is Nora. Nora this is the Liaison for the Autobots, Samuel Witwticky." Will said.
"A pleasure to meet you." Sam said holding out his hand. Nora took his hand as her eyes roamed over him as if sizing him up.
"Mm. Yeah I guess."
"You're kidding me." Will said staring at the paperwork on the desk. "Elenora Havannah Swiftcrow? That can't be your real name."
"It's my official Ute clan designation. You said my full name. You didn't tell me weather you wanted my registered tribal name or the short one I put on my driver's license." Nora glared.
It was the name that struck a tone within Sam as he stared at the girl... all the pieces fitting into place. "You're Mikaela's cousin." he said with frown.
"Yeah what of it?" Nora glared.
Sam's eyes snapped to Will. "She's here?" Will nodded. "Where?"
"Miki's in the med bay not that- Hey!" Nora called after him as Sam spun around and was out of the office door before she could finish telling him off.
"Great... Just what I wanted to deal with today..." Will grumbled as he picked up the phone on his desk.
"Did I do something wrong?" Nora blinked at him as he grumbled into the mouth piece about warning Ratchet about Sam...
Wait a minute... Nora thought as her brain finally came up to speed. "That guy... He wouldn't happen to be the twin's dad would he?"
Will gave her a duh glare as he deadpanned, "What do you think?"
"Crap." Nora said as she bolted out of her seat and raced out of his office.
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"Hey Little Bee I didn't think you were supposed to be back for a few days." Dino commented as he spotted the yellow bot getting a cube of energon. "Have you been to see Prime for the debriefing?"
Debriefing?"
"Si anyone that wasn't at his meeting the other night was to report to him about our new arrival and other things..."
"New member? What is their designation?"
"You will have to find that out from Prime seeing as he wants to keep this under wraps." The red bot said as he went back to his datapad.
Bumblebees curiousity roused so got the better of him and he decided to report in to Optimus.
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Sam barged into the Med bay the door opening harshly as he bolted in mere seconds after RAtchet was commed aboout the man's arrival by Optimus. Mikaela and the children stared down at him as he glared up at the woman, his eyes torn between pain and anger.
"S-Sam?" Mikaela stared at him. It was him... though his face had finally growm out of it's boyish charm, more refined by seriousness and age... more worrylines than laughlines vaughly etched in his face, his dark eyes were still the same, his hair was still cut the same.
"Mikaela..." He breathed as he took in her appearance the bandages that were firmly wraped aroun her head.
"Momma... Who is he?" Samantha chose that moment to voice the question that as plauging both her and her brother. It was then he noticed the twins sitting on the medical berth infront of Ratchet who was quietly watching the scene, ready to force Sam out of his med bay at a moments notice. Sam's eyes widened as he stared at the children.
"Mikaela..." he turned a hurt filled glare at the woman.
Mikaela opened her mouth to speak when the doors burst open and Nora bolted in long enough to snatch the back of Sam's collar. "You're coming with me." She growled as she speed out just as fast as she had entered, dragging the man behind her.
"Hey let go!" Sam protested his treatment as the door closed behind them.
"Mom?" Dion glanced over at Mikaela who smiled weakly at them.
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"Let go of me!" Sam finally yanked himself out of her grasp. "What the hell is your damage?"
"I don't want you upsetting Miki or the twins."
"I have a right to hear the answers to my questions from her." Sam glared.
"And she can't give you those answers right now." Nora spat at him. "Mikaela lost her memories of the last ten years!"
"What? How is that possible?"
Nora ran a hand down her face before sighing. "You want answers? Then come on and I'll fill you in." she said as she turned and walked towards the rec room. Sam glared at the teenager before following mutely behind her.
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Sam was still glaring at the girl when she finished filling him in on the major points (Mikaela had his kids, was forced to by something or other, had been trying to find an appropriate way of telling him... Meeting Eject, the sparkling incident, and the incident with the bowling ball resulting them all being here.) "So... Let me get this straight, Mikaela doesn't remember anything."
"Not really. Hell she keeps mistaking me for my sister Vanessa. The only thing she does remember is all of this." Nora waved her hand above her head. "It's been a miserable couple of days for the twins..."
"So um... Sam and Diane... They're my kids..."
"Sam and Dion. Sammie's the girl and Di's the boy." Nora corrected him.
"Right..." Sam said as he blinked. "It's hard to believe I'm a father..."
"Well get used to it because I can assure you they're going to bombard you with multiple rounds of twenty questions the next time they see you." Nora smiled.
"I'm a father..."
Nora raised a brow. Great I think I broke him...
