School Yard Games
19
All at Once...
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As it happened it wasn't till Tuesday we got some news, it's like public transport you wait long enough then three come all at once. Godric wanted to meet us as soon, as possible, Compton was able to pull a usable image of Dermot, bad news was it came from San Jose a good guess was he was headed for Columbia. It appeared Dermot was travelling by road to avoid detection. Didn't take a genius to figure out he was headed for Hunter.
I had made a decision that I knew Sookie wouldn't like, I had braised myself for it, "Sookie I want to go to Godric first Dermot is still three days away by car to Hunter. With Godrics backing we could have resources and get out of jail free cards," I tried to make my point, for our safety.
"Makes sense, I don't like it but it does make sense," Note to self never underestimate my girlfriend. "But tell Godric it's a flying visit, because with or without your help I am getting Hunter back. It's killing me not being able to tell Hadley, not getting her hopes up."
"Sure, I'll arrange transport. Can you get the permission slips sorted for the kids we are taking?" I asked having never removed kids from school before.
"Sure already on it. There's no need for transport Amelia's dad's Boeing 747 has been sat on the tarmac and ready to go since, I found out Hunter was still alive. We can be ready to go anytime."
Not even three hours later we were sat on Amelia's dad's luxury plane, with thirty of Bon Temps brightest. I sat with Pam, trying to ignore the urge to go over to Sookie and begin making out with her. It was only a couple of months now till she graduated, I couldn't wait till I could publically claim her. I had never felt this way about a woman before.
"North-man," Pam called. "Earth calling."
"Sorry you were saying?" I cleared my throat giving her my full attention.
"I was saying I am just going deep throat the pilot while letting the co-pilot ream me in the ass," Pam said like it was nothing.
"What?" then I began laughing,- Pam! "Sorry I was miles away wasn't I?"
"Yup. Nice?"
"Very."
Pam and I discussed, how fucked our careers were, but Pam did assure me Godric could pull the strings of a puppet master, just as long as Sookie and Bon Temps stayed safe that was all that mattered to me.
Bill kept drawing me filthy looks, which I tried to work hard on not returning. If he had kept his dick in his pants I doubt Sookie would even have looked my way. She struck me as the loyal to a fault sort. So I tried to keep that front and centre that the past three nights I got to sleep next to the greatest girl in the world because her ex was an idiot. An idiot with a Mensa IQ.
We touched down at an air field in near area 51, a bus would take us the rest of the way there. Now Area 51 with these kids had cliché written all over it. Pam had been in near constant communication with Godric over the last few days, filling him in on Bon Temps Highs wonders. I felt both dread and excitement at seeing him again.
On the bus Sookie came to sit beside me, taking my hand in hers discreetly "you okay?" she whispered.
"Yeah," I smiled at her wanting to kiss her so bad.
"Ditto," she grinned.
"Huh?"
"What you just thought- ditto," she explained.
For the next fifteen minutes, I sent thoughts to Miss Stackhouse that got her more than a little hot under the collar. "Have mercy," Sookie blushed, as I sent her a fantasy involving my school office and a very short lemon yellow skirt she had once worn. Yum.
We had agreed that we would not disclose that Sookie was a telepath, it was enough that she made Isaac Newton look retarded.
As we approached the final check point, Sookie stood and addressed the bus, "Okay guys this is it, just be yourselves, they know about us. The genie is out of the bottle; let's show them what we can do. Convince them we have a town full of national treasures worth saving." National Treasures, I felt my heart clench at that. It was so true, having observed these kids for weeks now that's exactly what they were- National treasures.
Sookie looked like the all American girl as she stepped off the bus, high pony tail, Bon temps high tee-shirt and denim shorts, red conserves on her feet. I suppressed growl as soldiers eyed her like some sort of dessert mirage.
Once we were in the building and cleared of security, Godric met us. I gave him a quick man hug, his eyes telling me we would do this later. I swallowed back a lump in my throat.
"You must be Miss Stackhouse?" he asked, his hand held out to Sookie.
"Call, me Sookie y'all don't need to be so formal round us," she offered him a friendly smile shaking his hand, like the little southern belle she was.
"I've read your file, very impressive Sookie, I insist you must call me Godric," Godric kept looking at her like she was a unicorn.
"Thanks. Didn't set out to impress I am just me," she smiled, this time it was her panicked awkward smile. I felt my body tense, had she heard something?
"I am sorry I am staring. It's just we have been working on many of your papers and theories for sometime and its just your eighteen, cute to boot. I am sorry, we had all pictured someone different, a lot older, may be with a wart or two," Godric spoke smiling at the end. I could see how Sookie could even throw someone like Godric. Sookie giggled covering her mouth with her hand in perfect girly innocents.
"Can we have a tour?" Compton asked, not disguising the eagerness in his voice.
"Sure follow us, we have a lot of scientist eager to meet you, you must be William Compton we are hoping to be successful in our bid for your bio metric's profiling programme." Godric smiled.
Sookie looked at me with relief in her face, she must have read Godric's mind. The first floor had Amelia gushing and squealing.
"OH my God you guys, it a working model of my Oberon theory," she was clapping like a seal as she moved round a huge floor to ceiling model.
Sookie spied a white board on the wall squinting at it she chewed her bottom lip, walking up to it, she erased a large portion of the writing, "Miss please…" a man in a white lab coat ran towards her in a panic before Godric stopped him.
"This….can't be here…" she began as she scrubbed, then rewrote a portion. "This is good but you need this…" she added four row's of equations "and this so awesome, I am jealous I never came up with it… but I think this will marry it all together, see. . ." Sookie spun round, pen still in hand.
Two of the scientist were on their knees one crying, tears just streaming down his face looking up at her like the virgin Mary had just appeared to him. "Y'all don't have to cry I can put it back, photographic memory, see," she tapped her head with the butt of the pen, blond ponytail swishing.
"NO!" they both yelled, hands out.
"Is that time travel?" Bill asked, running his finger over the equations, nodding as he did so.
"Yeah, how awesome!" Sookie gushed, then rolled her eyes at Bill, as he looked like all his birthdays had come at once. Douche you don't get a do over.
"I still don't fully understand, if I am reading this right it means it's possible, but that goes against the laws of physics but I am looking at that, it says it's possible." One of the men in the white coats spoke.
"My scrawl is a bit ropey but…" Sookie drew a right angle putting a circle at each end of each line and one over the bend in the centre, like an elbow. "… heres how we see time in the third dimension," she drew a straight line with two circles at either end tapping the end on the board, "here we can't time travel. . .that's why your calculations didn't make sense, see?"
"But it is possible?" Godric asked while holding his breath, we all were.
"Oh totally! Just not here. . . see," she stabbed the pen at the elbow shape she had drawn "… if the outer points are the third dimension, here where time travel is totally not possible unless…. we create a door into fourth dimension- time, not subject to third dimension law's then create a second door opening where in time you want to go back to, out into the third dimension… like so."
"This would work?" one of the scientist.
"Time is relative, come on you must have read Einstein?"
"So how would you do it?"
"I would use a De Loren," Sookie said with a completely straight face. Even I got that back to the future reference. Pam snorted.
"Really, isn't that a car?" the scientist asked proving how much they did not get out.
Godric intervened, "I think Sookie was telling you subtly Professor Dooley that some things you have to work out for yourself. Thank you, we have been working on this for ten years, you did in five minutes what we been trying to do in ten years."
Sookie blushed, adorably, "ah they would have totally got there, most of it was already there. Fresh eyes is all, really I did nothing," she shrugged. Too modest. Beet red.
We continued on our tour, we entered a big hanger, "Whats this? Are they robots?" Bill asked. Pointing to squares of metal the size of cargo crates with deep lines etched into them, how that boy seen robots, I did not know?
"Yes, they are the most advanced defence robots on the planet unbeatable, we are really proud of those," Godric smiled.
"How unbeatable?" Tara asked, her eyes narrowing.
"Ma'am I am the best of the best, that thing whooped my ass so good I was in the infirmary for two weeks straight," one of the armed soldiers spoke. Benedict his badge said. He looked pretty fit, by the way Tara was eye fucking him she seemed to agree.
"Really, let's have a go," Tara smiled.
"I'll take some of that," Alcide grinned showing his rows of pearly white teeth.
"Me too," Sam 'hi-fied' Alcide.
"I don't think so, it's too dangerous," Godric began.
"You wanted to see what we could, isn't that why we are here?" Tara said.
"Not everyone as off the scale IQ's we all have high IQ's but some changes were physical, if this is the best you have what better way to demonstrate that, there is a reason our school doesn't have contact sports nor a foot ball team it's too dangerous, we are too dangerous, besides we heal real fast," Sookie added with a pointed look.
"Will you join them too?" Godric asked, still looking unsure.
"No Sir, I don't want to get sweaty, I'll watch," Sookie answered.
I leaned over to Godric to whisper "If you have some people here with security clearance that's not high enough I suggest you get them out of here now." He nodded at my statement and went into commander and chief mode.
We all moved to an observation lounge high above the hanger. Tara, Alcide and Sam where suited up and Benedict spoke to them briefing them on what the A.I.-squared could do, totally lame name, it deserved its own eye roll, I thought. Apparently the robots learned from their opponents, it was all very bad Si-Fi, but for a big geek like me I was grinning like a loon.
Benedict or Eggs as he had said to call him was staying in to 'play', too. He was the first to be injured. We all winced as one of the robots caught him sending him flying through the air. Godric gasp when he seen how fast they all could moved. Tara picked up a steel rod that had been laying on the hanger floor, placing it on the ground like a pole. She swung on it like a pole dancer moving at double the speed any other human could move at. More impressive was she was able to balance it perfectly using only her body weight to keep it upright, as the robot that had been chasing her head spun round and round it didn't anticipate the kick she aimed out of nowhere disabling it, a part of it skidded across the floor.
Alcide ran full tilt at one of the walls, the robot in hot pursuit however it didn't anticipate Alcide sudden stop and vertically jumping fifteen feet into the air landing with a sickening crunch of metal on top of the now non-operational drone.
Suddenly all the robots powered down, "You're students have just wreaked two fifty three million dollar robots, without breaking a sweat. I think that is enough for one day," Godric eye's where wide. "Just extraordinary."
When we got down to the hanger Eggs was being loaded on to a stretcher, with a broken femur, "Marcy if you please," I indicated Eggs lying on the stretcher.
"If you're sure, Principle Northman?" she looked shyly at Benedict, I smiled and nodded.
"It be all right, won't hurt a bit," she smiled at him, placing her hands on his thigh, blue glow emanated from her hands.
The solider was speechless. Godric's eyes wide, but handling it better than I did when I first seen it.
"Good as new, you gonna need a lot of food and vitamins, drink plenty of water, keep it mobile," she said when she was finished.
"Well done squirt," Alcide rubbed her head chucking her on his shoulders. The solider was speech less as he flexed his leg, poking at his leg like he didn't quite believe it belonged to him.
"Holy shit! She just healed him- can you imagine the applications?" Godric spoke out loud.
"Yes we can but Marcy wants to be a vet, don't you sweetheart?" Pam gave Godric her death stare a look that conveyed humans first, application's second. She was such a softy.
"Yeah animals are always happy when you help, they aren't scared to die, makes the energy flow easier, fear blocks it." She spoke from her lofty height on Alcide's shoulders so matter of factly.
"Fear blocks it, how about that," Godric spoke his eyebrow's to his hair line.
"Fear is the mind killer, it's what keeps us as humans small, we all have a high tolerance to fear, its what allows are minds to be so open, it is part of being evolved, human evolution. Our synapses fire differently to yours," Sookie informed Godric.
We were lead into mess hall, everyone got down to the business of eating, I sat at a table with Pam, Godric and Sookie three scientist two soldiers.
"I hate to sound pushy, but can you help us or did I just mess up by coming here?" Sookie asked after pushing her food round her plate for a good ten minutes. I wanted to put my arms around her so much.
"You don't need to ask, I can see your good kids. I have Benedict putting together a team for Columbia as we speak. I have read all your files but meeting you in persons, I don't have words. We have a long road ahead of us but I want you to know you can count on this facility to help you and your school without being treated as science experiments. "
Sookie move so fast she created a wind that blew my hair, when my eyes could register her again she was hugging Godric, "Thank you so much, we won't let you down."
"You can let go now Miss Stackhouse," Godric looked uncomfortable most of the mess hall were staring.
Sookie blushed, "Oh sorry!" she winced. Moving at human speed back to her seat, squeezing my shoulder as she sat down again, Godrics eyes caught with my own I knew he read into that gesture correctly. That we were more than student and principle. Shit.
I left Sookie and her gang looking like kids in a sweet shop, to go and speak with Godric in his office. This was it the private conversation I had both been waiting for and dreading.
Hope you enjoyed... I got to totally geek out in this chapter put years of watching show's like hero's, fringe, x-files to name a few to good use LOL!